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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 115 142
Rank change year-on-year -41 +27 +13
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 882 779 723
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.40% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.91% 13.17% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 593 546
10th Percentile £360 £387 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £475 £472
% change year-on-year -0.68% +0.58% -2.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile £27.18 £54.50 £53.70
25th Percentile £41.50 £57.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -18.75% +77.78%
75th Percentile £72.11 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% -18.75% +261.01%

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 8,086 5,917 7,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.23% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,351 4,014 5,378
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 102 139
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.71 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £25.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.31 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £31.25
% change year-on-year +20.89% +1.25% -40.48%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -48 726 £520 -3.93% 512
UK excluding London -37 406 £472 -0.68% 495
London -49 355 £550 -8.33% 161
Work from Home -63 289 £500 -9.17% 481
North of England -40 134 £475 -5.00% 115
Midlands +3 103 £447 -10.60% 52
West Midlands -23 74 £447 -5.89% 25
South East -47 70 £473 +8.74% 115
North West -28 64 £477 +0.42% 57
Yorkshire -27 60 £488 -2.50% 43
Scotland -4 53 £425 -10.53% 63
South West -21 31 £700 +27.27% 41
East Midlands +6 27 £447 -12.78% 27
East of England -20 17 £575 +27.78% 60
North East -49 9 £425 -19.05% 15
Wales -11 4 - - 27

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 50 (5.67%) Confluence
2 41 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.61%) Apache
5 10 (1.13%) nginx
6 7 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.68%) Camunda
8 4 (0.45%) CMS
8 4 (0.45%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.45%) WordPress
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%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.34%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) Appian
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.02%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
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
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
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
1 455 (51.59%) AWS
2 307 (34.81%) Azure
3 160 (18.14%) GCP
4 146 (16.55%) GitHub
5 100 (11.34%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 96 (10.88%) Serverless
8 66 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (5.78%) Amazon SQS
11 48 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 48 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (3.51%) Snowflake
14 30 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (3.06%) Power Platform
16 26 (2.95%) Route 53
17 25 (2.83%) Azure AKS
18 23 (2.61%) AWS KMS
18 23 (2.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.93%) Firewall
2 13 (1.47%) DNS
3 10 (1.13%) SSH
4 9 (1.02%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.68%) HTTP
6 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.45%) SAN
7 4 (0.45%) SSL
8 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.34%) MQTT
8 3 (0.34%) Network Security
8 3 (0.34%) VPN
8 3 (0.34%) WAN
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.23%) NaaS
9 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (20.52%) SQL Server
2 162 (18.37%) Relational Database
3 157 (17.80%) MongoDB
4 133 (15.08%) MySQL
5 120 (13.61%) NoSQL
6 69 (7.82%) Amazon RDS
7 68 (7.71%) Redis
8 61 (6.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 50 (5.67%) DynamoDB
10 41 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
11 38 (4.31%) Big Data
12 31 (3.51%) Oracle Database
12 31 (3.51%) RDBMS
13 29 (3.29%) Data Lake
14 24 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (2.49%) Metadata
15 22 (2.49%) Power BI
16 19 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
17 17 (1.93%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 184 (20.86%) Jenkins
2 183 (20.75%) Git
3 100 (11.34%) JIRA
4 81 (9.18%) JUnit
5 75 (8.50%) GitLab
6 53 (6.01%) Mockito
7 49 (5.56%) Maven
8 34 (3.85%) Gradle
9 31 (3.51%) Cucumber
10 24 (2.72%) Selenium
11 23 (2.61%) JMeter
12 22 (2.49%) SonarQube
13 21 (2.38%) Liquibase
14 20 (2.27%) WebDriver
15 17 (1.93%) Gatling
16 14 (1.59%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.47%) jMock
18 11 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
19 9 (1.02%) Bitbucket
19 9 (1.02%) Flyway
General
1 189 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 174 (19.73%) Finance
3 121 (13.72%) Public Sector
4 109 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.12%) Banking
6 29 (3.29%) Front Office
7 23 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.36%) Military
10 10 (1.13%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.02%) Law
12 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.91%) Legal
12 8 (0.91%) Retail
13 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
14 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.45%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 353 (40.02%) Developer
2 154 (17.46%) Senior
3 113 (12.81%) Java Developer
4 91 (10.32%) DBA
5 83 (9.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 83 (9.41%) Python Developer
6 82 (9.30%) Software Engineer
