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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 116 144
Rank change year-on-year -38 +28 +8
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 791 681 712
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.35% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.98% 12.39% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 501 523
10th Percentile £358 £400 £370
25th Percentile £414 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £693 £780 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £494 £484
% change year-on-year -8.91% +2.07% +0.94%
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 7,207 5,497 7,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.15% 18.97% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,861 3,770 5,185
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.05%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £475
% change year-on-year -2.31% +2.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 97 145
10th Percentile £16.63 £21.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.80% -13.75% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.94 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -27.27%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -41 663 £508 -7.73% 309
UK excluding London -24 361 £450 -8.91% 159
London -42 340 £550 -5.98% 164
Work from Home -47 251 £500 -9.09% 205
North of England -24 136 £450 -5.76% 53
Midlands -1 90 £450 -10.89% 27
North West -19 73 £450 -5.26% 29
West Midlands -11 65 £459 -16.55% 11
South East -41 63 £450 -3.23% 46
Yorkshire -30 52 £474 -6.19% 14
Scotland +16 50 £425 -9.77% 3
East Midlands -14 24 £410 -18.00% 16
South West -34 20 £606 -3.04% 22
North East -12 10 £425 -8.60% 10
East of England -35 10 £575 +27.78% 5
Northern Ireland -1 1 £400 -20.00% 1
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 (5.82%) Confluence
2 39 (4.93%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.65%) Apache
5 11 (1.39%) nginx
6 8 (1.01%) Camunda
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.38%) Appian
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.63%) 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 (0.25%) 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
1 444 (56.13%) AWS
2 248 (31.35%) Azure
3 131 (16.56%) GitHub
4 126 (15.93%) GCP
5 95 (12.01%) Amazon S3
5 95 (12.01%) Serverless
6 85 (10.75%) GitHub Actions
7 64 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
11 32 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (3.79%) Power Platform
13 29 (3.67%) OpenShift
13 29 (3.67%) Snowflake
14 27 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.65%) AWS KMS
16 20 (2.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.40%) Firewall
2 16 (2.02%) DNS
3 7 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.76%) HTTP
5 5 (0.63%) VPN
6 4 (0.51%) iSCSI
6 4 (0.51%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.51%) SSH
6 4 (0.51%) WAN
7 3 (0.38%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.38%) SAN
7 3 (0.38%) SSL
8 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.25%) LAN
8 2 (0.25%) MQTT
8 2 (0.25%) NaaS
8 2 (0.25%) Network Security
8 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (18.58%) SQL Server
2 146 (18.46%) MongoDB
3 143 (18.08%) Relational Database
4 131 (16.56%) NoSQL
5 111 (14.03%) MySQL
6 63 (7.96%) Amazon RDS
7 57 (7.21%) DynamoDB
8 56 (7.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 52 (6.57%) Redis
10 34 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (4.17%) Big Data
12 31 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
12 31 (3.92%) RDBMS
13 26 (3.29%) Data Lake
14 24 (3.03%) Power BI
15 22 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
16 20 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (2.53%) Metadata
17 19 (2.40%) Tableau
18 17 (2.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 153 (19.34%) Jenkins
2 145 (18.33%) Git
3 80 (10.11%) GitLab
4 77 (9.73%) JIRA
5 72 (9.10%) JUnit
6 51 (6.45%) Mockito
7 31 (3.92%) Maven
8 24 (3.03%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.91%) Gradle
10 20 (2.53%) JMeter
10 20 (2.53%) Selenium
11 17 (2.15%) SonarQube
12 16 (2.02%) Liquibase
12 16 (2.02%) WebDriver
13 13 (1.64%) Gatling
14 11 (1.39%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.39%) jMock
15 9 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
16 7 (0.88%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 161 (20.35%) Finance
2 159 (20.10%) Social Skills
3 96 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 75 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (6.70%) Banking
6 26 (3.29%) Front Office
7 15 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.14%) Law
11 7 (0.88%) Legal
11 7 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.63%) Automotive
12 5 (0.63%) Retail
13 4 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.51%) Military
14 3 (0.38%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.38%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.38%) Games
14 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 304 (38.43%) Developer
2 136 (17.19%) Senior
3 87 (11.00%) Java Developer
4 82 (10.37%) Software Engineer
5 79 (9.99%) Python Developer
6 76 (9.61%) DBA
6 76 (9.61%) Full-Stack Developer
7 69 (8.72%) Data Engineer
