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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 131 150
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 +30
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 825 666 727
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.22% 2.01% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.92% 11.09% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 496 510
10th Percentile £363 £331 £405
25th Percentile £418 £424 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £711 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
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 6,386 6,008 7,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.21% 18.11% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,410 3,965 5,070
10th Percentile £325 £343 £350
25th Percentile £409 £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 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 83 144
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.66 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.60 £23.08
Median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +69.99% -34.69% -14.84%
75th Percentile £73.70 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.00 £77.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.18% -40.45% -7.64%

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 1 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 1 January 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 1 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 +15 687 £520 -5.45% 698
London +11 376 £550 -4.35% 409
UK excluding London -3 350 £475 -5.00% 350
Work from Home -16 257 £513 -1.44% 326
North of England +12 135 £475 +3.83% 124
Midlands +11 78 £525 +5.00% 42
Yorkshire 0 72 £500 -16.67% 44
West Midlands +15 65 £531 +2.12% 24
South East -21 62 £433 -24.78% 75
North West -12 54 £450 +1.12% 69
South West +2 44 £550 -8.39% 38
Scotland -9 44 £450 -5.46% 21
East Midlands -18 13 £515 +3.00% 16
North East - 10 £738 - 12
Northern Ireland +1 8 £400 - 8
Wales +2 4 £469 +97.37% 7
East of England -15 3 £450 +1.41% 40

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 44 (5.33%) Confluence
2 24 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.79%) nginx
4 18 (2.18%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.70%) SAS
6 12 (1.45%) Apache
7 6 (0.73%) Drupal
7 6 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.48%) CICS
8 4 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.48%) WordPress
9 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.24%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.24%) Camunda
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Traefik
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 10 (1.21%) Chatbot
1 10 (1.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Magento
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 489 (59.27%) AWS
2 257 (31.15%) Azure
3 188 (22.79%) GitHub
4 144 (17.45%) GCP
4 144 (17.45%) Serverless
5 115 (13.94%) Amazon S3
6 91 (11.03%) GitHub Actions
7 86 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (7.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 55 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (6.06%) OpenShift
12 45 (5.45%) Power Platform
13 44 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 37 (4.48%) Snowflake
15 35 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
16 33 (4.00%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (2.91%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.64%) Firewall
2 27 (3.27%) DNS
3 21 (2.55%) HTTP
4 15 (1.82%) SSH
5 14 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.33%) Kerberos
7 10 (1.21%) FTP
7 10 (1.21%) IMAP
7 10 (1.21%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (1.21%) SMTP
8 7 (0.85%) SSL
9 5 (0.61%) VPN
10 4 (0.48%) Internet
11 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.24%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.24%) LAN
11 2 (0.24%) WAN
12 1 (0.12%) DHCP
12 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (16.36%) Relational Database
2 123 (14.91%) NoSQL
3 121 (14.67%) MySQL
4 113 (13.70%) SQL Server
5 110 (13.33%) MongoDB
6 80 (9.70%) Amazon RDS
7 76 (9.21%) Redis
8 60 (7.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 44 (5.33%) DynamoDB
10 39 (4.73%) RDBMS
11 35 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
12 34 (4.12%) Power BI
13 26 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
14 25 (3.03%) Oracle Database
15 21 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (2.30%) Big Data
16 19 (2.30%) Data Lake
16 19 (2.30%) DB2
17 17 (2.06%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 183 (22.18%) Jenkins
2 159 (19.27%) Git
3 97 (11.76%) GitLab
4 74 (8.97%) JIRA
5 56 (6.79%) JUnit
6 32 (3.88%) Mockito
7 31 (3.76%) Cucumber
8 25 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (2.67%) Gradle
9 22 (2.67%) Liquibase
10 19 (2.30%) Cypress.io
11 18 (2.18%) Bitbucket
11 18 (2.18%) Maven
12 17 (2.06%) JMeter
13 16 (1.94%) Postman
13 16 (1.94%) SonarQube
14 10 (1.21%) Vagrant
15 9 (1.09%) Subversion
15 9 (1.09%) webpack
16 8 (0.97%) ERwin
General
1 223 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 175 (21.21%) Finance
3 103 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 86 (10.42%) Banking
5 78 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.39%) Investment Banking
7 24 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (2.18%) Front Office
9 15 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.85%) Marketing
13 5 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.48%) Legal
14 4 (0.48%) Local Government
14 4 (0.48%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.36%) Games
15 3 (0.36%) Law
15 3 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 308 (37.33%) Developer
2 145 (17.58%) Senior
3 99 (12.00%) Java Developer
4 69 (8.36%) Architect
