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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 131 151
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 +30
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 829 672 764
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.26% 1.96% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.03% 10.91% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 504 529
10th Percentile £363 £330 £409
25th Percentile £421 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £638
90th Percentile £734 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -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% +42.22%
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 - - +15.69%

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 6,363 6,162 7,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.33% 18.00% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,394 4,076 5,221
10th Percentile £329 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £710 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 84 140
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.15 £16.11
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.46 £21.56
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +43.09% -34.17% -7.64%
75th Percentile £68.19 £60.15 £64.65
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.89 £77.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.24 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.57% -41.02% +2.62%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 16 December 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 +12 694 £525 -4.55% 354
London +15 378 £550 -4.35% 109
UK excluding London +5 359 £475 -3.85% 305
Work from Home -15 259 £525 +0.96% 295
North of England +26 136 £483 +5.46% 85
Midlands +9 75 £525 +5.00% 38
Yorkshire +7 73 £500 -16.67% 33
West Midlands +17 64 £525 +0.96% 20
South East -29 63 £433 -20.64% 78
North West -14 54 £440 -0.28% 43
Scotland -6 51 £450 -5.46% 21
South West +7 46 £550 -8.33% 37
East Midlands -17 11 £515 +3.00% 16
North East - 10 £738 - 10
Northern Ireland +2 8 £400 - 6
Wales 0 4 £469 +20.97% 7
East of England -21 4 £450 +1.41% 37

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 42 (5.07%) Confluence
2 27 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.77%) nginx
4 21 (2.53%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.69%) SAS
6 11 (1.33%) Apache
7 8 (0.97%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.72%) Drupal
9 4 (0.48%) CICS
9 4 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.48%) WordPress
10 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Luigi
11 2 (0.24%) Traefik
12 1 (0.12%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 11 (1.33%) Chatbot
1 11 (1.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Magento
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 487 (58.75%) AWS
2 254 (30.64%) Azure
3 173 (20.87%) GitHub
4 149 (17.97%) GCP
5 142 (17.13%) Serverless
6 121 (14.60%) Amazon S3
7 86 (10.37%) AWS Lambda
8 82 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (7.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (5.79%) OpenShift
13 46 (5.55%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (5.43%) Power Platform
15 38 (4.58%) Snowflake
16 34 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 34 (4.10%) Azure AKS
17 30 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 24 (2.90%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.26%) Firewall
2 21 (2.53%) DNS
3 20 (2.41%) HTTP
4 15 (1.81%) SSH
5 11 (1.33%) IMAP
5 11 (1.33%) Kerberos
5 11 (1.33%) OpenLDAP
5 11 (1.33%) SMTP
5 11 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.21%) FTP
7 7 (0.84%) SSL
8 5 (0.60%) VPN
9 4 (0.48%) Internet
10 3 (0.36%) MQTT
11 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.24%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.24%) LAN
11 2 (0.24%) WAN
12 1 (0.12%) DHCP
12 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (16.89%) Relational Database
2 122 (14.72%) NoSQL
3 118 (14.23%) MySQL
4 111 (13.39%) MongoDB
5 108 (13.03%) SQL Server
6 79 (9.53%) Amazon RDS
7 72 (8.69%) Redis
8 58 (7.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 41 (4.95%) RDBMS
10 40 (4.83%) DynamoDB
11 39 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
12 36 (4.34%) Power BI
13 27 (3.26%) Oracle Database
14 26 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
15 25 (3.02%) Apache Cassandra
16 21 (2.53%) Big Data
16 21 (2.53%) DB2
17 20 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
18 19 (2.29%) Data Lake
18 19 (2.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 184 (22.20%) Jenkins
2 159 (19.18%) Git
3 85 (10.25%) GitLab
4 75 (9.05%) JIRA
5 55 (6.63%) JUnit
6 32 (3.86%) Cucumber
7 30 (3.62%) Mockito
8 25 (3.02%) Liquibase
8 25 (3.02%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (2.53%) Cypress.io
10 19 (2.29%) Gradle
10 19 (2.29%) Maven
11 18 (2.17%) Bitbucket
12 17 (2.05%) JMeter
13 16 (1.93%) SonarQube
14 15 (1.81%) Postman
15 11 (1.33%) Subversion
15 11 (1.33%) Vagrant
16 10 (1.21%) DBeaver
16 10 (1.21%) webpack
General
1 240 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 181 (21.83%) Finance
3 103 (12.42%) Public Sector
4 87 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (10.01%) Banking
6 29 (3.50%) Investment Banking
7 25 (3.02%) Front Office
8 24 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.57%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.84%) Marketing
13 5 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.48%) Legal
14 4 (0.48%) Local Government
14 4 (0.48%) Military
14 4 (0.48%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.36%) Games
15 3 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 313 (37.76%) Developer
2 136 (16.41%) Senior
3 102 (12.30%) Java Developer
4 69 (8.32%) Data Engineer
5 68 (8.20%) Architect
6 64 (7.72%) Full-Stack Developer
7 62 (7.48%) Senior Developer
8 57 (6.88%) Python Developer
9 56 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
