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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 116 141
Rank change year-on-year -40 +25 +13
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 789 678 716
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.64% 2.32% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.86% 12.24% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 501 529
10th Percentile £362 £400 £374
25th Percentile £417 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £800 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £490 £483
% change year-on-year -8.16% +1.45% -0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £39.00 - £34.05
25th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -13.33% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.90 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +261.01%

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 7,262 5,538 7,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 18.99% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 3,800 5,234
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £475
% change year-on-year -1.86% +1.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 98 148
10th Percentile £15.39 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.99 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.27 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.72% -13.56% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.19 £65.90 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.86 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.90 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +45.07% -20.90% -29.08%

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 20 May 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 20 May 2026.

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 20 May 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 -48 661 £508 -7.73% 255
UK excluding London -5 361 £450 -8.16% 126
London -35 339 £550 -8.33% 153
Work from Home -57 251 £500 -9.26% 142
North of England -21 130 £450 -5.26% 38
Midlands -3 94 £450 -10.89% 16
West Midlands -9 67 £455 -14.65% 6
North West -27 67 £450 -5.26% 27
South East -45 64 £461 -0.97% 37
Yorkshire -25 52 £474 -5.25% 6
Scotland +1 50 £425 -10.15% 6
East Midlands -11 25 £428 -14.50% 10
South West -39 20 £606 -3.04% 14
North East -18 10 £425 -8.60% 5
East of England -33 10 £575 +27.78% 11
Northern Ireland -4 1 £400 -20.00% 3
Wales -11 1 - - 4

