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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 115 134
Rank change year-on-year -49 +19 +19
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 879 793 719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.41% 1.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.80% 13.24% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 604 537
10th Percentile £363 £382 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +0.95% +4.90%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £834 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -2.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 6
10th Percentile £27.75 £54.50 £51.88
25th Percentile £31.38 £57.50 £69.00
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 8,141 5,989 7,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.42% 18.17% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,408 4,057 5,137
10th Percentile £355 £348 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
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 259 92 106
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.28 £14.63
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.19
Median hourly rate £41.71 £36.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.06% -3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £62.00 £64.06 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.10 £78.58 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% +5.47% -41.46%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -52 714 £520 -5.41% 283
UK excluding London -29 406 £475 - 153
London -58 348 £550 -8.33% 177
Work from Home -65 281 £500 -13.04% 152
North of England -40 131 £483 -3.40% 38
Midlands +3 102 £447 -10.60% 16
West Midlands -13 73 £447 -5.89% 9
South East -51 72 £471 +8.16% 47
North West -36 61 £481 +1.26% 23
Yorkshire -20 58 £488 -2.50% 11
Scotland +1 53 £425 -10.53% 18
South West -26 31 £700 +30.23% 19
East Midlands +6 27 £447 -12.78% 7
East of England -18 18 £575 +27.78% 9
North East -48 11 £425 -19.05% 4
Wales -13 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 47 (5.35%) Confluence
2 40 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.62%) 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%) Appian
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.02%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.34%) Trello
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Maya
3 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
1 467 (53.13%) AWS
2 308 (35.04%) Azure
3 159 (18.09%) GCP
4 155 (17.63%) GitHub
5 107 (12.17%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (11.15%) Serverless
7 95 (10.81%) Amazon S3
8 70 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (6.48%) Amazon SQS
10 56 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 50 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (3.75%) Snowflake
15 31 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (3.19%) Azure AKS
17 26 (2.96%) Route 53
18 25 (2.84%) Power Platform
19 23 (2.62%) AWS KMS
20 21 (2.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.16%) Firewall
2 15 (1.71%) DNS
3 10 (1.14%) SSH
4 9 (1.02%) HTTPS
5 7 (0.80%) HTTP
6 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.46%) SAN
8 4 (0.46%) SSL
9 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
9 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.34%) MQTT
9 3 (0.34%) Network Security
9 3 (0.34%) VPN
9 3 (0.34%) WAN
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) NaaS
10 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.11%) Internet
11 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 169 (19.23%) MongoDB
3 166 (18.89%) Relational Database
4 139 (15.81%) MySQL
5 121 (13.77%) NoSQL
6 74 (8.42%) Redis
7 70 (7.96%) Amazon RDS
8 61 (6.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 54 (6.14%) DynamoDB
10 41 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (3.98%) Big Data
12 32 (3.64%) RDBMS
13 31 (3.53%) Oracle Database
14 30 (3.41%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.62%) Metadata
16 20 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
16 20 (2.28%) Power BI
17 17 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
18 15 (1.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 194 (22.07%) Git
2 191 (21.73%) Jenkins
3 99 (11.26%) JIRA
4 83 (9.44%) JUnit
5 79 (8.99%) GitLab
6 55 (6.26%) Mockito
7 51 (5.80%) Maven
8 35 (3.98%) Gradle
9 31 (3.53%) Cucumber
10 24 (2.73%) Selenium
11 23 (2.62%) JMeter
11 23 (2.62%) SonarQube
12 21 (2.39%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.28%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.93%) Gatling
15 15 (1.71%) Bitbucket
16 14 (1.59%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.48%) jMock
18 11 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
19 9 (1.02%) Flyway
General
1 184 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 167 (19.00%) Finance
3 126 (14.33%) Public Sector
4 111 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.37%) Banking
6 27 (3.07%) Front Office
