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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 127 153
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 +26
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 827 680 750
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.23% 2.01% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.96% 11.17% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 507 520
10th Percentile £363 £340 £406
25th Percentile £418 £423 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £726 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
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% +55.13%
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 - - +15.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,379 6,088 7,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 18.03% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,400 4,016 5,149
10th Percentile £325 £341 £350
25th Percentile £409 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £701 £769 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 84 139
10th Percentile £20.75 £18.74 £16.51
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.43 £24.21
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.40 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.47% -36.00% -8.21%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £66.00 £77.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £27.24 £46.18
% change year-on-year +120.28% -41.02% -5.76%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +11 690 £520 -5.45% 996
London +7 376 £550 -4.35% 230
UK excluding London +4 356 £475 -5.00% 861
Work from Home -21 258 £513 -1.44% 610
North of England +21 134 £475 +6.03% 198
Midlands +7 76 £525 +5.00% 147
Yorkshire +10 72 £500 -16.67% 90
West Midlands +20 65 £525 +0.96% 74
South East -23 65 £433 -27.31% 226
North West -9 53 £437 -0.11% 94
Scotland -9 49 £450 -5.46% 34
South West +8 45 £550 -8.33% 87
East Midlands -20 11 £515 +3.00% 66
North East - 10 £738 - 15
Northern Ireland +2 8 £400 - 17
Wales +1 4 £469 +47.06% 23
East of England -21 3 £450 +1.41% 140

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 43 (5.20%) Confluence
2 25 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.90%) nginx
4 19 (2.30%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.69%) SAS
6 11 (1.33%) Apache
7 7 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.73%) Drupal
9 4 (0.48%) CICS
9 4 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.48%) WordPress
10 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Traefik
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 11 (1.33%) Chatbot
1 11 (1.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.24%) 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
1 485 (58.65%) AWS
2 258 (31.20%) Azure
3 183 (22.13%) GitHub
4 146 (17.65%) GCP
5 141 (17.05%) Serverless
6 117 (14.15%) Amazon S3
7 87 (10.52%) GitHub Actions
8 84 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 56 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (6.17%) OpenShift
12 50 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
13 46 (5.56%) Power Platform
14 45 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (4.47%) Snowflake
16 35 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 34 (4.11%) Azure AKS
18 31 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
19 26 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 25 (3.02%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.51%) Firewall
2 23 (2.78%) DNS
3 20 (2.42%) HTTP
4 15 (1.81%) SSH
5 13 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.33%) IMAP
6 11 (1.33%) Kerberos
6 11 (1.33%) OpenLDAP
6 11 (1.33%) SMTP
7 10 (1.21%) FTP
8 7 (0.85%) SSL
9 5 (0.60%) VPN
10 4 (0.48%) Internet
11 3 (0.36%) MQTT
12 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
12 2 (0.24%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.24%) LAN
12 2 (0.24%) WAN
13 1 (0.12%) FCoE
13 1 (0.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (16.69%) Relational Database
2 119 (14.39%) MySQL
3 117 (14.15%) NoSQL
4 112 (13.54%) SQL Server
5 109 (13.18%) MongoDB
6 78 (9.43%) Amazon RDS
7 74 (8.95%) Redis
8 60 (7.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 40 (4.84%) RDBMS
10 39 (4.72%) DynamoDB
11 37 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (4.23%) Power BI
13 28 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (3.02%) Apache Cassandra
14 25 (3.02%) Oracle Database
15 21 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (2.42%) Big Data
17 19 (2.30%) Data Lake
17 19 (2.30%) DB2
18 18 (2.18%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 182 (22.01%) Jenkins
2 160 (19.35%) Git
3 91 (11.00%) GitLab
4 75 (9.07%) JIRA
5 53 (6.41%) JUnit
6 30 (3.63%) Cucumber
6 30 (3.63%) Mockito
7 25 (3.02%) Sonatype Nexus
8 24 (2.90%) Liquibase
9 21 (2.54%) Cypress.io
10 20 (2.42%) Gradle
11 18 (2.18%) Bitbucket
12 17 (2.06%) JMeter
12 17 (2.06%) Maven
13 16 (1.93%) Postman
13 16 (1.93%) SonarQube
14 11 (1.33%) Vagrant
15 10 (1.21%) Subversion
16 9 (1.09%) DBeaver
16 9 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 229 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 174 (21.04%) Finance
3 104 (12.58%) Public Sector
4 84 (10.16%) Banking
5 81 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.39%) Investment Banking
7 24 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (2.42%) Front Office
9 15 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.57%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.85%) Marketing
13 5 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.48%) Legal
14 4 (0.48%) Local Government
14 4 (0.48%) Military
14 4 (0.48%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.36%) Games
15 3 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 308 (37.24%) Developer
2 143 (17.29%) Senior
3 99 (11.97%) Java Developer
4 69 (8.34%) Data Engineer
