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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 121 157
Rank change year-on-year -18 +36 +21
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 822 668 701
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.99% 2.19% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.20% 11.74% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 501 493
10th Percentile £361 £356 £407
25th Percentile £418 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -0.19%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £477 £506
% change year-on-year -2.52% -5.73% +3.00%
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 6,735 5,690 7,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.31% 18.68% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,645 3,833 5,098
10th Percentile £342 £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 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 92 167
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.96
25th Percentile £28.93 £25.21 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.25 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.63% -9.87% -22.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.48 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -25.00% -27.27%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -13 684 £516 -5.71% 291
UK excluding London -15 365 £465 -2.52% 212
London -21 354 £550 -4.35% 133
Work from Home -28 264 £500 -4.76% 171
North of England -20 124 £463 - 63
Midlands +1 97 £500 - 30
West Midlands +3 83 £500 -0.50% 24
Yorkshire -12 74 £475 -20.83% 15
South East -29 69 £435 -2.52% 51
Scotland +2 47 £450 -3.23% 20
South West -13 46 £550 -12.00% 29
North West -38 45 £450 -0.61% 36
East Midlands -28 13 £401 -19.80% 6
Northern Ireland +3 7 £400 - 2
East of England -24 5 £588 +30.56% 14
North East -13 4 £463 +0.27% 13

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 55 (6.69%) Confluence
2 22 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.31%) nginx
4 18 (2.19%) Apache
5 14 (1.70%) SAS
6 5 (0.61%) Drupal
7 4 (0.49%) Camunda
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.24%) Appian
9 2 (0.24%) JBoss
9 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.24%) Traefik
9 2 (0.24%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
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
1 494 (60.10%) AWS
2 259 (31.51%) Azure
3 185 (22.51%) GitHub
4 157 (19.10%) GCP
5 127 (15.45%) Serverless
6 110 (13.38%) Amazon S3
7 102 (12.41%) GitHub Actions
8 71 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (6.57%) OpenShift
10 48 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (5.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (5.11%) Snowflake
13 40 (4.87%) Power Platform
14 39 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
16 37 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
17 36 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 29 (3.53%) Azure AKS
19 26 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
20 25 (3.04%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.92%) Firewall
2 17 (2.07%) DNS
3 15 (1.82%) HTTP
4 11 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.09%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.61%) SSL
6 5 (0.61%) VPN
7 4 (0.49%) Internet
7 4 (0.49%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.49%) SSH
8 3 (0.36%) FTP
8 3 (0.36%) IMAP
8 3 (0.36%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.36%) SAN
8 3 (0.36%) SMTP
9 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.24%) LAN
9 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (15.57%) Relational Database
2 126 (15.33%) NoSQL
2 126 (15.33%) SQL Server
3 124 (15.09%) MySQL
4 108 (13.14%) MongoDB
5 68 (8.27%) Amazon RDS
6 59 (7.18%) DynamoDB
7 56 (6.81%) Redis
8 48 (5.84%) Amazon Aurora
9 45 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
11 32 (3.89%) Power BI
11 32 (3.89%) RDBMS
12 26 (3.16%) Data Lake
13 24 (2.92%) Apache Cassandra
14 23 (2.80%) Big Data
14 23 (2.80%) Metadata
15 21 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (2.31%) Hadoop
17 18 (2.19%) DB2
Development Applications
1 189 (22.99%) Jenkins
2 162 (19.71%) Git
3 103 (12.53%) GitLab
4 88 (10.71%) JIRA
5 75 (9.12%) JUnit
6 40 (4.87%) Cucumber
7 39 (4.74%) Mockito
8 25 (3.04%) JMeter
9 23 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (2.68%) Maven
11 21 (2.55%) Gradle
12 17 (2.07%) Liquibase
13 16 (1.95%) Bitbucket
13 16 (1.95%) Selenium
14 12 (1.46%) Cypress.io
14 12 (1.46%) Postman
15 11 (1.34%) SonarQube
16 10 (1.22%) ERwin
17 9 (1.09%) WebDriver
18 8 (0.97%) Artifactory
General
1 207 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 181 (22.02%) Finance
3 101 (12.29%) Public Sector
4 86 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (9.49%) Banking
6 24 (2.92%) Front Office
7 23 (2.80%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.58%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.73%) Retail
14 5 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.61%) Marketing
15 3 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.36%) Electronics
15 3 (0.36%) Games
15 3 (0.36%) Law
15 3 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 338 (41.12%) Developer
2 137 (16.67%) Senior
3 104 (12.65%) Java Developer
4 81 (9.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 78 (9.49%) Python Developer
6 70 (8.52%) Software Engineer
7 69 (8.39%) Data Engineer
8 62 (7.54%) Architect
9 59 (7.18%) Senior Developer
10 56 (6.81%) Lead
11 47 (5.72%) DBA
12 37 (4.50%) AWS Developer
13 35 (4.26%) Data Architect
