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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 123 157
Rank change year-on-year -15 +34 +21
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 835 678 695
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.22% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.35% 11.81% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 508 483
10th Percentile £360 £356 £407
25th Percentile £416 £420 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% +1.71%
75th Percentile £597 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -2.84% -6.13% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile £35.00 - £42.47
25th Percentile £40.00 - £64.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -37.77% +207.32%
75th Percentile £66.50 - £75.00
90th Percentile £69.44 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +154.55%

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 6,763 5,742 7,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.24% 18.76% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,666 3,874 5,120
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 95 169
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.66 £15.98
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £53.25 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.14% -17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.86 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.33 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £27.63 £40.00
% change year-on-year +90.01% -30.93% -27.27%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -12 693 £513 -5.96% 295
UK excluding London -21 375 £462 -2.84% 197
London -17 355 £550 -4.35% 146
Work from Home -23 269 £500 -4.76% 158
North of England -20 127 £455 -1.62% 63
Midlands 0 99 £500 - 26
West Midlands +9 86 £500 +2.04% 22
South East -24 72 £434 +1.17% 49
Yorkshire -20 70 £475 -20.83% 16
North West -33 52 £441 -4.24% 33
Scotland 0 49 £450 -3.23% 18
South West -13 46 £550 -12.00% 24
East Midlands -22 12 £401 -19.80% 4
Northern Ireland +2 7 £400 - 2
East of England -27 5 £588 +30.56% 12
North East -11 4 £463 +0.27% 15

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 57 (6.83%) Confluence
2 24 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.28%) Apache
5 18 (2.16%) nginx
6 14 (1.68%) SAS
7 5 (0.60%) Camunda
7 5 (0.60%) Drupal
7 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.24%) Appian
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
10 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.24%) Traefik
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.12%) Magento
1 1 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.12%) Shopify
1 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 502 (60.12%) AWS
2 264 (31.62%) Azure
3 187 (22.40%) GitHub
4 161 (19.28%) GCP
5 130 (15.57%) Serverless
6 110 (13.17%) Amazon S3
7 106 (12.69%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (6.35%) OpenShift
10 47 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (5.15%) Snowflake
12 39 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (4.55%) Power Platform
14 36 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
15 35 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
16 26 (3.11%) Azure AKS
17 24 (2.87%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.75%) Firewall
2 15 (1.80%) DNS
3 14 (1.68%) HTTP
4 11 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.08%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.60%) SSL
6 5 (0.60%) VPN
7 4 (0.48%) Internet
7 4 (0.48%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.36%) SAN
8 3 (0.36%) SSH
8 3 (0.36%) WAN
9 2 (0.24%) FTP
9 2 (0.24%) IMAP
9 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.24%) LAN
9 2 (0.24%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.24%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (16.41%) NoSQL
2 133 (15.93%) Relational Database
3 128 (15.33%) SQL Server
4 126 (15.09%) MySQL
5 119 (14.25%) MongoDB
6 67 (8.02%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (7.31%) DynamoDB
8 55 (6.59%) Redis
9 47 (5.63%) Amazon Aurora
9 47 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (4.43%) RDBMS
11 35 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
12 30 (3.59%) Power BI
13 28 (3.35%) Data Lake
14 26 (3.11%) Apache Cassandra
15 24 (2.87%) Big Data
15 24 (2.87%) Metadata
16 22 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
17 20 (2.40%) Hadoop
18 18 (2.16%) DB2
Development Applications
1 190 (22.75%) Jenkins
2 164 (19.64%) Git
3 104 (12.46%) GitLab
4 90 (10.78%) JIRA
5 78 (9.34%) JUnit
6 43 (5.15%) Cucumber
7 40 (4.79%) Mockito
8 29 (3.47%) JMeter
9 23 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (2.63%) Maven
11 21 (2.51%) Gradle
12 19 (2.28%) Selenium
13 18 (2.16%) Liquibase
14 16 (1.92%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.44%) Cypress.io
15 12 (1.44%) Postman
15 12 (1.44%) WebDriver
16 11 (1.32%) ERwin
16 11 (1.32%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.96%) Artifactory
General
1 210 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 186 (22.28%) Finance
3 104 (12.46%) Public Sector
4 90 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (9.34%) Banking
6 23 (2.75%) Front Office
7 22 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.56%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.72%) Retail
12 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.60%) Marketing
13 4 (0.48%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.36%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.36%) Electronics
14 3 (0.36%) Law
14 3 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 337 (40.36%) Developer
2 138 (16.53%) Senior
3 103 (12.34%) Java Developer
4 84 (10.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 79 (9.46%) Python Developer
