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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 129 155
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 +30
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 831 681 765
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.27% 1.99% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.11% 11.10% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 508 530
10th Percentile £361 £331 £409
25th Percentile £418 £420 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £727 £703 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile - - £34.14
25th Percentile £29.00 - £43.73
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -30.70% +42.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £69.03
90th Percentile £58.00 - £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £46.28
% change year-on-year - - +15.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,341 6,133 7,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.33% 17.94% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,364 4,048 5,230
10th Percentile £326 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £767 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 84 140
10th Percentile £20.70 £18.15 £16.11
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.27 £21.56
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.11 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.49% -34.81% -7.73%
75th Percentile £69.25 £61.69 £64.65
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.89 £77.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.35 £27.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +93.00% -41.26% +2.62%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +16 695 £520 -5.45% 242
London +11 377 £550 -4.35% 127
UK excluding London +9 361 £475 -3.85% 162
Work from Home -24 259 £513 -1.44% 160
North of England +24 137 £480 +6.02% 49
Midlands +7 75 £525 +5.00% 13
Yorkshire +11 74 £500 -16.67% 17
South East -29 65 £433 -24.78% 46
West Midlands +16 64 £525 +0.96% 8
North West 0 54 £440 +0.57% 29
Scotland -6 50 £450 -5.46% 13
South West +10 46 £550 -8.33% 24
East Midlands -18 11 £515 +3.00% 5
North East - 10 £738 - 4
Northern Ireland +1 8 £400 - 2
Wales +6 4 £469 +20.97% 3
East of England -18 4 £450 +1.41% 15

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 43 (5.17%) Confluence
2 27 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.89%) nginx
4 20 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.68%) SAS
6 11 (1.32%) Apache
7 8 (0.96%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.72%) Drupal
9 4 (0.48%) CICS
9 4 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.48%) WordPress
10 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Luigi
11 2 (0.24%) Traefik
12 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
Applications
1 11 (1.32%) Chatbot
1 11 (1.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Magento
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 492 (59.21%) AWS
2 260 (31.29%) Azure
3 181 (21.78%) GitHub
4 148 (17.81%) GCP
5 143 (17.21%) Serverless
6 117 (14.08%) Amazon S3
7 87 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
7 87 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
8 60 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 55 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (6.14%) OpenShift
12 47 (5.66%) Power Platform
13 46 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (4.57%) Snowflake
15 35 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 34 (4.09%) Azure AKS
17 31 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 25 (3.01%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.37%) Firewall
2 22 (2.65%) DNS
3 20 (2.41%) HTTP
4 15 (1.81%) SSH
5 12 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.32%) IMAP
6 11 (1.32%) Kerberos
6 11 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
6 11 (1.32%) SMTP
7 10 (1.20%) FTP
8 7 (0.84%) SSL
9 5 (0.60%) VPN
10 4 (0.48%) Internet
11 3 (0.36%) MQTT
12 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
12 2 (0.24%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.24%) LAN
12 2 (0.24%) WAN
13 1 (0.12%) DHCP
13 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (16.85%) Relational Database
2 122 (14.68%) NoSQL
3 118 (14.20%) MySQL
4 113 (13.60%) MongoDB
5 112 (13.48%) SQL Server
6 79 (9.51%) Amazon RDS
7 74 (8.90%) Redis
8 59 (7.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 41 (4.93%) DynamoDB
9 41 (4.93%) RDBMS
10 39 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (4.33%) Power BI
12 28 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (3.13%) Oracle Database
14 25 (3.01%) Apache Cassandra
15 21 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (2.53%) Big Data
16 20 (2.41%) DB2
17 19 (2.29%) Data Lake
17 19 (2.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 183 (22.02%) Jenkins
2 162 (19.49%) Git
3 90 (10.83%) GitLab
4 75 (9.03%) JIRA
5 55 (6.62%) JUnit
6 32 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 30 (3.61%) Mockito
8 25 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 24 (2.89%) Liquibase
10 21 (2.53%) Cypress.io
11 20 (2.41%) Gradle
12 19 (2.29%) Maven
13 18 (2.17%) Bitbucket
14 17 (2.05%) JMeter
15 16 (1.93%) SonarQube
16 15 (1.81%) Postman
17 11 (1.32%) Vagrant
18 10 (1.20%) DBeaver
18 10 (1.20%) Subversion
18 10 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 234 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 176 (21.18%) Finance
3 105 (12.64%) Public Sector
4 85 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (9.87%) Banking
6 28 (3.37%) Investment Banking
7 24 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (2.53%) Front Office
9 15 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.84%) Marketing
13 5 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.48%) Legal
14 4 (0.48%) Local Government
14 4 (0.48%) Military
14 4 (0.48%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.36%) Games
