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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 118 163
Rank change year-on-year -21 +45 +6
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 859 692 693
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.26% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.46% 11.92% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 520 484
10th Percentile £358 £356 £400
25th Percentile £413 £424 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.59% +1.62%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £704 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -2.63% -6.86% +3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile £35.00 - £42.47
25th Percentile £40.00 - £64.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -37.77% +207.32%
75th Percentile £66.50 - £75.00
90th Percentile £69.44 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +154.55%

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 6,896 5,806 7,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.15% 18.94% 16.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,749 3,959 5,160
10th Percentile £344 £351 £340
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 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 96 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £15.68
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.39% -29.16% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.80 £69.38 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.37%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -14 710 £513 -4.61% 426
UK excluding London -10 388 £463 -2.63% 312
London -12 360 £550 -4.35% 173
Work from Home -24 277 £500 -4.94% 306
North of England -25 132 £458 -3.68% 81
Midlands -3 100 £500 - 38
West Midlands +4 87 £500 +2.04% 30
South East -18 77 £434 +3.27% 93
Yorkshire -17 73 £478 -13.18% 28
North West -32 53 £430 -7.14% 41
Scotland +11 51 £450 -2.17% 17
South West -12 47 £550 -12.00% 36
East Midlands -31 12 £401 -19.80% 8
Northern Ireland +3 7 £400 - 3
North East -8 5 £450 -2.44% 13
East of England -29 5 £588 +30.56% 41

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 56 (6.52%) Confluence
2 24 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.21%) Apache
5 17 (1.98%) nginx
6 14 (1.63%) SAS
7 5 (0.58%) Camunda
7 5 (0.58%) Drupal
7 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) Appian
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.23%) Traefik
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
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
1 518 (60.30%) AWS
2 268 (31.20%) Azure
3 190 (22.12%) GitHub
4 165 (19.21%) GCP
5 138 (16.07%) Serverless
6 114 (13.27%) Amazon S3
7 107 (12.46%) GitHub Actions
8 74 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (5.94%) OpenShift
10 48 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 48 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (5.01%) Snowflake
12 42 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
14 37 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (4.31%) Power Platform
15 34 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 28 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (3.03%) Azure AKS
18 23 (2.68%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.56%) Firewall
2 14 (1.63%) DNS
3 13 (1.51%) HTTP
4 11 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.05%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.58%) SSL
6 5 (0.58%) VPN
7 4 (0.47%) Internet
7 4 (0.47%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.35%) SAN
8 3 (0.35%) WAN
9 2 (0.23%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.23%) LAN
9 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.23%) SSH
10 1 (0.12%) Calico
10 1 (0.12%) NaaS
10 1 (0.12%) VSAN
10 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (17.11%) NoSQL
2 138 (16.07%) Relational Database
3 134 (15.60%) SQL Server
4 127 (14.78%) MongoDB
5 126 (14.67%) MySQL
6 67 (7.80%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (7.33%) DynamoDB
8 55 (6.40%) Redis
9 50 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
10 47 (5.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 37 (4.31%) RDBMS
12 35 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
13 29 (3.38%) Apache Cassandra
13 29 (3.38%) Power BI
14 27 (3.14%) Data Lake
15 25 (2.91%) Big Data
16 24 (2.79%) Metadata
17 23 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (2.33%) Hadoop
19 18 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 199 (23.17%) Jenkins
2 171 (19.91%) Git
3 109 (12.69%) GitLab
4 91 (10.59%) JIRA
5 81 (9.43%) JUnit
6 43 (5.01%) Cucumber
7 42 (4.89%) Mockito
8 29 (3.38%) JMeter
9 23 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (2.56%) Maven
11 21 (2.44%) Gradle
12 19 (2.21%) Selenium
13 18 (2.10%) Liquibase
14 16 (1.86%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.40%) Cypress.io
15 12 (1.40%) Postman
15 12 (1.40%) WebDriver
16 11 (1.28%) ERwin
16 11 (1.28%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.93%) Artifactory
General
1 212 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 194 (22.58%) Finance
3 103 (11.99%) Public Sector
4 90 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (9.43%) Banking
6 26 (3.03%) Front Office
7 22 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.70%) Retail
14 5 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.58%) Marketing
15 4 (0.47%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.35%) Electronics
16 3 (0.35%) Games
16 3 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 347 (40.40%) Developer
2 143 (16.65%) Senior
3 107 (12.46%) Java Developer
4 86 (10.01%) Full-Stack Developer
5 84 (9.78%) Python Developer
6 75 (8.73%) Software Engineer
7 72 (8.38%) Data Engineer
8 68 (7.92%) Architect
9 64 (7.45%) Lead