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 (5.83%) Confluence
2 42 (5.32%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.66%) Apache
5 11 (1.39%) nginx
6 8 (1.01%) Camunda
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.38%) Appian
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.63%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 443 (56.15%) AWS
2 247 (31.31%) Azure
3 131 (16.60%) GitHub
4 123 (15.59%) GCP
5 97 (12.29%) Serverless
6 96 (12.17%) Amazon S3
7 84 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 45 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (5.07%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (4.06%) Power Platform
15 30 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.68%) Snowflake
17 28 (3.55%) OpenShift
17 28 (3.55%) Route 53
18 25 (3.17%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.28%) Firewall
2 16 (2.03%) DNS
3 7 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.76%) HTTP
5 4 (0.51%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.51%) SSH
5 4 (0.51%) VPN
5 4 (0.51%) WAN
6 3 (0.38%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.38%) SAN
6 3 (0.38%) SSL
7 2 (0.25%) LAN
7 2 (0.25%) MQTT
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Network Security
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) Internet
8 1 (0.13%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (18.63%) SQL Server
2 142 (18.00%) MongoDB
3 137 (17.36%) Relational Database
4 131 (16.60%) NoSQL
5 108 (13.69%) MySQL
6 66 (8.37%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (7.98%) Amazon Aurora
8 60 (7.60%) DynamoDB
9 49 (6.21%) Redis
10 36 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (4.18%) Big Data
12 30 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
13 28 (3.55%) RDBMS
14 26 (3.30%) Power BI
15 25 (3.17%) Data Lake
16 21 (2.66%) Tableau
17 20 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
17 20 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
17 20 (2.53%) Metadata
18 19 (2.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 159 (20.15%) Jenkins
2 145 (18.38%) Git
3 79 (10.01%) GitLab
4 77 (9.76%) JIRA
5 74 (9.38%) JUnit
6 53 (6.72%) Mockito
7 35 (4.44%) Maven
8 24 (3.04%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.92%) Gradle
10 21 (2.66%) SonarQube
11 20 (2.53%) JMeter
11 20 (2.53%) Selenium
12 16 (2.03%) Liquibase
12 16 (2.03%) WebDriver
13 14 (1.77%) DbUnit
14 13 (1.65%) Gatling
14 13 (1.65%) jMock
15 11 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
16 7 (0.89%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.89%) ERwin
General
1 162 (20.53%) Social Skills
2 159 (20.15%) Finance
3 100 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 79 (10.01%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.84%) Banking
6 25 (3.17%) Front Office
7 14 (1.77%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.14%) Law
11 8 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.89%) Legal
13 5 (0.63%) Automotive
13 5 (0.63%) Retail
14 4 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.51%) Military
15 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.25%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 303 (38.40%) Developer
2 138 (17.49%) Senior
3 90 (11.41%) Java Developer
4 81 (10.27%) Software Engineer
5 78 (9.89%) Python Developer
6 71 (9.00%) Data Engineer
6 71 (9.00%) DBA
6 71 (9.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 67 (8.49%) Architect
8 56 (7.10%) Lead
9 54 (6.84%) Senior Developer
10 36 (4.56%) Java Engineer
11 34 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (4.31%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 28 (3.55%) Administrator
13 27 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 27 (3.42%) Lead Developer
13 27 (3.42%) Senior Java Developer
13 27 (3.42%) Software Developer
14 25 (3.17%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (24.33%) Kafka
2 176 (22.31%) Spring
3 157 (19.90%) React
4 140 (17.74%) RESTful
5 137 (17.36%) Spring Boot
6 134 (16.98%) REST
7 116 (14.70%) Node.js
8 65 (8.24%) FastAPI
9 60 (7.60%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.32%) .NET
11 40 (5.07%) GraphQL
12 38 (4.82%) Hibernate
12 38 (4.82%) JPA
13 35 (4.44%) JSON
13 35 (4.44%) WireMock
14 34 (4.31%) HTML
14 34 (4.31%) Web Services
15 32 (4.06%) CSS
15 32 (4.06%) Django
16 31 (3.93%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 112 (14.20%) Cloud Native
2 87 (11.03%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.68%) Derivative
5 26 (3.30%) Data Structures
6 25 (3.17%) Replication
7 23 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (2.79%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.66%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (2.53%) Equities
11 17 (2.15%) Onboarding
12 16 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
13 10 (1.27%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.01%) Market Risk
15 8 (1.01%) PACS
15 8 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 116 (14.70%) Linux
2 34 (4.31%) Unix
3 27 (3.42%) Windows
4 15 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.51%) zOS
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Solaris
7 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (44.11%) CI/CD
2 290 (36.76%) Agile
3 246 (31.18%) DevOps
4 215 (27.25%) Microservices
5 192 (24.33%) Containerisation
6 150 (19.01%) Software Engineering
7 134 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
8 131 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (14.96%) Observability
10 117 (14.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 111 (14.07%) Data Modelling
12 109 (13.81%) Test Automation
13 105 (13.31%) TDD
14 96 (12.17%) AI
14 96 (12.17%) Migration
15 93 (11.79%) Performance Tuning
16 78 (9.89%) Event-Driven
16 78 (9.89%) Mentoring
17 75 (9.51%) ETL
18 73 (9.25%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 337 (42.71%) Python
2 296 (37.52%) SQL
3 282 (35.74%) Java
4 132 (16.73%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.70%) JavaScript
6 51 (6.46%) Bash
7 46 (5.83%) C#
8 45 (5.70%) PowerShell
9 32 (4.06%) Go
9 32 (4.06%) Scala
10 21 (2.66%) PL/SQL
11 20 (2.53%) Shell Script
12 16 (2.03%) PHP
13 10 (1.27%) Bicep
13 10 (1.27%) Groovy
14 9 (1.14%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.01%) Ruby
16 6 (0.76%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.63%) Perl
17 5 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 254 (32.19%) Security Cleared
2 208 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.48%) Degree
4 34 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.76%) CISSP
11 6 (0.76%) OCP
12 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.51%) CISM
14 3 (0.38%) PhD
14 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.59%) QA
2 42 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.27%) GDPR
4 10 (1.27%) SLA
4 10 (1.27%) WCAG
5 7 (0.89%) ISO 20022
5 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.89%) NIST
6 6 (0.76%) NCSC
6 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.25%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 286 (36.25%) Docker
2 11 (1.39%) Postfix
3 9 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.63%) Ceph
6 4 (0.51%) HDFS
7 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.25%) NFS
8 2 (0.25%) Samba
8 2 (0.25%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Xen
9 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) KVM
9 1 (0.13%) RACF
9 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 249 (31.56%) Kubernetes
2 132 (16.73%) Terraform
3 125 (15.84%) Grafana
4 86 (10.90%) Prometheus
5 54 (6.84%) Ansible
6 16 (2.03%) Control-M
6 16 (2.03%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.03%) Nessus
7 14 (1.77%) Argo
8 13 (1.65%) Kibana
9 12 (1.52%) HAProxy
10 11 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (1.27%) Data Guard
12 8 (1.01%) Istio
12 8 (1.01%) Rancher
13 5 (0.63%) linkerd
14 4 (0.51%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.51%) Puppet
15 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
16 1 (0.13%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 141 (17.87%) Oracle
2 96 (12.17%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.31%) Databricks
4 28 (3.55%) Splunk
5 24 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.66%) Informatica
7 20 (2.53%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.41%) Google
9 18 (2.28%) Atlassian
10 17 (2.15%) Jaspersoft
11 16 (2.03%) Tenable
12 14 (1.77%) Talend
13 13 (1.65%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.65%) VMware
14 12 (1.52%) Salesforce
15 10 (1.27%) Confluent
16 9 (1.14%) IBM
17 8 (1.01%) OpenAI
18 7 (0.89%) Greenplum
19 5 (0.63%) Sybase