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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 118 130
Rank change year-on-year -61 +12 +33
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 868 793 729
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.41% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.61% 13.25% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 593 548
10th Percentile £357 £376 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% +0.48% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £712 £838 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £488 £480
% change year-on-year -1.95% +1.56% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £25.45 - £48.23
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £65.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -31.25% +22.00%
75th Percentile £75.25 £62.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £71.50 -
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 8,181 5,987 6,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.04% 18.17% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,462 4,012 4,763
10th Percentile £356 £343 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -2.20%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 89 91
10th Percentile £16.35 £21.24 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.35 £29.07 £21.00
Median hourly rate £39.84 £43.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +24.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £60.78
90th Percentile £75.50 £81.50 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +4.06% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -74 691 £513 -4.21% 1,063
London -67 371 £525 -12.50% 745
UK excluding London -59 344 £478 -1.95% 413
Work from Home -64 271 £500 -16.67% 507
North of England -70 100 £500 - 104
Midlands -28 76 £446 -10.80% 48
South East -36 66 £460 +5.75% 100
Yorkshire -27 51 £500 - 32
West Midlands -39 50 £448 -10.50% 36
Scotland -20 46 £450 -6.49% 44
North West -56 43 £523 +10.00% 58
South West -33 33 £650 +20.37% 53
East Midlands -1 25 £425 -17.87% 12
East of England -14 23 £506 +6.58% 33
North East -56 6 £425 -22.68% 15
Wales -13 4 - - 12

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 37 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
1 37 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.92%) Confluence
3 28 (3.23%) Apache
4 7 (0.81%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.69%) CMS
5 6 (0.69%) nginx
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.35%) IIS
7 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
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 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
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 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) 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 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 455 (52.42%) AWS
2 287 (33.06%) Azure
3 167 (19.24%) GitHub
4 127 (14.63%) GCP
5 120 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (11.41%) Serverless
7 96 (11.06%) Amazon S3
8 78 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (7.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 60 (6.91%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (5.99%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (4.61%) Snowflake
15 31 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (3.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 29 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
18 27 (3.11%) AWS KMS
19 24 (2.76%) OpenShift
20 21 (2.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.11%) DNS
2 20 (2.30%) SSH
3 19 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.07%) Firewall
4 18 (2.07%) HTTP
5 11 (1.27%) HTTPS
6 10 (1.15%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.92%) SAN
7 8 (0.92%) SSL
8 6 (0.69%) 5G
9 5 (0.58%) 4G
9 5 (0.58%) VPN
10 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.35%) 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 (21.31%) SQL Server
2 168 (19.35%) Relational Database
3 165 (19.01%) MongoDB
3 165 (19.01%) MySQL
4 104 (11.98%) NoSQL
4 104 (11.98%) Redis
5 90 (10.37%) Amazon RDS
6 82 (9.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 42 (4.84%) DynamoDB
8 40 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (3.46%) Metadata
9 30 (3.46%) RDBMS
10 29 (3.34%) Big Data
10 29 (3.34%) Oracle Database
11 25 (2.88%) Data Lake
12 22 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 19 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (1.96%) Power BI
15 15 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (1.73%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 210 (24.19%) Git
2 199 (22.93%) Jenkins
3 98 (11.29%) GitLab
4 80 (9.22%) JIRA
5 67 (7.72%) JUnit
6 59 (6.80%) Maven
6 59 (6.80%) Mockito
7 38 (4.38%) Gradle
8 28 (3.23%) SonarQube
9 19 (2.19%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.96%) Liquibase
10 17 (1.96%) Selenium
11 16 (1.84%) Gatling
12 13 (1.50%) Bitbucket
13 12 (1.38%) Mocha
14 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
15 9 (1.04%) Flyway
15 9 (1.04%) JMeter
16 7 (0.81%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.81%) DbUnit
General
1 195 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 143 (16.47%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.55%) Finance
4 130 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.34%) Banking
6 36 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (1.84%) Front Office
8 12 (1.38%) Retail
9 11 (1.27%) Military
10 10 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.04%) Legal
11 9 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.92%) Law
13 7 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.69%) Automotive
