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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 122 130
Rank change year-on-year -55 +8 +26
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 858 754 718
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.33% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.47% 12.97% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 561 534
10th Percentile £369 £383 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +0.95% +0.96%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £838 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £482
% change year-on-year -0.63% -0.83% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £25.45 - £48.23
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £65.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% -46.88% +49.46%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £72.50 -
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 8,192 5,815 6,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.00% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,469 3,886 4,789
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 94 92
10th Percentile £15.93 £21.73 £16.07
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.50 £19.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £38.90 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +17.12% -39.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £58.11
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.38 £34.74 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.46% +15.80% -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -63 691 £511 -7.18% 917
UK excluding London -32 360 £475 -0.63% 352
London -65 355 £530 -11.67% 678
Work from Home -62 267 £500 -16.67% 447
North of England -61 116 £500 +1.99% 74
Midlands -16 82 £445 -11.00% 41
South East -44 65 £465 +6.90% 84
Yorkshire -20 55 £500 - 18
North West -46 53 £501 +5.37% 46
West Midlands -35 51 £447 -5.89% 28
Scotland -23 44 £450 -6.49% 35
South West -33 31 £650 +18.18% 58
East Midlands 0 30 £425 -17.48% 12
East of England -5 21 £488 +2.63% 21
North East -46 8 £425 -22.73% 11
Wales -14 4 - - 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 35 (4.08%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.85%) Confluence
3 32 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.56%) Apache
5 7 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.70%) CMS
6 6 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.58%) nginx
8 4 (0.47%) Camunda
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.35%) IIS
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.47%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Finacle
2 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Odoo
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 446 (51.98%) AWS
2 289 (33.68%) Azure
3 164 (19.11%) GitHub
4 123 (14.34%) GCP
5 122 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (11.54%) Serverless
7 93 (10.84%) Amazon S3
8 75 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 57 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
10 57 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
11 54 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (4.20%) Snowflake
14 30 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 27 (3.15%) AWS KMS
17 26 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
18 23 (2.68%) Azure AKS
18 23 (2.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.03%) DNS
2 20 (2.33%) Firewall
3 19 (2.21%) SSH
4 18 (2.10%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.98%) HTTP
6 11 (1.28%) HTTPS
7 9 (1.05%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.93%) SAN
9 7 (0.82%) SSL
10 5 (0.58%) 5G
11 4 (0.47%) 4G
11 4 (0.47%) VPN
12 3 (0.35%) Network Security
13 2 (0.23%) DHCP
13 2 (0.23%) FTP
13 2 (0.23%) IMAP
13 2 (0.23%) MQTT
13 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (20.28%) SQL Server
2 168 (19.58%) MongoDB
3 167 (19.46%) Relational Database
4 157 (18.30%) MySQL
5 108 (12.59%) NoSQL
6 101 (11.77%) Redis
7 82 (9.56%) Amazon RDS
8 79 (9.21%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (5.01%) DynamoDB
10 42 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.61%) RDBMS
12 30 (3.50%) Oracle Database
13 28 (3.26%) Big Data
14 26 (3.03%) Metadata
15 25 (2.91%) Data Lake
16 23 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
17 18 (2.10%) Power BI
18 16 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
19 14 (1.63%) BigQuery
20 13 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 197 (22.96%) Git
2 195 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 95 (11.07%) GitLab
4 79 (9.21%) JIRA
5 70 (8.16%) JUnit
6 58 (6.76%) Mockito
7 48 (5.59%) Maven
8 36 (4.20%) Gradle
9 25 (2.91%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.68%) Liquibase
11 21 (2.45%) Cucumber
12 18 (2.10%) Selenium
13 16 (1.86%) Gatling
14 14 (1.63%) Bitbucket
15 13 (1.52%) JMeter
16 12 (1.40%) Mocha
17 10 (1.17%) Cypress.io
17 10 (1.17%) Flyway
18 8 (0.93%) WebDriver
19 7 (0.82%) DbUnit
General
1 196 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 144 (16.78%) Public Sector
3 128 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (14.57%) Finance
5 49 (5.71%) Banking
6 34 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (1.52%) Front Office
8 11 (1.28%) Military
8 11 (1.28%) Retail
9 10 (1.17%) Law
9 10 (1.17%) Legal
9 10 (1.17%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.58%) Automotive
12 5 (0.58%) Billing
12 5 (0.58%) Marketing
12 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 316 (36.83%) Developer
2 155 (18.07%) Senior
3 109 (12.70%) Java Developer
4 100 (11.66%) DBA
