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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 125 156
Rank change year-on-year -19 +31 +22
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 808 657 701
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.13% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.11% 11.52% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 488 488
10th Percentile £360 £356 £408
25th Percentile £418 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -0.47%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £478 £506
% change year-on-year -0.73% -5.63% +1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £35.00 - £38.79
25th Percentile £40.00 - £55.35
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £68.05
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -36.81% +202.65%
75th Percentile £66.50 - £73.99
90th Percentile £69.44 - £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 - £50.25
% change year-on-year - - +82.73%

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 6,670 5,701 7,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.33% 18.48% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,581 3,814 5,136
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 91 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.83 £16.04
25th Percentile £29.13 £24.88 £21.64
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.32% -10.33% -24.01%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.86 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.55 £70.00 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £29.90 £40.25
% change year-on-year +83.95% -25.71% -28.04%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -20 668 £518 -5.91% 608
UK excluding London -12 357 £474 -0.73% 463
London -15 348 £550 -4.35% 225
Work from Home -26 257 £500 -4.53% 317
North of England -16 124 £455 -2.93% 104
Midlands 0 88 £510 +2.00% 66
West Midlands +5 76 £525 +4.48% 35
Yorkshire -16 74 £475 -20.83% 32
South East -27 65 £435 -2.52% 138
Scotland -2 49 £450 -3.23% 36
South West -1 48 £550 -12.00% 54
North West -25 46 £441 -4.24% 54
East Midlands -27 11 £400 -20.00% 31
Northern Ireland +5 7 £400 - 6
East of England -26 5 £588 +30.56% 50
North East -13 3 £463 +0.54% 19

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 51 (6.31%) Confluence
2 22 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.48%) nginx
4 18 (2.23%) Apache
5 11 (1.36%) SAS
6 5 (0.62%) Drupal
6 5 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
7 4 (0.50%) Camunda
8 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) Appian
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 2 (0.25%) Traefik
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.12%) Magento
1 1 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.12%) Shopify
1 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 491 (60.77%) AWS
2 258 (31.93%) Azure
3 183 (22.65%) GitHub
4 153 (18.94%) GCP
5 134 (16.58%) Serverless
6 111 (13.74%) Amazon S3
7 101 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (6.93%) OpenShift
10 52 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 50 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.32%) Snowflake
13 40 (4.95%) Power Platform
14 37 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
14 37 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 28 (3.47%) Azure AKS
17 24 (2.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 23 (2.85%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.85%) Firewall
2 18 (2.23%) DNS
3 16 (1.98%) HTTP
4 11 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.11%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.62%) SSH
6 5 (0.62%) SSL
6 5 (0.62%) VPN
7 4 (0.50%) FTP
7 4 (0.50%) IMAP
7 4 (0.50%) Internet
7 4 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.50%) SMTP
8 3 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.25%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.25%) LAN
9 2 (0.25%) WAN
10 1 (0.12%) MQTT
10 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (15.97%) Relational Database
2 126 (15.59%) NoSQL
3 120 (14.85%) MySQL
4 119 (14.73%) SQL Server
5 111 (13.74%) MongoDB
6 66 (8.17%) Amazon RDS
7 56 (6.93%) DynamoDB
7 56 (6.93%) Redis
8 51 (6.31%) Amazon Aurora
9 46 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
11 31 (3.84%) Power BI
11 31 (3.84%) RDBMS
12 27 (3.34%) Data Lake
13 25 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
14 24 (2.97%) Big Data
15 23 (2.85%) Metadata
16 19 (2.35%) DB2
17 18 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
18 16 (1.98%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 181 (22.40%) Jenkins
2 164 (20.30%) Git
3 99 (12.25%) GitLab
4 84 (10.40%) JIRA
5 72 (8.91%) JUnit
6 39 (4.83%) Cucumber
7 38 (4.70%) Mockito
8 25 (3.09%) JMeter
9 23 (2.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (2.60%) Gradle
11 17 (2.10%) Liquibase
11 17 (2.10%) Maven
12 15 (1.86%) Selenium
13 13 (1.61%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.61%) Cypress.io
14 12 (1.49%) Postman
15 10 (1.24%) ERwin
16 9 (1.11%) SonarQube
16 9 (1.11%) WebDriver
17 8 (0.99%) Artifactory
General
1 201 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 170 (21.04%) Finance
3 102 (12.62%) Public Sector
4 88 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (9.53%) Banking
6 24 (2.97%) Investment Banking
7 20 (2.48%) Front Office
8 15 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Retail
13 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.62%) Marketing
14 4 (0.50%) Legal
15 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.37%) Electronics
15 3 (0.37%) Games
15 3 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 338 (41.83%) Developer
2 128 (15.84%) Senior
