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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 123 126
Rank change year-on-year -51 +3 +37
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 873 767 731
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.32% 1.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.53% 12.88% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 571 550
10th Percentile £375 £383 £363
25th Percentile £425 £456 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £587 £650 £650
90th Percentile £712 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £482
% change year-on-year -2.81% +1.40% -3.60%
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% +28.93%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £72.50 -
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 8,288 5,957 6,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 18.04% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,520 3,985 4,800
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £743 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £477
% change year-on-year - -0.42% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 93 86
10th Percentile £16.42 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.48 £30.96 £20.88
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +16.06% -35.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.30% +18.30% -42.86%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -60 701 £512 -6.95% 690
London -66 367 £525 -12.50% 472
UK excluding London -42 356 £475 -2.81% 276
Work from Home -67 267 £500 -16.67% 1,871
North of England -64 109 £500 - 65
Midlands -18 82 £445 -11.00% 33
South East -28 67 £460 +7.23% 72
Yorkshire -21 52 £494 -1.25% 24
West Midlands -36 52 £447 -8.31% 27
North West -44 50 £511 +7.49% 34
Scotland -18 43 £450 -6.49% 19
South West -44 31 £650 +19.27% 48
East Midlands +6 29 £425 -17.48% 5
East of England -17 23 £506 +6.58% 22
North East -56 7 £425 -22.73% 7
Wales -14 4 - - 8

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 36 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 35 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (4.01%) Confluence
3 24 (2.75%) Apache
4 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.69%) CMS
5 6 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.57%) nginx
6 5 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.34%) Camunda
7 3 (0.34%) IIS
8 2 (0.23%) JBoss
8 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
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%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Finacle
2 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 455 (52.12%) AWS
2 297 (34.02%) Azure
3 167 (19.13%) GitHub
4 127 (14.55%) GCP
5 121 (13.86%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (11.34%) Serverless
7 92 (10.54%) Amazon S3
8 76 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
9 64 (7.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 59 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
13 50 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (4.58%) Snowflake
15 32 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (3.09%) AWS KMS
18 22 (2.52%) Azure AKS
18 22 (2.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.98%) DNS
2 20 (2.29%) Firewall
3 19 (2.18%) SSH
4 18 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.95%) HTTP
6 11 (1.26%) HTTPS
7 10 (1.15%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.92%) SAN
8 8 (0.92%) SSL
9 5 (0.57%) 5G
10 4 (0.46%) 4G
10 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.46%) VPN
11 3 (0.34%) Network Security
12 2 (0.23%) DHCP
12 2 (0.23%) FTP
12 2 (0.23%) IMAP
12 2 (0.23%) MQTT
12 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
12 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (21.19%) SQL Server
2 173 (19.82%) Relational Database
3 172 (19.70%) MongoDB
4 165 (18.90%) MySQL
5 109 (12.49%) NoSQL
6 99 (11.34%) Redis
7 88 (10.08%) Amazon RDS
8 82 (9.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (4.93%) DynamoDB
10 41 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.55%) Oracle Database
11 31 (3.55%) RDBMS
12 29 (3.32%) Metadata
13 28 (3.21%) Big Data
14 26 (2.98%) Data Lake
15 24 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (2.06%) Power BI
17 17 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
18 16 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
19 14 (1.60%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 207 (23.71%) Git
2 201 (23.02%) Jenkins
3 96 (11.00%) GitLab
4 81 (9.28%) JIRA
5 73 (8.36%) JUnit
6 63 (7.22%) Mockito
7 53 (6.07%) Maven
8 37 (4.24%) Gradle
9 28 (3.21%) SonarQube
10 22 (2.52%) Liquibase
11 21 (2.41%) Cucumber
12 16 (1.83%) Gatling
12 16 (1.83%) Selenium
13 13 (1.49%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.37%) Mocha
15 11 (1.26%) JMeter
16 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.15%) Flyway
17 7 (0.80%) Artifactory
17 7 (0.80%) DbUnit
General
1 202 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 149 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 132 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (14.78%) Finance
5 54 (6.19%) Banking
6 37 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (1.49%) Front Office
8 11 (1.26%) Military
8 11 (1.26%) Retail
9 10 (1.15%) Legal
9 10 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.03%) Law
10 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.80%) Billing
12 6 (0.69%) Automotive
12 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.57%) Marketing
13 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 323 (37.00%) Developer
2 159 (18.21%) Senior
3 117 (13.40%) Java Developer
4 102 (11.68%) DBA
5 70 (8.02%) Senior Developer