6 72 (8.62%) Data Engineer
7 68 (8.14%) Software Engineer
8 66 (7.90%) Architect
9 58 (6.95%) Lead
9 58 (6.95%) Senior Developer
10 53 (6.35%) DBA
11 35 (4.19%) AWS Developer
11 35 (4.19%) Data Architect
12 34 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (3.83%) Backend Developer
13 32 (3.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 32 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
13 32 (3.83%) Senior Java Developer
14 31 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (3.23%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (22.16%) Kafka
2 162 (19.40%) Spring
3 161 (19.28%) React
4 143 (17.13%) Node.js
5 138 (16.53%) RESTful
6 132 (15.81%) REST
7 118 (14.13%) Spring Boot
8 66 (7.90%) FastAPI
9 56 (6.71%) AngularJS
10 47 (5.63%) Hibernate
11 46 (5.51%) JSON
12 44 (5.27%) CSS
13 41 (4.91%) GraphQL
14 35 (4.19%) WireMock
15 34 (4.07%) .NET
15 34 (4.07%) HTML
16 32 (3.83%) Django
16 32 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
17 28 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
18 27 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 123 (14.73%) Cloud Native
2 80 (9.58%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.71%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.47%) Derivative
4 29 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.23%) Replication
6 21 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.51%) Data Structures
7 20 (2.40%) Fixed Income
8 19 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.28%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.92%) Market Risk
10 16 (1.92%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.80%) Equities
12 14 (1.68%) Clustering
12 14 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.56%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 144 (17.25%) Linux
2 29 (3.47%) Windows
3 26 (3.11%) Unix
4 10 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.72%) VMS
6 5 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.48%) zOS
8 3 (0.36%) Android
8 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.24%) Solaris
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.12%) CentOS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.12%) SUSE
10 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (47.19%) CI/CD
2 311 (37.25%) Agile
3 275 (32.93%) DevOps
4 219 (26.23%) Containerisation
5 216 (25.87%) Microservices
6 170 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (16.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 136 (16.29%) Software Engineering
9 133 (15.93%) Full-Stack Development
10 131 (15.69%) Observability
11 110 (13.17%) Test Automation
12 105 (12.57%) Data Modelling
13 98 (11.74%) TDD
14 95 (11.38%) Migration
15 92 (11.02%) ETL
16 88 (10.54%) AI
17 86 (10.30%) Mentoring
18 84 (10.06%) Analytics
18 84 (10.06%) Performance Tuning
19 79 (9.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 395 (47.31%) Python
2 309 (37.01%) SQL
3 251 (30.06%) Java
4 139 (16.65%) JavaScript
5 132 (15.81%) TypeScript
6 71 (8.50%) Bash
7 67 (8.02%) Go
8 42 (5.03%) PowerShell
9 36 (4.31%) C#
10 18 (2.16%) PL/SQL
10 18 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.04%) PHP
12 12 (1.44%) Ruby
13 11 (1.32%) Scala
14 9 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.96%) Groovy
16 7 (0.84%) JSX
17 6 (0.72%) Bicep
17 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.60%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 269 (32.22%) Security Cleared
2 223 (26.71%) SC Cleared
3 100 (11.98%) Degree
4 58 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.99%) Master's Degree
8 22 (2.63%) AWS Certification
9 17 (2.04%) OCP
9 17 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.48%) CISSP
13 3 (0.36%) CISM
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.99%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.43%) QA
3 18 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.80%) GDPR
5 8 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.84%) NCSC
6 7 (0.84%) NIST
7 6 (0.72%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.72%) SLA
8 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 305 (36.53%) Docker
2 11 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.96%) Postfix
3 8 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.60%) HDFS
5 5 (0.60%) NDS
5 5 (0.60%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (0.48%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.48%) zsh
7 3 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.24%) Lustre
8 2 (0.24%) NFS
8 2 (0.24%) Samba
8 2 (0.24%) Squid
8 2 (0.24%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 309 (37.01%) Kubernetes
2 164 (19.64%) Terraform
3 135 (16.17%) Grafana
4 97 (11.62%) Prometheus
5 92 (11.02%) Ansible
6 25 (2.99%) Nessus
7 23 (2.75%) Argo
7 23 (2.75%) Control-M
7 23 (2.75%) IBM Guardium
7 23 (2.75%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.56%) Puppet
9 9 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.08%) Istio
10 6 (0.72%) linkerd
10 6 (0.72%) Rancher
11 5 (0.60%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.60%) Packer
12 3 (0.36%) Kibana
13 2 (0.24%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.24%) SELinux
Vendors
1 140 (16.77%) Oracle
2 104 (12.46%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.03%) Splunk
4 39 (4.67%) Google
5 29 (3.47%) Red Hat
6 28 (3.35%) Databricks
7 26 (3.11%) Informatica
8 25 (2.99%) Atlassian
8 25 (2.99%) VMware
9 23 (2.75%) Tenable
10 17 (2.04%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.68%) Greenplum
11 14 (1.68%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.68%) Talend
12 12 (1.44%) IBM
13 11 (1.32%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (0.96%) PagerDuty
15 6 (0.72%) Confluent
16 5 (0.60%) Cloudera
16 5 (0.60%) NetIQ