3 103 (12.75%) Java Developer
4 82 (10.15%) Full-Stack Developer
5 74 (9.16%) Python Developer
6 68 (8.42%) Data Engineer
7 63 (7.80%) Architect
7 63 (7.80%) Software Engineer
8 58 (7.18%) Senior Developer
9 49 (6.06%) Lead
10 41 (5.07%) DBA
11 40 (4.95%) AWS Developer
12 36 (4.46%) Data Architect
12 36 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
13 33 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
13 33 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
14 30 (3.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 29 (3.59%) Senior Data Engineer
16 28 (3.47%) Backend Developer
17 26 (3.22%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (21.91%) Kafka
2 159 (19.68%) Spring
3 155 (19.18%) React
4 138 (17.08%) Node.js
5 133 (16.46%) RESTful
6 124 (15.35%) REST
7 117 (14.48%) Spring Boot
8 58 (7.18%) FastAPI
9 55 (6.81%) AngularJS
10 49 (6.06%) CSS
11 45 (5.57%) Hibernate
12 42 (5.20%) JSON
13 39 (4.83%) GraphQL
13 39 (4.83%) HTML
14 36 (4.46%) .NET
15 32 (3.96%) WireMock
16 31 (3.84%) Django
16 31 (3.84%) Vue
17 30 (3.71%) OpenTelemetry
18 28 (3.47%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 118 (14.60%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.71%) Management Information System
4 28 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.34%) Derivative
5 27 (3.34%) Replication
6 20 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.48%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.23%) Market Risk
9 17 (2.10%) Fixed Income
9 17 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.61%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.49%) Equities
14 11 (1.36%) Clustering
15 10 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 146 (18.07%) Linux
2 30 (3.71%) Windows
3 24 (2.97%) Unix
4 8 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.99%) VMS
5 7 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.50%) zOS
8 3 (0.37%) Android
8 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (47.52%) CI/CD
2 288 (35.64%) Agile
3 265 (32.80%) DevOps
4 212 (26.24%) Containerisation
5 207 (25.62%) Microservices
6 165 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 132 (16.34%) Software Engineering
9 130 (16.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 128 (15.84%) Observability
11 105 (13.00%) Test Automation
12 99 (12.25%) Data Modelling
13 97 (12.00%) TDD
14 90 (11.14%) Migration
15 88 (10.89%) ETL
16 83 (10.27%) Analytics
17 82 (10.15%) AI
18 79 (9.78%) Computer Science
19 77 (9.53%) Performance Tuning
20 74 (9.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 385 (47.65%) Python
2 309 (38.24%) SQL
3 251 (31.06%) Java
4 137 (16.96%) JavaScript
5 127 (15.72%) TypeScript
6 70 (8.66%) Bash
7 64 (7.92%) Go
8 39 (4.83%) PowerShell
9 37 (4.58%) C#
10 18 (2.23%) PHP
11 16 (1.98%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.49%) Groovy
12 12 (1.49%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.49%) Ruby
12 12 (1.49%) Scala
13 8 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.87%) JSX
15 6 (0.74%) Bicep
15 6 (0.74%) VBA
16 5 (0.62%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 247 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 204 (25.25%) SC Cleared
3 98 (12.13%) Degree
4 59 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.84%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 25 (3.09%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.85%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.61%) OCP
10 13 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.37%) PhD
13 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.25%) CISM
14 2 (0.25%) CISSP
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.46%) QA
3 18 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.61%) GDPR
5 8 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.87%) NCSC
7 6 (0.74%) SLA
8 5 (0.62%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.62%) NIST
8 5 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.50%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 299 (37.00%) Docker
2 11 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.99%) Postfix
5 6 (0.74%) zsh
6 5 (0.62%) NDS
6 5 (0.62%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.50%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.50%) Dovecot
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.50%) Squid
8 3 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.25%) HDFS
9 2 (0.25%) Lustre
9 2 (0.25%) NFS
9 2 (0.25%) Xen
10 1 (0.12%) Samba
10 1 (0.12%) Varnish
10 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 303 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 164 (20.30%) Terraform
3 129 (15.97%) Grafana
4 94 (11.63%) Prometheus
5 90 (11.14%) Ansible
6 26 (3.22%) Nessus
7 23 (2.85%) Argo
7 23 (2.85%) Progress Chef
8 22 (2.72%) Control-M
8 22 (2.72%) IBM Guardium
9 13 (1.61%) Puppet
10 9 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (1.11%) Istio
11 6 (0.74%) linkerd
12 5 (0.62%) Packer
12 5 (0.62%) Rancher
13 4 (0.50%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.50%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.37%) Kibana
14 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (15.22%) Oracle
2 94 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.45%) Splunk
4 39 (4.83%) Google
5 31 (3.84%) Databricks
6 27 (3.34%) Red Hat
7 25 (3.09%) VMware
8 23 (2.85%) Atlassian
9 22 (2.72%) Informatica
9 22 (2.72%) Tenable
10 16 (1.98%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.86%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.73%) Greenplum
13 11 (1.36%) IBM
13 11 (1.36%) Talend
14 10 (1.24%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (0.99%) PagerDuty
16 5 (0.62%) Cloudera
16 5 (0.62%) Confluent
16 5 (0.62%) Salesforce