PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 122 150
Rank change year-on-year -15 +28 +40
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 767 662 685
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.07% 2.08% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.26% 11.39% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 488 482
10th Percentile £363 £342 £407
25th Percentile £420 £420 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £711 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.38% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile - - £34.14
25th Percentile £29.00 - £43.73
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -30.70% +175.96%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £69.03
90th Percentile £58.00 - £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £46.28
% change year-on-year - - +37.11%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

PostgreSQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,257 5,814 6,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.87% 18.26% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,316 3,838 4,938
10th Percentile £330 £350 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 78 150
10th Percentile £20.05 £19.76 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.61
Median hourly rate £46.50 £32.80 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +41.79% -28.98% -16.04%
75th Percentile £72.00 £64.67 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £68.33 £77.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.10 £28.65 £46.18
% change year-on-year +95.81% -37.96% -16.04%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the UK

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -4 637 £520 -5.45% 710
London +5 354 £550 -4.35% 162
UK excluding London -30 315 £475 -5.00% 636
Work from Home -23 231 £513 -1.44% 392
North of England +6 118 £473 +2.16% 109
Midlands +1 71 £525 +5.00% 73
Yorkshire -1 65 £500 -16.67% 44
West Midlands +9 61 £539 +3.56% 26
South East -33 57 £433 -24.78% 205
North West -12 51 £450 +1.12% 50
South West -3 48 £550 -12.00% 90
Scotland -17 39 £450 -5.26% 26
East Midlands -30 10 £401 -19.80% 46
Northern Ireland +3 8 £400 - 15
East of England -20 2 - - 96
North East - 2 £463 - 16

