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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 122 128
Rank change year-on-year -50 +6 +38
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 877 781 723
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.37% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.71% 13.09% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 582 545
10th Percentile £360 £375 £359
25th Percentile £425 £456 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £587 £650 £650
90th Percentile £712 £838 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £481
% change year-on-year -3.75% +2.60% -3.80%
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% +22.00%
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 8,189 5,967 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 18.12% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,468 3,995 4,734
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -1.47%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £705 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 93 86
10th Percentile £16.35 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.88 £29.33 £20.88
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.50 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.30% +18.30% -45.21%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -67 698 £512 -6.95% 1,311
London -70 371 £525 -12.50% 916
UK excluding London -49 351 £475 -3.75% 515
Work from Home -58 276 £500 -16.67% 619
North of England -72 103 £500 - 124
Midlands -15 80 £445 -11.00% 59
South East -40 66 £460 +7.23% 115
Yorkshire -32 51 £500 - 39
West Midlands -42 51 £447 -10.55% 42
Scotland -20 46 £450 -6.49% 56
North West -50 46 £520 +9.47% 71
South West -43 32 £600 +9.09% 67
East Midlands +7 28 £425 -17.87% 16
East of England -7 23 £506 +6.58% 47
North East -50 6 £425 -22.68% 15
Wales -11 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 36 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
1 36 (4.10%) Apache Spark
2 35 (3.99%) Confluence
3 27 (3.08%) Apache
4 7 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.68%) CMS
5 6 (0.68%) nginx
6 5 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.34%) Camunda
7 3 (0.34%) IIS
7 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) JBoss
8 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.80%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) 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 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 459 (52.34%) AWS
2 291 (33.18%) Azure
3 168 (19.16%) GitHub
4 128 (14.60%) GCP
5 121 (13.80%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (11.29%) Serverless
7 94 (10.72%) Amazon S3
8 78 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 60 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (5.93%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (4.56%) Snowflake
15 33 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 29 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
18 27 (3.08%) AWS KMS
19 24 (2.74%) OpenShift
20 21 (2.39%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.08%) DNS
2 20 (2.28%) SSH
3 19 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.05%) Firewall
4 18 (2.05%) HTTP
5 11 (1.25%) HTTPS
6 10 (1.14%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.91%) SAN
7 8 (0.91%) SSL
8 6 (0.68%) 5G
9 5 (0.57%) 4G
9 5 (0.57%) VPN
10 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.34%) Network Security
12 2 (0.23%) DHCP
12 2 (0.23%) FTP
12 2 (0.23%) IMAP
12 2 (0.23%) MQTT
12 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
12 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (21.44%) SQL Server
2 173 (19.73%) Relational Database
3 170 (19.38%) MongoDB
4 166 (18.93%) MySQL
5 107 (12.20%) NoSQL
6 104 (11.86%) Redis
7 90 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
8 83 (9.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (4.90%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.53%) RDBMS
12 30 (3.42%) Metadata
12 30 (3.42%) Oracle Database
13 28 (3.19%) Big Data
14 25 (2.85%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (1.94%) Power BI
17 15 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
18 14 (1.60%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 212 (24.17%) Git
2 200 (22.81%) Jenkins
3 98 (11.17%) GitLab
4 81 (9.24%) JIRA
5 68 (7.75%) JUnit
6 59 (6.73%) Maven
6 59 (6.73%) Mockito
7 38 (4.33%) Gradle
8 28 (3.19%) SonarQube
9 20 (2.28%) Cucumber
10 18 (2.05%) Liquibase
11 17 (1.94%) Selenium
12 16 (1.82%) Gatling
13 13 (1.48%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.37%) Mocha
15 10 (1.14%) Cypress.io
15 10 (1.14%) Flyway
15 10 (1.14%) JMeter
16 7 (0.80%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.80%) DbUnit
General
1 199 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.76%) Public Sector
3 136 (15.51%) Finance
4 132 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.27%) Banking
6 36 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (1.82%) Front Office
8 12 (1.37%) Retail
9 11 (1.25%) Military
10 10 (1.14%) Legal
10 10 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.91%) Law
13 7 (0.80%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.68%) Automotive
14 6 (0.68%) Billing
14 6 (0.68%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.57%) Marketing
15 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 324 (36.94%) Developer
2 162 (18.47%) Senior
3 124 (14.14%) Java Developer
4 102 (11.63%) DBA
5 72 (8.21%) Senior Developer
