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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 123 131
Rank change year-on-year -54 +8 +29
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 860 767 719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.36% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.51% 13.06% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 569 534
10th Percentile £363 £379 £371
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £530 £527
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +0.66% +1.25%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £483
% change year-on-year -1.04% -0.62% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £25.45 - £48.23
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £65.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% -46.88% +49.46%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £72.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.08% -18.75% +28.93%

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 8,182 5,873 6,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 18.07% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,455 3,930 4,835
10th Percentile £358 £339 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 96 98
10th Percentile £15.91 £21.23 £15.69
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.05 £19.87
Median hourly rate £39.00 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £75.10 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -42.86%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -58 693 £511 -6.02% 909
UK excluding London -37 360 £475 -1.04% 356
London -65 356 £528 -12.08% 667
Work from Home -63 268 £500 -16.67% 438
North of England -44 116 £500 +1.42% 73
Midlands -18 82 £445 -11.00% 40
South East -39 65 £470 +8.05% 92
Yorkshire -21 55 £500 - 16
North West -43 53 £501 +5.37% 46
West Midlands -37 51 £447 -5.89% 27
Scotland -28 43 £450 -7.69% 34
South West -26 32 £650 +18.18% 58
East Midlands +2 30 £425 -17.48% 12
East of England -9 21 £488 +2.63% 22
North East -51 8 £425 -22.73% 12
Wales -15 4 - - 13

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 35 (4.07%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.84%) Confluence
3 32 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.56%) Apache
5 7 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.70%) CMS
6 6 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.58%) nginx
8 4 (0.47%) Camunda
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.35%) IIS
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.47%) Trello
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%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Finacle
2 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Odoo
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 449 (52.21%) AWS
2 291 (33.84%) Azure
3 164 (19.07%) GitHub
4 124 (14.42%) GCP
5 122 (14.19%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (11.51%) Serverless
7 93 (10.81%) Amazon S3
8 75 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
9 62 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
11 57 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
13 50 (5.81%) Amazon SQS
14 36 (4.19%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (3.14%) AWS KMS
18 26 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
19 23 (2.67%) Azure AKS
19 23 (2.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.02%) DNS
2 20 (2.33%) Firewall
3 19 (2.21%) SSH
4 18 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.98%) HTTP
6 11 (1.28%) HTTPS
7 9 (1.05%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.93%) SAN
9 7 (0.81%) SSL
10 5 (0.58%) 5G
11 4 (0.47%) 4G
11 4 (0.47%) VPN
12 3 (0.35%) Network Security
13 2 (0.23%) DHCP
13 2 (0.23%) FTP
13 2 (0.23%) IMAP
13 2 (0.23%) MQTT
13 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (20.23%) SQL Server
2 168 (19.53%) MongoDB
3 166 (19.30%) Relational Database
4 157 (18.26%) MySQL
5 108 (12.56%) NoSQL
6 102 (11.86%) Redis
7 81 (9.42%) Amazon RDS
8 79 (9.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 42 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (4.88%) DynamoDB
10 31 (3.60%) RDBMS
11 30 (3.49%) Oracle Database
12 28 (3.26%) Big Data
13 26 (3.02%) Metadata
14 25 (2.91%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (2.09%) Power BI
17 16 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
18 14 (1.63%) BigQuery
19 13 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 197 (22.91%) Git
2 194 (22.56%) Jenkins
3 95 (11.05%) GitLab
4 79 (9.19%) JIRA
5 70 (8.14%) JUnit
6 58 (6.74%) Mockito
7 48 (5.58%) Maven
8 36 (4.19%) Gradle
9 25 (2.91%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.67%) Liquibase
11 21 (2.44%) Cucumber
12 18 (2.09%) Selenium
13 16 (1.86%) Gatling
14 14 (1.63%) Bitbucket
15 13 (1.51%) JMeter
16 12 (1.40%) Mocha
17 10 (1.16%) Cypress.io
17 10 (1.16%) Flyway
18 8 (0.93%) WebDriver
19 7 (0.81%) DbUnit
General
1 196 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 145 (16.86%) Public Sector
3 128 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (14.53%) Finance
5 49 (5.70%) Banking
6 34 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (1.51%) Front Office
8 11 (1.28%) Military
8 11 (1.28%) Retail
9 10 (1.16%) Law
9 10 (1.16%) Legal
9 10 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.58%) Automotive
12 5 (0.58%) Billing
12 5 (0.58%) Marketing
12 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 318 (36.98%) Developer
2 156 (18.14%) Senior
3 110 (12.79%) Java Developer
4 100 (11.63%) DBA
