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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 116 144
Rank change year-on-year -38 +28 +8
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 785 681 712
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.35% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.97% 12.39% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 501 523
10th Percentile £358 £400 £370
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £699 £780 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £494 £484
% change year-on-year -8.91% +2.07% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £39.00 - £34.05
25th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -13.33% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.90 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +261.01%

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 7,156 5,497 7,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.16% 18.97% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,825 3,770 5,185
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.05%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £475
% change year-on-year -2.31% +2.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 97 145
10th Percentile £16.56 £21.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.80% -13.75% -31.73%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -27.27%

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 13 May 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 13 May 2026.

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 13 May 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 -43 657 £505 -8.18% 249
UK excluding London -21 358 £450 -8.91% 126
London -39 337 £550 -5.98% 137
Work from Home -51 249 £500 -9.09% 170
North of England -28 134 £450 -5.76% 36
Midlands +2 90 £450 -10.89% 21
North West -17 73 £450 -5.26% 18
West Midlands -13 65 £459 -16.55% 7
South East -38 62 £441 -5.11% 46
Scotland +16 50 £425 -9.77% 2
Yorkshire -30 50 £473 -6.44% 8
East Midlands -12 24 £410 -18.00% 14
South West -33 20 £606 -3.04% 16
North East -14 10 £425 -8.60% 10
East of England -30 10 £575 +27.78% 5
Northern Ireland +1 1 £400 -20.00%
Wales -11 1 - - 1

