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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 121 161
Rank change year-on-year -16 +40 +5
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 852 676 685
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.29% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.52% 11.99% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 507 476
10th Percentile £358 £356 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.59% +1.62%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £702 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £475 £507
% change year-on-year -3.00% -6.31% +3.21%
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 6,805 5,640 7,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.04% 19.08% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,687 3,884 5,147
10th Percentile £344 £351 £340
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 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 95 178
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.72 £23.88 £20.78
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.93% -29.57%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.61 £62.31
90th Percentile £84.80 £69.50 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.08%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -18 702 £513 -4.56% 511
UK excluding London -8 387 £461 -3.00% 380
London -16 355 £550 -4.35% 121
Work from Home -23 276 £500 -4.94% 346
North of England -17 138 £460 -0.54% 89
Midlands -4 99 £500 - 50
West Midlands -2 87 £500 +2.04% 32
South East -24 77 £434 +3.27% 103
Yorkshire -11 76 £500 -9.09% 34
North West -29 55 £425 -7.10% 46
Scotland +9 52 £450 -2.17% 18
South West -20 40 £606 -3.04% 50
East Midlands -33 11 £401 -19.80% 17
Northern Ireland +3 7 £400 - 2
North East -9 6 £450 -2.44% 10
East of England -37 5 £588 +30.56% 63

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 54 (6.34%) Confluence
2 24 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.23%) Apache
3 19 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.88%) nginx
5 14 (1.64%) SAS
6 6 (0.70%) Camunda
7 5 (0.59%) Drupal
7 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) Appian
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 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
1 512 (60.09%) AWS
2 265 (31.10%) Azure
3 189 (22.18%) GitHub
4 162 (19.01%) GCP
5 138 (16.20%) Serverless
6 113 (13.26%) Amazon S3
7 106 (12.44%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (8.80%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (6.10%) OpenShift
10 48 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.05%) Snowflake
13 41 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
14 37 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
15 36 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (3.99%) Power Platform
17 33 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 28 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
19 25 (2.93%) Azure AKS
20 22 (2.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.35%) Firewall
2 13 (1.53%) DNS
3 12 (1.41%) HTTP
4 11 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.06%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.59%) SSL
7 4 (0.47%) Internet
7 4 (0.47%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.47%) VPN
8 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.35%) SAN
8 3 (0.35%) WAN
9 2 (0.23%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.23%) LAN
9 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) DHCP
10 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.12%) NaaS
10 1 (0.12%) VSAN
10 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (17.02%) NoSQL
2 138 (16.20%) Relational Database
3 133 (15.61%) SQL Server
4 126 (14.79%) MongoDB
4 126 (14.79%) MySQL
5 67 (7.86%) Amazon RDS
6 62 (7.28%) DynamoDB
7 54 (6.34%) Redis
8 51 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
9 47 (5.52%) Amazon Aurora
10 37 (4.34%) RDBMS
11 36 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
12 28 (3.29%) Apache Cassandra
13 27 (3.17%) Data Lake
13 27 (3.17%) Power BI
14 25 (2.93%) Big Data
15 23 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (2.70%) Metadata
16 20 (2.35%) Hadoop
17 18 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 193 (22.65%) Jenkins
2 173 (20.31%) Git
3 109 (12.79%) GitLab
4 89 (10.45%) JIRA
5 81 (9.51%) JUnit
6 44 (5.16%) Cucumber
7 41 (4.81%) Mockito
8 30 (3.52%) JMeter
9 23 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (2.58%) Maven
11 21 (2.46%) Gradle
12 20 (2.35%) Selenium
13 18 (2.11%) Liquibase
14 17 (2.00%) Bitbucket
15 13 (1.53%) WebDriver
16 12 (1.41%) Cypress.io
17 11 (1.29%) ERwin
17 11 (1.29%) Postman
17 11 (1.29%) SonarQube
18 8 (0.94%) Artifactory
General
1 210 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 194 (22.77%) Finance
3 100 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 89 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (9.51%) Banking
6 25 (2.93%) Front Office
7 22 (2.58%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.53%) Financial Institution
8 13 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.70%) Retail
12 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.59%) Marketing
13 4 (0.47%) Legal
13 4 (0.47%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.35%) Electronics
14 3 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 345 (40.49%) Developer
2 143 (16.78%) Senior
3 108 (12.68%) Java Developer
4 87 (10.21%) Full-Stack Developer
5 84 (9.86%) Python Developer
6 72 (8.45%) Data Engineer
6 72 (8.45%) Software Engineer
7 68 (7.98%) Architect
8 58 (6.81%) Lead
8 58 (6.81%) Senior Developer
9 57 (6.69%) DBA
10 34 (3.99%) Backend Developer
