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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 116 142
Rank change year-on-year -28 +26 +14
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 818 705 724
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.76% 2.39% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.32% 12.53% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 522 518
10th Percentile £362 £393 £371
25th Percentile £413 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £478 £498
% change year-on-year -5.76% -4.02% +1.74%
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 7,225 5,628 7,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.58% 19.10% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,929 3,887 5,129
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.07%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £480
% change year-on-year -2.71% +1.72% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 107 146
10th Percentile £17.05 £20.35 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.50 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -13.75% -34.69%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £54.78
90th Percentile £82.45 £74.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -33.33%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -40 689 £508 -5.41% 285
UK excluding London -15 380 £450 -5.76% 170
London -38 342 £550 -5.98% 156
Work from Home -32 260 £500 -9.09% 189
North of England -28 143 £450 -5.26% 36
Midlands 0 95 £455 -9.10% 20
North West -23 78 £450 -5.26% 19
South East -33 76 £433 -6.49% 49
West Midlands -10 71 £475 -7.77% 8
Yorkshire -29 55 £475 -13.64% 9
Scotland +7 45 £425 -7.61% 16
East Midlands -18 23 £406 -18.80% 12
South West -42 21 £578 -7.52% 28
East of England -33 10 £575 +27.78% 10
North East -15 9 £425 -8.60% 8
Northern Ireland -1 3 £400 -20.00% 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 56 (6.85%) Confluence
2 38 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.44%) Apache
5 17 (2.08%) nginx
6 7 (0.86%) Camunda
7 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.61%) 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 (0.24%) JBoss
9 2 (0.24%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.24%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.49%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) 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
1 493 (60.27%) AWS
2 258 (31.54%) Azure
3 159 (19.44%) GitHub
4 127 (15.53%) GCP
5 118 (14.43%) Amazon S3
6 111 (13.57%) Serverless
7 96 (11.74%) GitHub Actions
8 79 (9.66%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
10 44 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
13 38 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (4.65%) OpenShift
14 34 (4.16%) Amazon SQS
15 27 (3.30%) Power Platform
16 25 (3.06%) Snowflake
17 24 (2.93%) Route 53
18 21 (2.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.57%) Firewall
2 18 (2.20%) DNS
3 8 (0.98%) HTTP
3 8 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.73%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.49%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.49%) SSH
5 4 (0.49%) SSL
5 4 (0.49%) VPN
5 4 (0.49%) WAN
6 3 (0.37%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.37%) Internet
6 3 (0.37%) SAN
7 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.24%) LAN
7 2 (0.24%) NaaS
7 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) VLAN
8 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (17.97%) MongoDB
1 147 (17.97%) SQL Server
2 143 (17.48%) Relational Database
3 137 (16.75%) NoSQL
4 123 (15.04%) MySQL
5 79 (9.66%) Amazon RDS
6 64 (7.82%) DynamoDB
7 58 (7.09%) Amazon Aurora
8 54 (6.60%) Redis
9 35 (4.28%) Big Data
9 35 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (4.16%) RDBMS
11 27 (3.30%) Data Lake
12 24 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 23 (2.81%) Metadata
14 22 (2.69%) Power BI
15 21 (2.57%) Oracle Database
16 20 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
17 19 (2.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 179 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 160 (19.56%) Git
3 90 (11.00%) GitLab
4 86 (10.51%) JIRA
5 80 (9.78%) JUnit
6 47 (5.75%) Mockito
7 32 (3.91%) Cucumber
7 32 (3.91%) Maven
8 25 (3.06%) JMeter
9 21 (2.57%) Gradle
9 21 (2.57%) Selenium
10 17 (2.08%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.96%) WebDriver
12 15 (1.83%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.59%) Gatling
13 13 (1.59%) Liquibase
14 11 (1.34%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.34%) jMock
14 11 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (1.22%) Artifactory
General
1 178 (21.76%) Social Skills
2 165 (20.17%) Finance
3 97 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 76 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.60%) Banking
6 26 (3.18%) Front Office
7 16 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.86%) Legal
12 6 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.73%) Law
12 6 (0.73%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.61%) Automotive
14 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.49%) Marketing
15 3 (0.37%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.37%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 325 (39.73%) Developer
2 142 (17.36%) Senior
3 105 (12.84%) Java Developer
4 83 (10.15%) Full-Stack Developer
5 80 (9.78%) Python Developer
6 77 (9.41%) DBA
7 74 (9.05%) Software Engineer
8 69 (8.44%) Data Engineer
9 60 (7.33%) Architect
10 53 (6.48%) Lead
10 53 (6.48%) Senior Developer
