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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 122 147
Rank change year-on-year -34 +25 +7
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 840 691 710
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 2.32% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.96% 12.46% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 515 533
10th Percentile £362 £406 £364
25th Percentile £425 £452 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% +1.62% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £836 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £477 £475
% change year-on-year -2.41% +0.32% -4.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile £53.20 £54.50 £53.70
25th Percentile £63.25 £57.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -18.75% +255.79%
75th Percentile £74.13 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +2.31% -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 7,664 5,546 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.21% 18.63% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,109 3,780 5,361
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 101 155
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.01 £20.88
Median hourly rate £41.71 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -12.50% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.58 £66.00 £53.94
90th Percentile £78.31 £78.70 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.38 £31.85 £34.47
% change year-on-year +20.51% -7.60% -39.48%

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 18 June 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 18 June 2026.

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 18 June 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 -35 702 £513 -6.82% 180
UK excluding London -10 379 £465 -2.41% 135
London -35 356 £550 -8.33% 93
Work from Home -58 264 £500 -9.17% 112
North of England -27 128 £468 -3.36% 31
Midlands +3 97 £447 -10.60% 19
West Midlands -14 68 £450 -10.00% 9
South East -36 67 £471 +8.28% 44
North West -20 64 £465 -2.11% 22
Yorkshire -27 54 £475 -5.00% 4
Scotland +4 48 £425 -10.53% 6
South West -19 28 £700 +27.27% 10
East Midlands 0 27 £425 -14.57% 10
East of England -28 13 £575 +27.78% 11
North East -38 9 £425 -13.27% 5
Wales - 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland -1 1 £400 -20.00% 17

