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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 116 139
Rank change year-on-year -43 +23 +16
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 855 710 719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.31% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.90% 12.57% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 534 539
10th Percentile £359 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £534 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.11% +3.57%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £836 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £475 £472
% change year-on-year -0.84% +0.58% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £32.40 £54.50 £53.70
25th Percentile £61.00 £57.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -18.75% +255.79%
75th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £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 7,845 5,647 7,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 18.36% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,192 3,828 5,379
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £751 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 100 150
10th Percentile £15.21 £19.56 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.57 £20.82
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.99 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.03% -12.53% -29.08%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.94 £53.29
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.31 £31.64 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.92% -4.12% -40.00%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -38 712 £521 -5.36% 367
UK excluding London -19 385 £471 -0.84% 190
London -43 361 £550 -8.33% 221
Work from Home -62 268 £500 -9.99% 200
North of England -29 127 £474 -5.25% 42
Midlands +2 98 £447 -10.60% 28
South East -44 69 £473 +8.74% 52
West Midlands -14 68 £449 -10.30% 18
North West -21 63 £473 -0.53% 23
Yorkshire -20 54 £481 -3.75% 11
Scotland +3 49 £425 -10.99% 16
South West -21 30 £700 +27.27% 24
East Midlands +11 28 £446 -10.35% 10
East of England -22 14 £575 +27.78% 16
North East -34 9 £425 -13.27% 8
Wales - 3 - - 8

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 (5.73%) Confluence
2 45 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.57%) Apache
5 10 (1.17%) nginx
6 7 (0.82%) Camunda
6 7 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.47%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.35%) Appian
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.35%) IIS
9 3 (0.35%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Drupal
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.05%) CPLEX
2 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 453 (52.98%) AWS
2 286 (33.45%) Azure
3 148 (17.31%) GCP
4 140 (16.37%) GitHub
5 97 (11.35%) Amazon S3
6 96 (11.23%) Serverless
7 94 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (8.19%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (5.61%) Amazon SQS
12 45 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (3.98%) Snowflake
15 29 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (3.16%) Route 53
17 26 (3.04%) Power Platform
18 24 (2.81%) Azure AKS
19 23 (2.69%) OpenShift
20 22 (2.57%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.87%) Firewall
2 13 (1.52%) DNS
3 9 (1.05%) HTTPS
3 9 (1.05%) SSH
4 6 (0.70%) HTTP
5 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.47%) SSL
6 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.35%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.35%) MQTT
7 3 (0.35%) Network Security
7 3 (0.35%) SAN
7 3 (0.35%) VPN
7 3 (0.35%) WAN
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) NaaS
8 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (20.12%) SQL Server
2 161 (18.83%) MongoDB
3 149 (17.43%) Relational Database
4 132 (15.44%) NoSQL
5 127 (14.85%) MySQL
6 72 (8.42%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (7.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 63 (7.37%) Redis
8 58 (6.78%) DynamoDB
9 40 (4.68%) Big Data
10 38 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.63%) Data Lake
12 30 (3.51%) RDBMS
13 26 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (2.92%) Oracle Database
15 23 (2.69%) Power BI
16 22 (2.57%) Metadata
17 19 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
18 17 (1.99%) BigQuery
18 17 (1.99%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 176 (20.58%) Jenkins
2 168 (19.65%) Git
3 95 (11.11%) JIRA
4 82 (9.59%) JUnit
5 70 (8.19%) GitLab
6 54 (6.32%) Mockito
7 39 (4.56%) Maven
8 31 (3.63%) Cucumber
9 25 (2.92%) Gradle
10 24 (2.81%) Selenium
11 23 (2.69%) JMeter
12 21 (2.46%) Liquibase
12 21 (2.46%) SonarQube
13 20 (2.34%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.99%) Gatling
15 14 (1.64%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.52%) jMock
17 11 (1.29%) Bitbucket Server
18 9 (1.05%) Flyway
19 8 (0.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 178 (20.82%) Social Skills
2 176 (20.58%) Finance
3 114 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 94 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (6.67%) Banking
6 29 (3.39%) Front Office
7 21 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.17%) Military
11 9 (1.05%) Law
12 8 (0.94%) Retail
13 7 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.82%) Legal
14 6 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.58%) Automotive
15 5 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.35%) Marketing
16 3 (0.35%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 337 (39.42%) Developer
2 152 (17.78%) Senior
3 103 (12.05%) Java Developer
4 86 (10.06%) DBA
4 86 (10.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 86 (10.06%) Python Developer
5 83 (9.71%) Software Engineer
