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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 111 138
Rank change year-on-year -49 +27 +15
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 878 787 717
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 2.42% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.86% 13.23% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 599 541
10th Percentile £360 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £599 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile £27.18 £54.50 £53.70
25th Percentile £41.50 £57.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -18.75% +77.78%
75th Percentile £72.11 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% -18.75% +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 8,083 5,948 7,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.35% 18.29% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,349 4,034 5,341
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -2.43% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 100 133
10th Percentile £16.35 £19.56 £14.05
25th Percentile £24.85 £25.94 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.71 £36.25 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.06% -5.84% -30.00%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.63 £51.91
90th Percentile £77.25 £77.62 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £32.75
% change year-on-year +24.84% -3.39% -37.62%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -50 720 £520 -5.41% 208
UK excluding London -27 406 £475 - 138
London -62 352 £550 -8.33% 117
Work from Home -62 285 £500 -9.99% 101
North of England -42 132 £476 -4.80% 33
Midlands -1 104 £447 -10.60% 17
West Midlands -18 75 £447 -5.89% 8
South East -45 71 £473 +8.74% 42
Yorkshire -14 61 £488 -2.50% 9
North West -36 61 £478 +0.63% 18
Scotland -6 53 £425 -10.05% 13
South West -28 31 £700 +30.23% 15
East Midlands +4 27 £447 -12.78% 9
East of England -20 17 £575 +27.78% 10
North East -47 9 £425 -19.05% 6
Wales -12 4 - - 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 49 (5.58%) Confluence
2 40 (4.56%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.51%) Apache
5 10 (1.14%) nginx
6 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.68%) Camunda
7 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.46%) WordPress
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.34%) IIS
9 3 (0.34%) JBoss
9 3 (0.34%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) Appian
10 2 (0.23%) Drupal
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.03%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.23%) Trello
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) Maya
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 457 (52.05%) AWS
2 308 (35.08%) Azure
3 160 (18.22%) GCP
4 149 (16.97%) GitHub
5 103 (11.73%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (11.16%) Amazon S3
7 95 (10.82%) Serverless
8 66 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
11 49 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 48 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
13 43 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (3.53%) Snowflake
15 26 (2.96%) Power Platform
15 26 (2.96%) Route 53
16 25 (2.85%) Azure AKS
17 24 (2.73%) OpenShift
18 23 (2.62%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.94%) Firewall
2 13 (1.48%) DNS
3 10 (1.14%) SSH
4 9 (1.03%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.68%) HTTP
5 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.57%) SAN
7 4 (0.46%) SSL
8 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.34%) MQTT
8 3 (0.34%) Network Security
8 3 (0.34%) VPN
8 3 (0.34%) WAN
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) NaaS
9 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (20.27%) SQL Server
2 161 (18.34%) Relational Database
3 159 (18.11%) MongoDB
4 132 (15.03%) MySQL
5 119 (13.55%) NoSQL
6 69 (7.86%) Amazon RDS
6 69 (7.86%) Redis
7 61 (6.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 49 (5.58%) DynamoDB
9 39 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.10%) Big Data
11 31 (3.53%) Oracle Database
12 29 (3.30%) Data Lake
12 29 (3.30%) RDBMS
13 23 (2.62%) Metadata
14 22 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
15 21 (2.39%) Power BI
16 19 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
18 16 (1.82%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 189 (21.53%) Git
2 188 (21.41%) Jenkins
3 101 (11.50%) JIRA
4 82 (9.34%) JUnit
5 75 (8.54%) GitLab
6 54 (6.15%) Mockito
7 50 (5.69%) Maven
8 35 (3.99%) Gradle
9 31 (3.53%) Cucumber
10 24 (2.73%) Selenium
11 23 (2.62%) JMeter
12 22 (2.51%) SonarQube
13 21 (2.39%) Liquibase
14 20 (2.28%) WebDriver
15 17 (1.94%) Gatling
16 14 (1.59%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.48%) jMock
18 11 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
19 10 (1.14%) Bitbucket
20 9 (1.03%) Flyway
General
1 186 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 169 (19.25%) Finance
3 121 (13.78%) Public Sector
4 111 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (6.49%) Banking
6 28 (3.19%) Front Office
7 23 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.37%) Military
10 10 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.03%) Law
12 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.91%) Legal
13 7 (0.80%) Retail
14 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.57%) Automotive
15 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
17 3 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 352 (40.09%) Developer
2 154 (17.54%) Senior
3 117 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 91 (10.36%) DBA
5 83 (9.45%) Software Engineer