14 6 (0.69%) Billing
14 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.58%) Marketing
15 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 318 (36.64%) Developer
2 162 (18.66%) Senior
3 122 (14.06%) Java Developer
4 102 (11.75%) DBA
5 70 (8.06%) Senior Developer
6 67 (7.72%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (7.60%) Data Engineer
8 64 (7.37%) Software Engineer
9 63 (7.26%) Lead
10 59 (6.80%) Administrator
11 51 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
12 47 (5.41%) Python Developer
13 46 (5.30%) Architect
14 40 (4.61%) Java Engineer
15 36 (4.15%) Python Engineer
16 33 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
17 32 (3.69%) Software Developer
18 27 (3.11%) Senior Java Developer
19 26 (3.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 26 (3.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (28.11%) REST
2 192 (22.12%) Spring
3 188 (21.66%) RESTful
4 187 (21.54%) Kafka
5 170 (19.59%) Spring Boot
6 169 (19.47%) Terraform
7 150 (17.28%) React
8 102 (11.75%) Node.js
9 80 (9.22%) CSS
9 80 (9.22%) HTML
10 66 (7.60%) .NET
11 59 (6.80%) OAuth
12 57 (6.57%) AngularJS
13 52 (5.99%) Django
14 50 (5.76%) FastAPI
15 49 (5.65%) OAuth2
16 44 (5.07%) RabbitMQ
17 43 (4.95%) GraphQL
18 42 (4.84%) Swagger
18 42 (4.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 180 (20.74%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.98%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.88%) Replication
4 48 (5.53%) Product Ownership
5 36 (4.15%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.76%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.84%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.04%) Equities
15 9 (1.04%) LIMS
16 8 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
16 8 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 121 (13.94%) Linux
2 50 (5.76%) Unix
3 40 (4.61%) Windows
4 30 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.76%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.96%) Solaris
7 16 (1.84%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.04%) AIX
8 9 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.35%) VMS
10 2 (0.23%) Rocky
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (49.19%) CI/CD
2 302 (34.79%) DevOps
3 300 (34.56%) Agile
4 268 (30.88%) Microservices
5 197 (22.70%) Containerisation
6 178 (20.51%) Software Engineering
7 156 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (17.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 146 (16.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 146 (16.82%) Test Automation
10 130 (14.98%) AI
11 128 (14.75%) Data Modelling
12 124 (14.29%) Event-Driven
13 120 (13.82%) Performance Tuning
14 118 (13.59%) Observability
15 116 (13.36%) Migration
16 109 (12.56%) Scrum
17 95 (10.94%) Analytics
17 95 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
17 95 (10.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 344 (39.63%) SQL
2 317 (36.52%) Python
3 307 (35.37%) Java
4 157 (18.09%) TypeScript
5 118 (13.59%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.80%) C#
7 51 (5.88%) Bash
8 38 (4.38%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.80%) Scala
10 30 (3.46%) Go
11 22 (2.53%) Groovy
12 17 (1.96%) Perl
12 17 (1.96%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.61%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.50%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.38%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.27%) PHP
17 10 (1.15%) Korn
17 10 (1.15%) Ruby
18 9 (1.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 307 (35.37%) Security Cleared
2 266 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.68%) Degree
4 50 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (2.88%) AWS Certification
9 21 (2.42%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.84%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.27%) OCP
12 2 (0.23%) CISSP
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.12%) CISA
13 1 (0.12%) CISM
13 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.56%) QA
2 48 (5.53%) Data Quality
3 47 (5.41%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.19%) GDPR
5 14 (1.61%) WCAG
6 8 (0.92%) GMP
6 8 (0.92%) GxP
7 7 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.81%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.58%) SLA
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.46%) SEPA
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 351 (40.44%) Docker
2 13 (1.50%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (0.81%) Postfix
5 6 (0.69%) Ceph
5 6 (0.69%) Squid
6 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.12%) NFS
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 290 (33.41%) Kubernetes
2 112 (12.90%) Grafana
3 87 (10.02%) Prometheus
4 33 (3.80%) Ansible
5 27 (3.11%) Kibana
6 15 (1.73%) Argo
7 12 (1.38%) Karpenter
7 12 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (1.27%) HAProxy
9 10 (1.15%) Data Guard
10 9 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.81%) Control-M
11 7 (0.81%) Puppet
12 6 (0.69%) Istio
12 6 (0.69%) Nessus
13 5 (0.58%) Rancher
14 4 (0.46%) Bosun
14 4 (0.46%) IBM Guardium
14 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 189 (21.77%) Oracle
2 131 (15.09%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.95%) Databricks
3 43 (4.95%) Google
4 33 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.76%) Dynatrace
6 23 (2.65%) Splunk
7 18 (2.07%) Informatica
8 17 (1.96%) OpenAI
8 17 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.50%) VMware
10 11 (1.27%) Talend
11 10 (1.15%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.92%) NetApp
12 8 (0.92%) Sybase
13 7 (0.81%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.81%) Foundry
13 7 (0.81%) TikTok
14 6 (0.69%) BeyondTrust