5 68 (8.24%) Senior Developer
6 65 (7.88%) Data Engineer
7 61 (7.39%) Full-Stack Developer
8 53 (6.42%) Software Engineer
9 52 (6.30%) Python Developer
10 50 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (5.94%) AWS Developer
12 46 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
13 43 (5.21%) DBA
14 37 (4.48%) Lead
15 35 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 35 (4.24%) Python Engineer
16 34 (4.12%) Senior Java Developer
17 29 (3.52%) Data Architect
18 26 (3.15%) Backend Developer
18 26 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (20.61%) Kafka
2 145 (17.58%) React
3 127 (15.39%) Spring
4 125 (15.15%) Node.js
4 125 (15.15%) RESTful
5 115 (13.94%) REST
6 105 (12.73%) Spring Boot
7 65 (7.88%) CSS
8 54 (6.55%) HTML
9 49 (5.94%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.58%) GraphQL
11 43 (5.21%) Hibernate
12 41 (4.97%) FastAPI
12 41 (4.97%) JSON
13 39 (4.73%) .NET
14 35 (4.24%) Vue
15 31 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (3.64%) Keycloak
17 27 (3.27%) Django
17 27 (3.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 109 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (4.97%) Replication
4 28 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 26 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 24 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (2.55%) Derivative
7 21 (2.55%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.30%) Market Risk
9 18 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.82%) Clustering
13 14 (1.70%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.58%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.21%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.21%) Equities
15 10 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 9 (1.09%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 143 (17.33%) Linux
2 35 (4.24%) Windows
3 27 (3.27%) Unix
4 13 (1.58%) Amazon Linux
4 13 (1.58%) VMS
5 11 (1.33%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.48%) zOS
8 3 (0.36%) Solaris
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
1 365 (44.24%) CI/CD
2 289 (35.03%) Agile
3 285 (34.55%) DevOps
4 206 (24.97%) Microservices
5 196 (23.76%) Containerisation
6 173 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
7 151 (18.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 119 (14.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 117 (14.18%) Software Engineering
10 116 (14.06%) Test Automation
11 108 (13.09%) Observability
12 102 (12.36%) TDD
13 92 (11.15%) Migration
14 86 (10.42%) AI
15 81 (9.82%) ETL
16 80 (9.70%) Data Modelling
17 78 (9.45%) Performance Tuning
18 71 (8.61%) Computer Science
19 70 (8.48%) Analytics
20 64 (7.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 385 (46.67%) Python
2 316 (38.30%) SQL
3 239 (28.97%) Java
4 132 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 125 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 86 (10.42%) Bash
7 72 (8.73%) Go
8 42 (5.09%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.88%) C#
10 26 (3.15%) Groovy
10 26 (3.15%) PHP
11 21 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.06%) Ruby
13 14 (1.70%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.58%) Kotlin
15 9 (1.09%) Scala
16 7 (0.85%) Bicep
16 7 (0.85%) JSX
17 6 (0.73%) VBA
18 5 (0.61%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 225 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 183 (22.18%) SC Cleared
3 96 (11.64%) Degree
4 62 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.76%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.76%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.18%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.58%) OCP
9 13 (1.58%) Oracle Certification
10 9 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.85%) MCP
12 6 (0.73%) CISSP
12 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.48%) HND
14 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.18%) QA
2 43 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.82%) GDPR
5 8 (0.97%) SLA
6 7 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.73%) NCSC
8 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.48%) NIST
9 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.48%) WCAG
10 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 283 (34.30%) Docker
2 12 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.21%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.21%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.21%) Postfix
3 10 (1.21%) Squid
4 9 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.97%) zsh
6 5 (0.61%) NDS
6 5 (0.61%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.36%) KVM
8 3 (0.36%) NFS
8 3 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.36%) Xen
9 2 (0.24%) HDFS
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
1 299 (36.24%) Kubernetes
2 192 (23.27%) Terraform
3 111 (13.45%) Grafana
4 92 (11.15%) Ansible
5 78 (9.45%) Prometheus
6 30 (3.64%) Argo
7 21 (2.55%) Nessus
7 21 (2.55%) Progress Chef
8 18 (2.18%) Puppet
9 12 (1.45%) Control-M
9 12 (1.45%) Istio
10 11 (1.33%) IBM Guardium
11 10 (1.21%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.73%) linkerd
14 5 (0.61%) Packer
14 5 (0.61%) Rancher
14 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.48%) Kibana
15 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 140 (16.97%) Oracle
2 93 (11.27%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.82%) Splunk
4 44 (5.33%) Google
5 31 (3.76%) Databricks
5 31 (3.76%) VMware
6 26 (3.15%) Red Hat
7 20 (2.42%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.06%) Atlassian
10 13 (1.58%) Greenplum
10 13 (1.58%) IBM
11 12 (1.45%) Informatica
12 11 (1.33%) Tenable
13 10 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (0.97%) Cloudera
14 8 (0.97%) PagerDuty
15 7 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
16 6 (0.73%) Gigya
17 5 (0.61%) Salesforce