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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 109 132
Rank change year-on-year -58 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 869 795 715
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.41% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.66% 13.31% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 596 532
10th Percentile £369 £397 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +4.90%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £478
% change year-on-year - -0.52% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £25.45 - £51.88
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £69.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -31.25% +49.46%
75th Percentile £75.25 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £73.50 -
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 8,149 5,974 7,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.12% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,434 4,031 4,977
10th Percentile £357 £343 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 93 102
10th Percentile £15.94 £20.88 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.32 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +1.55% -34.35%
75th Percentile £60.94 £62.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.46 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -38.77%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -57 709 £501 -8.87% 846
UK excluding London -32 389 £475 - 307
London -76 349 £550 -8.33% 618
Work from Home -68 279 £500 -15.86% 354
North of England -54 125 £488 -2.50% 68
Midlands +3 101 £448 -10.50% 33
West Midlands -7 73 £448 -8.21% 15
South East -40 71 £471 +8.16% 90
North West -45 60 £500 +5.26% 42
Yorkshire -20 55 £488 -2.50% 15
Scotland -11 45 £425 -10.53% 35
South West -28 30 £700 +30.23% 38
East Midlands +10 26 £459 -10.54% 18
East of England -15 18 £475 +5.56% 19
North East -50 10 £425 -22.73% 11
Wales -11 4 - - 12

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 42 (4.83%) Confluence
2 35 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 25 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.30%) Apache
5 7 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
6 6 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.58%) Camunda
8 4 (0.46%) nginx
8 4 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.35%) IIS
9 3 (0.35%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 454 (52.24%) AWS
2 293 (33.72%) Azure
3 158 (18.18%) GitHub
4 146 (16.80%) GCP
5 114 (13.12%) GitHub Actions
6 95 (10.93%) Serverless
7 92 (10.59%) Amazon S3
8 69 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 57 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
12 53 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (5.98%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (3.57%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.45%) AWS KMS
16 27 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
17 26 (2.99%) Power Platform
18 25 (2.88%) Azure AKS
19 24 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.30%) DNS
2 19 (2.19%) Firewall
3 15 (1.73%) SSH
4 10 (1.15%) HTTP
4 10 (1.15%) HTTPS
5 9 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.69%) SSL
7 4 (0.46%) SAN
8 3 (0.35%) 5G
8 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.35%) MQTT
8 3 (0.35%) Network Security
8 3 (0.35%) VPN
9 2 (0.23%) 4G
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.23%) NaaS
9 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (19.91%) MongoDB
2 169 (19.45%) SQL Server
3 163 (18.76%) Relational Database
4 144 (16.57%) MySQL
5 113 (13.00%) NoSQL
6 85 (9.78%) Redis
7 76 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
8 71 (8.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 44 (5.06%) DynamoDB
10 38 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (4.03%) RDBMS
12 31 (3.57%) Oracle Database
13 28 (3.22%) Big Data
14 25 (2.88%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (2.53%) Power BI
17 19 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
17 19 (2.19%) Metadata
18 16 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
19 13 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 196 (22.55%) Git
2 193 (22.21%) Jenkins
3 91 (10.47%) JIRA
4 90 (10.36%) GitLab
5 81 (9.32%) JUnit
6 57 (6.56%) Mockito
7 48 (5.52%) Maven
8 34 (3.91%) Gradle
9 31 (3.57%) Cucumber
10 28 (3.22%) Selenium
11 25 (2.88%) JMeter
11 25 (2.88%) SonarQube
12 24 (2.76%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.30%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.96%) Gatling
15 16 (1.84%) Bitbucket
16 12 (1.38%) DbUnit
17 11 (1.27%) Bitbucket Server
17 11 (1.27%) Flyway
17 11 (1.27%) jMock
General
1 190 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.92%) Finance
3 143 (16.46%) Public Sector
4 116 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (5.87%) Banking
6 25 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.53%) Front Office
8 13 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.38%) Military
10 11 (1.27%) Retail
11 10 (1.15%) Law
11 10 (1.15%) Legal
12 8 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.81%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.58%) Automotive
15 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.46%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.46%) Marketing
16 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 336 (38.67%) Developer
2 167 (19.22%) Senior
3 112 (12.89%) Java Developer
4 103 (11.85%) DBA
5 79 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 74 (8.52%) Lead
