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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 124 152
Rank change year-on-year -10 +28 +41
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 777 653 700
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.12% 2.05% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.49% 11.25% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 484 494
10th Percentile £363 £336 £410
25th Percentile £417 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.19% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile - - £34.14
25th Percentile £29.00 - £43.73
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -30.70% +175.96%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £69.03
90th Percentile £58.00 - £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £46.28
% change year-on-year - - +37.11%

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 6,219 5,802 7,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.99% 18.19% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,285 3,823 5,013
10th Percentile £328 £350 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 76 147
10th Percentile £19.60 £19.71 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.61
Median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £64.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.88 £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -37.74% -7.69%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +1 648 £520 -5.45% 696
London +12 355 £550 -4.35% 162
UK excluding London -11 326 £475 -5.00% 624
Work from Home -21 237 £511 -1.87% 385
North of England +6 119 £475 +2.70% 104
Midlands +4 78 £525 +5.00% 70
Yorkshire -2 65 £500 -16.67% 45
West Midlands +9 64 £537 +3.27% 26
South East -39 60 £433 -24.78% 202
North West -17 52 £450 +1.12% 45
South West -2 47 £550 -10.26% 91
Scotland -20 40 £450 -5.46% 24
East Midlands -19 14 £513 +2.50% 44
Northern Ireland +2 8 £400 - 16
East of England -21 2 - - 95
North East - 2 £463 - 14

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 43 (5.53%) Confluence
2 23 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (2.96%) nginx
3 16 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.80%) SAS
5 12 (1.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.77%) Drupal
6 6 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
7 4 (0.51%) CICS
7 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
8 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.39%) WordPress
9 2 (0.26%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Traefik
10 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 10 (1.29%) Chatbot
1 10 (1.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
3 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 466 (59.97%) AWS
2 238 (30.63%) Azure
3 184 (23.68%) GitHub
4 144 (18.53%) Serverless
5 137 (17.63%) GCP
6 107 (13.77%) Amazon S3
7 92 (11.84%) GitHub Actions
8 87 (11.20%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (6.56%) OpenShift
10 50 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 48 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
12 44 (5.66%) Power Platform
13 42 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (4.89%) Snowflake
15 36 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (3.86%) Azure AKS
17 27 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 25 (3.22%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.86%) Firewall
2 28 (3.60%) DNS
3 21 (2.70%) HTTP
4 15 (1.93%) SSH
5 14 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.29%) FTP
6 10 (1.29%) IMAP
6 10 (1.29%) OpenLDAP
6 10 (1.29%) SMTP
7 9 (1.16%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.90%) SSL
9 5 (0.64%) VPN
10 4 (0.51%) Internet
11 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.26%) LAN
11 2 (0.26%) WAN
12 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.13%) Spanning Tree
12 1 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (16.47%) Relational Database
2 122 (15.70%) NoSQL
3 113 (14.54%) MySQL
4 104 (13.38%) SQL Server
5 95 (12.23%) MongoDB
6 76 (9.78%) Amazon RDS
7 73 (9.40%) Redis
8 61 (7.85%) Amazon Aurora
9 48 (6.18%) DynamoDB
10 37 (4.76%) RDBMS
11 34 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (4.38%) Power BI
12 26 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
13 25 (3.22%) Apache Cassandra
14 21 (2.70%) Oracle Database
15 19 (2.45%) Data Lake
15 19 (2.45%) DB2
16 18 (2.32%) Big Data
17 17 (2.19%) BigQuery
18 16 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 182 (23.42%) Jenkins
2 155 (19.95%) Git
3 92 (11.84%) GitLab
4 71 (9.14%) JIRA
5 55 (7.08%) JUnit
6 31 (3.99%) Cucumber
6 31 (3.99%) Mockito
7 25 (3.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 23 (2.96%) Gradle
9 22 (2.83%) Liquibase
10 19 (2.45%) Cypress.io
11 18 (2.32%) Bitbucket
12 16 (2.06%) JMeter
12 16 (2.06%) Maven
13 14 (1.80%) Postman
13 14 (1.80%) SonarQube
14 10 (1.29%) Vagrant
15 8 (1.03%) Artifactory
15 8 (1.03%) DBeaver
15 8 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 207 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 160 (20.59%) Finance
3 99 (12.74%) Public Sector
4 77 (9.91%) Banking
5 75 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.22%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (2.06%) Front Office
9 14 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.90%) Marketing
13 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.51%) Legal
14 4 (0.51%) Local Government
14 4 (0.51%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.39%) Electronics
15 3 (0.39%) Games
15 3 (0.39%) Law
16 2 (0.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 291 (37.45%) Developer
2 135 (17.37%) Senior
3 93 (11.97%) Java Developer
4 64 (8.24%) Data Engineer
4 64 (8.24%) Senior Developer
5 62 (7.98%) Architect
6 58 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (6.95%) Software Engineer
