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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 139 159
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 +18
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 850 664 778
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.41% 1.82% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.51% 10.34% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 504 550
10th Percentile £366 £325 £405
25th Percentile £425 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £534
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -3.09% -2.91%
75th Percentile £642 £641 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.68% -4.60% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile - - £60.19
25th Percentile £29.00 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £65.58
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -34.43% +45.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £71.34
90th Percentile £71.50 - £72.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.05
% change year-on-year - - +37.89%

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 6,291 6,420 7,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.81% 17.55% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,294 4,265 5,512
10th Percentile £330 £340 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -1.13% -3.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 87 154
10th Percentile £21.02 £17.50 £17.38
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £23.62
Median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -35.95% +4.09%
75th Percentile £66.06 £48.47 £68.31
90th Percentile £83.08 £64.84 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.91% -40.45% +13.38%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +35 716 £525 - 833
London +24 393 £600 +7.14% 564
UK excluding London +20 357 £485 +1.68% 327
Work from Home +9 297 £534 +6.70% 505
North of England +37 125 £500 +11.98% 123
Midlands +18 81 £515 +5.10% 39
West Midlands +28 71 £500 +3.41% 24
Yorkshire +18 71 £500 -23.08% 24
South East -13 64 £429 -12.05% 92
South West +18 49 £550 +2.33% 28
Scotland -19 46 £456 -4.15% 17
North West -11 40 £460 +5.14% 93
North East +3 15 £588 - 6
East Midlands -9 10 £520 +4.00% 15
Northern Ireland 0 8 £400 - 9
Wales +6 4 £469 +17.19% 5
East of England -13 4 £450 +1.41% 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 50 (5.88%) Confluence
2 36 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.06%) nginx
4 23 (2.71%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.41%) SAS
6 11 (1.29%) Apache
7 8 (0.94%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.71%) Drupal
9 5 (0.59%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.47%) Alfresco
10 4 (0.47%) Camunda
10 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.47%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.47%) WordPress
11 3 (0.35%) CICS
11 3 (0.35%) JBoss
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 514 (60.47%) AWS
2 251 (29.53%) Azure
3 165 (19.41%) GCP
4 163 (19.18%) GitHub
5 140 (16.47%) Amazon S3
6 135 (15.88%) Serverless
7 85 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 72 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
10 55 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
10 55 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 49 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
12 48 (5.65%) OpenShift
13 43 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 41 (4.82%) Power Platform
15 34 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
16 32 (3.76%) Snowflake
17 30 (3.53%) Azure AKS
18 29 (3.41%) AWS KMS
18 29 (3.41%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.82%) Firewall
2 19 (2.24%) DNS
2 19 (2.24%) HTTP
3 14 (1.65%) SSH
4 12 (1.41%) IMAP
4 12 (1.41%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (1.41%) SMTP
5 11 (1.29%) Kerberos
6 10 (1.18%) FTP
7 8 (0.94%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.82%) SSL
9 4 (0.47%) Internet
10 3 (0.35%) MQTT
10 3 (0.35%) VPN
11 1 (0.12%) Calico
11 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.12%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.12%) Network Security
11 1 (0.12%) SAN
11 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (15.06%) MySQL
1 128 (15.06%) Relational Database
2 122 (14.35%) NoSQL
3 110 (12.94%) MongoDB
4 98 (11.53%) Amazon RDS
4 98 (11.53%) SQL Server
5 76 (8.94%) Redis
6 72 (8.47%) Amazon Aurora
7 48 (5.65%) DynamoDB
8 40 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (4.24%) RDBMS
10 33 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
10 33 (3.88%) Power BI
11 29 (3.41%) Oracle Database
12 26 (3.06%) Apache Iceberg
13 24 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
14 22 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
15 21 (2.47%) Apache Arrow
15 21 (2.47%) Big Data
15 21 (2.47%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 199 (23.41%) Jenkins
2 175 (20.59%) Git
3 82 (9.65%) JIRA
4 75 (8.82%) GitLab
5 70 (8.24%) JUnit
6 35 (4.12%) Cucumber
7 34 (4.00%) Maven
8 33 (3.88%) Mockito
9 32 (3.76%) Liquibase
9 32 (3.76%) SonarQube
10 27 (3.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (2.47%) Cypress.io
11 21 (2.47%) Gradle
12 18 (2.12%) Bitbucket
13 16 (1.88%) JMeter
14 15 (1.76%) Postman
15 12 (1.41%) Subversion
15 12 (1.41%) Vagrant
16 11 (1.29%) Artifactory
17 10 (1.18%) Selenium
General
1 249 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 202 (23.76%) Finance
3 107 (12.59%) Public Sector
4 92 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (10.82%) Banking
5 49 (5.76%) Front Office
6 32 (3.76%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (0.94%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.94%) Marketing
12 5 (0.59%) Local Government
12 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.59%) Military
12 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.47%) Electronics
14 3 (0.35%) Law
14 3 (0.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 369 (43.41%) Developer
2 141 (16.59%) Senior
3 126 (14.82%) Java Developer
4 80 (9.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 72 (8.47%) Senior Developer
