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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 121 137
Rank change year-on-year -39 +16 +19
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 796 659 724
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.64% 2.30% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.86% 12.17% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 492 538
10th Percentile £363 £400 £373
25th Percentile £421 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £588 £641 £638
90th Percentile £700 £798 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £482
% change year-on-year -6.20% -0.47% -1.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £39.00 - £34.05
25th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -13.33% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.90 - -
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 7,332 5,413 7,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 18.92% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,932 3,714 5,240
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% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -0.52% +0.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 95 147
10th Percentile £15.07 £20.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.73 £23.88 £20.88
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.91% -17.23% -31.73%
75th Percentile £72.25 £65.81 £61.55
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.22 £73.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £31.64 £39.25
% change year-on-year +35.90% -19.39% -29.53%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -45 665 £513 -4.56% 213
UK excluding London -19 362 £450 -6.20% 127
London -40 343 £550 -8.33% 109
Work from Home -49 252 £500 -9.09% 143
North of England -30 131 £450 -5.26% 46
Midlands -14 93 £450 -10.00% 17
North West -21 68 £450 -5.26% 32
West Midlands -23 67 £450 -10.00% 6
South East -46 63 £471 +1.73% 37
Yorkshire -29 52 £475 -5.00% 8
Scotland +11 51 £425 -9.77% 2
East Midlands -13 24 £445 -11.00% 11
South West -32 20 £606 -3.04% 9
North East -22 10 £425 -8.60% 6
East of England -35 10 £575 +27.78% 8
Northern Ireland -1 1 £400 -20.00% 8
Wales -11 1 - - 3

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 (5.90%) Confluence
2 42 (5.28%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.64%) Apache
5 11 (1.38%) nginx
6 8 (1.01%) Camunda
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.50%) 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%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.63%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.50%) 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
1 446 (56.03%) AWS
2 250 (31.41%) Azure
3 134 (16.83%) GitHub
4 125 (15.70%) GCP
5 99 (12.44%) Serverless
6 97 (12.19%) Amazon S3
7 84 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 46 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (5.40%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (4.15%) Power Platform
15 30 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (3.77%) Route 53
16 29 (3.64%) Snowflake
17 28 (3.52%) OpenShift
18 25 (3.14%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.26%) Firewall
2 17 (2.14%) DNS
3 7 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.75%) HTTP
5 5 (0.63%) SSH
6 4 (0.50%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.50%) iSCSI
6 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.50%) SSL
6 4 (0.50%) VPN
6 4 (0.50%) WAN
7 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.38%) SAN
8 2 (0.25%) LAN
8 2 (0.25%) MQTT
8 2 (0.25%) NaaS
8 2 (0.25%) Network Security
8 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) NAS
9 1 (0.13%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (18.59%) SQL Server
2 146 (18.34%) MongoDB
3 138 (17.34%) Relational Database
4 133 (16.71%) NoSQL
5 112 (14.07%) MySQL
6 69 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
7 65 (8.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 59 (7.41%) DynamoDB
9 48 (6.03%) Redis
10 37 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (4.15%) Big Data
12 30 (3.77%) RDBMS
13 29 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (3.39%) Power BI
15 25 (3.14%) Data Lake
16 22 (2.76%) Oracle Database
16 22 (2.76%) Tableau
17 20 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
17 20 (2.51%) Metadata
18 19 (2.39%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 163 (20.48%) Jenkins
2 148 (18.59%) Git
3 80 (10.05%) GitLab
4 78 (9.80%) JIRA
5 75 (9.42%) JUnit
6 55 (6.91%) Mockito
7 35 (4.40%) Maven
8 26 (3.27%) Cucumber
9 24 (3.02%) Gradle
10 21 (2.64%) SonarQube
11 20 (2.51%) JMeter
11 20 (2.51%) Selenium
12 19 (2.39%) Liquibase
13 16 (2.01%) WebDriver
14 14 (1.76%) DbUnit
15 13 (1.63%) Gatling
15 13 (1.63%) jMock
16 11 (1.38%) Bitbucket Server
17 8 (1.01%) Flyway
18 7 (0.88%) Artifactory
General
1 163 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 161 (20.23%) Finance
3 100 (12.56%) Public Sector
4 79 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (7.29%) Banking
6 25 (3.14%) Front Office
7 15 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (1.88%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.38%) Law
10 8 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.88%) Legal
12 5 (0.63%) Automotive
12 5 (0.63%) Retail
13 4 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.50%) Military
14 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.25%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 307 (38.57%) Developer
2 142 (17.84%) Senior
3 93 (11.68%) Java Developer
