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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 114 129
Rank change year-on-year -60 +15 +44
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 874 794 720
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 2.41% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.60% 13.19% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 589 536
10th Percentile £356 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £838 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £488 £480
% change year-on-year -2.26% +1.56% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £25.45 - £48.23
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £65.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% -46.88% +22.00%
75th Percentile £75.25 £56.88 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £67.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.08% -18.75% +28.93%

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 8,248 6,019 6,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.02% 18.26% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,504 4,032 4,659
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -6.02% -1.48%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 88 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.15 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.16 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +14.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £57.81 £65.00 £60.78
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.39% +24.93% -45.45%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -71 697 £519 -2.72% 1,128
London -57 381 £525 -12.50% 764
UK excluding London -63 337 £477 -2.26% 460
Work from Home -71 273 £500 -16.67% 513
North of England -73 94 £501 +0.22% 135
Midlands -25 78 £447 -10.60% 51
South East -39 66 £460 +5.75% 106
West Midlands -37 53 £448 -10.50% 37
Yorkshire -30 46 £500 - 40
Scotland -28 43 £450 -6.49% 44
North West -58 42 £525 +10.53% 78
South West -37 33 £700 +28.44% 54
East of England -13 25 £500 +5.26% 38
East Midlands -5 24 £425 -17.87% 14
North East -55 6 £463 -15.86% 18
Wales -11 4 - - 14

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 38 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 38 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.89%) Confluence
3 30 (3.43%) Apache
4 7 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.69%) CMS
5 6 (0.69%) nginx
5 6 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.34%) IIS
7 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.23%) Appian
8 2 (0.23%) Camunda
8 2 (0.23%) JBoss
8 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.69%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.23%) Finacle
3 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 452 (51.72%) AWS
2 289 (33.07%) Azure
3 165 (18.88%) GitHub
4 130 (14.87%) GCP
5 117 (13.39%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (11.33%) Amazon S3
7 98 (11.21%) Serverless
8 77 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
9 66 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 63 (7.21%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
13 52 (5.95%) Amazon SQS
14 42 (4.81%) Snowflake
15 32 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 31 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (3.09%) AWS KMS
18 24 (2.75%) OpenShift
19 20 (2.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.75%) DNS
2 19 (2.17%) Firewall
2 19 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 18 (2.06%) HTTP
4 17 (1.95%) SSH
5 10 (1.14%) Kerberos
6 8 (0.92%) HTTPS
6 8 (0.92%) SAN
7 6 (0.69%) 5G
8 5 (0.57%) 4G
8 5 (0.57%) SSL
8 5 (0.57%) VPN
9 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.34%) Network Security
11 2 (0.23%) DHCP
11 2 (0.23%) FTP
11 2 (0.23%) IMAP
11 2 (0.23%) MQTT
11 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (20.48%) SQL Server
2 175 (20.02%) Relational Database
3 170 (19.45%) MySQL
4 169 (19.34%) MongoDB
5 110 (12.59%) NoSQL
6 107 (12.24%) Redis
7 90 (10.30%) Amazon RDS
8 83 (9.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
10 41 (4.69%) DynamoDB
11 33 (3.78%) Metadata
12 32 (3.66%) RDBMS
13 29 (3.32%) Big Data
14 28 (3.20%) Oracle Database
15 25 (2.86%) Data Lake
16 21 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
17 16 (1.83%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 215 (24.60%) Git
2 195 (22.31%) Jenkins
3 100 (11.44%) GitLab
4 79 (9.04%) JIRA
5 68 (7.78%) JUnit
6 60 (6.86%) Mockito
7 57 (6.52%) Maven
8 39 (4.46%) Gradle
9 29 (3.32%) SonarQube
10 21 (2.40%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.95%) Selenium
12 16 (1.83%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.60%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.37%) Gatling
14 12 (1.37%) Mocha
15 10 (1.14%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.03%) Flyway
16 9 (1.03%) JMeter
17 7 (0.80%) Claude Code
17 7 (0.80%) DbUnit
General
1 197 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 142 (16.25%) Public Sector
3 139 (15.90%) Finance
4 134 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (6.64%) Banking
6 39 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (1.95%) Front Office
8 14 (1.60%) Retail
9 11 (1.26%) Military
9 11 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.03%) Legal
11 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.92%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.80%) Law
14 6 (0.69%) Billing
14 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.57%) Automotive
15 5 (0.57%) Marketing
15 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 324 (37.07%) Developer
2 165 (18.88%) Senior
3 124 (14.19%) Java Developer
4 101 (11.56%) DBA
5 74 (8.47%) Senior Developer
