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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 120 128
Rank change year-on-year -58 +8 +39
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 877 769 721
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.33% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.58% 12.92% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 574 543
10th Percentile £369 £383 £363
25th Percentile £425 £456 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £587 £650 £650
90th Percentile £712 £838 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £481
% change year-on-year -2.56% +1.35% -3.80%
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 8,290 5,950 6,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.21% 18.04% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,519 3,980 4,756
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £748 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 94 86
10th Percentile £15.99 £22.86 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.24 £20.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £39.48 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +14.55% -35.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.48% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -60 706 £510 -7.27% 512
London -63 368 £525 -12.50% 339
UK excluding London -48 361 £475 -2.56% 230
Work from Home -65 268 £500 -16.67% 276
North of England -57 113 £500 - 52
Midlands -24 84 £445 -11.00% 24
South East -34 68 £460 +5.75% 62
North West -52 54 £511 +7.49% 31
West Midlands -31 53 £447 -8.31% 19
Yorkshire -25 52 £494 -1.25% 15
Scotland -43 43 £450 -6.49% 15
South West -38 31 £650 +20.37% 46
East Midlands +3 30 £425 -17.48% 4
East of England -15 21 £488 +2.63% 17
North East -56 7 £425 -22.73% 6
Wales -11 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 (4.10%) Apache Spark
2 35 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (3.99%) Confluence
3 23 (2.62%) Apache
4 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.68%) CMS
5 6 (0.68%) 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 (0.91%) 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 8 (0.91%) 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%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 458 (52.22%) AWS
2 297 (33.87%) Azure
3 169 (19.27%) GitHub
4 127 (14.48%) GCP
5 123 (14.03%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (11.29%) Serverless
7 93 (10.60%) Amazon S3
8 76 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
9 64 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
13 50 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (4.56%) Snowflake
15 32 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (3.08%) AWS KMS
18 22 (2.51%) Azure AKS
18 22 (2.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.96%) DNS
2 20 (2.28%) Firewall
3 19 (2.17%) SSH
4 18 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.94%) HTTP
6 11 (1.25%) HTTPS
7 9 (1.03%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.91%) SAN
9 7 (0.80%) SSL
10 5 (0.57%) 5G
11 4 (0.46%) 4G
11 4 (0.46%) VPN
12 3 (0.34%) Network Security
13 2 (0.23%) DHCP
13 2 (0.23%) FTP
13 2 (0.23%) IMAP
13 2 (0.23%) MQTT
13 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (21.21%) SQL Server
2 172 (19.61%) Relational Database
3 171 (19.50%) MongoDB
4 165 (18.81%) MySQL
5 110 (12.54%) NoSQL
6 99 (11.29%) Redis
7 86 (9.81%) Amazon RDS
8 81 (9.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 44 (5.02%) DynamoDB
10 41 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (3.65%) Oracle Database
12 31 (3.53%) RDBMS
13 29 (3.31%) Metadata
14 28 (3.19%) Big Data
15 26 (2.96%) Data Lake
16 24 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
17 18 (2.05%) Power BI
18 17 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
19 16 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
20 14 (1.60%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 206 (23.49%) Git
2 201 (22.92%) Jenkins
3 98 (11.17%) GitLab
4 81 (9.24%) JIRA
5 75 (8.55%) JUnit
6 63 (7.18%) Mockito
7 52 (5.93%) Maven
8 37 (4.22%) Gradle
9 27 (3.08%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.62%) Liquibase
11 21 (2.39%) Cucumber
12 17 (1.94%) Selenium
13 16 (1.82%) Gatling
14 13 (1.48%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.37%) JMeter
15 12 (1.37%) Mocha
16 10 (1.14%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.14%) Flyway
17 7 (0.80%) DbUnit
17 7 (0.80%) WebDriver
General
1 205 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 149 (16.99%) Public Sector
3 132 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (14.94%) Finance
5 54 (6.16%) Banking
6 36 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (1.60%) Front Office
8 11 (1.25%) Military
8 11 (1.25%) Retail
9 10 (1.14%) Law
9 10 (1.14%) Legal
9 10 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.80%) Billing
12 6 (0.68%) Automotive
12 6 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.57%) Marketing
13 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 324 (36.94%) Developer
2 159 (18.13%) Senior
3 116 (13.23%) Java Developer
4 105 (11.97%) DBA
5 69 (7.87%) Senior Developer
6 67 (7.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (7.53%) Software Engineer
8 64 (7.30%) Lead
9 63 (7.18%) Data Engineer
10 60 (6.84%) Administrator
11 49 (5.59%) Python Developer
12 48 (5.47%) Architect
