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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 113 131
Rank change year-on-year -64 +18 +24
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 853 791 714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 2.42% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.48% 13.37% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 589 531
10th Percentile £362 £381 £363
25th Percentile £424 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.14%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £717 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £482
% change year-on-year -0.63% -0.83% -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% +49.46%
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 8,137 5,916 7,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.17% 18.07% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,423 3,970 4,922
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -3.27%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 96 100
10th Percentile £15.77 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £22.96 £29.00 £19.90
Median hourly rate £38.25 £35.50 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% +6.88% -39.61%
75th Percentile £60.38 £62.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £69.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.34% +6.83% -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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -73 687 £500 -9.09% 214
UK excluding London -37 372 £475 -0.63% 161
London -70 346 £525 -12.50% 106
Work from Home -76 262 £500 -14.48% 122
North of England -47 124 £488 -2.50% 27
Midlands -29 81 £445 -11.00% 26
South East -38 69 £471 +8.16% 54
North West -36 59 £485 +2.11% 18
Yorkshire -15 56 £500 - 6
West Midlands -33 50 £448 -5.79% 13
Scotland -14 48 £425 -10.99% 8
South West -30 31 £700 +33.33% 32
East Midlands +4 30 £425 -17.48% 12
East of England -13 20 £500 +8.99% 8
North East -47 9 £425 -22.73% 3
Wales -14 4 - - 6

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 34 (3.99%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.52%) Confluence
3 28 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.23%) Apache
5 7 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.70%) CMS
7 5 (0.59%) Camunda
7 5 (0.59%) nginx
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.35%) IIS
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.47%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.12%) Odoo
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 452 (52.99%) AWS
2 290 (34.00%) Azure
3 163 (19.11%) GitHub
4 130 (15.24%) GCP
5 121 (14.19%) GitHub Actions
6 106 (12.43%) Serverless
7 88 (10.32%) Amazon S3
8 76 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
9 61 (7.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.57%) Amazon ECS
12 55 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
13 50 (5.86%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (3.87%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (3.17%) AWS KMS
18 24 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
19 23 (2.70%) Azure AKS
19 23 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.93%) DNS
2 20 (2.34%) Firewall
3 18 (2.11%) SSH
4 15 (1.76%) HTTP
5 13 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.29%) HTTPS
7 7 (0.82%) SSL
8 5 (0.59%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.47%) 5G
9 4 (0.47%) SAN
9 4 (0.47%) VPN
10 3 (0.35%) 4G
10 3 (0.35%) Network Security
11 2 (0.23%) IMAP
11 2 (0.23%) MQTT
11 2 (0.23%) NaaS
11 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.23%) SMTP
11 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (20.75%) MongoDB
2 169 (19.81%) SQL Server
3 166 (19.46%) Relational Database
4 146 (17.12%) MySQL
5 120 (14.07%) NoSQL
6 97 (11.37%) Redis
7 77 (9.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 77 (9.03%) Amazon RDS
8 43 (5.04%) DynamoDB
9 42 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (4.10%) RDBMS
11 30 (3.52%) Oracle Database
12 28 (3.28%) Big Data
13 27 (3.17%) Data Lake
14 24 (2.81%) Metadata
15 22 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (2.23%) Power BI
17 16 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
18 14 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
19 12 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 192 (22.51%) Jenkins
2 188 (22.04%) Git
3 95 (11.14%) GitLab
4 77 (9.03%) JIRA
5 66 (7.74%) JUnit
6 52 (6.10%) Mockito
7 40 (4.69%) Maven
8 34 (3.99%) Gradle
9 24 (2.81%) Liquibase
10 22 (2.58%) Cucumber
11 20 (2.34%) Selenium
12 18 (2.11%) SonarQube
13 17 (1.99%) Gatling
13 17 (1.99%) JMeter
14 13 (1.52%) Bitbucket
15 11 (1.29%) Flyway
15 11 (1.29%) WebDriver
16 10 (1.17%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.17%) Mocha
17 7 (0.82%) DbUnit
General
1 187 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 142 (16.65%) Public Sector
3 134 (15.71%) Finance
4 117 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.74%) Banking
6 30 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (1.76%) Front Office
8 11 (1.29%) Military
8 11 (1.29%) Retail
9 10 (1.17%) Law
9 10 (1.17%) Legal
9 10 (1.17%) Telecoms
10 7 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.59%) Automotive
12 5 (0.59%) Billing
12 5 (0.59%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.59%) Marketing
12 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 315 (36.93%) Developer
2 156 (18.29%) Senior
3 104 (12.19%) Java Developer
4 101 (11.84%) DBA
5 71 (8.32%) Software Engineer
6 66 (7.74%) Full-Stack Developer
7 65 (7.62%) Lead
