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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 113 124
Rank change year-on-year -72 +11 +49
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 861 798 734
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.40% 1.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.61% 13.22% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 588 553
10th Percentile £356 £375 £339
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £522
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +0.81% -0.57%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £645
90th Percentile £725 £838 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -1.95% +2.63% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £24.88 - -
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -62.50% +22.00%
75th Percentile £63.06 £56.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.08% -18.75% +28.93%

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 8,118 6,035 6,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.86% 18.18% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,403 4,031 4,626
10th Percentile £353 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £482
% change year-on-year - -1.45% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 90 92
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.71 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.65% +12.80% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -42.86%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -82 682 £516 -6.23% 1,452
London -57 388 £525 -12.50% 804
UK excluding London -77 316 £478 -1.95% 826
Work from Home -66 280 £500 -16.67% 930
North of England -75 89 £511 +2.12% 197
Midlands -33 70 £447 -10.60% 103
South East -50 60 £460 +5.75% 173
West Midlands -42 49 £449 -10.25% 58
Yorkshire -36 48 £500 - 65
Scotland -32 43 £450 -5.26% 92
North West -49 36 £525 +10.53% 105
South West -35 35 £700 +27.27% 106
East of England -5 22 £488 +2.63% 85
East Midlands -2 20 £425 -17.48% 45
North East -49 5 £500 -14.89% 32
Wales -13 4 - - 50

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 36 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
1 36 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.95%) Confluence
3 31 (3.60%) Apache
4 7 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.70%) CMS
5 6 (0.70%) nginx
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.35%) IIS
7 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.23%) JBoss
8 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.70%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.23%) Finacle
3 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 454 (52.73%) AWS
2 286 (33.22%) Azure
3 169 (19.63%) GitHub
4 134 (15.56%) GCP
5 119 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
6 97 (11.27%) Amazon S3
7 89 (10.34%) Serverless
8 71 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
10 53 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (5.57%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (4.53%) Snowflake
13 34 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 34 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 31 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.25%) AWS KMS
16 20 (2.32%) Azure AKS
16 20 (2.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.56%) DNS
2 18 (2.09%) Firewall
2 18 (2.09%) HTTP
2 18 (2.09%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.97%) SSH
4 9 (1.05%) Kerberos
5 8 (0.93%) HTTPS
5 8 (0.93%) SAN
6 6 (0.70%) 5G
7 5 (0.58%) 4G
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) VPN
8 3 (0.35%) Network Security
8 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) IMAP
9 2 (0.23%) MQTT
9 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (21.25%) SQL Server
2 177 (20.56%) MySQL
3 174 (20.21%) MongoDB
4 173 (20.09%) Relational Database
5 107 (12.43%) Redis
6 101 (11.73%) NoSQL
7 93 (10.80%) Amazon RDS
8 86 (9.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 42 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.18%) DynamoDB
11 34 (3.95%) RDBMS
12 32 (3.72%) Metadata
13 26 (3.02%) Big Data
14 25 (2.90%) Data Lake
14 25 (2.90%) Oracle Database
15 21 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
15 21 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
17 15 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
18 14 (1.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 215 (24.97%) Git
2 197 (22.88%) Jenkins
3 104 (12.08%) GitLab
4 77 (8.94%) JIRA
5 68 (7.90%) JUnit
6 60 (6.97%) Mockito
7 57 (6.62%) Maven
8 40 (4.65%) Gradle
9 26 (3.02%) SonarQube
10 22 (2.56%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.97%) Selenium
12 16 (1.86%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.63%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.39%) Gatling
14 12 (1.39%) Mocha
15 10 (1.16%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.05%) Flyway
16 9 (1.05%) JMeter
17 7 (0.81%) Claude Code
18 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 197 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 142 (16.49%) Public Sector
3 137 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (15.80%) Finance
5 62 (7.20%) Banking
6 37 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.09%) Front Office
8 15 (1.74%) Retail
9 12 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.28%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.16%) Military
12 9 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.93%) Legal
14 7 (0.81%) Law
15 6 (0.70%) Billing
15 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.58%) Marketing
16 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 317 (36.82%) Developer
2 163 (18.93%) Senior
3 123 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 107 (12.43%) DBA
5 71 (8.25%) Senior Developer
