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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 121 157
Rank change year-on-year -21 +36 +25
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 756 669 680
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.11% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.01% 11.51% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 494 482
10th Percentile £363 £336 £401
25th Percentile £425 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £636
90th Percentile £700 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
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% +175.96%
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 - - +68.27%

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 6,295 5,810 7,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.65% 18.33% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,340 3,827 5,000
10th Percentile £336 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 84 166
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.26 £16.06
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £44.25 £30.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.56% -28.47% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.56 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.43 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.86 £27.50 £41.38
% change year-on-year +70.40% -33.53% -24.77%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -1 628 £520 -5.45% 573
London -15 344 £540 -6.09% 157
UK excluding London -36 316 £475 -5.00% 501
Work from Home -24 230 £500 -3.85% 352
North of England -8 119 £470 +1.62% 88
Midlands -8 72 £525 +5.00% 52
Yorkshire -4 66 £500 -16.67% 29
West Midlands 0 62 £540 +3.85% 22
South East -48 57 £433 -27.31% 167
North West -17 51 £450 +0.78% 48
South West +2 49 £550 -12.00% 69
Scotland -21 38 £450 -4.46% 35
East Midlands -24 10 £401 -19.80% 29
Northern Ireland +2 8 £400 - 10
East of England -17 2 - - 68
North East - 2 £463 - 12

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 (5.69%) Confluence
2 22 (2.91%) nginx
3 20 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.12%) Apache
6 14 (1.85%) SAS
7 6 (0.79%) Drupal
7 6 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (0.40%) Camunda
8 3 (0.40%) CICS
8 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.40%) WordPress
9 2 (0.26%) Traefik
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.13%) Appian
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 9 (1.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (1.06%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 473 (62.57%) AWS
2 231 (30.56%) Azure
3 176 (23.28%) GitHub
4 146 (19.31%) Serverless
5 138 (18.25%) GCP
6 105 (13.89%) Amazon S3
7 90 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
8 87 (11.51%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (6.88%) OpenShift
11 50 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
13 44 (5.82%) Power Platform
14 41 (5.42%) Snowflake
15 40 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
17 35 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 26 (3.44%) Azure AKS
18 26 (3.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 24 (3.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.84%) Firewall
2 24 (3.17%) DNS
3 19 (2.51%) HTTP
4 11 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.32%) SSH
6 9 (1.19%) FTP
6 9 (1.19%) IMAP
6 9 (1.19%) Kerberos
6 9 (1.19%) OpenLDAP
6 9 (1.19%) SMTP
7 5 (0.66%) SSL
7 5 (0.66%) VPN
8 4 (0.53%) Internet
9 2 (0.26%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.26%) LAN
9 2 (0.26%) WAN
10 1 (0.13%) DHCP
10 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.13%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (16.93%) Relational Database
2 124 (16.40%) NoSQL
3 114 (15.08%) MySQL
4 104 (13.76%) SQL Server
5 96 (12.70%) MongoDB
6 72 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
7 65 (8.60%) Redis
8 61 (8.07%) Amazon Aurora
9 52 (6.88%) DynamoDB
10 37 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (4.89%) RDBMS
11 36 (4.76%) Power BI
12 32 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (3.04%) Apache Cassandra
14 19 (2.51%) Data Lake
15 18 (2.38%) Big Data
15 18 (2.38%) BigQuery
16 17 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (2.25%) DB2
16 17 (2.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 174 (23.02%) Jenkins
2 155 (20.50%) Git
3 93 (12.30%) GitLab
4 69 (9.13%) JIRA
5 55 (7.28%) JUnit
6 31 (4.10%) Cucumber
6 31 (4.10%) Mockito
7 25 (3.31%) Gradle
8 23 (3.04%) Sonatype Nexus
9 20 (2.65%) Liquibase
10 18 (2.38%) Cypress.io
11 16 (2.12%) JMeter
11 16 (2.12%) Maven
12 15 (1.98%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.72%) Postman
14 11 (1.46%) ERwin
15 10 (1.32%) SonarQube
16 9 (1.19%) Vagrant
17 8 (1.06%) Artifactory
17 8 (1.06%) DBeaver
General
1 196 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 150 (19.84%) Finance
3 103 (13.62%) Public Sector
4 76 (10.05%) Banking
5 74 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.91%) Investment Banking
7 18 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.72%) Front Office
8 13 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.59%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.79%) Marketing
11 6 (0.79%) Retail
12 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.53%) Legal
13 4 (0.53%) Local Government
13 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.40%) Games
14 3 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 290 (38.36%) Developer
2 120 (15.87%) Senior
3 90 (11.90%) Java Developer
4 66 (8.73%) Data Engineer
5 65 (8.60%) Full-Stack Developer
6 60 (7.94%) Architect
7 56 (7.41%) Python Developer
8 55 (7.28%) Senior Developer
9 54 (7.14%) Software Engineer
