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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 121 156
Rank change year-on-year -21 +35 +1
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 842 671 695
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.92% 2.31% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.05% 12.17% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 507 488
10th Percentile £358 £375 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.71% +0.71%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.84% -5.00% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile £35.00 £44.95 £38.93
25th Percentile £40.00 £47.88 £55.69
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -21.17% +204.65%
75th Percentile £69.22 £61.38 £76.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.05 £78.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +154.55%

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 6,990 5,512 7,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.92% 18.95% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,800 3,816 5,149
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 99 172
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.60 £14.36
25th Percentile £29.86 £24.25 £20.70
Median hourly rate £50.50 £31.64 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +59.61% -21.15% -28.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.50 £58.55
90th Percentile £84.90 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -14.29% -36.36%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -30 697 £510 -4.40% 276
UK excluding London -19 399 £462 -2.84% 170
London -28 341 £550 -4.35% 143
Work from Home -21 272 £494 -7.45% 199
North of England -17 149 £463 - 57
Midlands +3 106 £475 -3.06% 18
West Midlands +9 87 £487 +0.62% 9
South East -28 75 £435 +3.57% 45
Yorkshire -17 72 £488 -11.36% 19
North West -23 68 £434 -5.65% 33
Scotland +16 51 £425 -7.61% 12
South West -18 35 £606 -3.04% 18
East Midlands -25 18 £425 -15.10% 9
North East -5 8 £438 -5.15% 6
Northern Ireland +2 7 £400 -20.00%
East of England -39 5 £588 +30.56% 16

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 56 (6.65%) Confluence
2 25 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.26%) Apache
5 16 (1.90%) nginx
6 10 (1.19%) SAS
7 6 (0.71%) Camunda
8 5 (0.59%) Drupal
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.24%) Appian
11 2 (0.24%) JBoss
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) CPLEX
3 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) 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
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 517 (61.40%) AWS
2 265 (31.47%) Azure
3 188 (22.33%) GitHub
4 156 (18.53%) GCP
5 131 (15.56%) Serverless
6 109 (12.95%) Amazon S3
7 105 (12.47%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (5.11%) OpenShift
11 42 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (4.28%) Snowflake
14 33 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (3.80%) Power Platform
16 27 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
17 23 (2.73%) AWS KMS
17 23 (2.73%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.38%) Firewall
2 17 (2.02%) DNS
3 10 (1.19%) Kerberos
4 9 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.95%) HTTP
6 5 (0.59%) SSL
6 5 (0.59%) VPN
7 4 (0.48%) Internet
7 4 (0.48%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.48%) SSH
7 4 (0.48%) WAN
8 3 (0.36%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.24%) LAN
9 2 (0.24%) NaaS
9 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) VSAN
10 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (17.70%) NoSQL
2 138 (16.39%) Relational Database
3 133 (15.80%) MongoDB
4 132 (15.68%) SQL Server
5 123 (14.61%) MySQL
6 67 (7.96%) Amazon RDS
7 64 (7.60%) DynamoDB
8 50 (5.94%) Redis
9 46 (5.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 45 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (4.28%) RDBMS
12 35 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (3.09%) Data Lake
13 26 (3.09%) Power BI
14 24 (2.85%) Big Data
15 23 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
16 22 (2.61%) Metadata
17 20 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
18 18 (2.14%) Hadoop
18 18 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 190 (22.57%) Jenkins
2 167 (19.83%) Git
3 107 (12.71%) GitLab
4 84 (9.98%) JUnit
5 83 (9.86%) JIRA
6 44 (5.23%) Mockito
7 39 (4.63%) Cucumber
8 28 (3.33%) JMeter
9 26 (3.09%) Maven
10 25 (2.97%) Gradle
11 24 (2.85%) Liquibase
12 21 (2.49%) Selenium
13 18 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
14 16 (1.90%) Bitbucket
14 16 (1.90%) WebDriver
15 12 (1.43%) Cypress.io
15 12 (1.43%) SonarQube
16 11 (1.31%) Artifactory
16 11 (1.31%) ERwin
17 10 (1.19%) Postman
General
1 206 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 181 (21.50%) Finance
3 103 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 75 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (8.79%) Banking
6 25 (2.97%) Front Office
7 19 (2.26%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.66%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.71%) Law
11 6 (0.71%) Retail
12 5 (0.59%) Legal
12 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.59%) Marketing
12 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.36%) Electronics
13 3 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 328 (38.95%) Developer
2 147 (17.46%) Senior
3 100 (11.88%) Java Developer
4 84 (9.98%) Full-Stack Developer
5 80 (9.50%) Python Developer
6 75 (8.91%) Software Engineer