5 67 (8.10%) Architect
5 67 (8.10%) Senior Developer
6 61 (7.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (6.53%) Python Developer
8 52 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
10 49 (5.93%) Software Engineer
11 48 (5.80%) AWS Developer
12 42 (5.08%) DBA
13 41 (4.96%) Lead
14 36 (4.35%) Python Engineer
15 35 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 33 (3.99%) Senior Java Developer
17 29 (3.51%) Data Architect
18 28 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
19 26 (3.14%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (20.44%) Kafka
2 150 (18.14%) React
3 123 (14.87%) Spring
4 121 (14.63%) Node.js
5 119 (14.39%) RESTful
6 114 (13.78%) REST
7 100 (12.09%) Spring Boot
8 67 (8.10%) CSS
9 56 (6.77%) HTML
10 49 (5.93%) AngularJS
11 45 (5.44%) GraphQL
12 40 (4.84%) Hibernate
12 40 (4.84%) JSON
13 39 (4.72%) FastAPI
14 37 (4.47%) .NET
15 35 (4.23%) Vue
16 33 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
17 31 (3.75%) Keycloak
18 28 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
19 26 (3.14%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 104 (12.58%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (4.96%) Replication
4 27 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 26 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
6 24 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.42%) Derivative
9 19 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.18%) Market Risk
11 17 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.93%) Public Cloud
13 15 (1.81%) Clustering
14 14 (1.69%) Fixed Income
15 13 (1.57%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.33%) Equities
16 11 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 10 (1.21%) Algorithms
18 9 (1.09%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 144 (17.41%) Linux
2 33 (3.99%) Windows
3 27 (3.26%) Unix
4 14 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
4 14 (1.69%) VMS
5 11 (1.33%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.48%) zOS
8 3 (0.36%) Solaris
9 2 (0.24%) 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
1 367 (44.38%) CI/CD
2 294 (35.55%) Agile
3 287 (34.70%) DevOps
4 205 (24.79%) Microservices
5 195 (23.58%) Containerisation
6 176 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
7 146 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 119 (14.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 116 (14.03%) Software Engineering
10 115 (13.91%) Test Automation
11 108 (13.06%) TDD
12 106 (12.82%) Observability
13 90 (10.88%) Migration
14 87 (10.52%) AI
15 81 (9.79%) ETL
16 77 (9.31%) Data Modelling
17 73 (8.83%) Computer Science
17 73 (8.83%) Performance Tuning
18 72 (8.71%) Analytics
19 64 (7.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 396 (47.88%) Python
2 313 (37.85%) SQL
3 237 (28.66%) Java
4 136 (16.44%) JavaScript
5 125 (15.11%) TypeScript
6 88 (10.64%) Bash
7 75 (9.07%) Go
8 43 (5.20%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.75%) C#
10 27 (3.26%) Groovy
11 26 (3.14%) PHP
12 21 (2.54%) Shell Script
13 17 (2.06%) Ruby
14 14 (1.69%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.45%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.97%) Scala
17 7 (0.85%) JSX
17 7 (0.85%) Perl
18 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 221 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 182 (22.01%) SC Cleared
3 98 (11.85%) Degree
4 63 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.75%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 17 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.69%) OCP
9 14 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
10 9 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.97%) MCP
12 7 (0.85%) CISSP
13 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.48%) HND
15 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
16 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.93%) QA
2 40 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.93%) GDPR
5 7 (0.85%) SLA
6 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.60%) NCSC
7 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.36%) WCAG
9 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
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 (33.98%) Docker
2 12 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.33%) Dovecot
3 11 (1.33%) Postfix
3 11 (1.33%) Squid
4 10 (1.21%) DFS Replication
4 10 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.97%) zsh
6 5 (0.60%) NDS
6 5 (0.60%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.36%) KVM
8 3 (0.36%) NFS
8 3 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.36%) Xen
9 2 (0.24%) HDFS
9 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) Varnish
10 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 299 (36.15%) Kubernetes
2 190 (22.97%) Terraform
3 118 (14.27%) Grafana
4 92 (11.12%) Ansible
5 80 (9.67%) Prometheus
6 31 (3.75%) Argo
7 22 (2.66%) Nessus
8 21 (2.54%) Progress Chef
9 18 (2.18%) Puppet
10 12 (1.45%) Control-M
10 12 (1.45%) Istio
11 11 (1.33%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.21%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.73%) linkerd
14 6 (0.73%) Packer
15 5 (0.60%) Kibana
15 5 (0.60%) Rancher
15 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 140 (16.93%) Oracle
2 94 (11.37%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.80%) Splunk
4 45 (5.44%) Google
5 31 (3.75%) VMware
6 28 (3.39%) Databricks
7 26 (3.14%) Red Hat
8 20 (2.42%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.06%) Atlassian
10 13 (1.57%) IBM
11 12 (1.45%) Greenplum
12 11 (1.33%) Informatica
12 11 (1.33%) Jaspersoft
12 11 (1.33%) Tenable
13 8 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
13 8 (0.97%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.97%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.73%) Gigya
15 5 (0.60%) Salesforce