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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 121 157
Rank change year-on-year -17 +36 +34
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 766 656 696
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.10% 2.06% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.40% 11.36% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 485 492
10th Percentile £363 £337 £409
25th Percentile £418 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.19% +1.20%
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 6,178 5,775 7,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.98% 18.17% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,254 3,809 5,028
10th Percentile £329 £350 £350
25th Percentile £410 £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 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 76 153
10th Percentile £19.60 £19.71 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £64.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -37.74% -7.73%

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 11 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 11 January 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 11 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 +1 638 £520 -5.45% 703
London +7 349 £550 -4.35% 163
UK excluding London -15 320 £475 -5.00% 628
Work from Home -31 235 £511 -1.68% 389
North of England +8 117 £475 +2.70% 108
Midlands +3 75 £525 +5.00% 68
Yorkshire -1 64 £500 -16.67% 45
West Midlands +14 61 £540 +3.85% 26
South East -23 60 £433 -24.78% 203
North West -15 51 £450 +1.12% 49
South West +1 47 £550 -12.00% 93
Scotland -21 39 £450 -5.26% 24
East Midlands -21 14 £513 +2.50% 42
Northern Ireland +2 8 £400 - 16
East of England -17 2 - - 95
North East - 2 £463 - 14

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 41 (5.35%) Confluence
2 22 (2.87%) nginx
3 21 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.83%) SAS
5 12 (1.57%) Apache
6 6 (0.78%) Drupal
6 6 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
7 4 (0.52%) CICS
7 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
8 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.39%) WordPress
9 2 (0.26%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.26%) Traefik
10 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 10 (1.31%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 464 (60.57%) AWS
2 235 (30.68%) Azure
3 182 (23.76%) GitHub
4 144 (18.80%) Serverless
5 135 (17.62%) GCP
6 103 (13.45%) Amazon S3
7 90 (11.75%) GitHub Actions
8 87 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (6.66%) OpenShift
10 50 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
12 43 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.61%) Power Platform
13 41 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (4.96%) Snowflake
15 36 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
16 35 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 29 (3.79%) Azure AKS
18 26 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 24 (3.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.79%) Firewall
2 26 (3.39%) DNS
3 20 (2.61%) HTTP
4 12 (1.57%) SSH
4 12 (1.57%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.17%) FTP
5 9 (1.17%) IMAP
5 9 (1.17%) Kerberos
5 9 (1.17%) OpenLDAP
5 9 (1.17%) SMTP
6 6 (0.78%) SSL
7 5 (0.65%) VPN
8 4 (0.52%) Internet
9 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.26%) LAN
9 2 (0.26%) WAN
10 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.13%) Spanning Tree
10 1 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (16.45%) Relational Database
2 119 (15.54%) NoSQL
3 112 (14.62%) MySQL
4 102 (13.32%) SQL Server
5 94 (12.27%) MongoDB
6 74 (9.66%) Amazon RDS
7 72 (9.40%) Redis
8 60 (7.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 48 (6.27%) DynamoDB
10 36 (4.70%) RDBMS
11 34 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (4.44%) Power BI
12 26 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
13 25 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
14 20 (2.61%) Oracle Database
15 19 (2.48%) Data Lake
15 19 (2.48%) DB2
16 17 (2.22%) BigQuery
17 16 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 178 (23.24%) Jenkins
2 153 (19.97%) Git
3 92 (12.01%) GitLab
4 69 (9.01%) JIRA
5 55 (7.18%) JUnit
6 31 (4.05%) Cucumber
6 31 (4.05%) Mockito
7 23 (3.00%) Gradle
7 23 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (2.87%) Liquibase
9 19 (2.48%) Cypress.io
10 17 (2.22%) Bitbucket
11 16 (2.09%) JMeter
11 16 (2.09%) Maven
12 14 (1.83%) Postman
13 12 (1.57%) SonarQube
14 9 (1.17%) Vagrant
15 8 (1.04%) Artifactory
15 8 (1.04%) DBeaver
15 8 (1.04%) ERwin
General
1 204 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 156 (20.37%) Finance
3 97 (12.66%) Public Sector
4 76 (9.92%) Banking
5 75 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 21 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (2.09%) Front Office
9 13 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.57%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.91%) Marketing
13 5 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.52%) Legal
14 4 (0.52%) Local Government
14 4 (0.52%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.39%) Electronics
15 3 (0.39%) Games
15 3 (0.39%) Law
16 2 (0.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 288 (37.60%) Developer
2 133 (17.36%) Senior
3 92 (12.01%) Java Developer
4 63 (8.22%) Senior Developer
5 61 (7.96%) Architect
5 61 (7.96%) Data Engineer
6 58 (7.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (7.05%) Software Engineer
8 51 (6.66%) Python Developer
9 45 (5.87%) AWS Developer
9 45 (5.87%) DevOps Engineer
10 44 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
11 42 (5.48%) DBA