8 63 (7.96%) Architect
9 58 (7.33%) Lead
10 51 (6.45%) Senior Developer
11 37 (4.68%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 35 (4.42%) Java Engineer
13 34 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (4.05%) Administrator
15 28 (3.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 28 (3.54%) Lead Developer
16 27 (3.41%) Software Developer
17 24 (3.03%) Data Architect
17 24 (3.03%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (24.15%) Kafka
2 174 (22.00%) Spring
3 160 (20.23%) React
4 136 (17.19%) RESTful
4 136 (17.19%) Spring Boot
5 129 (16.31%) REST
6 117 (14.79%) Node.js
7 64 (8.09%) FastAPI
8 58 (7.33%) AngularJS
9 43 (5.44%) .NET
10 38 (4.80%) Hibernate
11 37 (4.68%) GraphQL
12 36 (4.55%) JSON
13 35 (4.42%) HTML
13 35 (4.42%) WireMock
14 34 (4.30%) JPA
15 33 (4.17%) CSS
16 32 (4.05%) Django
17 31 (3.92%) Redux
18 29 (3.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 110 (13.91%) Cloud Native
2 82 (10.37%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.67%) Derivative
5 27 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.29%) Replication
7 23 (2.91%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.78%) Fixed Income
8 22 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (2.40%) Equities
11 17 (2.15%) Onboarding
12 16 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
13 11 (1.39%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.14%) Market Risk
16 8 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (1.01%) PACS
16 8 (1.01%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (14.41%) Linux
2 34 (4.30%) Unix
3 27 (3.41%) Windows
4 14 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.88%) 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%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) 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
1 347 (43.87%) CI/CD
2 287 (36.28%) Agile
3 244 (30.85%) DevOps
4 206 (26.04%) Microservices
5 194 (24.53%) Containerisation
6 151 (19.09%) Software Engineering
7 139 (17.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 131 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
9 119 (15.04%) Observability
10 118 (14.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 112 (14.16%) Test Automation
12 108 (13.65%) Data Modelling
13 103 (13.02%) TDD
14 97 (12.26%) AI
15 95 (12.01%) Migration
16 92 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
17 78 (9.86%) Mentoring
18 76 (9.61%) Event-Driven
19 74 (9.36%) Analytics
20 73 (9.23%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 339 (42.86%) Python
2 290 (36.66%) SQL
3 275 (34.77%) Java
4 132 (16.69%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.66%) JavaScript
6 54 (6.83%) Bash
7 46 (5.82%) C#
7 46 (5.82%) PowerShell
8 32 (4.05%) Go
8 32 (4.05%) Scala
9 21 (2.65%) PL/SQL
10 20 (2.53%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.90%) PHP
12 10 (1.26%) Bicep
12 10 (1.26%) Groovy
13 9 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.01%) Ruby
15 6 (0.76%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.76%) Perl
16 5 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 252 (31.86%) Security Cleared
2 204 (25.79%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.59%) Degree
4 34 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.26%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.76%) CISSP
10 6 (0.76%) OCP
11 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.51%) CISM
13 3 (0.38%) PhD
13 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.45%) QA
2 40 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.26%) GDPR
4 10 (1.26%) SLA
5 9 (1.14%) WCAG
6 7 (0.88%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.88%) NIST
7 6 (0.76%) NCSC
7 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) DICOM
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 290 (36.66%) Docker
2 10 (1.26%) Postfix
3 9 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.88%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.63%) Ceph
6 5 (0.63%) HDFS
7 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) KVM
9 1 (0.13%) RACF
9 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 250 (31.61%) Kubernetes
2 133 (16.81%) Terraform
3 118 (14.92%) Grafana
4 82 (10.37%) Prometheus
5 55 (6.95%) Ansible
6 16 (2.02%) Control-M
6 16 (2.02%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.02%) Nessus
7 14 (1.77%) Argo
8 12 (1.52%) HAProxy
8 12 (1.52%) Kibana
9 11 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.26%) Data Guard
11 9 (1.14%) Rancher
12 8 (1.01%) Istio
13 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.63%) linkerd
14 5 (0.63%) Puppet
15 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
15 2 (0.25%) SELinux
Vendors
1 145 (18.33%) Oracle
2 98 (12.39%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.17%) Databricks
4 28 (3.54%) Splunk
5 24 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.78%) Google
7 21 (2.65%) Red Hat
8 20 (2.53%) Informatica
9 16 (2.02%) Tenable
10 15 (1.90%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.77%) Jaspersoft
11 14 (1.77%) VMware
12 13 (1.64%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.64%) Talend
13 12 (1.52%) Salesforce
14 10 (1.26%) Confluent
14 10 (1.26%) IBM
15 8 (1.01%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.88%) Greenplum
17 5 (0.63%) Siebel