6 69 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 68 (7.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (7.21%) Software Engineer
9 62 (7.09%) Lead
10 58 (6.64%) Administrator
11 52 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
12 51 (5.84%) Python Developer
13 47 (5.38%) Architect
14 37 (4.23%) Java Engineer
15 35 (4.00%) Python Engineer
16 32 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (3.43%) Software Developer
18 28 (3.20%) Senior Java Developer
19 26 (2.97%) PostgreSQL DBA
20 25 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (28.49%) REST
2 194 (22.20%) Spring
3 192 (21.97%) Kafka
4 190 (21.74%) RESTful
5 172 (19.68%) Spring Boot
6 167 (19.11%) Terraform
7 150 (17.16%) React
8 101 (11.56%) Node.js
9 81 (9.27%) CSS
9 81 (9.27%) HTML
10 67 (7.67%) .NET
11 63 (7.21%) OAuth
12 58 (6.64%) AngularJS
13 54 (6.18%) Django
14 51 (5.84%) FastAPI
14 51 (5.84%) OAuth2
15 44 (5.03%) GraphQL
15 44 (5.03%) Hibernate
15 44 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
15 44 (5.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 186 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 108 (12.36%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.84%) Replication
4 46 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.23%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.97%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.17%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
11 13 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.03%) Equities
13 9 (1.03%) LIMS
13 9 (1.03%) PKI
14 8 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 121 (13.84%) Linux
2 53 (6.06%) Unix
3 41 (4.69%) Windows
4 30 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (2.86%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.95%) Solaris
7 16 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.14%) AIX
9 9 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.34%) VMS
11 2 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.23%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.23%) Rocky
12 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (49.31%) CI/CD
2 307 (35.13%) Agile
3 303 (34.67%) DevOps
4 271 (31.01%) Microservices
5 196 (22.43%) Containerisation
6 177 (20.25%) Software Engineering
7 160 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (17.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 150 (17.16%) Test Automation
10 143 (16.36%) Full-Stack Development
11 135 (15.45%) AI
12 132 (15.10%) Data Modelling
13 129 (14.76%) Event-Driven
14 125 (14.30%) Observability
15 124 (14.19%) Performance Tuning
16 113 (12.93%) Migration
17 109 (12.47%) Scrum
18 100 (11.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 98 (11.21%) Validation
20 97 (11.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 343 (39.24%) SQL
2 320 (36.61%) Python
3 302 (34.55%) Java
4 155 (17.73%) TypeScript
5 120 (13.73%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.75%) C#
7 51 (5.84%) Bash
8 39 (4.46%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.78%) Go
10 29 (3.32%) Scala
11 23 (2.63%) Groovy
12 17 (1.95%) Perl
12 17 (1.95%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.72%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.49%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.37%) PHP
15 12 (1.37%) T-SQL
16 10 (1.14%) Korn
16 10 (1.14%) Ruby
17 8 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 307 (35.13%) Security Cleared
2 267 (30.55%) SC Cleared
3 61 (6.98%) Degree
4 49 (5.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (3.09%) AWS Certification
9 22 (2.52%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.26%) OCP
13 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.23%) CISSP
15 1 (0.11%) CISA
15 1 (0.11%) CISM
15 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.73%) QA
2 49 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 47 (5.38%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.29%) GDPR
5 14 (1.60%) WCAG
6 8 (0.92%) GMP
6 8 (0.92%) GxP
6 8 (0.92%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 6 (0.69%) SLA
9 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
9 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.46%) SEPA
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 351 (40.16%) Docker
2 13 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (0.80%) Postfix
6 4 (0.46%) Squid
7 3 (0.34%) Ceph
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.11%) NFS
9 1 (0.11%) RACF
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 295 (33.75%) Kubernetes
2 117 (13.39%) Grafana
3 92 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 31 (3.55%) Ansible
5 28 (3.20%) Kibana
6 15 (1.72%) Argo
7 12 (1.37%) Karpenter
7 12 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
8 10 (1.14%) Data Guard
9 9 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 8 (0.92%) Control-M
11 7 (0.80%) Istio
11 7 (0.80%) Nessus
11 7 (0.80%) Puppet
12 6 (0.69%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.57%) Rancher
13 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.46%) Bosun
14 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 191 (21.85%) Oracle
2 125 (14.30%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.26%) Google
4 45 (5.15%) Databricks
5 34 (3.89%) ServiceNow
6 26 (2.97%) Splunk
7 24 (2.75%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.06%) Informatica
8 18 (2.06%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.26%) Talend
11 10 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
11 10 (1.14%) VMware
12 8 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.92%) NetApp
12 8 (0.92%) Sybase
13 7 (0.80%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.80%) Foundry
13 7 (0.80%) IBM
13 7 (0.80%) TikTok