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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 111 133
Rank change year-on-year -50 +22 +23
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 884 797 706
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.41% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.85% 13.25% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 607 532
10th Percentile £364 £385 £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 £641
90th Percentile £735 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £466
% change year-on-year - +1.93% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £26.60 £54.50 £51.88
25th Percentile £27.75 £57.50 £69.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% -18.75% +49.46%
75th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.50 -
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 8,147 6,013 7,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.33% 18.16% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,407 4,064 5,009
10th Percentile £355 £344 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
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 257 91 101
10th Percentile £16.42 £19.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -1.41% -35.45%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.38 £59.95
90th Percentile £76.20 £78.70 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -57 719 £513 -5.31% 379
UK excluding London -30 408 £475 - 203
London -63 349 £550 -8.33% 237
Work from Home -61 284 £500 -14.00% 205
North of England -41 131 £483 -1.48% 49
Midlands +9 104 £448 -10.50% 26
West Midlands -19 75 £448 -5.79% 16
South East -44 74 £468 +7.47% 56
Yorkshire -17 60 £488 -2.50% 15
North West -42 60 £481 +1.26% 31
Scotland -2 51 £425 -10.53% 23
South West -25 31 £700 +27.27% 21
East Midlands +3 27 £447 -12.78% 10
East of England -14 18 £575 +27.78% 8
North East -46 11 £425 -19.05% 3
Wales -14 4 - - 6

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 (5.43%) Confluence
2 36 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 25 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.15%) Apache
5 7 (0.79%) nginx
5 7 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.68%) CMS
7 5 (0.57%) Camunda
8 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.34%) IIS
9 3 (0.34%) JBoss
9 3 (0.34%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.02%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.45%) Trello
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Maya
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 468 (52.94%) AWS
2 309 (34.95%) Azure
3 163 (18.44%) GCP
4 162 (18.33%) GitHub
5 112 (12.67%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (11.09%) Serverless
7 95 (10.75%) Amazon S3
8 70 (7.92%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
10 57 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
13 53 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 32 (3.62%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (3.05%) Azure AKS
16 27 (3.05%) Power Platform
17 26 (2.94%) Route 53
18 23 (2.60%) AWS KMS
18 23 (2.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.15%) Firewall
2 16 (1.81%) DNS
3 12 (1.36%) SSH
4 10 (1.13%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.68%) HTTP
5 6 (0.68%) SSL
5 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.45%) SAN
7 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.34%) MQTT
7 3 (0.34%) Network Security
7 3 (0.34%) VPN
7 3 (0.34%) WAN
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) NaaS
8 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (19.46%) MongoDB
2 168 (19.00%) Relational Database
3 167 (18.89%) SQL Server
4 138 (15.61%) MySQL
5 121 (13.69%) NoSQL
6 76 (8.60%) Redis
7 69 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
8 63 (7.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 54 (6.11%) DynamoDB
10 37 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (3.73%) RDBMS
12 31 (3.51%) Big Data
12 31 (3.51%) Oracle Database
13 26 (2.94%) Data Lake
14 22 (2.49%) Power BI
15 20 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (2.15%) Metadata
17 17 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
18 15 (1.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 201 (22.74%) Jenkins
2 197 (22.29%) Git
3 101 (11.43%) JIRA
4 85 (9.62%) GitLab
4 85 (9.62%) JUnit
5 60 (6.79%) Mockito
6 51 (5.77%) Maven
7 35 (3.96%) Gradle
8 33 (3.73%) Cucumber
9 28 (3.17%) Selenium
10 26 (2.94%) SonarQube
11 25 (2.83%) JMeter
12 23 (2.60%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.26%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.92%) Gatling
15 16 (1.81%) Bitbucket
16 14 (1.58%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.47%) jMock
18 11 (1.24%) Bitbucket Server
19 10 (1.13%) Cypress.io
General
1 189 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 163 (18.44%) Finance
3 134 (15.16%) Public Sector
4 117 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.22%) Banking
6 27 (3.05%) Front Office
7 23 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.36%) Military
10 10 (1.13%) Law
10 10 (1.13%) Legal
11 9 (1.02%) Retail
12 8 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
15 4 (0.45%) Marketing
15 4 (0.45%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 353 (39.93%) Developer
2 162 (18.33%) Senior
3 120 (13.57%) Java Developer
4 93 (10.52%) DBA
5 85 (9.62%) Software Engineer
6 78 (8.82%) Lead
7 77 (8.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 69 (7.81%) Python Developer
9 66 (7.47%) Senior Developer
10 65 (7.35%) Data Engineer
11 56 (6.33%) Architect
12 45 (5.09%) Administrator
13 42 (4.75%) Java Engineer
14 38 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.07%) Lead Developer
