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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 115 142
Rank change year-on-year -50 +27 +9
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 878 790 714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.42% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.82% 13.27% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 603 533
10th Percentile £363 £382 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £823 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 7
10th Percentile £27.75 £54.50 £53.70
25th Percentile £31.38 £57.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -18.75% +77.78%
75th Percentile £71.22 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% -18.75% -

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 8,118 5,955 7,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.38% 18.22% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,378 4,041 5,218
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £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 257 92 111
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.28 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.38
Median hourly rate £41.71 £36.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.06% -3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.06 £58.73
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.58 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% +5.47% -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -54 717 £521 -5.36% 293
UK excluding London -32 404 £475 - 160
London -70 347 £550 -8.33% 178
Work from Home -65 282 £500 -13.04% 154
North of England -32 133 £480 -4.10% 43
Midlands +2 102 £447 -10.60% 17
West Midlands -23 73 £447 -5.89% 9
South East -44 72 £473 +8.74% 52
North West -32 61 £481 +1.26% 25
Yorkshire -15 60 £488 -2.50% 12
Scotland -10 49 £425 -10.53% 16
South West -27 31 £700 +30.23% 18
East Midlands +7 27 £447 -12.78% 8
East of England -18 18 £575 +27.78% 7
North East -43 11 £425 -19.05% 6
Wales -15 4 - - 3

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 46 (5.24%) Confluence
2 40 (4.56%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.51%) Apache
5 10 (1.14%) nginx
6 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 5 (0.57%) Camunda
9 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.46%) WordPress
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.34%) IIS
10 3 (0.34%) JBoss
10 3 (0.34%) SAS
11 2 (0.23%) Drupal
11 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.03%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.23%) Trello
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Maya
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 461 (52.51%) AWS
2 306 (34.85%) Azure
3 159 (18.11%) GCP
4 155 (17.65%) GitHub
5 107 (12.19%) GitHub Actions
6 96 (10.93%) Amazon S3
7 95 (10.82%) Serverless
8 67 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (6.61%) Amazon SQS
10 56 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 49 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (3.64%) Snowflake
14 31 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.19%) Azure AKS
16 26 (2.96%) Route 53
17 25 (2.85%) Power Platform
18 23 (2.62%) AWS KMS
19 21 (2.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.94%) Firewall
2 13 (1.48%) DNS
3 10 (1.14%) SSH
4 9 (1.03%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.68%) HTTP
5 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.46%) SAN
7 4 (0.46%) SSL
8 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.34%) MQTT
8 3 (0.34%) Network Security
8 3 (0.34%) VPN
8 3 (0.34%) WAN
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) NaaS
9 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.11%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (19.70%) SQL Server
2 167 (19.02%) MongoDB
3 166 (18.91%) Relational Database
4 139 (15.83%) MySQL
5 122 (13.90%) NoSQL
6 74 (8.43%) Redis
7 69 (7.86%) Amazon RDS
8 61 (6.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 54 (6.15%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (3.99%) Big Data
12 31 (3.53%) Oracle Database
12 31 (3.53%) RDBMS
13 30 (3.42%) Data Lake
14 22 (2.51%) Metadata
15 21 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
16 20 (2.28%) Power BI
17 19 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
18 17 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
19 16 (1.82%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 193 (21.98%) Git
2 191 (21.75%) Jenkins
3 100 (11.39%) JIRA
4 82 (9.34%) JUnit
5 78 (8.88%) GitLab
6 54 (6.15%) Mockito
7 50 (5.69%) Maven
8 35 (3.99%) Gradle
9 31 (3.53%) Cucumber
10 24 (2.73%) Selenium
11 23 (2.62%) JMeter
12 22 (2.51%) SonarQube
13 21 (2.39%) Liquibase
14 20 (2.28%) WebDriver
15 17 (1.94%) Gatling
16 14 (1.59%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.48%) jMock
18 11 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
19 10 (1.14%) Bitbucket
20 9 (1.03%) Flyway
General
1 181 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 167 (19.02%) Finance
3 124 (14.12%) Public Sector
4 114 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.26%) Banking
6 27 (3.08%) Front Office
7 21 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.37%) Military
10 10 (1.14%) Law
10 10 (1.14%) Legal
11 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.91%) Investment Banking
11 8 (0.91%) Retail
12 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.57%) Automotive
13 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
15 3 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 350 (39.86%) Developer
2 158 (18.00%) Senior
3 120 (13.67%) Java Developer
4 91 (10.36%) DBA
5 84 (9.57%) Software Engineer
6 77 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 77 (8.77%) Lead
7 74 (8.43%) Python Developer
8 66 (7.52%) Data Engineer
9 64 (7.29%) Senior Developer
