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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 124 154
Rank change year-on-year -17 +30 +19
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 760 666 700
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.11% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.04% 11.47% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 492 497
10th Percentile £363 £333 £405
25th Percentile £419 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £524 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -1.92% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £646 £633
90th Percentile £700 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £506
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.37% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile - - £34.14
25th Percentile £29.00 - £43.73
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -30.70% +175.96%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £69.03
90th Percentile £58.00 - £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £46.28
% change year-on-year - - +68.27%

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 6,311 5,805 7,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.61% 18.36% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,345 3,814 5,108
10th Percentile £335 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 88 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.82 £15.92
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.44 £21.64
Median hourly rate £44.25 £33.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.51% -20.22% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.58 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.50 £68.33 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £29.80 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.49% -25.50% -27.27%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -17 630 £519 -5.68% 699
London -5 342 £530 -7.83% 155
UK excluding London -18 320 £475 -3.85% 643
Work from Home -31 232 £500 -3.85% 383
North of England -6 122 £469 +1.41% 111
Midlands -4 72 £525 +5.00% 74
Yorkshire -12 67 £500 -9.91% 42
West Midlands -5 62 £540 +3.85% 27
South East -36 57 £433 -13.50% 205
North West -18 53 £450 +0.45% 53
South West -1 49 £550 -12.00% 86
Scotland -22 40 £450 -4.46% 39
East Midlands -28 10 £401 -19.80% 47
Northern Ireland +3 8 £400 - 15
North East - 2 £463 - 17
East of England -16 1 - - 98

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 44 (5.79%) Confluence
2 21 (2.76%) nginx
3 19 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.97%) Apache
6 14 (1.84%) SAS
7 6 (0.79%) Drupal
7 6 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.53%) Camunda
9 3 (0.39%) CICS
9 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.39%) WordPress
10 2 (0.26%) Traefik
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) Appian
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Chatbot
1 8 (1.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 469 (61.71%) AWS
2 231 (30.39%) Azure
3 174 (22.89%) GitHub
4 144 (18.95%) Serverless
5 136 (17.89%) GCP
6 104 (13.68%) Amazon S3
7 89 (11.71%) GitHub Actions
8 85 (11.18%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (7.11%) OpenShift
10 53 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
13 43 (5.66%) Power Platform
14 42 (5.53%) Snowflake
15 38 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
16 33 (4.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 26 (3.42%) Azure AKS
18 25 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 23 (3.03%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.68%) Firewall
2 23 (3.03%) DNS
3 18 (2.37%) HTTP
4 11 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.18%) Kerberos
5 9 (1.18%) SSH
6 8 (1.05%) FTP
6 8 (1.05%) IMAP
6 8 (1.05%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (1.05%) SMTP
7 5 (0.66%) SSL
7 5 (0.66%) VPN
8 4 (0.53%) Internet
9 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.26%) LAN
9 2 (0.26%) NAS
9 2 (0.26%) SAN
9 2 (0.26%) WAN
10 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (16.97%) Relational Database
2 124 (16.32%) NoSQL
3 113 (14.87%) MySQL
4 106 (13.95%) SQL Server
5 95 (12.50%) MongoDB
6 71 (9.34%) Amazon RDS
7 64 (8.42%) Redis
8 60 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 51 (6.71%) DynamoDB
10 37 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (4.87%) RDBMS
11 35 (4.61%) Power BI
12 33 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
14 19 (2.50%) Data Lake
15 18 (2.37%) Big Data
15 18 (2.37%) BigQuery
16 17 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (2.24%) DB2
16 17 (2.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 173 (22.76%) Jenkins
2 157 (20.66%) Git
3 91 (11.97%) GitLab
4 70 (9.21%) JIRA
5 56 (7.37%) JUnit
6 32 (4.21%) Mockito
7 31 (4.08%) Cucumber
8 25 (3.29%) Gradle
9 23 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (2.50%) Liquibase
11 16 (2.11%) Cypress.io
11 16 (2.11%) JMeter
11 16 (2.11%) Maven
12 15 (1.97%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.71%) Postman
14 11 (1.45%) ERwin
15 10 (1.32%) SonarQube
16 8 (1.05%) Artifactory
16 8 (1.05%) DBeaver
16 8 (1.05%) Vagrant
General
1 200 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 151 (19.87%) Finance
3 104 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 77 (10.13%) Banking
5 74 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 17 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.84%) Front Office
8 14 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.58%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.79%) Marketing
11 6 (0.79%) Retail
12 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.53%) Legal
13 4 (0.53%) Local Government
14 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.39%) Electronics
14 3 (0.39%) Law
