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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 128 156
Rank change year-on-year -2 +28 +25
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 815 673 727
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.02% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.84% 11.16% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 502 507
10th Percentile £363 £333 £406
25th Percentile £418 £420 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -
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% +148.27%
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 6,348 6,030 7,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.21% 18.10% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,387 3,985 5,107
10th Percentile £325 £345 £350
25th Percentile £408 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
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 88 83 142
10th Percentile £20.72 £18.66 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.60 £22.77
Median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +69.99% -33.76% -16.04%
75th Percentile £72.57 £64.61 £64.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.00 £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +113.64% -40.45% -7.64%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +7 679 £518 -5.91% 1,983
London +8 369 £550 -4.35% 461
UK excluding London +1 350 £475 -4.43% 1,682
Work from Home -24 252 £513 -1.44% 1,135
North of England +11 135 £475 +4.91% 390
Midlands +3 76 £525 +5.00% 291
Yorkshire +5 72 £500 -16.67% 176
West Midlands +18 64 £525 +0.96% 157
South East -17 63 £433 -24.78% 446
North West -6 54 £450 +1.98% 195
Scotland -14 45 £450 -5.46% 83
South West +5 44 £550 -8.39% 178
East Midlands -22 12 £515 +3.00% 117
North East - 10 £738 - 20
Northern Ireland -2 8 £400 - 31
Wales +2 4 £469 +47.06% 40
East of England -18 3 £450 +1.41% 245

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 42 (5.15%) Confluence
2 24 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.82%) nginx
4 18 (2.21%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.72%) SAS
6 11 (1.35%) Apache
7 6 (0.74%) Drupal
7 6 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.49%) CICS
8 4 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.49%) WordPress
9 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.25%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.25%) Camunda
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Traefik
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 10 (1.23%) Chatbot
1 10 (1.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Magento
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 479 (58.77%) AWS
2 255 (31.29%) Azure
3 183 (22.45%) GitHub
4 144 (17.67%) GCP
5 140 (17.18%) Serverless
6 111 (13.62%) Amazon S3
7 87 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
8 82 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
9 55 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 55 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (6.13%) OpenShift
11 49 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (5.52%) Power Platform
13 44 (5.40%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (4.54%) Snowflake
15 34 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (4.05%) Azure AKS
17 31 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
18 25 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 24 (2.94%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.68%) Firewall
2 24 (2.94%) DNS
3 21 (2.58%) HTTP
4 15 (1.84%) SSH
5 14 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.35%) Kerberos
7 10 (1.23%) FTP
7 10 (1.23%) IMAP
7 10 (1.23%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (1.23%) SMTP
8 7 (0.86%) SSL
9 5 (0.61%) VPN
10 4 (0.49%) Internet
11 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.25%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.25%) LAN
11 2 (0.25%) WAN
12 1 (0.12%) MQTT
12 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.12%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (16.81%) Relational Database
2 120 (14.72%) NoSQL
3 118 (14.48%) MySQL
4 112 (13.74%) SQL Server
5 109 (13.37%) MongoDB
6 77 (9.45%) Amazon RDS
7 72 (8.83%) Redis
8 56 (6.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 40 (4.91%) DynamoDB
10 39 (4.79%) RDBMS
11 35 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
12 34 (4.17%) Power BI
13 26 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (3.07%) Apache Cassandra
14 25 (3.07%) Oracle Database
15 20 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (2.33%) Big Data
16 19 (2.33%) Data Lake
16 19 (2.33%) DB2
17 17 (2.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 181 (22.21%) Jenkins
2 160 (19.63%) Git
3 93 (11.41%) GitLab
4 72 (8.83%) JIRA
5 55 (6.75%) JUnit
6 32 (3.93%) Mockito
7 31 (3.80%) Cucumber
8 25 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 23 (2.82%) Liquibase
10 21 (2.58%) Gradle
11 19 (2.33%) Cypress.io
12 18 (2.21%) Bitbucket
12 18 (2.21%) Maven
13 17 (2.09%) JMeter
14 16 (1.96%) Postman
14 16 (1.96%) SonarQube
15 10 (1.23%) Vagrant
16 9 (1.10%) Subversion
16 9 (1.10%) webpack
17 8 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 223 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 172 (21.10%) Finance
3 101 (12.39%) Public Sector
4 84 (10.31%) Banking
5 77 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.31%) Investment Banking
7 24 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (2.21%) Front Office
9 15 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.60%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.86%) Marketing
13 5 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.49%) Legal
14 4 (0.49%) Local Government
14 4 (0.49%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.37%) Electronics
15 3 (0.37%) Games
15 3 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 306 (37.55%) Developer
2 144 (17.67%) Senior
