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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 118 140
Rank change year-on-year -48 +22 +14
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 791 678 715
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.34% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.69% 12.38% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 502 540
10th Percentile £363 £401 £363
25th Percentile £424 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £524
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.19% +3.10%
75th Percentile £590 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £800 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £468
% change year-on-year -3.65% +2.62% -4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £53.20 - £53.70
25th Percentile £63.25 £62.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -18.75% +255.79%
75th Percentile £74.13 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +261.01%

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 7,398 5,478 7,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 18.93% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,948 3,730 5,218
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.28%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 102 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.11 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -14.53% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.34 £56.88
90th Percentile £81.64 £77.38 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% -9.60% -40.26%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -47 665 £512 -4.08% 375
UK excluding London -26 355 £463 -3.65% 167
London -39 342 £550 -8.33% 233
Work from Home -55 249 £500 -9.09% 378
North of England -36 119 £463 -2.63% 57
Midlands +8 98 £449 -10.30% 20
West Midlands -16 69 £450 -10.00% 10
South East -46 64 £475 +8.88% 39
North West -27 59 £450 -5.26% 39
Yorkshire -21 50 £475 -5.00% 11
Scotland +6 44 £425 -10.99% 9
East Midlands -4 27 £425 -15.00% 10
South West -29 24 £688 +14.58% 20
East of England -32 10 £575 +27.78% 11
North East -27 9 £425 -10.05% 7
Northern Ireland +3 1 £400 -20.00% 10
Wales - 1 - - 5

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 50 (6.32%) Confluence
2 43 (5.44%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.65%) Apache
5 11 (1.39%) nginx
6 8 (1.01%) Camunda
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.38%) Appian
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (0.76%) CPLEX
1 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 442 (55.88%) AWS
2 255 (32.24%) Azure
3 139 (17.57%) GitHub
4 130 (16.43%) GCP
5 95 (12.01%) Serverless
6 94 (11.88%) Amazon S3
7 89 (11.25%) GitHub Actions
8 72 (9.10%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
12 43 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (3.92%) Power Platform
14 31 (3.92%) Route 53
15 29 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (3.41%) OpenShift
17 25 (3.16%) AWS KMS
18 24 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.40%) DNS
2 17 (2.15%) Firewall
3 8 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.76%) HTTP
5 4 (0.51%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.51%) SSH
5 4 (0.51%) SSL
5 4 (0.51%) VPN
6 3 (0.38%) iSCSI
6 3 (0.38%) MQTT
6 3 (0.38%) SAN
6 3 (0.38%) WAN
7 2 (0.25%) DHCP
7 2 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Network Security
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) Internet
8 1 (0.13%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (19.22%) SQL Server
2 144 (18.20%) MongoDB
3 130 (16.43%) NoSQL
4 127 (16.06%) Relational Database
5 110 (13.91%) MySQL
6 70 (8.85%) Amazon RDS
7 66 (8.34%) Amazon Aurora
8 62 (7.84%) DynamoDB
9 47 (5.94%) Redis
10 35 (4.42%) Big Data
10 35 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (3.16%) Power BI
13 24 (3.03%) Oracle Database
13 24 (3.03%) RDBMS
14 23 (2.91%) Data Lake
15 21 (2.65%) Tableau
16 19 (2.40%) Metadata
17 18 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 172 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 153 (19.34%) Git
3 84 (10.62%) GitLab
4 83 (10.49%) JIRA
5 80 (10.11%) JUnit
6 57 (7.21%) Mockito
7 36 (4.55%) Maven
8 30 (3.79%) Cucumber
9 24 (3.03%) Gradle
9 24 (3.03%) JMeter
9 24 (3.03%) Selenium
10 21 (2.65%) Liquibase
10 21 (2.65%) SonarQube
11 20 (2.53%) WebDriver
12 14 (1.77%) DbUnit
13 13 (1.64%) Gatling
13 13 (1.64%) jMock
14 11 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
15 9 (1.14%) Flyway
16 7 (0.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 171 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 163 (20.61%) Finance
3 105 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 83 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.21%) Banking
6 25 (3.16%) Front Office
7 18 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.52%) Law
10 6 (0.76%) Legal
10 6 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.63%) Automotive
11 5 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.63%) Retail
12 4 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.51%) Military
13 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.25%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 303 (38.31%) Developer
2 146 (18.46%) Senior
3 93 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 78 (9.86%) Software Engineer