7 69 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 68 (7.83%) Senior Developer
9 65 (7.48%) Data Engineer
10 64 (7.36%) Python Developer
11 54 (6.21%) Administrator
12 50 (5.75%) Architect
13 43 (4.95%) DevOps Engineer
13 43 (4.95%) Java Engineer
14 35 (4.03%) Software Developer
15 33 (3.80%) Lead Developer
16 32 (3.68%) Backend Developer
17 30 (3.45%) PostgreSQL DBA
18 27 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 27 (3.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (25.09%) REST
2 205 (23.59%) Spring
3 185 (21.29%) Kafka
4 182 (20.94%) RESTful
5 163 (18.76%) React
6 160 (18.41%) Spring Boot
7 122 (14.04%) Node.js
8 58 (6.67%) HTML
9 56 (6.44%) CSS
10 55 (6.33%) AngularJS
11 53 (6.10%) FastAPI
12 50 (5.75%) .NET
13 47 (5.41%) OpenAPI
13 47 (5.41%) Swagger
14 42 (4.83%) OAuth
15 41 (4.72%) Django
16 39 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (4.49%) Web Services
17 35 (4.03%) GraphQL
17 35 (4.03%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 162 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 117 (13.46%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.18%) Replication
4 39 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.80%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (2.30%) Equities
10 20 (2.30%) Onboarding
11 19 (2.19%) Derivative
12 16 (1.84%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.73%) AI Agents
13 15 (1.73%) Fixed Income
14 13 (1.50%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.04%) Management Information System
17 8 (0.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 112 (12.89%) Linux
2 39 (4.49%) Unix
3 31 (3.57%) Windows
4 25 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.30%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.15%) Solaris
8 6 (0.69%) AIX
8 6 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (46.95%) CI/CD
2 330 (37.97%) Agile
3 281 (32.34%) DevOps
4 274 (31.53%) Microservices
5 201 (23.13%) Containerisation
6 177 (20.37%) Software Engineering
7 151 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (17.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 140 (16.11%) Test Automation
10 132 (15.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 125 (14.38%) Performance Tuning
12 123 (14.15%) Observability
13 119 (13.69%) AI
13 119 (13.69%) Data Modelling
14 111 (12.77%) Migration
15 107 (12.31%) TDD
16 105 (12.08%) Event-Driven
17 103 (11.85%) Scrum
18 98 (11.28%) Validation
19 85 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 321 (36.94%) Python
2 318 (36.59%) SQL
3 315 (36.25%) Java
4 158 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 115 (13.23%) JavaScript
6 52 (5.98%) C#
7 48 (5.52%) PowerShell
8 47 (5.41%) Bash
9 34 (3.91%) Go
10 31 (3.57%) Scala
11 20 (2.30%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.84%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.61%) Groovy
13 14 (1.61%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.50%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.38%) PHP
15 12 (1.38%) Ruby
16 10 (1.15%) Perl
17 8 (0.92%) Rust
18 6 (0.69%) Korn
Qualifications
1 318 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 269 (30.96%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.21%) Degree
4 42 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.68%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (2.19%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.15%) OCP
11 9 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.46%) CISSP
14 2 (0.23%) CISM
14 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.12%) CISA
15 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.12%) PhD
15 1 (0.12%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.06%) QA
2 42 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 40 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.07%) GDPR
5 16 (1.84%) WCAG
6 6 (0.69%) GMP
6 6 (0.69%) GxP
7 5 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.58%) SLA
8 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.46%) NIST
8 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 340 (39.13%) Docker
2 14 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (1.04%) Postfix
5 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.69%) Ceph
7 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.46%) Squid
9 3 (0.35%) HDFS
10 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.12%) NFS
11 1 (0.12%) RACF
11 1 (0.12%) Samba
11 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 303 (34.87%) Kubernetes
2 151 (17.38%) Terraform
3 120 (13.81%) Grafana
4 90 (10.36%) Prometheus
5 39 (4.49%) Ansible
6 21 (2.42%) Kibana
7 17 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
8 15 (1.73%) Argo
9 12 (1.38%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.15%) Control-M
10 10 (1.15%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 8 (0.92%) IBM Guardium
11 8 (0.92%) Karpenter
11 8 (0.92%) Nessus
12 6 (0.69%) Istio
12 6 (0.69%) Rancher
13 5 (0.58%) Puppet
14 3 (0.35%) Bosun
14 3 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 185 (21.29%) Oracle
2 135 (15.54%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.37%) Google
4 34 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.45%) Databricks
6 23 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.30%) Splunk
8 17 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.84%) Informatica
10 15 (1.73%) Jaspersoft
11 14 (1.61%) OpenAI
11 14 (1.61%) VMware
12 13 (1.50%) Red Hat
13 12 (1.38%) Atlassian
14 10 (1.15%) CyberArk
15 9 (1.04%) Talend
16 8 (0.92%) IBM
16 8 (0.92%) Sybase
16 8 (0.92%) Tenable
17 7 (0.81%) TikTok