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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 114 136
Rank change year-on-year -49 +22 +21
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 782 684 716
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.34% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.79% 12.33% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 505 529
10th Percentile £362 £400 £374
25th Percentile £416 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £808 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £490 £483
% change year-on-year -8.16% +1.45% -0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £39.00 - £34.05
25th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -13.33% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.90 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +261.01%

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 7,250 5,548 7,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 19.00% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,894 3,807 5,237
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 98 148
10th Percentile £15.94 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.59 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -15.49% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.81 £65.62 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.63 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.55% -20.90% -29.08%

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 19 May 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 19 May 2026.

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 19 May 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 -43 658 £505 -8.18% 262
UK excluding London -27 360 £450 -8.16% 123
London -40 336 £550 -8.33% 152
Work from Home -53 248 £500 -10.71% 162
North of England -21 134 £450 -5.26% 37
Midlands -4 90 £450 -10.89% 22
North West -23 71 £450 -5.26% 22
West Midlands -16 64 £455 -14.65% 7
South East -44 63 £450 -3.23% 37
Yorkshire -20 52 £474 -5.25% 9
Scotland +6 50 £425 -10.15% 5
East Midlands -12 25 £428 -14.50% 15
South West -27 20 £606 -3.04% 16
North East -16 10 £425 -8.60% 6
East of England -32 10 £575 +27.78% 6
Northern Ireland -3 1 £400 -20.00%
Wales -11 1 - - 3