5 68 (7.91%) Senior Developer
6 65 (7.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 65 (7.56%) Software Engineer
7 64 (7.44%) Lead
8 61 (7.09%) Data Engineer
9 57 (6.63%) Administrator
10 50 (5.81%) Python Developer
11 49 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
12 47 (5.47%) Architect
13 39 (4.53%) Java Engineer
14 36 (4.19%) Software Developer
15 30 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
16 28 (3.26%) Python Engineer
17 26 (3.02%) PostgreSQL DBA
18 25 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 24 (2.79%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (26.63%) REST
2 192 (22.33%) Spring
3 186 (21.63%) RESTful
4 183 (21.28%) Kafka
5 163 (18.95%) Spring Boot
6 162 (18.84%) Terraform
7 149 (17.33%) React
8 104 (12.09%) Node.js
9 72 (8.37%) CSS
9 72 (8.37%) HTML
10 64 (7.44%) .NET
11 56 (6.51%) OAuth
12 54 (6.28%) AngularJS
13 52 (6.05%) Django
14 51 (5.93%) FastAPI
15 48 (5.58%) OpenAPI
15 48 (5.58%) Swagger
16 47 (5.47%) OAuth2
17 43 (5.00%) GraphQL
18 42 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 176 (20.47%) Cloud Native
2 104 (12.09%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.93%) Replication
4 43 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.30%) Data Structures
6 29 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.44%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.09%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.05%) Equities
15 9 (1.05%) LIMS
16 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
16 8 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 117 (13.60%) Linux
2 40 (4.65%) Unix
3 39 (4.53%) Windows
4 27 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.79%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.28%) Solaris
8 9 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.93%) AIX
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (49.07%) CI/CD
2 305 (35.47%) Agile
3 296 (34.42%) DevOps
4 266 (30.93%) Microservices
5 201 (23.37%) Containerisation
6 168 (19.53%) Software Engineering
7 162 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
8 150 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 146 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
10 141 (16.40%) Test Automation
11 128 (14.88%) Data Modelling
12 123 (14.30%) Observability
12 123 (14.30%) Performance Tuning
13 120 (13.95%) AI
14 119 (13.84%) Migration
15 118 (13.72%) Event-Driven
16 97 (11.28%) Validation
17 96 (11.16%) Scrum
18 94 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
18 94 (10.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 325 (37.79%) SQL
2 314 (36.51%) Python
3 306 (35.58%) Java
4 151 (17.56%) TypeScript
5 107 (12.44%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.86%) C#
7 51 (5.93%) Bash
8 42 (4.88%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.49%) Go
9 30 (3.49%) Scala
10 19 (2.21%) Groovy
11 17 (1.98%) Perl
12 16 (1.86%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 14 (1.63%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.51%) Ruby
15 11 (1.28%) PHP
16 10 (1.16%) Korn
16 10 (1.16%) Rust
16 10 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 310 (36.05%) Security Cleared
2 265 (30.81%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.93%) Degree
4 47 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.56%) AWS Certification
9 18 (2.09%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.05%) OCP
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
14 1 (0.12%) CISA
14 1 (0.12%) CISM
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.49%) QA
2 47 (5.47%) Accessibility
3 46 (5.35%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.21%) GDPR
5 15 (1.74%) WCAG
6 8 (0.93%) GMP
6 8 (0.93%) GxP
7 7 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.81%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.58%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.47%) SEPA
10 3 (0.35%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 346 (40.23%) Docker
2 14 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.51%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.81%) Postfix
7 6 (0.70%) Ceph
7 6 (0.70%) Squid
8 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) RACF
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 290 (33.72%) Kubernetes
2 112 (13.02%) Grafana
3 87 (10.12%) Prometheus
4 38 (4.42%) Ansible
5 24 (2.79%) Kibana
6 17 (1.98%) Argo
7 15 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.40%) Karpenter
9 11 (1.28%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.16%) HAProxy
11 9 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 8 (0.93%) Control-M
13 7 (0.81%) Nessus
14 6 (0.70%) Istio
14 6 (0.70%) Rancher
15 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
15 5 (0.58%) Puppet
16 4 (0.47%) Kustomize
16 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
17 3 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 183 (21.28%) Oracle
2 130 (15.12%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.77%) Google
4 40 (4.65%) Databricks
5 35 (4.07%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.79%) Dynatrace
7 23 (2.67%) Splunk
8 18 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.86%) Informatica
10 15 (1.74%) OpenAI
11 14 (1.63%) VMware
12 10 (1.16%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (1.05%) NetApp
13 9 (1.05%) Talend
14 8 (0.93%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.93%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.93%) Sybase
15 7 (0.81%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.81%) TikTok
16 6 (0.70%) Solace