5 77 (9.73%) Python Developer
6 74 (9.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 71 (8.98%) Architect
7 71 (8.98%) DBA
8 68 (8.60%) Data Engineer
9 63 (7.96%) Lead
10 57 (7.21%) Senior Developer
11 38 (4.80%) Java Engineer
12 34 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (3.67%) Lead Developer
13 29 (3.67%) Senior Java Developer
14 28 (3.54%) Administrator
14 28 (3.54%) PostgreSQL DBA
15 27 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 25 (3.16%) Backend Developer
17 24 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (23.77%) Kafka
2 183 (23.14%) Spring
3 156 (19.72%) React
4 148 (18.71%) RESTful
5 140 (17.70%) Spring Boot
6 139 (17.57%) REST
7 119 (15.04%) Node.js
8 66 (8.34%) FastAPI
9 60 (7.59%) AngularJS
10 43 (5.44%) GraphQL
11 42 (5.31%) .NET
12 41 (5.18%) JPA
13 39 (4.93%) WireMock
14 36 (4.55%) Hibernate
14 36 (4.55%) HTML
15 35 (4.42%) Web Services
16 34 (4.30%) CSS
16 34 (4.30%) Django
17 33 (4.17%) OpenAPI
17 33 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 119 (15.04%) Cloud Native
2 92 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.41%) Derivative
5 26 (3.29%) Replication
6 22 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (2.65%) Equities
7 21 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
8 20 (2.53%) Fixed Income
9 18 (2.28%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.02%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.39%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.01%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.01%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.88%) Clustering
14 7 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 111 (14.03%) Linux
2 31 (3.92%) Unix
3 27 (3.41%) Windows
4 16 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.51%) Solaris
6 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.25%) zOS
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (44.75%) CI/CD
2 300 (37.93%) Agile
3 244 (30.85%) DevOps
4 229 (28.95%) Microservices
5 196 (24.78%) Containerisation
6 151 (19.09%) Software Engineering
7 143 (18.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (15.42%) Observability
10 113 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 107 (13.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 106 (13.40%) TDD
13 105 (13.27%) Data Modelling
14 96 (12.14%) AI
15 93 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
16 91 (11.50%) Migration
17 86 (10.87%) Event-Driven
18 79 (9.99%) Mentoring
19 77 (9.73%) Scrum
20 76 (9.61%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 332 (41.97%) Python
2 301 (38.05%) SQL
3 285 (36.03%) Java
4 141 (17.83%) TypeScript
5 119 (15.04%) JavaScript
6 44 (5.56%) Bash
6 44 (5.56%) C#
7 42 (5.31%) PowerShell
8 32 (4.05%) Go
8 32 (4.05%) Scala
9 21 (2.65%) PL/SQL
10 19 (2.40%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.39%) PHP
12 10 (1.26%) Bicep
12 10 (1.26%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.14%) Groovy
14 8 (1.01%) Ruby
15 5 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.63%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) Korn
Qualifications
1 267 (33.75%) Security Cleared
2 219 (27.69%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.46%) Degree
4 34 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.76%) CISSP
12 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.51%) CISM
13 4 (0.51%) OCP
14 3 (0.38%) PhD
15 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.13%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.46%) QA
2 43 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.26%) GDPR
5 9 (1.14%) SLA
5 9 (1.14%) WCAG
6 8 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.01%) NIST
7 6 (0.76%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.63%) NCSC
8 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.25%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 292 (36.92%) Docker
2 11 (1.39%) Postfix
3 9 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.63%) Ceph
6 4 (0.51%) HDFS
6 4 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.38%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.13%) NFS
9 1 (0.13%) RACF
9 1 (0.13%) Samba
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 262 (33.12%) Kubernetes
2 127 (16.06%) Grafana
3 124 (15.68%) Terraform
4 93 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.56%) Ansible
6 16 (2.02%) Control-M
6 16 (2.02%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.02%) Nessus
7 14 (1.77%) Argo
8 13 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
9 12 (1.52%) Data Guard
9 12 (1.52%) Kibana
10 11 (1.39%) HAProxy
11 9 (1.14%) Istio
12 7 (0.88%) Rancher
13 4 (0.51%) linkerd
13 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.38%) Puppet
15 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
15 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 145 (18.33%) Oracle
2 104 (13.15%) Microsoft
3 37 (4.68%) Databricks
4 26 (3.29%) Splunk
5 25 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 20 (2.53%) Google
7 19 (2.40%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.28%) Atlassian
8 18 (2.28%) Informatica
9 17 (2.15%) Jaspersoft
10 16 (2.02%) Tenable
11 14 (1.77%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.77%) VMware
12 13 (1.64%) Salesforce
13 12 (1.52%) Talend
14 10 (1.26%) Confluent
15 9 (1.14%) Sybase
16 8 (1.01%) IBM
17 7 (0.88%) OpenAI
18 5 (0.63%) Ab Initio