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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 109 133
Rank change year-on-year -59 +24 +22
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 867 805 704
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.45% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.61% 13.38% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 606 528
10th Percentile £363 £389 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +4.90%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £645
90th Percentile £725 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.68% - -2.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 6
10th Percentile £26.03 £36.05 £51.88
25th Percentile £27.75 £46.63 £69.00
Median hourly rate £32.75 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.42% -25.00% +49.46%
75th Percentile £74.13 £70.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £74.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.08% -18.75% +28.93%

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 8,172 6,015 7,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.33% 18.28% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 4,071 4,991
10th Percentile £356 £343 £350
25th Percentile £416 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
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 90 102
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.51 £15.10
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.75 £20.19
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.99 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.03% -0.74% -35.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.31 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.20 £78.83 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -60 706 £511 -7.18% 498
UK excluding London -35 399 £472 -0.68% 197
London -75 341 £550 -8.33% 347
Work from Home -68 279 £500 -15.86% 243
North of England -48 129 £483 -3.40% 48
Midlands +1 103 £448 -10.50% 25
West Midlands -16 75 £448 -5.79% 11
South East -31 72 £465 +6.90% 57
Yorkshire -19 60 £488 -2.50% 12
North West -49 59 £481 +1.26% 31
Scotland -3 48 £425 -10.53% 21
South West -33 30 £700 +27.27% 23
East Midlands +10 26 £459 -10.54% 14
East of England -18 18 £475 +5.56% 7
North East -49 10 £425 -19.05% 5
Wales -10 4 - - 10

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 (5.31%) Confluence
2 34 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 23 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.08%) Apache
5 7 (0.81%) nginx
5 7 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
6 6 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.58%) Camunda
8 4 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.35%) IIS
9 3 (0.35%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 9 (1.04%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.12%) Odoo
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 452 (52.13%) AWS
2 297 (34.26%) Azure
3 161 (18.57%) GitHub
4 154 (17.76%) GCP
5 112 (12.92%) GitHub Actions
6 96 (11.07%) Serverless
7 93 (10.73%) Amazon S3
8 70 (8.07%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (6.46%) Amazon EKS
9 56 (6.46%) Amazon SQS
10 55 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
11 54 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (3.81%) Snowflake
14 29 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (3.11%) Power Platform
16 26 (3.00%) Route 53
17 25 (2.88%) Azure AKS
18 23 (2.65%) AWS KMS
19 22 (2.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.19%) DNS
1 19 (2.19%) Firewall
2 15 (1.73%) SSH
3 10 (1.15%) HTTPS
4 9 (1.04%) HTTP
4 9 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.69%) SSL
6 4 (0.46%) SAN
7 3 (0.35%) 5G
7 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.35%) MQTT
7 3 (0.35%) Network Security
7 3 (0.35%) VPN
8 2 (0.23%) 4G
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.23%) NaaS
8 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (20.07%) MongoDB
2 164 (18.92%) Relational Database
3 161 (18.57%) SQL Server
4 137 (15.80%) MySQL
5 122 (14.07%) NoSQL
6 78 (9.00%) Redis
7 70 (8.07%) Amazon RDS
8 62 (7.15%) Amazon Aurora
9 52 (6.00%) DynamoDB
10 35 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (3.92%) RDBMS
12 31 (3.58%) Oracle Database
13 29 (3.34%) Big Data
14 24 (2.77%) Data Lake
15 22 (2.54%) Power BI
16 20 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (2.08%) Metadata
18 16 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
19 14 (1.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 196 (22.61%) Git
1 196 (22.61%) Jenkins
2 99 (11.42%) JIRA
3 86 (9.92%) GitLab
4 84 (9.69%) JUnit
5 60 (6.92%) Mockito
6 50 (5.77%) Maven
7 34 (3.92%) Gradle
8 31 (3.58%) Cucumber
9 28 (3.23%) Selenium
10 26 (3.00%) SonarQube
11 25 (2.88%) JMeter
12 23 (2.65%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.31%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.96%) Gatling
15 15 (1.73%) Bitbucket
16 14 (1.61%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.50%) jMock
18 11 (1.27%) Bitbucket Server
19 10 (1.15%) Flyway
General
1 181 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 154 (17.76%) Finance
3 133 (15.34%) Public Sector
4 117 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (6.11%) Banking
6 23 (2.65%) Front Office
7 22 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.38%) Military
10 10 (1.15%) Law
10 10 (1.15%) Legal
10 10 (1.15%) Retail
11 8 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.58%) Automotive
13 5 (0.58%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.46%) Marketing
14 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 346 (39.91%) Developer
2 159 (18.34%) Senior
3 115 (13.26%) Java Developer
4 93 (10.73%) DBA
5 80 (9.23%) Software Engineer
6 74 (8.54%) Full-Stack Developer
7 73 (8.42%) Lead
8 69 (7.96%) Python Developer
9 66 (7.61%) Senior Developer