13 47 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
14 40 (4.56%) Java Engineer
15 36 (4.10%) Software Developer
16 31 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
17 29 (3.31%) Python Engineer
18 28 (3.19%) PostgreSQL DBA
19 26 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 26 (2.96%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (26.91%) REST
2 197 (22.46%) Spring
3 192 (21.89%) RESTful
4 188 (21.44%) Kafka
5 169 (19.27%) Spring Boot
6 168 (19.16%) Terraform
7 153 (17.45%) React
8 106 (12.09%) Node.js
9 76 (8.67%) CSS
9 76 (8.67%) HTML
10 65 (7.41%) .NET
11 57 (6.50%) AngularJS
11 57 (6.50%) OAuth
12 54 (6.16%) Django
13 52 (5.93%) FastAPI
14 49 (5.59%) OpenAPI
14 49 (5.59%) Swagger
15 48 (5.47%) OAuth2
16 45 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
17 44 (5.02%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 181 (20.64%) Cloud Native
2 106 (12.09%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.82%) Replication
4 46 (5.25%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.33%) Data Structures
6 30 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (2.62%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (2.17%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.05%) Algorithms
12 17 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
13 16 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (1.03%) Equities
17 9 (1.03%) LIMS
18 8 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
18 8 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 117 (13.34%) Linux
2 44 (5.02%) Unix
3 39 (4.45%) Windows
4 27 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.74%) Windows Server
6 15 (1.71%) Solaris
7 14 (1.60%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.91%) AIX
10 3 (0.34%) VMS
11 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (48.80%) CI/CD
2 307 (35.01%) Agile
3 300 (34.21%) DevOps
4 274 (31.24%) Microservices
5 203 (23.15%) Containerisation
6 176 (20.07%) Software Engineering
7 166 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (17.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 150 (17.10%) Full-Stack Development
10 145 (16.53%) Test Automation
11 132 (15.05%) Data Modelling
12 125 (14.25%) AI
12 125 (14.25%) Performance Tuning
13 123 (14.03%) Event-Driven
14 122 (13.91%) Migration
14 122 (13.91%) Observability
15 105 (11.97%) Scrum
16 99 (11.29%) TDD
17 97 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
18 96 (10.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 340 (38.77%) SQL
2 317 (36.15%) Python
3 313 (35.69%) Java
4 160 (18.24%) TypeScript
5 113 (12.88%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.73%) C#
7 50 (5.70%) Bash
8 41 (4.68%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.65%) Scala
10 30 (3.42%) Go
11 18 (2.05%) Groovy
12 17 (1.94%) Perl
13 16 (1.82%) Shell Script
14 15 (1.71%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.60%) PL/SQL
16 12 (1.37%) Ruby
17 11 (1.25%) PHP
18 10 (1.14%) Korn
18 10 (1.14%) Rust
18 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 314 (35.80%) Security Cleared
2 270 (30.79%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.16%) Degree
4 49 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.51%) AWS Certification
9 19 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.25%) OCP
12 10 (1.14%) 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 78 (8.89%) QA
2 49 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 48 (5.47%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.17%) GDPR
5 15 (1.71%) WCAG
6 8 (0.91%) GMP
6 8 (0.91%) GxP
7 7 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.80%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.80%) 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%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.46%) SEPA
10 3 (0.34%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 351 (40.02%) Docker
2 13 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (0.80%) Postfix
6 6 (0.68%) Ceph
6 6 (0.68%) 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
1 293 (33.41%) Kubernetes
2 112 (12.77%) Grafana
3 87 (9.92%) Prometheus
4 35 (3.99%) Ansible
5 25 (2.85%) Kibana
6 16 (1.82%) Argo
7 15 (1.71%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.37%) Karpenter
9 11 (1.25%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.14%) HAProxy
11 9 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 8 (0.91%) Control-M
13 7 (0.80%) Nessus
14 6 (0.68%) Istio
15 5 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
15 5 (0.57%) Puppet
16 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
16 4 (0.46%) Rancher
16 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
17 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 191 (21.78%) Oracle
2 134 (15.28%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.13%) Databricks
4 42 (4.79%) Google
5 34 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.62%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.51%) Splunk
8 18 (2.05%) Informatica
8 18 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.82%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.48%) VMware
11 11 (1.25%) Talend
12 10 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (1.03%) NetApp
14 8 (0.91%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.91%) Sybase
15 7 (0.80%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.80%) TikTok
16 6 (0.68%) Foundry