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 (5.86%) Confluence
2 39 (4.97%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.55%) Apache
5 11 (1.40%) nginx
6 8 (1.02%) Camunda
7 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.64%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.38%) Appian
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.64%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 444 (56.56%) AWS
2 246 (31.34%) Azure
3 130 (16.56%) GitHub
4 125 (15.92%) GCP
5 95 (12.10%) Amazon S3
5 95 (12.10%) Serverless
6 85 (10.83%) GitHub Actions
7 64 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
11 32 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (3.82%) Power Platform
13 29 (3.69%) OpenShift
13 29 (3.69%) Snowflake
14 27 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.68%) AWS KMS
16 20 (2.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.17%) Firewall
2 14 (1.78%) DNS
3 7 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.76%) HTTP
5 4 (0.51%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.51%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.51%) SSH
5 4 (0.51%) WAN
6 3 (0.38%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.38%) SAN
6 3 (0.38%) SSL
6 3 (0.38%) VPN
7 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.25%) LAN
7 2 (0.25%) MQTT
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 145 (18.47%) MongoDB
3 142 (18.09%) Relational Database
4 130 (16.56%) NoSQL
5 109 (13.89%) MySQL
6 63 (8.03%) Amazon RDS
7 57 (7.26%) DynamoDB
8 56 (7.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 51 (6.50%) Redis
10 34 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (4.20%) Big Data
12 31 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (3.82%) RDBMS
14 26 (3.31%) Data Lake
15 24 (3.06%) Power BI
16 22 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
17 20 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
17 20 (2.55%) Metadata
18 19 (2.42%) Tableau
19 16 (2.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 153 (19.49%) Jenkins
2 144 (18.34%) Git
3 79 (10.06%) GitLab
4 77 (9.81%) JIRA
5 72 (9.17%) JUnit
6 51 (6.50%) Mockito
7 31 (3.95%) Maven
8 24 (3.06%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.93%) Gradle
10 20 (2.55%) JMeter
10 20 (2.55%) Selenium
11 17 (2.17%) SonarQube
12 16 (2.04%) Liquibase
12 16 (2.04%) WebDriver
13 13 (1.66%) Gatling
14 11 (1.40%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.40%) jMock
15 9 (1.15%) Bitbucket Server
16 7 (0.89%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.89%) ERwin
General
1 160 (20.38%) Finance
2 159 (20.25%) Social Skills
3 96 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 75 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.62%) Banking
6 26 (3.31%) Front Office
7 15 (1.91%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.15%) Law
11 7 (0.89%) Legal
11 7 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.64%) Automotive
12 5 (0.64%) Retail
13 4 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.51%) Military
14 3 (0.38%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.38%) Games
14 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 303 (38.60%) Developer
2 135 (17.20%) Senior
3 86 (10.96%) Java Developer
4 82 (10.45%) Software Engineer
5 79 (10.06%) Python Developer
6 76 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
7 75 (9.55%) DBA
8 69 (8.79%) Data Engineer
9 63 (8.03%) Architect
10 57 (7.26%) Lead
11 51 (6.50%) Senior Developer
12 36 (4.59%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 35 (4.46%) Java Engineer
14 34 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (4.08%) Administrator
16 28 (3.57%) Lead Developer
17 27 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 27 (3.44%) Software Developer
18 24 (3.06%) Data Architect
18 24 (3.06%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (24.20%) Kafka
2 173 (22.04%) Spring
3 159 (20.25%) React
4 136 (17.32%) RESTful
5 135 (17.20%) Spring Boot
6 128 (16.31%) REST
7 117 (14.90%) Node.js
8 64 (8.15%) FastAPI
9 58 (7.39%) AngularJS
10 43 (5.48%) .NET
11 38 (4.84%) Hibernate
12 37 (4.71%) GraphQL
13 35 (4.46%) HTML
13 35 (4.46%) WireMock
14 34 (4.33%) JPA
14 34 (4.33%) JSON
15 33 (4.20%) CSS
16 32 (4.08%) Django
17 31 (3.95%) Redux
18 29 (3.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 109 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 82 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.69%) Derivative
5 27 (3.44%) Data Structures
6 24 (3.06%) Replication
7 23 (2.93%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.80%) Fixed Income
8 22 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (2.42%) Equities
11 17 (2.17%) Onboarding
12 16 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
13 10 (1.27%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.15%) Market Risk
15 8 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.02%) PACS
15 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.89%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 114 (14.52%) Linux
2 34 (4.33%) Unix
3 26 (3.31%) Windows
4 14 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.51%) zOS
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Solaris
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (43.82%) CI/CD
2 286 (36.43%) Agile
3 242 (30.83%) DevOps
4 206 (26.24%) Microservices
5 194 (24.71%) Containerisation
6 151 (19.24%) Software Engineering
7 138 (17.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 130 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
9 119 (15.16%) Observability
10 115 (14.65%) Infrastructure as Code
11 112 (14.27%) Test Automation
12 107 (13.63%) Data Modelling
13 103 (13.12%) TDD
14 96 (12.23%) AI
15 92 (11.72%) Migration
16 89 (11.34%) Performance Tuning
17 78 (9.94%) Mentoring
18 74 (9.43%) Event-Driven
19 73 (9.30%) ETL
20 72 (9.17%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 336 (42.80%) Python
2 290 (36.94%) SQL
3 274 (34.90%) Java
4 132 (16.82%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.78%) JavaScript
6 53 (6.75%) Bash
7 46 (5.86%) C#
8 45 (5.73%) PowerShell
9 32 (4.08%) Go
9 32 (4.08%) Scala
10 21 (2.68%) PL/SQL
11 20 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.91%) PHP
13 10 (1.27%) Groovy
14 9 (1.15%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.02%) Bicep
15 8 (1.02%) Ruby
16 6 (0.76%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.76%) Perl
17 5 (0.64%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 251 (31.97%) Security Cleared
2 203 (25.86%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.64%) Degree
4 34 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.76%) CISSP
10 6 (0.76%) OCP
11 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.51%) CISM
13 3 (0.38%) PhD
13 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.37%) QA
2 40 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.27%) GDPR
4 10 (1.27%) SLA
5 9 (1.15%) WCAG
6 7 (0.89%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.89%) NIST
7 6 (0.76%) NCSC
7 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) DICOM
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 290 (36.94%) Docker
2 10 (1.27%) Postfix
3 9 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.76%) Active Directory
7 5 (0.64%) Ceph
7 5 (0.64%) HDFS
8 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.38%) NFS
9 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.25%) Lustre
9 2 (0.25%) Samba
9 2 (0.25%) Squid
9 2 (0.25%) Xen
10 1 (0.13%) iptables
10 1 (0.13%) KVM
10 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 249 (31.72%) Kubernetes
2 132 (16.82%) Terraform
3 118 (15.03%) Grafana
4 82 (10.45%) Prometheus
5 55 (7.01%) Ansible
6 16 (2.04%) Control-M
6 16 (2.04%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.04%) Nessus
7 14 (1.78%) Argo
8 12 (1.53%) HAProxy
8 12 (1.53%) Kibana
9 11 (1.40%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.27%) Data Guard
11 9 (1.15%) Rancher
12 8 (1.02%) Istio
13 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.64%) linkerd
14 5 (0.64%) Puppet
15 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
15 2 (0.25%) SELinux
Vendors
1 143 (18.22%) Oracle
2 95 (12.10%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.20%) Databricks
4 28 (3.57%) Splunk
5 24 (3.06%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.68%) Google
6 21 (2.68%) Red Hat
7 20 (2.55%) Informatica
8 16 (2.04%) Tenable
9 15 (1.91%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.78%) Jaspersoft
10 14 (1.78%) VMware
11 13 (1.66%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.66%) Talend
12 12 (1.53%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.27%) Confluent
13 10 (1.27%) IBM
14 8 (1.02%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.89%) Greenplum
16 5 (0.64%) Siebel