14 3 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 298 (39.21%) Developer
2 119 (15.66%) Senior
3 91 (11.97%) Java Developer
4 68 (8.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 65 (8.55%) Data Engineer
6 61 (8.03%) Architect
7 59 (7.76%) Python Developer
8 56 (7.37%) Senior Developer
9 54 (7.11%) Software Engineer
10 42 (5.53%) AWS Developer
10 42 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
11 40 (5.26%) DBA
12 39 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (4.21%) Lead
14 31 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 31 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (3.82%) Backend Developer
15 29 (3.82%) Data Architect
16 25 (3.29%) Python Engineer
16 25 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (21.84%) Kafka
2 136 (17.89%) React
3 134 (17.63%) Spring
4 128 (16.84%) RESTful
5 118 (15.53%) Node.js
6 111 (14.61%) REST
7 110 (14.47%) Spring Boot
8 52 (6.84%) CSS
9 44 (5.79%) GraphQL
10 43 (5.66%) AngularJS
11 42 (5.53%) FastAPI
12 41 (5.39%) HTML
13 40 (5.26%) Hibernate
14 38 (5.00%) JSON
15 35 (4.61%) .NET
16 31 (4.08%) Django
16 31 (4.08%) Vue
17 30 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
18 29 (3.82%) Keycloak
19 26 (3.42%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 113 (14.87%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.87%) Replication
4 28 (3.68%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.37%) Derivative
7 18 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.24%) Market Risk
9 16 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.84%) Clustering
11 11 (1.45%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.92%) N-Tier
14 6 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 135 (17.76%) Linux
2 32 (4.21%) Windows
3 25 (3.29%) Unix
4 11 (1.45%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (1.45%) VMS
5 9 (1.18%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.66%) zOS
7 3 (0.39%) Solaris
7 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.13%) MVS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (46.84%) CI/CD
2 256 (33.68%) Agile
3 251 (33.03%) DevOps
4 194 (25.53%) Containerisation
5 188 (24.74%) Microservices
6 152 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 138 (18.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 117 (15.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 115 (15.13%) Software Engineering
10 109 (14.34%) Observability
11 98 (12.89%) Test Automation
12 93 (12.24%) TDD
13 86 (11.32%) Data Modelling
14 85 (11.18%) Migration
15 83 (10.92%) ETL
16 74 (9.74%) AI
16 74 (9.74%) Performance Tuning
17 69 (9.08%) Analytics
18 63 (8.29%) Data Pipeline
18 63 (8.29%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 369 (48.55%) Python
2 307 (40.39%) SQL
3 236 (31.05%) Java
4 121 (15.92%) JavaScript
5 116 (15.26%) TypeScript
6 79 (10.39%) Bash
7 68 (8.95%) Go
8 43 (5.66%) PowerShell
9 34 (4.47%) C#
10 19 (2.50%) PHP
11 18 (2.37%) Groovy
12 17 (2.24%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.71%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.58%) Ruby
15 11 (1.45%) Scala
16 9 (1.18%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.92%) Bicep
17 7 (0.92%) JSX
18 6 (0.79%) VBA
19 5 (0.66%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 226 (29.74%) Security Cleared
2 181 (23.82%) SC Cleared
3 86 (11.32%) Degree
4 56 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.82%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 26 (3.42%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.37%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.71%) OCP
9 13 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.92%) MCP
11 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.53%) HND
13 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.79%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.74%) QA
3 20 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.84%) GDPR
5 8 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.92%) NCSC
6 7 (0.92%) SLA
7 5 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.66%) NIST
8 4 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.53%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 279 (36.71%) Docker
2 12 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.05%) DFS Replication
3 8 (1.05%) Dovecot
3 8 (1.05%) Postfix
3 8 (1.05%) Squid
4 7 (0.92%) zsh
5 6 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.66%) NDS
6 5 (0.66%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.39%) KVM
8 3 (0.39%) NFS
8 3 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.39%) Xen
9 2 (0.26%) HDFS
9 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.26%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 289 (38.03%) Kubernetes
2 172 (22.63%) Terraform
3 108 (14.21%) Grafana
4 90 (11.84%) Ansible
5 79 (10.39%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.42%) Argo
7 23 (3.03%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.63%) Nessus
9 15 (1.97%) Puppet
10 12 (1.58%) Control-M
10 12 (1.58%) IBM Guardium
11 9 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (1.18%) Istio
12 8 (1.05%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.79%) linkerd
14 5 (0.66%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.66%) Packer
14 5 (0.66%) Rancher
15 3 (0.39%) Kibana
15 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 121 (15.92%) Oracle
2 91 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.79%) Splunk
4 41 (5.39%) Google
5 29 (3.82%) Databricks
6 27 (3.55%) VMware
7 24 (3.16%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.50%) Atlassian
9 17 (2.24%) ServiceNow
10 16 (2.11%) Dynatrace
10 16 (2.11%) Informatica
11 14 (1.84%) Greenplum
12 12 (1.58%) Tenable
13 10 (1.32%) IBM
14 8 (1.05%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (1.05%) PagerDuty
15 6 (0.79%) Gigya
16 5 (0.66%) Confluent
16 5 (0.66%) SAP
16 5 (0.66%) Talend