4 79 (9.92%) Python Developer
5 78 (9.80%) Software Engineer
6 77 (9.67%) DBA
7 72 (9.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 70 (8.79%) Data Engineer
9 69 (8.67%) Architect
10 57 (7.16%) Lead
10 57 (7.16%) Senior Developer
11 36 (4.52%) Java Engineer
12 35 (4.40%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 34 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.77%) Administrator
14 30 (3.77%) Senior Java Developer
15 27 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 27 (3.39%) Lead Developer
15 27 (3.39%) Software Developer
16 25 (3.14%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (24.25%) Kafka
2 179 (22.49%) Spring
3 157 (19.72%) React
4 146 (18.34%) RESTful
5 139 (17.46%) Spring Boot
6 136 (17.09%) REST
7 115 (14.45%) Node.js
8 66 (8.29%) FastAPI
9 60 (7.54%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.28%) GraphQL
11 40 (5.03%) JPA
12 38 (4.77%) .NET
13 37 (4.65%) Hibernate
14 36 (4.52%) JSON
15 35 (4.40%) HTML
15 35 (4.40%) Web Services
15 35 (4.40%) WireMock
16 33 (4.15%) CSS
17 32 (4.02%) Django
18 31 (3.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 111 (13.94%) Cloud Native
2 87 (10.93%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.64%) Derivative
5 26 (3.27%) Data Structures
5 26 (3.27%) Replication
6 23 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.76%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.64%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.51%) Equities
10 17 (2.14%) Onboarding
11 16 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
12 10 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.01%) Market Risk
15 7 (0.88%) AI Agents
15 7 (0.88%) Clustering
15 7 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 112 (14.07%) Linux
2 34 (4.27%) Unix
3 24 (3.02%) Windows
4 15 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.50%) Solaris
6 4 (0.50%) zOS
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
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 (44.35%) CI/CD
2 294 (36.93%) Agile
3 250 (31.41%) DevOps
4 220 (27.64%) Microservices
5 191 (23.99%) Containerisation
6 147 (18.47%) Software Engineering
7 137 (17.21%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (15.33%) Observability
10 118 (14.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 110 (13.82%) Data Modelling
12 109 (13.69%) Test Automation
13 106 (13.32%) TDD
14 98 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
15 96 (12.06%) AI
16 95 (11.93%) Migration
17 81 (10.18%) Event-Driven
18 78 (9.80%) Mentoring
19 75 (9.42%) ETL
19 75 (9.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 340 (42.71%) Python
2 300 (37.69%) SQL
3 284 (35.68%) Java
4 136 (17.09%) TypeScript
5 117 (14.70%) JavaScript
6 50 (6.28%) Bash
7 45 (5.65%) PowerShell
8 42 (5.28%) C#
9 32 (4.02%) Scala
10 31 (3.89%) Go
11 21 (2.64%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.51%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.26%) Bicep
13 10 (1.26%) Groovy
13 10 (1.26%) PHP
14 9 (1.13%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.01%) Ruby
16 6 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.63%) Perl
17 5 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 260 (32.66%) Security Cleared
2 215 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.66%) Degree
4 34 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 21 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.63%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.26%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.75%) CISSP
10 6 (0.75%) OCP
11 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.50%) CISM
13 3 (0.38%) PhD
13 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.78%) QA
2 43 (5.40%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.26%) GDPR
4 10 (1.26%) SLA
4 10 (1.26%) WCAG
5 7 (0.88%) ISO 20022
5 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.88%) NIST
6 6 (0.75%) NCSC
6 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.25%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 283 (35.55%) Docker
2 11 (1.38%) Postfix
3 9 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.75%) Ceph
7 5 (0.63%) Active Directory
8 4 (0.50%) HDFS
8 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.38%) Squid
10 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.25%) NFS
10 2 (0.25%) Samba
11 1 (0.13%) iptables
11 1 (0.13%) KVM
11 1 (0.13%) RACF
11 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 253 (31.78%) Kubernetes
2 135 (16.96%) Terraform
3 129 (16.21%) Grafana
4 90 (11.31%) Prometheus
5 55 (6.91%) Ansible
6 16 (2.01%) Control-M
6 16 (2.01%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.01%) Nessus
7 15 (1.88%) Argo
8 13 (1.63%) Kibana
8 13 (1.63%) Oracle RMAN
9 12 (1.51%) Data Guard
9 12 (1.51%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.13%) Istio
11 8 (1.01%) Rancher
12 5 (0.63%) linkerd
13 4 (0.50%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.50%) Puppet
14 2 (0.25%) Consul
14 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 146 (18.34%) Oracle
2 96 (12.06%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.15%) Databricks
4 28 (3.52%) Splunk
5 24 (3.02%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.64%) Informatica
7 20 (2.51%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.39%) Google
9 18 (2.26%) Atlassian
10 17 (2.14%) Jaspersoft
11 16 (2.01%) Tenable
12 14 (1.76%) Talend
12 14 (1.76%) VMware
13 13 (1.63%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.51%) Salesforce
15 10 (1.26%) Confluent
15 10 (1.26%) IBM
16 8 (1.01%) OpenAI
17 7 (0.88%) Greenplum
18 6 (0.75%) Sybase