10 61 (6.95%) Architect
11 43 (4.90%) Administrator
12 41 (4.67%) Java Engineer
13 38 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
14 37 (4.21%) Lead Developer
15 33 (3.76%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.64%) Backend Developer
16 32 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (3.30%) Python Engineer
18 28 (3.19%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (24.03%) REST
2 204 (23.23%) Spring
3 183 (20.84%) Kafka
4 178 (20.27%) RESTful
5 174 (19.82%) React
6 163 (18.56%) Spring Boot
7 132 (15.03%) Node.js
8 67 (7.63%) FastAPI
9 64 (7.29%) AngularJS
10 52 (5.92%) HTML
11 50 (5.69%) CSS
12 48 (5.47%) .NET
12 48 (5.47%) OpenAPI
12 48 (5.47%) Swagger
13 44 (5.01%) Web Services
14 39 (4.44%) Django
14 39 (4.44%) JPA
15 37 (4.21%) GraphQL
15 37 (4.21%) Hibernate
15 37 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 146 (16.63%) Cloud Native
2 113 (12.87%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.01%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.87%) Replication
5 32 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.19%) Distributed Architecture
7 27 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (2.96%) Derivative
9 24 (2.73%) Equities
10 23 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (2.28%) Fixed Income
12 20 (2.28%) Onboarding
13 16 (1.82%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.82%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.59%) Virtual Team
15 13 (1.48%) AI Agents
15 13 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
17 8 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 119 (13.55%) Linux
2 35 (3.99%) Unix
3 34 (3.87%) Windows
4 29 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.91%) Solaris
8 5 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.46%) AIX
10 3 (0.34%) Android
10 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.34%) VMS
10 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.23%) zOS
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (45.33%) CI/CD
2 340 (38.72%) Agile
3 279 (31.78%) Microservices
4 277 (31.55%) DevOps
5 217 (24.72%) Containerisation
6 181 (20.62%) Software Engineering
7 163 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
8 160 (18.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 129 (14.69%) AI
10 127 (14.46%) Test Automation
11 125 (14.24%) Observability
12 120 (13.67%) Infrastructure as Code
13 115 (13.10%) Performance Tuning
14 114 (12.98%) Data Modelling
15 106 (12.07%) Migration
15 106 (12.07%) TDD
16 100 (11.39%) Scrum
17 99 (11.28%) Event-Driven
18 88 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
18 88 (10.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 344 (39.18%) Python
2 322 (36.67%) SQL
3 318 (36.22%) Java
4 153 (17.43%) TypeScript
5 130 (14.81%) JavaScript
6 53 (6.04%) C#
7 45 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 38 (4.33%) Bash
9 31 (3.53%) Go
10 30 (3.42%) Scala
11 19 (2.16%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.82%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.59%) PHP
14 13 (1.48%) Groovy
14 13 (1.48%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.37%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.25%) Ruby
17 9 (1.03%) Perl
18 7 (0.80%) Rust
19 6 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 309 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 260 (29.61%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.06%) Degree
4 40 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.37%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.91%) OCP
13 6 (0.68%) CISSP
14 4 (0.46%) CISM
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.34%) PhD
16 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.11%) CISA
17 1 (0.11%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.52%) QA
2 41 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 37 (4.21%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.71%) GDPR
5 14 (1.59%) WCAG
6 6 (0.68%) GMP
6 6 (0.68%) GxP
7 5 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.46%) NIST
8 4 (0.46%) SLA
9 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) HL7
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 340 (38.72%) Docker
2 13 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.25%) Postfix
4 11 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.57%) Ceph
7 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.34%) HDFS
8 3 (0.34%) Squid
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.11%) NFS
10 1 (0.11%) RACF
10 1 (0.11%) Samba
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 304 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 141 (16.06%) Terraform
3 122 (13.90%) Grafana
4 93 (10.59%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.33%) Ansible
6 17 (1.94%) Oracle RMAN
7 16 (1.82%) Control-M
7 16 (1.82%) IBM Guardium
7 16 (1.82%) Nessus
8 13 (1.48%) Kibana
9 12 (1.37%) Data Guard
10 11 (1.25%) Argo
11 10 (1.14%) HAProxy
11 10 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (0.80%) Rancher
13 6 (0.68%) Istio
14 4 (0.46%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.34%) Bosun
15 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
15 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 187 (21.30%) Oracle
2 132 (15.03%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.56%) Google
4 34 (3.87%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.30%) Databricks
6 18 (2.05%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.05%) Informatica
7 17 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
7 17 (1.94%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.94%) Splunk
8 16 (1.82%) Atlassian
8 16 (1.82%) Tenable
9 14 (1.59%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.48%) Talend
11 12 (1.37%) VMware
12 11 (1.25%) IBM
13 10 (1.14%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.14%) Sybase
14 7 (0.80%) TikTok