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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 111 132
Rank change year-on-year -59 +21 +27
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 875 785 714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.39% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.70% 13.19% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 587 537
10th Percentile £369 £385 £366
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £483
% change year-on-year - -1.55% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £25.45 - £52.05
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -31.25% +49.46%
75th Percentile £75.25 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £73.50 -
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 8,177 5,951 7,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.10% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,463 4,003 4,956
10th Percentile £358 £341 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 93 100
10th Percentile £15.90 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.11 £27.11 £19.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.74 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -39.74%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -68 706 £500 -9.09% 173
UK excluding London -33 391 £475 - 138
London -71 347 £535 -10.83% 82
Work from Home -61 274 £500 -14.48% 105
North of England -61 127 £488 -2.50% 25
Midlands -4 93 £448 -10.50% 24
South East -47 72 £470 +8.05% 48
West Midlands -14 66 £448 -5.79% 12
North West -43 61 £500 +5.26% 14
Yorkshire -23 56 £500 - 6
Scotland -10 49 £425 -10.53% 10
South West -25 32 £700 +40.00% 17
East Midlands -1 26 £459 -10.54% 12
East of England -18 19 £513 +11.72% 4
North East -47 10 £425 -22.73% 5
Wales -18 4 - - 5

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 (4.34%) Confluence
2 35 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.29%) Apache
5 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
6 6 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.57%) Camunda
8 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.34%) IIS
8 3 (0.34%) nginx
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.34%) SAS
8 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.91%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 464 (53.03%) AWS
2 294 (33.60%) Azure
3 160 (18.29%) GitHub
4 142 (16.23%) GCP
5 117 (13.37%) GitHub Actions
6 97 (11.09%) Serverless
7 90 (10.29%) Amazon S3
8 71 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
13 50 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (3.54%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (3.20%) AWS KMS
17 25 (2.86%) Power Platform
17 25 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (2.74%) Azure AKS
18 24 (2.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.40%) DNS
2 19 (2.17%) Firewall
3 15 (1.71%) SSH
4 11 (1.26%) HTTP
5 10 (1.14%) HTTPS
5 10 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.80%) SSL
7 4 (0.46%) SAN
8 3 (0.34%) 5G
8 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.34%) Network Security
8 3 (0.34%) VPN
9 2 (0.23%) 4G
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.23%) MQTT
9 2 (0.23%) NaaS
9 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 175 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 170 (19.43%) Relational Database
3 148 (16.91%) MySQL
4 116 (13.26%) NoSQL
5 90 (10.29%) Redis
6 77 (8.80%) Amazon RDS
7 75 (8.57%) Amazon Aurora
8 44 (5.03%) DynamoDB
9 40 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.11%) RDBMS
11 31 (3.54%) Oracle Database
12 28 (3.20%) Big Data
13 26 (2.97%) Data Lake
14 24 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (2.51%) Metadata
15 22 (2.51%) Power BI
16 17 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
18 13 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 195 (22.29%) Jenkins
2 193 (22.06%) Git
3 97 (11.09%) GitLab
4 87 (9.94%) JIRA
5 76 (8.69%) JUnit
6 57 (6.51%) Mockito
7 46 (5.26%) Maven
8 34 (3.89%) Gradle
9 28 (3.20%) Cucumber
10 25 (2.86%) Selenium
11 24 (2.74%) Liquibase
12 22 (2.51%) JMeter
12 22 (2.51%) SonarQube
13 17 (1.94%) Gatling
14 16 (1.83%) Bitbucket
14 16 (1.83%) WebDriver
15 11 (1.26%) Flyway
16 10 (1.14%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.14%) DbUnit
16 10 (1.14%) Mocha
General
1 193 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.80%) Public Sector
3 141 (16.11%) Finance
4 117 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.60%) Banking
6 29 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.17%) Front Office
8 12 (1.37%) Military
9 11 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.26%) Retail
10 10 (1.14%) Law
10 10 (1.14%) Legal
11 8 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
14 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.46%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.46%) Marketing
15 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 331 (37.83%) Developer
2 170 (19.43%) Senior
3 110 (12.57%) Java Developer
4 106 (12.11%) DBA
5 77 (8.80%) Software Engineer
6 72 (8.23%) Lead
7 69 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 69 (7.89%) Senior Developer
8 67 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (6.86%) Python Developer
10 56 (6.40%) Administrator
11 50 (5.71%) Architect
12 41 (4.69%) Java Engineer
13 40 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (3.89%) Software Developer