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 51 (6.07%) Confluence
2 43 (5.12%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.38%) Apache
5 10 (1.19%) nginx
6 8 (0.95%) Camunda
7 6 (0.71%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.48%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.36%) Appian
10 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.36%) IIS
10 3 (0.36%) SAS
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Drupal
11 2 (0.24%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.07%) CPLEX
2 6 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 454 (54.05%) AWS
2 270 (32.14%) Azure
3 145 (17.26%) GCP
4 134 (15.95%) GitHub
5 101 (12.02%) Serverless
6 99 (11.79%) Amazon S3
7 87 (10.36%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 49 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
10 47 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (3.57%) Route 53
12 30 (3.57%) Snowflake
13 29 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (3.10%) Power Platform
15 23 (2.74%) OpenShift
16 22 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (2.62%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.02%) DNS
2 15 (1.79%) Firewall
3 8 (0.95%) HTTPS
3 8 (0.95%) SSH
4 6 (0.71%) HTTP
5 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.48%) SSL
7 3 (0.36%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.36%) MQTT
7 3 (0.36%) SAN
7 3 (0.36%) VPN
7 3 (0.36%) WAN
8 2 (0.24%) DHCP
8 2 (0.24%) NaaS
8 2 (0.24%) Network Security
8 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) Internet
9 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (19.40%) SQL Server
2 149 (17.74%) MongoDB
3 144 (17.14%) Relational Database
4 134 (15.95%) NoSQL
5 123 (14.64%) MySQL
6 74 (8.81%) Amazon RDS
7 68 (8.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 61 (7.26%) DynamoDB
9 56 (6.67%) Redis
10 38 (4.52%) Big Data
11 35 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
12 30 (3.57%) RDBMS
13 26 (3.10%) Data Lake
13 26 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
14 24 (2.86%) Oracle Database
15 23 (2.74%) Metadata
15 23 (2.74%) Power BI
16 18 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
16 18 (2.14%) Tableau
17 17 (2.02%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 174 (20.71%) Jenkins
2 162 (19.29%) Git
3 90 (10.71%) JIRA
4 80 (9.52%) JUnit
5 77 (9.17%) GitLab
6 53 (6.31%) Mockito
7 39 (4.64%) Maven
8 31 (3.69%) Cucumber
9 25 (2.98%) Gradle
10 24 (2.86%) Selenium
11 23 (2.74%) JMeter
12 21 (2.50%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.38%) SonarQube
13 20 (2.38%) WebDriver
14 17 (2.02%) Gatling
15 14 (1.67%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.55%) jMock
17 11 (1.31%) Bitbucket Server
18 9 (1.07%) Flyway
19 8 (0.95%) Bitbucket
General
1 178 (21.19%) Social Skills
2 174 (20.71%) Finance
3 111 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 89 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (7.02%) Banking
6 28 (3.33%) Front Office
7 20 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.55%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.07%) Law
9 9 (1.07%) Military
10 6 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.71%) Legal
10 6 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (0.71%) Retail
11 5 (0.60%) Automotive
11 5 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.36%) Marketing
12 3 (0.36%) Private Banking
12 3 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 328 (39.05%) Developer
2 150 (17.86%) Senior
3 99 (11.79%) Java Developer
4 86 (10.24%) Python Developer
5 85 (10.12%) Full-Stack Developer
6 84 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 82 (9.76%) DBA
8 71 (8.45%) Data Engineer
9 70 (8.33%) Architect
10 68 (8.10%) Lead
11 57 (6.79%) Senior Developer
12 37 (4.40%) Java Engineer
13 32 (3.81%) Administrator
14 31 (3.69%) Backend Developer
14 31 (3.69%) Lead Developer
15 29 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
15 29 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (3.21%) Senior Java Developer
17 26 (3.10%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 26 (3.10%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (23.10%) Spring
2 184 (21.90%) Kafka
3 171 (20.36%) React
4 163 (19.40%) REST
4 163 (19.40%) RESTful
5 152 (18.10%) Spring Boot
6 130 (15.48%) Node.js
7 74 (8.81%) FastAPI
8 65 (7.74%) AngularJS
9 43 (5.12%) GraphQL
10 42 (5.00%) Django
10 42 (5.00%) JPA
11 41 (4.88%) OpenAPI
11 41 (4.88%) Swagger
12 39 (4.64%) .NET
13 38 (4.52%) HTML
13 38 (4.52%) Web Services
14 37 (4.40%) Hibernate
14 37 (4.40%) WireMock
15 36 (4.29%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 134 (15.95%) Cloud Native
2 106 (12.62%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.45%) Derivative
4 29 (3.45%) Replication
5 27 (3.21%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.10%) Distributed Architecture
7 24 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (2.74%) Equities
9 21 (2.50%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.38%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.14%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.90%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.19%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.95%) Clustering
16 7 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 108 (12.86%) Linux
2 31 (3.69%) Unix
3 27 (3.21%) Windows
4 18 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.43%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.95%) Solaris
7 6 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.36%) Android
9 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.24%) zOS
11 1 (0.12%) AIX
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (43.10%) CI/CD
2 317 (37.74%) Agile
3 250 (29.76%) Microservices
4 248 (29.52%) DevOps
5 208 (24.76%) Containerisation
6 165 (19.64%) Software Engineering
7 162 (19.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 136 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
9 116 (13.81%) Observability
9 116 (13.81%) Test Automation
10 111 (13.21%) Data Modelling
11 110 (13.10%) AI
12 106 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 103 (12.26%) TDD
14 101 (12.02%) Performance Tuning
15 96 (11.43%) Migration
16 90 (10.71%) Event-Driven
17 85 (10.12%) Analytics
17 85 (10.12%) Validation
18 83 (9.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 350 (41.67%) Python
2 320 (38.10%) SQL
3 291 (34.64%) Java
4 152 (18.10%) TypeScript
5 120 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 48 (5.71%) C#
7 43 (5.12%) PowerShell
8 38 (4.52%) Bash
9 31 (3.69%) Scala
10 28 (3.33%) Go
11 19 (2.26%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.79%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.55%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.43%) PHP
15 10 (1.19%) Bicep
16 9 (1.07%) Groovy
16 9 (1.07%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.83%) Ruby
18 5 (0.60%) C++
18 5 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 286 (34.05%) Security Cleared
2 235 (27.98%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.14%) Degree
4 36 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.71%) CISSP
12 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.48%) CISM
13 4 (0.48%) OCP
14 3 (0.36%) PhD
15 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.12%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.98%) QA
2 47 (5.60%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.55%) WCAG
5 10 (1.19%) GDPR
6 8 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.95%) NIST
7 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.71%) SLA
8 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.24%) GRC
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 307 (36.55%) Docker
2 11 (1.31%) Postfix
3 10 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.83%) Active Directory
7 5 (0.60%) Ceph
8 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.36%) HDFS
9 3 (0.36%) Squid
10 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.12%) NFS
11 1 (0.12%) RACF
11 1 (0.12%) Samba
11 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 265 (31.55%) Kubernetes
2 124 (14.76%) Terraform
3 117 (13.93%) Grafana
4 87 (10.36%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.88%) Ansible
6 16 (1.90%) Control-M
6 16 (1.90%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (1.90%) Nessus
7 13 (1.55%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.43%) Data Guard
8 12 (1.43%) Kibana
9 10 (1.19%) Argo
9 10 (1.19%) HAProxy
10 7 (0.83%) Rancher
11 5 (0.60%) Istio
11 5 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.36%) Puppet
13 2 (0.24%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.24%) Consul
13 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 156 (18.57%) Oracle
2 121 (14.40%) Microsoft
3 33 (3.93%) Databricks
4 28 (3.33%) Google
5 26 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.50%) Splunk
7 20 (2.38%) Informatica
8 18 (2.14%) Atlassian
9 17 (2.02%) Jaspersoft
10 16 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.90%) Tenable
11 15 (1.79%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.79%) Red Hat
12 14 (1.67%) Talend
13 10 (1.19%) Sybase
14 9 (1.07%) IBM
14 9 (1.07%) OpenAI
14 9 (1.07%) VMware
15 8 (0.95%) Confluent
15 8 (0.95%) CyberArk