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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 121 153
Rank change year-on-year -21 +32 -4
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 832 670 692
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.86% 2.31% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.69% 12.21% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 504 487
10th Percentile £358 £380 £385
25th Percentile £413 £430 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +1.69%
75th Percentile £585 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% -4.60% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile £39.50 £44.95 £31.35
25th Percentile £42.50 £47.88 £36.75
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -19.40% +197.98%
75th Percentile £69.33 £61.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £65.05 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £54.25
% change year-on-year - - +97.27%

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 7,115 5,488 7,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.93% 18.90% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,895 3,814 5,164
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £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 £759 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £488
% change year-on-year -2.06% -0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 100 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.72 £14.04
25th Percentile £32.19 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.75 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.56% -20.90% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.63 £55.94
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £29.80 £39.25
% change year-on-year +67.79% -24.08% -28.64%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -29 689 £500 -5.97% 288
UK excluding London -8 398 £450 -5.66% 175
London -43 333 £550 -4.35% 152
Work from Home -27 269 £484 -9.23% 201
North of England -21 152 £458 -3.68% 57
Midlands 0 105 £475 -3.06% 18
West Midlands +6 87 £478 -1.14% 8
South East -32 75 £433 +0.87% 48
Yorkshire -17 71 £488 -11.36% 19
North West -25 71 £434 -6.16% 33
Scotland +20 51 £425 -7.61% 12
South West -26 28 £606 -6.77% 20
East Midlands -24 17 £400 -20.00% 10
North East -8 9 £425 -8.60% 6
East of England -32 8 £575 +27.78% 14
Northern Ireland +3 6 £400 -20.00%

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 53 (6.37%) Confluence
2 25 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.28%) Apache
5 16 (1.92%) nginx
6 10 (1.20%) SAS
7 7 (0.84%) Camunda
8 5 (0.60%) Drupal
8 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.36%) Appian
9 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) CPLEX
3 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 505 (60.70%) AWS
2 255 (30.65%) Azure
3 174 (20.91%) GitHub
4 148 (17.79%) GCP
5 130 (15.63%) Serverless
6 105 (12.62%) Amazon S3
7 101 (12.14%) GitHub Actions
8 74 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (4.57%) OpenShift
13 35 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (3.97%) Snowflake
15 32 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (3.73%) Power Platform
17 29 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
18 23 (2.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 23 (2.76%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.40%) Firewall
2 18 (2.16%) DNS
3 9 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.96%) HTTP
4 8 (0.96%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.60%) SSL
5 5 (0.60%) VPN
6 4 (0.48%) Internet
6 4 (0.48%) iSCSI
6 4 (0.48%) SSH
6 4 (0.48%) WAN
7 3 (0.36%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.36%) SAN
8 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.24%) LAN
8 2 (0.24%) NaaS
8 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) DHCP
9 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (18.03%) NoSQL
2 139 (16.71%) Relational Database
3 135 (16.23%) SQL Server
4 134 (16.11%) MongoDB
5 127 (15.26%) MySQL
6 69 (8.29%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (7.33%) DynamoDB
8 51 (6.13%) Redis
9 44 (5.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
12 34 (4.09%) RDBMS
13 26 (3.13%) Data Lake
14 25 (3.00%) Power BI
15 23 (2.76%) Big Data
15 23 (2.76%) Metadata
16 22 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
18 19 (2.28%) Oracle Database
19 18 (2.16%) DB2
Development Applications
1 184 (22.12%) Jenkins
2 162 (19.47%) Git
3 105 (12.62%) GitLab
4 82 (9.86%) JUnit
5 81 (9.74%) JIRA
6 44 (5.29%) Mockito
7 37 (4.45%) Cucumber
8 28 (3.37%) JMeter
9 26 (3.13%) Maven
10 24 (2.88%) Liquibase
11 23 (2.76%) Gradle
12 20 (2.40%) Selenium
13 16 (1.92%) Bitbucket
13 16 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
13 16 (1.92%) WebDriver
14 13 (1.56%) SonarQube
15 12 (1.44%) ERwin
16 10 (1.20%) Cypress.io
17 9 (1.08%) Artifactory
18 8 (0.96%) Gatling
General
1 200 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 180 (21.63%) Finance
3 101 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 75 (9.01%) Banking
5 68 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.00%) Front Office
7 18 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.72%) Law
12 6 (0.72%) Legal
12 6 (0.72%) Retail
13 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.48%) Automotive
14 4 (0.48%) Marketing
15 3 (0.36%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 320 (38.46%) Developer
2 144 (17.31%) Senior
3 99 (11.90%) Java Developer
4 80 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 78 (9.38%) Python Developer
6 77 (9.25%) Software Engineer
