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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 111 135
Rank change year-on-year -53 +24 +19
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 881 784 722
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 2.41% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.87% 13.20% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 599 540
10th Percentile £362 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.07% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £828 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -1.04%
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% -

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 8,107 5,940 7,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.38% 18.23% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,352 4,021 5,264
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -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 97 119
10th Percentile £16.56 £19.45 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.32 £20.38
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -2.60% -30.00%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.10 £77.50 £71.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £32.05 £31.25
% change year-on-year +25.59% +2.56% -39.02%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -51 718 £521 -5.36% 298
UK excluding London -30 408 £475 - 154
London -62 347 £550 -8.33% 181
Work from Home -66 285 £500 -12.28% 159
North of England -37 134 £478 -4.40% 45
Midlands +7 103 £447 -10.60% 17
West Midlands -14 74 £447 -5.89% 9
South East -51 72 £475 +9.20% 42
Yorkshire -24 61 £488 -2.50% 14
North West -32 61 £478 +0.63% 24
Scotland -11 52 £425 -10.05% 14
South West -24 30 £700 +30.23% 19
East Midlands +6 27 £447 -12.78% 8
East of England -20 18 £575 +27.78% 9
North East -49 11 £425 -19.05% 7
Wales -15 4 - - 2

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 48 (5.45%) Confluence
2 40 (4.54%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.50%) Apache
5 10 (1.14%) nginx
6 7 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.68%) Camunda
7 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
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%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) Appian
10 2 (0.23%) Drupal
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.02%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.23%) Trello
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Maya
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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
1 459 (52.10%) AWS
2 310 (35.19%) Azure
3 159 (18.05%) GCP
4 153 (17.37%) GitHub
5 107 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
6 97 (11.01%) Amazon S3
7 93 (10.56%) Serverless
8 65 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (6.36%) Amazon SQS
9 56 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (3.75%) Snowflake
14 31 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.18%) Azure AKS
16 26 (2.95%) Route 53
17 25 (2.84%) Power Platform
18 23 (2.61%) AWS KMS
18 23 (2.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.93%) Firewall
2 13 (1.48%) DNS
3 10 (1.14%) SSH
4 9 (1.02%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.68%) HTTP
5 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.57%) SAN
7 4 (0.45%) SSL
8 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
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%) NaaS
9 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.11%) Internet
10 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (19.98%) SQL Server
2 164 (18.62%) Relational Database
3 162 (18.39%) MongoDB
4 135 (15.32%) MySQL
5 122 (13.85%) NoSQL
6 70 (7.95%) Redis
7 69 (7.83%) Amazon RDS
8 61 (6.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 52 (5.90%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (4.09%) Big Data
12 31 (3.52%) Oracle Database
13 30 (3.41%) Data Lake
13 30 (3.41%) RDBMS
14 22 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (2.50%) Metadata
15 20 (2.27%) Power BI
16 19 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
18 16 (1.82%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 192 (21.79%) Git
1 192 (21.79%) Jenkins
2 103 (11.69%) JIRA
3 81 (9.19%) JUnit
4 78 (8.85%) GitLab
5 53 (6.02%) Mockito
6 49 (5.56%) Maven
7 34 (3.86%) Gradle
8 31 (3.52%) Cucumber
9 24 (2.72%) Selenium
10 23 (2.61%) JMeter
11 22 (2.50%) SonarQube
12 21 (2.38%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.27%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.93%) Gatling
15 14 (1.59%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.48%) jMock
17 11 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
18 10 (1.14%) Bitbucket
19 9 (1.02%) Flyway
General
1 187 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 167 (18.96%) Finance
3 125 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 114 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (6.47%) Banking
6 28 (3.18%) Front Office
7 23 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.36%) Military
10 10 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.14%) Legal
11 9 (1.02%) Law
12 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.68%) Retail
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
14 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.45%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 354 (40.18%) Developer
2 155 (17.59%) Senior
3 117 (13.28%) Java Developer
4 91 (10.33%) DBA
5 83 (9.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 82 (9.31%) Software Engineer