15 3 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 311 (37.42%) Developer
2 141 (16.97%) Senior
3 100 (12.03%) Java Developer
4 69 (8.30%) Architect
5 68 (8.18%) Data Engineer
6 67 (8.06%) Senior Developer
7 62 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 55 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
8 55 (6.62%) Python Developer
9 50 (6.02%) AWS Developer
9 50 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
9 50 (6.02%) Software Engineer
10 43 (5.17%) DBA
11 42 (5.05%) Lead
12 37 (4.45%) Python Engineer
13 35 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 34 (4.09%) Senior Java Developer
15 28 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
15 28 (3.37%) Data Architect
16 26 (3.13%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (20.82%) Kafka
2 152 (18.29%) React
3 125 (15.04%) Node.js
4 123 (14.80%) Spring
5 122 (14.68%) RESTful
6 113 (13.60%) REST
7 99 (11.91%) Spring Boot
8 67 (8.06%) CSS
9 56 (6.74%) HTML
10 51 (6.14%) AngularJS
11 49 (5.90%) GraphQL
12 43 (5.17%) FastAPI
13 40 (4.81%) Hibernate
14 39 (4.69%) JSON
15 38 (4.57%) Vue
16 36 (4.33%) .NET
17 33 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
18 31 (3.73%) Django
18 31 (3.73%) Keycloak
18 31 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 103 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.26%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.17%) Replication
4 27 (3.25%) Management Information System
5 26 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.41%) Derivative
6 20 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.17%) Market Risk
9 17 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.93%) Clustering
10 16 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.81%) Fixed Income
12 13 (1.56%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.44%) Equities
13 12 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (1.20%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.08%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 143 (17.21%) Linux
2 32 (3.85%) Windows
3 26 (3.13%) Unix
4 14 (1.68%) Amazon Linux
4 14 (1.68%) VMS
5 11 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.48%) zOS
8 3 (0.36%) Solaris
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (44.65%) CI/CD
2 299 (35.98%) Agile
3 286 (34.42%) DevOps
4 212 (25.51%) Microservices
5 199 (23.95%) Containerisation
6 180 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
7 141 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 119 (14.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 116 (13.96%) Software Engineering
9 116 (13.96%) Test Automation
10 108 (13.00%) TDD
11 103 (12.39%) Observability
12 89 (10.71%) AI
12 89 (10.71%) Migration
13 83 (9.99%) ETL
14 78 (9.39%) Data Modelling
15 74 (8.90%) Computer Science
15 74 (8.90%) Performance Tuning
16 73 (8.78%) Analytics
17 68 (8.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 399 (48.01%) Python
2 312 (37.55%) SQL
3 237 (28.52%) Java
4 139 (16.73%) JavaScript
5 129 (15.52%) TypeScript
6 89 (10.71%) Bash
7 75 (9.03%) Go
8 42 (5.05%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.73%) C#
10 27 (3.25%) Groovy
11 26 (3.13%) PHP
12 21 (2.53%) Shell Script
13 17 (2.05%) Ruby
14 13 (1.56%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.44%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.96%) Scala
17 7 (0.84%) JSX
17 7 (0.84%) Perl
18 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 221 (26.59%) Security Cleared
2 181 (21.78%) SC Cleared
3 100 (12.03%) Degree
4 64 (7.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.97%) AWS Certification
6 31 (3.73%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.17%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.68%) OCP
10 14 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
11 9 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.96%) MCP
13 7 (0.84%) CISSP
14 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.48%) HND
16 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
17 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
17 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.14%) QA
2 40 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.01%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.93%) GDPR
5 6 (0.72%) SLA
6 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.60%) NCSC
7 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.36%) WCAG
9 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.12%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 284 (34.18%) Docker
2 12 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.32%) Dovecot
3 11 (1.32%) Postfix
3 11 (1.32%) Squid
4 10 (1.20%) DFS Replication
4 10 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.96%) zsh
6 5 (0.60%) NDS
6 5 (0.60%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory
7 4 (0.48%) NFS
8 3 (0.36%) KVM
8 3 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.36%) Xen
9 2 (0.24%) HDFS
9 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 299 (35.98%) Kubernetes
2 189 (22.74%) Terraform
3 116 (13.96%) Grafana
4 91 (10.95%) Ansible
5 79 (9.51%) Prometheus
6 31 (3.73%) Argo
7 22 (2.65%) Nessus
8 21 (2.53%) Progress Chef
9 18 (2.17%) Puppet
10 12 (1.44%) Control-M
10 12 (1.44%) Istio
11 11 (1.32%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.20%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.72%) linkerd
14 6 (0.72%) Packer
15 5 (0.60%) Kibana
15 5 (0.60%) Rancher
15 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 140 (16.85%) Oracle
2 94 (11.31%) Microsoft
3 47 (5.66%) Splunk
4 44 (5.29%) Google
5 31 (3.73%) VMware
6 27 (3.25%) Red Hat
7 25 (3.01%) Databricks
8 22 (2.65%) ServiceNow
9 20 (2.41%) Dynatrace
10 17 (2.05%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.56%) IBM
12 12 (1.44%) Greenplum
13 11 (1.32%) Informatica
13 11 (1.32%) Jaspersoft
13 11 (1.32%) Tenable
14 10 (1.20%) CA Agile Central
15 8 (0.96%) Cloudera
15 8 (0.96%) PagerDuty
16 6 (0.72%) Gigya
17 5 (0.60%) Salesforce