6 75 (8.77%) Lead
7 71 (8.30%) Data Engineer
8 63 (7.37%) Architect
9 57 (6.67%) Senior Developer
10 38 (4.44%) Java Engineer
11 36 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.09%) Administrator
12 35 (4.09%) Lead Developer
13 33 (3.86%) Backend Developer
14 29 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 28 (3.27%) Python Engineer
15 28 (3.27%) Senior Java Developer
15 28 (3.27%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (23.16%) Spring
2 182 (21.29%) Kafka
3 179 (20.94%) REST
4 174 (20.35%) React
5 162 (18.95%) RESTful
6 156 (18.25%) Spring Boot
7 132 (15.44%) Node.js
8 74 (8.65%) FastAPI
9 66 (7.72%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.38%) OpenAPI
10 46 (5.38%) Swagger
11 45 (5.26%) GraphQL
12 44 (5.15%) Django
13 43 (5.03%) .NET
14 42 (4.91%) HTML
15 40 (4.68%) CSS
15 40 (4.68%) Web Services
16 39 (4.56%) JPA
17 38 (4.44%) WireMock
18 36 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 142 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 105 (12.28%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.39%) Replication
5 28 (3.27%) Data Structures
5 28 (3.27%) Derivative
6 26 (3.04%) Distributed Architecture
7 24 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.81%) Equities
7 24 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.46%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.34%) Management Information System
10 18 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.99%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.87%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.40%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.17%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.94%) Clustering
15 8 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 111 (12.98%) Linux
2 30 (3.51%) Unix
3 28 (3.27%) Windows
4 23 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.94%) Solaris
8 4 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Android
9 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) VMS
10 2 (0.23%) zOS
11 1 (0.12%) AIX
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (43.51%) CI/CD
2 322 (37.66%) Agile
3 259 (30.29%) DevOps
3 259 (30.29%) Microservices
4 222 (25.96%) Containerisation
5 169 (19.77%) Software Engineering
6 163 (19.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 140 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
8 120 (14.04%) Test Automation
9 115 (13.45%) AI
10 112 (13.10%) Observability
11 106 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 105 (12.28%) Data Modelling
13 104 (12.16%) TDD
14 101 (11.81%) Migration
14 101 (11.81%) Performance Tuning
15 88 (10.29%) Event-Driven
16 86 (10.06%) Analytics
16 86 (10.06%) Scrum
17 85 (9.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 357 (41.75%) Python
2 318 (37.19%) SQL
3 293 (34.27%) Java
4 153 (17.89%) TypeScript
5 123 (14.39%) JavaScript
6 53 (6.20%) C#
7 45 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 38 (4.44%) Bash
9 32 (3.74%) Scala
10 30 (3.51%) Go
11 18 (2.11%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.52%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.40%) PHP
15 10 (1.17%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.05%) Groovy
17 8 (0.94%) Ruby
18 6 (0.70%) Rust
19 5 (0.58%) Bicep
19 5 (0.58%) C++
Qualifications
1 299 (34.97%) Security Cleared
2 248 (29.01%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.72%) Degree
4 34 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 33 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 26 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.70%) CISSP
13 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.47%) CISM
14 4 (0.47%) OCP
15 3 (0.35%) PhD
16 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.12%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.72%) QA
2 44 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.40%) WCAG
5 11 (1.29%) GDPR
6 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.58%) NIST
6 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.47%) ISO 9000
7 4 (0.47%) SLA
8 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.23%) GRC
9 2 (0.23%) HL7
10 1 (0.12%) DICOM
System Software
1 323 (37.78%) Docker
2 12 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.29%) Postfix
4 10 (1.17%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (1.05%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.58%) Ceph
7 4 (0.47%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.35%) HDFS
8 3 (0.35%) Squid
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) RACF
10 1 (0.12%) Samba
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 282 (32.98%) Kubernetes
2 128 (14.97%) Terraform
3 117 (13.68%) Grafana
4 88 (10.29%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.91%) Ansible
6 17 (1.99%) Control-M
6 17 (1.99%) IBM Guardium
6 17 (1.99%) Nessus
7 13 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.40%) Data Guard
8 12 (1.40%) Kibana
9 10 (1.17%) Argo
9 10 (1.17%) HAProxy
10 7 (0.82%) Rancher
11 6 (0.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 5 (0.58%) Istio
13 4 (0.47%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.35%) Puppet
15 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 162 (18.95%) Oracle
2 131 (15.32%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.74%) Google
4 31 (3.63%) Databricks
5 27 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.57%) Informatica
7 20 (2.34%) Splunk
8 18 (2.11%) Atlassian
9 17 (1.99%) Jaspersoft
9 17 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.99%) Tenable
10 16 (1.87%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.64%) Red Hat
11 14 (1.64%) Talend
12 10 (1.17%) Sybase
13 9 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 9 (1.05%) IBM
13 9 (1.05%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.05%) VMware
14 6 (0.70%) TikTok