15 32 (3.66%) PostgreSQL DBA
16 31 (3.54%) Backend Developer
17 29 (3.31%) Lead Developer
18 27 (3.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 26 (2.97%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (25.71%) REST
2 202 (23.09%) Spring
3 189 (21.60%) Kafka
4 186 (21.26%) RESTful
5 164 (18.74%) Spring Boot
6 162 (18.51%) React
7 118 (13.49%) Node.js
8 63 (7.20%) HTML
9 62 (7.09%) CSS
10 54 (6.17%) FastAPI
11 53 (6.06%) .NET
12 52 (5.94%) AngularJS
13 48 (5.49%) OAuth
13 48 (5.49%) OpenAPI
13 48 (5.49%) Swagger
14 43 (4.91%) Django
15 41 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
16 38 (4.34%) OAuth2
17 37 (4.23%) Web Services
18 36 (4.11%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 169 (19.31%) Cloud Native
2 114 (13.03%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.26%) Replication
4 39 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.66%) Data Structures
6 26 (2.97%) Distributed Architecture
6 26 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.29%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.17%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.94%) Equities
12 16 (1.83%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.71%) Derivative
14 13 (1.49%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.26%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.03%) Management Information System
17 8 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 110 (12.57%) Linux
2 41 (4.69%) Unix
3 33 (3.77%) Windows
4 24 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.40%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.03%) Solaris
8 7 (0.80%) AIX
9 6 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.23%) VMS
10 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (47.77%) CI/CD
2 330 (37.71%) Agile
3 294 (33.60%) DevOps
4 273 (31.20%) Microservices
5 202 (23.09%) Containerisation
6 177 (20.23%) Software Engineering
7 158 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (17.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 145 (16.57%) Test Automation
10 142 (16.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 126 (14.40%) Performance Tuning
12 125 (14.29%) Data Modelling
13 124 (14.17%) AI
13 124 (14.17%) Observability
14 114 (13.03%) Event-Driven
15 111 (12.69%) Migration
16 103 (11.77%) TDD
17 100 (11.43%) Validation
18 98 (11.20%) Scrum
19 90 (10.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 326 (37.26%) SQL
2 321 (36.69%) Python
3 313 (35.77%) Java
4 159 (18.17%) TypeScript
5 114 (13.03%) JavaScript
6 53 (6.06%) C#
7 49 (5.60%) Bash
8 48 (5.49%) PowerShell
9 35 (4.00%) Go
10 30 (3.43%) Scala
11 20 (2.29%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.60%) Groovy
13 14 (1.60%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.49%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.37%) Ruby
16 11 (1.26%) PHP
17 10 (1.14%) Perl
18 8 (0.91%) Rust
19 6 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 314 (35.89%) Security Cleared
2 264 (30.17%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.17%) Degree
4 47 (5.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 30 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (2.29%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.14%) OCP
11 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.46%) CISSP
13 2 (0.23%) CISM
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.11%) CISA
14 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.11%) RHCE
14 1 (0.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.23%) QA
2 50 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.91%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.06%) GDPR
5 16 (1.83%) WCAG
6 7 (0.80%) GMP
6 7 (0.80%) GxP
7 6 (0.69%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.57%) SLA
9 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.46%) NIST
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 343 (39.20%) Docker
2 14 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.91%) Postfix
4 8 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.69%) Ceph
6 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.46%) Squid
8 3 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.11%) NFS
10 1 (0.11%) RACF
10 1 (0.11%) Samba
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 304 (34.74%) Kubernetes
2 158 (18.06%) Terraform
3 116 (13.26%) Grafana
4 86 (9.83%) Prometheus
5 39 (4.46%) Ansible
6 21 (2.40%) Kibana
7 17 (1.94%) Oracle RMAN
8 15 (1.71%) Argo
9 12 (1.37%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.14%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 9 (1.03%) Control-M
12 8 (0.91%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.80%) IBM Guardium
13 7 (0.80%) Nessus
14 6 (0.69%) Istio
14 6 (0.69%) Rancher
15 5 (0.57%) Puppet
16 3 (0.34%) Bosun
16 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 189 (21.60%) Oracle
2 135 (15.43%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.46%) Google
4 33 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.54%) Databricks
6 22 (2.51%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.40%) Splunk
8 17 (1.94%) Informatica
8 17 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.60%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.60%) VMware
10 12 (1.37%) Jaspersoft
10 12 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.14%) CyberArk
12 9 (1.03%) Talend
13 8 (0.91%) Sybase
14 7 (0.80%) IBM
14 7 (0.80%) Tenable
14 7 (0.80%) TikTok