6 66 (7.67%) Data Engineer
6 66 (7.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 61 (7.08%) Administrator
7 61 (7.08%) Software Engineer
8 59 (6.85%) Lead
9 55 (6.39%) Python Developer
10 54 (6.27%) DevOps Engineer
11 45 (5.23%) Architect
12 36 (4.18%) Java Engineer
12 36 (4.18%) Python Engineer
13 31 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
14 27 (3.14%) Senior Java Developer
15 26 (3.02%) PostgreSQL DBA
16 25 (2.90%) SC Cleared DBA
17 24 (2.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (28.80%) REST
2 190 (22.07%) RESTful
3 188 (21.84%) Kafka
4 187 (21.72%) Spring
5 178 (20.67%) Terraform
6 166 (19.28%) Spring Boot
7 151 (17.54%) React
8 92 (10.69%) Node.js
9 83 (9.64%) HTML
10 82 (9.52%) CSS
11 66 (7.67%) .NET
12 61 (7.08%) OAuth
13 59 (6.85%) Django
14 58 (6.74%) AngularJS
15 52 (6.04%) FastAPI
16 50 (5.81%) OAuth2
17 45 (5.23%) Web Services
18 44 (5.11%) GraphQL
19 43 (4.99%) RabbitMQ
20 42 (4.88%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 182 (21.14%) Cloud Native
2 105 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (6.97%) Replication
4 46 (5.34%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.41%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (3.02%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.44%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.97%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.28%) PKI
15 10 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.05%) Equities
16 9 (1.05%) LIMS
16 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
17 8 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 125 (14.52%) Linux
2 52 (6.04%) Unix
3 44 (5.11%) Windows
4 30 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (2.90%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.09%) Solaris
7 17 (1.97%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.28%) AIX
9 9 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 2 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.23%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.23%) Rocky
12 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (50.29%) CI/CD
2 305 (35.42%) Agile
3 303 (35.19%) DevOps
4 266 (30.89%) Microservices
5 192 (22.30%) Containerisation
6 173 (20.09%) Software Engineering
7 163 (18.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 154 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (17.89%) Test Automation
9 138 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
10 136 (15.80%) AI
11 130 (15.10%) Observability
12 129 (14.98%) Data Modelling
13 128 (14.87%) Event-Driven
13 128 (14.87%) Performance Tuning
14 108 (12.54%) Migration
15 107 (12.43%) Scrum
16 104 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 101 (11.73%) Validation
18 99 (11.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 339 (39.37%) SQL
2 318 (36.93%) Python
3 293 (34.03%) Java
4 157 (18.23%) TypeScript
5 122 (14.17%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.85%) C#
7 55 (6.39%) Bash
8 37 (4.30%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.72%) Go
10 28 (3.25%) Scala
11 23 (2.67%) Groovy
12 18 (2.09%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.97%) Perl
14 15 (1.74%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.74%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.39%) PHP
16 11 (1.28%) PL/SQL
17 10 (1.16%) Korn
18 9 (1.05%) Ruby
19 7 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 308 (35.77%) Security Cleared
2 270 (31.36%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.85%) Degree
4 51 (5.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (4.18%) DV Cleared
7 32 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.25%) AWS Certification
9 23 (2.67%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
11 13 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.28%) OCP
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.12%) CISSP
14 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (9.18%) QA
2 49 (5.69%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.57%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.21%) GDPR
5 14 (1.63%) WCAG
6 8 (0.93%) GMP
6 8 (0.93%) GxP
6 8 (0.93%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.46%) SEPA
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) PSD2
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 352 (40.88%) Docker
2 12 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) Postfix
6 4 (0.46%) Squid
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Ceph
7 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 293 (34.03%) Kubernetes
2 118 (13.70%) Grafana
3 94 (10.92%) Prometheus
4 34 (3.95%) Ansible
5 32 (3.72%) Kibana
6 14 (1.63%) Argo
7 13 (1.51%) Karpenter
8 9 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 9 (1.05%) Puppet
9 8 (0.93%) Control-M
9 8 (0.93%) Data Guard
9 8 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.81%) Istio
10 7 (0.81%) Nessus
11 6 (0.70%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
12 5 (0.58%) Rancher
12 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.46%) Bosun
13 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 186 (21.60%) Oracle
2 128 (14.87%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.57%) Google
4 43 (4.99%) Databricks
5 32 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 27 (3.14%) Splunk
7 24 (2.79%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.09%) Informatica
8 18 (2.09%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.39%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.28%) Talend
11 10 (1.16%) NetApp
11 10 (1.16%) VMware
12 8 (0.93%) IBM
12 8 (0.93%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (0.93%) Sybase
13 7 (0.81%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.81%) Foundry
13 7 (0.81%) TikTok
14 6 (0.70%) New Relic