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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 116 140
Rank change year-on-year -43 +24 +13
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 883 765 732
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 2.36% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.86% 12.95% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 582 549
10th Percentile £358 £400 £368
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +1.44% +4.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £824 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £32.40 £54.50 £53.70
25th Percentile £61.00 £57.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -18.75% +255.79%
75th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% -18.75% +261.01%

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 8,131 5,907 7,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.20% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,384 4,010 5,415
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 103 141
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -9.09% -33.67%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £76.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £32.75
% change year-on-year +20.89% -3.39% -40.45%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -42 733 £513 -6.82% 229
UK excluding London -28 403 £470 -1.05% 144
London -50 365 £550 -8.33% 130
Work from Home -56 288 £500 -9.99% 121
North of England -41 131 £475 -5.00% 32
Midlands +1 104 £447 -8.72% 19
West Midlands -23 75 £447 -5.84% 11
South East -39 71 £473 +8.74% 46
North West -36 62 £475 - 17
Yorkshire -23 59 £481 -3.75% 9
Scotland -2 52 £425 -10.53% 10
South West -24 31 £700 +27.27% 17
East Midlands +2 27 £447 -10.15% 8
East of England -25 16 £575 +27.78% 11
North East -42 9 £425 -19.05% 6
Wales -14 4 - - 5

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 (5.66%) Confluence
2 45 (5.10%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.83%) Apache
5 10 (1.13%) nginx
6 7 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.68%) Camunda
8 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.45%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.34%) Appian
10 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.34%) IIS
10 3 (0.34%) JBoss
10 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.34%) SAS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Drupal
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.02%) CPLEX
2 6 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Maya
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.11%) Odoo
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 460 (52.10%) AWS
2 305 (34.54%) Azure
3 160 (18.12%) GCP
4 144 (16.31%) GitHub
5 100 (11.33%) Amazon S3
6 98 (11.10%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (11.10%) Serverless
7 68 (7.70%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (5.78%) Amazon SQS
10 50 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (3.85%) Snowflake
14 30 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.17%) Power Platform
16 26 (2.94%) Azure AKS
16 26 (2.94%) Route 53
17 24 (2.72%) OpenShift
18 23 (2.60%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.93%) Firewall
2 13 (1.47%) DNS
3 10 (1.13%) SSH
4 9 (1.02%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.68%) HTTP
6 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.45%) SSL
7 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.34%) MQTT
8 3 (0.34%) Network Security
8 3 (0.34%) SAN
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%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.11%) LAN
10 1 (0.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (20.61%) SQL Server
2 164 (18.57%) Relational Database
3 160 (18.12%) MongoDB
4 134 (15.18%) MySQL
5 127 (14.38%) NoSQL
6 69 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
7 67 (7.59%) Redis
8 60 (6.80%) Amazon Aurora
9 53 (6.00%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.53%) Big Data
10 40 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.51%) RDBMS
12 30 (3.40%) Data Lake
13 28 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (2.94%) Oracle Database
15 23 (2.60%) Metadata
15 23 (2.60%) Power BI
16 19 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
16 19 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (1.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (20.39%) Jenkins
2 179 (20.27%) Git
3 99 (11.21%) JIRA
4 81 (9.17%) JUnit
5 73 (8.27%) GitLab
6 53 (6.00%) Mockito
7 45 (5.10%) Maven
8 30 (3.40%) Cucumber
8 30 (3.40%) Gradle
9 24 (2.72%) Selenium
10 23 (2.60%) JMeter
11 22 (2.49%) SonarQube
12 21 (2.38%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.27%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.93%) Gatling
15 14 (1.59%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.47%) jMock
17 11 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
18 9 (1.02%) Bitbucket
18 9 (1.02%) Flyway
General
1 194 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 181 (20.50%) Finance
3 121 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 105 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (6.68%) Banking
6 29 (3.28%) Front Office
7 23 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.36%) Military
10 11 (1.25%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.02%) Law
12 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.91%) Legal
12 8 (0.91%) Retail
13 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
14 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.45%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 350 (39.64%) Developer
2 154 (17.44%) Senior
3 110 (12.46%) Java Developer
4 88 (9.97%) DBA
