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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 119 128
Rank change year-on-year -65 +9 +33
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 852 779 718
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.36% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.37% 13.11% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 578 535
10th Percentile £363 £378 £371
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £717 £838 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £483
% change year-on-year -0.84% -0.83% -3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £25.45 - £48.23
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £65.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% -46.88% +49.46%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £72.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.08% -18.75% +28.93%

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 8,215 5,940 6,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.24% 18.03% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,475 3,981 4,887
10th Percentile £359 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 94 99
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.22 £14.85
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.02 £19.71
Median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.63 £70.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -45.45%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -69 686 £500 -6.41% 893
UK excluding London -36 362 £475 -0.84% 347
London -73 351 £525 -12.50% 650
Work from Home -62 265 £500 -15.18% 421
North of England -61 116 £494 -0.55% 78
Midlands -16 80 £445 -11.00% 43
South East -38 67 £471 +8.16% 93
Yorkshire -24 55 £500 - 18
North West -61 52 £500 +5.26% 49
West Midlands -28 49 £447 -5.84% 26
Scotland -22 46 £425 -12.82% 33
South West -26 33 £700 +27.27% 54
East Midlands +7 30 £425 -17.48% 16
East of England -13 21 £488 +4.28% 21
North East -45 9 £425 -22.73% 11
Wales -15 4 - - 10

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 32 (3.76%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (3.17%) Confluence
4 20 (2.35%) Apache
5 8 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.70%) CMS
8 5 (0.59%) nginx
9 4 (0.47%) Camunda
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.35%) IIS
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.23%) JBoss
11 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.47%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Finacle
3 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.12%) Odoo
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 450 (52.82%) AWS
2 288 (33.80%) Azure
3 161 (18.90%) GitHub
4 125 (14.67%) GCP
5 118 (13.85%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (11.97%) Serverless
7 91 (10.68%) Amazon S3
8 76 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
9 61 (7.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.57%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (5.99%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (3.76%) Snowflake
14 30 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 27 (3.17%) AWS KMS
17 25 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
18 23 (2.70%) Azure AKS
18 23 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.05%) DNS
2 20 (2.35%) Firewall
3 19 (2.23%) SSH
4 18 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.88%) HTTP
6 11 (1.29%) HTTPS
7 9 (1.06%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.94%) SAN
9 7 (0.82%) SSL
10 5 (0.59%) 5G
11 4 (0.47%) 4G
11 4 (0.47%) VPN
12 3 (0.35%) Network Security
13 2 (0.23%) DHCP
13 2 (0.23%) FTP
13 2 (0.23%) IMAP
13 2 (0.23%) MQTT
13 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (20.07%) SQL Server
2 168 (19.72%) MongoDB
3 162 (19.01%) Relational Database
4 150 (17.61%) MySQL
5 112 (13.15%) NoSQL
6 101 (11.85%) Redis
7 79 (9.27%) Amazon RDS
8 77 (9.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 42 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (4.93%) DynamoDB
10 30 (3.52%) RDBMS
11 29 (3.40%) Oracle Database
12 27 (3.17%) Big Data
13 25 (2.93%) Data Lake
14 24 (2.82%) Metadata
15 23 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (2.11%) Power BI
17 15 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
18 13 (1.53%) Tableau
19 12 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 193 (22.65%) Jenkins
2 192 (22.54%) Git
3 96 (11.27%) GitLab
4 74 (8.69%) JIRA
5 65 (7.63%) JUnit
6 52 (6.10%) Mockito
7 41 (4.81%) Maven
8 35 (4.11%) Gradle
9 23 (2.70%) Liquibase
10 20 (2.35%) Cucumber
11 19 (2.23%) SonarQube
12 18 (2.11%) Selenium
13 16 (1.88%) Gatling
14 13 (1.53%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.53%) JMeter
15 12 (1.41%) Mocha
16 10 (1.17%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.17%) Flyway
17 8 (0.94%) WebDriver
18 7 (0.82%) DbUnit
General
1 188 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 140 (16.43%) Public Sector
3 129 (15.14%) Finance
4 117 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.75%) Banking
6 31 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (1.88%) Front Office
8 11 (1.29%) Military
8 11 (1.29%) Retail
9 10 (1.17%) Law
9 10 (1.17%) Legal
9 10 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.17%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.59%) Automotive
11 5 (0.59%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.59%) Marketing
11 5 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.47%) Billing
12 4 (0.47%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 318 (37.32%) Developer
2 153 (17.96%) Senior
3 105 (12.32%) Java Developer
4 99 (11.62%) DBA
5 71 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 65 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 65 (7.63%) Lead
