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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 117 148
Rank change year-on-year -24 +31 +9
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 826 694 713
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.80% 2.37% 1.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.42% 12.43% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 513 508
10th Percentile £358 £400 £379
25th Percentile £413 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 7
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.95 £33.15
25th Percentile £45.00 £47.88 £50.88
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -22.86% +211.32%
75th Percentile £69.72 £61.38 £82.50
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.05 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +172.73%

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 7,233 5,584 7,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.77% 19.06% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,955 3,852 5,129
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £485
% change year-on-year -3.06% +1.03% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 108 152
10th Percentile £18.23 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.90 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.28% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.63 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +61.19% -9.60% -39.70%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -29 692 £505 -5.34% 206
UK excluding London -15 380 £450 -6.25% 130
London -34 344 £550 -5.17% 114
Work from Home -32 266 £500 -9.09% 163
North of England -28 136 £450 -5.26% 25
Midlands +5 97 £455 -9.10% 14
South East -25 80 £433 -6.49% 48
North West -22 76 £450 -5.26% 13
West Midlands -9 73 £475 -7.77% 7
Yorkshire -30 51 £473 -14.09% 7
Scotland +12 44 £425 -7.61% 12
East Midlands -13 23 £406 -18.80% 7
South West -32 23 £550 -13.73% 18
East of England -31 10 £575 +27.78% 7
North East -16 8 £425 -8.60% 5
Northern Ireland -1 4 £400 -20.00% 1

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 53 (6.42%) Confluence
2 36 (4.36%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.18%) Apache
5 17 (2.06%) nginx
6 10 (1.21%) SAS
7 7 (0.85%) Camunda
8 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.48%) Drupal
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.36%) Appian
10 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) JBoss
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.48%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 496 (60.05%) AWS
2 254 (30.75%) Azure
3 158 (19.13%) GitHub
4 128 (15.50%) GCP
5 115 (13.92%) Amazon S3
6 114 (13.80%) Serverless
7 92 (11.14%) GitHub Actions
8 79 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
10 43 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (4.60%) OpenShift
14 34 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
16 28 (3.39%) Power Platform
17 25 (3.03%) Snowflake
18 24 (2.91%) Azure AKS
19 23 (2.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.42%) Firewall
2 18 (2.18%) DNS
3 9 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.97%) HTTP
5 7 (0.85%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.61%) SSL
7 4 (0.48%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.48%) SSH
7 4 (0.48%) VPN
7 4 (0.48%) WAN
8 3 (0.36%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.24%) Internet
9 2 (0.24%) LAN
9 2 (0.24%) NaaS
9 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) DHCP
10 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (17.55%) MongoDB
2 141 (17.07%) NoSQL
2 141 (17.07%) Relational Database
3 140 (16.95%) SQL Server
4 127 (15.38%) MySQL
5 76 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
6 65 (7.87%) DynamoDB
7 53 (6.42%) Amazon Aurora
8 52 (6.30%) Redis
9 35 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (4.00%) Big Data
10 33 (4.00%) RDBMS
11 27 (3.27%) Data Lake
12 24 (2.91%) Metadata
13 23 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 22 (2.66%) Oracle Database
14 22 (2.66%) Power BI
15 20 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
16 17 (2.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 171 (20.70%) Jenkins
2 159 (19.25%) Git
3 90 (10.90%) GitLab
4 83 (10.05%) JIRA
4 83 (10.05%) JUnit
5 48 (5.81%) Mockito
6 34 (4.12%) Cucumber
7 29 (3.51%) Maven
8 26 (3.15%) JMeter
9 23 (2.78%) Gradle
10 20 (2.42%) Selenium
11 16 (1.94%) Liquibase
11 16 (1.94%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.94%) WebDriver
12 15 (1.82%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (1.21%) DbUnit
14 10 (1.21%) jMock
15 9 (1.09%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.97%) ERwin
General
1 180 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 165 (19.98%) Finance
3 98 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 77 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.78%) Banking
6 26 (3.15%) Front Office
7 17 (2.06%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.85%) Legal
12 6 (0.73%) Law
12 6 (0.73%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.61%) Automotive
14 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.48%) Marketing
15 3 (0.36%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 326 (39.47%) Developer
2 148 (17.92%) Senior
3 105 (12.71%) Java Developer
4 84 (10.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 78 (9.44%) Python Developer
6 75 (9.08%) DBA
7 72 (8.72%) Software Engineer