7 69 (8.29%) Data Engineer
8 68 (8.17%) DBA
9 61 (7.33%) Architect
10 53 (6.37%) Lead
11 52 (6.25%) Senior Developer
12 34 (4.09%) Administrator
12 34 (4.09%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 31 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
14 30 (3.61%) Java Engineer
14 30 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
14 30 (3.61%) Senior Java Developer
15 28 (3.37%) Backend Developer
15 28 (3.37%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (22.96%) Kafka
2 169 (20.31%) Spring
3 157 (18.87%) React
4 153 (18.39%) RESTful
5 143 (17.19%) REST
6 133 (15.99%) Node.js
7 131 (15.75%) Spring Boot
8 59 (7.09%) FastAPI
9 56 (6.73%) AngularJS
10 43 (5.17%) Hibernate
11 42 (5.05%) JSON
12 40 (4.81%) WireMock
13 38 (4.57%) GraphQL
14 35 (4.21%) .NET
15 32 (3.85%) CSS
16 31 (3.73%) Django
17 29 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
17 29 (3.49%) JPA
18 28 (3.37%) OAuth
18 28 (3.37%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 117 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 92 (11.06%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.73%) Derivative
5 28 (3.37%) Management Information System
6 25 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.64%) Fixed Income
8 20 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.40%) Replication
9 19 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 18 (2.16%) Equities
11 17 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.92%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.68%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.56%) Market Risk
15 11 (1.32%) Clustering
16 8 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 142 (17.07%) Linux
2 28 (3.37%) Unix
3 27 (3.25%) Windows
4 12 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.48%) zOS
7 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.36%) Android
7 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) Solaris
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (46.03%) CI/CD
2 313 (37.62%) Agile
3 275 (33.05%) DevOps
4 227 (27.28%) Microservices
5 208 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 149 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
7 141 (16.95%) Software Engineering
8 140 (16.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 131 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 115 (13.82%) Observability
11 111 (13.34%) Data Modelling
12 108 (12.98%) Test Automation
13 102 (12.26%) TDD
14 94 (11.30%) Migration
15 88 (10.58%) ETL
16 87 (10.46%) AI
17 84 (10.10%) Performance Tuning
18 81 (9.74%) Mentoring
19 80 (9.62%) Event-Driven
20 78 (9.38%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 359 (43.15%) Python
2 308 (37.02%) SQL
3 267 (32.09%) Java
4 125 (15.02%) TypeScript
5 112 (13.46%) JavaScript
6 69 (8.29%) Bash
7 60 (7.21%) Go
8 41 (4.93%) PowerShell
9 36 (4.33%) C#
10 19 (2.28%) Scala
10 19 (2.28%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.16%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.56%) PHP
13 11 (1.32%) Ruby
14 9 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.96%) Bicep
16 7 (0.84%) Groovy
17 6 (0.72%) JSX
18 5 (0.60%) Delphi
18 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 268 (32.21%) Security Cleared
2 212 (25.48%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.70%) Degree
4 48 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (3.00%) Master's Degree
8 20 (2.40%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.56%) OCP
11 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.60%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) 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%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.17%) QA
3 21 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.44%) GDPR
5 8 (0.96%) SLA
6 7 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.84%) NCSC
6 7 (0.84%) NIST
6 7 (0.84%) WCAG
7 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.24%) HL7
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 301 (36.18%) Docker
2 11 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (0.84%) Postfix
5 5 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.60%) Ceph
5 5 (0.60%) HDFS
6 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) NFS
7 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.24%) Lustre
7 2 (0.24%) NDS
7 2 (0.24%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 2 (0.24%) Samba
7 2 (0.24%) Squid
7 2 (0.24%) Xen
8 1 (0.12%) iptables
8 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 290 (34.86%) Kubernetes
2 160 (19.23%) Terraform
3 125 (15.02%) Grafana
4 91 (10.94%) Prometheus
5 87 (10.46%) Ansible
6 15 (1.80%) Argo
6 15 (1.80%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.68%) Control-M
7 14 (1.68%) IBM Guardium
7 14 (1.68%) Nessus
8 9 (1.08%) Puppet
8 9 (1.08%) Rancher
9 8 (0.96%) Istio
10 7 (0.84%) Data Guard
10 7 (0.84%) HAProxy
10 7 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.72%) linkerd
12 5 (0.60%) Packer
13 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 150 (18.03%) Oracle
2 102 (12.26%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.93%) Splunk
4 30 (3.61%) Databricks
4 30 (3.61%) Google
5 23 (2.76%) Red Hat
5 23 (2.76%) VMware
6 22 (2.64%) Atlassian
6 22 (2.64%) Informatica
7 17 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.92%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.68%) Tenable
10 13 (1.56%) Talend
11 12 (1.44%) IBM
12 10 (1.20%) Greenplum
12 10 (1.20%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (1.08%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.96%) PagerDuty
15 6 (0.72%) Confluent
16 5 (0.60%) OpenAI