10 64 (7.38%) Data Engineer
11 52 (6.00%) Architect
12 45 (5.19%) Administrator
13 42 (4.84%) Java Engineer
14 39 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
15 34 (3.92%) Software Developer
16 33 (3.81%) Lead Developer
17 31 (3.58%) Backend Developer
17 31 (3.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 29 (3.34%) PostgreSQL DBA
19 28 (3.23%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (25.37%) REST
2 204 (23.53%) Spring
3 182 (20.99%) RESTful
4 181 (20.88%) Kafka
5 169 (19.49%) React
6 161 (18.57%) Spring Boot
7 129 (14.88%) Node.js
8 64 (7.38%) FastAPI
9 60 (6.92%) AngularJS
10 56 (6.46%) HTML
11 55 (6.34%) CSS
12 50 (5.77%) .NET
13 48 (5.54%) OpenAPI
13 48 (5.54%) Swagger
14 42 (4.84%) Django
14 42 (4.84%) Web Services
15 40 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (4.50%) OAuth
17 37 (4.27%) Hibernate
17 37 (4.27%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 156 (17.99%) Cloud Native
2 117 (13.49%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.15%) Replication
5 34 (3.92%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 25 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.31%) Derivative
10 20 (2.31%) Equities
11 18 (2.08%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.96%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.73%) Fixed Income
14 14 (1.61%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (1.50%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (1.15%) Management Information System
17 8 (0.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 116 (13.38%) Linux
2 36 (4.15%) Unix
3 33 (3.81%) Windows
4 28 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.19%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.92%) Solaris
8 5 (0.58%) AIX
8 5 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Android
9 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) VMS
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%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (46.37%) CI/CD
2 335 (38.64%) Agile
3 278 (32.06%) DevOps
3 278 (32.06%) Microservices
4 208 (23.99%) Containerisation
5 177 (20.42%) Software Engineering
6 156 (17.99%) Full-Stack Development
7 155 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
8 135 (15.57%) Test Automation
9 124 (14.30%) Observability
10 122 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 118 (13.61%) AI
12 117 (13.49%) Performance Tuning
13 111 (12.80%) TDD
14 110 (12.69%) Data Modelling
15 104 (12.00%) Scrum
16 103 (11.88%) Event-Driven
16 103 (11.88%) Migration
17 91 (10.50%) Validation
18 86 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 332 (38.29%) Python
2 315 (36.33%) Java
2 315 (36.33%) SQL
3 160 (18.45%) TypeScript
4 122 (14.07%) JavaScript
5 53 (6.11%) C#
6 45 (5.19%) PowerShell
7 44 (5.07%) Bash
8 35 (4.04%) Go
9 29 (3.34%) Scala
10 19 (2.19%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.85%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.61%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.50%) Groovy
14 12 (1.38%) PHP
14 12 (1.38%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.27%) Ruby
16 9 (1.04%) Perl
17 7 (0.81%) Rust
18 6 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 305 (35.18%) Security Cleared
2 258 (29.76%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.46%) Degree
4 41 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 25 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (1.50%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.15%) OCP
12 6 (0.69%) CISSP
13 5 (0.58%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.46%) CISM
14 4 (0.46%) PhD
15 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.12%) CISA
16 1 (0.12%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.96%) QA
2 41 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 35 (4.04%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.85%) GDPR
4 16 (1.85%) WCAG
5 6 (0.69%) GMP
5 6 (0.69%) GxP
6 5 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
6 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 5 (0.58%) SLA
7 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.46%) NIST
7 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.23%) GRC
9 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 340 (39.22%) Docker
2 13 (1.50%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.27%) Postfix
4 10 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.69%) Ceph
7 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.46%) Squid
9 3 (0.35%) HDFS
10 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.23%) 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
1 305 (35.18%) Kubernetes
2 142 (16.38%) Terraform
3 123 (14.19%) Grafana
4 92 (10.61%) Prometheus
5 39 (4.50%) Ansible
6 18 (2.08%) Kibana
7 17 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
8 14 (1.61%) Argo
9 12 (1.38%) Control-M
9 12 (1.38%) Data Guard
9 12 (1.38%) IBM Guardium
9 12 (1.38%) Nessus
10 10 (1.15%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (0.69%) Istio
11 6 (0.69%) Rancher
12 4 (0.46%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.35%) Bosun
13 3 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
13 3 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 179 (20.65%) Oracle
2 129 (14.88%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.38%) Google
4 34 (3.92%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.34%) Databricks
6 22 (2.54%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.19%) Splunk
8 17 (1.96%) Jaspersoft
8 17 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.85%) Red Hat
10 14 (1.61%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.61%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.50%) VMware
12 12 (1.38%) Tenable
13 11 (1.27%) Informatica
14 10 (1.15%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.15%) IBM
15 8 (0.92%) Sybase
16 7 (0.81%) Talend
16 7 (0.81%) TikTok