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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 119 150
Rank change year-on-year -24 +31 +5
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 840 677 710
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.84% 2.32% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.58% 12.22% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 507 502
10th Percentile £358 £385 £382
25th Percentile £413 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.29%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% -4.05% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile £39.50 £44.95 £31.35
25th Percentile £42.50 £47.88 £36.75
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -19.40% +197.98%
75th Percentile £69.33 £61.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £65.05 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £54.25
% change year-on-year - - +97.27%

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 7,251 5,538 7,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.85% 18.95% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,994 3,842 5,140
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 108 154
10th Percentile £18.18 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.47 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.26% -18.93% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.44
90th Percentile £83.83 £76.63 £71.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +62.23% -11.94% -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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -27 700 £500 -6.28% 288
UK excluding London -12 396 £450 -6.20% 175
London -38 341 £550 -4.35% 152
Work from Home -20 269 £488 -9.39% 201
North of England -23 145 £450 -5.26% 57
Midlands +10 104 £475 -5.00% 18
West Midlands -8 81 £475 -7.77% 8
South East -25 78 £433 -3.08% 48
North West -8 75 £441 -4.76% 33
Yorkshire -22 61 £475 -13.64% 19
Scotland +17 48 £425 -6.59% 12
South West -33 26 £550 -13.73% 20
East Midlands -15 22 £402 -19.60% 10
East of England -33 10 £575 +27.78% 14
North East -14 8 £425 -8.60% 6
Northern Ireland -2 5 £400 -20.00%

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 53 (6.31%) Confluence
2 27 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.14%) Apache
5 17 (2.02%) nginx
6 10 (1.19%) SAS
7 7 (0.83%) Camunda
8 5 (0.60%) Drupal
8 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.36%) Appian
9 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) CPLEX
3 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) 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
1 501 (59.64%) AWS
2 260 (30.95%) Azure
3 167 (19.88%) GitHub
4 139 (16.55%) GCP
5 121 (14.40%) Serverless
6 105 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 96 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
8 73 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 43 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
12 42 (5.00%) OpenShift
13 40 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
14 36 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
16 31 (3.69%) Snowflake
17 30 (3.57%) Power Platform
18 24 (2.86%) Azure AKS
19 22 (2.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.38%) Firewall
2 18 (2.14%) DNS
3 9 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.95%) HTTP
5 7 (0.83%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.60%) SSL
7 4 (0.48%) Internet
7 4 (0.48%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.48%) SSH
7 4 (0.48%) VPN
7 4 (0.48%) WAN
8 3 (0.36%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.24%) LAN
9 2 (0.24%) NaaS
9 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) VLAN
10 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (17.62%) Relational Database
2 143 (17.02%) NoSQL
3 141 (16.79%) SQL Server
4 136 (16.19%) MongoDB
5 130 (15.48%) MySQL
6 72 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (7.50%) DynamoDB
8 53 (6.31%) Redis
9 43 (5.12%) Amazon Aurora
10 39 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (4.29%) RDBMS
12 35 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
13 27 (3.21%) Data Lake
14 25 (2.98%) Big Data
14 25 (2.98%) Metadata
15 24 (2.86%) Power BI
16 22 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
16 22 (2.62%) Oracle Database
17 20 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
18 18 (2.14%) DB2
Development Applications
1 174 (20.71%) Jenkins
2 161 (19.17%) Git
3 98 (11.67%) GitLab
4 83 (9.88%) JUnit
5 82 (9.76%) JIRA
6 46 (5.48%) Mockito
7 36 (4.29%) Cucumber
8 28 (3.33%) JMeter
9 27 (3.21%) Maven
10 23 (2.74%) Gradle
11 20 (2.38%) Selenium
12 19 (2.26%) Liquibase
13 16 (1.90%) Bitbucket
13 16 (1.90%) WebDriver
14 15 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
15 14 (1.67%) SonarQube
16 12 (1.43%) ERwin
17 9 (1.07%) Cypress.io
17 9 (1.07%) DbUnit
17 9 (1.07%) jMock
General
1 195 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 176 (20.95%) Finance
3 102 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 69 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (7.74%) Banking
6 26 (3.10%) Front Office
7 18 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.71%) Law
12 6 (0.71%) Legal
12 6 (0.71%) Retail
13 5 (0.60%) Automotive
13 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.48%) Marketing
15 3 (0.36%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 329 (39.17%) Developer
2 149 (17.74%) Senior
3 102 (12.14%) Java Developer
4 84 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 78 (9.29%) Python Developer
6 73 (8.69%) DBA
7 71 (8.45%) Software Engineer
8 66 (7.86%) Data Engineer
