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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 121 137
Rank change year-on-year -30 +16 +19
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 812 691 738
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.72% 2.36% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.16% 12.45% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 510 531
10th Percentile £358 £400 £369
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £753 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £492
% change year-on-year -6.25% -2.34% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.95 £34.05
25th Percentile £45.00 £47.88 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -28.00% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.72 £61.38 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +190.91%

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 7,273 5,550 7,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.39% 18.97% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,956 3,833 5,210
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £480
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.88% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 104 143
10th Percentile £16.72 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.56 £24.06 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.15 £58.62
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.13 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.40% -25.00% -31.09%

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 1 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 1 May 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 1 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 -43 679 £500 -9.09% 267
UK excluding London -11 381 £450 -6.25% 138
London -34 337 £550 -5.98% 150
Work from Home -38 256 £500 -9.09% 158
North of England -24 141 £450 -5.26% 31
Midlands -12 94 £459 -8.20% 18
North West -24 77 £450 -5.26% 13
South East -37 74 £433 -6.54% 57
West Midlands -12 69 £475 -13.64% 8
Yorkshire -24 54 £475 -10.38% 8
Scotland +10 49 £425 -7.61% 9
East Midlands -14 24 £410 -18.00% 10
South West -32 22 £578 -7.52% 16
East of England -29 10 £575 +27.78% 8
North East -15 9 £425 -8.60% 10
Northern Ireland +4 3 £400 -20.00%