7 22 (2.50%) 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%) Retail
12 7 (0.80%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
14 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.46%) Marketing
15 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 344 (39.14%) Developer
2 159 (18.09%) Senior
3 121 (13.77%) Java Developer
4 91 (10.35%) DBA
5 86 (9.78%) Software Engineer
6 77 (8.76%) Lead
7 76 (8.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 71 (8.08%) Python Developer
9 67 (7.62%) Data Engineer
10 64 (7.28%) Senior Developer
11 61 (6.94%) Architect
12 43 (4.89%) Administrator
13 42 (4.78%) Java Engineer
14 38 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.10%) Lead Developer
16 33 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 33 (3.75%) Software Developer
17 31 (3.53%) Backend Developer
18 30 (3.41%) Python Engineer
19 28 (3.19%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (24.00%) REST
2 204 (23.21%) Spring
3 184 (20.93%) Kafka
4 179 (20.36%) React
4 179 (20.36%) RESTful
5 162 (18.43%) Spring Boot
6 131 (14.90%) Node.js
7 65 (7.39%) AngularJS
8 64 (7.28%) FastAPI
9 53 (6.03%) HTML
10 51 (5.80%) CSS
11 48 (5.46%) .NET
11 48 (5.46%) OpenAPI
11 48 (5.46%) Swagger
12 44 (5.01%) Web Services
13 40 (4.55%) Django
13 40 (4.55%) JPA
14 38 (4.32%) Hibernate
15 37 (4.21%) GraphQL
15 37 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 151 (17.18%) Cloud Native
2 115 (13.08%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.98%) Data Structures
5 34 (3.87%) Replication
6 28 (3.19%) Distributed Architecture
7 27 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.84%) Derivative
9 24 (2.73%) Equities
10 23 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (2.28%) Fixed Income
12 20 (2.28%) Onboarding
13 18 (2.05%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.59%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.59%) Virtual Team
15 13 (1.48%) AI Agents
16 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
17 8 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.42%) Linux
2 35 (3.98%) Unix
3 33 (3.75%) 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
1 402 (45.73%) CI/CD
2 339 (38.57%) Agile
3 282 (32.08%) Microservices
4 276 (31.40%) DevOps
5 214 (24.35%) Containerisation
6 184 (20.93%) Software Engineering
7 162 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (18.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 129 (14.68%) AI
10 128 (14.56%) Test Automation
11 123 (13.99%) Observability
12 121 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 116 (13.20%) Performance Tuning
14 115 (13.08%) Data Modelling
15 107 (12.17%) Migration
15 107 (12.17%) TDD
16 102 (11.60%) Scrum
17 97 (11.04%) Event-Driven
18 89 (10.13%) Analytics
19 87 (9.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 340 (38.68%) Python
2 321 (36.52%) SQL
3 317 (36.06%) Java
4 159 (18.09%) TypeScript
5 129 (14.68%) JavaScript
6 53 (6.03%) C#
7 45 (5.12%) PowerShell
8 38 (4.32%) Bash
9 33 (3.75%) Go
10 29 (3.30%) 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%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.48%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.25%) Ruby
16 9 (1.02%) Perl
17 7 (0.80%) Rust
18 6 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 307 (34.93%) Security Cleared
2 258 (29.35%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.17%) Degree
4 41 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 24 (2.73%) 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 11 (1.25%) 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%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.74%) QA
2 42 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 39 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.71%) GDPR
4 15 (1.71%) WCAG
5 6 (0.68%) GMP
5 6 (0.68%) GxP
6 5 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
6 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.46%) NIST
7 4 (0.46%) SLA
8 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.23%) GRC
System Software
1 339 (38.57%) 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
1 307 (34.93%) Kubernetes
2 142 (16.15%) Terraform
3 121 (13.77%) Grafana
4 92 (10.47%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.32%) Ansible
6 17 (1.93%) Oracle RMAN
7 15 (1.71%) Argo
8 14 (1.59%) Kibana
9 13 (1.48%) Control-M
9 13 (1.48%) IBM Guardium
9 13 (1.48%) Nessus
10 12 (1.37%) Data Guard
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 (21.27%) Oracle
2 130 (14.79%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.44%) Google
4 34 (3.87%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.30%) Databricks
6 22 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.39%) Splunk
8 18 (2.05%) Informatica
9 17 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
9 17 (1.93%) Red Hat
9 17 (1.93%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.82%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.59%) OpenAI
12 13 (1.48%) Talend
12 13 (1.48%) Tenable
13 12 (1.37%) VMware
14 11 (1.25%) IBM
15 10 (1.14%) CyberArk
15 10 (1.14%) Sybase
16 7 (0.80%) TikTok