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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 119 155
Rank change year-on-year -18 +36 +2
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 856 671 686
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.29% 1.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.33% 12.12% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 504 482
10th Percentile £358 £375 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% +1.52%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £746 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £475 £505
% change year-on-year -3.37% -5.94% +1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile £34.40 - £38.93
25th Percentile £40.00 - £55.69
Median hourly rate £57.00 £43.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.56% -37.23% +204.65%
75th Percentile £67.75 - £76.25
90th Percentile £69.50 - £78.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +154.55%

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 6,943 5,537 7,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.96% 18.92% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,780 3,823 5,158
10th Percentile £350 £350 £349
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 97 173
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.35 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.79 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +61.19% -21.39% -29.32%
75th Percentile £74.92 £64.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £29.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year +67.22% -14.57% -36.36%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -20 703 £506 -5.11% 297
UK excluding London +1 403 £459 -3.37% 187
London -18 347 £550 -4.35% 153
Work from Home -27 276 £493 -7.08% 228
North of England -19 148 £465 +0.54% 64
Midlands +2 103 £475 -5.00% 21
West Midlands +1 87 £492 +0.41% 11
South East -35 79 £433 +0.87% 43
Yorkshire -18 73 £488 -11.36% 23
North West -20 66 £441 -3.72% 35
Scotland +15 55 £444 -2.47% 14
South West -24 36 £606 -3.04% 20
East Midlands -34 15 £400 -20.00% 10
North East -8 8 £438 -5.15% 7
Northern Ireland +1 7 £400 -20.00% 2
East of England -26 5 £588 +30.56% 18

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 57 (6.66%) Confluence
2 25 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.22%) Apache
5 16 (1.87%) nginx
6 10 (1.17%) SAS
7 6 (0.70%) Camunda
8 5 (0.58%) Drupal
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.23%) Appian
11 2 (0.23%) JBoss
11 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) CPLEX
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 525 (61.33%) AWS
2 271 (31.66%) Azure
3 194 (22.66%) GitHub
4 164 (19.16%) GCP
5 136 (15.89%) Serverless
6 116 (13.55%) Amazon S3
7 109 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (5.49%) OpenShift
11 43 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
12 42 (4.91%) Snowflake
13 38 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (3.86%) Power Platform
15 32 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
17 23 (2.69%) Azure AKS
18 22 (2.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.22%) Firewall
2 16 (1.87%) DNS
3 9 (1.05%) Kerberos
4 8 (0.93%) HTTP
4 8 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.58%) SSL
6 4 (0.47%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.47%) Internet
6 4 (0.47%) iSCSI
6 4 (0.47%) SSH
6 4 (0.47%) VPN
6 4 (0.47%) WAN
7 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.35%) SAN
8 2 (0.23%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.23%) LAN
8 2 (0.23%) NaaS
8 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) VSAN
9 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (17.52%) NoSQL
2 141 (16.47%) Relational Database
3 135 (15.77%) MongoDB
4 133 (15.54%) SQL Server
5 125 (14.60%) MySQL
6 67 (7.83%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (7.36%) DynamoDB
8 54 (6.31%) Redis
9 49 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
10 47 (5.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 37 (4.32%) RDBMS
12 36 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
13 27 (3.15%) Data Lake
13 27 (3.15%) Power BI
14 26 (3.04%) Apache Cassandra
14 26 (3.04%) Big Data
15 24 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
16 22 (2.57%) Metadata
17 19 (2.22%) Hadoop
18 18 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 199 (23.25%) Jenkins
2 176 (20.56%) Git
3 111 (12.97%) GitLab
4 86 (10.05%) JIRA
4 86 (10.05%) JUnit
5 46 (5.37%) Mockito
6 42 (4.91%) Cucumber
7 28 (3.27%) JMeter
8 26 (3.04%) Gradle
8 26 (3.04%) Maven
9 25 (2.92%) Liquibase
10 21 (2.45%) Selenium
11 18 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
12 16 (1.87%) Bitbucket
12 16 (1.87%) WebDriver
13 12 (1.40%) Cypress.io
13 12 (1.40%) SonarQube
14 11 (1.29%) Artifactory
14 11 (1.29%) ERwin
14 11 (1.29%) Postman
General
1 211 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 184 (21.50%) Finance
3 105 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 82 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (8.88%) Banking
6 26 (3.04%) Front Office
7 20 (2.34%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.70%) Law
12 6 (0.70%) Retail
13 5 (0.58%) Legal
13 5 (0.58%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.58%) Marketing
13 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.35%) Electronics
14 3 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 336 (39.25%) Developer
2 149 (17.41%) Senior
3 105 (12.27%) Java Developer
4 85 (9.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 81 (9.46%) Python Developer
6 74 (8.64%) Software Engineer