9 61 (7.26%) Architect
10 54 (6.43%) Lead
11 53 (6.31%) Senior Developer
12 36 (4.29%) Administrator
13 35 (4.17%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 33 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 30 (3.57%) Java Engineer
16 30 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
16 30 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
17 29 (3.45%) Lead Developer
18 27 (3.21%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (23.45%) Kafka
2 175 (20.83%) Spring
3 159 (18.93%) React
4 145 (17.26%) RESTful
5 141 (16.79%) REST
6 136 (16.19%) Spring Boot
7 133 (15.83%) Node.js
8 59 (7.02%) FastAPI
9 58 (6.90%) AngularJS
10 45 (5.36%) Hibernate
11 41 (4.88%) GraphQL
12 40 (4.76%) JSON
12 40 (4.76%) WireMock
13 37 (4.40%) .NET
14 31 (3.69%) Django
14 31 (3.69%) JPA
15 30 (3.57%) CSS
16 28 (3.33%) Keycloak
16 28 (3.33%) OAuth
16 28 (3.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 112 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 81 (9.64%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.69%) Derivative
5 28 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.98%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.62%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.38%) Replication
10 19 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (2.26%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.14%) Equities
12 17 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.67%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.55%) Market Risk
15 11 (1.31%) Clustering
15 11 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
16 8 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (0.95%) Public Cloud
16 8 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 136 (16.19%) Linux
2 30 (3.57%) Unix
3 27 (3.21%) Windows
4 13 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.48%) zOS
7 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.36%) Android
7 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) Solaris
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 309 (36.79%) Agile
3 271 (32.26%) DevOps
4 226 (26.90%) Microservices
5 204 (24.29%) Containerisation
6 148 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 135 (16.07%) Software Engineering
9 127 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 119 (14.17%) Observability
11 113 (13.45%) Data Modelling
12 104 (12.38%) Test Automation
13 101 (12.02%) TDD
14 96 (11.43%) Migration
15 89 (10.60%) AI
15 89 (10.60%) ETL
16 86 (10.24%) Performance Tuning
17 81 (9.64%) Mentoring
18 79 (9.40%) Event-Driven
19 76 (9.05%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 355 (42.26%) Python
2 318 (37.86%) SQL
3 273 (32.50%) Java
4 127 (15.12%) TypeScript
5 111 (13.21%) JavaScript
6 69 (8.21%) Bash
7 48 (5.71%) Go
8 44 (5.24%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.64%) C#
10 21 (2.50%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.38%) PL/SQL
12 19 (2.26%) Scala
13 13 (1.55%) PHP
14 11 (1.31%) Ruby
15 9 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.95%) Bicep
17 7 (0.83%) Groovy
18 6 (0.71%) Rust
18 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
19 5 (0.60%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 271 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 215 (25.60%) SC Cleared
3 81 (9.64%) Degree
4 39 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (1.55%) AWS Certification
11 12 (1.43%) OCP
12 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.60%) CISSP
15 4 (0.48%) CISM
16 3 (0.36%) PhD
16 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
17 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.60%) QA
3 21 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.55%) GDPR
5 8 (0.95%) SLA
6 7 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.83%) NCSC
6 7 (0.83%) WCAG
7 6 (0.71%) NIST
7 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.24%) HL7
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 302 (35.95%) Docker
2 12 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.95%) Postfix
5 7 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.60%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.60%) Ceph
6 5 (0.60%) HDFS
7 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.36%) NFS
8 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.24%) Lustre
8 2 (0.24%) NDS
8 2 (0.24%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 2 (0.24%) Samba
8 2 (0.24%) Squid
8 2 (0.24%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 288 (34.29%) Kubernetes
2 148 (17.62%) Terraform
3 119 (14.17%) Grafana
4 85 (10.12%) Prometheus
5 80 (9.52%) Ansible
6 18 (2.14%) Argo
7 15 (1.79%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.67%) Control-M
8 14 (1.67%) IBM Guardium
8 14 (1.67%) Nessus
9 10 (1.19%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (1.19%) Puppet
9 10 (1.19%) Rancher
10 9 (1.07%) Data Guard
10 9 (1.07%) Istio
11 7 (0.83%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.71%) linkerd
13 5 (0.60%) Packer
14 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 157 (18.69%) Oracle
2 104 (12.38%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.05%) Splunk
4 31 (3.69%) Databricks
5 26 (3.10%) Google
6 24 (2.86%) VMware
7 23 (2.74%) Atlassian
7 23 (2.74%) Red Hat
8 21 (2.50%) Informatica
9 18 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.79%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.67%) Tenable
12 13 (1.55%) Talend
13 12 (1.43%) IBM
14 11 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (1.19%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.95%) Greenplum
16 8 (0.95%) PagerDuty
17 6 (0.71%) Confluent
17 6 (0.71%) OpenAI