7 73 (8.67%) Data Engineer
8 66 (7.84%) DBA
9 65 (7.72%) Architect
10 56 (6.65%) Senior Developer
11 51 (6.06%) Lead
12 33 (3.92%) Administrator
12 33 (3.92%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 32 (3.80%) Senior Java Developer
14 31 (3.68%) AWS Developer
14 31 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
16 29 (3.44%) Backend Developer
16 29 (3.44%) Java Engineer
16 29 (3.44%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (22.80%) Kafka
2 172 (20.43%) Spring
3 162 (19.24%) React
4 153 (18.17%) RESTful
5 144 (17.10%) REST
6 135 (16.03%) Node.js
7 129 (15.32%) Spring Boot
8 62 (7.36%) FastAPI
9 60 (7.13%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.23%) JSON
11 43 (5.11%) Hibernate
12 39 (4.63%) CSS
12 39 (4.63%) GraphQL
12 39 (4.63%) WireMock
13 36 (4.28%) .NET
14 32 (3.80%) Django
14 32 (3.80%) HTML
15 30 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (3.44%) JPA
17 28 (3.33%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 120 (14.25%) Cloud Native
2 91 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.80%) Derivative
5 29 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.97%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.85%) Replication
8 22 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.61%) Fixed Income
9 21 (2.49%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
11 18 (2.14%) Equities
12 17 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (1.90%) Public Cloud
14 14 (1.66%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.66%) Market Risk
15 11 (1.31%) Clustering
16 8 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
17 7 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 139 (16.51%) Linux
2 26 (3.09%) Unix
2 26 (3.09%) Windows
3 11 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.48%) zOS
6 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.36%) Android
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Solaris
7 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.12%) SUSE
8 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (46.91%) CI/CD
2 324 (38.48%) Agile
3 283 (33.61%) DevOps
4 233 (27.67%) Microservices
5 216 (25.65%) Containerisation
6 160 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
7 141 (16.75%) Software Engineering
8 139 (16.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 134 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
10 118 (14.01%) Observability
11 112 (13.30%) Test Automation
12 108 (12.83%) Data Modelling
13 107 (12.71%) TDD
14 96 (11.40%) Migration
15 91 (10.81%) ETL
16 88 (10.45%) AI
17 85 (10.10%) Performance Tuning
18 81 (9.62%) Analytics
18 81 (9.62%) Computer Science
19 80 (9.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 375 (44.54%) Python
2 313 (37.17%) SQL
3 268 (31.83%) Java
4 129 (15.32%) TypeScript
5 118 (14.01%) JavaScript
6 68 (8.08%) Bash
7 62 (7.36%) Go
8 39 (4.63%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.51%) C#
10 19 (2.26%) PL/SQL
11 18 (2.14%) Scala
11 18 (2.14%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.90%) PHP
13 14 (1.66%) Ruby
14 9 (1.07%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.95%) Bicep
16 7 (0.83%) Groovy
16 7 (0.83%) JSX
17 5 (0.59%) Delphi
17 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 272 (32.30%) Security Cleared
2 220 (26.13%) SC Cleared
3 96 (11.40%) Degree
4 55 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.97%) Master's Degree
8 22 (2.61%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.78%) OCP
9 15 (1.78%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.48%) CISSP
13 3 (0.36%) CISM
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.87%) QA
3 21 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.19%) GDPR
5 7 (0.83%) NCSC
5 7 (0.83%) NIST
6 6 (0.71%) SLA
6 6 (0.71%) WCAG
7 5 (0.59%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 312 (37.05%) Docker
2 11 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (0.83%) Postfix
5 5 (0.59%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.59%) HDFS
6 4 (0.48%) Ceph
7 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.36%) NFS
8 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.24%) Lustre
8 2 (0.24%) NDS
8 2 (0.24%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 2 (0.24%) Samba
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) Squid
8 2 (0.24%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 303 (35.99%) Kubernetes
2 161 (19.12%) Terraform
3 130 (15.44%) Grafana
4 94 (11.16%) Prometheus
5 88 (10.45%) Ansible
6 22 (2.61%) Argo
7 16 (1.90%) Control-M
7 16 (1.90%) IBM Guardium
7 16 (1.90%) Nessus
8 15 (1.78%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.07%) Puppet
9 9 (1.07%) Rancher
10 8 (0.95%) Istio
11 7 (0.83%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.71%) Data Guard
12 6 (0.71%) linkerd
13 5 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (0.59%) Packer
14 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 147 (17.46%) Oracle
2 103 (12.23%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.87%) Splunk
4 35 (4.16%) Google
5 29 (3.44%) Databricks
5 29 (3.44%) Red Hat
6 24 (2.85%) Atlassian
6 24 (2.85%) Informatica
7 23 (2.73%) VMware
8 16 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.90%) Tenable
9 15 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.54%) Talend
11 12 (1.43%) Greenplum
11 12 (1.43%) IBM
12 10 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (0.95%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.71%) Confluent
14 6 (0.71%) Salesforce
15 5 (0.59%) OpenAI