10 34 (3.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 33 (3.87%) AWS Developer
11 33 (3.87%) Senior Java Developer
12 32 (3.76%) Data Architect
12 32 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
13 31 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
14 30 (3.52%) PostgreSQL DBA
15 29 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (22.54%) Kafka
2 170 (19.95%) Spring
3 164 (19.25%) React
4 143 (16.78%) Node.js
4 143 (16.78%) REST
5 141 (16.55%) RESTful
6 125 (14.67%) Spring Boot
7 68 (7.98%) FastAPI
8 58 (6.81%) AngularJS
9 48 (5.63%) Hibernate
10 46 (5.40%) JSON
11 45 (5.28%) CSS
12 39 (4.58%) GraphQL
13 38 (4.46%) .NET
14 36 (4.23%) HTML
14 36 (4.23%) WireMock
15 33 (3.87%) OpenTelemetry
16 32 (3.76%) Django
17 31 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
18 28 (3.29%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 122 (14.32%) Cloud Native
2 85 (9.98%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.87%) Derivative
4 31 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.05%) Replication
7 22 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (2.58%) Fixed Income
7 22 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.46%) Data Structures
9 19 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (2.00%) Equities
12 16 (1.88%) Market Risk
12 16 (1.88%) Public Cloud
13 15 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
14 14 (1.64%) Clustering
15 13 (1.53%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
17 7 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 141 (16.55%) Linux
2 27 (3.17%) Unix
2 27 (3.17%) Windows
3 10 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.47%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.35%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Solaris
7 2 (0.23%) VMS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.12%) SUSE
8 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (47.54%) CI/CD
2 327 (38.38%) Agile
3 281 (32.98%) DevOps
4 224 (26.29%) Microservices
5 220 (25.82%) Containerisation
6 172 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (16.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 139 (16.31%) Software Engineering
8 136 (15.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 130 (15.26%) Observability
10 112 (13.15%) Test Automation
11 106 (12.44%) Data Modelling
12 103 (12.09%) TDD
13 96 (11.27%) Migration
14 95 (11.15%) ETL
15 91 (10.68%) AI
16 85 (9.98%) Mentoring
17 83 (9.74%) Performance Tuning
18 82 (9.62%) Analytics
19 81 (9.51%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 398 (46.71%) Python
2 306 (35.92%) SQL
3 263 (30.87%) Java
4 137 (16.08%) JavaScript
5 129 (15.14%) TypeScript
6 70 (8.22%) Bash
7 65 (7.63%) Go
8 40 (4.69%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.46%) C#
10 19 (2.23%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.11%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.88%) PHP
13 13 (1.53%) Ruby
14 12 (1.41%) Scala
15 9 (1.06%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.82%) Groovy
16 7 (0.82%) JSX
17 6 (0.70%) Bicep
18 5 (0.59%) Delphi
18 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 262 (30.75%) Security Cleared
2 213 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 101 (11.85%) Degree
4 59 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.93%) Master's Degree
9 20 (2.35%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.00%) OCP
10 17 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.47%) CISSP
14 3 (0.35%) CISM
14 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.35%) PhD
14 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.34%) QA
3 20 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.76%) GDPR
5 8 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.82%) NCSC
6 7 (0.82%) NIST
7 6 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.70%) SLA
8 5 (0.59%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.59%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.23%) HL7
10 2 (0.23%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 313 (36.74%) Docker
2 11 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.70%) Postfix
5 5 (0.59%) HDFS
5 5 (0.59%) NDS
5 5 (0.59%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (0.47%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.35%) zsh
8 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.23%) Lustre
8 2 (0.23%) NFS
8 2 (0.23%) Samba
8 2 (0.23%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) Ceph
9 1 (0.12%) KVM
9 1 (0.12%) Varnish
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 318 (37.32%) Kubernetes
2 157 (18.43%) Terraform
3 136 (15.96%) Grafana
4 99 (11.62%) Prometheus
5 94 (11.03%) Ansible
6 24 (2.82%) Control-M
6 24 (2.82%) IBM Guardium
6 24 (2.82%) Nessus
7 23 (2.70%) Progress Chef
8 22 (2.58%) Argo
9 13 (1.53%) Puppet
10 9 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (0.94%) Rancher
12 7 (0.82%) Istio
13 6 (0.70%) linkerd
14 5 (0.59%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.59%) Packer
15 3 (0.35%) Kibana
16 2 (0.23%) HAProxy
16 2 (0.23%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 143 (16.78%) Oracle
2 102 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.93%) Splunk
4 39 (4.58%) Google
5 29 (3.40%) Red Hat
6 27 (3.17%) Databricks
7 25 (2.93%) Atlassian
7 25 (2.93%) VMware
8 24 (2.82%) Informatica
8 24 (2.82%) Tenable
9 16 (1.88%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.64%) Greenplum
10 14 (1.64%) Talend
11 12 (1.41%) IBM
11 12 (1.41%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.06%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (0.94%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.70%) Confluent
15 5 (0.59%) Cloudera
15 5 (0.59%) OpenAI