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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 114 124
Rank change year-on-year -68 +10 +49
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 866 800 738
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.41% 1.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.60% 13.25% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 592 555
10th Percentile £356 £375 £348
25th Percentile £425 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +0.62% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £838 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £492 £475
% change year-on-year -2.75% +3.47% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £24.88 - -
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -62.50% +22.00%
75th Percentile £63.06 £56.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.50 -
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 8,168 6,036 6,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.89% 18.21% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,444 4,038 4,635
10th Percentile £353 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £484
% change year-on-year - -1.76% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 88 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.36 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +12.80% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.13 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.86% +20.00% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -82 687 £520 -5.55% 1,354
London -50 391 £525 -12.50% 781
UK excluding London -85 318 £478 -2.75% 977
Work from Home -64 280 £500 -16.67% 1,058
North of England -79 89 £511 +2.12% 199
Midlands -41 70 £447 -11.04% 94
South East -49 62 £463 +6.32% 155
West Midlands -40 49 £449 -10.25% 55
Yorkshire -33 48 £500 - 63
Scotland -31 43 £450 -5.26% 202
North West -57 36 £525 +10.53% 97
South West -40 35 £700 +27.27% 87
East of England -9 22 £488 +2.63% 63
East Midlands -10 20 £425 -17.48% 39
North East -54 5 £500 -20.00% 48
Wales -12 4 - - 108

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 38 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.93%) Confluence
4 31 (3.58%) Apache
5 7 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
6 6 (0.69%) nginx
7 5 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) IIS
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Appian
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 6 (0.69%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.23%) Finacle
3 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 458 (52.89%) AWS
2 289 (33.37%) Azure
3 169 (19.52%) GitHub
4 136 (15.70%) GCP
5 119 (13.74%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (11.43%) Amazon S3
7 91 (10.51%) Serverless
8 73 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
9 66 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
10 65 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 53 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
12 48 (5.54%) Amazon SQS
13 41 (4.73%) Snowflake
14 34 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
14 34 (3.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 31 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (3.23%) AWS KMS
17 23 (2.66%) OpenShift
18 20 (2.31%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.54%) DNS
2 18 (2.08%) Firewall
2 18 (2.08%) HTTP
2 18 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.96%) SSH
4 9 (1.04%) Kerberos
5 8 (0.92%) HTTPS
5 8 (0.92%) SAN
6 6 (0.69%) 5G
7 5 (0.58%) 4G
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) VPN
8 3 (0.35%) Network Security
8 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) FTP
9 2 (0.23%) IMAP
9 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (21.13%) SQL Server
2 177 (20.44%) MySQL
3 175 (20.21%) Relational Database
4 174 (20.09%) MongoDB
5 108 (12.47%) Redis
6 103 (11.89%) NoSQL
7 94 (10.85%) Amazon RDS
8 86 (9.93%) Amazon Aurora
9 44 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (4.39%) DynamoDB
11 34 (3.93%) RDBMS
12 32 (3.70%) Metadata
13 28 (3.23%) Big Data
14 26 (3.00%) Oracle Database
15 25 (2.89%) Data Lake
16 21 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (2.08%) BigQuery
18 15 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
19 14 (1.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 215 (24.83%) Git
2 197 (22.75%) Jenkins
3 104 (12.01%) GitLab
4 77 (8.89%) JIRA
5 68 (7.85%) JUnit
6 60 (6.93%) Mockito
7 57 (6.58%) Maven
8 40 (4.62%) Gradle
9 26 (3.00%) SonarQube
10 22 (2.54%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.96%) Selenium
12 16 (1.85%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.62%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.39%) Gatling
14 12 (1.39%) Mocha
15 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.04%) Flyway
16 9 (1.04%) JMeter
17 7 (0.81%) Claude Code
18 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 199 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 142 (16.40%) Public Sector
3 139 (16.05%) Finance
4 137 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (7.16%) Banking
6 37 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.08%) Front Office
8 15 (1.73%) Retail
9 12 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.15%) Military
12 9 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.92%) Legal
14 7 (0.81%) Law
15 6 (0.69%) Billing
15 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.58%) Marketing
16 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 320 (36.95%) Developer
2 166 (19.17%) Senior
3 124 (14.32%) Java Developer
4 107 (12.36%) DBA
5 73 (8.43%) Senior Developer
