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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 117 145
Rank change year-on-year -31 +28 +11
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 813 690 732
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.72% 2.36% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.19% 12.45% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 510 525
10th Percentile £359 £400 £371
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £588 £647 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £496
% change year-on-year -6.20% -3.23% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.95 £34.05
25th Percentile £45.00 £47.88 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -28.00% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.72 £61.38 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +190.91%

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 7,266 5,542 7,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.40% 18.96% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,951 3,831 5,193
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £480
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.88% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 105 144
10th Percentile £16.72 £20.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.56 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.01% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £58.55
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.00% -31.09%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -37 680 £500 -8.26% 259
UK excluding London -27 379 £450 -6.20% 155
London -37 338 £550 -5.98% 140
Work from Home -40 258 £500 -9.09% 202
North of England -31 141 £450 -5.26% 26
Midlands -3 94 £459 -8.20% 14
North West -22 78 £450 -5.26% 10
South East -32 73 £433 -6.49% 72
West Midlands -10 69 £475 -13.64% 6
Yorkshire -30 53 £475 -10.38% 6
Scotland +10 48 £425 -7.61% 5
East Midlands -12 24 £410 -18.00% 8
South West -33 22 £578 -7.52% 22
East of England -40 10 £575 +27.78% 13
North East -13 9 £425 -8.60% 10
Northern Ireland +3 3 £400 -20.00% 3

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 53 (6.52%) Confluence
2 39 (4.80%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.46%) Apache
5 17 (2.09%) nginx
6 8 (0.98%) Camunda
7 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.62%) SAS
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.37%) Appian
8 3 (0.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) Drupal
8 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.49%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 478 (58.79%) AWS
2 256 (31.49%) Azure
3 154 (18.94%) GitHub
4 127 (15.62%) GCP
5 112 (13.78%) Amazon S3
6 105 (12.92%) Serverless
7 94 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
8 74 (9.10%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
10 43 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 36 (4.43%) OpenShift
15 35 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (3.57%) Power Platform
18 27 (3.32%) Snowflake
19 24 (2.95%) Route 53
20 20 (2.46%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.34%) Firewall
2 17 (2.09%) DNS
3 7 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.74%) HTTP
4 6 (0.74%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.49%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.49%) SSH
5 4 (0.49%) VPN
5 4 (0.49%) WAN
6 3 (0.37%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.37%) SAN
6 3 (0.37%) SSL
7 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.25%) Internet
7 2 (0.25%) LAN
7 2 (0.25%) MQTT
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (18.70%) SQL Server
2 145 (17.84%) MongoDB
3 144 (17.71%) Relational Database
4 132 (16.24%) NoSQL
5 121 (14.88%) MySQL
6 76 (9.35%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (7.50%) DynamoDB
8 56 (6.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 54 (6.64%) Redis
10 34 (4.18%) Big Data
10 34 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
12 31 (3.81%) RDBMS
13 27 (3.32%) Data Lake
14 24 (2.95%) Power BI
15 23 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (2.58%) Metadata
17 20 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
17 20 (2.46%) Tableau
18 18 (2.21%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 169 (20.79%) Jenkins
2 157 (19.31%) Git
3 86 (10.58%) GitLab
4 83 (10.21%) JIRA
5 78 (9.59%) JUnit
6 49 (6.03%) Mockito
7 30 (3.69%) Cucumber
7 30 (3.69%) Maven
8 23 (2.83%) JMeter
9 22 (2.71%) Gradle
10 20 (2.46%) Selenium
11 17 (2.09%) SonarQube
12 16 (1.97%) WebDriver
13 15 (1.85%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.85%) Liquibase
14 12 (1.48%) Gatling
15 11 (1.35%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.35%) jMock
16 9 (1.11%) Artifactory
16 9 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 179 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 163 (20.05%) Finance
3 98 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 73 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.40%) Banking
6 26 (3.20%) Front Office
7 16 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.98%) Law
11 8 (0.98%) Legal
12 6 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Retail
13 5 (0.62%) Automotive
13 5 (0.62%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.37%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.37%) Games
14 3 (0.37%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 317 (38.99%) Developer
2 138 (16.97%) Senior
3 98 (12.05%) Java Developer
4 81 (9.96%) Full-Stack Developer
5 79 (9.72%) Python Developer
6 77 (9.47%) DBA
7 76 (9.35%) Software Engineer
8 70 (8.61%) Data Engineer
9 63 (7.75%) Architect
10 55 (6.77%) Lead