6 82 (9.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 79 (9.00%) Python Developer
8 76 (8.66%) Lead
9 66 (7.52%) Data Engineer
10 61 (6.95%) Architect
11 60 (6.83%) Senior Developer
12 43 (4.90%) Administrator
13 40 (4.56%) Java Engineer
14 37 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.10%) Lead Developer
16 32 (3.64%) Backend Developer
16 32 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 32 (3.64%) Software Developer
17 29 (3.30%) Python Engineer
18 27 (3.08%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (23.01%) Spring
2 199 (22.67%) REST
3 175 (19.93%) React
4 174 (19.82%) Kafka
5 172 (19.59%) RESTful
6 159 (18.11%) Spring Boot
7 128 (14.58%) Node.js
8 72 (8.20%) FastAPI
9 67 (7.63%) AngularJS
10 51 (5.81%) HTML
11 49 (5.58%) .NET
11 49 (5.58%) CSS
12 47 (5.35%) OpenAPI
12 47 (5.35%) Swagger
13 45 (5.13%) Web Services
14 39 (4.44%) Django
14 39 (4.44%) GraphQL
14 39 (4.44%) JPA
15 36 (4.10%) Hibernate
15 36 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 144 (16.40%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.85%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.87%) Replication
5 32 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 27 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (2.96%) Derivative
8 24 (2.73%) Equities
9 23 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (2.39%) Fixed Income
12 20 (2.28%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.94%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.82%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.59%) Virtual Team
16 13 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (1.37%) AI Agents
18 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
19 8 (0.91%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.44%) Linux
2 34 (3.87%) Windows
3 33 (3.76%) Unix
4 29 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.94%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.91%) Solaris
8 5 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.34%) AIX
9 3 (0.34%) Android
9 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.34%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) zOS
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (44.99%) CI/CD
2 338 (38.50%) Agile
3 272 (30.98%) Microservices
4 266 (30.30%) DevOps
5 217 (24.72%) Containerisation
6 179 (20.39%) Software Engineering
7 165 (18.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 163 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (14.24%) AI
10 123 (14.01%) Test Automation
11 117 (13.33%) Observability
12 112 (12.76%) Data Modelling
13 111 (12.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 111 (12.64%) Performance Tuning
14 105 (11.96%) Migration
15 104 (11.85%) TDD
16 100 (11.39%) Scrum
17 91 (10.36%) Event-Driven
18 89 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
19 87 (9.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 356 (40.55%) Python
2 329 (37.47%) SQL
3 313 (35.65%) Java
4 153 (17.43%) TypeScript
5 133 (15.15%) JavaScript
6 58 (6.61%) C#
7 48 (5.47%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.44%) Bash
9 32 (3.64%) Go
10 30 (3.42%) Scala
11 19 (2.16%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.82%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.59%) PHP
14 13 (1.48%) Groovy
14 13 (1.48%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.37%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.25%) Ruby
17 9 (1.03%) Perl
18 7 (0.80%) Rust
19 6 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 310 (35.31%) Security Cleared
2 262 (29.84%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.52%) Degree
4 39 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (0.91%) OCP
12 6 (0.68%) CISSP
13 4 (0.46%) CISM
14 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.34%) PhD
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.11%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.52%) QA
2 42 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.99%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.48%) GDPR
5 12 (1.37%) WCAG
6 5 (0.57%) GMP
6 5 (0.57%) GxP
6 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
6 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.46%) NIST
7 4 (0.46%) SLA
8 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.23%) GRC
System Software
1 332 (37.81%) Docker
2 11 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.25%) Postfix
2 11 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.57%) Ceph
5 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.34%) HDFS
6 3 (0.34%) Squid
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) Samba
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 296 (33.71%) Kubernetes
2 132 (15.03%) Terraform
3 123 (14.01%) Grafana
4 94 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.33%) Ansible
6 17 (1.94%) Control-M
6 17 (1.94%) IBM Guardium
6 17 (1.94%) Nessus
6 17 (1.94%) Oracle RMAN
7 13 (1.48%) Kibana
8 12 (1.37%) Data Guard
9 11 (1.25%) Argo
10 10 (1.14%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.80%) Rancher
12 6 (0.68%) Istio
13 4 (0.46%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
14 3 (0.34%) Puppet
14 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 190 (21.64%) Oracle
2 139 (15.83%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.44%) Google
4 32 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.30%) Databricks
6 18 (2.05%) Informatica
6 18 (2.05%) Splunk
7 17 (1.94%) Atlassian
7 17 (1.94%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
7 17 (1.94%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.94%) Tenable
8 13 (1.48%) Talend
9 11 (1.25%) IBM
9 11 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.25%) VMware
10 10 (1.14%) CyberArk
10 10 (1.14%) Sybase
11 7 (0.80%) TikTok