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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 119 160
Rank change year-on-year -16 +41 +20
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 763 664 686
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.03% 2.11% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.15% 11.50% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 492 486
10th Percentile £363 £350 £403
25th Percentile £422 £424 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.57% +1.60%
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% +175.96%
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 - - +68.27%

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 6,281 5,772 7,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.67% 18.33% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,337 3,803 5,043
10th Percentile £335 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £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 100 82 166
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.97 £16.06
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.50 £32.80 £43.62
Median % change year-on-year +32.64% -24.82% -23.29%
75th Percentile £74.37 £64.67 £63.00
90th Percentile £84.10 £72.98 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £27.50 £41.38
% change year-on-year +79.49% -33.53% -24.77%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -12 634 £518 -5.91% 609
London -4 346 £530 -7.83% 165
UK excluding London -26 317 £475 -5.00% 531
Work from Home -29 232 £500 -3.85% 369
North of England +1 121 £469 +1.41% 94
Midlands -6 72 £525 +5.00% 56
Yorkshire -6 65 £500 -16.67% 32
West Midlands +5 62 £540 +3.85% 24
South East -42 57 £433 -27.31% 178
North West -18 54 £450 +0.78% 50
South West +2 49 £550 -12.00% 72
Scotland -16 37 £450 -5.26% 35
East Midlands -31 10 £401 -19.80% 31
Northern Ireland +5 8 £400 - 11
East of England -19 2 - - 72
North East - 2 £463 - 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 43 (5.64%) Confluence
2 22 (2.88%) nginx
3 20 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.23%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.10%) Apache
6 14 (1.83%) SAS
7 6 (0.79%) Drupal
7 6 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
8 3 (0.39%) CICS
8 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.39%) WordPress
9 2 (0.26%) Traefik
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.13%) Appian
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 10 (1.31%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 474 (62.12%) AWS
2 234 (30.67%) Azure
3 175 (22.94%) GitHub
4 148 (19.40%) Serverless
5 137 (17.96%) GCP
6 105 (13.76%) Amazon S3
7 90 (11.80%) GitHub Actions
8 88 (11.53%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (6.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (6.82%) OpenShift
11 50 (6.55%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
13 44 (5.77%) Power Platform
14 41 (5.37%) Snowflake
15 40 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
17 35 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 26 (3.41%) Azure AKS
18 26 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 24 (3.15%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.80%) Firewall
2 25 (3.28%) DNS
3 19 (2.49%) HTTP
4 11 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.31%) SSH
6 9 (1.18%) FTP
6 9 (1.18%) IMAP
6 9 (1.18%) Kerberos
6 9 (1.18%) OpenLDAP
6 9 (1.18%) SMTP
7 5 (0.66%) SSL
7 5 (0.66%) VPN
8 4 (0.52%) Internet
9 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.26%) LAN
9 2 (0.26%) WAN
10 1 (0.13%) DHCP
10 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (17.04%) Relational Database
2 126 (16.51%) NoSQL
3 114 (14.94%) MySQL
4 105 (13.76%) SQL Server
5 98 (12.84%) MongoDB
6 72 (9.44%) Amazon RDS
7 66 (8.65%) Redis
8 61 (7.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 52 (6.82%) DynamoDB
10 38 (4.98%) RDBMS
11 37 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
12 36 (4.72%) Power BI
13 32 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (3.54%) Apache Cassandra
15 19 (2.49%) Data Lake
16 18 (2.36%) Big Data
16 18 (2.36%) BigQuery
17 17 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (2.23%) DB2
17 17 (2.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 175 (22.94%) Jenkins
2 155 (20.31%) Git
3 93 (12.19%) GitLab
4 69 (9.04%) JIRA
5 55 (7.21%) JUnit
6 31 (4.06%) Cucumber
6 31 (4.06%) Mockito
7 25 (3.28%) Gradle
8 23 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 20 (2.62%) Liquibase
10 18 (2.36%) Cypress.io
11 16 (2.10%) JMeter
11 16 (2.10%) Maven
12 15 (1.97%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.70%) Postman
14 11 (1.44%) ERwin
15 10 (1.31%) SonarQube
16 9 (1.18%) Vagrant
17 8 (1.05%) Artifactory
17 8 (1.05%) DBeaver
General
1 201 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 150 (19.66%) Finance
3 103 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 75 (9.83%) Banking
5 73 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.75%) Investment Banking
7 19 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.70%) Front Office
9 12 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.79%) Marketing
12 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.66%) Retail
13 4 (0.52%) Legal
13 4 (0.52%) Local Government
13 4 (0.52%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.39%) Electronics
14 3 (0.39%) Games
14 3 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 287 (37.61%) Developer
2 122 (15.99%) Senior
3 90 (11.80%) Java Developer
4 66 (8.65%) Data Engineer
5 64 (8.39%) Architect
6 63 (8.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 55 (7.21%) Senior Developer
8 54 (7.08%) Python Developer
8 54 (7.08%) Software Engineer
9 43 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