11 51 (6.27%) Senior Developer
12 37 (4.55%) Administrator
13 36 (4.43%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 34 (4.18%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.94%) Java Engineer
16 28 (3.44%) Lead Developer
17 26 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
17 26 (3.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.20%) Senior Java Developer
17 26 (3.20%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (23.62%) Kafka
2 174 (21.40%) Spring
3 157 (19.31%) React
4 140 (17.22%) RESTful
5 132 (16.24%) Spring Boot
6 131 (16.11%) REST
7 125 (15.38%) Node.js
8 63 (7.75%) FastAPI
9 57 (7.01%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.41%) Hibernate
11 40 (4.92%) .NET
12 39 (4.80%) GraphQL
12 39 (4.80%) JSON
13 38 (4.67%) WireMock
14 36 (4.43%) CSS
15 35 (4.31%) HTML
15 35 (4.31%) JPA
16 31 (3.81%) Django
17 29 (3.57%) OAuth
17 29 (3.57%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 109 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 74 (9.10%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.57%) Derivative
5 26 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 25 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.71%) Fixed Income
7 22 (2.71%) Replication
8 20 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (2.21%) Equities
10 17 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (2.09%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.23%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.23%) Market Risk
12 9 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (0.98%) Clustering
13 8 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.98%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 135 (16.61%) Linux
2 41 (5.04%) Unix
3 25 (3.08%) Windows
4 13 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.49%) zOS
7 3 (0.37%) Android
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.25%) Solaris
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (44.65%) CI/CD
2 306 (37.64%) Agile
3 256 (31.49%) DevOps
4 204 (25.09%) Microservices
5 197 (24.23%) Containerisation
6 146 (17.96%) Software Engineering
7 138 (16.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 137 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 119 (14.64%) Observability
11 111 (13.65%) Test Automation
12 107 (13.16%) Data Modelling
13 100 (12.30%) TDD
14 92 (11.32%) AI
14 92 (11.32%) Migration
15 88 (10.82%) Performance Tuning
16 81 (9.96%) Mentoring
17 79 (9.72%) ETL
18 75 (9.23%) Analytics
18 75 (9.23%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 350 (43.05%) Python
2 303 (37.27%) SQL
3 281 (34.56%) Java
4 126 (15.50%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.27%) JavaScript
6 67 (8.24%) Bash
7 46 (5.66%) PowerShell
8 42 (5.17%) C#
9 31 (3.81%) Go
9 31 (3.81%) Scala
10 21 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.46%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.35%) PHP
13 9 (1.11%) Groovy
13 9 (1.11%) Ruby
14 8 (0.98%) Bicep
14 8 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.86%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.62%) Perl
16 5 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 268 (32.96%) Security Cleared
2 216 (26.57%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.12%) Degree
4 37 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
8 13 (1.60%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.23%) OCP
11 6 (0.74%) CISSP
12 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.49%) CISM
14 3 (0.37%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.78%) QA
2 39 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.71%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.48%) GDPR
5 9 (1.11%) SLA
6 8 (0.98%) WCAG
7 7 (0.86%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.86%) NCSC
7 7 (0.86%) NIST
8 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
10 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) DICOM
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 303 (37.27%) Docker
2 11 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.23%) Postfix
4 9 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.62%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.62%) Ceph
6 5 (0.62%) HDFS
7 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.37%) NFS
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.25%) Lustre
8 2 (0.25%) Samba
8 2 (0.25%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) RACF
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 261 (32.10%) Kubernetes
2 145 (17.84%) Terraform
3 123 (15.13%) Grafana
4 81 (9.96%) Prometheus
5 65 (8.00%) Ansible
6 16 (1.97%) Control-M
6 16 (1.97%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (1.97%) Nessus
7 15 (1.85%) Argo
8 12 (1.48%) HAProxy
9 11 (1.35%) Kibana
9 11 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (1.35%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.23%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.23%) Puppet
11 9 (1.11%) Rancher
12 8 (0.98%) Istio
13 6 (0.74%) linkerd
14 4 (0.49%) Packer
15 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 146 (17.96%) Oracle
2 107 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.18%) Databricks
4 32 (3.94%) Splunk
5 23 (2.83%) Atlassian
6 22 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.58%) Google
7 21 (2.58%) Red Hat
8 20 (2.46%) Informatica
8 20 (2.46%) VMware
9 16 (1.97%) Tenable
10 14 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
11 13 (1.60%) Talend
12 12 (1.48%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.48%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.23%) Confluent
14 9 (1.11%) IBM
15 8 (0.98%) PagerDuty
16 7 (0.86%) Greenplum
16 7 (0.86%) OpenAI