7 63 (7.39%) Senior Developer
8 61 (7.16%) Data Engineer
9 58 (6.81%) Administrator
10 56 (6.57%) Python Developer
11 49 (5.75%) Architect
12 45 (5.28%) DevOps Engineer
13 41 (4.81%) Java Engineer
14 35 (4.11%) Software Developer
15 30 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (3.17%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 26 (3.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.05%) Python Engineer
18 25 (2.93%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (26.41%) REST
2 188 (22.07%) Spring
3 182 (21.36%) Kafka
3 182 (21.36%) RESTful
4 162 (19.01%) Terraform
5 159 (18.66%) Spring Boot
6 157 (18.43%) React
7 111 (13.03%) Node.js
8 73 (8.57%) CSS
8 73 (8.57%) HTML
9 61 (7.16%) .NET
10 55 (6.46%) FastAPI
11 54 (6.34%) OAuth
12 50 (5.87%) AngularJS
12 50 (5.87%) Django
13 47 (5.52%) OpenAPI
13 47 (5.52%) Swagger
14 44 (5.16%) OAuth2
15 41 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (4.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 168 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 104 (12.21%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.75%) Replication
4 41 (4.81%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.99%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (2.35%) AI Agents
11 18 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
12 17 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (1.88%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.53%) Equities
15 12 (1.41%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.29%) Derivative
16 11 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
17 8 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
17 8 (0.94%) PKI
18 7 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.85%) Linux
2 40 (4.69%) Unix
3 37 (4.34%) Windows
4 27 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.64%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.94%) Solaris
9 7 (0.82%) AIX
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (49.06%) CI/CD
2 307 (36.03%) Agile
3 295 (34.62%) DevOps
4 265 (31.10%) Microservices
5 195 (22.89%) Containerisation
6 173 (20.31%) Software Engineering
7 157 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
8 150 (17.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 146 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 135 (15.85%) Test Automation
11 122 (14.32%) Data Modelling
11 122 (14.32%) Performance Tuning
12 121 (14.20%) Observability
13 118 (13.85%) AI
14 111 (13.03%) Event-Driven
14 111 (13.03%) Migration
15 96 (11.27%) Validation
16 91 (10.68%) TDD
17 90 (10.56%) Scrum
18 86 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 318 (37.32%) SQL
2 316 (37.09%) Python
3 304 (35.68%) Java
4 152 (17.84%) TypeScript
5 113 (13.26%) JavaScript
6 56 (6.57%) C#
7 51 (5.99%) Bash
8 43 (5.05%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.76%) Go
10 30 (3.52%) Scala
11 18 (2.11%) Groovy
12 17 (2.00%) Perl
12 17 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.64%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.53%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.41%) Ruby
16 11 (1.29%) PHP
17 10 (1.17%) Korn
17 10 (1.17%) T-SQL
18 9 (1.06%) Rust
Qualifications
1 299 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 253 (29.69%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.22%) Degree
4 47 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.76%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.58%) AWS Certification
9 17 (2.00%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.06%) OCP
13 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.23%) CISSP
14 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.12%) CISA
15 1 (0.12%) CISM
15 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.57%) QA
2 49 (5.75%) Accessibility
3 44 (5.16%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.88%) GDPR
4 16 (1.88%) WCAG
5 7 (0.82%) GMP
5 7 (0.82%) GxP
6 6 (0.70%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 6 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.59%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.59%) SLA
8 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.35%) SEPA
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 339 (39.79%) Docker
2 14 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.82%) Postfix
7 6 (0.70%) Ceph
7 6 (0.70%) Squid
8 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) RACF
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 292 (34.27%) Kubernetes
2 107 (12.56%) Grafana
3 82 (9.62%) Prometheus
4 38 (4.46%) Ansible
5 24 (2.82%) Kibana
6 17 (2.00%) Argo
7 15 (1.76%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (1.29%) Data Guard
9 10 (1.17%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.06%) Control-M
10 9 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 8 (0.94%) Karpenter
11 8 (0.94%) Nessus
12 6 (0.70%) IBM Guardium
12 6 (0.70%) Istio
13 5 (0.59%) Puppet
13 5 (0.59%) Rancher
14 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.35%) Bosun
15 3 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 177 (20.77%) Oracle
2 127 (14.91%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.46%) Google
4 35 (4.11%) Databricks
5 34 (3.99%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.70%) Dynatrace
6 23 (2.70%) Splunk
7 16 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.76%) Informatica
8 15 (1.76%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.64%) VMware
10 10 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.06%) NetApp
12 8 (0.94%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.94%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.94%) Sybase
12 8 (0.94%) Talend
13 7 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.82%) TikTok
14 6 (0.70%) Tenable