8 64 (7.50%) Senior Developer
9 62 (7.27%) Data Engineer
10 57 (6.68%) Python Developer
11 54 (6.33%) Administrator
12 53 (6.21%) Architect
13 44 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
14 40 (4.69%) Java Engineer
15 34 (3.99%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.75%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 28 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
18 27 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 25 (2.93%) Python Engineer
20 24 (2.81%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (25.91%) REST
2 190 (22.27%) Spring
3 184 (21.57%) Kafka
4 183 (21.45%) RESTful
5 161 (18.87%) Terraform
6 159 (18.64%) React
7 158 (18.52%) Spring Boot
8 112 (13.13%) Node.js
9 67 (7.85%) CSS
9 67 (7.85%) HTML
10 58 (6.80%) .NET
11 57 (6.68%) FastAPI
12 53 (6.21%) OAuth
13 51 (5.98%) Django
14 50 (5.86%) AngularJS
15 48 (5.63%) OpenAPI
15 48 (5.63%) Swagger
16 43 (5.04%) OAuth2
17 41 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
18 38 (4.45%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 166 (19.46%) Cloud Native
2 106 (12.43%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.86%) Replication
4 42 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.99%) Data Structures
6 27 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
9 20 (2.34%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.88%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.52%) Equities
13 12 (1.41%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.29%) Derivative
15 10 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (0.94%) Life Science
17 7 (0.82%) Fixed Income
17 7 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 110 (12.90%) Linux
2 39 (4.57%) Unix
3 35 (4.10%) Windows
4 22 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.94%) Solaris
9 7 (0.82%) AIX
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (48.42%) CI/CD
2 312 (36.58%) Agile
3 297 (34.82%) DevOps
4 265 (31.07%) Microservices
5 192 (22.51%) Containerisation
6 171 (20.05%) Software Engineering
7 151 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
8 147 (17.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 145 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 138 (16.18%) Test Automation
11 126 (14.77%) Data Modelling
12 123 (14.42%) AI
12 123 (14.42%) Observability
13 121 (14.19%) Performance Tuning
14 114 (13.36%) Event-Driven
15 112 (13.13%) Migration
16 98 (11.49%) Validation
17 93 (10.90%) TDD
18 88 (10.32%) Scrum
19 87 (10.20%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 319 (37.40%) Python
2 317 (37.16%) SQL
3 304 (35.64%) Java
4 154 (18.05%) TypeScript
5 111 (13.01%) JavaScript
6 55 (6.45%) C#
7 47 (5.51%) Bash
8 44 (5.16%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.99%) Go
10 30 (3.52%) Scala
11 18 (2.11%) Groovy
12 17 (1.99%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.88%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.64%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.52%) Perl
16 11 (1.29%) PHP
16 11 (1.29%) Ruby
16 11 (1.29%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.94%) Rust
18 7 (0.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 291 (34.11%) Security Cleared
2 243 (28.49%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.98%) Degree
4 47 (5.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (2.11%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.29%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.70%) OCP
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.12%) CISA
14 1 (0.12%) CISM
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.32%) QA
2 50 (5.86%) Accessibility
3 46 (5.39%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.88%) GDPR
4 16 (1.88%) WCAG
5 7 (0.82%) GMP
5 7 (0.82%) GxP
6 6 (0.70%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.59%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.59%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.59%) SLA
8 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.23%) HL7
9 2 (0.23%) NIST
9 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 342 (40.09%) Docker
2 14 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.52%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.82%) Postfix
6 6 (0.70%) Ceph
6 6 (0.70%) Squid
7 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.12%) NFS
9 1 (0.12%) RACF
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 295 (34.58%) Kubernetes
2 107 (12.54%) Grafana
3 83 (9.73%) Prometheus
4 37 (4.34%) Ansible
5 22 (2.58%) Kibana
6 16 (1.88%) Argo
6 16 (1.88%) Oracle RMAN
7 12 (1.41%) Data Guard
8 10 (1.17%) HAProxy
9 9 (1.06%) Control-M
9 9 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 8 (0.94%) Karpenter
10 8 (0.94%) Nessus
11 6 (0.70%) IBM Guardium
11 6 (0.70%) Istio
11 6 (0.70%) Rancher
12 5 (0.59%) Puppet
13 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
14 3 (0.35%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 180 (21.10%) Oracle
2 128 (15.01%) Microsoft
3 37 (4.34%) Google
4 35 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 34 (3.99%) Databricks
6 24 (2.81%) Dynatrace
7 23 (2.70%) Splunk
8 17 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.88%) Informatica
9 16 (1.88%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.64%) VMware
11 10 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (0.94%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.94%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.94%) Sybase
12 8 (0.94%) Talend
13 7 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.82%) TikTok
14 6 (0.70%) Foundry
14 6 (0.70%) Tenable