3 98 (12.02%) Java Developer
4 67 (8.22%) Senior Developer
5 65 (7.98%) Architect
5 65 (7.98%) Data Engineer
6 61 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
7 52 (6.38%) Python Developer
8 51 (6.26%) Software Engineer
9 50 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (5.89%) AWS Developer
11 47 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
12 43 (5.28%) DBA
13 37 (4.54%) Lead
14 35 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 35 (4.29%) Python Engineer
15 33 (4.05%) Senior Java Developer
16 28 (3.44%) Data Architect
17 27 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
18 26 (3.19%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (20.25%) Kafka
2 145 (17.79%) React
3 124 (15.21%) Spring
4 123 (15.09%) Node.js
5 121 (14.85%) RESTful
6 112 (13.74%) REST
7 101 (12.39%) Spring Boot
8 65 (7.98%) CSS
9 54 (6.63%) HTML
10 48 (5.89%) AngularJS
11 45 (5.52%) GraphQL
12 41 (5.03%) JSON
13 40 (4.91%) FastAPI
14 39 (4.79%) Hibernate
15 37 (4.54%) .NET
16 35 (4.29%) Vue
17 31 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
18 30 (3.68%) Keycloak
19 27 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
20 26 (3.19%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 104 (12.76%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.03%) Replication
4 27 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 25 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 24 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.45%) Derivative
9 18 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.21%) Market Risk
10 17 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.96%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.84%) Clustering
13 14 (1.72%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.60%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.23%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.23%) Equities
15 10 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 9 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 142 (17.42%) Linux
2 34 (4.17%) Windows
3 27 (3.31%) Unix
4 13 (1.60%) Amazon Linux
4 13 (1.60%) VMS
5 11 (1.35%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.49%) zOS
8 3 (0.37%) Solaris
9 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (44.42%) CI/CD
2 285 (34.97%) Agile
3 281 (34.48%) DevOps
4 202 (24.79%) Microservices
5 194 (23.80%) Containerisation
6 173 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
7 145 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 118 (14.48%) Full-Stack Development
9 115 (14.11%) Software Engineering
10 113 (13.87%) Test Automation
11 104 (12.76%) Observability
11 104 (12.76%) TDD
12 89 (10.92%) Migration
13 85 (10.43%) AI
14 81 (9.94%) ETL
15 78 (9.57%) Data Modelling
16 73 (8.96%) Performance Tuning
17 71 (8.71%) Computer Science
18 69 (8.47%) Analytics
19 63 (7.73%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 385 (47.24%) Python
2 311 (38.16%) SQL
3 236 (28.96%) Java
4 132 (16.20%) JavaScript
5 123 (15.09%) TypeScript
6 86 (10.55%) Bash
7 74 (9.08%) Go
8 41 (5.03%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.80%) C#
10 26 (3.19%) Groovy
10 26 (3.19%) PHP
11 21 (2.58%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.09%) Ruby
13 14 (1.72%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.47%) Kotlin
15 9 (1.10%) Scala
16 7 (0.86%) JSX
17 6 (0.74%) Perl
17 6 (0.74%) VBA
18 5 (0.61%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 222 (27.24%) Security Cleared
2 181 (22.21%) SC Cleared
3 96 (11.78%) Degree
4 62 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.21%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.60%) OCP
9 13 (1.60%) Oracle Certification
10 9 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.86%) MCP
12 6 (0.74%) CISSP
12 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.49%) HND
14 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.77%) QA
2 41 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.84%) GDPR
5 8 (0.98%) SLA
6 6 (0.74%) NCSC
7 4 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.37%) WCAG
9 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.12%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 281 (34.48%) Docker
2 12 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.23%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.23%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.23%) Postfix
3 10 (1.23%) Squid
4 9 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.98%) zsh
6 5 (0.61%) NDS
6 5 (0.61%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.49%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.37%) KVM
8 3 (0.37%) NFS
8 3 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.37%) Xen
9 2 (0.25%) HDFS
9 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.25%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) Samba
Systems Management
1 297 (36.44%) Kubernetes
2 187 (22.94%) Terraform
3 112 (13.74%) Grafana
4 92 (11.29%) Ansible
5 78 (9.57%) Prometheus
6 30 (3.68%) Argo
7 21 (2.58%) Nessus
7 21 (2.58%) Progress Chef
8 18 (2.21%) Puppet
9 12 (1.47%) Control-M
9 12 (1.47%) Istio
10 11 (1.35%) IBM Guardium
11 10 (1.23%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.74%) linkerd
14 5 (0.61%) Packer
14 5 (0.61%) Rancher
14 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.49%) Kibana
15 4 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 139 (17.06%) Oracle
2 93 (11.41%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.89%) Splunk
4 44 (5.40%) Google
5 31 (3.80%) VMware
6 29 (3.56%) Databricks
7 26 (3.19%) Red Hat
8 20 (2.45%) Dynatrace
9 19 (2.33%) ServiceNow
10 17 (2.09%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.60%) Greenplum
11 13 (1.60%) IBM
12 12 (1.47%) Informatica
13 11 (1.35%) Tenable
14 10 (1.23%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (0.98%) Cloudera
15 8 (0.98%) PagerDuty
16 7 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
17 6 (0.74%) Gigya
18 5 (0.61%) Salesforce