10 57 (6.64%) Senior Developer
11 55 (6.40%) DBA
12 34 (3.96%) AWS Developer
12 34 (3.96%) Data Architect
12 34 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 33 (3.84%) Backend Developer
13 33 (3.84%) Senior Java Developer
14 32 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
16 30 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
16 30 (3.49%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (22.24%) Kafka
2 172 (20.02%) React
3 170 (19.79%) Spring
4 151 (17.58%) Node.js
5 142 (16.53%) REST
6 141 (16.41%) RESTful
7 126 (14.67%) Spring Boot
8 70 (8.15%) FastAPI
9 59 (6.87%) AngularJS
10 48 (5.59%) Hibernate
11 46 (5.36%) CSS
11 46 (5.36%) JSON
12 40 (4.66%) GraphQL
13 37 (4.31%) .NET
13 37 (4.31%) HTML
14 35 (4.07%) WireMock
15 34 (3.96%) Django
16 33 (3.84%) OpenTelemetry
17 30 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
18 28 (3.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 124 (14.44%) Cloud Native
2 84 (9.78%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.84%) Derivative
4 31 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 30 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.03%) Replication
7 23 (2.68%) Fixed Income
8 22 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.44%) Data Structures
9 21 (2.44%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (2.10%) Equities
11 18 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.86%) Market Risk
12 16 (1.86%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.63%) Clustering
13 14 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
14 13 (1.51%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 142 (16.53%) Linux
2 28 (3.26%) Windows
3 27 (3.14%) Unix
4 10 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.58%) VMS
6 4 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.47%) zOS
7 3 (0.35%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Solaris
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (47.15%) CI/CD
2 325 (37.83%) Agile
3 283 (32.95%) DevOps
4 226 (26.31%) Microservices
5 223 (25.96%) Containerisation
6 175 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
7 145 (16.88%) Software Engineering
8 138 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
8 138 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 132 (15.37%) Observability
10 114 (13.27%) Test Automation
11 107 (12.46%) Data Modelling
12 103 (11.99%) TDD
13 97 (11.29%) Migration
14 92 (10.71%) AI
14 92 (10.71%) ETL
14 92 (10.71%) Mentoring
15 85 (9.90%) Performance Tuning
16 82 (9.55%) Analytics
17 81 (9.43%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 404 (47.03%) Python
2 310 (36.09%) SQL
3 263 (30.62%) Java
4 145 (16.88%) JavaScript
5 140 (16.30%) TypeScript
6 69 (8.03%) Bash
7 67 (7.80%) Go
8 43 (5.01%) PowerShell
9 37 (4.31%) C#
10 19 (2.21%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.10%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.86%) PHP
13 13 (1.51%) Ruby
14 12 (1.40%) Scala
15 9 (1.05%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.81%) Groovy
16 7 (0.81%) JSX
17 6 (0.70%) Bicep
17 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.58%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 269 (31.32%) Security Cleared
2 220 (25.61%) SC Cleared
3 103 (11.99%) Degree
4 59 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.84%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 27 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.91%) Master's Degree
8 21 (2.44%) AWS Certification
9 17 (1.98%) OCP
9 17 (1.98%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.47%) CISSP
13 3 (0.35%) CISM
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.35%) PhD
13 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.42%) QA
3 20 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.75%) GDPR
5 8 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.81%) NCSC
6 7 (0.81%) NIST
7 6 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.70%) SLA
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.58%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.23%) HL7
10 2 (0.23%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 315 (36.67%) Docker
2 12 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.81%) Postfix
5 6 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.58%) HDFS
6 5 (0.58%) NDS
6 5 (0.58%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.47%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.23%) Lustre
9 2 (0.23%) NFS
9 2 (0.23%) Samba
9 2 (0.23%) Xen
9 2 (0.23%) zsh
10 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.12%) Squid
10 1 (0.12%) Varnish
10 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 321 (37.37%) Kubernetes
2 165 (19.21%) Terraform
3 135 (15.72%) Grafana
4 97 (11.29%) Prometheus
5 92 (10.71%) Ansible
6 25 (2.91%) Nessus
7 24 (2.79%) Control-M
7 24 (2.79%) IBM Guardium
8 23 (2.68%) Argo
8 23 (2.68%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.51%) Puppet
10 9 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (1.05%) Istio
11 7 (0.81%) Rancher
12 6 (0.70%) linkerd
13 5 (0.58%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.58%) Packer
14 3 (0.35%) Kibana
15 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
15 2 (0.23%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 142 (16.53%) Oracle
2 105 (12.22%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.89%) Splunk
4 39 (4.54%) Google
5 29 (3.38%) Red Hat
6 27 (3.14%) Databricks
7 26 (3.03%) VMware
8 25 (2.91%) Atlassian
8 25 (2.91%) Informatica
9 24 (2.79%) Tenable
10 16 (1.86%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.63%) Greenplum
11 14 (1.63%) Talend
12 13 (1.51%) ServiceNow
13 12 (1.40%) IBM
14 10 (1.16%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (0.93%) PagerDuty
16 6 (0.70%) Confluent
17 5 (0.58%) Cloudera
17 5 (0.58%) OpenAI