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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 112 124
Rank change year-on-year -70 +12 +57
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 869 797 723
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.41% 1.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.67% 13.28% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 588 544
10th Percentile £354 £375 £333
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +0.53% -0.52%
75th Percentile £598 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £838 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -1.95% +2.63% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £24.88 - -
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -62.50% +22.00%
75th Percentile £63.06 £56.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.08% -18.75% +28.93%

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 8,143 6,000 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.83% 18.17% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,419 4,004 4,561
10th Percentile £352 £339 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 85 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.58 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.36 £38.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +10.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £33.88 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.11% +12.93% -42.86%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -82 689 £513 -5.09% 1,138
London -54 393 £525 -12.50% 793
UK excluding London -83 315 £478 -1.95% 437
Work from Home -61 286 £500 -16.67% 489
North of England -78 91 £520 +4.00% 116
Midlands -37 69 £447 -10.60% 49
South East -53 59 £460 +5.75% 103
Yorkshire -36 49 £500 - 38
West Midlands -48 48 £448 -10.50% 33
Scotland -28 44 £450 -5.26% 47
North West -46 37 £525 +10.53% 64
South West -46 35 £700 +27.27% 38
East Midlands -10 20 £425 -17.48% 16
East of England -11 20 £475 - 46
North East -49 5 £500 -14.89% 19
Wales -11 4 - - 14

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 36 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
1 36 (4.14%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.91%) Confluence
3 31 (3.57%) Apache
4 10 (1.15%) nginx
5 7 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
6 6 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) IIS
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) SAS
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (0.69%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.23%) Finacle
3 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 463 (53.28%) AWS
2 292 (33.60%) Azure
3 170 (19.56%) GitHub
4 140 (16.11%) GCP
5 118 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
6 97 (11.16%) Amazon S3
7 92 (10.59%) Serverless
8 71 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (7.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
10 55 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (5.52%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (4.37%) Snowflake
13 34 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 34 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (3.22%) AWS KMS
15 21 (2.42%) Azure AKS
16 20 (2.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.53%) DNS
2 19 (2.19%) Firewall
3 18 (2.07%) HTTP
3 18 (2.07%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.96%) SSH
5 9 (1.04%) Kerberos
6 8 (0.92%) HTTPS
6 8 (0.92%) SAN
6 8 (0.92%) VPN
7 6 (0.69%) 5G
8 5 (0.58%) 4G
8 5 (0.58%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.58%) SSL
9 3 (0.35%) Network Security
9 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) IMAP
10 2 (0.23%) MQTT
10 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (21.40%) SQL Server
2 182 (20.94%) MySQL
3 177 (20.37%) Relational Database
4 175 (20.14%) MongoDB
5 109 (12.54%) Redis
6 103 (11.85%) NoSQL
7 96 (11.05%) Amazon RDS
8 87 (10.01%) Amazon Aurora
9 40 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (4.26%) DynamoDB
11 33 (3.80%) RDBMS
12 32 (3.68%) Metadata
13 29 (3.34%) Oracle Database
14 26 (2.99%) Big Data
15 25 (2.88%) Data Lake
16 22 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
17 19 (2.19%) BigQuery
18 15 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.73%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 216 (24.86%) Git
2 200 (23.01%) Jenkins
3 106 (12.20%) GitLab
4 77 (8.86%) JIRA
5 68 (7.83%) JUnit
6 60 (6.90%) Mockito
7 58 (6.67%) Maven
8 40 (4.60%) Gradle
9 27 (3.11%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.65%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.96%) Selenium
12 16 (1.84%) Liquibase
13 15 (1.73%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.38%) Gatling
14 12 (1.38%) Mocha
15 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.04%) Flyway
16 9 (1.04%) JMeter
17 8 (0.92%) Claude Code
18 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 202 (23.25%) Social Skills
2 144 (16.57%) Public Sector
3 140 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (15.65%) Finance
5 63 (7.25%) Banking
6 36 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.07%) Front Office
8 15 (1.73%) Retail
9 12 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.15%) Military
12 9 (1.04%) Law
13 8 (0.92%) Legal
13 8 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.69%) Billing
14 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.58%) Marketing
15 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 318 (36.59%) Developer
2 167 (19.22%) Senior
3 124 (14.27%) Java Developer
4 105 (12.08%) DBA
5 72 (8.29%) Senior Developer
6 68 (7.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (7.59%) Data Engineer