6 66 (7.76%) AWS Developer
6 66 (7.76%) AWS Engineer
7 64 (7.53%) Data Engineer
8 63 (7.41%) Software Engineer
9 62 (7.29%) Architect
10 61 (7.18%) Lead
10 61 (7.18%) Python Developer
11 50 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
12 42 (4.94%) Senior Java Developer
13 40 (4.71%) Python Engineer
14 36 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 31 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
15 31 (3.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 28 (3.29%) AWS Software Engineer
16 28 (3.29%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (21.06%) React
2 177 (20.82%) Kafka
3 158 (18.59%) Node.js
4 140 (16.47%) Spring
5 128 (15.06%) RESTful
6 125 (14.71%) REST
7 113 (13.29%) Spring Boot
8 70 (8.24%) AngularJS
9 65 (7.65%) CSS
10 58 (6.82%) GraphQL
11 56 (6.59%) HTML
12 48 (5.65%) Hibernate
12 48 (5.65%) Vue
13 41 (4.82%) FastAPI
14 37 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
14 37 (4.35%) Pandas
15 35 (4.12%) NumPy
16 33 (3.88%) JPA
17 32 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
17 32 (3.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (11.18%) Cloud Native
2 55 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.29%) Replication
4 32 (3.76%) Fixed Income
5 30 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 29 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (3.18%) Equities
7 27 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 25 (2.94%) Product Ownership
9 22 (2.59%) Onboarding
10 21 (2.47%) Derivative
11 20 (2.35%) Clustering
11 20 (2.35%) Market Risk
12 16 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.88%) Public Cloud
13 15 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.18%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 140 (16.47%) Linux
2 26 (3.06%) Windows
3 21 (2.47%) Unix
4 15 (1.76%) Amazon Linux
5 14 (1.65%) VMS
6 11 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.35%) Solaris
8 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.24%) zOS
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
1 363 (42.71%) CI/CD
2 354 (41.65%) Agile
3 283 (33.29%) DevOps
4 231 (27.18%) Microservices
5 196 (23.06%) Containerisation
6 182 (21.41%) Problem-Solving
7 143 (16.82%) Full-Stack Development
8 142 (16.71%) Software Engineering
9 127 (14.94%) TDD
10 124 (14.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 113 (13.29%) Test Automation
12 89 (10.47%) Observability
13 84 (9.88%) Migration
14 77 (9.06%) AI
15 75 (8.82%) ETL
15 75 (8.82%) Mentoring
16 74 (8.71%) Computer Science
16 74 (8.71%) Scrum
17 73 (8.59%) Analytics
18 70 (8.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 400 (47.06%) Python
2 317 (37.29%) SQL
3 272 (32.00%) Java
4 164 (19.29%) JavaScript
5 156 (18.35%) TypeScript
6 84 (9.88%) Bash
7 76 (8.94%) Go
8 42 (4.94%) PowerShell
9 26 (3.06%) Groovy
10 24 (2.82%) C#
11 20 (2.35%) Ruby
12 19 (2.24%) PHP
13 17 (2.00%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.41%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.18%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.06%) Perl
17 8 (0.94%) Scala
18 7 (0.82%) JSX
18 7 (0.82%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 224 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 193 (22.71%) SC Cleared
3 99 (11.65%) Degree
4 61 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (4.47%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 24 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.35%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.41%) OCP
11 12 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.94%) MCP
13 7 (0.82%) CISSP
13 7 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
14 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.47%) HND
16 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
17 1 (0.12%) CCIP
17 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.29%) QA
2 44 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.71%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.88%) GDPR
5 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.47%) HL7
6 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.24%) SLA
7 2 (0.24%) WCAG
8 1 (0.12%) DICOM
8 1 (0.12%) IFRS
8 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.12%) NCSC
8 1 (0.12%) NIST
8 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 286 (33.65%) Docker
2 16 (1.88%) Postfix
3 12 (1.41%) Dovecot
3 12 (1.41%) Squid
4 10 (1.18%) DFS Replication
4 10 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.18%) zsh
5 8 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.59%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.59%) NDS
6 5 (0.59%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 3 (0.35%) NFS
8 2 (0.24%) GPFS
8 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) KVM
8 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) etcd
9 1 (0.12%) SRDF
9 1 (0.12%) Varnish
9 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 292 (34.35%) Kubernetes
2 165 (19.41%) Terraform
3 109 (12.82%) Grafana
4 81 (9.53%) Prometheus
5 71 (8.35%) Ansible
6 26 (3.06%) Argo
7 23 (2.71%) Nessus
8 17 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.65%) Puppet
10 12 (1.41%) Control-M
11 11 (1.29%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.18%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.06%) Packer
13 9 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.82%) Istio
15 5 (0.59%) Kibana
16 4 (0.47%) ZABBIX
17 3 (0.35%) Ambari
17 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 118 (13.88%) Oracle
2 84 (9.88%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.18%) Google
4 40 (4.71%) Splunk
5 25 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 24 (2.82%) Atlassian
7 23 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 23 (2.71%) VMware
8 22 (2.59%) Databricks
9 17 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.88%) CA Agile Central
10 16 (1.88%) Jaspersoft
11 14 (1.65%) IBM
12 11 (1.29%) Tenable
13 8 (0.94%) Informatica
14 7 (0.82%) Greenplum
15 6 (0.71%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.71%) Gigya
15 6 (0.71%) SAP
16 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty