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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 120 138
Rank change year-on-year -47 +18 +18
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 790 664 729
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.31% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.69% 12.24% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 494 547
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £423 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £779 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £477 £475
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.32% -2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 7
10th Percentile £39.50 - £53.70
25th Percentile £52.75 £62.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -18.75% +255.79%
75th Percentile £72.11 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £78.25 - -
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 7,389 5,425 7,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 18.87% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,961 3,716 5,256
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £754 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 100 151
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.56 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.02 £23.38 £20.77
Median hourly rate £43.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.46% -17.60% -31.73%
75th Percentile £72.25 £64.78 £61.55
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.38 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.00% -9.60% -39.13%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -47 658 £513 -3.94% 115
UK excluding London -18 353 £459 -3.67% 85
London -38 344 £550 -8.33% 43
Work from Home -53 252 £500 -9.09% 69
North of England -30 122 £460 -3.16% 25
Midlands 0 95 £450 -10.00% 16
West Midlands -23 66 £450 -10.00% 7
South East -31 63 £480 +4.58% 27
North West -22 61 £450 -5.26% 16
Yorkshire -23 51 £475 -5.00% 3
Scotland +7 50 £425 -9.77% 2
East Midlands -6 27 £425 -15.00% 9
South West -33 18 £606 -1.06% 12
East of England -32 10 £575 +27.78% 6
North East -25 9 £425 -8.60% 6
Northern Ireland +1 1 £400 -20.00%
Wales -12 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 47 (5.95%) Confluence
2 43 (5.44%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.66%) Apache
5 11 (1.39%) nginx
6 8 (1.01%) Camunda
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.38%) Appian
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.63%) 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 3 (0.38%) 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 (56.20%) AWS
2 250 (31.65%) Azure
3 134 (16.96%) GitHub
4 129 (16.33%) GCP
5 96 (12.15%) Amazon S3
6 95 (12.03%) Serverless
7 84 (10.63%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 46 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (4.05%) Power Platform
15 31 (3.92%) Route 53
16 29 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (3.54%) Snowflake
18 27 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (3.42%) OpenShift
19 25 (3.16%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.41%) DNS
2 17 (2.15%) Firewall
3 8 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.76%) HTTP
5 4 (0.51%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.51%) SSH
5 4 (0.51%) SSL
5 4 (0.51%) VPN
6 3 (0.38%) iSCSI
6 3 (0.38%) SAN
6 3 (0.38%) WAN
7 2 (0.25%) DHCP
7 2 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.25%) MQTT
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Network Security
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) Internet
8 1 (0.13%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (18.86%) SQL Server
2 143 (18.10%) MongoDB
3 130 (16.46%) NoSQL
4 128 (16.20%) Relational Database
5 112 (14.18%) MySQL
6 69 (8.73%) Amazon RDS
7 65 (8.23%) Amazon Aurora
8 60 (7.59%) DynamoDB
9 47 (5.95%) Redis
10 36 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (4.30%) Big Data
12 28 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (3.29%) Power BI
14 25 (3.16%) Data Lake
14 25 (3.16%) RDBMS
15 22 (2.78%) Oracle Database
15 22 (2.78%) Tableau
16 20 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (2.53%) Metadata
17 19 (2.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 167 (21.14%) Jenkins
2 149 (18.86%) Git
3 80 (10.13%) GitLab
4 79 (10.00%) JIRA
5 78 (9.87%) JUnit
6 58 (7.34%) Mockito
7 36 (4.56%) Maven
8 26 (3.29%) Cucumber
9 25 (3.16%) Gradle
10 21 (2.66%) Liquibase
10 21 (2.66%) SonarQube
11 20 (2.53%) JMeter
11 20 (2.53%) Selenium
12 16 (2.03%) WebDriver
13 14 (1.77%) DbUnit
14 13 (1.65%) Gatling
14 13 (1.65%) jMock
15 11 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
16 9 (1.14%) Flyway
17 7 (0.89%) Artifactory
General
1 165 (20.89%) Social Skills
2 162 (20.51%) Finance
3 104 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 81 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.22%) Banking
6 25 (3.16%) Front Office
7 16 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.52%) Law
9 12 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.76%) Legal
12 5 (0.63%) Automotive
12 5 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.63%) Retail