6 67 (7.74%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (7.62%) Data Engineer
8 61 (7.04%) Administrator
8 61 (7.04%) Software Engineer
9 59 (6.81%) Lead
10 55 (6.35%) Python Developer
11 54 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
12 46 (5.31%) Architect
13 36 (4.16%) Java Engineer
13 36 (4.16%) Python Engineer
14 32 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (3.12%) Senior Java Developer
16 26 (3.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 25 (2.89%) SC Cleared DBA
18 24 (2.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (28.75%) REST
2 191 (22.06%) Kafka
3 190 (21.94%) RESTful
4 189 (21.82%) Spring
5 178 (20.55%) Terraform
6 168 (19.40%) Spring Boot
7 152 (17.55%) React
8 93 (10.74%) Node.js
9 83 (9.58%) HTML
10 82 (9.47%) CSS
11 66 (7.62%) .NET
12 61 (7.04%) OAuth
13 59 (6.81%) Django
14 58 (6.70%) AngularJS
15 52 (6.00%) FastAPI
16 50 (5.77%) OAuth2
17 45 (5.20%) Web Services
18 44 (5.08%) GraphQL
19 43 (4.97%) RabbitMQ
20 42 (4.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 182 (21.02%) Cloud Native
2 105 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (6.93%) Replication
4 46 (5.31%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.39%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (3.00%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.96%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.27%) PKI
15 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.04%) Equities
16 9 (1.04%) LIMS
16 9 (1.04%) Virtual Team
17 8 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 125 (14.43%) Linux
2 54 (6.24%) Unix
3 44 (5.08%) Windows
4 30 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (2.89%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.08%) Solaris
7 17 (1.96%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.27%) AIX
9 9 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 2 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.23%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.23%) Rocky
12 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (50.46%) CI/CD
2 305 (35.22%) Agile
3 304 (35.10%) DevOps
4 266 (30.72%) Microservices
5 195 (22.52%) Containerisation
6 173 (19.98%) Software Engineering
7 163 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 155 (17.90%) Test Automation
9 154 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
10 139 (16.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 136 (15.70%) AI
12 130 (15.01%) Observability
13 129 (14.90%) Data Modelling
13 129 (14.90%) Performance Tuning
14 128 (14.78%) Event-Driven
15 110 (12.70%) Migration
16 107 (12.36%) Scrum
17 104 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 101 (11.66%) Validation
19 99 (11.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 342 (39.49%) SQL
2 321 (37.07%) Python
3 295 (34.06%) Java
4 158 (18.24%) TypeScript
5 123 (14.20%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.81%) C#
7 55 (6.35%) Bash
8 37 (4.27%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.70%) Go
10 28 (3.23%) Scala
11 23 (2.66%) Groovy
12 19 (2.19%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.96%) Perl
14 15 (1.73%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.73%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.39%) PHP
15 12 (1.39%) PL/SQL
16 10 (1.15%) Korn
17 9 (1.04%) Ruby
18 7 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 308 (35.57%) Security Cleared
2 270 (31.18%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.81%) Degree
4 51 (5.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (4.16%) DV Cleared
7 32 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.23%) AWS Certification
9 23 (2.66%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
11 13 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.27%) OCP
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.12%) CISSP
14 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (9.12%) QA
2 49 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.54%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.19%) GDPR
5 14 (1.62%) WCAG
6 8 (0.92%) GMP
6 8 (0.92%) GxP
6 8 (0.92%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.46%) SEPA
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) PSD2
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 354 (40.88%) Docker
2 12 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) Postfix
6 4 (0.46%) Squid
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Ceph
7 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 296 (34.18%) Kubernetes
2 118 (13.63%) Grafana
3 94 (10.85%) Prometheus
4 35 (4.04%) Ansible
5 32 (3.70%) Kibana
6 15 (1.73%) Argo
7 13 (1.50%) Karpenter
8 9 (1.04%) Data Guard
8 9 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 9 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
8 9 (1.04%) Puppet
9 8 (0.92%) Control-M
10 7 (0.81%) Istio
10 7 (0.81%) Nessus
11 6 (0.69%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
12 5 (0.58%) Rancher
12 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.46%) Bosun
13 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 187 (21.59%) Oracle
2 128 (14.78%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.54%) Google
4 43 (4.97%) Databricks
5 32 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 27 (3.12%) Splunk
7 24 (2.77%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.08%) Informatica
8 18 (2.08%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.39%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.27%) Talend
11 10 (1.15%) NetApp
11 10 (1.15%) VMware
12 8 (0.92%) IBM
12 8 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (0.92%) Sybase
13 7 (0.81%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.81%) Foundry
13 7 (0.81%) TikTok
14 6 (0.69%) New Relic