7 78 (8.85%) Python Developer
8 77 (8.74%) Lead
9 66 (7.49%) Data Engineer
10 62 (7.04%) Architect
11 61 (6.92%) Senior Developer
12 43 (4.88%) Administrator
13 39 (4.43%) Java Engineer
14 38 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (4.20%) Lead Developer
16 33 (3.75%) Software Developer
17 31 (3.52%) Backend Developer
17 31 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 29 (3.29%) Python Engineer
19 27 (3.06%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (22.93%) REST
2 200 (22.70%) Spring
3 179 (20.32%) Kafka
4 173 (19.64%) React
5 172 (19.52%) RESTful
6 158 (17.93%) Spring Boot
7 131 (14.87%) Node.js
8 71 (8.06%) FastAPI
9 67 (7.60%) AngularJS
10 52 (5.90%) HTML
11 50 (5.68%) CSS
12 49 (5.56%) .NET
13 48 (5.45%) OpenAPI
13 48 (5.45%) Swagger
14 45 (5.11%) Web Services
15 39 (4.43%) Django
16 38 (4.31%) GraphQL
16 38 (4.31%) JPA
17 36 (4.09%) Hibernate
17 36 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 142 (16.12%) Cloud Native
2 107 (12.15%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.86%) Replication
5 32 (3.63%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.18%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (2.95%) Derivative
8 24 (2.72%) Equities
8 24 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (2.38%) Fixed Income
11 20 (2.27%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.82%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.82%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.59%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.36%) AI Agents
16 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
17 8 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.39%) Linux
2 33 (3.75%) Unix
2 33 (3.75%) Windows
3 29 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.91%) Solaris
7 5 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.34%) AIX
8 3 (0.34%) Android
8 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.34%) VMS
8 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.23%) zOS
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (45.40%) CI/CD
2 341 (38.71%) Agile
3 273 (30.99%) Microservices
4 270 (30.65%) DevOps
5 216 (24.52%) Containerisation
6 179 (20.32%) Software Engineering
7 165 (18.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 162 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
9 128 (14.53%) AI
10 124 (14.07%) Test Automation
11 121 (13.73%) Observability
12 115 (13.05%) Performance Tuning
13 114 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
14 113 (12.83%) Data Modelling
15 109 (12.37%) TDD
16 104 (11.80%) Migration
17 102 (11.58%) Scrum
18 96 (10.90%) Event-Driven
19 87 (9.88%) Analytics
19 87 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 354 (40.18%) Python
2 326 (37.00%) SQL
3 312 (35.41%) Java
4 155 (17.59%) TypeScript
5 132 (14.98%) JavaScript
6 58 (6.58%) C#
7 47 (5.33%) PowerShell
8 38 (4.31%) Bash
9 30 (3.41%) Go
9 30 (3.41%) Scala
10 19 (2.16%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.82%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.59%) PHP
13 13 (1.48%) Groovy
13 13 (1.48%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.36%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.25%) Ruby
16 9 (1.02%) Perl
17 7 (0.79%) Rust
18 6 (0.68%) Korn
Qualifications
1 309 (35.07%) Security Cleared
2 261 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.15%) Degree
4 40 (4.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.36%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.91%) OCP
13 6 (0.68%) CISSP
14 4 (0.45%) CISM
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.34%) PhD
16 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.60%) QA
2 41 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 36 (4.09%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.59%) GDPR
5 13 (1.48%) WCAG
6 6 (0.68%) GMP
6 6 (0.68%) GxP
7 5 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.45%) NIST
8 4 (0.45%) SLA
9 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) HL7
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 336 (38.14%) Docker
2 13 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.25%) Postfix
3 11 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.57%) Ceph
6 4 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.34%) HDFS
7 3 (0.34%) Squid
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.11%) NFS
9 1 (0.11%) RACF
9 1 (0.11%) Samba
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 300 (34.05%) Kubernetes
2 135 (15.32%) Terraform
3 123 (13.96%) Grafana
4 94 (10.67%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.31%) 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 13 (1.48%) Kibana
8 12 (1.36%) Data Guard
9 11 (1.25%) Argo
10 10 (1.14%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.79%) Rancher
12 6 (0.68%) Istio
13 4 (0.45%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
14 3 (0.34%) Puppet
14 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 188 (21.34%) Oracle
2 137 (15.55%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.31%) Google
4 34 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.29%) Databricks
6 18 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.04%) Informatica
7 17 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
7 17 (1.93%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.93%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.93%) Splunk
7 17 (1.93%) Tenable
8 16 (1.82%) Atlassian
9 13 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.48%) Talend
10 11 (1.25%) IBM
10 11 (1.25%) VMware
11 10 (1.14%) CyberArk
11 10 (1.14%) Sybase
12 7 (0.79%) TikTok