10 50 (6.03%) AWS Developer
10 50 (6.03%) Software Engineer
11 46 (5.55%) DevOps Engineer
12 44 (5.31%) Lead
13 43 (5.19%) DBA
14 37 (4.46%) Python Engineer
15 35 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 34 (4.10%) Senior Java Developer
17 29 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
18 27 (3.26%) Data Architect
19 26 (3.14%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (20.75%) Kafka
2 152 (18.34%) React
3 126 (15.20%) Node.js
4 122 (14.72%) RESTful
5 121 (14.60%) Spring
6 115 (13.87%) REST
7 98 (11.82%) Spring Boot
8 67 (8.08%) CSS
9 56 (6.76%) HTML
10 52 (6.27%) AngularJS
10 52 (6.27%) GraphQL
11 43 (5.19%) FastAPI
12 40 (4.83%) Hibernate
13 39 (4.70%) JSON
14 38 (4.58%) Vue
15 34 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
16 32 (3.86%) .NET
16 32 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
17 31 (3.74%) Django
18 28 (3.38%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 104 (12.55%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.31%) Replication
4 27 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 26 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (3.02%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.41%) Derivative
7 20 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.17%) Market Risk
10 17 (2.05%) Clustering
10 17 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.93%) Fixed Income
11 16 (1.93%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.69%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.45%) Equities
13 12 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (1.33%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 140 (16.89%) Linux
2 31 (3.74%) Windows
3 26 (3.14%) Unix
4 14 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
4 14 (1.69%) VMS
5 11 (1.33%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.48%) zOS
8 3 (0.36%) Solaris
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (44.51%) CI/CD
2 308 (37.15%) Agile
3 278 (33.53%) DevOps
4 214 (25.81%) Microservices
5 194 (23.40%) Containerisation
6 181 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (16.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 121 (14.60%) Full-Stack Development
9 118 (14.23%) Software Engineering
10 109 (13.15%) Test Automation
11 106 (12.79%) TDD
12 96 (11.58%) Observability
13 88 (10.62%) Migration
14 87 (10.49%) AI
15 84 (10.13%) ETL
16 77 (9.29%) Data Modelling
17 76 (9.17%) Computer Science
18 75 (9.05%) Performance Tuning
19 72 (8.69%) Analytics
20 66 (7.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 396 (47.77%) Python
2 309 (37.27%) SQL
3 233 (28.11%) Java
4 139 (16.77%) JavaScript
5 128 (15.44%) TypeScript
6 87 (10.49%) Bash
7 76 (9.17%) Go
8 41 (4.95%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.74%) C#
10 27 (3.26%) Groovy
11 26 (3.14%) PHP
12 21 (2.53%) Shell Script
13 17 (2.05%) Ruby
14 12 (1.45%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.33%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.97%) Perl
16 8 (0.97%) Scala
17 7 (0.84%) JSX
18 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 217 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 178 (21.47%) SC Cleared
3 102 (12.30%) Degree
4 65 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (4.10%) AWS Certification
6 31 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.17%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.69%) OCP
9 14 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.97%) MCP
13 7 (0.84%) CISSP
14 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.48%) HND
15 4 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
16 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
17 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
17 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.39%) QA
2 41 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.81%) GDPR
5 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.60%) SLA
6 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.24%) NCSC
7 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.24%) WCAG
8 1 (0.12%) IFRS
8 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.12%) NIST
8 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 278 (33.53%) Docker
2 12 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.33%) Dovecot
3 11 (1.33%) Postfix
3 11 (1.33%) Squid
4 10 (1.21%) DFS Replication
4 10 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.97%) zsh
6 5 (0.60%) NDS
6 5 (0.60%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 5 (0.60%) NFS
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.36%) KVM
8 3 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.36%) Xen
9 2 (0.24%) GPFS
9 2 (0.24%) HDFS
9 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) etcd
Systems Management
1 288 (34.74%) Kubernetes
2 184 (22.20%) Terraform
3 109 (13.15%) Grafana
4 86 (10.37%) Ansible
5 73 (8.81%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.14%) Argo
7 22 (2.65%) Nessus
8 21 (2.53%) Progress Chef
9 18 (2.17%) Puppet
10 12 (1.45%) Control-M
11 11 (1.33%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.21%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.97%) Istio
15 7 (0.84%) Packer
16 5 (0.60%) Kibana
16 5 (0.60%) Rancher
16 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
17 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
18 3 (0.36%) Ambari
Vendors
1 136 (16.41%) Oracle
2 93 (11.22%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.31%) Google
4 43 (5.19%) Splunk
5 26 (3.14%) VMware
6 25 (3.02%) Databricks
6 25 (3.02%) Red Hat
7 22 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.17%) Dynatrace
9 17 (2.05%) Atlassian
10 13 (1.57%) IBM
11 12 (1.45%) Greenplum
12 11 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
12 11 (1.33%) Informatica
12 11 (1.33%) Jaspersoft
12 11 (1.33%) Tenable
13 8 (0.97%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.97%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.72%) Gigya
15 5 (0.60%) Salesforce