8 70 (8.47%) Data Engineer
9 62 (7.51%) Architect
10 55 (6.66%) Lead
10 55 (6.66%) Senior Developer
11 36 (4.36%) Administrator
12 35 (4.24%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 32 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 31 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
15 30 (3.63%) Lead Developer
16 29 (3.51%) Java Engineer
16 29 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
17 27 (3.27%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (23.85%) Kafka
2 178 (21.55%) Spring
3 159 (19.25%) React
4 143 (17.31%) RESTful
5 137 (16.59%) REST
5 137 (16.59%) Spring Boot
6 132 (15.98%) Node.js
7 60 (7.26%) AngularJS
8 59 (7.14%) FastAPI
9 45 (5.45%) Hibernate
10 41 (4.96%) GraphQL
11 40 (4.84%) JSON
11 40 (4.84%) WireMock
12 38 (4.60%) .NET
13 37 (4.48%) CSS
14 35 (4.24%) HTML
15 33 (4.00%) JPA
16 30 (3.63%) Django
17 28 (3.39%) OAuth
17 28 (3.39%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 105 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.72%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.63%) Derivative
5 27 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 25 (3.03%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.66%) Fixed Income
8 21 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (2.30%) Replication
10 18 (2.18%) Equities
10 18 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
12 12 (1.45%) Market Risk
13 11 (1.33%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.09%) Clustering
16 8 (0.97%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
17 7 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 134 (16.22%) Linux
2 37 (4.48%) Unix
3 27 (3.27%) Windows
4 13 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.48%) zOS
7 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.36%) Android
7 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) Solaris
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (45.04%) CI/CD
2 307 (37.17%) Agile
3 256 (30.99%) DevOps
4 216 (26.15%) Microservices
5 197 (23.85%) Containerisation
6 148 (17.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 148 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (16.95%) Software Engineering
8 123 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 120 (14.53%) Observability
10 110 (13.32%) Test Automation
11 107 (12.95%) Data Modelling
12 102 (12.35%) TDD
13 93 (11.26%) Migration
14 87 (10.53%) AI
15 86 (10.41%) Performance Tuning
16 83 (10.05%) ETL
17 81 (9.81%) Event-Driven
18 80 (9.69%) Mentoring
19 75 (9.08%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 347 (42.01%) Python
2 313 (37.89%) SQL
3 280 (33.90%) Java
4 128 (15.50%) TypeScript
5 120 (14.53%) JavaScript
6 68 (8.23%) Bash
7 43 (5.21%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.72%) C#
8 39 (4.72%) Go
9 27 (3.27%) Scala
10 20 (2.42%) PL/SQL
10 20 (2.42%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.45%) PHP
12 10 (1.21%) Ruby
13 9 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.97%) Bicep
14 8 (0.97%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.73%) Rust
16 5 (0.61%) Delphi
16 5 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 268 (32.45%) Security Cleared
2 215 (26.03%) SC Cleared
3 71 (8.60%) Degree
4 34 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
8 12 (1.45%) OCP
9 11 (1.33%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.61%) CISSP
11 4 (0.48%) CISM
12 3 (0.36%) PhD
12 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.69%) QA
2 42 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.57%) GDPR
5 9 (1.09%) SLA
6 7 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.85%) NCSC
6 7 (0.85%) WCAG
7 6 (0.73%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.73%) NIST
7 6 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 307 (37.17%) Docker
2 11 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.09%) Postfix
3 9 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.61%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.61%) Ceph
5 5 (0.61%) HDFS
6 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) NFS
7 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.24%) Lustre
7 2 (0.24%) NDS
7 2 (0.24%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 2 (0.24%) Samba
7 2 (0.24%) Squid
7 2 (0.24%) Xen
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 277 (33.54%) Kubernetes
2 143 (17.31%) Terraform
3 123 (14.89%) Grafana
4 80 (9.69%) Prometheus
5 72 (8.72%) Ansible
6 17 (2.06%) Argo
7 15 (1.82%) Control-M
7 15 (1.82%) IBM Guardium
7 15 (1.82%) Nessus
8 13 (1.57%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.45%) Kibana
10 10 (1.21%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.21%) Puppet
11 9 (1.09%) Data Guard
11 9 (1.09%) Istio
11 9 (1.09%) Rancher
12 7 (0.85%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.73%) linkerd
14 5 (0.61%) Packer
15 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 152 (18.40%) Oracle
2 102 (12.35%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.24%) Splunk
4 32 (3.87%) Databricks
5 24 (2.91%) Atlassian
6 22 (2.66%) Google
6 22 (2.66%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.66%) VMware
7 20 (2.42%) Informatica
8 18 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.82%) Tenable
10 13 (1.57%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.57%) Jaspersoft
10 13 (1.57%) Talend
11 11 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.09%) IBM
13 8 (0.97%) Confluent
13 8 (0.97%) PagerDuty
14 7 (0.85%) Greenplum
15 6 (0.73%) OpenAI