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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 111 146
Rank change year-on-year -36 +35 +8
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 816 702 730
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.76% 2.38% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.26% 12.49% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 519 523
10th Percentile £359 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £626
90th Percentile £700 £750 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £479 £498
% change year-on-year -6.01% -3.77% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.95 £34.05
25th Percentile £45.00 £47.88 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -28.00% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.72 £61.38 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +190.91%

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 7,249 5,619 7,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.60% 19.02% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,944 3,876 5,169
10th Percentile £349 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.02%
75th Percentile £598 £639 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £483
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.24% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 108 145
10th Percentile £17.13 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.10 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -31.73%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -38 689 £505 -7.34% 227
UK excluding London -16 381 £450 -6.01% 145
London -40 342 £550 -5.98% 119
Work from Home -40 256 £500 -9.09% 203
North of England -28 143 £450 -5.26% 33
Midlands +6 95 £455 -9.10% 18
North West -22 78 £450 -5.26% 16
South East -37 76 £433 -6.49% 51
West Midlands -7 71 £475 -7.77% 8
Yorkshire -23 55 £475 -10.38% 7
Scotland +17 45 £425 -7.61% 10
East Midlands -19 23 £406 -18.80% 10
South West -36 22 £550 -12.00% 15
East of England -35 10 £575 +27.78% 10
North East -11 9 £425 -8.60% 10
Northern Ireland +1 3 £400 -20.00% 6

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 54 (6.62%) Confluence
2 38 (4.66%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.45%) Apache
5 17 (2.08%) nginx
6 7 (0.86%) Camunda
7 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.61%) SAS
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.37%) Appian
8 3 (0.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) Drupal
8 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.49%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 490 (60.05%) AWS
2 255 (31.25%) Azure
3 156 (19.12%) GitHub
4 126 (15.44%) GCP
5 118 (14.46%) Amazon S3
6 111 (13.60%) Serverless
7 94 (11.52%) GitHub Actions
8 79 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
10 44 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 38 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (4.53%) OpenShift
14 34 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
15 27 (3.31%) Power Platform
16 25 (3.06%) Snowflake
17 24 (2.94%) Route 53
18 20 (2.45%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.45%) Firewall
2 18 (2.21%) DNS
3 7 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.74%) HTTP
4 6 (0.74%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.49%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.49%) SSH
5 4 (0.49%) VPN
5 4 (0.49%) WAN
6 3 (0.37%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.37%) Internet
6 3 (0.37%) SAN
6 3 (0.37%) SSL
7 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.25%) LAN
7 2 (0.25%) MQTT
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (17.89%) MongoDB
1 146 (17.89%) SQL Server
2 143 (17.52%) Relational Database
3 135 (16.54%) NoSQL
4 125 (15.32%) MySQL
5 78 (9.56%) Amazon RDS
6 63 (7.72%) DynamoDB
7 57 (6.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 54 (6.62%) Redis
9 35 (4.29%) Big Data
9 35 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
11 33 (4.04%) RDBMS
12 27 (3.31%) Data Lake
13 24 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (2.82%) Metadata
15 22 (2.70%) Power BI
16 19 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
16 19 (2.33%) Oracle Database
16 19 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 175 (21.45%) Jenkins
2 159 (19.49%) Git
3 87 (10.66%) GitLab
4 85 (10.42%) JIRA
5 80 (9.80%) JUnit
6 47 (5.76%) Mockito
7 32 (3.92%) Cucumber
8 31 (3.80%) Maven
9 25 (3.06%) JMeter
10 21 (2.57%) Gradle
11 20 (2.45%) Selenium
12 17 (2.08%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.96%) WebDriver
14 15 (1.84%) Bitbucket
15 13 (1.59%) Gatling
15 13 (1.59%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.35%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.35%) jMock
16 11 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (1.23%) Artifactory
General
1 178 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 165 (20.22%) Finance
3 97 (11.89%) Public Sector
4 74 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.62%) Banking
6 27 (3.31%) Front Office
7 16 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.86%) Legal
12 6 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Law
12 6 (0.74%) Retail
12 6 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.61%) Automotive
14 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.49%) Marketing
15 3 (0.37%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.37%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 323 (39.58%) Developer
2 140 (17.16%) Senior
3 104 (12.75%) Java Developer
