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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 122 129
Rank change year-on-year -54 +7 +30
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 849 770 722
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.35% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.39% 13.06% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 571 536
10th Percentile £362 £380 £366
25th Percentile £425 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £527
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.66% +1.25%
75th Percentile £587 £650 £650
90th Percentile £712 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £483 £487
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.82% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £25.45 - £48.23
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £65.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% -46.88% +49.46%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £72.50 -
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 8,175 5,898 6,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.24% 18.01% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,437 3,953 4,879
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 94 100
10th Percentile £15.90 £21.22 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.02 £19.77
Median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £61.13 £64.94 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £79.63 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -63 685 £500 -8.05% 907
UK excluding London -32 364 £475 -1.55% 375
London -73 346 £525 -12.50% 660
Work from Home -59 260 £500 -15.86% 453
North of England -46 120 £500 - 78
Midlands -24 79 £445 -11.00% 42
South East -32 68 £470 +8.05% 94
Yorkshire -14 57 £500 - 20
North West -55 54 £500 +5.26% 48
West Midlands -40 48 £447 -5.89% 26
Scotland -23 44 £438 -10.26% 35
South West -26 32 £650 +18.18% 58
East Midlands +7 30 £425 -17.48% 15
East of England -11 21 £488 +5.41% 23
North East -53 9 £425 -22.73% 11
Wales -14 4 - - 13

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 32 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (3.42%) Confluence
4 20 (2.36%) Apache
5 8 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.71%) CMS
8 5 (0.59%) nginx
9 4 (0.47%) Camunda
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.35%) IIS
11 2 (0.24%) JBoss
11 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.24%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.47%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Finacle
3 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.12%) Odoo
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 444 (52.30%) AWS
2 286 (33.69%) Azure
3 160 (18.85%) GitHub
4 121 (14.25%) GCP
5 118 (13.90%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (12.01%) Serverless
7 90 (10.60%) Amazon S3
8 75 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
9 62 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
11 57 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
12 56 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
13 52 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (3.89%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (3.18%) AWS KMS
18 25 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
19 23 (2.71%) Azure AKS
19 23 (2.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.06%) DNS
2 20 (2.36%) Firewall
3 19 (2.24%) SSH
4 18 (2.12%) TCP/IP
5 17 (2.00%) HTTP
6 11 (1.30%) HTTPS
7 9 (1.06%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.94%) SAN
9 7 (0.82%) SSL
10 5 (0.59%) 5G
11 4 (0.47%) 4G
11 4 (0.47%) VPN
12 3 (0.35%) Network Security
13 2 (0.24%) DHCP
13 2 (0.24%) FTP
13 2 (0.24%) IMAP
13 2 (0.24%) MQTT
13 2 (0.24%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.24%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (20.14%) SQL Server
2 165 (19.43%) Relational Database
3 164 (19.32%) MongoDB
4 154 (18.14%) MySQL
5 109 (12.84%) NoSQL
6 101 (11.90%) Redis
7 79 (9.31%) Amazon RDS
8 78 (9.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 44 (5.18%) DynamoDB
10 41 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
11 30 (3.53%) Oracle Database
11 30 (3.53%) RDBMS
12 27 (3.18%) Big Data
13 25 (2.94%) Data Lake
13 25 (2.94%) Metadata
14 23 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (2.12%) Power BI
16 15 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
17 13 (1.53%) Tableau
18 12 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 195 (22.97%) Jenkins
2 192 (22.61%) Git
3 94 (11.07%) GitLab
4 75 (8.83%) JIRA
5 64 (7.54%) JUnit
6 52 (6.12%) Mockito
7 43 (5.06%) Maven
8 35 (4.12%) Gradle
9 23 (2.71%) Liquibase
10 21 (2.47%) SonarQube
11 20 (2.36%) Cucumber
12 18 (2.12%) Selenium
13 16 (1.88%) Gatling
14 13 (1.53%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.53%) JMeter
15 12 (1.41%) Mocha
16 10 (1.18%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.18%) Flyway
17 8 (0.94%) WebDriver
18 7 (0.82%) DbUnit
General
1 189 (22.26%) Social Skills
2 139 (16.37%) Public Sector
3 122 (14.37%) Finance
4 121 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (5.42%) Banking
6 31 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.41%) Front Office
8 11 (1.30%) Military
8 11 (1.30%) Retail
9 10 (1.18%) Law
9 10 (1.18%) Legal
9 10 (1.18%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.59%) Automotive
12 5 (0.59%) Billing
12 5 (0.59%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.59%) Marketing
12 5 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.47%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 315 (37.10%) Developer
2 152 (17.90%) Senior
3 106 (12.49%) Java Developer
4 101 (11.90%) DBA