12 34 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 32 (4.18%) Senior Java Developer
14 30 (3.92%) Lead
14 30 (3.92%) Python Engineer
15 28 (3.66%) Data Architect
16 26 (3.39%) Backend Developer
16 26 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (21.02%) Kafka
2 141 (18.41%) React
3 121 (15.80%) Spring
4 119 (15.54%) Node.js
4 119 (15.54%) RESTful
5 111 (14.49%) REST
6 100 (13.05%) Spring Boot
7 60 (7.83%) CSS
8 49 (6.40%) HTML
9 44 (5.74%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.48%) GraphQL
10 42 (5.48%) JSON
11 41 (5.35%) Hibernate
12 40 (5.22%) FastAPI
13 38 (4.96%) .NET
14 35 (4.57%) Vue
15 30 (3.92%) Keycloak
16 29 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
17 27 (3.52%) Django
17 27 (3.52%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 108 (14.10%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.57%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.96%) Replication
4 26 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.26%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.48%) Derivative
7 18 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (2.22%) Market Risk
8 17 (2.22%) Onboarding
9 16 (2.09%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.70%) Clustering
11 12 (1.57%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.31%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.17%) Equities
13 9 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 135 (17.62%) Linux
2 33 (4.31%) Windows
3 24 (3.13%) Unix
4 12 (1.57%) Amazon Linux
4 12 (1.57%) VMS
5 10 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.52%) zOS
8 3 (0.39%) Solaris
9 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.13%) MVS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (45.17%) CI/CD
2 266 (34.73%) Agile
3 259 (33.81%) DevOps
4 188 (24.54%) Microservices
5 183 (23.89%) Containerisation
6 156 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (18.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 115 (15.01%) Software Engineering
9 114 (14.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 109 (14.23%) Observability
11 106 (13.84%) Test Automation
12 92 (12.01%) TDD
13 86 (11.23%) Migration
14 80 (10.44%) AI
15 79 (10.31%) Data Modelling
16 78 (10.18%) ETL
17 75 (9.79%) Performance Tuning
18 66 (8.62%) Analytics
19 63 (8.22%) Computer Science
20 61 (7.96%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 364 (47.52%) Python
2 301 (39.30%) SQL
3 226 (29.50%) Java
4 123 (16.06%) JavaScript
5 119 (15.54%) TypeScript
6 84 (10.97%) Bash
7 73 (9.53%) Go
8 41 (5.35%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.92%) C#
10 25 (3.26%) PHP
11 21 (2.74%) Groovy
12 18 (2.35%) Shell Script
13 16 (2.09%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.83%) Ruby
15 13 (1.70%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.31%) Scala
17 7 (0.91%) Bicep
17 7 (0.91%) JSX
18 6 (0.78%) VBA
19 5 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 218 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 174 (22.72%) SC Cleared
3 87 (11.36%) Degree
4 56 (7.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 26 (3.39%) AWS Certification
7 25 (3.26%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.35%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.70%) OCP
10 13 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.91%) MCP
12 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.52%) HND
15 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
16 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.13%) CCSM
17 1 (0.13%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.35%) Data Quality
1 41 (5.35%) QA
2 22 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.96%) GDPR
4 8 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.04%) SLA
5 7 (0.91%) NCSC
6 5 (0.65%) NIST
7 4 (0.52%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.52%) WCAG
8 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 277 (36.16%) Docker
2 12 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.17%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.17%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.17%) Postfix
3 9 (1.17%) Squid
4 8 (1.04%) zsh
5 6 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.65%) NDS
6 5 (0.65%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.39%) KVM
8 3 (0.39%) NFS
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.39%) Xen
9 2 (0.26%) HDFS
9 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.26%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 284 (37.08%) Kubernetes
2 179 (23.37%) Terraform
3 110 (14.36%) Grafana
4 92 (12.01%) Ansible
5 77 (10.05%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.66%) Argo
7 21 (2.74%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.61%) Nessus
9 17 (2.22%) Puppet
10 12 (1.57%) Control-M
11 11 (1.44%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.31%) Istio
13 9 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.17%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.78%) linkerd
15 5 (0.65%) Packer
15 5 (0.65%) Rancher
15 5 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.52%) Data Guard
16 4 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 129 (16.84%) Oracle
2 84 (10.97%) Microsoft
3 46 (6.01%) Splunk
4 41 (5.35%) Google
5 31 (4.05%) VMware
6 30 (3.92%) Databricks
7 26 (3.39%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.35%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.22%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.83%) Greenplum
11 13 (1.70%) Informatica
12 11 (1.44%) Tenable
13 9 (1.17%) IBM
13 9 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (1.04%) PagerDuty
15 6 (0.78%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.78%) Gigya
16 5 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
16 5 (0.65%) SAP