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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 123 159
Rank change year-on-year -20 +36 +16
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 807 660 708
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.13% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.25% 11.51% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 493 500
10th Percentile £360 £356 £406
25th Percentile £419 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.50% -0.84%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 3
10th Percentile £29.60 - £35.11
25th Percentile £38.75 - £46.15
Median hourly rate £52.50 £43.00 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -37.77% +207.32%
75th Percentile £65.25 - £74.33
90th Percentile £69.40 - £74.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 - £50.25
% change year-on-year - - +82.73%

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 6,586 5,736 7,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.41% 18.53% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,521 3,827 5,222
10th Percentile £338 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 91 177
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.83 £15.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.88 £21.64
Median hourly rate £53.25 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.73% -10.33% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.86 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.23 £70.00 £76.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £30.11 £40.25
% change year-on-year +81.70% -25.20% -28.04%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -18 665 £520 -5.45% 297
London -14 355 £550 -4.35% 87
UK excluding London -12 347 £475 -1.04% 213
Work from Home -24 257 £500 -4.53% 171
North of England -6 123 £455 -1.62% 60
Midlands -7 79 £520 +4.00% 32
Yorkshire -8 73 £478 -20.42% 18
West Midlands 0 68 £525 +4.48% 20
South East -25 64 £440 -4.86% 53
South West +1 49 £550 -12.00% 25
Scotland -1 49 £450 -3.23% 24
North West -27 46 £441 -3.72% 31
East Midlands -27 11 £400 -20.00% 12
Northern Ireland +3 7 £400 - 1
East of England -23 5 £588 +34.29% 16
North East -11 3 £463 +0.54% 12

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 44 (5.45%) Confluence
2 23 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (2.85%) nginx
3 22 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.23%) Apache
5 12 (1.49%) SAS
6 6 (0.74%) Drupal
6 6 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
7 4 (0.50%) Camunda
8 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.37%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) Appian
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 2 (0.25%) Traefik
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 4 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.12%) Magento
1 1 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.12%) Shopify
1 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 490 (60.72%) AWS
2 250 (30.98%) Azure
3 180 (22.30%) GitHub
4 145 (17.97%) GCP
5 134 (16.60%) Serverless
6 113 (14.00%) Amazon S3
7 96 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
8 76 (9.42%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (6.94%) OpenShift
10 54 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 49 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
12 44 (5.45%) Snowflake
13 40 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (4.96%) Power Platform
14 39 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
15 37 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 28 (3.47%) Azure AKS
18 24 (2.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 24 (2.97%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.10%) Firewall
2 20 (2.48%) DNS
3 18 (2.23%) HTTP
4 11 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.12%) Kerberos
6 7 (0.87%) SSH
7 6 (0.74%) FTP
7 6 (0.74%) IMAP
7 6 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (0.74%) SMTP
8 5 (0.62%) SSL
8 5 (0.62%) VPN
9 4 (0.50%) Internet
10 3 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.25%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.25%) LAN
11 2 (0.25%) WAN
12 1 (0.12%) DHCP
12 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (16.11%) Relational Database
2 127 (15.74%) NoSQL
3 121 (14.99%) MySQL
4 116 (14.37%) SQL Server
5 110 (13.63%) MongoDB
6 69 (8.55%) Amazon RDS
7 58 (7.19%) Redis
8 56 (6.94%) DynamoDB
9 55 (6.82%) Amazon Aurora
10 47 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
12 32 (3.97%) Power BI
13 31 (3.84%) RDBMS
14 27 (3.35%) Data Lake
15 24 (2.97%) Big Data
16 23 (2.85%) Apache Cassandra
17 22 (2.73%) Metadata
18 19 (2.35%) DB2
19 18 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
20 16 (1.98%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 176 (21.81%) Jenkins
2 157 (19.45%) Git
3 97 (12.02%) GitLab
4 79 (9.79%) JIRA
5 63 (7.81%) JUnit
6 37 (4.58%) Mockito
7 30 (3.72%) Cucumber
8 23 (2.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (2.60%) Gradle
10 17 (2.11%) Liquibase
10 17 (2.11%) Maven
11 16 (1.98%) JMeter
12 13 (1.61%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.61%) Cypress.io
12 13 (1.61%) Postman
13 10 (1.24%) ERwin
14 8 (0.99%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.99%) DBeaver
14 8 (0.99%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.74%) PyCharm
General
1 200 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 170 (21.07%) Finance
3 102 (12.64%) Public Sector
4 85 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (9.29%) Banking
6 24 (2.97%) Investment Banking
7 21 (2.60%) Front Office
8 15 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Retail
13 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.62%) Marketing
14 4 (0.50%) Legal
15 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.37%) Electronics
15 3 (0.37%) Games
15 3 (0.37%) Law
