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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 126 160
Rank change year-on-year -13 +34 +13
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 782 654 703
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.99% 2.13% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.11% 11.56% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 482 498
10th Percentile £360 £355 £409
25th Percentile £418 £421 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -1.50% -0.84%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 3
10th Percentile £29.00 - £35.11
25th Percentile £35.00 - £46.15
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.77% +207.32%
75th Percentile £64.00 - £74.33
90th Percentile £69.35 - £74.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 - £50.25
% change year-on-year - - +82.73%

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 6,460 5,655 7,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.41% 18.42% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,439 3,732 5,226
10th Percentile £336 £355 £350
25th Percentile £412 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 87 178
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.97
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.17 £21.16
Median hourly rate £53.25 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.31% -9.41% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.86 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.50 £76.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £30.21 £40.25
% change year-on-year +81.07% -24.94% -29.21%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -13 639 £519 -5.68% 294
London -11 342 £550 -4.35% 129
UK excluding London -19 336 £475 -3.16% 219
Work from Home -34 246 £500 -4.03% 182
North of England -15 116 £453 -2.16% 69
Midlands -12 75 £525 +5.00% 26
Yorkshire -11 67 £478 -20.42% 16
West Midlands -2 64 £537 +3.27% 18
South East -25 62 £435 -5.95% 50
Scotland +4 51 £450 -4.05% 23
South West +1 49 £550 -12.00% 32
North West -24 45 £447 -2.30% 40
East Midlands -32 11 £400 -20.00% 8
Northern Ireland +4 7 £400 - 1
East of England -14 5 £588 +30.56% 16
North East -9 3 £463 +0.54% 14

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 46 (5.88%) Confluence
2 23 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.81%) nginx
4 21 (2.69%) Apache Spark
5 18 (2.30%) Apache
6 12 (1.53%) SAS
7 6 (0.77%) Drupal
7 6 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.51%) Camunda
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.38%) WordPress
10 2 (0.26%) Appian
10 2 (0.26%) JBoss
10 2 (0.26%) Traefik
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.13%) Magento
1 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.13%) Shopify
1 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 480 (61.38%) AWS
2 243 (31.07%) Azure
3 179 (22.89%) GitHub
4 138 (17.65%) GCP
5 133 (17.01%) Serverless
6 108 (13.81%) Amazon S3
7 95 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
9 55 (7.03%) OpenShift
10 54 (6.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
12 44 (5.63%) Snowflake
13 41 (5.24%) Power Platform
14 40 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
15 38 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
16 35 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 27 (3.45%) Azure AKS
19 24 (3.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 23 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.20%) Firewall
2 20 (2.56%) DNS
3 18 (2.30%) HTTP
4 11 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.15%) Kerberos
6 7 (0.90%) SSH
7 6 (0.77%) FTP
7 6 (0.77%) IMAP
7 6 (0.77%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (0.77%) SMTP
8 5 (0.64%) SSL
8 5 (0.64%) VPN
9 4 (0.51%) Internet
10 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.26%) LAN
11 2 (0.26%) WAN
12 1 (0.13%) DHCP
12 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (16.50%) Relational Database
2 125 (15.98%) NoSQL
3 121 (15.47%) MySQL
4 115 (14.71%) SQL Server
5 105 (13.43%) MongoDB
6 67 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
7 57 (7.29%) Redis
8 53 (6.78%) Amazon Aurora
9 52 (6.65%) DynamoDB
10 46 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
12 33 (4.22%) Power BI
13 31 (3.96%) RDBMS
14 27 (3.45%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
15 23 (2.94%) Big Data
16 21 (2.69%) DB2
16 21 (2.69%) Metadata
17 18 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
18 16 (2.05%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 176 (22.51%) Jenkins
2 153 (19.57%) Git
3 97 (12.40%) GitLab
4 76 (9.72%) JIRA
5 61 (7.80%) JUnit
6 35 (4.48%) Mockito
7 32 (4.09%) Cucumber
8 23 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (2.69%) Gradle
10 17 (2.17%) Liquibase
11 16 (2.05%) JMeter
12 15 (1.92%) Bitbucket
12 15 (1.92%) Maven
13 14 (1.79%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.66%) Postman
15 10 (1.28%) ERwin
16 8 (1.02%) Artifactory
16 8 (1.02%) DBeaver
16 8 (1.02%) Selenium
17 6 (0.77%) Vagrant
General
1 197 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 164 (20.97%) Finance
3 98 (12.53%) Public Sector
4 79 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (9.72%) Banking
6 23 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 16 (2.05%) Front Office
8 15 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.77%) Retail
13 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.64%) Marketing
14 4 (0.51%) Legal
15 3 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.38%) Electronics
15 3 (0.38%) Games
15 3 (0.38%) Law
15 3 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 315 (40.28%) Developer
2 122 (15.60%) Senior
3 97 (12.40%) Java Developer
4 76 (9.72%) Full-Stack Developer