4 83 (10.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 79 (9.68%) Python Developer
6 77 (9.44%) DBA
7 75 (9.19%) Software Engineer
8 70 (8.58%) Data Engineer
9 60 (7.35%) Architect
10 54 (6.62%) Lead
11 51 (6.25%) Senior Developer
12 37 (4.53%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 36 (4.41%) Administrator
14 34 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.80%) Java Engineer
16 28 (3.43%) Lead Developer
16 28 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
16 28 (3.43%) Senior Java Developer
17 26 (3.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (23.77%) Kafka
2 179 (21.94%) Spring
3 154 (18.87%) React
4 139 (17.03%) RESTful
5 137 (16.79%) Spring Boot
6 131 (16.05%) REST
7 125 (15.32%) Node.js
8 62 (7.60%) FastAPI
9 59 (7.23%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.64%) Hibernate
11 40 (4.90%) GraphQL
11 40 (4.90%) JSON
12 38 (4.66%) .NET
12 38 (4.66%) CSS
12 38 (4.66%) WireMock
13 37 (4.53%) HTML
14 35 (4.29%) JPA
15 30 (3.68%) Django
16 28 (3.43%) OAuth
16 28 (3.43%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 102 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.68%) Derivative
5 27 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.19%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.70%) Fixed Income
7 22 (2.70%) Replication
8 20 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.21%) Equities
10 18 (2.21%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (1.35%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.35%) Market Risk
13 10 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.10%) Clustering
15 8 (0.98%) PACS
15 8 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 135 (16.54%) Linux
2 39 (4.78%) Unix
3 25 (3.06%) Windows
4 13 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.49%) zOS
7 3 (0.37%) Android
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.25%) Solaris
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 305 (37.38%) Agile
3 254 (31.13%) DevOps
4 207 (25.37%) Microservices
5 197 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 142 (17.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 142 (17.40%) Software Engineering
7 138 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
8 123 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 117 (14.34%) Observability
10 108 (13.24%) Test Automation
11 105 (12.87%) Data Modelling
12 97 (11.89%) TDD
13 92 (11.27%) Migration
14 89 (10.91%) AI
15 88 (10.78%) Performance Tuning
16 82 (10.05%) ETL
17 78 (9.56%) Mentoring
18 75 (9.19%) Event-Driven
19 74 (9.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 349 (42.77%) Python
2 305 (37.38%) SQL
3 281 (34.44%) Java
4 124 (15.20%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.22%) JavaScript
6 68 (8.33%) Bash
7 46 (5.64%) PowerShell
8 40 (4.90%) C#
9 33 (4.04%) Go
10 31 (3.80%) Scala
11 21 (2.57%) Shell Script
12 20 (2.45%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.35%) PHP
14 10 (1.23%) Groovy
15 9 (1.10%) Ruby
16 8 (0.98%) Bicep
16 8 (0.98%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.98%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.61%) Delphi
17 5 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 268 (32.84%) Security Cleared
2 217 (26.59%) SC Cleared
3 68 (8.33%) Degree
4 37 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.84%) Oracle Certification
8 13 (1.59%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.35%) OCP
10 10 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.74%) CISSP
12 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.49%) CISM
14 3 (0.37%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.51%) QA
2 41 (5.02%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.59%) GDPR
5 9 (1.10%) SLA
6 7 (0.86%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.86%) NCSC
6 7 (0.86%) NIST
6 7 (0.86%) WCAG
7 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.25%) HL7
9 2 (0.25%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.12%) DICOM
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 304 (37.25%) Docker
2 11 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.23%) Postfix
4 9 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.61%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.61%) Ceph
6 5 (0.61%) HDFS
7 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) RACF
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 264 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 148 (18.14%) Terraform
3 126 (15.44%) Grafana
4 83 (10.17%) Prometheus
5 68 (8.33%) Ansible
6 17 (2.08%) Argo
7 16 (1.96%) Control-M
7 16 (1.96%) IBM Guardium
7 16 (1.96%) Nessus
8 12 (1.47%) HAProxy
8 12 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.35%) Kibana
9 11 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.23%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.23%) Puppet
10 10 (1.23%) Rancher
11 9 (1.10%) Istio
12 6 (0.74%) linkerd
13 4 (0.49%) Packer
14 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 148 (18.14%) Oracle
2 105 (12.87%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.04%) Databricks
4 32 (3.92%) Splunk
5 23 (2.82%) Atlassian
5 23 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.57%) Red Hat
6 21 (2.57%) VMware
7 20 (2.45%) Google
7 20 (2.45%) Informatica
8 16 (1.96%) Tenable
9 14 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
10 13 (1.59%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.59%) Talend
11 12 (1.47%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.23%) Confluent
13 9 (1.10%) IBM
14 8 (0.98%) PagerDuty
15 7 (0.86%) Greenplum
15 7 (0.86%) OpenAI