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 40 (5.22%) Confluence
2 22 (2.87%) nginx
3 20 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.09%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.83%) Apache
5 14 (1.83%) SAS
6 6 (0.78%) Drupal
6 6 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
7 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
8 3 (0.39%) CICS
8 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.39%) WordPress
9 2 (0.26%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Traefik
10 1 (0.13%) Gunicorn
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 471 (61.41%) AWS
2 238 (31.03%) Azure
3 176 (22.95%) GitHub
4 145 (18.90%) Serverless
5 138 (17.99%) GCP
6 105 (13.69%) Amazon S3
7 88 (11.47%) AWS Lambda
7 88 (11.47%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (6.78%) OpenShift
9 51 (6.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (5.74%) Power Platform
12 41 (5.35%) Snowflake
13 40 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 30 (3.91%) Azure AKS
17 26 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (3.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.78%) Firewall
2 25 (3.26%) DNS
3 20 (2.61%) HTTP
4 11 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.30%) SSH
6 9 (1.17%) FTP
6 9 (1.17%) IMAP
6 9 (1.17%) Kerberos
6 9 (1.17%) OpenLDAP
6 9 (1.17%) SMTP
7 5 (0.65%) SSL
7 5 (0.65%) VPN
8 4 (0.52%) Internet
9 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.26%) LAN
9 2 (0.26%) WAN
10 1 (0.13%) DHCP
10 1 (0.13%) NAS
10 1 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (16.82%) Relational Database
2 125 (16.30%) NoSQL
3 110 (14.34%) MySQL
4 102 (13.30%) SQL Server
5 97 (12.65%) MongoDB
6 74 (9.65%) Amazon RDS
7 67 (8.74%) Redis
8 62 (8.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 50 (6.52%) DynamoDB
10 37 (4.82%) RDBMS
11 35 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (4.56%) Power BI
12 28 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
13 27 (3.52%) Apache Cassandra
14 19 (2.48%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.48%) DB2
15 18 (2.35%) BigQuery
16 17 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (2.22%) Oracle Database
17 16 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 174 (22.69%) Jenkins
2 151 (19.69%) Git
3 92 (11.99%) GitLab
4 66 (8.60%) JIRA
5 53 (6.91%) JUnit
6 31 (4.04%) Cucumber
7 29 (3.78%) Mockito
8 23 (3.00%) Gradle
8 23 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (2.87%) Liquibase
10 19 (2.48%) Cypress.io
11 16 (2.09%) JMeter
12 15 (1.96%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.83%) Maven
14 13 (1.69%) Postman
15 10 (1.30%) SonarQube
16 9 (1.17%) ERwin
16 9 (1.17%) Vagrant
17 8 (1.04%) DBeaver
17 8 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 202 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 155 (20.21%) Finance
3 104 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 80 (10.43%) Banking
5 73 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.26%) Investment Banking
7 20 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (1.96%) Front Office
9 13 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.91%) Marketing
12 5 (0.65%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.52%) Legal
13 4 (0.52%) Local Government
13 4 (0.52%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.39%) Electronics
14 3 (0.39%) Games
14 3 (0.39%) Law
14 3 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 284 (37.03%) Developer
2 132 (17.21%) Senior
3 93 (12.13%) Java Developer
4 64 (8.34%) Data Engineer
5 63 (8.21%) Architect
6 61 (7.95%) Full-Stack Developer
6 61 (7.95%) Senior Developer
7 54 (7.04%) Software Engineer
8 51 (6.65%) Python Developer
9 44 (5.74%) AWS Developer
9 44 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
9 44 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
10 43 (5.61%) DBA
11 33 (4.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 33 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
12 31 (4.04%) Lead
13 30 (3.91%) Data Architect
14 29 (3.78%) Python Engineer
15 27 (3.52%) Backend Developer
16 26 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (22.16%) Kafka
2 142 (18.51%) React
3 128 (16.69%) Spring
4 123 (16.04%) RESTful
5 118 (15.38%) Node.js
6 112 (14.60%) REST
7 105 (13.69%) Spring Boot
8 57 (7.43%) CSS
9 46 (6.00%) HTML
10 43 (5.61%) GraphQL
11 42 (5.48%) JSON
12 40 (5.22%) AngularJS
12 40 (5.22%) FastAPI
13 39 (5.08%) Hibernate
14 33 (4.30%) .NET
14 33 (4.30%) Vue
15 30 (3.91%) Keycloak
16 29 (3.78%) Django
17 28 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
18 27 (3.52%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 110 (14.34%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.95%) Replication
4 28 (3.65%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.61%) Derivative
7 18 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.35%) Market Risk
7 18 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.09%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.69%) Clustering
11 11 (1.43%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.04%) Equities
13 8 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 133 (17.34%) Linux
2 33 (4.30%) Windows
3 24 (3.13%) Unix
4 12 (1.56%) Amazon Linux
4 12 (1.56%) VMS
5 10 (1.30%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.65%) zOS
7 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.39%) Solaris
9 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.13%) MVS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (44.98%) CI/CD
2 259 (33.77%) DevOps
3 257 (33.51%) Agile
4 187 (24.38%) Containerisation
4 187 (24.38%) Microservices
5 152 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 113 (14.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 113 (14.73%) Software Engineering
8 108 (14.08%) Observability
9 104 (13.56%) Test Automation
10 93 (12.13%) TDD
11 85 (11.08%) Migration
12 83 (10.82%) Data Modelling
13 81 (10.56%) ETL
14 78 (10.17%) AI
15 75 (9.78%) Performance Tuning
16 69 (9.00%) Analytics
17 64 (8.34%) Data Pipeline
18 62 (8.08%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 369 (48.11%) Python
2 303 (39.50%) SQL
3 234 (30.51%) Java
4 123 (16.04%) JavaScript
5 116 (15.12%) TypeScript
6 81 (10.56%) Bash
7 71 (9.26%) Go
8 42 (5.48%) PowerShell
9 28 (3.65%) C#
10 20 (2.61%) PHP
11 19 (2.48%) Groovy
12 17 (2.22%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.83%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.56%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.56%) Ruby
15 11 (1.43%) Scala
16 7 (0.91%) Bicep
16 7 (0.91%) JSX
17 6 (0.78%) VBA
18 5 (0.65%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 227 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 181 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 87 (11.34%) Degree
4 56 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.91%) Azure Certification
6 28 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 25 (3.26%) AWS Certification
8 18 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.35%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.69%) OCP
9 13 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.91%) MCP
11 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.52%) HND
13 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.13%) CCIE
14 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.22%) QA
3 21 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.96%) GDPR
5 8 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.04%) SLA
6 7 (0.91%) NCSC
7 5 (0.65%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.65%) NIST
8 4 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.52%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 279 (36.38%) Docker
2 12 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.17%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.17%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.17%) Postfix
3 9 (1.17%) Squid
4 7 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.91%) zsh
5 5 (0.65%) NDS
5 5 (0.65%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.39%) KVM
7 3 (0.39%) NFS
7 3 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.39%) Xen
8 2 (0.26%) HDFS
8 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.26%) Lustre
9 1 (0.13%) Samba
Systems Management
1 288 (37.55%) Kubernetes
2 178 (23.21%) Terraform
3 109 (14.21%) Grafana
4 92 (11.99%) Ansible
5 77 (10.04%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.39%) Argo
7 22 (2.87%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.61%) Nessus
9 16 (2.09%) Puppet
10 11 (1.43%) Control-M
10 11 (1.43%) IBM Guardium
11 9 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (1.17%) Istio
11 9 (1.17%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.78%) linkerd
13 5 (0.65%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.65%) Packer
13 5 (0.65%) Rancher
13 5 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 122 (15.91%) Oracle
2 85 (11.08%) Microsoft
3 46 (6.00%) Splunk
4 42 (5.48%) Google
5 31 (4.04%) VMware
6 29 (3.78%) Databricks
7 24 (3.13%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.22%) Atlassian
9 17 (2.22%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.96%) Informatica
11 14 (1.83%) Greenplum
12 11 (1.43%) Tenable
13 10 (1.30%) IBM
14 9 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (1.04%) PagerDuty
16 6 (0.78%) Gigya
17 5 (0.65%) Cloudera
17 5 (0.65%) Confluent
17 5 (0.65%) Talend