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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 113 144
Rank change year-on-year -39 +31 +6
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 815 697 733
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.74% 2.37% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.25% 12.49% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 517 525
10th Percentile £359 £400 £371
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £626
90th Percentile £700 £760 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £494
% change year-on-year -6.25% -2.74% +1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.95 £34.05
25th Percentile £45.00 £47.88 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -28.00% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.72 £61.38 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +190.91%

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 7,247 5,582 7,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.48% 19.01% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,943 3,853 5,191
10th Percentile £349 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £595 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £483
% change year-on-year -3.06% +1.55% -3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 108 146
10th Percentile £16.81 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.72 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £57.61
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -30.43%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -36 688 £503 -8.64% 267
UK excluding London -16 380 £450 -6.25% 163
London -40 342 £550 -5.98% 134
Work from Home -38 257 £500 -9.09% 411
North of England -23 143 £450 -5.26% 39
Midlands +5 94 £450 -10.00% 20
North West -21 78 £450 -5.26% 20
South East -42 76 £433 -6.54% 61
West Midlands -6 70 £469 -14.77% 9
Yorkshire -35 55 £475 -10.38% 8
Scotland +14 45 £425 -7.61% 7
East Midlands -22 23 £406 -18.80% 11
South West -33 21 £578 -7.52% 19
East of England -35 10 £575 +27.78% 10
North East -14 9 £425 -8.60% 11
Northern Ireland +1 3 £400 -20.00% 5

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 54 (6.63%) Confluence
2 39 (4.79%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.58%) Apache
5 17 (2.09%) nginx
6 7 (0.86%) Camunda
7 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.61%) SAS
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.37%) Appian
8 3 (0.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) Drupal
8 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.49%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 488 (59.88%) AWS
2 253 (31.04%) Azure
3 155 (19.02%) GitHub
4 126 (15.46%) GCP
5 117 (14.36%) Amazon S3
6 110 (13.50%) Serverless
7 94 (11.53%) GitHub Actions
8 78 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
10 43 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 38 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (4.54%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (4.54%) OpenShift
14 34 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (3.19%) Power Platform
16 25 (3.07%) Snowflake
17 24 (2.94%) Route 53
18 20 (2.45%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.45%) Firewall
2 18 (2.21%) DNS
3 7 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.74%) HTTP
4 6 (0.74%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.49%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.49%) SSH
5 4 (0.49%) VPN
5 4 (0.49%) WAN
6 3 (0.37%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.37%) Internet
6 3 (0.37%) SAN
6 3 (0.37%) SSL
7 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.25%) LAN
7 2 (0.25%) MQTT
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (18.04%) MongoDB
1 147 (18.04%) SQL Server
2 144 (17.67%) Relational Database
3 136 (16.69%) NoSQL
4 125 (15.34%) MySQL
5 77 (9.45%) Amazon RDS
6 63 (7.73%) DynamoDB
7 56 (6.87%) Amazon Aurora
8 53 (6.50%) Redis
9 36 (4.42%) Big Data
9 36 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (4.17%) RDBMS
11 33 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
12 28 (3.44%) Data Lake
13 24 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (2.82%) Metadata
15 21 (2.58%) Power BI
16 19 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
16 19 (2.33%) Tableau
17 18 (2.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 175 (21.47%) Jenkins
2 158 (19.39%) Git
3 87 (10.67%) GitLab
4 85 (10.43%) JIRA
5 81 (9.94%) JUnit
6 48 (5.89%) Mockito
7 32 (3.93%) Cucumber
8 31 (3.80%) Maven
9 25 (3.07%) JMeter
10 22 (2.70%) Gradle
11 20 (2.45%) Selenium
12 17 (2.09%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.96%) WebDriver
14 15 (1.84%) Bitbucket
15 14 (1.72%) Liquibase
16 13 (1.60%) Gatling
17 11 (1.35%) DbUnit
17 11 (1.35%) jMock
17 11 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
18 10 (1.23%) Artifactory
General
1 178 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 165 (20.25%) Finance
3 97 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 74 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.63%) Banking
6 27 (3.31%) Front Office
7 16 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.86%) Legal
12 6 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Law
12 6 (0.74%) Retail
12 6 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.61%) Automotive
14 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.49%) Marketing
15 3 (0.37%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.37%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 323 (39.63%) Developer
2 138 (16.93%) Senior
3 104 (12.76%) Java Developer
4 83 (10.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 79 (9.69%) Python Developer
6 78 (9.57%) DBA
7 76 (9.33%) Software Engineer
8 69 (8.47%) Data Engineer
9 60 (7.36%) Architect
