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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 107 131
Rank change year-on-year -59 +24 +25
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 868 801 712
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.42% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.64% 13.28% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 603 532
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £424 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +4.63%
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% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £25.45 £36.05 £51.88
25th Percentile £27.75 £46.63 £69.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% -25.00% +49.46%
75th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £74.50 -
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 8,157 6,033 7,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.29% 18.20% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,429 4,082 4,976
10th Percentile £356 £343 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.89%
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 254 92 102
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.71 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%
75th Percentile £61.31 £62.44 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.35 £78.58 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -39.48%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -58 709 £511 -7.18% 560
UK excluding London -32 394 £475 - 221
London -75 346 £550 -8.33% 396
Work from Home -58 278 £500 -15.18% 251
North of England -44 128 £485 -3.00% 52
Midlands +6 102 £448 -10.50% 26
West Midlands -10 74 £448 -5.79% 11
South East -45 72 £471 +8.16% 65
Yorkshire -14 60 £488 -2.50% 14
North West -43 58 £483 +1.68% 32
Scotland -13 45 £425 -10.53% 26
South West -29 30 £700 +30.23% 27
East Midlands +9 26 £459 -10.54% 15
East of England -16 18 £475 +5.56% 11
North East -50 10 £425 -22.73% 6
Wales -16 4 - - 10

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 41 (4.72%) Confluence
2 35 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 24 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.19%) 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 5 (0.58%) 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
Cloud Services
1 454 (52.30%) AWS
2 289 (33.29%) Azure
3 154 (17.74%) GitHub
4 149 (17.17%) GCP
5 111 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
6 97 (11.18%) Serverless
7 90 (10.37%) Amazon S3
8 71 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 57 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
12 53 (6.11%) Amazon SQS
12 53 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
13 32 (3.69%) Snowflake
14 28 (3.23%) AWS KMS
15 26 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (3.00%) Power Platform
16 25 (2.88%) Azure AKS
17 24 (2.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.30%) DNS
2 18 (2.07%) 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
1 171 (19.70%) MongoDB
2 167 (19.24%) SQL Server
3 163 (18.78%) Relational Database
4 141 (16.24%) MySQL
5 115 (13.25%) NoSQL
6 84 (9.68%) Redis
7 74 (8.53%) Amazon RDS
8 68 (7.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 46 (5.30%) DynamoDB
10 36 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (4.03%) RDBMS
12 31 (3.57%) Oracle Database
13 29 (3.34%) Big Data
14 23 (2.65%) Data Lake
15 22 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (2.53%) Power BI
16 19 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (2.07%) Metadata
18 16 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
19 13 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 194 (22.35%) Git
2 190 (21.89%) Jenkins
3 94 (10.83%) JIRA
4 88 (10.14%) GitLab
5 81 (9.33%) JUnit
6 57 (6.57%) Mockito
7 47 (5.41%) Maven
8 34 (3.92%) Gradle
9 31 (3.57%) Cucumber
10 28 (3.23%) Selenium
11 25 (2.88%) JMeter
12 24 (2.76%) Liquibase
12 24 (2.76%) SonarQube
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
1 184 (21.20%) Social Skills
2 151 (17.40%) Finance
3 138 (15.90%) Public Sector
4 118 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (6.11%) Banking
6 25 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.65%) Front Office
8 13 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.38%) Military
10 10 (1.15%) Law
10 10 (1.15%) Legal
10 10 (1.15%) Retail
11 8 (0.92%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.81%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.58%) Automotive
14 5 (0.58%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.46%) Marketing
15 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 346 (39.86%) Developer
2 165 (19.01%) Senior
3 113 (13.02%) Java Developer
4 100 (11.52%) DBA
5 80 (9.22%) Software Engineer
6 74 (8.53%) Lead
7 73 (8.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 69 (7.95%) Python Developer
8 69 (7.95%) Senior Developer
9 65 (7.49%) Data Engineer
10 51 (5.88%) Administrator
11 50 (5.76%) Architect
12 42 (4.84%) Java Engineer
13 39 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
14 35 (4.03%) Software Developer
15 33 (3.80%) Lead Developer
16 31 (3.57%) Backend Developer
16 31 (3.57%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 28 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 27 (3.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (24.88%) REST
