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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 138 162
Rank change year-on-year +20 +24 +11
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 845 674 763
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.42% 1.84% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.46% 10.43% 9.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 514 546
10th Percentile £369 £327 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £532
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -3.34% -3.36%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.19
25th Percentile £29.00 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £65.58
75th Percentile £56.25 - £71.34
90th Percentile £65.50 - £72.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £62.05
% change year-on-year - - +37.89%

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 6,278 6,465 7,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.96% 17.60% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,268 4,312 5,459
10th Percentile £330 £345 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 89 154
10th Percentile £20.73 £17.50 £17.38
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £23.62
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.20% -35.60% -4.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £69.69
90th Percentile £83.60 £66.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.75 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +39.17% -35.95% +4.83%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +31 705 £534 +1.62% 1,410
London +23 393 £600 +7.14% 815
UK excluding London +13 351 £492 +3.58% 970
Work from Home +12 304 £537 +6.12% 799
North of England +42 124 £500 +12.36% 177
Midlands +24 78 £515 +5.10% 45
Yorkshire +35 72 £500 -16.67% 40
West Midlands +16 68 £500 +2.04% 22
South East -23 53 £435 -9.75% 589
Scotland -6 52 £465 -2.11% 44
South West +11 48 £550 +21.55% 36
North West -15 38 £473 +8.00% 123
North East +4 15 £588 - 15
East Midlands -17 10 £520 +5.05% 23
Northern Ireland +1 7 £400 - 21
East of England -7 7 £475 +31.03% 29
Wales +6 4 £469 +17.19% 10

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 49 (5.80%) Confluence
2 38 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.96%) nginx
4 23 (2.72%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.42%) SAS
6 10 (1.18%) Apache
7 8 (0.95%) Oracle Application Server
8 5 (0.59%) Drupal
8 5 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.59%) MQSeries
8 5 (0.59%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.47%) Alfresco
9 4 (0.47%) Camunda
9 4 (0.47%) WordPress
10 3 (0.36%) CICS
10 3 (0.36%) JBoss
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.24%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (1.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (1.30%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 506 (59.88%) AWS
2 252 (29.82%) Azure
3 167 (19.76%) GCP
4 154 (18.22%) GitHub
5 138 (16.33%) Serverless
6 136 (16.09%) Amazon S3
7 85 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
8 71 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 43 (5.09%) OpenShift
14 42 (4.97%) Power Platform
15 36 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
16 32 (3.79%) Snowflake
17 30 (3.55%) dbt
18 29 (3.43%) AWS KMS
18 29 (3.43%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.96%) Firewall
2 19 (2.25%) DNS
2 19 (2.25%) HTTP
3 14 (1.66%) SSH
4 12 (1.42%) IMAP
4 12 (1.42%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (1.42%) SMTP
5 10 (1.18%) FTP
5 10 (1.18%) Kerberos
6 8 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.83%) SSL
8 4 (0.47%) Internet
9 3 (0.36%) MQTT
9 3 (0.36%) VPN
10 1 (0.12%) Calico
10 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.12%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.12%) Network Security
10 1 (0.12%) SAN
10 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (14.91%) MySQL
2 123 (14.56%) Relational Database
3 118 (13.96%) NoSQL
4 102 (12.07%) MongoDB
5 94 (11.12%) Amazon RDS
6 93 (11.01%) SQL Server
7 73 (8.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 73 (8.64%) Redis
8 46 (5.44%) DynamoDB
9 43 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (4.38%) RDBMS
11 35 (4.14%) Amazon Athena
12 33 (3.91%) Power BI
13 31 (3.67%) Oracle Database
14 28 (3.31%) Apache Iceberg
15 23 (2.72%) Apache Arrow
15 23 (2.72%) Big Data
15 23 (2.72%) Dremio
16 21 (2.49%) Apache Cassandra
16 21 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 198 (23.43%) Jenkins
2 171 (20.24%) Git
3 81 (9.59%) JIRA
4 73 (8.64%) GitLab
5 65 (7.69%) JUnit
6 36 (4.26%) Maven
7 34 (4.02%) Liquibase
7 34 (4.02%) Mockito
8 33 (3.91%) SonarQube
9 29 (3.43%) Cucumber
10 24 (2.84%) Cypress.io
11 21 (2.49%) Gradle
11 21 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (1.78%) Bitbucket
12 15 (1.78%) Postman
13 13 (1.54%) Subversion
14 12 (1.42%) JMeter
14 12 (1.42%) Vagrant
15 10 (1.18%) DBeaver
15 10 (1.18%) Selenium
General
1 249 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 197 (23.31%) Finance
3 113 (13.37%) Public Sector
4 95 (11.24%) Banking
5 94 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (6.15%) Front Office
7 33 (3.91%) Investment Banking
8 21 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.95%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.95%) Marketing
13 6 (0.71%) Military
14 5 (0.59%) Local Government
14 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.47%) Electronics
16 3 (0.36%) Law
16 3 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 368 (43.55%) Developer
2 133 (15.74%) Senior
3 118 (13.96%) Java Developer
4 75 (8.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 71 (8.40%) Senior Developer