15 3 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 334 (41.39%) Developer
2 125 (15.49%) Senior
3 100 (12.39%) Java Developer
4 81 (10.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 76 (9.42%) Python Developer
6 72 (8.92%) Data Engineer
7 65 (8.05%) Software Engineer
8 63 (7.81%) Architect
9 57 (7.06%) Senior Developer
10 45 (5.58%) Lead
11 41 (5.08%) AWS Developer
12 40 (4.96%) DBA
13 39 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.46%) Data Architect
16 33 (4.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 33 (4.09%) Senior Java Developer
17 28 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
18 26 (3.22%) Backend Developer
19 25 (3.10%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (22.06%) Kafka
2 155 (19.21%) React
3 149 (18.46%) Spring
4 136 (16.85%) Node.js
5 131 (16.23%) RESTful
6 121 (14.99%) REST
7 117 (14.50%) Spring Boot
8 61 (7.56%) FastAPI
9 54 (6.69%) AngularJS
10 49 (6.07%) CSS
11 46 (5.70%) Hibernate
12 42 (5.20%) JSON
13 40 (4.96%) GraphQL
14 39 (4.83%) HTML
15 37 (4.58%) .NET
16 34 (4.21%) Django
17 32 (3.97%) Vue
18 30 (3.72%) OpenTelemetry
19 29 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
19 29 (3.59%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 117 (14.50%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.84%) Replication
4 30 (3.72%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.35%) Derivative
5 27 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.48%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.23%) Fixed Income
8 18 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.23%) Market Risk
9 17 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.61%) Equities
13 11 (1.36%) Clustering
14 6 (0.74%) NHS
14 6 (0.74%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 146 (18.09%) Linux
2 32 (3.97%) Windows
3 26 (3.22%) Unix
4 10 (1.24%) VMS
5 9 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.87%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.50%) zOS
10 3 (0.37%) Android
10 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (46.84%) CI/CD
2 284 (35.19%) Agile
3 266 (32.96%) DevOps
4 208 (25.77%) Containerisation
5 199 (24.66%) Microservices
6 165 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
7 145 (17.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 134 (16.60%) Software Engineering
9 132 (16.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 122 (15.12%) Observability
11 99 (12.27%) Data Modelling
11 99 (12.27%) Test Automation
12 92 (11.40%) TDD
13 91 (11.28%) Migration
14 89 (11.03%) ETL
15 84 (10.41%) Analytics
16 82 (10.16%) AI
17 79 (9.79%) Computer Science
18 77 (9.54%) Performance Tuning
19 72 (8.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 393 (48.70%) Python
2 312 (38.66%) SQL
3 247 (30.61%) Java
4 140 (17.35%) JavaScript
5 129 (15.99%) TypeScript
6 70 (8.67%) Bash
7 67 (8.30%) Go
8 40 (4.96%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.71%) C#
10 19 (2.35%) PHP
11 18 (2.23%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.98%) Groovy
13 12 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.49%) Ruby
14 11 (1.36%) Scala
15 8 (0.99%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.87%) JSX
17 6 (0.74%) Bicep
17 6 (0.74%) VBA
18 5 (0.62%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 238 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 196 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 101 (12.52%) Degree
4 60 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.72%) Azure Certification
5 30 (3.72%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.10%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.10%) Master's Degree
7 24 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.61%) OCP
8 13 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.37%) PhD
11 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.25%) CISM
12 2 (0.25%) CISSP
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.46%) QA
3 19 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.61%) GDPR
5 8 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.87%) NCSC
7 6 (0.74%) SLA
8 5 (0.62%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.62%) NIST
8 5 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.50%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 292 (36.18%) Docker
2 11 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.12%) Postfix
3 9 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.74%) DFS Replication
4 6 (0.74%) Dovecot
4 6 (0.74%) Squid
4 6 (0.74%) zsh
5 5 (0.62%) NDS
5 5 (0.62%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
8 2 (0.25%) HDFS
8 2 (0.25%) Lustre
8 2 (0.25%) NFS
8 2 (0.25%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) Ceph
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) Samba
Systems Management
1 298 (36.93%) Kubernetes
2 170 (21.07%) Terraform
3 122 (15.12%) Grafana
4 89 (11.03%) Ansible
4 89 (11.03%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.47%) Nessus
6 23 (2.85%) Argo
6 23 (2.85%) Progress Chef
7 22 (2.73%) Control-M
7 22 (2.73%) IBM Guardium
8 13 (1.61%) Puppet
9 9 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.12%) Istio
10 6 (0.74%) linkerd
10 6 (0.74%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.74%) Rancher
11 5 (0.62%) Packer
12 4 (0.50%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.37%) Kibana
13 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 125 (15.49%) Oracle
2 94 (11.65%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.58%) Splunk
4 39 (4.83%) Google
5 31 (3.84%) Databricks
6 27 (3.35%) Red Hat
7 25 (3.10%) VMware
8 22 (2.73%) Informatica
8 22 (2.73%) Tenable
9 21 (2.60%) Atlassian
10 18 (2.23%) ServiceNow
11 17 (2.11%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.73%) Greenplum
13 11 (1.36%) IBM
13 11 (1.36%) Talend
14 10 (1.24%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (0.99%) PagerDuty
16 5 (0.62%) Cloudera
16 5 (0.62%) Confluent
16 5 (0.62%) Salesforce