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 48 (5.91%) Confluence
2 39 (4.80%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.46%) Apache
5 13 (1.60%) nginx
6 8 (0.99%) Camunda
7 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.62%) SAS
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.37%) Appian
8 3 (0.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) Drupal
8 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.49%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 475 (58.50%) AWS
2 255 (31.40%) Azure
3 152 (18.72%) GitHub
4 127 (15.64%) GCP
5 112 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 105 (12.93%) Serverless
7 94 (11.58%) GitHub Actions
8 74 (9.11%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 36 (4.43%) OpenShift
15 35 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
16 30 (3.69%) Power Platform
17 28 (3.45%) Snowflake
18 24 (2.96%) Route 53
19 20 (2.46%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.34%) Firewall
2 17 (2.09%) DNS
3 7 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.74%) HTTP
4 6 (0.74%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.49%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.49%) SSH
5 4 (0.49%) VPN
5 4 (0.49%) WAN
6 3 (0.37%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.37%) SAN
6 3 (0.37%) SSL
7 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.25%) Internet
7 2 (0.25%) LAN
7 2 (0.25%) MQTT
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (18.84%) SQL Server
2 147 (18.10%) Relational Database
3 146 (17.98%) MongoDB
4 131 (16.13%) NoSQL
5 123 (15.15%) MySQL
6 76 (9.36%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (7.51%) DynamoDB
8 56 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 54 (6.65%) Redis
10 34 (4.19%) Big Data
10 34 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
12 31 (3.82%) RDBMS
13 27 (3.33%) Data Lake
14 24 (2.96%) Power BI
15 23 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
16 21 (2.59%) Metadata
17 20 (2.46%) Tableau
18 18 (2.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 166 (20.44%) Jenkins
2 154 (18.97%) Git
3 83 (10.22%) GitLab
4 79 (9.73%) JIRA
5 78 (9.61%) JUnit
6 49 (6.03%) Mockito
7 30 (3.69%) Cucumber
7 30 (3.69%) Maven
8 23 (2.83%) JMeter
9 22 (2.71%) Gradle
10 20 (2.46%) Selenium
11 17 (2.09%) SonarQube
12 16 (1.97%) WebDriver
13 14 (1.72%) Liquibase
14 12 (1.48%) Gatling
15 11 (1.35%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.35%) jMock
16 10 (1.23%) Bitbucket
17 9 (1.11%) Artifactory
17 9 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 177 (21.80%) Social Skills
2 165 (20.32%) Finance
3 98 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 74 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.40%) Banking
6 27 (3.33%) Front Office
7 16 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.11%) Legal
10 9 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.99%) Law
12 6 (0.74%) Retail
13 5 (0.62%) Automotive
13 5 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.62%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.37%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.37%) Games
14 3 (0.37%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 317 (39.04%) Developer
2 139 (17.12%) Senior
3 98 (12.07%) Java Developer
4 82 (10.10%) Full-Stack Developer
5 79 (9.73%) Python Developer
6 77 (9.48%) DBA
6 77 (9.48%) Software Engineer
7 70 (8.62%) Data Engineer
8 63 (7.76%) Architect
9 56 (6.90%) Lead
10 52 (6.40%) Senior Developer
11 37 (4.56%) Administrator
12 36 (4.43%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 35 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
14 33 (4.06%) Java Engineer
15 28 (3.45%) Lead Developer
16 26 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
16 26 (3.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 26 (3.20%) Senior Java Developer
16 26 (3.20%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (23.77%) Kafka
2 175 (21.55%) Spring
3 159 (19.58%) React
4 141 (17.36%) RESTful
5 133 (16.38%) Spring Boot
6 131 (16.13%) REST
7 126 (15.52%) Node.js
8 63 (7.76%) FastAPI
9 58 (7.14%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.42%) Hibernate
11 40 (4.93%) .NET
12 39 (4.80%) GraphQL
12 39 (4.80%) JSON
13 38 (4.68%) CSS
14 37 (4.56%) WireMock
15 36 (4.43%) HTML
16 35 (4.31%) JPA
17 31 (3.82%) Django
18 29 (3.57%) OAuth
18 29 (3.57%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 110 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 75 (9.24%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.69%) Derivative
5 26 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 25 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.71%) Fixed Income
7 22 (2.71%) Replication
8 21 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.22%) Equities
11 17 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (2.09%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.23%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.23%) Market Risk
13 9 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.99%) PACS
14 8 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (16.01%) Linux
2 36 (4.43%) Unix
3 25 (3.08%) Windows
4 13 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.49%) zOS
7 3 (0.37%) Android
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.25%) Solaris
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (44.83%) CI/CD
2 303 (37.32%) Agile
3 253 (31.16%) DevOps
4 205 (25.25%) Microservices
5 197 (24.26%) Containerisation
6 148 (18.23%) Software Engineering
7 140 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 136 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
9 126 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 120 (14.78%) Observability
11 112 (13.79%) Test Automation
12 108 (13.30%) Data Modelling
13 100 (12.32%) TDD
14 94 (11.58%) AI
15 92 (11.33%) Migration
16 89 (10.96%) Performance Tuning
17 80 (9.85%) Mentoring
18 79 (9.73%) ETL
19 76 (9.36%) Analytics
20 75 (9.24%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 347 (42.73%) Python
2 301 (37.07%) SQL
3 282 (34.73%) Java
4 129 (15.89%) TypeScript
5 119 (14.66%) JavaScript
6 62 (7.64%) Bash
7 46 (5.67%) PowerShell
8 44 (5.42%) C#
9 32 (3.94%) Scala
10 31 (3.82%) Go
11 22 (2.71%) Shell Script
12 20 (2.46%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.48%) PHP
14 9 (1.11%) Groovy
14 9 (1.11%) Ruby
15 8 (0.99%) Bicep
15 8 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.99%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.62%) Perl
16 5 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 265 (32.64%) Security Cleared
2 213 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.13%) Degree
4 36 (4.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
8 13 (1.60%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.23%) OCP
11 6 (0.74%) CISSP
12 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.49%) CISM
14 3 (0.37%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.79%) QA
2 39 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.48%) GDPR
5 9 (1.11%) SLA
6 8 (0.99%) WCAG
7 7 (0.86%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.86%) NCSC
7 7 (0.86%) NIST
8 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
10 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) DICOM
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 299 (36.82%) Docker
2 11 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.23%) Postfix
4 9 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.62%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.62%) Ceph
6 5 (0.62%) HDFS
7 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.37%) NFS
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.25%) Lustre
8 2 (0.25%) Samba
8 2 (0.25%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) KVM
9 1 (0.12%) Varnish
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 258 (31.77%) Kubernetes
2 142 (17.49%) Terraform
3 123 (15.15%) Grafana
4 81 (9.98%) Prometheus
5 66 (8.13%) Ansible
6 16 (1.97%) Control-M
6 16 (1.97%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (1.97%) Nessus
7 15 (1.85%) Argo
8 12 (1.48%) HAProxy
9 11 (1.35%) Kibana
9 11 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (1.35%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.23%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.23%) Puppet
11 9 (1.11%) Rancher
12 8 (0.99%) Istio
13 6 (0.74%) linkerd
14 4 (0.49%) Packer
15 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 148 (18.23%) Oracle
2 107 (13.18%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.19%) Databricks
4 32 (3.94%) Splunk
5 22 (2.71%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.59%) Google
6 21 (2.59%) Red Hat
7 20 (2.46%) Informatica
7 20 (2.46%) VMware
8 18 (2.22%) Atlassian
9 16 (1.97%) Tenable
10 14 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
11 13 (1.60%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.60%) Talend
12 12 (1.48%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.23%) Confluent
14 9 (1.11%) IBM
15 8 (0.99%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.99%) PagerDuty
16 7 (0.86%) Greenplum