7 72 (8.41%) Data Engineer
8 70 (8.18%) Architect
9 65 (7.59%) DBA
10 58 (6.78%) Senior Developer
11 53 (6.19%) Lead
12 33 (3.86%) Data Architect
12 33 (3.86%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 32 (3.74%) Administrator
13 32 (3.74%) AWS Developer
13 32 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (3.74%) Senior Java Developer
14 31 (3.62%) Backend Developer
15 30 (3.50%) Java Engineer
15 30 (3.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (23.01%) Kafka
2 177 (20.68%) Spring
3 162 (18.93%) React
4 150 (17.52%) REST
5 149 (17.41%) RESTful
6 139 (16.24%) Node.js
7 133 (15.54%) Spring Boot
8 63 (7.36%) FastAPI
9 61 (7.13%) AngularJS
10 45 (5.26%) JSON
11 43 (5.02%) Hibernate
12 42 (4.91%) CSS
13 39 (4.56%) GraphQL
13 39 (4.56%) WireMock
14 34 (3.97%) .NET
14 34 (3.97%) HTML
15 33 (3.86%) Django
16 30 (3.50%) Elastic Stack
17 29 (3.39%) JPA
17 29 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 126 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 92 (10.75%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.86%) Derivative
4 32 (3.74%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.04%) Replication
7 24 (2.80%) Data Structures
8 22 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.57%) Fixed Income
9 21 (2.45%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
11 18 (2.10%) Equities
12 17 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (1.87%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.75%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.75%) Market Risk
15 13 (1.52%) Clustering
16 9 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
17 7 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 139 (16.24%) Linux
2 27 (3.15%) Unix
3 25 (2.92%) Windows
4 10 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.47%) zOS
7 3 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.35%) Android
7 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.23%) Solaris
8 2 (0.23%) VMS
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (47.20%) CI/CD
2 330 (38.55%) Agile
3 288 (33.64%) DevOps
4 240 (28.04%) Microservices
5 226 (26.40%) Containerisation
6 169 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
7 143 (16.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 142 (16.59%) Software Engineering
9 131 (15.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 125 (14.60%) Observability
11 115 (13.43%) Test Automation
12 111 (12.97%) TDD
13 110 (12.85%) Data Modelling
14 99 (11.57%) Migration
15 92 (10.75%) ETL
16 87 (10.16%) AI
17 84 (9.81%) Performance Tuning
18 83 (9.70%) Computer Science
19 82 (9.58%) Analytics
19 82 (9.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 383 (44.74%) Python
2 312 (36.45%) SQL
3 276 (32.24%) Java
4 131 (15.30%) TypeScript
5 121 (14.14%) JavaScript
6 70 (8.18%) Bash
7 65 (7.59%) Go
8 39 (4.56%) PowerShell
9 35 (4.09%) C#
10 19 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 19 (2.22%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.10%) Scala
12 16 (1.87%) PHP
13 15 (1.75%) Ruby
14 10 (1.17%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.93%) Bicep
15 8 (0.93%) Groovy
16 7 (0.82%) JSX
17 5 (0.58%) Delphi
17 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 276 (32.24%) Security Cleared
2 223 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 98 (11.45%) Degree
4 58 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (4.09%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.92%) Master's Degree
8 23 (2.69%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.75%) OCP
10 15 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.47%) CISSP
14 3 (0.35%) CISM
14 3 (0.35%) PhD
14 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.67%) QA
3 24 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.29%) GDPR
5 7 (0.82%) NCSC
5 7 (0.82%) NIST
6 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.70%) SLA
6 6 (0.70%) WCAG
7 5 (0.58%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.23%) HL7
10 2 (0.23%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 320 (37.38%) Docker
2 11 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.70%) Postfix
6 5 (0.58%) HDFS
7 4 (0.47%) Active Directory
7 4 (0.47%) Ceph
8 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.23%) Lustre
9 2 (0.23%) NDS
9 2 (0.23%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 2 (0.23%) NFS
9 2 (0.23%) Samba
9 2 (0.23%) Squid
9 2 (0.23%) Xen
9 2 (0.23%) zsh
10 1 (0.12%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 315 (36.80%) Kubernetes
2 166 (19.39%) Terraform
3 133 (15.54%) Grafana
4 97 (11.33%) Prometheus
5 90 (10.51%) Ansible
6 23 (2.69%) Argo
7 17 (1.99%) Control-M
7 17 (1.99%) IBM Guardium
7 17 (1.99%) Nessus
8 16 (1.87%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.17%) Puppet
10 9 (1.05%) Rancher
11 8 (0.93%) Istio
12 7 (0.82%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.70%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.70%) linkerd
14 5 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.58%) Packer
15 4 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 149 (17.41%) Oracle
2 104 (12.15%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.91%) Splunk
4 37 (4.32%) Google
5 30 (3.50%) Red Hat
6 29 (3.39%) Databricks
7 25 (2.92%) Atlassian
8 24 (2.80%) Informatica
9 23 (2.69%) VMware
10 17 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.99%) Tenable
11 15 (1.75%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.64%) Talend
13 13 (1.52%) Greenplum
14 12 (1.40%) IBM
15 9 (1.05%) Jaspersoft
16 8 (0.93%) PagerDuty
17 6 (0.70%) Confluent
17 6 (0.70%) Salesforce
18 5 (0.58%) OpenAI