10 43 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
11 42 (5.56%) AWS Developer
12 41 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
13 40 (5.29%) DBA
14 32 (4.23%) Lead
15 31 (4.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 30 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
17 29 (3.84%) Backend Developer
17 29 (3.84%) Data Architect
18 26 (3.44%) Python Engineer
19 25 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (22.22%) Kafka
2 137 (18.12%) React
3 132 (17.46%) Spring
4 128 (16.93%) RESTful
5 119 (15.74%) Node.js
6 111 (14.68%) REST
7 109 (14.42%) Spring Boot
8 52 (6.88%) CSS
9 45 (5.95%) GraphQL
10 41 (5.42%) AngularJS
10 41 (5.42%) FastAPI
10 41 (5.42%) HTML
11 40 (5.29%) Hibernate
12 38 (5.03%) JSON
13 33 (4.37%) .NET
14 32 (4.23%) Django
14 32 (4.23%) Vue
15 30 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (3.84%) Keycloak
17 27 (3.57%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 114 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.03%) Replication
4 28 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.38%) Derivative
7 18 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.25%) Market Risk
9 16 (2.12%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.59%) Clustering
11 10 (1.32%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.32%) Fixed Income
12 7 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.93%) N-Tier
13 6 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 136 (17.99%) Linux
2 33 (4.37%) Windows
3 25 (3.31%) Unix
4 12 (1.59%) Amazon Linux
4 12 (1.59%) VMS
5 10 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.66%) zOS
7 3 (0.40%) Solaris
7 3 (0.40%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.13%) MVS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (46.69%) CI/CD
2 257 (33.99%) DevOps
3 254 (33.60%) Agile
4 195 (25.79%) Containerisation
5 190 (25.13%) Microservices
6 154 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 114 (15.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 113 (14.95%) Software Engineering
10 109 (14.42%) Observability
11 100 (13.23%) Test Automation
12 92 (12.17%) TDD
13 85 (11.24%) Data Modelling
13 85 (11.24%) Migration
14 84 (11.11%) ETL
15 75 (9.92%) Performance Tuning
16 73 (9.66%) AI
17 68 (8.99%) Analytics
18 65 (8.60%) Data Pipeline
19 64 (8.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 368 (48.68%) Python
2 304 (40.21%) SQL
3 233 (30.82%) Java
4 120 (15.87%) JavaScript
5 114 (15.08%) TypeScript
6 80 (10.58%) Bash
7 70 (9.26%) Go
8 43 (5.69%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.84%) C#
10 19 (2.51%) Groovy
10 19 (2.51%) PHP
11 17 (2.25%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.72%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.59%) Ruby
14 11 (1.46%) Scala
15 9 (1.19%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.93%) Bicep
16 7 (0.93%) JSX
17 6 (0.79%) VBA
18 5 (0.66%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 227 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 182 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 88 (11.64%) Degree
4 58 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.97%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.84%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.57%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.38%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.72%) OCP
10 13 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.66%) MCP
13 4 (0.53%) HND
14 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.13%) CCSM
15 1 (0.13%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.82%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.76%) QA
3 20 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.85%) GDPR
5 8 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.93%) NCSC
6 7 (0.93%) SLA
7 5 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.66%) NIST
8 4 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.53%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 284 (37.57%) Docker
2 12 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.19%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.19%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.19%) Postfix
3 9 (1.19%) Squid
4 7 (0.93%) zsh
5 6 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.66%) NDS
6 5 (0.66%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.40%) KVM
8 3 (0.40%) NFS
8 3 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.40%) Xen
9 2 (0.26%) HDFS
9 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.26%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 292 (38.62%) Kubernetes
2 176 (23.28%) Terraform
3 110 (14.55%) Grafana
4 91 (12.04%) Ansible
5 80 (10.58%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.44%) Argo
7 23 (3.04%) Progress Chef
8 21 (2.78%) Nessus
9 16 (2.12%) Puppet
10 12 (1.59%) Control-M
10 12 (1.59%) IBM Guardium
11 9 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (1.19%) Istio
11 9 (1.19%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.79%) linkerd
13 5 (0.66%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.66%) Packer
13 5 (0.66%) Rancher
14 3 (0.40%) Kibana
14 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (15.87%) Oracle
2 87 (11.51%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.95%) Splunk
4 42 (5.56%) Google
5 29 (3.84%) Databricks
6 27 (3.57%) VMware
7 24 (3.17%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.51%) Atlassian
9 18 (2.38%) ServiceNow
10 16 (2.12%) Dynatrace
10 16 (2.12%) Informatica
11 14 (1.85%) Greenplum
12 12 (1.59%) Tenable
13 10 (1.32%) IBM
14 9 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (1.06%) PagerDuty
16 6 (0.79%) Gigya
17 5 (0.66%) Confluent
17 5 (0.66%) SAP
17 5 (0.66%) Talend