11 37 (4.52%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 36 (4.40%) Administrator
13 35 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.67%) Java Engineer
15 29 (3.55%) Senior Java Developer
16 28 (3.42%) Lead Developer
16 28 (3.42%) Senior Data Engineer
17 26 (3.18%) Software Developer
18 25 (3.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (23.96%) Kafka
2 180 (22.00%) Spring
3 153 (18.70%) React
4 140 (17.11%) RESTful
5 138 (16.87%) Spring Boot
6 132 (16.14%) REST
7 125 (15.28%) Node.js
8 61 (7.46%) FastAPI
9 59 (7.21%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.62%) Hibernate
11 41 (5.01%) JSON
12 40 (4.89%) GraphQL
13 38 (4.65%) .NET
13 38 (4.65%) CSS
13 38 (4.65%) WireMock
14 37 (4.52%) HTML
15 35 (4.28%) JPA
16 30 (3.67%) Django
17 28 (3.42%) OAuth
17 28 (3.42%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 103 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.55%) Derivative
5 27 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.18%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.69%) Fixed Income
7 22 (2.69%) Replication
8 20 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.20%) Equities
10 18 (2.20%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (1.34%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.34%) Market Risk
13 10 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.10%) Clustering
15 8 (0.98%) PACS
15 8 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 137 (16.75%) Linux
2 39 (4.77%) Unix
3 26 (3.18%) Windows
4 13 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.49%) zOS
7 3 (0.37%) Android
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) Solaris
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.24%) 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 (44.50%) CI/CD
2 311 (38.02%) Agile
3 257 (31.42%) DevOps
4 209 (25.55%) Microservices
5 200 (24.45%) Containerisation
6 141 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 141 (17.24%) Software Engineering
7 140 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
8 125 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 118 (14.43%) Observability
10 110 (13.45%) Test Automation
11 105 (12.84%) Data Modelling
12 99 (12.10%) TDD
13 93 (11.37%) Migration
14 89 (10.88%) Performance Tuning
15 88 (10.76%) AI
16 81 (9.90%) ETL
17 78 (9.54%) Mentoring
18 76 (9.29%) Event-Driven
19 75 (9.17%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 350 (42.79%) Python
2 308 (37.65%) SQL
3 282 (34.47%) Java
4 122 (14.91%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.18%) JavaScript
6 69 (8.44%) Bash
7 46 (5.62%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.77%) C#
9 34 (4.16%) Go
10 32 (3.91%) Scala
11 21 (2.57%) PL/SQL
11 21 (2.57%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.34%) PHP
13 10 (1.22%) Groovy
14 9 (1.10%) Ruby
15 8 (0.98%) Bicep
15 8 (0.98%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.98%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.61%) Delphi
16 5 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 266 (32.52%) Security Cleared
2 215 (26.28%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.56%) Degree
4 37 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.32%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
8 13 (1.59%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.34%) OCP
10 10 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.73%) CISSP
12 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.49%) CISM
14 3 (0.37%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.62%) QA
2 41 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.69%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.71%) GDPR
5 9 (1.10%) SLA
6 7 (0.86%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.86%) NCSC
6 7 (0.86%) NIST
6 7 (0.86%) WCAG
7 6 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS
10 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) DICOM
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 307 (37.53%) Docker
2 11 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.22%) Postfix
4 9 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.61%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.61%) Ceph
6 5 (0.61%) HDFS
7 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.37%) NFS
8 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.24%) Lustre
8 2 (0.24%) Samba
8 2 (0.24%) Squid
8 2 (0.24%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) KVM
9 1 (0.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.12%) Varnish
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 269 (32.89%) Kubernetes
2 150 (18.34%) Terraform
3 128 (15.65%) Grafana
4 84 (10.27%) Prometheus
5 69 (8.44%) Ansible
6 17 (2.08%) Argo
7 16 (1.96%) Control-M
7 16 (1.96%) IBM Guardium
7 16 (1.96%) Nessus
8 12 (1.47%) HAProxy
8 12 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.34%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.22%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.22%) Kibana
10 10 (1.22%) Puppet
10 10 (1.22%) Rancher
11 9 (1.10%) Istio
12 6 (0.73%) linkerd
13 5 (0.61%) Packer
14 2 (0.24%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 150 (18.34%) Oracle
2 105 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.03%) Databricks
3 33 (4.03%) Splunk
4 24 (2.93%) Atlassian
5 22 (2.69%) Red Hat
5 22 (2.69%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.57%) VMware
7 20 (2.44%) Google
7 20 (2.44%) Informatica
8 16 (1.96%) Tenable
9 14 (1.71%) Jaspersoft
10 13 (1.59%) Talend
11 12 (1.47%) Dynatrace
12 11 (1.34%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.22%) Confluent
14 9 (1.10%) IBM
15 8 (0.98%) PagerDuty
16 7 (0.86%) Greenplum
17 6 (0.73%) OpenAI