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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 128 150
Rank change year-on-year +3 +22 +34
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 821 681 748
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.01% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.88% 11.14% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 508 519
10th Percentile £363 £331 £406
25th Percentile £418 £420 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £727 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile - - £34.14
25th Percentile £29.00 - £43.73
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -30.70% +83.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £69.03
90th Percentile £58.00 - £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £46.28
% change year-on-year - - +37.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,374 6,113 7,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.18% 18.04% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,395 4,033 5,115
10th Percentile £325 £341 £350
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £765 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 86 141
10th Percentile £20.75 £18.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.54 £23.24
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.55 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.50% -33.59% -11.63%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.88 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £27.43 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.78% -40.61% -6.71%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 17 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 December 2025. 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 +12 685 £520 -5.45% 948
London +14 374 £550 -4.35% 254
UK excluding London +5 353 £475 -5.00% 783
Work from Home -22 255 £513 -1.44% 517
North of England +15 135 £475 +6.38% 190
Midlands +6 75 £525 +5.00% 125
Yorkshire +10 72 £500 -16.67% 78
West Midlands +17 64 £525 +0.96% 64
South East -38 64 £433 -27.31% 200
North West -13 54 £440 +0.57% 100
Scotland -9 47 £450 -5.66% 33
South West -2 45 £550 -8.33% 93
East Midlands -22 11 £515 +3.00% 55
North East - 10 £738 - 13
Northern Ireland +2 8 £400 - 12
Wales 0 4 £469 +47.06% 20
East of England -20 3 £450 +1.41% 121

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 42 (5.12%) Confluence
2 25 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.80%) nginx
4 18 (2.19%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.71%) SAS
6 11 (1.34%) Apache
7 7 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.73%) Drupal
9 4 (0.49%) CICS
9 4 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.49%) WordPress
10 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Traefik
12 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
Applications
1 11 (1.34%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Magento
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 479 (58.34%) AWS
2 258 (31.43%) Azure
3 183 (22.29%) GitHub
4 144 (17.54%) GCP
5 140 (17.05%) Serverless
6 113 (13.76%) Amazon S3
7 86 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
8 82 (9.99%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 56 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (6.09%) OpenShift
11 49 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (5.60%) Power Platform
13 44 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (4.51%) Snowflake
15 35 (4.26%) Azure AKS
16 34 (4.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
18 25 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 24 (2.92%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.65%) Firewall
2 24 (2.92%) DNS
3 20 (2.44%) HTTP
4 15 (1.83%) SSH
5 14 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.34%) Kerberos
7 10 (1.22%) FTP
7 10 (1.22%) IMAP
7 10 (1.22%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (1.22%) SMTP
8 7 (0.85%) SSL
9 5 (0.61%) VPN
10 4 (0.49%) Internet
11 3 (0.37%) MQTT
12 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
12 2 (0.24%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.24%) LAN
12 2 (0.24%) WAN
13 1 (0.12%) DHCP
13 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (16.81%) Relational Database
2 118 (14.37%) MySQL
2 118 (14.37%) NoSQL
3 112 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 108 (13.15%) MongoDB
5 77 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
6 74 (9.01%) Redis
7 57 (6.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 40 (4.87%) RDBMS
9 39 (4.75%) DynamoDB
10 36 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (4.26%) Power BI
12 27 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
13 25 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
13 25 (3.05%) Oracle Database
14 21 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (2.31%) Big Data
15 19 (2.31%) DB2
16 18 (2.19%) Data Lake
17 17 (2.07%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 180 (21.92%) Jenkins
2 158 (19.24%) Git
3 92 (11.21%) GitLab
4 72 (8.77%) JIRA
5 53 (6.46%) JUnit
6 30 (3.65%) Cucumber
6 30 (3.65%) Mockito
7 25 (3.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 23 (2.80%) Liquibase
9 20 (2.44%) Gradle
10 19 (2.31%) Cypress.io
11 18 (2.19%) Bitbucket
12 17 (2.07%) JMeter
12 17 (2.07%) Maven
13 16 (1.95%) Postman
13 16 (1.95%) SonarQube
14 10 (1.22%) Vagrant
15 9 (1.10%) DBeaver
15 9 (1.10%) Subversion
15 9 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 227 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 174 (21.19%) Finance
3 101 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 85 (10.35%) Banking
5 79 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.41%) Investment Banking
7 24 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (2.44%) Front Office
9 15 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.85%) Marketing
13 5 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.49%) Legal
14 4 (0.49%) Local Government
14 4 (0.49%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.37%) Games