5 87 (9.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 85 (9.63%) Python Developer
7 80 (9.06%) Software Engineer
8 78 (8.83%) Lead
9 71 (8.04%) Data Engineer
10 64 (7.25%) Architect
11 58 (6.57%) Senior Developer
12 41 (4.64%) Java Engineer
13 39 (4.42%) Administrator
14 38 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.08%) Lead Developer
16 33 (3.74%) Backend Developer
17 30 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 30 (3.40%) Software Developer
18 29 (3.28%) Python Engineer
19 27 (3.06%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (23.33%) Spring
2 192 (21.74%) REST
3 183 (20.72%) Kafka
4 179 (20.27%) React
5 174 (19.71%) RESTful
6 163 (18.46%) Spring Boot
7 129 (14.61%) Node.js
8 72 (8.15%) FastAPI
9 67 (7.59%) AngularJS
10 47 (5.32%) .NET
11 46 (5.21%) HTML
11 46 (5.21%) OpenAPI
11 46 (5.21%) Swagger
12 44 (4.98%) CSS
12 44 (4.98%) Django
13 43 (4.87%) GraphQL
13 43 (4.87%) Web Services
14 38 (4.30%) WireMock
15 37 (4.19%) JPA
16 35 (3.96%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 146 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 106 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.40%) Replication
5 27 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 27 (3.06%) Derivative
5 27 (3.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 25 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.72%) Equities
7 24 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.38%) Fixed Income
8 21 (2.38%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.27%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.70%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.36%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.91%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 119 (13.48%) Linux
2 32 (3.62%) Windows
3 31 (3.51%) Unix
4 25 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.81%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.91%) Solaris
8 5 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Android
9 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.34%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) AIX
10 2 (0.23%) zOS
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (44.51%) CI/CD
2 332 (37.60%) Agile
3 270 (30.58%) Microservices
4 269 (30.46%) DevOps
5 231 (26.16%) Containerisation
6 173 (19.59%) Software Engineering
7 167 (18.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 158 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
9 123 (13.93%) AI
10 120 (13.59%) Test Automation
11 117 (13.25%) Observability
12 111 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 108 (12.23%) Data Modelling
14 107 (12.12%) TDD
15 105 (11.89%) Performance Tuning
16 104 (11.78%) Migration
17 93 (10.53%) Scrum
18 92 (10.42%) Event-Driven
19 89 (10.08%) Analytics
20 86 (9.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 363 (41.11%) Python
2 330 (37.37%) SQL
3 315 (35.67%) Java
4 152 (17.21%) TypeScript
5 131 (14.84%) JavaScript
6 58 (6.57%) C#
7 48 (5.44%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.42%) Bash
9 31 (3.51%) Scala
10 30 (3.40%) Go
11 17 (1.93%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.47%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.36%) Groovy
14 12 (1.36%) PHP
15 11 (1.25%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.13%) Ruby
17 7 (0.79%) Rust
18 6 (0.68%) Bicep
19 5 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 311 (35.22%) Security Cleared
2 263 (29.78%) SC Cleared
3 69 (7.81%) Degree
4 35 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.81%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (0.91%) OCP
11 6 (0.68%) CISSP
12 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.45%) CISM
14 3 (0.34%) PhD
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.59%) QA
2 42 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.36%) GDPR
4 12 (1.36%) WCAG
5 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
5 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.45%) GMP
6 4 (0.45%) GxP
6 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.45%) NIST
6 4 (0.45%) SLA
7 3 (0.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 2 (0.23%) GRC
8 2 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 336 (38.05%) Docker
2 12 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.25%) Postfix
4 10 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.57%) Ceph
7 4 (0.45%) 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
1 299 (33.86%) Kubernetes
2 136 (15.40%) Terraform
3 120 (13.59%) Grafana
4 92 (10.42%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.64%) Ansible
6 17 (1.93%) Control-M
6 17 (1.93%) IBM Guardium
6 17 (1.93%) Nessus
7 13 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.36%) Kibana
9 11 (1.25%) Argo
10 10 (1.13%) HAProxy
11 9 (1.02%) Data Guard
12 7 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (0.79%) Rancher
13 5 (0.57%) Istio
14 4 (0.45%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.34%) Puppet
15 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
16 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 181 (20.50%) Oracle
2 142 (16.08%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.30%) Google
4 31 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.28%) Databricks
6 21 (2.38%) Informatica
7 20 (2.27%) Splunk
8 18 (2.04%) Atlassian
9 17 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
9 17 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.93%) Tenable
10 16 (1.81%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.70%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.47%) Talend
13 11 (1.25%) OpenAI
14 10 (1.13%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.13%) IBM
14 10 (1.13%) Sybase
14 10 (1.13%) VMware
15 6 (0.68%) TikTok