6 67 (7.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 64 (7.33%) Data Engineer
7 64 (7.33%) Lead
7 64 (7.33%) Software Engineer
8 58 (6.64%) Administrator
9 50 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
10 49 (5.61%) Python Developer
11 48 (5.50%) Architect
12 39 (4.47%) Java Engineer
13 36 (4.12%) Software Developer
14 32 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
15 29 (3.32%) Python Engineer
16 27 (3.09%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 26 (2.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (2.98%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (26.80%) REST
2 195 (22.34%) Spring
3 193 (22.11%) RESTful
4 188 (21.53%) Kafka
5 168 (19.24%) Spring Boot
5 168 (19.24%) Terraform
6 152 (17.41%) React
7 106 (12.14%) Node.js
8 77 (8.82%) CSS
8 77 (8.82%) HTML
9 66 (7.56%) .NET
10 58 (6.64%) AngularJS
11 57 (6.53%) OAuth
12 54 (6.19%) Django
13 52 (5.96%) FastAPI
14 48 (5.50%) OAuth2
14 48 (5.50%) OpenAPI
14 48 (5.50%) Swagger
15 45 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
16 43 (4.93%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 180 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.91%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (6.07%) Replication
4 46 (5.27%) Product Ownership
5 39 (4.47%) Data Structures
6 30 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.63%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 18 (2.06%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.37%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.03%) Equities
14 9 (1.03%) LIMS
15 8 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
15 8 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 119 (13.63%) Linux
2 46 (5.27%) Unix
3 41 (4.70%) Windows
4 29 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (2.86%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.83%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.72%) Solaris
8 9 (1.03%) AIX
8 9 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.34%) VMS
10 2 (0.23%) Rocky
11 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (49.03%) CI/CD
2 305 (34.94%) Agile
3 304 (34.82%) DevOps
4 272 (31.16%) Microservices
5 203 (23.25%) Containerisation
6 175 (20.05%) Software Engineering
7 166 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (17.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 149 (17.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 145 (16.61%) Test Automation
11 132 (15.12%) Data Modelling
12 125 (14.32%) AI
12 125 (14.32%) Performance Tuning
13 123 (14.09%) Event-Driven
14 122 (13.97%) Observability
15 120 (13.75%) Migration
16 105 (12.03%) Scrum
17 98 (11.23%) TDD
18 96 (11.00%) Validation
19 95 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 341 (39.06%) SQL
2 318 (36.43%) Python
3 310 (35.51%) Java
4 158 (18.10%) TypeScript
5 114 (13.06%) JavaScript
6 60 (6.87%) C#
7 53 (6.07%) Bash
8 41 (4.70%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.67%) Scala
10 29 (3.32%) Go
11 21 (2.41%) Groovy
12 17 (1.95%) Perl
13 16 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 15 (1.72%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.60%) PL/SQL
16 11 (1.26%) PHP
16 11 (1.26%) Ruby
17 10 (1.15%) Korn
17 10 (1.15%) Rust
17 10 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 313 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 269 (30.81%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.30%) Degree
4 49 (5.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 29 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.52%) AWS Certification
9 19 (2.18%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.26%) OCP
12 10 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.23%) CISSP
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.11%) CISA
15 1 (0.11%) CISM
15 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.82%) QA
2 49 (5.61%) Accessibility
2 49 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.18%) GDPR
4 15 (1.72%) WCAG
5 8 (0.92%) GMP
5 8 (0.92%) GxP
6 7 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (0.80%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.57%) SLA
8 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.46%) SEPA
9 3 (0.34%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 353 (40.44%) Docker
2 13 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (0.80%) Postfix
6 6 (0.69%) Ceph
6 6 (0.69%) Squid
7 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.11%) NFS
9 1 (0.11%) RACF
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 294 (33.68%) Kubernetes
2 114 (13.06%) Grafana
3 89 (10.19%) Prometheus
4 35 (4.01%) Ansible
5 25 (2.86%) Kibana
6 16 (1.83%) Argo
7 14 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.37%) Karpenter
9 11 (1.26%) Data Guard
9 11 (1.26%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 8 (0.92%) Control-M
12 7 (0.80%) Nessus
12 7 (0.80%) Puppet
13 6 (0.69%) Istio
14 5 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
14 5 (0.57%) Rancher
15 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 190 (21.76%) Oracle
2 132 (15.12%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.04%) Databricks
4 43 (4.93%) Google
5 35 (4.01%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.75%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.52%) Splunk
8 18 (2.06%) Informatica
8 18 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.83%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.49%) VMware
11 11 (1.26%) Talend
12 10 (1.15%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (1.03%) NetApp
14 8 (0.92%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.92%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.92%) Sybase
15 7 (0.80%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.80%) TikTok
16 6 (0.69%) Foundry