13 4 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.51%) Military
14 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 306 (38.73%) Developer
2 143 (18.10%) Senior
3 96 (12.15%) Java Developer
4 78 (9.87%) Software Engineer
5 77 (9.75%) Python Developer
6 73 (9.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 71 (8.99%) Architect
8 70 (8.86%) Data Engineer
9 68 (8.61%) DBA
10 58 (7.34%) Lead
11 57 (7.22%) Senior Developer
12 38 (4.81%) Java Engineer
13 33 (4.18%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.80%) Senior Java Developer
15 28 (3.54%) Lead Developer
15 28 (3.54%) PostgreSQL DBA
16 27 (3.42%) Administrator
16 27 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 25 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (23.92%) Kafka
2 181 (22.91%) Spring
3 156 (19.75%) React
4 145 (18.35%) RESTful
5 140 (17.72%) Spring Boot
6 139 (17.59%) REST
7 119 (15.06%) Node.js
8 64 (8.10%) FastAPI
9 61 (7.72%) AngularJS
10 43 (5.44%) GraphQL
11 41 (5.19%) JPA
12 40 (5.06%) .NET
13 37 (4.68%) Hibernate
14 35 (4.43%) HTML
14 35 (4.43%) Web Services
14 35 (4.43%) WireMock
15 33 (4.18%) CSS
16 32 (4.05%) JSON
16 32 (4.05%) OpenAPI
16 32 (4.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 117 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 90 (11.39%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.67%) Derivative
5 28 (3.54%) Replication
6 22 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 20 (2.53%) Equities
7 20 (2.53%) Fixed Income
8 17 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.01%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.01%) Market Risk
12 7 (0.89%) Clustering
12 7 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 113 (14.30%) Linux
2 33 (4.18%) Unix
3 25 (3.16%) Windows
4 16 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.51%) Solaris
6 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.38%) zOS
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.13%) SUSE
8 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (44.68%) CI/CD
2 293 (37.09%) Agile
3 244 (30.89%) DevOps
4 221 (27.97%) Microservices
5 189 (23.92%) Containerisation
6 149 (18.86%) Software Engineering
7 142 (17.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (15.44%) Observability
10 112 (14.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 109 (13.80%) Test Automation
12 108 (13.67%) Data Modelling
13 104 (13.16%) TDD
14 96 (12.15%) AI
15 95 (12.03%) Migration
15 95 (12.03%) Performance Tuning
16 82 (10.38%) Event-Driven
17 77 (9.75%) Scrum
18 76 (9.62%) Mentoring
19 73 (9.24%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 336 (42.53%) Python
2 306 (38.73%) SQL
3 287 (36.33%) Java
4 142 (17.97%) TypeScript
5 118 (14.94%) JavaScript
6 47 (5.95%) Bash
7 44 (5.57%) PowerShell
8 42 (5.32%) C#
9 32 (4.05%) Go
9 32 (4.05%) Scala
10 21 (2.66%) PL/SQL
11 19 (2.41%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.27%) Bicep
12 10 (1.27%) Groovy
12 10 (1.27%) PHP
13 9 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.01%) Ruby
15 5 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.63%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) Korn
Qualifications
1 261 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 215 (27.22%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.85%) Degree
4 34 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.76%) CISSP
10 6 (0.76%) OCP
11 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.51%) CISM
13 3 (0.38%) PhD
14 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.84%) QA
2 43 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.27%) GDPR
5 9 (1.14%) SLA
5 9 (1.14%) WCAG
6 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.89%) NIST
7 6 (0.76%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.63%) NCSC
8 5 (0.63%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 286 (36.20%) Docker
2 11 (1.39%) Postfix
3 9 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.63%) Ceph
6 4 (0.51%) HDFS
6 4 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.38%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.13%) NFS
9 1 (0.13%) RACF
9 1 (0.13%) Samba
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 256 (32.41%) Kubernetes
2 130 (16.46%) Terraform
3 127 (16.08%) Grafana
4 90 (11.39%) Prometheus
5 51 (6.46%) Ansible
6 16 (2.03%) Control-M
6 16 (2.03%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.03%) Nessus
7 13 (1.65%) Argo
7 13 (1.65%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.52%) Data Guard
8 12 (1.52%) Kibana
9 11 (1.39%) HAProxy
10 8 (1.01%) Istio
11 7 (0.89%) Rancher
12 4 (0.51%) linkerd
12 4 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.51%) Puppet
13 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (18.10%) Oracle
2 100 (12.66%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.30%) Databricks
4 27 (3.42%) Splunk
5 24 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.66%) Informatica
7 20 (2.53%) Google
8 19 (2.41%) Red Hat
9 18 (2.28%) Atlassian
10 17 (2.15%) Jaspersoft
11 16 (2.03%) Tenable
12 14 (1.77%) Talend
12 14 (1.77%) VMware
13 13 (1.65%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.52%) Salesforce
15 10 (1.27%) Confluent
16 9 (1.14%) IBM
17 8 (1.01%) Sybase
18 7 (0.89%) OpenAI
19 6 (0.76%) Greenplum