7 79 (8.96%) Lead
8 67 (7.60%) Data Engineer
9 63 (7.14%) Architect
10 60 (6.80%) Senior Developer
11 43 (4.88%) Administrator
12 39 (4.42%) Java Engineer
13 37 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
13 37 (4.20%) Lead Developer
14 33 (3.74%) Backend Developer
15 32 (3.63%) Software Developer
16 30 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (3.29%) Python Engineer
18 27 (3.06%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (22.90%) Spring
2 196 (22.22%) REST
3 177 (20.07%) React
4 175 (19.84%) Kafka
5 173 (19.61%) RESTful
6 161 (18.25%) Spring Boot
7 128 (14.51%) Node.js
8 72 (8.16%) FastAPI
9 67 (7.60%) AngularJS
10 51 (5.78%) HTML
11 49 (5.56%) .NET
11 49 (5.56%) CSS
12 47 (5.33%) OpenAPI
12 47 (5.33%) Swagger
13 44 (4.99%) Web Services
14 42 (4.76%) Django
15 41 (4.65%) GraphQL
16 38 (4.31%) JPA
17 36 (4.08%) Hibernate
18 35 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 146 (16.55%) Cloud Native
2 105 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.85%) Replication
5 31 (3.51%) Data Structures
6 27 (3.06%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (2.95%) Derivative
8 25 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (2.72%) Equities
10 23 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (2.38%) Fixed Income
12 21 (2.38%) Onboarding
13 18 (2.04%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.81%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.59%) Virtual Team
16 12 (1.36%) AI Agents
16 12 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
17 10 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
18 8 (0.91%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 119 (13.49%) Linux
2 34 (3.85%) Windows
3 33 (3.74%) Unix
4 28 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.93%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.91%) Solaris
8 5 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.34%) AIX
9 3 (0.34%) Android
9 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.34%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) zOS
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (44.78%) CI/CD
2 336 (38.10%) Agile
3 270 (30.61%) Microservices
4 269 (30.50%) DevOps
5 223 (25.28%) Containerisation
6 175 (19.84%) Software Engineering
7 163 (18.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 163 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
8 123 (13.95%) AI
9 119 (13.49%) Observability
9 119 (13.49%) Test Automation
10 113 (12.81%) Data Modelling
10 113 (12.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 111 (12.59%) Performance Tuning
12 107 (12.13%) Migration
13 102 (11.56%) TDD
14 96 (10.88%) Scrum
15 92 (10.43%) Event-Driven
16 87 (9.86%) Analytics
16 87 (9.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 360 (40.82%) Python
2 333 (37.76%) SQL
3 311 (35.26%) Java
4 153 (17.35%) TypeScript
5 132 (14.97%) JavaScript
6 58 (6.58%) C#
7 49 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.42%) Bash
9 31 (3.51%) Go
10 30 (3.40%) Scala
11 18 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.59%) PHP
14 13 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.36%) Groovy
16 11 (1.25%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.25%) Ruby
17 8 (0.91%) Perl
18 7 (0.79%) Rust
19 6 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 310 (35.15%) Security Cleared
2 262 (29.71%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.60%) Degree
4 39 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.81%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (0.91%) OCP
11 6 (0.68%) CISSP
12 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.45%) CISM
14 3 (0.34%) PhD
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.48%) QA
2 43 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.97%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.47%) GDPR
5 12 (1.36%) WCAG
6 5 (0.57%) GMP
6 5 (0.57%) GxP
6 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
6 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.45%) NIST
7 4 (0.45%) SLA
8 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.23%) HL7
9 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 333 (37.76%) Docker
2 11 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.25%) Postfix
2 11 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.57%) Ceph
5 4 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.34%) HDFS
6 3 (0.34%) Squid
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) Samba
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 294 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 134 (15.19%) Terraform
3 121 (13.72%) Grafana
4 91 (10.32%) Prometheus
5 39 (4.42%) Ansible
6 17 (1.93%) Control-M
6 17 (1.93%) IBM Guardium
6 17 (1.93%) Nessus
6 17 (1.93%) Oracle RMAN
7 12 (1.36%) Data Guard
7 12 (1.36%) Kibana
8 11 (1.25%) Argo
9 10 (1.13%) HAProxy
9 10 (1.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 7 (0.79%) Rancher
11 6 (0.68%) Istio
12 4 (0.45%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
13 3 (0.34%) Puppet
13 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 191 (21.66%) Oracle
2 142 (16.10%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.54%) Google
4 32 (3.63%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.29%) Databricks
6 19 (2.15%) Informatica
6 19 (2.15%) Splunk
7 18 (2.04%) Atlassian
8 17 (1.93%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
8 17 (1.93%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.93%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.93%) Tenable
9 13 (1.47%) Talend
10 11 (1.25%) IBM
10 11 (1.25%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.25%) VMware
11 10 (1.13%) CyberArk
11 10 (1.13%) Sybase
12 7 (0.79%) TikTok