6 68 (7.75%) Full-Stack Developer
7 65 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 65 (7.41%) Lead
8 64 (7.30%) Software Engineer
9 60 (6.84%) Administrator
10 51 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
11 48 (5.47%) Python Developer
12 47 (5.36%) Architect
13 41 (4.68%) Java Engineer
14 34 (3.88%) Software Developer
15 33 (3.76%) AWS Engineer
16 32 (3.65%) Python Engineer
17 28 (3.19%) Senior Java Developer
18 26 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 26 (2.96%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (28.05%) REST
2 197 (22.46%) Spring
3 192 (21.89%) RESTful
4 187 (21.32%) Kafka
5 171 (19.50%) Spring Boot
5 171 (19.50%) Terraform
6 152 (17.33%) React
7 103 (11.74%) Node.js
8 80 (9.12%) CSS
8 80 (9.12%) HTML
9 68 (7.75%) .NET
10 59 (6.73%) AngularJS
10 59 (6.73%) OAuth
11 52 (5.93%) Django
12 51 (5.82%) FastAPI
13 49 (5.59%) OAuth2
14 44 (5.02%) RabbitMQ
15 43 (4.90%) GraphQL
15 43 (4.90%) Swagger
15 43 (4.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 184 (20.98%) Cloud Native
2 106 (12.09%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (6.04%) Replication
4 50 (5.70%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.33%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.74%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.05%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.94%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
14 13 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (1.03%) Equities
17 9 (1.03%) LIMS
18 8 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
18 8 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 123 (14.03%) Linux
2 50 (5.70%) Unix
3 41 (4.68%) Windows
4 30 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.74%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.94%) Solaris
7 16 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.03%) AIX
8 9 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.34%) VMS
10 2 (0.23%) Rocky
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (49.26%) CI/CD
2 305 (34.78%) DevOps
3 304 (34.66%) Agile
4 273 (31.13%) Microservices
5 201 (22.92%) Containerisation
6 179 (20.41%) Software Engineering
7 163 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 148 (16.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 147 (16.76%) Test Automation
11 129 (14.71%) Data Modelling
12 127 (14.48%) AI
12 127 (14.48%) Event-Driven
13 121 (13.80%) Performance Tuning
14 120 (13.68%) Observability
15 116 (13.23%) Migration
16 108 (12.31%) Scrum
17 97 (11.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 96 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
19 95 (10.83%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 347 (39.57%) SQL
2 318 (36.26%) Python
3 314 (35.80%) Java
4 157 (17.90%) TypeScript
5 118 (13.45%) JavaScript
6 61 (6.96%) C#
7 52 (5.93%) Bash
8 40 (4.56%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.76%) Scala
10 29 (3.31%) Go
11 22 (2.51%) Groovy
12 17 (1.94%) Perl
12 17 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.71%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.60%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.25%) PHP
15 11 (1.25%) Ruby
15 11 (1.25%) T-SQL
16 10 (1.14%) Korn
16 10 (1.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 311 (35.46%) Security Cleared
2 269 (30.67%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.73%) Degree
4 50 (5.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.76%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (2.74%) AWS Certification
9 19 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.25%) OCP
12 10 (1.14%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.11%) CISA
14 1 (0.11%) CISM
14 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.46%) QA
2 49 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 48 (5.47%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.17%) GDPR
5 14 (1.60%) WCAG
6 8 (0.91%) GMP
6 8 (0.91%) GxP
7 7 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.80%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.57%) SLA
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.46%) SEPA
10 3 (0.34%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 356 (40.59%) Docker
2 13 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.80%) Postfix
5 6 (0.68%) Ceph
5 6 (0.68%) Squid
6 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 296 (33.75%) Kubernetes
2 112 (12.77%) Grafana
3 87 (9.92%) Prometheus
4 35 (3.99%) Ansible
5 27 (3.08%) Kibana
6 15 (1.71%) Argo
7 13 (1.48%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.37%) Karpenter
9 11 (1.25%) Data Guard
9 11 (1.25%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.80%) Control-M
11 7 (0.80%) Puppet
12 6 (0.68%) Istio
12 6 (0.68%) Nessus
13 5 (0.57%) Rancher
14 4 (0.46%) Bosun
14 4 (0.46%) IBM Guardium
14 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 190 (21.66%) Oracle
2 134 (15.28%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.02%) Google
4 42 (4.79%) Databricks
5 33 (3.76%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.74%) Dynatrace
7 23 (2.62%) Splunk
8 18 (2.05%) Informatica
9 17 (1.94%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.82%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.48%) VMware
12 11 (1.25%) Talend
13 10 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
14 9 (1.03%) NetApp
15 8 (0.91%) CyberArk
15 8 (0.91%) Sybase
16 7 (0.80%) Atlassian
16 7 (0.80%) TikTok
17 6 (0.68%) BeyondTrust
17 6 (0.68%) IBM