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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 137 158
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 +21
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 852 669 761
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.37% 1.83% 1.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.43% 10.47% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 503 535
10th Percentile £363 £325 £405
25th Percentile £425 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +0.63% -4.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile - - £60.19
25th Percentile £29.00 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £65.58
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -34.43% +45.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £71.34
90th Percentile £71.50 - £72.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.05
% change year-on-year - - +46.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,346 6,391 7,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.69% 17.52% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,337 4,232 5,417
10th Percentile £330 £338 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.56% -3.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 85 150
10th Percentile £20.99 £17.70 £16.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £22.69
Median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -37.10% +5.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.18 £69.69
90th Percentile £83.43 £64.89 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.10 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +78.55% -40.45% +13.38%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +37 715 £525 - 785
London +15 393 £600 +7.48% 533
UK excluding London +20 355 £480 +0.63% 328
Work from Home -5 293 £529 +5.80% 440
North of England +28 128 £500 +9.29% 99
Midlands +20 76 £518 +5.61% 35
Yorkshire +13 69 £504 -25.37% 23
West Midlands +25 66 £500 +3.41% 24
South East -11 64 £429 -13.03% 126
South West +8 49 £550 - 24
Scotland -20 46 £456 -4.15% 16
North West -1 45 £450 +1.12% 70
North East +5 15 £588 - 6
East Midlands -13 10 £520 +4.00% 11
Northern Ireland 0 8 £400 - 11
Wales +2 4 £469 +17.19% 2
East of England -9 4 £450 +1.41% 20

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 49 (5.75%) Confluence
2 34 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.05%) nginx
4 23 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.41%) SAS
6 11 (1.29%) Apache
7 8 (0.94%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.70%) Drupal
9 5 (0.59%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.47%) Alfresco
10 4 (0.47%) Camunda
10 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.47%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.47%) WordPress
11 3 (0.35%) CICS
11 3 (0.35%) JBoss
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 510 (59.86%) AWS
2 249 (29.23%) Azure
3 165 (19.37%) GitHub
4 162 (19.01%) GCP
5 138 (16.20%) Amazon S3
6 136 (15.96%) Serverless
7 87 (10.21%) AWS Lambda
8 73 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
9 58 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
10 57 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 55 (6.46%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
12 49 (5.75%) OpenShift
13 43 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 41 (4.81%) Power Platform
15 32 (3.76%) Snowflake
16 31 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
16 31 (3.64%) Azure AKS
17 29 (3.40%) AWS KMS
18 28 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.93%) Firewall
2 19 (2.23%) DNS
2 19 (2.23%) HTTP
3 14 (1.64%) SSH
4 12 (1.41%) IMAP
4 12 (1.41%) Kerberos
4 12 (1.41%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (1.41%) SMTP
5 10 (1.17%) FTP
6 8 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.82%) SSL
8 4 (0.47%) Internet
8 4 (0.47%) VPN
9 3 (0.35%) MQTT
10 1 (0.12%) Calico
10 1 (0.12%) FCoE
10 1 (0.12%) NAS
10 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.12%) VSAN
10 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (15.61%) Relational Database
2 128 (15.02%) MySQL
3 122 (14.32%) NoSQL
4 111 (13.03%) MongoDB
5 99 (11.62%) Amazon RDS
5 99 (11.62%) SQL Server
6 78 (9.15%) Redis
7 70 (8.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 47 (5.52%) DynamoDB
9 40 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (4.58%) RDBMS
11 33 (3.87%) Power BI
12 31 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
13 28 (3.29%) Oracle Database
14 24 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
14 24 (2.82%) Apache Iceberg
15 22 (2.58%) Big Data
15 22 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
16 20 (2.35%) Hadoop
17 19 (2.23%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 194 (22.77%) Jenkins
2 173 (20.31%) Git
3 81 (9.51%) JIRA
4 76 (8.92%) GitLab
5 68 (7.98%) JUnit
6 35 (4.11%) Cucumber
7 31 (3.64%) Liquibase
7 31 (3.64%) Mockito
8 30 (3.52%) Maven
9 28 (3.29%) SonarQube
10 25 (2.93%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (2.46%) Cypress.io
11 21 (2.46%) Gradle
12 18 (2.11%) Bitbucket
13 16 (1.88%) JMeter
14 15 (1.76%) Postman
15 12 (1.41%) Subversion
15 12 (1.41%) Vagrant
16 10 (1.17%) Selenium
16 10 (1.17%) webpack
General
1 246 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 199 (23.36%) Finance
3 107 (12.56%) Public Sector
4 95 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (10.45%) Banking
6 45 (5.28%) Front Office
7 32 (3.76%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.94%) Marketing
13 5 (0.59%) Local Government
13 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.59%) Military
13 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.47%) Electronics
15 3 (0.35%) Legal
16 2 (0.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 361 (42.37%) Developer
2 140 (16.43%) Senior
3 121 (14.20%) Java Developer
4 81 (9.51%) Full-Stack Developer
