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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 120 127
Rank change year-on-year -59 +7 +44
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 878 769 721
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.37% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.68% 13.11% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 573 542
10th Percentile £360 £380 £359
25th Percentile £425 £456 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £586 £650 £650
90th Percentile £712 £838 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £481
% change year-on-year -3.65% +2.49% -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% +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 8,222 5,867 6,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 18.08% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,490 3,918 4,724
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.75%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £701 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £482
% change year-on-year - -1.45% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 92 86
10th Percentile £16.49 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £30.55 £20.88
Median hourly rate £39.84 £40.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +14.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.38 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -44.95%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -71 699 £513 -6.82% 1,272
London -61 370 £525 -12.50% 885
UK excluding London -52 354 £475 -3.65% 497
Work from Home -65 275 £500 -16.67% 609
North of England -65 104 £500 - 121
Midlands -17 80 £445 -11.00% 55
South East -32 68 £460 +7.23% 114
Yorkshire -16 51 £500 - 39
West Midlands -41 51 £447 -8.26% 40
North West -50 47 £520 +9.47% 67
Scotland -15 46 £450 -6.49% 49
South West -45 32 £600 +10.09% 65
East Midlands +6 28 £425 -17.87% 14
East of England -14 23 £506 +6.58% 45
North East -49 6 £425 -22.68% 16
Wales -12 4 - - 16

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 Airflow
1 36 (4.10%) Apache Spark
2 35 (3.99%) Confluence
3 27 (3.08%) 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
7 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) JBoss
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%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.91%) 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 (0.68%) 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 (52.16%) AWS
2 294 (33.49%) Azure
3 167 (19.02%) GitHub
4 127 (14.46%) GCP
5 121 (13.78%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (11.28%) Serverless
7 94 (10.71%) Amazon S3
8 78 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (7.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 59 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
12 55 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (5.92%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (4.56%) Snowflake
15 33 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 28 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
18 27 (3.08%) AWS KMS
19 24 (2.73%) OpenShift
20 22 (2.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.96%) DNS
2 19 (2.16%) Firewall
2 19 (2.16%) SSH
3 18 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.94%) HTTP
5 11 (1.25%) HTTPS
6 10 (1.14%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.91%) SAN
7 8 (0.91%) 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
1 187 (21.30%) SQL Server
2 176 (20.05%) Relational Database
3 170 (19.36%) MongoDB
4 165 (18.79%) MySQL
5 108 (12.30%) NoSQL
6 102 (11.62%) Redis
7 89 (10.14%) Amazon RDS
8 83 (9.45%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (4.90%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.53%) Metadata
11 31 (3.53%) RDBMS
12 30 (3.42%) Oracle Database
13 28 (3.19%) Big Data
14 25 (2.85%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (2.05%) Power BI
17 17 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
18 15 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
19 14 (1.59%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 212 (24.15%) Git
2 200 (22.78%) Jenkins
3 96 (10.93%) GitLab
4 81 (9.23%) JIRA
5 71 (8.09%) JUnit
6 62 (7.06%) Mockito
7 59 (6.72%) Maven
8 40 (4.56%) Gradle
9 28 (3.19%) SonarQube
10 21 (2.39%) Liquibase
11 20 (2.28%) Cucumber
12 16 (1.82%) Gatling
13 15 (1.71%) Selenium
14 13 (1.48%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.37%) Mocha
16 10 (1.14%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.14%) Flyway
16 10 (1.14%) JMeter
17 7 (0.80%) Claude Code
17 7 (0.80%) DbUnit
General
1 200 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.08%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.38%) Finance
4 132 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.26%) Banking
6 36 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (1.59%) Front Office
8 11 (1.25%) Military
8 11 (1.25%) Retail
9 10 (1.14%) Legal
9 10 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 8 (0.91%) Law
12 7 (0.80%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.68%) Automotive
13 6 (0.68%) Billing
13 6 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.57%) Marketing