2 203 (23.39%) Spring
3 183 (21.08%) Kafka
4 181 (20.85%) RESTful
5 165 (19.01%) React
6 159 (18.32%) Spring Boot
7 124 (14.29%) Node.js
8 57 (6.57%) FastAPI
8 57 (6.57%) HTML
9 56 (6.45%) CSS
10 55 (6.34%) AngularJS
11 51 (5.88%) .NET
12 47 (5.41%) OpenAPI
12 47 (5.41%) Swagger
13 43 (4.95%) OAuth
14 40 (4.61%) Django
15 39 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (4.49%) Web Services
16 34 (3.92%) Hibernate
16 34 (3.92%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 158 (18.20%) Cloud Native
2 115 (13.25%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.95%) Replication
4 38 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.92%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.30%) Derivative
10 20 (2.30%) Equities
11 19 (2.19%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.96%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.73%) AI Agents
13 15 (1.73%) Fixed Income
13 15 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.50%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (1.15%) Management Information System
16 8 (0.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 109 (12.56%) 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 8 (0.92%) Solaris
8 6 (0.69%) AIX
9 5 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.23%) VMS
12 1 (0.12%) CentOS
12 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.12%) SUSE
12 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (46.89%) CI/CD
2 330 (38.02%) Agile
3 274 (31.57%) DevOps
4 273 (31.45%) Microservices
5 205 (23.62%) Containerisation
6 177 (20.39%) Software Engineering
7 153 (17.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 153 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (16.13%) Test Automation
9 131 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 126 (14.52%) Observability
11 124 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
12 117 (13.48%) AI
13 115 (13.25%) Data Modelling
14 107 (12.33%) TDD
15 105 (12.10%) Migration
16 102 (11.75%) Event-Driven
16 102 (11.75%) Scrum
17 97 (11.18%) Validation
18 83 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 326 (37.56%) Python
2 318 (36.64%) SQL
3 314 (36.18%) Java
4 159 (18.32%) TypeScript
5 117 (13.48%) JavaScript
6 54 (6.22%) C#
7 46 (5.30%) Bash
7 46 (5.30%) PowerShell
8 36 (4.15%) Go
9 30 (3.46%) Scala
10 20 (2.30%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.84%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.61%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.50%) Groovy
13 13 (1.50%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.38%) PHP
15 11 (1.27%) Ruby
16 9 (1.04%) Perl
17 7 (0.81%) Rust
18 6 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 309 (35.60%) Security Cleared
2 262 (30.18%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.22%) Degree
4 40 (4.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.96%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.15%) OCP
12 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.69%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.46%) CISSP
15 2 (0.23%) CISM
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
16 1 (0.12%) CISA
16 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.12%) RHCE
16 1 (0.12%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.06%) QA
2 42 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.49%) 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
1 339 (39.06%) Docker
2 14 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.50%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (1.04%) Postfix
6 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.69%) Ceph
8 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.46%) Squid
10 3 (0.35%) HDFS
11 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.12%) NFS
12 1 (0.12%) RACF
12 1 (0.12%) Samba
12 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 304 (35.02%) Kubernetes
2 152 (17.51%) Terraform
3 122 (14.06%) Grafana
4 93 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 39 (4.49%) Ansible
6 20 (2.30%) Kibana
7 17 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
8 15 (1.73%) Argo
9 13 (1.50%) Control-M
10 12 (1.38%) Data Guard
10 12 (1.38%) IBM Guardium
10 12 (1.38%) Nessus
11 10 (1.15%) HAProxy
11 10 (1.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (0.69%) Istio
12 6 (0.69%) Rancher
13 4 (0.46%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.46%) Puppet
14 3 (0.35%) Bosun
14 3 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 180 (20.74%) Oracle
2 132 (15.21%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.49%) Google
4 33 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 28 (3.23%) Databricks
6 23 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.30%) Splunk
8 17 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.73%) Jaspersoft
10 14 (1.61%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.61%) VMware
11 13 (1.50%) Informatica
11 13 (1.50%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.38%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.38%) Tenable
13 10 (1.15%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.92%) IBM
14 8 (0.92%) Sybase
14 8 (0.92%) Talend
15 7 (0.81%) TikTok