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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 137 156
Rank change year-on-year +18 +19 +22
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 853 679 761
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.36% 1.85% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.36% 10.42% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 504 530
10th Percentile £363 £327 £405
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £633 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £710 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
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% +37.89%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £69.03
90th Percentile £71.50 - £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £46.28
% change year-on-year - - +8.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,383 6,516 7,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.67% 17.76% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,367 4,297 5,340
10th Percentile £330 £346 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £607 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 89 146
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.00 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.48 £21.86
Median hourly rate £46.50 £33.93 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +37.05% -27.56% -2.30%
75th Percentile £69.25 £55.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.20 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.85 £30.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.83% -35.04% +13.38%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 17 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 November 2025. 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 +33 718 £525 -4.55% 486
London +22 395 £600 +4.35% 180
UK excluding London +13 355 £475 -3.06% 411
Work from Home -5 288 £525 +0.96% 257
North of England +33 133 £500 +7.24% 77
Midlands +20 74 £525 +7.14% 51
Yorkshire +12 70 £500 -16.67% 26
West Midlands +16 63 £525 +8.58% 30
South East -23 63 £429 -14.25% 169
North West -5 49 £450 +1.12% 46
South West +8 48 £550 - 40
Scotland -17 46 £450 -5.76% 23
North East +7 15 £550 - 5
East Midlands -10 11 £518 +3.50% 19
Northern Ireland +3 8 £400 - 4
Wales 0 4 £469 +17.19% 9
East of England -12 4 £450 +1.41% 42

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 48 (5.63%) Confluence
2 32 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.93%) nginx
4 23 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.41%) Apache
5 12 (1.41%) SAS
6 8 (0.94%) Oracle Application Server
7 6 (0.70%) Drupal
8 5 (0.59%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.47%) Alfresco
9 4 (0.47%) Camunda
9 4 (0.47%) CICS
9 4 (0.47%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.47%) WordPress
10 3 (0.35%) JBoss
10 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 510 (59.79%) AWS
2 244 (28.60%) Azure
3 169 (19.81%) GitHub
4 156 (18.29%) GCP
5 140 (16.41%) Serverless
6 133 (15.59%) Amazon S3
7 88 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
8 76 (8.91%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (6.68%) Amazon ECS
10 56 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 53 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
12 49 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
12 49 (5.74%) OpenShift
13 41 (4.81%) Power Platform
14 40 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (3.87%) Snowflake
16 32 (3.75%) Azure AKS
17 27 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
17 27 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 25 (2.93%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.05%) Firewall
2 19 (2.23%) DNS
2 19 (2.23%) HTTP
3 15 (1.76%) SSH
4 12 (1.41%) IMAP
4 12 (1.41%) Kerberos
4 12 (1.41%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (1.41%) SMTP
5 10 (1.17%) FTP
6 9 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.82%) SSL
8 4 (0.47%) Internet
8 4 (0.47%) VPN
9 3 (0.35%) MQTT
10 2 (0.23%) InfiniBand
10 2 (0.23%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.23%) LAN
10 2 (0.23%) WAN
11 1 (0.12%) DHCP
11 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (15.83%) Relational Database
2 124 (14.54%) MySQL
3 121 (14.19%) NoSQL
4 109 (12.78%) MongoDB
5 103 (12.08%) SQL Server
6 94 (11.02%) Amazon RDS
7 79 (9.26%) Redis
8 66 (7.74%) Amazon Aurora
9 44 (5.16%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (4.69%) RDBMS
11 33 (3.87%) Power BI
12 29 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
13 28 (3.28%) Oracle Database
14 25 (2.93%) Apache Cassandra
15 23 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
16 22 (2.58%) Apache Iceberg
16 22 (2.58%) Big Data
17 20 (2.34%) Hadoop
18 17 (1.99%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 188 (22.04%) Jenkins
2 165 (19.34%) Git
3 79 (9.26%) JIRA
4 78 (9.14%) GitLab
5 66 (7.74%) JUnit
6 35 (4.10%) Cucumber
7 30 (3.52%) Liquibase
7 30 (3.52%) Mockito
8 26 (3.05%) Maven
9 24 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (2.58%) Gradle
10 22 (2.58%) SonarQube
11 21 (2.46%) Cypress.io
12 18 (2.11%) Bitbucket
13 16 (1.88%) JMeter
14 15 (1.76%) Postman
15 12 (1.41%) Vagrant
16 11 (1.29%) Subversion
17 10 (1.17%) DBeaver
17 10 (1.17%) webpack
General
1 249 (29.19%) Social Skills
2 195 (22.86%) Finance
3 105 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 92 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (10.43%) Banking
6 42 (4.92%) Front Office
7 32 (3.75%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.94%) Marketing
13 5 (0.59%) Local Government
13 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.59%) Military
13 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.47%) Electronics
14 4 (0.47%) Legal
15 2 (0.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 348 (40.80%) Developer
2 140 (16.41%) Senior
3 117 (13.72%) Java Developer