15 3 (0.37%) Law
15 3 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 306 (37.27%) Developer
2 143 (17.42%) Senior
3 98 (11.94%) Java Developer
4 68 (8.28%) Data Engineer
5 67 (8.16%) Senior Developer
6 65 (7.92%) Architect
7 61 (7.43%) Full-Stack Developer
8 55 (6.70%) Python Developer
9 51 (6.21%) AWS Engineer
10 50 (6.09%) Software Engineer
11 48 (5.85%) AWS Developer
11 48 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 42 (5.12%) DBA
13 39 (4.75%) Lead
14 36 (4.38%) Python Engineer
15 35 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 33 (4.02%) Senior Java Developer
17 28 (3.41%) Data Architect
18 27 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
19 26 (3.17%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (20.34%) Kafka
2 147 (17.90%) React
3 123 (14.98%) Spring
4 122 (14.86%) Node.js
5 119 (14.49%) RESTful
6 113 (13.76%) REST
7 99 (12.06%) Spring Boot
8 65 (7.92%) CSS
9 54 (6.58%) HTML
10 48 (5.85%) AngularJS
11 45 (5.48%) GraphQL
12 40 (4.87%) FastAPI
13 39 (4.75%) Hibernate
13 39 (4.75%) JSON
14 37 (4.51%) .NET
15 35 (4.26%) Vue
16 33 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
17 31 (3.78%) Keycloak
18 27 (3.29%) Django
18 27 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 104 (12.67%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (4.99%) Replication
4 27 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 25 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
6 24 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.44%) Derivative
9 18 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.19%) Market Risk
10 17 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.95%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.83%) Clustering
13 14 (1.71%) Fixed Income
14 13 (1.58%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.34%) Equities
15 11 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 10 (1.22%) Algorithms
17 9 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 143 (17.42%) Linux
2 34 (4.14%) Windows
3 27 (3.29%) Unix
4 13 (1.58%) Amazon Linux
4 13 (1.58%) VMS
5 11 (1.34%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.49%) zOS
8 3 (0.37%) Solaris
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (44.34%) CI/CD
2 287 (34.96%) Agile
3 284 (34.59%) DevOps
4 201 (24.48%) Microservices
5 194 (23.63%) Containerisation
6 175 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
7 146 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 118 (14.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 115 (14.01%) Software Engineering
10 112 (13.64%) Test Automation
11 106 (12.91%) Observability
12 105 (12.79%) TDD
13 89 (10.84%) Migration
14 87 (10.60%) AI
15 81 (9.87%) ETL
16 77 (9.38%) Data Modelling
17 72 (8.77%) Analytics
17 72 (8.77%) Computer Science
17 72 (8.77%) Performance Tuning
18 64 (7.80%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 393 (47.87%) Python
2 314 (38.25%) SQL
3 236 (28.75%) Java
4 133 (16.20%) JavaScript
5 124 (15.10%) TypeScript
6 87 (10.60%) Bash
7 73 (8.89%) Go
8 42 (5.12%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.78%) C#
10 26 (3.17%) Groovy
10 26 (3.17%) PHP
11 21 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.07%) Ruby
13 14 (1.71%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.46%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.97%) Scala
16 7 (0.85%) JSX
17 6 (0.73%) Bicep
17 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 220 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 180 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 97 (11.81%) Degree
4 62 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.78%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.78%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.58%) OCP
8 13 (1.58%) Oracle Certification
9 9 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.97%) MCP
11 6 (0.73%) CISSP
11 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.49%) HND
13 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.72%) QA
2 41 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.95%) GDPR
5 8 (0.97%) SLA
6 5 (0.61%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.61%) NCSC
7 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.37%) WCAG
9 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.12%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 281 (34.23%) Docker
2 12 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.22%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.22%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.22%) Postfix
3 10 (1.22%) Squid
3 10 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.97%) zsh
5 5 (0.61%) NDS
5 5 (0.61%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (0.49%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.37%) KVM
7 3 (0.37%) NFS
7 3 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.37%) Xen
8 2 (0.24%) HDFS
8 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Lustre
9 1 (0.12%) Varnish
9 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 297 (36.18%) Kubernetes
2 189 (23.02%) Terraform
3 116 (14.13%) Grafana
4 92 (11.21%) Ansible
5 79 (9.62%) Prometheus
6 30 (3.65%) Argo
7 21 (2.56%) Nessus
7 21 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 18 (2.19%) Puppet
9 12 (1.46%) Control-M
9 12 (1.46%) Istio
10 11 (1.34%) IBM Guardium
11 10 (1.22%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.73%) linkerd
13 6 (0.73%) Packer
14 5 (0.61%) Kibana
14 5 (0.61%) Rancher
14 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 140 (17.05%) Oracle
2 94 (11.45%) Microsoft
3 49 (5.97%) Splunk
4 44 (5.36%) Google
5 31 (3.78%) VMware
6 28 (3.41%) Databricks
7 26 (3.17%) Red Hat
8 20 (2.44%) Dynatrace
9 19 (2.31%) ServiceNow
10 17 (2.07%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.58%) IBM
12 12 (1.46%) Greenplum
13 11 (1.34%) Informatica
13 11 (1.34%) Tenable
14 10 (1.22%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (0.97%) Cloudera
15 8 (0.97%) PagerDuty
16 7 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
17 6 (0.73%) Gigya
18 5 (0.61%) SAP