10 54 (6.63%) Lead
11 51 (6.26%) Senior Developer
12 37 (4.54%) Administrator
12 37 (4.54%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 33 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.80%) Java Engineer
15 28 (3.44%) Lead Developer
15 28 (3.44%) Senior Java Developer
16 26 (3.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 26 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
16 26 (3.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (23.80%) Kafka
2 180 (22.09%) Spring
3 155 (19.02%) React
4 140 (17.18%) RESTful
5 138 (16.93%) Spring Boot
6 131 (16.07%) REST
7 125 (15.34%) Node.js
8 62 (7.61%) FastAPI
9 59 (7.24%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.64%) Hibernate
11 40 (4.91%) GraphQL
11 40 (4.91%) JSON
12 38 (4.66%) .NET
12 38 (4.66%) CSS
12 38 (4.66%) WireMock
13 37 (4.54%) HTML
14 35 (4.29%) JPA
15 30 (3.68%) Django
16 28 (3.44%) OAuth
16 28 (3.44%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 102 (12.52%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.83%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.28%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.68%) Derivative
5 27 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.19%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.70%) Fixed Income
8 21 (2.58%) Replication
9 20 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (2.21%) Equities
11 18 (2.21%) Onboarding
12 17 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
13 11 (1.35%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.35%) Market Risk
14 9 (1.10%) Clustering
14 9 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (0.98%) PACS
15 8 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 135 (16.56%) Linux
2 39 (4.79%) Unix
3 25 (3.07%) Windows
4 13 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.49%) zOS
7 3 (0.37%) Android
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.25%) Solaris
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (44.05%) CI/CD
2 305 (37.42%) Agile
3 251 (30.80%) DevOps
4 208 (25.52%) Microservices
5 197 (24.17%) Containerisation
6 143 (17.55%) Software Engineering
7 142 (17.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 138 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (14.97%) Infrastructure as Code
10 116 (14.23%) Observability
11 108 (13.25%) Test Automation
12 105 (12.88%) Data Modelling
13 98 (12.02%) TDD
14 92 (11.29%) Migration
15 89 (10.92%) AI
15 89 (10.92%) Performance Tuning
16 80 (9.82%) ETL
17 78 (9.57%) Mentoring
18 75 (9.20%) Event-Driven
19 74 (9.08%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 347 (42.58%) Python
2 306 (37.55%) SQL
3 282 (34.60%) Java
4 125 (15.34%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.23%) JavaScript
6 67 (8.22%) Bash
7 46 (5.64%) PowerShell
8 40 (4.91%) C#
9 32 (3.93%) Go
10 31 (3.80%) Scala
11 21 (2.58%) Shell Script
12 20 (2.45%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.35%) PHP
14 9 (1.10%) Groovy
14 9 (1.10%) Ruby
15 8 (0.98%) Bicep
15 8 (0.98%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.98%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.61%) Delphi
16 5 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 266 (32.64%) Security Cleared
2 215 (26.38%) SC Cleared
3 68 (8.34%) Degree
4 37 (4.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.44%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.21%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.84%) Oracle Certification
9 13 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.35%) OCP
11 10 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.74%) CISSP
13 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.49%) CISM
15 3 (0.37%) PhD
15 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 1 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.52%) QA
2 42 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.60%) GDPR
5 9 (1.10%) SLA
6 7 (0.86%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.86%) NCSC
6 7 (0.86%) NIST
6 7 (0.86%) WCAG
7 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.25%) HL7
9 2 (0.25%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 303 (37.18%) Docker
2 11 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.23%) Postfix
4 9 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.61%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.61%) Ceph
6 5 (0.61%) HDFS
7 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.37%) NFS
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.25%) Lustre
8 2 (0.25%) Samba
8 2 (0.25%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Varnish
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 262 (32.15%) Kubernetes
2 147 (18.04%) Terraform
3 125 (15.34%) Grafana
4 82 (10.06%) Prometheus
5 68 (8.34%) Ansible
6 17 (2.09%) Argo
7 16 (1.96%) Control-M
7 16 (1.96%) IBM Guardium
7 16 (1.96%) Nessus
8 12 (1.47%) HAProxy
8 12 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.35%) Kibana
9 11 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.23%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.23%) Puppet
11 9 (1.10%) Istio
11 9 (1.10%) Rancher
12 6 (0.74%) linkerd
13 4 (0.49%) Packer
14 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 147 (18.04%) Oracle
2 106 (13.01%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.05%) Databricks
4 32 (3.93%) Splunk
5 23 (2.82%) Atlassian
6 22 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.58%) Red Hat
7 21 (2.58%) VMware
8 20 (2.45%) Google
8 20 (2.45%) Informatica
9 16 (1.96%) Tenable
10 14 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
11 13 (1.60%) Talend
12 12 (1.47%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.47%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.23%) Confluent
14 9 (1.10%) IBM
15 8 (0.98%) PagerDuty
16 7 (0.86%) Greenplum
16 7 (0.86%) OpenAI