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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 111 125
Rank change year-on-year -70 +14 +40
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 869 803 739
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.42% 1.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.61% 13.26% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 595 556
10th Percentile £357 £375 £342
25th Percentile £425 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £838 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -3.04% +3.79% -5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £24.88 - -
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -62.50% +22.00%
75th Percentile £63.06 £56.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.50 -
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 8,193 6,058 6,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.92% 18.29% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,460 4,047 4,642
10th Percentile £352 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -5.57% -1.85%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 88 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.87 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +12.80% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.13 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -77 690 £520 -5.55% 1,160
London -57 388 £525 -12.50% 779
UK excluding London -73 324 £478 -3.04% 504
Work from Home -66 276 £500 -16.67% 537
North of England -74 92 £520 +4.00% 132
Midlands -43 73 £447 -11.04% 52
South East -51 62 £463 +6.32% 109
West Midlands -39 50 £449 -10.25% 37
Yorkshire -29 48 £500 - 41
Scotland -34 43 £450 -5.26% 65
North West -54 39 £525 +10.53% 76
South West -39 35 £700 +27.27% 66
East Midlands -5 22 £425 -17.48% 15
East of England -10 22 £488 +2.63% 41
North East -51 5 £500 -20.00% 20
Wales -12 4 - - 20

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 38 (4.37%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.91%) Confluence
4 31 (3.57%) Apache
5 7 (0.81%) nginx
5 7 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
7 5 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) IIS
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 6 (0.69%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.23%) Finacle
3 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 458 (52.70%) AWS
2 290 (33.37%) Azure
3 168 (19.33%) GitHub
4 135 (15.54%) GCP
5 118 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (11.28%) Amazon S3
7 91 (10.47%) Serverless
8 73 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (7.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
10 53 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (5.64%) Amazon SQS
12 40 (4.60%) Snowflake
13 33 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 33 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.22%) AWS KMS
16 23 (2.65%) OpenShift
17 20 (2.30%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.53%) DNS
2 18 (2.07%) Firewall
2 18 (2.07%) HTTP
2 18 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.96%) SSH
4 9 (1.04%) Kerberos
5 8 (0.92%) HTTPS
5 8 (0.92%) SAN
6 6 (0.69%) 5G
7 5 (0.58%) 4G
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) VPN
8 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.35%) Network Security
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) FTP
10 2 (0.23%) IMAP
10 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (21.06%) SQL Server
2 176 (20.25%) MySQL
2 176 (20.25%) Relational Database
3 172 (19.79%) MongoDB
4 106 (12.20%) Redis
5 104 (11.97%) NoSQL
6 94 (10.82%) Amazon RDS
7 86 (9.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 44 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (4.49%) DynamoDB
10 34 (3.91%) RDBMS
11 32 (3.68%) Metadata
12 28 (3.22%) Big Data
13 27 (3.11%) Oracle Database
14 25 (2.88%) Data Lake
15 22 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (2.07%) BigQuery
17 15 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
18 14 (1.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 217 (24.97%) Git
2 198 (22.78%) Jenkins
3 104 (11.97%) GitLab
4 78 (8.98%) JIRA
5 69 (7.94%) JUnit
6 61 (7.02%) Mockito
7 58 (6.67%) Maven
8 40 (4.60%) Gradle
9 27 (3.11%) SonarQube
10 22 (2.53%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.96%) Selenium
12 16 (1.84%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.61%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.38%) Gatling
14 12 (1.38%) Mocha
15 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.04%) Flyway
16 9 (1.04%) JMeter
17 7 (0.81%) Claude Code
18 6 (0.69%) DbUnit
General
1 200 (23.01%) Social Skills
2 142 (16.34%) Public Sector
3 139 (16.00%) Finance
4 138 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (7.13%) Banking
6 38 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.07%) Front Office
8 15 (1.73%) Retail
9 12 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.15%) Military
12 9 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.92%) Legal
14 7 (0.81%) Law
15 6 (0.69%) Billing
15 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.58%) Marketing
16 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 325 (37.40%) Developer
2 165 (18.99%) Senior
3 126 (14.50%) Java Developer
4 107 (12.31%) DBA
5 74 (8.52%) Senior Developer
6 69 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (7.59%) Data Engineer
8 60 (6.90%) Administrator
8 60 (6.90%) Lead