8 51 (6.56%) Python Developer
9 46 (5.92%) AWS Developer
9 46 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 45 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
11 42 (5.41%) DBA
12 34 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 33 (4.25%) Senior Java Developer
14 30 (3.86%) Lead
14 30 (3.86%) Python Engineer
15 29 (3.73%) Data Architect
16 26 (3.35%) Backend Developer
16 26 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (20.85%) Kafka
2 142 (18.28%) React
3 121 (15.57%) Spring
4 120 (15.44%) RESTful
5 119 (15.32%) Node.js
6 111 (14.29%) REST
7 100 (12.87%) Spring Boot
8 61 (7.85%) CSS
9 50 (6.44%) HTML
10 44 (5.66%) AngularJS
11 42 (5.41%) GraphQL
11 42 (5.41%) JSON
12 41 (5.28%) Hibernate
13 40 (5.15%) FastAPI
14 39 (5.02%) .NET
15 35 (4.50%) Vue
16 31 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
17 30 (3.86%) Keycloak
18 27 (3.47%) Django
18 27 (3.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 108 (13.90%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.02%) Replication
4 27 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 26 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.57%) Derivative
7 19 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.32%) Market Risk
8 18 (2.32%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (2.06%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.06%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.67%) Clustering
12 12 (1.54%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.29%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.16%) Equities
14 9 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 139 (17.89%) Linux
2 34 (4.38%) Windows
3 25 (3.22%) Unix
4 13 (1.67%) Amazon Linux
4 13 (1.67%) VMS
5 11 (1.42%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.51%) zOS
8 3 (0.39%) Solaris
9 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.13%) MVS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (45.05%) CI/CD
2 270 (34.75%) Agile
3 265 (34.11%) DevOps
4 188 (24.20%) Microservices
5 186 (23.94%) Containerisation
6 159 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 115 (14.80%) Software Engineering
9 114 (14.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 109 (14.03%) Observability
11 108 (13.90%) Test Automation
12 94 (12.10%) TDD
13 86 (11.07%) Migration
14 81 (10.42%) AI
15 80 (10.30%) Data Modelling
15 80 (10.30%) ETL
16 76 (9.78%) Performance Tuning
17 67 (8.62%) Analytics
18 63 (8.11%) Computer Science
19 62 (7.98%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 370 (47.62%) Python
2 307 (39.51%) SQL
3 228 (29.34%) Java
4 123 (15.83%) JavaScript
5 119 (15.32%) TypeScript
6 86 (11.07%) Bash
7 73 (9.40%) Go
8 42 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.99%) C#
10 25 (3.22%) PHP
11 24 (3.09%) Groovy
12 18 (2.32%) Shell Script
13 16 (2.06%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.80%) Ruby
15 13 (1.67%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.29%) Scala
17 7 (0.90%) Bicep
17 7 (0.90%) JSX
18 6 (0.77%) VBA
19 5 (0.64%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 221 (28.44%) Security Cleared
2 177 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 88 (11.33%) Degree
4 56 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.99%) Azure Certification
6 27 (3.47%) AWS Certification
7 25 (3.22%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.32%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.67%) OCP
10 13 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.90%) MCP
12 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.51%) HND
15 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
16 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.13%) CCSM
17 1 (0.13%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 42 (5.41%) QA
2 23 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.93%) GDPR
4 8 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.03%) SLA
5 7 (0.90%) NCSC
6 5 (0.64%) NIST
7 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.51%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.51%) WCAG
8 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 280 (36.04%) Docker
2 12 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.29%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.29%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.29%) Postfix
3 10 (1.29%) Squid
4 8 (1.03%) zsh
5 7 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.64%) NDS
6 5 (0.64%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.51%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.39%) KVM
8 3 (0.39%) NFS
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.39%) Xen
9 2 (0.26%) HDFS
9 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.26%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 288 (37.07%) Kubernetes
2 180 (23.17%) Terraform
3 111 (14.29%) Grafana
4 92 (11.84%) Ansible
5 78 (10.04%) Prometheus
6 30 (3.86%) Argo
7 21 (2.70%) Nessus
7 21 (2.70%) Progress Chef
8 18 (2.32%) Puppet
9 12 (1.54%) Control-M
9 12 (1.54%) Istio
10 11 (1.42%) IBM Guardium
11 10 (1.29%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.77%) linkerd
14 5 (0.64%) Packer
14 5 (0.64%) Rancher
14 5 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.51%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 133 (17.12%) Oracle
2 88 (11.33%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.92%) Splunk
4 41 (5.28%) Google
5 31 (3.99%) VMware
6 30 (3.86%) Databricks
7 27 (3.47%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.45%) ServiceNow
9 18 (2.32%) Dynatrace
10 17 (2.19%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.80%) Greenplum
12 13 (1.67%) Informatica
13 11 (1.42%) Tenable
14 10 (1.29%) Jaspersoft
15 9 (1.16%) IBM
16 8 (1.03%) Cloudera
16 8 (1.03%) PagerDuty
17 6 (0.77%) Gigya
18 5 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
18 5 (0.64%) Talend