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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 138 157
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 +21
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 841 680 769
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.35% 1.88% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.40% 10.48% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 505 536
10th Percentile £363 £325 £408
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £645
90th Percentile £750 £724 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% -
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% +37.89%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £69.03
90th Percentile £71.50 - £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £46.28
% change year-on-year - - +8.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,275 6,487 7,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.51% 17.89% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,306 4,279 5,397
10th Percentile £331 £345 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £607 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.25% -0.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 88 144
10th Percentile £23.43 £18.35 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.97 £23.81 £21.57
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70.50 £54.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.10 £65.30 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.31 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +119.29% -40.45% +13.38%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 +27 709 £525 -4.55% 280
London +30 385 £600 +4.35% 147
UK excluding London +17 358 £475 -3.46% 235
Work from Home -6 277 £525 +0.96% 143
North of England +26 136 £492 +3.58% 38
Midlands +16 74 £525 +6.06% 22
Yorkshire +19 70 £500 -16.67% 8
West Midlands +23 63 £525 +7.14% 14
South East -22 63 £433 -13.50% 121
North West -1 53 £445 - 27
South West +20 48 £550 -2.22% 27
Scotland -8 47 £450 -5.76% 12
North East +6 14 £550 - 3
East Midlands -16 11 £518 +3.50% 8
Northern Ireland +3 8 £400 - 2
Wales -1 4 £469 +20.97% 2
East of England -9 4 £450 +1.41% 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 47 (5.59%) Confluence
2 32 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.85%) nginx
4 22 (2.62%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.43%) SAS
6 11 (1.31%) Apache
7 8 (0.95%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.71%) Drupal
9 5 (0.59%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.48%) CICS
10 4 (0.48%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.48%) WordPress
11 3 (0.36%) Alfresco
11 3 (0.36%) Camunda
11 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (1.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (1.31%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 497 (59.10%) AWS
2 242 (28.78%) Azure
3 172 (20.45%) GitHub
4 153 (18.19%) GCP
5 138 (16.41%) Serverless
6 128 (15.22%) Amazon S3
7 84 (9.99%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (9.16%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
10 53 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 49 (5.83%) OpenShift
12 48 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
12 48 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
13 42 (4.99%) Power Platform
14 36 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (3.92%) Snowflake
16 32 (3.80%) Azure AKS
17 27 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 25 (2.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.09%) Firewall
2 19 (2.26%) DNS
2 19 (2.26%) HTTP
3 15 (1.78%) SSH
4 12 (1.43%) IMAP
4 12 (1.43%) Kerberos
4 12 (1.43%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (1.43%) SMTP
5 10 (1.19%) FTP
6 9 (1.07%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.83%) SSL
8 4 (0.48%) Internet
8 4 (0.48%) VPN
9 3 (0.36%) MQTT
10 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
10 2 (0.24%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.24%) LAN
10 2 (0.24%) WAN
11 1 (0.12%) DHCP
11 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (16.53%) Relational Database
2 124 (14.74%) NoSQL
3 123 (14.63%) MySQL
4 110 (13.08%) MongoDB
5 103 (12.25%) SQL Server
6 86 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
7 79 (9.39%) Redis
8 62 (7.37%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (5.11%) RDBMS
10 39 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (4.64%) DynamoDB
11 34 (4.04%) Power BI
12 29 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
13 28 (3.33%) Oracle Database
14 25 (2.97%) Apache Cassandra
14 25 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (2.62%) Apache Iceberg
15 22 (2.62%) Big Data
16 20 (2.38%) Hadoop
17 17 (2.02%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 183 (21.76%) Jenkins
2 160 (19.02%) Git
3 81 (9.63%) GitLab
4 78 (9.27%) JIRA
5 59 (7.02%) JUnit
6 31 (3.69%) Cucumber
7 28 (3.33%) Liquibase
7 28 (3.33%) Mockito
8 24 (2.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (2.50%) Cypress.io
9 21 (2.50%) Gradle
9 21 (2.50%) Maven
10 18 (2.14%) Bitbucket
10 18 (2.14%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.90%) JMeter
12 15 (1.78%) Postman
13 12 (1.43%) Vagrant
14 11 (1.31%) Subversion
15 10 (1.19%) DBeaver
15 10 (1.19%) webpack
General
1 247 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 193 (22.95%) Finance
3 105 (12.49%) Public Sector
4 90 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (10.23%) Banking
6 40 (4.76%) Front Office
7 30 (3.57%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.55%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.95%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.95%) Marketing
13 6 (0.71%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.59%) Local Government
14 5 (0.59%) Military
14 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.48%) Electronics
15 4 (0.48%) Legal
16 2 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 331 (39.36%) Developer
2 136 (16.17%) Senior
3 110 (13.08%) Java Developer
4 72 (8.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 65 (7.73%) Architect