8 60 (6.90%) Software Engineer
9 55 (6.33%) Python Developer
10 53 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 46 (5.29%) Architect
12 36 (4.14%) Java Engineer
13 35 (4.03%) Python Engineer
14 32 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
15 28 (3.22%) Senior Java Developer
16 27 (3.11%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 26 (2.99%) Software Developer
18 24 (2.76%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (29.00%) REST
2 192 (22.09%) Spring
3 191 (21.98%) Kafka
3 191 (21.98%) RESTful
4 177 (20.37%) Terraform
5 170 (19.56%) Spring Boot
6 153 (17.61%) React
7 94 (10.82%) Node.js
8 84 (9.67%) HTML
9 83 (9.55%) CSS
10 67 (7.71%) .NET
11 61 (7.02%) OAuth
12 60 (6.90%) AngularJS
13 58 (6.67%) Django
14 53 (6.10%) FastAPI
15 50 (5.75%) OAuth2
16 46 (5.29%) Web Services
17 43 (4.95%) GraphQL
17 43 (4.95%) Hibernate
17 43 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 183 (21.06%) Cloud Native
2 106 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (6.79%) Replication
4 47 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.37%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.99%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.19%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.96%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.27%) PKI
15 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.04%) Equities
16 9 (1.04%) LIMS
16 9 (1.04%) Virtual Team
17 8 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 125 (14.38%) Linux
2 54 (6.21%) Unix
3 44 (5.06%) Windows
4 30 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.07%) Solaris
7 17 (1.96%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.27%) AIX
9 9 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 2 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.23%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.23%) Rocky
12 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (50.29%) CI/CD
2 308 (35.44%) Agile
3 304 (34.98%) DevOps
4 269 (30.96%) Microservices
5 196 (22.55%) Containerisation
6 173 (19.91%) Software Engineering
7 163 (18.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 155 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (17.84%) Test Automation
9 142 (16.34%) Full-Stack Development
10 135 (15.54%) AI
11 130 (14.96%) Observability
12 129 (14.84%) Performance Tuning
13 128 (14.73%) Data Modelling
13 128 (14.73%) Event-Driven
14 109 (12.54%) Migration
14 109 (12.54%) Scrum
15 102 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 100 (11.51%) Validation
17 99 (11.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 345 (39.70%) SQL
2 321 (36.94%) Python
3 297 (34.18%) Java
4 159 (18.30%) TypeScript
5 125 (14.38%) JavaScript
6 60 (6.90%) C#
7 55 (6.33%) Bash
8 38 (4.37%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.68%) Go
10 28 (3.22%) Scala
11 23 (2.65%) Groovy
12 19 (2.19%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.96%) Perl
14 15 (1.73%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.73%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.38%) PHP
15 12 (1.38%) PL/SQL
16 10 (1.15%) Korn
17 8 (0.92%) Ruby
18 7 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 309 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 271 (31.19%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.79%) Degree
4 50 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (4.14%) DV Cleared
7 32 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (3.11%) AWS Certification
9 23 (2.65%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.27%) OCP
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.12%) CISSP
14 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.44%) QA
2 48 (5.52%) Accessibility
2 48 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.19%) GDPR
4 14 (1.61%) WCAG
5 8 (0.92%) GMP
5 8 (0.92%) GxP
5 8 (0.92%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.46%) SEPA
8 4 (0.46%) SLA
9 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) PSD2
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 356 (40.97%) Docker
2 12 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.69%) Postfix
6 4 (0.46%) Squid
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Ceph
7 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 295 (33.95%) Kubernetes
2 119 (13.69%) Grafana
3 95 (10.93%) Prometheus
4 34 (3.91%) Ansible
5 32 (3.68%) Kibana
6 15 (1.73%) Argo
7 12 (1.38%) Karpenter
8 10 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (1.04%) Data Guard
9 9 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 9 (1.04%) Puppet
10 8 (0.92%) Control-M
11 7 (0.81%) Istio
11 7 (0.81%) Nessus
12 6 (0.69%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.58%) Rancher
13 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.46%) Bosun
14 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 188 (21.63%) Oracle
2 129 (14.84%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.52%) Google
4 43 (4.95%) Databricks
5 33 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 27 (3.11%) Splunk
7 24 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.07%) Informatica
8 18 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.38%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.27%) Talend
11 10 (1.15%) NetApp
11 10 (1.15%) VMware
12 9 (1.04%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (0.92%) IBM
13 8 (0.92%) Sybase
14 7 (0.81%) CyberArk
14 7 (0.81%) Foundry
14 7 (0.81%) TikTok
15 6 (0.69%) ForgeRock