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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 124 159
Rank change year-on-year -20 +35 +14
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 762 667 694
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.12% 1.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.98% 11.52% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 485 493
10th Percentile £363 £356 £405
25th Percentile £418 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -1.69% -2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile - - £37.34
25th Percentile £29.00 - £51.71
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £65.58
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -34.43% +191.64%
75th Percentile £59.50 - £73.99
90th Percentile £69.00 - £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £62.05
% change year-on-year - - +125.64%

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 6,363 5,791 7,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.51% 18.44% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,387 3,800 5,214
10th Percentile £335 £356 £350
25th Percentile £411 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 89 184
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.92
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.75 £21.00
Median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -17.35% -25.53%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.55 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £29.80 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.56% -25.50% -28.48%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -8 629 £515 -6.36% 313
London -10 333 £550 -2.05% 164
UK excluding London -9 328 £475 -5.00% 195
Work from Home -27 239 £500 -3.85% 190
North of England -4 126 £465 +0.54% 54
Midlands -11 73 £525 +5.00% 26
Yorkshire -5 69 £490 -18.33% 10
West Midlands +4 63 £537 +3.27% 15
South East -26 58 £434 -11.03% 46
North West -14 54 £450 -1.64% 40
South West -8 48 £550 -12.00% 34
Scotland -7 43 £450 -4.05% 17
East Midlands -25 10 £401 -19.80% 11
Northern Ireland +7 8 £400 - 1
North East - 2 £463 - 5
East of England -19 1 - - 16

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 40 (5.25%) Confluence
2 23 (3.02%) nginx
3 21 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.49%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.10%) Apache
6 12 (1.57%) SAS
7 6 (0.79%) Drupal
7 6 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.52%) Camunda
9 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.39%) WordPress
10 2 (0.26%) Appian
10 2 (0.26%) CICS
10 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.26%) Traefik
10 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.13%) Magento
1 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.13%) Shopify
1 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 469 (61.55%) AWS
2 224 (29.40%) Azure
3 177 (23.23%) GitHub
4 142 (18.64%) Serverless
5 135 (17.72%) GCP
6 105 (13.78%) Amazon S3
7 92 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
8 85 (11.15%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (7.09%) OpenShift
10 53 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 48 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
12 43 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.64%) Snowflake
13 42 (5.51%) Power Platform
14 38 (4.99%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (3.15%) Azure AKS
16 24 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 22 (2.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.28%) Firewall
2 21 (2.76%) DNS
3 19 (2.49%) HTTP
4 11 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.18%) Kerberos
6 8 (1.05%) SSH
7 7 (0.92%) FTP
7 7 (0.92%) IMAP
7 7 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
7 7 (0.92%) SMTP
8 5 (0.66%) SSL
8 5 (0.66%) VPN
9 4 (0.52%) Internet
10 3 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
12 1 (0.13%) Calico
12 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.13%) Spanning Tree
12 1 (0.13%) VSAN
12 1 (0.13%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (17.06%) Relational Database
2 124 (16.27%) NoSQL
3 118 (15.49%) MySQL
4 110 (14.44%) SQL Server
5 99 (12.99%) MongoDB
6 72 (9.45%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (8.27%) Redis
8 58 (7.61%) Amazon Aurora
9 52 (6.82%) DynamoDB
10 41 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
11 37 (4.86%) RDBMS
12 35 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
12 35 (4.59%) Power BI
13 23 (3.02%) Apache Cassandra
14 22 (2.89%) Data Lake
15 21 (2.76%) Big Data
16 18 (2.36%) BigQuery
16 18 (2.36%) Metadata
17 17 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (2.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 172 (22.57%) Jenkins
2 159 (20.87%) Git
3 94 (12.34%) GitLab
4 72 (9.45%) JIRA
5 57 (7.48%) JUnit
6 32 (4.20%) Mockito
7 30 (3.94%) Cucumber
8 26 (3.41%) Gradle
9 22 (2.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (2.23%) Liquibase
10 17 (2.23%) Maven
11 16 (2.10%) JMeter
12 15 (1.97%) Cypress.io
13 14 (1.84%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.71%) Postman
15 11 (1.44%) ERwin
16 10 (1.31%) SonarQube
17 8 (1.05%) Artifactory
17 8 (1.05%) DBeaver
18 7 (0.92%) Vagrant
General
1 195 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 151 (19.82%) Finance
3 99 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 76 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (9.71%) Banking
6 22 (2.89%) Investment Banking
7 15 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.71%) Front Office
10 11 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.79%) Marketing
12 6 (0.79%) Retail
13 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.52%) Legal
14 4 (0.52%) Local Government