13 35 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (4.14%) Senior Java Developer
15 33 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
16 32 (3.89%) Backend Developer
17 31 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 31 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
18 26 (3.16%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (21.78%) Kafka
2 159 (19.34%) Spring
3 158 (19.22%) React
4 140 (17.03%) Node.js
5 135 (16.42%) RESTful
6 129 (15.69%) REST
7 118 (14.36%) Spring Boot
8 62 (7.54%) FastAPI
9 55 (6.69%) AngularJS
10 48 (5.84%) Hibernate
11 46 (5.60%) CSS
12 42 (5.11%) JSON
13 40 (4.87%) GraphQL
14 36 (4.38%) .NET
14 36 (4.38%) HTML
15 32 (3.89%) WireMock
16 31 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
17 30 (3.65%) Django
17 30 (3.65%) Vue
18 28 (3.41%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 122 (14.84%) Cloud Native
2 77 (9.37%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.65%) Derivative
5 28 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.16%) Replication
7 21 (2.55%) Fixed Income
8 20 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.43%) Data Structures
9 19 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (2.07%) Market Risk
12 16 (1.95%) Equities
12 16 (1.95%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (1.58%) Algorithms
15 12 (1.46%) Clustering
16 11 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
17 7 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 147 (17.88%) Linux
2 30 (3.65%) Windows
3 27 (3.28%) Unix
4 10 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.85%) VMS
6 6 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.49%) zOS
9 3 (0.36%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Solaris
10 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (47.32%) CI/CD
2 302 (36.74%) Agile
3 273 (33.21%) DevOps
4 217 (26.40%) Containerisation
5 209 (25.43%) Microservices
6 169 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (16.91%) Software Engineering
8 138 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 129 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 128 (15.57%) Observability
11 106 (12.90%) Test Automation
12 99 (12.04%) Data Modelling
13 96 (11.68%) TDD
14 92 (11.19%) Migration
15 89 (10.83%) ETL
16 84 (10.22%) Analytics
17 83 (10.10%) AI
17 83 (10.10%) Performance Tuning
18 80 (9.73%) Mentoring
19 79 (9.61%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 390 (47.45%) Python
2 307 (37.35%) SQL
3 252 (30.66%) Java
4 140 (17.03%) JavaScript
5 129 (15.69%) TypeScript
6 70 (8.52%) Bash
7 65 (7.91%) Go
8 43 (5.23%) PowerShell
9 36 (4.38%) C#
10 19 (2.31%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.19%) PHP
12 16 (1.95%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.58%) Ruby
14 11 (1.34%) Scala
15 9 (1.09%) Groovy
16 8 (0.97%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.85%) JSX
18 6 (0.73%) Bicep
19 5 (0.61%) Delphi
20 4 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 265 (32.24%) Security Cleared
2 221 (26.89%) SC Cleared
3 101 (12.29%) Degree
4 58 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.41%) Azure Certification
7 25 (3.04%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.80%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.07%) OCP
10 17 (2.07%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.49%) CISSP
14 3 (0.36%) CISM
14 3 (0.36%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.50%) QA
3 17 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.82%) GDPR
5 8 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.85%) NCSC
6 7 (0.85%) NIST
7 6 (0.73%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.73%) SLA
8 5 (0.61%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.49%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 299 (36.37%) Docker
2 11 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.09%) Postfix
3 9 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.61%) HDFS
4 5 (0.61%) NDS
4 5 (0.61%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 5 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.49%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.49%) zsh
6 3 (0.36%) DFS Replication
6 3 (0.36%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.36%) Squid
7 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.24%) Lustre
7 2 (0.24%) NFS
7 2 (0.24%) Samba
7 2 (0.24%) Xen
8 1 (0.12%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 304 (36.98%) Kubernetes
2 165 (20.07%) Terraform
3 132 (16.06%) Grafana
4 95 (11.56%) Prometheus
5 92 (11.19%) Ansible
6 26 (3.16%) Nessus
7 23 (2.80%) Argo
7 23 (2.80%) Control-M
7 23 (2.80%) IBM Guardium
7 23 (2.80%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.58%) Puppet
9 9 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.09%) Istio
10 6 (0.73%) linkerd
11 5 (0.61%) Packer
11 5 (0.61%) Rancher
12 4 (0.49%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.36%) Kibana
13 3 (0.36%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 133 (16.18%) Oracle
2 101 (12.29%) Microsoft
3 43 (5.23%) Splunk
4 39 (4.74%) Google
5 29 (3.53%) Databricks
5 29 (3.53%) Red Hat
6 25 (3.04%) Atlassian
6 25 (3.04%) Informatica
6 25 (3.04%) VMware
7 23 (2.80%) Tenable
8 16 (1.95%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.82%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.70%) Greenplum
10 14 (1.70%) Talend
11 12 (1.46%) IBM
11 12 (1.46%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (0.97%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.61%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.61%) Confluent
13 5 (0.61%) Salesforce