10 42 (5.50%) AWS Developer
11 41 (5.37%) DBA
11 41 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
12 33 (4.33%) Lead
13 31 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 30 (3.93%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (3.80%) Backend Developer
15 29 (3.80%) Data Architect
16 27 (3.54%) Python Engineer
17 25 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (22.15%) Kafka
2 139 (18.22%) React
3 132 (17.30%) Spring
4 129 (16.91%) RESTful
5 119 (15.60%) Node.js
6 112 (14.68%) REST
7 109 (14.29%) Spring Boot
8 53 (6.95%) CSS
9 45 (5.90%) GraphQL
10 42 (5.50%) HTML
11 40 (5.24%) AngularJS
11 40 (5.24%) Hibernate
12 39 (5.11%) FastAPI
13 38 (4.98%) JSON
14 33 (4.33%) .NET
15 32 (4.19%) Django
15 32 (4.19%) Vue
16 30 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
17 29 (3.80%) Keycloak
18 27 (3.54%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 114 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.98%) Replication
4 29 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 28 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.36%) Derivative
8 18 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.23%) Market Risk
10 16 (2.10%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (2.10%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.70%) Clustering
12 10 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.31%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.92%) N-Tier
14 6 (0.79%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 136 (17.82%) Linux
2 33 (4.33%) Windows
3 25 (3.28%) Unix
4 12 (1.57%) Amazon Linux
4 12 (1.57%) VMS
5 10 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.66%) zOS
7 3 (0.39%) Solaris
7 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.13%) MVS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (46.13%) CI/CD
2 257 (33.68%) DevOps
3 255 (33.42%) Agile
4 194 (25.43%) Containerisation
5 191 (25.03%) Microservices
6 154 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (18.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 114 (14.94%) Software Engineering
9 112 (14.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 111 (14.55%) Observability
11 102 (13.37%) Test Automation
12 92 (12.06%) TDD
13 85 (11.14%) Data Modelling
13 85 (11.14%) Migration
14 84 (11.01%) ETL
15 75 (9.83%) AI
15 75 (9.83%) Performance Tuning
16 69 (9.04%) Analytics
17 65 (8.52%) Data Pipeline
18 64 (8.39%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 369 (48.36%) Python
2 307 (40.24%) SQL
3 234 (30.67%) Java
4 120 (15.73%) JavaScript
5 113 (14.81%) TypeScript
6 80 (10.48%) Bash
7 71 (9.31%) Go
8 43 (5.64%) PowerShell
9 28 (3.67%) C#
10 19 (2.49%) Groovy
10 19 (2.49%) PHP
11 17 (2.23%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.70%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.57%) Ruby
14 11 (1.44%) Scala
15 9 (1.18%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.92%) Bicep
16 7 (0.92%) JSX
17 6 (0.79%) VBA
18 5 (0.66%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 229 (30.01%) Security Cleared
2 184 (24.12%) SC Cleared
3 88 (11.53%) Degree
4 58 (7.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.93%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.54%) AWS Certification
8 20 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.36%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.70%) OCP
10 13 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.92%) MCP
12 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.52%) HND
14 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.13%) CCSM
15 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.77%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.72%) QA
3 21 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.97%) GDPR
5 8 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.92%) NCSC
6 7 (0.92%) SLA
7 5 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.66%) NIST
8 4 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.52%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 284 (37.22%) Docker
2 12 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.18%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.18%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.18%) Postfix
3 9 (1.18%) Squid
4 7 (0.92%) zsh
5 6 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.66%) NDS
6 5 (0.66%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.39%) KVM
8 3 (0.39%) NFS
8 3 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.39%) Xen
9 2 (0.26%) HDFS
9 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.26%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 291 (38.14%) Kubernetes
2 176 (23.07%) Terraform
3 109 (14.29%) Grafana
4 91 (11.93%) Ansible
5 79 (10.35%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.41%) Argo
7 23 (3.01%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.62%) Nessus
9 16 (2.10%) Puppet
10 11 (1.44%) Control-M
10 11 (1.44%) IBM Guardium
11 9 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (1.18%) Istio
11 9 (1.18%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.79%) linkerd
13 5 (0.66%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.66%) Packer
13 5 (0.66%) Rancher
14 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 121 (15.86%) Oracle
2 86 (11.27%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.90%) Splunk
4 44 (5.77%) Google
5 31 (4.06%) VMware
6 29 (3.80%) Databricks
7 24 (3.15%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.49%) Atlassian
9 18 (2.36%) ServiceNow
10 16 (2.10%) Dynatrace
10 16 (2.10%) Informatica
11 14 (1.83%) Greenplum
12 11 (1.44%) Tenable
13 10 (1.31%) IBM
14 9 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (1.05%) PagerDuty
16 6 (0.79%) Gigya
17 5 (0.66%) Cloudera
17 5 (0.66%) Confluent
17 5 (0.66%) Talend