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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 121 131
Rank change year-on-year -51 +10 +33
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 872 770 723
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.36% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.68% 13.03% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 574 545
10th Percentile £363 £380 £357
25th Percentile £425 £457 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £712 £838 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £482
% change year-on-year -3.65% +2.28% -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% +22.00%
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 8,166 5,909 6,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 18.08% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,443 3,946 4,764
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.75% -2.03%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £702 £749 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £482
% change year-on-year - -1.45% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 91 85
10th Percentile £16.42 £22.84 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £30.15 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.50 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.48% +18.30% -43.93%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -66 696 £513 -6.82% 1,067
London -63 368 £525 -12.50% 752
UK excluding London -44 352 £475 -3.65% 397
Work from Home -68 273 £500 -16.67% 2,154
North of England -71 104 £500 - 98
Midlands -19 80 £445 -11.00% 40
South East -22 68 £460 +7.23% 100
Yorkshire -18 51 £500 - 37
West Midlands -36 51 £447 -8.26% 29
North West -57 47 £520 +9.47% 52
Scotland -20 45 £450 -6.49% 38
South West -43 31 £650 +19.27% 59
East Midlands +1 28 £425 -17.87% 10
East of England -15 23 £506 +6.58% 34
North East -50 6 £425 -22.68% 10
Wales -12 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 35 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
1 35 (4.01%) Apache Spark
1 35 (4.01%) Confluence
2 25 (2.87%) Apache
3 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.69%) CMS
4 6 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.57%) nginx
5 5 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.34%) Camunda
6 3 (0.34%) IIS
6 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.23%) JBoss
7 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.23%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) 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
1 454 (52.06%) AWS
2 293 (33.60%) Azure
3 166 (19.04%) GitHub
4 127 (14.56%) GCP
5 120 (13.76%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (11.24%) Serverless
7 92 (10.55%) Amazon S3
8 77 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
9 64 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (6.65%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (6.31%) Amazon ECS
11 55 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (5.85%) Amazon SQS
13 40 (4.59%) Snowflake
14 33 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 27 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (3.10%) AWS KMS
17 23 (2.64%) OpenShift
18 22 (2.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.98%) DNS
2 19 (2.18%) Firewall
2 19 (2.18%) SSH
3 18 (2.06%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.95%) HTTP
5 11 (1.26%) HTTPS
6 10 (1.15%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.92%) SAN
7 8 (0.92%) SSL
8 5 (0.57%) 5G
9 4 (0.46%) 4G
9 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.46%) VPN
10 3 (0.34%) Network Security
11 2 (0.23%) DHCP
11 2 (0.23%) FTP
11 2 (0.23%) IMAP
11 2 (0.23%) MQTT
11 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (21.22%) SQL Server
2 175 (20.07%) Relational Database
3 169 (19.38%) MongoDB
4 163 (18.69%) MySQL
5 107 (12.27%) NoSQL
6 101 (11.58%) Redis
7 88 (10.09%) Amazon RDS
8 83 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (4.93%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.56%) RDBMS
12 30 (3.44%) Metadata
12 30 (3.44%) Oracle Database
13 27 (3.10%) Big Data
14 25 (2.87%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (2.06%) Power BI
17 17 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
18 15 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
19 14 (1.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 209 (23.97%) Git
2 199 (22.82%) Jenkins
3 94 (10.78%) GitLab
4 80 (9.17%) JIRA
5 71 (8.14%) JUnit
6 62 (7.11%) Mockito
7 57 (6.54%) Maven
8 39 (4.47%) Gradle
9 27 (3.10%) SonarQube
10 21 (2.41%) Liquibase
11 20 (2.29%) Cucumber
12 16 (1.83%) Gatling
13 15 (1.72%) Selenium
14 13 (1.49%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.38%) Mocha
16 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.15%) Flyway
16 10 (1.15%) JMeter
17 7 (0.80%) Artifactory
17 7 (0.80%) Claude Code
General
1 198 (22.71%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.20%) Public Sector
3 133 (15.25%) Finance
4 131 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (6.08%) Banking
6 36 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (1.61%) Front Office
8 11 (1.26%) Military
8 11 (1.26%) Retail