5 71 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 65 (7.63%) AWS Engineer
7 64 (7.51%) Architect
8 63 (7.39%) AWS Developer
8 63 (7.39%) Data Engineer
9 62 (7.28%) Python Developer
10 60 (7.04%) Lead
10 60 (7.04%) Software Engineer
11 50 (5.87%) DevOps Engineer
12 41 (4.81%) Senior Java Developer
13 40 (4.69%) Python Engineer
14 36 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 31 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
15 31 (3.64%) DBA
16 27 (3.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 27 (3.17%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (20.42%) React
2 173 (20.31%) Kafka
3 153 (17.96%) Node.js
4 136 (15.96%) Spring
5 128 (15.02%) RESTful
6 122 (14.32%) REST
7 110 (12.91%) Spring Boot
8 66 (7.75%) AngularJS
9 65 (7.63%) CSS
10 58 (6.81%) GraphQL
11 56 (6.57%) HTML
12 50 (5.87%) Hibernate
13 46 (5.40%) Vue
14 41 (4.81%) FastAPI
15 37 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
16 35 (4.11%) Pandas
17 33 (3.87%) JSON
17 33 (3.87%) NumPy
18 32 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
19 31 (3.64%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 97 (11.38%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.52%) Replication
4 30 (3.52%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (3.40%) Fixed Income
5 29 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.82%) Equities
6 24 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 24 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.35%) Clustering
8 20 (2.35%) Derivative
9 19 (2.23%) Market Risk
10 17 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.88%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.29%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 142 (16.67%) Linux
2 26 (3.05%) Windows
3 21 (2.46%) Unix
4 15 (1.76%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (1.76%) VMS
5 11 (1.29%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.35%) Solaris
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.23%) zOS
9 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.12%) MVS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (42.49%) CI/CD
2 347 (40.73%) Agile
3 281 (32.98%) DevOps
4 225 (26.41%) Microservices
5 199 (23.36%) Containerisation
6 185 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
7 143 (16.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 139 (16.31%) Software Engineering
9 127 (14.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 122 (14.32%) TDD
11 114 (13.38%) Test Automation
12 91 (10.68%) Observability
13 84 (9.86%) Migration
14 79 (9.27%) AI
15 77 (9.04%) Computer Science
16 76 (8.92%) Mentoring
17 75 (8.80%) ETL
18 71 (8.33%) Analytics
19 70 (8.22%) Data Modelling
20 68 (7.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 401 (47.07%) Python
2 314 (36.85%) SQL
3 265 (31.10%) Java
4 157 (18.43%) JavaScript
5 153 (17.96%) TypeScript
6 87 (10.21%) Bash
7 75 (8.80%) Go
8 43 (5.05%) PowerShell
9 27 (3.17%) Groovy
10 24 (2.82%) C#
11 20 (2.35%) PHP
11 20 (2.35%) Ruby
12 17 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.41%) PL/SQL
14 10 (1.17%) Kotlin
15 9 (1.06%) Perl
16 8 (0.94%) Scala
17 7 (0.82%) JSX
17 7 (0.82%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 224 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 191 (22.42%) SC Cleared
3 102 (11.97%) Degree
4 64 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.05%) Azure Certification
7 24 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.35%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.41%) OCP
11 12 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.94%) MCP
13 7 (0.82%) CISSP
13 7 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
14 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.47%) HND
16 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
17 2 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
18 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.04%) QA
2 43 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.76%) GDPR
5 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.35%) HL7
8 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.23%) SLA
8 2 (0.23%) WCAG
9 1 (0.12%) DICOM
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 286 (33.57%) Docker
2 16 (1.88%) Postfix
3 12 (1.41%) Dovecot
3 12 (1.41%) Squid
4 11 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (1.17%) DFS Replication
5 10 (1.17%) zsh
6 9 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.70%) Active Directory
8 5 (0.59%) NDS
8 5 (0.59%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 4 (0.47%) NFS
10 2 (0.23%) GPFS
10 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.23%) KVM
10 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.23%) Xen
11 1 (0.12%) SRDF
11 1 (0.12%) Varnish
11 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 294 (34.51%) Kubernetes
2 169 (19.84%) Terraform
3 109 (12.79%) Grafana
4 80 (9.39%) Prometheus
5 74 (8.69%) Ansible
6 26 (3.05%) Argo
7 23 (2.70%) Nessus
8 19 (2.23%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.88%) Puppet
10 12 (1.41%) Control-M
11 11 (1.29%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.17%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.06%) Packer
13 9 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.82%) Istio
15 5 (0.59%) Kibana
16 4 (0.47%) Rancher
16 4 (0.47%) ZABBIX
17 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 121 (14.20%) Oracle
2 87 (10.21%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.28%) Google
4 40 (4.69%) Splunk
5 26 (3.05%) Red Hat
6 24 (2.82%) Atlassian
6 24 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.82%) VMware
7 22 (2.58%) Databricks
8 18 (2.11%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.88%) CA Agile Central
9 16 (1.88%) Jaspersoft
10 15 (1.76%) IBM
11 11 (1.29%) Tenable
12 8 (0.94%) Informatica
13 7 (0.82%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.82%) Greenplum
14 6 (0.70%) Gigya
14 6 (0.70%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.70%) SAP