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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 118 130
Rank change year-on-year -63 +12 +33
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 876 793 729
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.41% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.62% 13.25% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 593 548
10th Percentile £356 £376 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% +0.48% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £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 8,248 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 5,514 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 £712 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 89 91
10th Percentile £16.56 £21.24 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £29.07 £21.00
Median hourly rate £40.18 £43.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +24.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £60.78
90th Percentile £75.20 £81.50 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +5.39% +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -69 698 £513 -4.21% 1,140
London -63 377 £525 -12.50% 797
UK excluding London -61 345 £478 -1.95% 449
Work from Home -65 274 £500 -16.67% 536
North of England -76 101 £500 - 111
Midlands -29 76 £446 -10.80% 49
South East -33 66 £460 +5.75% 112
Yorkshire -28 52 £494 -1.25% 34
West Midlands -44 50 £448 -10.50% 37
Scotland -16 46 £450 -6.49% 51
North West -62 43 £523 +10.00% 62
South West -33 33 £650 +20.37% 56
East Midlands 0 25 £425 -17.87% 12
East of England -10 23 £506 +6.58% 35
North East -60 6 £425 -22.68% 16
Wales -11 4 - - 14

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 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
1 37 (4.22%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.88%) Confluence
3 28 (3.20%) Apache
4 7 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.68%) CMS
5 6 (0.68%) nginx
6 5 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.34%) IIS
7 3 (0.34%) 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 (0.11%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (0.68%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) 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
1 458 (52.28%) AWS
2 289 (32.99%) Azure
3 168 (19.18%) GitHub
4 128 (14.61%) GCP
5 121 (13.81%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (11.53%) Serverless
7 97 (11.07%) Amazon S3
8 80 (9.13%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (7.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 62 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (5.94%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (4.57%) Snowflake
15 31 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (3.08%) AWS KMS
18 24 (2.74%) OpenShift
19 21 (2.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.08%) DNS
2 20 (2.28%) SSH
3 19 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.05%) Firewall
4 18 (2.05%) HTTP
5 11 (1.26%) HTTPS
6 10 (1.14%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.91%) SAN
7 8 (0.91%) SSL
8 6 (0.68%) 5G
9 5 (0.57%) 4G
9 5 (0.57%) VPN
10 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.34%) 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 (21.12%) SQL Server
2 170 (19.41%) Relational Database
3 168 (19.18%) MongoDB
4 166 (18.95%) MySQL
5 106 (12.10%) NoSQL
6 105 (11.99%) Redis
7 92 (10.50%) Amazon RDS
8 83 (9.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 42 (4.79%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (3.65%) Metadata
12 31 (3.54%) RDBMS
13 29 (3.31%) Big Data
13 29 (3.31%) Oracle Database
14 25 (2.85%) Data Lake
15 22 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (1.94%) Power BI
18 15 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.71%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 213 (24.32%) Git
2 201 (22.95%) Jenkins
3 99 (11.30%) GitLab
4 81 (9.25%) JIRA
5 68 (7.76%) JUnit
6 60 (6.85%) Maven
6 60 (6.85%) Mockito
7 39 (4.45%) Gradle
8 28 (3.20%) SonarQube
9 20 (2.28%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.94%) Liquibase
10 17 (1.94%) Selenium
11 16 (1.83%) Gatling
12 13 (1.48%) Bitbucket
13 12 (1.37%) Mocha
14 10 (1.14%) Cypress.io
15 9 (1.03%) Flyway
15 9 (1.03%) JMeter
16 7 (0.80%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.80%) DbUnit
General
1 196 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 143 (16.32%) Public Sector
3 136 (15.53%) Finance
4 131 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.39%) Banking
6 40 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (1.83%) Front Office
8 13 (1.48%) Retail
9 11 (1.26%) Military
10 10 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.03%) Legal
11 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.91%) Law
13 7 (0.80%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.68%) Automotive
14 6 (0.68%) Billing
14 6 (0.68%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.57%) Marketing
15 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 321 (36.64%) Developer
2 162 (18.49%) Senior
3 123 (14.04%) Java Developer
4 102 (11.64%) DBA
5 70 (7.99%) Senior Developer
6 68 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 67 (7.65%) Data Engineer