5 65 (7.73%) Data Engineer
6 64 (7.61%) Senior Developer
7 63 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
8 61 (7.25%) Software Engineer
9 59 (7.02%) Python Developer
10 54 (6.42%) AWS Developer
11 51 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
12 50 (5.95%) Lead
13 40 (4.76%) DBA
14 39 (4.64%) Python Engineer
15 37 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
16 35 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
18 26 (3.09%) Backend Developer
18 26 (3.09%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (20.93%) Kafka
2 163 (19.38%) React
3 139 (16.53%) Node.js
4 127 (15.10%) Spring
5 123 (14.63%) RESTful
6 119 (14.15%) REST
7 107 (12.72%) Spring Boot
8 66 (7.85%) CSS
9 58 (6.90%) AngularJS
10 56 (6.66%) HTML
11 54 (6.42%) GraphQL
12 43 (5.11%) FastAPI
12 43 (5.11%) Hibernate
13 42 (4.99%) Vue
14 38 (4.52%) JSON
15 36 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
16 32 (3.80%) Pandas
16 32 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
17 31 (3.69%) Django
17 31 (3.69%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.77%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.47%) Replication
4 29 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 28 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.09%) Fixed Income
7 24 (2.85%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.50%) Equities
8 21 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 20 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.26%) Clustering
10 19 (2.26%) Derivative
10 19 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (2.14%) Market Risk
12 16 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.90%) Public Cloud
13 15 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.31%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.31%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 143 (17.00%) Linux
2 30 (3.57%) Windows
3 22 (2.62%) Unix
4 15 (1.78%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (1.78%) VMS
5 11 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.36%) Solaris
8 3 (0.36%) zOS
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (42.93%) CI/CD
2 333 (39.60%) Agile
3 279 (33.17%) DevOps
4 221 (26.28%) Microservices
5 197 (23.42%) Containerisation
6 186 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
7 131 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 131 (15.58%) Software Engineering
8 128 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 114 (13.56%) TDD
10 108 (12.84%) Test Automation
11 92 (10.94%) Observability
12 87 (10.34%) Migration
13 82 (9.75%) AI
14 76 (9.04%) Computer Science
14 76 (9.04%) ETL
15 73 (8.68%) Data Modelling
16 70 (8.32%) Analytics
16 70 (8.32%) Mentoring
17 67 (7.97%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 394 (46.85%) Python
2 302 (35.91%) SQL
3 248 (29.49%) Java
4 147 (17.48%) JavaScript
5 142 (16.88%) TypeScript
6 86 (10.23%) Bash
7 72 (8.56%) Go
8 39 (4.64%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.45%) C#
10 27 (3.21%) Groovy
11 26 (3.09%) PHP
12 18 (2.14%) Ruby
12 18 (2.14%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.43%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.31%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.95%) Perl
16 7 (0.83%) JSX
16 7 (0.83%) Scala
16 7 (0.83%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 221 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 186 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 101 (12.01%) Degree
4 64 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (4.52%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.38%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.43%) OCP
10 12 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (0.95%) MCP
12 7 (0.83%) CISSP
13 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
15 4 (0.48%) HND
16 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
17 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
17 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.66%) QA
2 41 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.78%) GDPR
5 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.36%) SLA
7 3 (0.36%) WCAG
8 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.24%) HL7
8 2 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) DICOM
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 277 (32.94%) Docker
2 13 (1.55%) Postfix
3 12 (1.43%) Dovecot
3 12 (1.43%) Squid
3 12 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.19%) DFS Replication
4 10 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.95%) zsh
6 5 (0.59%) NDS
6 5 (0.59%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 5 (0.59%) NFS
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.36%) KVM
8 3 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.36%) Xen
9 2 (0.24%) GPFS
9 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) SRDF
10 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 291 (34.60%) Kubernetes
2 174 (20.69%) Terraform
3 108 (12.84%) Grafana
4 79 (9.39%) Ansible
5 77 (9.16%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.33%) Argo
7 23 (2.73%) Nessus
8 19 (2.26%) Progress Chef
9 17 (2.02%) Puppet
10 12 (1.43%) Control-M
11 11 (1.31%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.19%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.07%) Packer
14 8 (0.95%) Istio
15 6 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.59%) Kibana
16 5 (0.59%) Rancher
17 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
18 3 (0.36%) Ambari
Vendors
1 128 (15.22%) Oracle
2 86 (10.23%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.23%) Google
4 41 (4.88%) Splunk
5 27 (3.21%) Red Hat
6 26 (3.09%) VMware
7 21 (2.50%) Databricks
7 21 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.14%) Atlassian
8 18 (2.14%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.90%) IBM
10 13 (1.55%) Jaspersoft
11 11 (1.31%) CA Agile Central
11 11 (1.31%) Tenable
12 8 (0.95%) Greenplum
12 8 (0.95%) Informatica
13 7 (0.83%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.83%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.71%) Gigya
14 6 (0.71%) SAP