4 80 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 69 (8.09%) Senior Developer
6 64 (7.50%) Architect
6 64 (7.50%) Data Engineer
7 63 (7.39%) AWS Engineer
8 62 (7.27%) Software Engineer
9 59 (6.92%) AWS Developer
9 59 (6.92%) Python Developer
10 55 (6.45%) Lead
11 50 (5.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 40 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
13 39 (4.57%) Python Engineer
14 36 (4.22%) DBA
14 36 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 30 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
16 26 (3.05%) Backend Developer
17 25 (2.93%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (20.52%) Kafka
2 167 (19.58%) React
3 145 (17.00%) Node.js
4 135 (15.83%) Spring
5 124 (14.54%) RESTful
6 121 (14.19%) REST
7 109 (12.78%) Spring Boot
8 66 (7.74%) CSS
9 60 (7.03%) AngularJS
10 57 (6.68%) HTML
11 56 (6.57%) GraphQL
12 47 (5.51%) Hibernate
13 43 (5.04%) Vue
14 41 (4.81%) FastAPI
15 37 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
16 35 (4.10%) JSON
17 32 (3.75%) Pandas
18 31 (3.63%) .NET
18 31 (3.63%) NumPy
18 31 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.39%) Replication
4 29 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
4 29 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 26 (3.05%) Fixed Income
6 23 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.46%) Equities
8 21 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 20 (2.34%) Derivative
10 19 (2.23%) Clustering
10 19 (2.23%) Market Risk
11 18 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (1.88%) Public Cloud
14 14 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.29%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 146 (17.12%) Linux
2 31 (3.63%) Windows
3 22 (2.58%) Unix
4 15 (1.76%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (1.76%) VMS
5 11 (1.29%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.35%) Solaris
8 3 (0.35%) zOS
9 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (42.44%) CI/CD
2 340 (39.86%) Agile
3 279 (32.71%) DevOps
4 223 (26.14%) Microservices
5 201 (23.56%) Containerisation
6 186 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (16.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 139 (16.30%) Software Engineering
9 128 (15.01%) Infrastructure as Code
10 116 (13.60%) TDD
11 111 (13.01%) Test Automation
12 91 (10.67%) Observability
13 88 (10.32%) Migration
14 80 (9.38%) AI
15 76 (8.91%) Computer Science
16 75 (8.79%) ETL
17 74 (8.68%) Mentoring
18 72 (8.44%) Analytics
19 71 (8.32%) Data Modelling
20 68 (7.97%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 398 (46.66%) Python
2 308 (36.11%) SQL
3 259 (30.36%) Java
4 151 (17.70%) TypeScript
5 149 (17.47%) JavaScript
6 88 (10.32%) Bash
7 73 (8.56%) Go
8 43 (5.04%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.40%) C#
10 27 (3.17%) Groovy
11 26 (3.05%) PHP
12 19 (2.23%) Ruby
13 18 (2.11%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.41%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.29%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.06%) Perl
17 7 (0.82%) JSX
17 7 (0.82%) Scala
17 7 (0.82%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 225 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 190 (22.27%) SC Cleared
3 102 (11.96%) Degree
4 64 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (4.45%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 24 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.34%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.41%) OCP
11 12 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.94%) MCP
13 7 (0.82%) CISSP
14 6 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.47%) HND
17 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
18 2 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
19 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.92%) QA
2 42 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.76%) GDPR
5 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.35%) HL7
7 3 (0.35%) SLA
7 3 (0.35%) WCAG
8 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.12%) DICOM
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 285 (33.41%) Docker
2 14 (1.64%) Postfix
3 12 (1.41%) Dovecot
3 12 (1.41%) Squid
4 11 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (1.17%) DFS Replication
5 10 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.06%) zsh
7 6 (0.70%) Active Directory
8 5 (0.59%) NDS
8 5 (0.59%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 5 (0.59%) NFS
9 3 (0.35%) KVM
9 3 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.35%) Xen
10 2 (0.23%) GPFS
10 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.23%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Ceph
11 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 295 (34.58%) Kubernetes
2 171 (20.05%) Terraform
3 108 (12.66%) Grafana
4 78 (9.14%) Prometheus
5 77 (9.03%) Ansible
6 26 (3.05%) Argo
7 23 (2.70%) Nessus
8 19 (2.23%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.99%) Puppet
10 12 (1.41%) Control-M
11 11 (1.29%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.17%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.06%) Packer
14 8 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.82%) Istio
16 5 (0.59%) Kibana
17 4 (0.47%) Rancher
17 4 (0.47%) ZABBIX
18 3 (0.35%) Ambari
Vendors
1 124 (14.54%) Oracle
2 88 (10.32%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.28%) Google
4 40 (4.69%) Splunk
5 26 (3.05%) Red Hat
6 24 (2.81%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.81%) VMware
7 21 (2.46%) Atlassian
7 21 (2.46%) Databricks
8 18 (2.11%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.88%) IBM
10 15 (1.76%) CA Agile Central
11 14 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
12 11 (1.29%) Tenable
13 8 (0.94%) Greenplum
13 8 (0.94%) Informatica
14 7 (0.82%) Cloudera
14 7 (0.82%) PagerDuty
15 6 (0.70%) Gigya
15 6 (0.70%) SAP