8 64 (7.31%) Software Engineer
9 63 (7.19%) Lead
10 59 (6.74%) Administrator
11 52 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
12 49 (5.59%) Python Developer
13 46 (5.25%) Architect
14 40 (4.57%) Java Engineer
15 36 (4.11%) Python Engineer
16 34 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
17 32 (3.65%) Software Developer
18 27 (3.08%) Senior Java Developer
19 26 (2.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 26 (2.97%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (27.97%) REST
2 193 (22.03%) Spring
3 189 (21.58%) Kafka
3 189 (21.58%) RESTful
4 171 (19.52%) Spring Boot
4 171 (19.52%) Terraform
5 151 (17.24%) React
6 102 (11.64%) Node.js
7 80 (9.13%) CSS
7 80 (9.13%) HTML
8 66 (7.53%) .NET
9 59 (6.74%) OAuth
10 57 (6.51%) AngularJS
11 53 (6.05%) Django
12 51 (5.82%) FastAPI
13 49 (5.59%) OAuth2
14 45 (5.14%) RabbitMQ
15 44 (5.02%) GraphQL
15 44 (5.02%) Hibernate
16 43 (4.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 181 (20.66%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.87%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.94%) Replication
4 48 (5.48%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.34%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.85%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.05%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.37%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.03%) Equities
15 9 (1.03%) LIMS
16 8 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
16 8 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 121 (13.81%) Linux
2 50 (5.71%) Unix
3 40 (4.57%) Windows
4 30 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.74%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.94%) Solaris
7 16 (1.83%) Ubuntu
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%) CentOS
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
1 432 (49.32%) CI/CD
2 306 (34.93%) Agile
3 304 (34.70%) DevOps
4 268 (30.59%) Microservices
5 199 (22.72%) Containerisation
6 178 (20.32%) Software Engineering
7 157 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 147 (16.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 147 (16.78%) Test Automation
10 131 (14.95%) AI
11 129 (14.73%) Data Modelling
12 125 (14.27%) Event-Driven
13 121 (13.81%) Observability
13 121 (13.81%) Performance Tuning
14 116 (13.24%) Migration
15 110 (12.56%) Scrum
16 96 (10.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 95 (10.84%) Analytics
17 95 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 344 (39.27%) SQL
2 321 (36.64%) Python
3 308 (35.16%) Java
4 157 (17.92%) TypeScript
5 118 (13.47%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.74%) C#
7 52 (5.94%) Bash
8 38 (4.34%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.88%) Scala
10 30 (3.42%) Go
11 23 (2.63%) Groovy
12 17 (1.94%) Perl
12 17 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.71%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.48%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.37%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.26%) PHP
17 10 (1.14%) Korn
17 10 (1.14%) Ruby
18 9 (1.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 312 (35.62%) Security Cleared
2 271 (30.94%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.74%) Degree
4 50 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (2.85%) AWS Certification
9 21 (2.40%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.26%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.26%) OCP
12 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
14 1 (0.11%) CISA
14 1 (0.11%) CISM
14 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.70%) QA
2 48 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 47 (5.37%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.17%) GDPR
5 14 (1.60%) 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 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
1 354 (40.41%) Docker
2 13 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (0.80%) Postfix
5 6 (0.68%) Ceph
5 6 (0.68%) Squid
6 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 293 (33.45%) Kubernetes
2 115 (13.13%) Grafana
3 90 (10.27%) Prometheus
4 34 (3.88%) Ansible
5 27 (3.08%) Kibana
6 15 (1.71%) Argo
7 12 (1.37%) Karpenter
7 12 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (1.26%) HAProxy
9 10 (1.14%) Data Guard
10 9 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 8 (0.91%) Control-M
12 7 (0.80%) Nessus
12 7 (0.80%) Puppet
13 6 (0.68%) Istio
13 6 (0.68%) Rancher
14 5 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
15 4 (0.46%) Bosun
15 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 191 (21.80%) Oracle
2 131 (14.95%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.91%) Databricks
3 43 (4.91%) Google
4 34 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.85%) Dynatrace
6 23 (2.63%) Splunk
7 18 (2.05%) Informatica
7 18 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 17 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.48%) VMware
10 11 (1.26%) Talend
11 10 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.91%) NetApp
12 8 (0.91%) Sybase
13 7 (0.80%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.80%) Foundry
13 7 (0.80%) TikTok
14 6 (0.68%) BeyondTrust