5 71 (9.08%) Data Engineer
6 66 (8.44%) Python Developer
7 63 (8.06%) Architect
8 60 (7.67%) Software Engineer
9 56 (7.16%) Senior Developer
10 40 (5.12%) AWS Developer
11 39 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
11 39 (4.99%) Lead
12 38 (4.86%) DBA
13 36 (4.60%) Data Architect
14 34 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (4.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 32 (4.09%) Senior Java Developer
16 28 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
17 26 (3.32%) Backend Developer
18 24 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (22.38%) Kafka
2 150 (19.18%) React
3 144 (18.41%) Spring
4 130 (16.62%) Node.js
4 130 (16.62%) RESTful
5 117 (14.96%) REST
6 114 (14.58%) Spring Boot
7 55 (7.03%) FastAPI
8 52 (6.65%) AngularJS
9 50 (6.39%) CSS
10 43 (5.50%) Hibernate
11 40 (5.12%) GraphQL
11 40 (5.12%) HTML
11 40 (5.12%) JSON
12 35 (4.48%) .NET
13 33 (4.22%) Django
14 31 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
14 31 (3.96%) Vue
15 29 (3.71%) Keycloak
16 26 (3.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 114 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 63 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.96%) Replication
4 29 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.81%) Derivative
7 21 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.43%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.30%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.17%) Market Risk
11 16 (2.05%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.79%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.53%) Algorithms
15 11 (1.41%) Clustering
16 9 (1.15%) Equities
17 6 (0.77%) NHS
17 6 (0.77%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 143 (18.29%) Linux
2 31 (3.96%) Windows
3 25 (3.20%) Unix
4 10 (1.28%) VMS
5 9 (1.15%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.51%) zOS
9 3 (0.38%) Android
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (46.93%) CI/CD
2 271 (34.65%) Agile
3 260 (33.25%) DevOps
4 199 (25.45%) Containerisation
5 195 (24.94%) Microservices
6 159 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
7 143 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 126 (16.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 126 (16.11%) Software Engineering
9 113 (14.45%) Observability
10 99 (12.66%) Test Automation
11 97 (12.40%) Data Modelling
12 90 (11.51%) Migration
13 89 (11.38%) TDD
14 88 (11.25%) ETL
15 82 (10.49%) Analytics
16 80 (10.23%) AI
17 79 (10.10%) Computer Science
18 75 (9.59%) Performance Tuning
19 70 (8.95%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 379 (48.47%) Python
2 308 (39.39%) SQL
3 240 (30.69%) Java
4 132 (16.88%) JavaScript
5 123 (15.73%) TypeScript
6 71 (9.08%) Bash
7 65 (8.31%) Go
8 40 (5.12%) PowerShell
9 35 (4.48%) C#
10 19 (2.43%) PHP
11 18 (2.30%) Shell Script
12 16 (2.05%) Groovy
13 12 (1.53%) Ruby
14 11 (1.41%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.41%) Scala
15 8 (1.02%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.90%) JSX
17 6 (0.77%) Bicep
17 6 (0.77%) VBA
18 5 (0.64%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 231 (29.54%) Security Cleared
2 189 (24.17%) SC Cleared
3 100 (12.79%) Degree
4 60 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.84%) Azure Certification
5 30 (3.84%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.20%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.20%) Master's Degree
7 24 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.66%) OCP
8 13 (1.66%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.38%) HND
11 3 (0.38%) PhD
11 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.26%) CISM
12 2 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.65%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.73%) QA
3 19 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.66%) GDPR
5 8 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.90%) NCSC
7 6 (0.77%) SLA
8 5 (0.64%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.64%) NIST
8 5 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 281 (35.93%) Docker
2 11 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.02%) Postfix
5 6 (0.77%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.77%) Dovecot
5 6 (0.77%) Squid
5 6 (0.77%) zsh
6 5 (0.64%) NDS
6 5 (0.64%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.26%) HDFS
9 2 (0.26%) Lustre
9 2 (0.26%) NFS
9 2 (0.26%) Xen
10 1 (0.13%) Ceph
10 1 (0.13%) Samba
10 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 289 (36.96%) Kubernetes
2 167 (21.36%) Terraform
3 113 (14.45%) Grafana
4 89 (11.38%) Ansible
5 82 (10.49%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.94%) Argo
6 23 (2.94%) Nessus
6 23 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.17%) Control-M
7 17 (2.17%) IBM Guardium
8 13 (1.66%) Puppet
9 9 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.15%) Istio
10 6 (0.77%) linkerd
10 6 (0.77%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.77%) Rancher
11 5 (0.64%) Packer
12 4 (0.51%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.38%) Kibana
13 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 125 (15.98%) Oracle
2 91 (11.64%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.75%) Splunk
4 38 (4.86%) Google
5 33 (4.22%) Databricks
6 26 (3.32%) Red Hat
7 25 (3.20%) VMware
8 22 (2.81%) Atlassian
8 22 (2.81%) Informatica
9 17 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.17%) Tenable
10 16 (2.05%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.79%) Greenplum
12 11 (1.41%) Talend
13 10 (1.28%) IBM
14 8 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (1.02%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.64%) Cloudera
15 5 (0.64%) Confluent
15 5 (0.64%) Salesforce