16 35 (3.96%) Software Developer
17 32 (3.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 31 (3.51%) Backend Developer
19 30 (3.39%) Python Engineer
20 29 (3.28%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (24.77%) REST
2 210 (23.76%) Spring
3 185 (20.93%) RESTful
4 184 (20.81%) Kafka
5 181 (20.48%) React
6 168 (19.00%) Spring Boot
7 135 (15.27%) Node.js
8 64 (7.24%) AngularJS
9 62 (7.01%) FastAPI
10 55 (6.22%) HTML
11 54 (6.11%) CSS
12 50 (5.66%) .NET
13 49 (5.54%) OpenAPI
13 49 (5.54%) Swagger
14 44 (4.98%) Web Services
15 43 (4.86%) Django
16 40 (4.52%) OAuth
16 40 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
17 38 (4.30%) JPA
18 37 (4.19%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 162 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 119 (13.46%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.07%) Replication
5 34 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.83%) Equities
9 24 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (2.71%) Derivative
10 23 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (2.26%) Fixed Income
12 18 (2.04%) Algorithms
12 18 (2.04%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.58%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.58%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.24%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.02%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.90%) Linux
2 36 (4.07%) Unix
3 33 (3.73%) Windows
4 29 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.90%) Solaris
8 5 (0.57%) AIX
8 5 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Android
9 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) VMS
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (46.38%) CI/CD
2 346 (39.14%) Agile
3 290 (32.81%) Microservices
4 283 (32.01%) DevOps
5 213 (24.10%) Containerisation
6 185 (20.93%) Software Engineering
7 162 (18.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 162 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
8 137 (15.50%) Test Automation
9 125 (14.14%) Observability
10 122 (13.80%) AI
10 122 (13.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 119 (13.46%) Performance Tuning
12 114 (12.90%) Data Modelling
13 112 (12.67%) TDD
14 108 (12.22%) Migration
15 106 (11.99%) Scrum
16 105 (11.88%) Event-Driven
17 91 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 88 (9.95%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 341 (38.57%) Python
2 326 (36.88%) Java
3 317 (35.86%) SQL
4 168 (19.00%) TypeScript
5 132 (14.93%) JavaScript
6 53 (6.00%) C#
7 45 (5.09%) PowerShell
8 41 (4.64%) Bash
9 35 (3.96%) Go
10 29 (3.28%) Scala
11 19 (2.15%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.58%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.47%) Groovy
13 13 (1.47%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.47%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.36%) PHP
15 11 (1.24%) Ruby
16 9 (1.02%) Perl
17 7 (0.79%) Rust
18 6 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 306 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 259 (29.30%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.79%) Degree
4 44 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.70%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
9 14 (1.58%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.13%) OCP
11 7 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.68%) CISSP
13 4 (0.45%) CISM
13 4 (0.45%) PhD
14 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.11%) CISA
16 1 (0.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.69%) QA
2 43 (4.86%) Accessibility
3 37 (4.19%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.81%) GDPR
4 16 (1.81%) WCAG
5 6 (0.68%) GMP
5 6 (0.68%) GxP
6 5 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
6 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 5 (0.57%) SLA
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.45%) NIST
7 4 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.23%) GRC
System Software
1 346 (39.14%) Docker
2 14 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.24%) Postfix
5 10 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
6 8 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.68%) Ceph
8 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.45%) Squid
10 3 (0.34%) HDFS
11 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.11%) NFS
12 1 (0.11%) RACF
12 1 (0.11%) Samba
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 313 (35.41%) Kubernetes
2 142 (16.06%) Terraform
3 124 (14.03%) Grafana
4 93 (10.52%) Prometheus
5 39 (4.41%) Ansible
6 18 (2.04%) Kibana
7 17 (1.92%) Oracle RMAN
8 15 (1.70%) Argo
9 12 (1.36%) Control-M
9 12 (1.36%) Data Guard
9 12 (1.36%) IBM Guardium
9 12 (1.36%) Nessus
10 10 (1.13%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (0.68%) Istio
11 6 (0.68%) Rancher
12 4 (0.45%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.34%) Bosun
13 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
13 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 185 (20.93%) Oracle
2 130 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.41%) Google
4 34 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.51%) Databricks
6 22 (2.49%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.26%) Splunk
8 17 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
8 17 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.81%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.58%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.58%) VMware
11 13 (1.47%) Informatica
12 12 (1.36%) Tenable
13 10 (1.13%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.13%) IBM
14 9 (1.02%) Sybase
14 9 (1.02%) Talend
15 7 (0.79%) TikTok