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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 116 140
Rank change year-on-year -38 +24 +19
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 786 689 716
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.64% 2.34% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.84% 12.34% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 508 529
10th Percentile £362 £400 £374
25th Percentile £416 £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 £700 £804 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £490 £483
% change year-on-year -8.16% +1.45% -0.41%
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 7,253 5,585 7,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 19.01% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,891 3,830 5,236
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £475
% change year-on-year -1.86% +1.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 98 148
10th Percentile £15.94 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.59 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -15.49% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.81 £65.62 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.63 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.55% -20.90% -28.19%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -43 659 £505 -8.18% 271
UK excluding London -17 359 £450 -8.16% 129
London -38 339 £550 -7.17% 157
Work from Home -50 250 £500 -9.99% 286
North of England -25 134 £450 -5.26% 41
Midlands -6 90 £450 -10.89% 20
North West -21 71 £450 -5.26% 24
West Midlands -16 64 £455 -14.65% 6
South East -44 63 £450 -3.23% 38
Yorkshire -28 52 £474 -5.25% 9
Scotland +10 50 £425 -10.15% 5
East Midlands -9 25 £428 -14.50% 14
South West -26 19 £606 -3.04% 19
North East -15 10 £425 -8.60% 8
East of England -33 10 £575 +27.78% 5
Northern Ireland 0 1 £400 -20.00%
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 (5.85%) Confluence
2 41 (5.22%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.67%) Apache
5 11 (1.40%) nginx
6 8 (1.02%) Camunda
7 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.64%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.38%) Appian
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
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
Applications
1 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.64%) 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
1 440 (55.98%) AWS
2 245 (31.17%) Azure
3 127 (16.16%) GitHub
4 123 (15.65%) GCP
5 95 (12.09%) Amazon S3
5 95 (12.09%) Serverless
6 85 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
7 64 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 37 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (3.94%) Power Platform
14 29 (3.69%) OpenShift
14 29 (3.69%) Snowflake
15 27 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (2.67%) AWS KMS
17 20 (2.54%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.42%) Firewall
2 16 (2.04%) DNS
3 7 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.76%) HTTP
5 5 (0.64%) 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
1 148 (18.83%) SQL Server
2 143 (18.19%) MongoDB
3 141 (17.94%) Relational Database
4 132 (16.79%) NoSQL
5 109 (13.87%) MySQL
6 62 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
7 56 (7.12%) DynamoDB
8 55 (7.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 51 (6.49%) Redis
10 35 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (4.20%) Big Data
12 32 (4.07%) RDBMS
13 30 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (3.31%) Data Lake
15 25 (3.18%) Power BI
16 20 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
16 20 (2.54%) Metadata
16 20 (2.54%) Tableau
17 18 (2.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 152 (19.34%) Jenkins
2 142 (18.07%) Git
3 80 (10.18%) GitLab
4 77 (9.80%) JIRA
5 70 (8.91%) JUnit
6 49 (6.23%) Mockito
7 31 (3.94%) Maven
8 24 (3.05%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.93%) Gradle
10 20 (2.54%) JMeter
10 20 (2.54%) Selenium
11 17 (2.16%) SonarQube
12 16 (2.04%) Liquibase
12 16 (2.04%) WebDriver
13 13 (1.65%) Gatling
14 11 (1.40%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.40%) jMock
15 9 (1.15%) Bitbucket Server
16 7 (0.89%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.89%) ERwin
General
1 160 (20.36%) Finance
2 159 (20.23%) Social Skills
3 97 (12.34%) Public Sector
4 76 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.62%) Banking
6 26 (3.31%) Front Office
7 14 (1.78%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.15%) Law
11 7 (0.89%) Legal
11 7 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.64%) Automotive
12 5 (0.64%) Retail
13 4 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.51%) Military
14 3 (0.38%) Games
14 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 299 (38.04%) Developer
2 136 (17.30%) Senior
3 84 (10.69%) Java Developer
4 82 (10.43%) Software Engineer
5 79 (10.05%) Python Developer
6 77 (9.80%) DBA
7 72 (9.16%) Full-Stack Developer
8 70 (8.91%) Data Engineer
9 63 (8.02%) Architect
10 57 (7.25%) Lead
11 52 (6.62%) Senior Developer