6 67 (7.93%) AWS Engineer
6 67 (7.93%) Software Engineer
7 63 (7.46%) Architect
7 63 (7.46%) Lead
8 62 (7.34%) AWS Developer
9 61 (7.22%) Python Developer
10 60 (7.10%) Data Engineer
11 51 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
12 42 (4.97%) Python Engineer
13 41 (4.85%) Senior Java Developer
14 36 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 35 (4.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 32 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
17 31 (3.67%) Lead Developer
18 30 (3.55%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (21.30%) React
2 169 (20.00%) Kafka
3 163 (19.29%) Node.js
4 135 (15.98%) Spring
5 123 (14.56%) RESTful
6 120 (14.20%) REST
7 110 (13.02%) Spring Boot
8 72 (8.52%) AngularJS
9 64 (7.57%) CSS
10 59 (6.98%) HTML
11 55 (6.51%) GraphQL
12 48 (5.68%) Vue
13 45 (5.33%) Hibernate
14 43 (5.09%) FastAPI
15 40 (4.73%) Pandas
16 38 (4.50%) NumPy
17 37 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
18 35 (4.14%) JPA
19 34 (4.02%) Web Services
20 31 (3.67%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 55 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.44%) Replication
4 35 (4.14%) Fixed Income
5 30 (3.55%) Equities
5 30 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (3.43%) Data Protection Act
6 29 (3.43%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 22 (2.60%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.49%) Clustering
10 20 (2.37%) Derivative
11 19 (2.25%) Market Risk
12 17 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (1.89%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.18%) Algorithms
17 9 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (1.07%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 133 (15.74%) Linux
2 28 (3.31%) Windows
3 22 (2.60%) Unix
4 15 (1.78%) Amazon Linux
5 14 (1.66%) VMS
6 11 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.47%) Solaris
7 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) zOS
10 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (42.01%) Agile
2 350 (41.42%) CI/CD
3 284 (33.61%) DevOps
4 232 (27.46%) Microservices
5 188 (22.25%) Containerisation
6 183 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
7 147 (17.40%) Software Engineering
8 142 (16.80%) Full-Stack Development
9 132 (15.62%) TDD
10 119 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 112 (13.25%) Test Automation
12 86 (10.18%) Observability
13 80 (9.47%) Migration
14 78 (9.23%) AI
14 78 (9.23%) Mentoring
15 77 (9.11%) Scrum
16 71 (8.40%) Computer Science
17 70 (8.28%) Analytics
18 69 (8.17%) Data Modelling
19 68 (8.05%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 393 (46.51%) Python
2 317 (37.51%) SQL
3 264 (31.24%) Java
4 170 (20.12%) JavaScript
5 164 (19.41%) TypeScript
6 79 (9.35%) Bash
7 75 (8.88%) Go
8 43 (5.09%) PowerShell
9 27 (3.20%) Groovy
10 23 (2.72%) C#
11 19 (2.25%) Ruby
12 18 (2.13%) PHP
12 18 (2.13%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.42%) PL/SQL
14 10 (1.18%) Perl
15 9 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.95%) Scala
17 7 (0.83%) JSX
17 7 (0.83%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 224 (26.51%) Security Cleared
2 195 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 96 (11.36%) Degree
4 57 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (4.50%) AWS Certification
6 24 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.18%) OCP
10 10 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (0.95%) MCP
11 8 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (0.83%) CISSP
13 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.47%) HND
15 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
16 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
17 1 (0.12%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.57%) QA
2 44 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.78%) GDPR
5 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.47%) HL7
7 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.24%) SLA
9 2 (0.24%) WCAG
10 1 (0.12%) DICOM
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
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
1 278 (32.90%) Docker
2 16 (1.89%) Postfix
3 12 (1.42%) Dovecot
3 12 (1.42%) Squid
4 10 (1.18%) DFS Replication
4 10 (1.18%) zsh
5 8 (0.95%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (0.59%) NDS
7 5 (0.59%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.36%) NFS
9 2 (0.24%) GPFS
9 2 (0.24%) KVM
9 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) etcd
10 1 (0.12%) SRDF
10 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 282 (33.37%) Kubernetes
2 168 (19.88%) Terraform
3 104 (12.31%) Grafana
4 80 (9.47%) Prometheus
5 64 (7.57%) Ansible
6 26 (3.08%) Argo
7 23 (2.72%) Nessus
8 14 (1.66%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.42%) Control-M
10 11 (1.30%) IBM Guardium
10 11 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.18%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (1.07%) Packer
12 9 (1.07%) Puppet
13 6 (0.71%) Istio
14 5 (0.59%) Kibana
15 4 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 4 (0.47%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.36%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 120 (14.20%) Oracle
2 78 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.97%) Google
4 40 (4.73%) Splunk
5 25 (2.96%) Red Hat
6 23 (2.72%) Atlassian
6 23 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.37%) Databricks
8 19 (2.25%) VMware
9 18 (2.13%) Dynatrace
10 17 (2.01%) CA Agile Central
11 16 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
12 14 (1.66%) IBM
13 11 (1.30%) Tenable
14 8 (0.95%) Informatica
15 7 (0.83%) Greenplum
16 6 (0.71%) Cloudera
16 6 (0.71%) Gigya
16 6 (0.71%) SAP
17 5 (0.59%) Okta