5 68 (8.01%) Software Engineer
6 66 (7.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 63 (7.42%) Senior Developer
8 60 (7.07%) Data Engineer
8 60 (7.07%) Lead
9 57 (6.71%) Administrator
10 51 (6.01%) Python Developer
11 47 (5.54%) Architect
12 44 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
13 39 (4.59%) Java Engineer
14 36 (4.24%) Software Developer
15 29 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (3.18%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 26 (3.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.06%) Python Engineer
18 24 (2.83%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (26.86%) REST
2 188 (22.14%) Spring
3 183 (21.55%) RESTful
4 180 (21.20%) Kafka
5 161 (18.96%) Terraform
6 159 (18.73%) Spring Boot
7 152 (17.90%) React
8 108 (12.72%) Node.js
9 73 (8.60%) CSS
10 72 (8.48%) HTML
11 63 (7.42%) .NET
12 56 (6.60%) OAuth
13 53 (6.24%) FastAPI
14 51 (6.01%) AngularJS
15 50 (5.89%) Django
16 48 (5.65%) OpenAPI
16 48 (5.65%) Swagger
17 47 (5.54%) OAuth2
18 41 (4.83%) RabbitMQ
19 40 (4.71%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 170 (20.02%) Cloud Native
2 104 (12.25%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.89%) Replication
4 42 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 34 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.47%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.12%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.88%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.06%) Equities
14 9 (1.06%) LIMS
15 8 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
15 8 (0.94%) PKI
16 7 (0.82%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 117 (13.78%) Linux
2 40 (4.71%) Unix
3 38 (4.48%) Windows
4 27 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (2.71%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.65%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.18%) Solaris
8 9 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.82%) AIX
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (49.12%) CI/CD
2 301 (35.45%) Agile
3 293 (34.51%) DevOps
4 265 (31.21%) Microservices
5 197 (23.20%) Containerisation
6 169 (19.91%) Software Engineering
7 159 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
8 150 (17.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 148 (17.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 135 (15.90%) Test Automation
11 123 (14.49%) Data Modelling
12 122 (14.37%) Performance Tuning
13 121 (14.25%) Observability
14 118 (13.90%) AI
15 115 (13.55%) Event-Driven
16 111 (13.07%) Migration
17 98 (11.54%) Validation
18 94 (11.07%) Scrum
19 92 (10.84%) TDD
20 88 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 322 (37.93%) SQL
2 312 (36.75%) Python
3 305 (35.92%) Java
4 149 (17.55%) TypeScript
5 109 (12.84%) JavaScript
6 58 (6.83%) C#
7 50 (5.89%) Bash
8 43 (5.06%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.65%) Go
10 30 (3.53%) Scala
11 18 (2.12%) Groovy
12 17 (2.00%) Perl
12 17 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.65%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.53%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.41%) Ruby
16 11 (1.30%) PHP
17 10 (1.18%) Korn
17 10 (1.18%) T-SQL
18 9 (1.06%) Rust
Qualifications
1 299 (35.22%) Security Cleared
2 254 (29.92%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.89%) Degree
4 47 (5.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 26 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.59%) AWS Certification
9 17 (2.00%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.06%) OCP
13 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.24%) CISSP
15 1 (0.12%) CISA
15 1 (0.12%) CISM
15 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.48%) QA
2 48 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 45 (5.30%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.88%) GDPR
4 16 (1.88%) WCAG
5 8 (0.94%) GMP
5 8 (0.94%) GxP
6 7 (0.82%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 6 (0.71%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.59%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.59%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.35%) SEPA
11 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
11 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 337 (39.69%) Docker
2 14 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.82%) Postfix
7 6 (0.71%) Ceph
7 6 (0.71%) Squid
8 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) RACF
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 287 (33.80%) Kubernetes
2 107 (12.60%) Grafana
3 82 (9.66%) Prometheus
4 38 (4.48%) Ansible
5 24 (2.83%) Kibana
6 17 (2.00%) Argo
7 15 (1.77%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (1.30%) Data Guard
9 10 (1.18%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.06%) Control-M
10 9 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 8 (0.94%) Karpenter
11 8 (0.94%) Nessus
12 6 (0.71%) IBM Guardium
12 6 (0.71%) Istio
13 5 (0.59%) Puppet
13 5 (0.59%) Rancher
14 4 (0.47%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 181 (21.32%) Oracle
2 125 (14.72%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.59%) Google
4 38 (4.48%) Databricks
5 34 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.71%) Dynatrace
6 23 (2.71%) Splunk
7 16 (1.88%) Informatica
7 16 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.65%) VMware
10 10 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.06%) NetApp
11 9 (1.06%) Talend
12 8 (0.94%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.94%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.94%) Sybase
13 7 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.82%) TikTok
14 6 (0.71%) Solace