5 68 (7.93%) Senior Developer
6 65 (7.58%) Software Engineer
7 64 (7.46%) Lead
8 63 (7.34%) Full-Stack Developer
9 61 (7.11%) Data Engineer
10 57 (6.64%) Administrator
11 50 (5.83%) Python Developer
12 48 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
13 47 (5.48%) Architect
14 39 (4.55%) Java Engineer
15 36 (4.20%) Software Developer
16 31 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
17 28 (3.26%) Python Engineer
18 26 (3.03%) PostgreSQL DBA
19 25 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 24 (2.80%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (26.57%) REST
2 190 (22.14%) Spring
3 186 (21.68%) RESTful
4 181 (21.10%) Kafka
5 161 (18.76%) Spring Boot
5 161 (18.76%) Terraform
6 149 (17.37%) React
7 104 (12.12%) Node.js
8 72 (8.39%) CSS
8 72 (8.39%) HTML
9 64 (7.46%) .NET
10 56 (6.53%) OAuth
11 54 (6.29%) AngularJS
12 51 (5.94%) Django
12 51 (5.94%) FastAPI
13 48 (5.59%) OpenAPI
13 48 (5.59%) Swagger
14 47 (5.48%) OAuth2
15 43 (5.01%) GraphQL
16 41 (4.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 175 (20.40%) Cloud Native
2 103 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.94%) Replication
4 43 (5.01%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.31%) Data Structures
6 29 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.45%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.10%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.10%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.05%) Equities
14 9 (1.05%) LIMS
15 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
15 8 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 117 (13.64%) Linux
2 41 (4.78%) Unix
3 39 (4.55%) Windows
4 27 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.80%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.28%) Solaris
8 9 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.93%) AIX
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (48.95%) CI/CD
2 303 (35.31%) Agile
3 295 (34.38%) DevOps
4 265 (30.89%) Microservices
5 198 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 169 (19.70%) Software Engineering
7 161 (18.76%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 144 (16.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 141 (16.43%) Test Automation
11 129 (15.03%) Data Modelling
12 123 (14.34%) Performance Tuning
13 122 (14.22%) Observability
14 120 (13.99%) AI
15 118 (13.75%) Migration
16 117 (13.64%) Event-Driven
17 97 (11.31%) Validation
18 96 (11.19%) Scrum
19 94 (10.96%) TDD
20 93 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 325 (37.88%) SQL
2 314 (36.60%) Python
3 304 (35.43%) Java
4 150 (17.48%) TypeScript
5 107 (12.47%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.88%) C#
7 51 (5.94%) Bash
8 41 (4.78%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.50%) Go
9 30 (3.50%) Scala
10 19 (2.21%) Groovy
11 17 (1.98%) Perl
12 16 (1.86%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 14 (1.63%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.40%) Ruby
15 11 (1.28%) PHP
16 10 (1.17%) Korn
16 10 (1.17%) Rust
16 10 (1.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 308 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 264 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.94%) Degree
4 47 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.73%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.56%) AWS Certification
9 18 (2.10%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.05%) OCP
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
14 1 (0.12%) CISA
14 1 (0.12%) CISM
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.51%) QA
2 47 (5.48%) Accessibility
3 46 (5.36%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.21%) GDPR
5 15 (1.75%) WCAG
6 8 (0.93%) GMP
6 8 (0.93%) GxP
7 7 (0.82%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.82%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.58%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.47%) SEPA
10 3 (0.35%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 344 (40.09%) Docker
2 13 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (0.82%) Postfix
6 6 (0.70%) Ceph
6 6 (0.70%) Squid
7 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.12%) NFS
9 1 (0.12%) RACF
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 288 (33.57%) Kubernetes
2 111 (12.94%) Grafana
3 86 (10.02%) Prometheus
4 37 (4.31%) Ansible
5 24 (2.80%) Kibana
6 16 (1.86%) Argo
7 15 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.40%) Karpenter
9 11 (1.28%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.17%) HAProxy
11 9 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 8 (0.93%) Control-M
13 7 (0.82%) Nessus
14 6 (0.70%) Istio
15 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
15 5 (0.58%) Puppet
15 5 (0.58%) Rancher
16 4 (0.47%) Kustomize
16 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
17 3 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 182 (21.21%) Oracle
2 130 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.78%) Google
4 40 (4.66%) Databricks
5 35 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.80%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.56%) Splunk
8 18 (2.10%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.86%) Informatica
10 15 (1.75%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.52%) VMware
12 10 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (1.05%) NetApp
13 9 (1.05%) Talend
14 8 (0.93%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.93%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.93%) Sybase
15 7 (0.82%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.82%) TikTok
16 6 (0.70%) Foundry