15 3 (0.39%) Electronics
15 3 (0.39%) Games
15 3 (0.39%) Law
15 3 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 301 (39.50%) Developer
2 119 (15.62%) Senior
3 87 (11.42%) Java Developer
4 70 (9.19%) Full-Stack Developer
5 68 (8.92%) Data Engineer
6 63 (8.27%) Architect
6 63 (8.27%) Python Developer
7 56 (7.35%) Senior Developer
7 56 (7.35%) Software Engineer
8 41 (5.38%) AWS Developer
8 41 (5.38%) DBA
9 40 (5.25%) AWS Engineer
10 35 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
11 33 (4.33%) Lead
12 32 (4.20%) Data Architect
13 31 (4.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 31 (4.07%) Senior Java Developer
14 28 (3.67%) Backend Developer
15 26 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (21.78%) Kafka
2 136 (17.85%) Spring
3 134 (17.59%) React
4 129 (16.93%) RESTful
5 118 (15.49%) Node.js
6 111 (14.57%) Spring Boot
7 110 (14.44%) REST
8 49 (6.43%) CSS
9 48 (6.30%) FastAPI
10 44 (5.77%) GraphQL
11 43 (5.64%) AngularJS
12 40 (5.25%) Hibernate
13 39 (5.12%) HTML
13 39 (5.12%) JSON
14 36 (4.72%) .NET
15 30 (3.94%) Django
15 30 (3.94%) Vue
16 29 (3.81%) Keycloak
17 28 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
18 27 (3.54%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 114 (14.96%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.46%) Replication
4 30 (3.94%) Management Information System
5 28 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.36%) Derivative
7 18 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.23%) Market Risk
9 16 (2.10%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (1.71%) Clustering
12 10 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.31%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.92%) N-Tier
14 6 (0.79%) NHS
14 6 (0.79%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 137 (17.98%) Linux
2 32 (4.20%) Windows
3 25 (3.28%) Unix
4 11 (1.44%) VMS
5 10 (1.31%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.52%) zOS
9 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.26%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (46.85%) CI/CD
2 258 (33.86%) Agile
3 249 (32.68%) DevOps
4 199 (26.12%) Containerisation
5 184 (24.15%) Microservices
6 158 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 118 (15.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 117 (15.35%) Software Engineering
10 112 (14.70%) Observability
11 96 (12.60%) Test Automation
12 90 (11.81%) TDD
13 89 (11.68%) Data Modelling
14 87 (11.42%) ETL
14 87 (11.42%) Migration
15 80 (10.50%) AI
16 72 (9.45%) Performance Tuning
17 70 (9.19%) Analytics
18 68 (8.92%) Computer Science
19 66 (8.66%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 369 (48.43%) Python
2 302 (39.63%) SQL
3 233 (30.58%) Java
4 119 (15.62%) JavaScript
5 115 (15.09%) TypeScript
6 75 (9.84%) Bash
7 65 (8.53%) Go
8 42 (5.51%) PowerShell
9 34 (4.46%) C#
10 20 (2.62%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.49%) PHP
12 17 (2.23%) Groovy
13 13 (1.71%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.57%) Ruby
14 12 (1.57%) Scala
15 9 (1.18%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.92%) JSX
17 6 (0.79%) Bicep
17 6 (0.79%) VBA
18 5 (0.66%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 228 (29.92%) Security Cleared
2 184 (24.15%) SC Cleared
3 90 (11.81%) Degree
4 57 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.67%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.28%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.89%) Master's Degree
8 17 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.71%) OCP
9 13 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.52%) HND
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CCSM
13 1 (0.13%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.04%) Data Quality
2 35 (4.59%) QA
3 18 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.71%) GDPR
5 8 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.92%) NCSC
6 7 (0.92%) SLA
7 5 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.66%) NIST
8 4 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.52%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 278 (36.48%) Docker
2 11 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.92%) DFS Replication
4 7 (0.92%) Dovecot
4 7 (0.92%) Postfix
4 7 (0.92%) Squid
5 6 (0.79%) zsh
6 5 (0.66%) NDS
6 5 (0.66%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.39%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.26%) HDFS
9 2 (0.26%) KVM
9 2 (0.26%) Lustre
9 2 (0.26%) NFS
9 2 (0.26%) Xen
10 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 284 (37.27%) Kubernetes
2 175 (22.97%) Terraform
3 110 (14.44%) Grafana
4 90 (11.81%) Ansible
5 81 (10.63%) Prometheus
6 24 (3.15%) Nessus
7 23 (3.02%) Argo
7 23 (3.02%) Progress Chef
8 17 (2.23%) Control-M
8 17 (2.23%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (1.84%) Puppet
10 9 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (1.18%) Istio
11 7 (0.92%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.79%) linkerd
13 5 (0.66%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.66%) Packer
13 5 (0.66%) Rancher
14 3 (0.39%) Kibana
15 2 (0.26%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 123 (16.14%) Oracle
2 91 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.77%) Splunk
4 40 (5.25%) Google
5 28 (3.67%) Databricks
6 26 (3.41%) VMware
7 24 (3.15%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.49%) Informatica
9 18 (2.36%) Atlassian
10 17 (2.23%) Tenable
11 16 (2.10%) Dynatrace
11 16 (2.10%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.84%) Greenplum
13 9 (1.18%) IBM
14 8 (1.05%) PagerDuty
14 8 (1.05%) Talend
15 7 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
16 6 (0.79%) Gigya
17 5 (0.66%) Cloudera
17 5 (0.66%) Confluent