12 38 (4.83%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 35 (4.45%) DevOps Engineer
13 35 (4.45%) Java Engineer
14 33 (4.20%) Administrator
15 28 (3.56%) Lead Developer
16 27 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (3.44%) Software Developer
17 25 (3.18%) Data Architect
17 25 (3.18%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (24.30%) Kafka
2 170 (21.63%) Spring
3 155 (19.72%) React
4 132 (16.79%) Spring Boot
5 130 (16.54%) RESTful
6 129 (16.41%) REST
7 116 (14.76%) Node.js
8 64 (8.14%) FastAPI
9 56 (7.12%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.34%) .NET
11 38 (4.83%) JSON
12 37 (4.71%) GraphQL
13 35 (4.45%) WireMock
14 34 (4.33%) Hibernate
14 34 (4.33%) HTML
14 34 (4.33%) JPA
15 32 (4.07%) CSS
16 31 (3.94%) Django
16 31 (3.94%) Redux
17 29 (3.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 112 (14.25%) Cloud Native
2 81 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.56%) Derivative
5 27 (3.44%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.31%) Replication
7 22 (2.80%) Fixed Income
7 22 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.80%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.42%) Equities
10 16 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (2.04%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.02%) Market Risk
13 8 (1.02%) PACS
13 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.89%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 115 (14.63%) Linux
2 34 (4.33%) Unix
3 27 (3.44%) Windows
4 15 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.89%) 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%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
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
1 342 (43.51%) CI/CD
2 286 (36.39%) Agile
3 242 (30.79%) DevOps
4 202 (25.70%) Microservices
5 189 (24.05%) Containerisation
6 150 (19.08%) Software Engineering
7 134 (17.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
9 120 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 120 (15.27%) Observability
10 110 (13.99%) Data Modelling
11 109 (13.87%) Test Automation
12 100 (12.72%) TDD
13 95 (12.09%) AI
13 95 (12.09%) Migration
14 92 (11.70%) Performance Tuning
15 78 (9.92%) Mentoring
16 77 (9.80%) Event-Driven
17 75 (9.54%) ETL
18 73 (9.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 340 (43.26%) Python
2 290 (36.90%) SQL
3 272 (34.61%) Java
4 129 (16.41%) TypeScript
5 114 (14.50%) JavaScript
6 53 (6.74%) Bash
7 45 (5.73%) C#
7 45 (5.73%) PowerShell
8 32 (4.07%) Scala
9 31 (3.94%) Go
10 21 (2.67%) PL/SQL
11 20 (2.54%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.91%) PHP
13 10 (1.27%) Bicep
13 10 (1.27%) Groovy
14 9 (1.15%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.02%) Ruby
16 6 (0.76%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.76%) Perl
17 5 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 251 (31.93%) Security Cleared
2 204 (25.95%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.63%) Degree
4 34 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 21 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.76%) CISSP
11 6 (0.76%) OCP
12 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.51%) CISM
14 3 (0.38%) PhD
14 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.49%) QA
2 41 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.27%) GDPR
4 10 (1.27%) SLA
5 9 (1.15%) WCAG
6 7 (0.89%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.89%) NIST
7 6 (0.76%) NCSC
7 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.64%) 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%) DICOM
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 282 (35.88%) Docker
2 10 (1.27%) Postfix
3 9 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.89%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.64%) Ceph
6 5 (0.64%) 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%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 243 (30.92%) Kubernetes
2 136 (17.30%) Terraform
3 119 (15.14%) Grafana
4 83 (10.56%) Prometheus
5 56 (7.12%) Ansible
6 16 (2.04%) Control-M
6 16 (2.04%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.04%) Nessus
7 14 (1.78%) Argo
8 12 (1.53%) HAProxy
8 12 (1.53%) Kibana
9 11 (1.40%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.27%) Data Guard
11 9 (1.15%) Rancher
12 8 (1.02%) Istio
13 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.76%) Puppet
14 5 (0.64%) linkerd
15 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
15 2 (0.25%) SELinux
Vendors
1 143 (18.19%) Oracle
2 98 (12.47%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.33%) Databricks
4 28 (3.56%) Splunk
5 24 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.67%) Red Hat
7 20 (2.54%) Google
7 20 (2.54%) Informatica
8 16 (2.04%) Tenable
9 15 (1.91%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.78%) Jaspersoft
10 14 (1.78%) VMware
11 13 (1.65%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.65%) Talend
12 12 (1.53%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.27%) Confluent
13 10 (1.27%) IBM
14 8 (1.02%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.89%) Greenplum
16 5 (0.64%) Siebel