14 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 324 (36.90%) Developer
2 163 (18.56%) Senior
3 123 (14.01%) Java Developer
4 102 (11.62%) DBA
5 72 (8.20%) Senior Developer
6 68 (7.74%) Full-Stack Developer
7 65 (7.40%) Lead
8 64 (7.29%) Data Engineer
8 64 (7.29%) Software Engineer
9 59 (6.72%) Administrator
10 50 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 48 (5.47%) Architect
12 47 (5.35%) Python Developer
13 41 (4.67%) Java Engineer
14 34 (3.87%) Software Developer
15 33 (3.76%) AWS Engineer
16 31 (3.53%) Python Engineer
17 28 (3.19%) Senior Java Developer
18 26 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 26 (2.96%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (27.56%) REST
2 197 (22.44%) Spring
3 192 (21.87%) RESTful
4 188 (21.41%) Kafka
5 172 (19.59%) Spring Boot
6 170 (19.36%) Terraform
7 154 (17.54%) React
8 103 (11.73%) Node.js
9 79 (9.00%) CSS
9 79 (9.00%) HTML
10 67 (7.63%) .NET
11 59 (6.72%) AngularJS
11 59 (6.72%) OAuth
12 53 (6.04%) Django
13 51 (5.81%) FastAPI
14 49 (5.58%) OAuth2
15 46 (5.24%) OpenAPI
15 46 (5.24%) Swagger
16 44 (5.01%) RabbitMQ
17 43 (4.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 184 (20.96%) Cloud Native
2 105 (11.96%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (6.04%) Replication
4 50 (5.69%) Product Ownership
5 39 (4.44%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.73%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.05%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.05%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
11 15 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
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
1 122 (13.90%) Linux
2 49 (5.58%) Unix
3 40 (4.56%) Windows
4 30 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.73%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.82%) Solaris
6 16 (1.82%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.03%) AIX
7 9 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.34%) VMS
9 2 (0.23%) Rocky
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (49.09%) CI/CD
2 306 (34.85%) Agile
3 305 (34.74%) DevOps
4 274 (31.21%) Microservices
5 204 (23.23%) Containerisation
6 181 (20.62%) Software Engineering
7 164 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 148 (16.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 146 (16.63%) Test Automation
11 130 (14.81%) Data Modelling
12 125 (14.24%) Event-Driven
13 124 (14.12%) AI
14 122 (13.90%) Performance Tuning
15 120 (13.67%) Observability
16 118 (13.44%) Migration
17 106 (12.07%) Scrum
18 96 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
18 96 (10.93%) TDD
19 95 (10.82%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 345 (39.29%) SQL
2 317 (36.10%) Python
3 314 (35.76%) Java
4 160 (18.22%) TypeScript
5 117 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 60 (6.83%) C#
7 52 (5.92%) Bash
8 40 (4.56%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.76%) Scala
10 29 (3.30%) Go
11 21 (2.39%) Groovy
12 17 (1.94%) Perl
13 16 (1.82%) Shell Script
14 15 (1.71%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.59%) PL/SQL
16 11 (1.25%) PHP
16 11 (1.25%) Ruby
16 11 (1.25%) T-SQL
17 10 (1.14%) Korn
17 10 (1.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 315 (35.88%) Security Cleared
2 271 (30.87%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.61%) Degree
4 50 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.76%) DV Cleared
7 30 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (2.73%) AWS Certification
9 19 (2.16%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.25%) OCP
12 10 (1.14%) 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 83 (9.45%) QA
2 49 (5.58%) Accessibility
2 49 (5.58%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.16%) GDPR
4 14 (1.59%) WCAG
5 8 (0.91%) GMP
5 8 (0.91%) GxP
6 7 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (0.80%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.57%) SLA
8 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.46%) SEPA
9 3 (0.34%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 358 (40.77%) Docker
2 13 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.03%) 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
1 296 (33.71%) Kubernetes
2 112 (12.76%) Grafana
3 87 (9.91%) Prometheus
4 35 (3.99%) Ansible
5 26 (2.96%) Kibana
6 15 (1.71%) Argo
7 13 (1.48%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.37%) Karpenter
9 11 (1.25%) Data Guard
9 11 (1.25%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.80%) Control-M
11 7 (0.80%) Puppet
12 6 (0.68%) Istio
12 6 (0.68%) Nessus
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
1 190 (21.64%) Oracle
2 133 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.90%) Google
4 42 (4.78%) Databricks
5 33 (3.76%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.73%) Dynatrace
7 23 (2.62%) Splunk
8 18 (2.05%) Informatica
9 17 (1.94%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.82%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.48%) VMware
12 11 (1.25%) Talend
13 10 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
14 9 (1.03%) NetApp
15 8 (0.91%) CyberArk
15 8 (0.91%) Sybase
16 7 (0.80%) Atlassian
16 7 (0.80%) Red Hat
16 7 (0.80%) TikTok
17 6 (0.68%) BeyondTrust