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 46 (5.88%) Confluence
2 41 (5.24%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.69%) Apache
5 11 (1.41%) nginx
6 8 (1.02%) Camunda
7 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.64%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.38%) Appian
10 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Drupal
10 2 (0.26%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.26%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.64%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 434 (55.50%) AWS
2 244 (31.20%) Azure
3 126 (16.11%) GitHub
4 121 (15.47%) GCP
5 93 (11.89%) Serverless
6 92 (11.76%) Amazon S3
7 84 (10.74%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (3.96%) Power Platform
14 30 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (3.71%) Snowflake
16 28 (3.58%) OpenShift
17 26 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
18 21 (2.69%) AWS KMS
19 20 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.30%) Firewall
2 16 (2.05%) DNS
3 7 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.77%) HTTP
5 4 (0.51%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.51%) SSH
5 4 (0.51%) VPN
5 4 (0.51%) WAN
6 3 (0.38%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.38%) SAN
6 3 (0.38%) SSL
7 2 (0.26%) LAN
7 2 (0.26%) MQTT
7 2 (0.26%) NaaS
7 2 (0.26%) Network Security
7 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) DHCP
8 1 (0.13%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (18.67%) SQL Server
2 143 (18.29%) MongoDB
3 140 (17.90%) Relational Database
4 133 (17.01%) NoSQL
5 108 (13.81%) MySQL
6 58 (7.42%) Amazon RDS
7 56 (7.16%) DynamoDB
8 54 (6.91%) Amazon Aurora
9 50 (6.39%) Redis
10 35 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (4.09%) Big Data
12 31 (3.96%) RDBMS
13 30 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (3.20%) Power BI
15 24 (3.07%) Data Lake
16 20 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
16 20 (2.56%) Metadata
16 20 (2.56%) Tableau
17 19 (2.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 150 (19.18%) Jenkins
2 140 (17.90%) Git
3 79 (10.10%) GitLab
4 77 (9.85%) JIRA
5 70 (8.95%) JUnit
6 49 (6.27%) Mockito
7 31 (3.96%) Maven
8 24 (3.07%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.94%) Gradle
10 20 (2.56%) JMeter
10 20 (2.56%) Selenium
11 17 (2.17%) SonarQube
12 16 (2.05%) Liquibase
12 16 (2.05%) WebDriver
13 13 (1.66%) Gatling
14 11 (1.41%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.41%) jMock
15 9 (1.15%) Bitbucket Server
16 7 (0.90%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.90%) ERwin
General
1 159 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 158 (20.20%) Finance
3 97 (12.40%) Public Sector
4 75 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.65%) Banking
6 25 (3.20%) Front Office
7 14 (1.79%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.15%) Law
11 7 (0.90%) Legal
11 7 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.64%) Automotive
12 5 (0.64%) Retail
13 4 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.51%) Military
14 3 (0.38%) Games
14 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 298 (38.11%) Developer
2 136 (17.39%) Senior
3 85 (10.87%) Java Developer
4 82 (10.49%) Software Engineer
5 78 (9.97%) Python Developer
6 75 (9.59%) DBA
7 71 (9.08%) Data Engineer
7 71 (9.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (7.93%) Architect
9 56 (7.16%) Lead
10 52 (6.65%) Senior Developer
11 36 (4.60%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 35 (4.48%) Java Engineer
13 34 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.96%) Administrator
15 27 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 27 (3.45%) Lead Developer
15 27 (3.45%) Software Developer
16 25 (3.20%) Data Architect
16 25 (3.20%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (24.55%) Kafka
2 171 (21.87%) Spring
3 155 (19.82%) React
4 132 (16.88%) Spring Boot
5 131 (16.75%) RESTful
6 130 (16.62%) REST
7 115 (14.71%) Node.js
8 64 (8.18%) FastAPI
9 56 (7.16%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.37%) .NET
11 38 (4.86%) JSON
12 36 (4.60%) GraphQL
13 35 (4.48%) WireMock
14 34 (4.35%) Hibernate
14 34 (4.35%) HTML
14 34 (4.35%) JPA
15 32 (4.09%) CSS
16 31 (3.96%) Django
16 31 (3.96%) Redux
17 30 (3.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 111 (14.19%) Cloud Native
2 83 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.58%) Derivative
5 27 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 25 (3.20%) Replication
7 22 (2.81%) Fixed Income
7 22 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.81%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.43%) Equities
10 16 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (2.05%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.41%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.02%) Market Risk
13 8 (1.02%) PACS
13 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 113 (14.45%) Linux
2 34 (4.35%) Unix
3 27 (3.45%) Windows
4 15 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.51%) zOS
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Solaris
7 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.26%) VMS
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (43.35%) CI/CD
2 285 (36.45%) Agile
3 241 (30.82%) DevOps
4 204 (26.09%) Microservices
5 188 (24.04%) Containerisation
6 151 (19.31%) Software Engineering
7 133 (17.01%) Full-Stack Development
8 128 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (15.09%) Observability
10 117 (14.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 111 (14.19%) Data Modelling
12 109 (13.94%) Test Automation
13 101 (12.92%) TDD
14 96 (12.28%) AI
15 95 (12.15%) Migration
16 90 (11.51%) Performance Tuning
17 79 (10.10%) Mentoring
18 78 (9.97%) Event-Driven
19 75 (9.59%) ETL
20 73 (9.34%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 337 (43.09%) Python
2 291 (37.21%) SQL
3 275 (35.17%) Java
4 129 (16.50%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.83%) JavaScript
6 51 (6.52%) Bash
7 45 (5.75%) C#
7 45 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 32 (4.09%) Go
8 32 (4.09%) Scala
9 21 (2.69%) PL/SQL
10 20 (2.56%) Shell Script
11 16 (2.05%) PHP
12 10 (1.28%) Bicep
12 10 (1.28%) Groovy
13 9 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.02%) Ruby
15 6 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.64%) Delphi
16 5 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 249 (31.84%) Security Cleared
2 202 (25.83%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.54%) Degree
4 34 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.77%) CISSP
11 6 (0.77%) OCP
12 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.51%) CISM
14 3 (0.38%) PhD
14 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.52%) QA
2 41 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.28%) GDPR
4 10 (1.28%) SLA
4 10 (1.28%) WCAG
5 7 (0.90%) ISO 20022
5 7 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.90%) NIST
6 6 (0.77%) NCSC
6 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.26%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 280 (35.81%) Docker
2 10 (1.28%) Postfix
3 9 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.64%) Ceph
6 4 (0.51%) HDFS
7 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.26%) NFS
8 2 (0.26%) Samba
8 2 (0.26%) Squid
8 2 (0.26%) Xen
9 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.13%) KVM
9 1 (0.13%) Lustre
9 1 (0.13%) RACF
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 244 (31.20%) Kubernetes
2 133 (17.01%) Terraform
3 117 (14.96%) Grafana
4 82 (10.49%) Prometheus
5 54 (6.91%) Ansible
6 16 (2.05%) Control-M
6 16 (2.05%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.05%) Nessus
7 14 (1.79%) Argo
8 12 (1.53%) HAProxy
8 12 (1.53%) Kibana
9 11 (1.41%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.28%) Data Guard
11 8 (1.02%) Istio
11 8 (1.02%) Rancher
12 5 (0.64%) linkerd
13 4 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.51%) Puppet
14 2 (0.26%) Amdocs OSS
15 1 (0.13%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 143 (18.29%) Oracle
2 97 (12.40%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.35%) Databricks
4 28 (3.58%) Splunk
5 23 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 20 (2.56%) Informatica
6 20 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.43%) Google
8 16 (2.05%) Tenable
9 15 (1.92%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.79%) Jaspersoft
11 13 (1.66%) Talend
11 13 (1.66%) VMware
12 12 (1.53%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.53%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.28%) Confluent
14 9 (1.15%) IBM
15 8 (1.02%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.90%) Greenplum
17 5 (0.64%) Sybase