9 10 (1.15%) Legal
9 10 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 8 (0.92%) Law
12 6 (0.69%) Automotive
12 6 (0.69%) Billing
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 (37.04%) Developer
2 163 (18.69%) Senior
3 122 (13.99%) Java Developer
4 102 (11.70%) DBA
5 72 (8.26%) Senior Developer
6 67 (7.68%) Full-Stack Developer
7 65 (7.45%) Lead
8 64 (7.34%) Software Engineer
9 62 (7.11%) Data Engineer
10 58 (6.65%) Administrator
11 49 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
12 48 (5.50%) Architect
13 47 (5.39%) Python Developer
14 40 (4.59%) Java Engineer
15 34 (3.90%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (3.44%) Python Engineer
18 28 (3.21%) Senior Java Developer
19 27 (3.10%) PostgreSQL DBA
20 26 (2.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (27.41%) REST
2 195 (22.36%) Spring
3 191 (21.90%) RESTful
4 187 (21.44%) Kafka
5 170 (19.50%) Spring Boot
6 168 (19.27%) Terraform
7 153 (17.55%) React
8 103 (11.81%) Node.js
9 78 (8.94%) CSS
9 78 (8.94%) HTML
10 67 (7.68%) .NET
11 58 (6.65%) AngularJS
11 58 (6.65%) OAuth
12 53 (6.08%) Django
13 50 (5.73%) FastAPI
14 49 (5.62%) OAuth2
15 46 (5.28%) OpenAPI
15 46 (5.28%) Swagger
16 44 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
17 43 (4.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 182 (20.87%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.93%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (6.08%) Replication
4 49 (5.62%) Product Ownership
5 39 (4.47%) Data Structures
6 31 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (2.75%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 18 (2.06%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.38%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.03%) LIMS
15 8 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
15 8 (0.92%) Equities
15 8 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 120 (13.76%) Linux
2 48 (5.50%) Unix
3 40 (4.59%) Windows
4 29 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.75%) 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
1 427 (48.97%) CI/CD
2 303 (34.75%) Agile
3 301 (34.52%) DevOps
4 271 (31.08%) Microservices
5 202 (23.17%) Containerisation
6 180 (20.64%) Software Engineering
7 162 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (17.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 147 (16.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 146 (16.74%) Test Automation
11 130 (14.91%) Data Modelling
12 124 (14.22%) Event-Driven
13 123 (14.11%) AI
14 121 (13.88%) Performance Tuning
15 119 (13.65%) Observability
16 117 (13.42%) Migration
17 105 (12.04%) Scrum
18 96 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 96 (11.01%) TDD
19 94 (10.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 339 (38.88%) SQL
2 314 (36.01%) Python
3 312 (35.78%) Java
4 159 (18.23%) TypeScript
5 116 (13.30%) JavaScript
6 60 (6.88%) C#
7 51 (5.85%) Bash
8 40 (4.59%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.67%) Scala
10 29 (3.33%) Go
11 21 (2.41%) Groovy
12 17 (1.95%) Perl
13 16 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 15 (1.72%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.61%) PL/SQL
16 11 (1.26%) PHP
16 11 (1.26%) Ruby
16 11 (1.26%) T-SQL
17 10 (1.15%) Korn
17 10 (1.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 312 (35.78%) Security Cleared
2 269 (30.85%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.42%) Degree
4 50 (5.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 29 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (2.64%) AWS Certification
9 19 (2.18%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.26%) OCP
12 9 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.11%) CISA
14 1 (0.11%) CISM
14 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.29%) QA
2 49 (5.62%) Accessibility
3 48 (5.50%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.18%) GDPR
5 14 (1.61%) WCAG
6 8 (0.92%) GMP
6 8 (0.92%) 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%) PSD2
System Software
1 353 (40.48%) Docker
2 13 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.03%) 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
1 292 (33.49%) Kubernetes
2 111 (12.73%) Grafana
3 86 (9.86%) Prometheus
4 35 (4.01%) Ansible
5 25 (2.87%) Kibana
6 15 (1.72%) Argo
7 13 (1.49%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.38%) Karpenter
9 11 (1.26%) Data Guard
9 11 (1.26%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.80%) Control-M
11 7 (0.80%) Puppet
12 6 (0.69%) Nessus
13 5 (0.57%) Istio
13 5 (0.57%) Rancher
14 4 (0.46%) IBM Guardium
14 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 188 (21.56%) Oracle
2 132 (15.14%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.93%) Google
4 42 (4.82%) Databricks
5 33 (3.78%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.75%) Dynatrace
7 23 (2.64%) Splunk
8 18 (2.06%) Informatica
9 17 (1.95%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.83%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.49%) VMware
12 11 (1.26%) Talend
13 10 (1.15%) Jaspersoft
14 9 (1.03%) NetApp
15 8 (0.92%) CyberArk
15 8 (0.92%) Sybase
16 7 (0.80%) Atlassian
16 7 (0.80%) Red Hat
16 7 (0.80%) TikTok
17 6 (0.69%) BeyondTrust