8 62 (7.13%) Software Engineer
9 60 (6.90%) Lead
10 59 (6.79%) Administrator
11 54 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
11 54 (6.21%) Python Developer
12 47 (5.41%) Architect
13 38 (4.37%) Java Engineer
14 36 (4.14%) Python Engineer
15 31 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
16 28 (3.22%) Senior Java Developer
17 26 (2.99%) PostgreSQL DBA
18 25 (2.88%) SC Cleared DBA
19 24 (2.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (29.46%) REST
2 193 (22.21%) RESTful
3 190 (21.86%) Spring
4 188 (21.63%) Kafka
5 184 (21.17%) Terraform
6 169 (19.45%) Spring Boot
7 157 (18.07%) React
8 93 (10.70%) Node.js
9 86 (9.90%) HTML
10 85 (9.78%) CSS
11 70 (8.06%) .NET
12 62 (7.13%) OAuth
13 60 (6.90%) AngularJS
14 58 (6.67%) Django
15 51 (5.87%) FastAPI
15 51 (5.87%) OAuth2
16 46 (5.29%) Web Services
17 45 (5.18%) GraphQL
18 43 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
19 42 (4.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 184 (21.17%) Cloud Native
2 110 (12.66%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (7.13%) Replication
4 47 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 39 (4.49%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.99%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.96%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.15%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.15%) PKI
15 9 (1.04%) Equities
15 9 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.92%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 128 (14.73%) Linux
2 53 (6.10%) Unix
3 47 (5.41%) Windows
4 29 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.07%) Solaris
7 16 (1.84%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.27%) AIX
9 9 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.35%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 2 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.23%) Rocky
12 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (50.86%) CI/CD
2 313 (36.02%) Agile
3 308 (35.44%) DevOps
4 274 (31.53%) Microservices
5 194 (22.32%) Containerisation
6 176 (20.25%) Software Engineering
7 168 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 160 (18.41%) Test Automation
9 156 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
10 140 (16.11%) AI
10 140 (16.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 138 (15.88%) Observability
12 132 (15.19%) Event-Driven
13 131 (15.07%) Data Modelling
14 129 (14.84%) Performance Tuning
15 109 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 108 (12.43%) Migration
16 108 (12.43%) Scrum
17 102 (11.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 102 (11.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 337 (38.78%) SQL
2 321 (36.94%) Python
3 298 (34.29%) Java
4 160 (18.41%) TypeScript
5 129 (14.84%) JavaScript
6 63 (7.25%) C#
7 55 (6.33%) Bash
8 37 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.80%) Go
10 28 (3.22%) Scala
11 26 (2.99%) Groovy
12 18 (2.07%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.96%) Perl
14 15 (1.73%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.73%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.38%) PHP
16 11 (1.27%) PL/SQL
17 10 (1.15%) Korn
17 10 (1.15%) Ruby
18 8 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 315 (36.25%) Security Cleared
2 276 (31.76%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.79%) Degree
4 51 (5.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.26%) DV Cleared
7 32 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.22%) AWS Certification
9 25 (2.88%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
11 13 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.27%) OCP
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.12%) CISSP
15 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.32%) QA
2 50 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 49 (5.64%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.07%) GDPR
5 14 (1.61%) WCAG
6 8 (0.92%) GMP
6 8 (0.92%) GxP
6 8 (0.92%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.46%) SEPA
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) PSD2
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 356 (40.97%) Docker
2 12 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) Postfix
6 4 (0.46%) Squid
6 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Ceph
7 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 298 (34.29%) Kubernetes
2 118 (13.58%) Grafana
3 93 (10.70%) Prometheus
4 35 (4.03%) Kibana
5 33 (3.80%) Ansible
6 14 (1.61%) Argo
7 13 (1.50%) Karpenter
8 9 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 8 (0.92%) Control-M
9 8 (0.92%) Data Guard
9 8 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
9 8 (0.92%) Puppet
10 7 (0.81%) HAProxy
10 7 (0.81%) Istio
10 7 (0.81%) Nessus
11 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
11 5 (0.58%) Rancher
11 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.46%) Bosun
12 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 188 (21.63%) Oracle
2 132 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 51 (5.87%) Google
4 42 (4.83%) Databricks
5 35 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 27 (3.11%) Splunk
7 26 (2.99%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.07%) Informatica
9 17 (1.96%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.27%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.27%) Talend
10 11 (1.27%) VMware
11 10 (1.15%) NetApp
12 9 (1.04%) IBM
12 9 (1.04%) Sybase
13 8 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
14 7 (0.81%) CyberArk
14 7 (0.81%) Foundry
14 7 (0.81%) TikTok
15 6 (0.69%) ForgeRock