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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 114 134
Rank change year-on-year -52 +20 +21
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 869 790 714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.40% 1.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.67% 13.25% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 592 531
10th Percentile £368 £394 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +4.90%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £639
90th Percentile £725 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £25.45 - £51.88
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £69.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -31.25% +49.46%
75th Percentile £75.25 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £73.50 -
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 8,147 5,961 7,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.10% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,430 4,022 4,961
10th Percentile £358 £344 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 92 102
10th Percentile £15.94 £20.87 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.99 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.38 £34.99 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% +1.52% -34.35%
75th Percentile £61.63 £59.75 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.58 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -38.77%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -61 707 £501 -8.87% 550
UK excluding London -39 389 £475 - 214
London -74 349 £543 -9.58% 393
Work from Home -66 276 £500 -16.53% 242
North of England -48 125 £488 -2.50% 45
Midlands 0 99 £448 -10.50% 28
West Midlands -7 71 £448 -8.21% 13
South East -37 69 £468 +7.47% 71
North West -42 60 £500 +5.26% 26
Yorkshire -19 55 £488 -2.50% 13
Scotland -13 46 £425 -10.53% 23
South West -21 32 £700 +37.93% 23
East Midlands +1 26 £459 -10.54% 15
East of England -15 19 £513 +11.72% 8
North East -50 10 £425 -22.73% 6
Wales -12 4 - - 10

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 42 (4.83%) Confluence
2 35 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 25 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.30%) Apache
5 7 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
6 6 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.58%) Camunda
8 4 (0.46%) nginx
8 4 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.35%) IIS
9 3 (0.35%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.12%) Odoo
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 458 (52.70%) AWS
2 292 (33.60%) Azure
3 159 (18.30%) GitHub
4 147 (16.92%) GCP
5 115 (13.23%) GitHub Actions
6 97 (11.16%) Serverless
7 91 (10.47%) Amazon S3
8 71 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 57 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
13 50 (5.75%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (3.57%) Snowflake
15 28 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (3.22%) AWS KMS
16 26 (2.99%) Power Platform
17 25 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
18 24 (2.76%) Azure AKS
18 24 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.30%) DNS
2 19 (2.19%) Firewall
3 15 (1.73%) SSH
4 10 (1.15%) HTTP
4 10 (1.15%) HTTPS
5 9 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.81%) SSL
7 4 (0.46%) SAN
8 3 (0.35%) 5G
8 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.35%) Network Security
8 3 (0.35%) VPN
9 2 (0.23%) 4G
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.23%) MQTT
9 2 (0.23%) NaaS
9 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (20.02%) MongoDB
2 170 (19.56%) SQL Server
3 163 (18.76%) Relational Database
4 145 (16.69%) MySQL
5 114 (13.12%) NoSQL
6 86 (9.90%) Redis
7 75 (8.63%) Amazon RDS
8 71 (8.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (4.95%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (4.03%) RDBMS
12 31 (3.57%) Oracle Database
13 28 (3.22%) Big Data
14 26 (2.99%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (2.53%) Power BI
17 21 (2.42%) Metadata
18 18 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
19 16 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
20 13 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 194 (22.32%) Git
2 192 (22.09%) Jenkins
3 92 (10.59%) GitLab
4 90 (10.36%) JIRA
5 79 (9.09%) JUnit
6 56 (6.44%) Mockito
7 47 (5.41%) Maven
8 34 (3.91%) Gradle
9 31 (3.57%) Cucumber
10 28 (3.22%) Selenium
11 25 (2.88%) JMeter
12 24 (2.76%) Liquibase
13 23 (2.65%) SonarQube
14 20 (2.30%) WebDriver
15 17 (1.96%) Gatling
16 16 (1.84%) Bitbucket
17 11 (1.27%) DbUnit
17 11 (1.27%) Flyway
18 10 (1.15%) Bitbucket Server
18 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
General
1 189 (21.75%) Social Skills
2 146 (16.80%) Finance
3 141 (16.23%) Public Sector
4 117 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (5.87%) Banking
6 25 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.53%) Front Office
8 13 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.38%) Military
10 11 (1.27%) Retail
11 10 (1.15%) Law
11 10 (1.15%) Legal
12 8 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.81%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.58%) Automotive
15 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.46%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.46%) Marketing
16 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 332 (38.20%) Developer
2 167 (19.22%) Senior
3 111 (12.77%) Java Developer
4 104 (11.97%) DBA
5 80 (9.21%) Software Engineer
6 74 (8.52%) Lead
7 68 (7.83%) Senior Developer
8 67 (7.71%) Data Engineer
8 67 (7.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 62 (7.13%) Python Developer
10 55 (6.33%) Administrator
11 50 (5.75%) Architect
12 42 (4.83%) Java Engineer
13 41 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (3.91%) Software Developer
15 33 (3.80%) Lead Developer
16 32 (3.68%) Backend Developer
17 31 (3.57%) PostgreSQL DBA
18 28 (3.22%) Python Engineer
19 27 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (25.09%) REST
2 204 (23.48%) Spring
3 187 (21.52%) Kafka
4 183 (21.06%) RESTful
5 161 (18.53%) React
6 160 (18.41%) Spring Boot
7 120 (13.81%) Node.js
8 57 (6.56%) HTML
9 55 (6.33%) CSS
10 53 (6.10%) AngularJS
10 53 (6.10%) FastAPI
11 49 (5.64%) .NET
12 47 (5.41%) OpenAPI
12 47 (5.41%) Swagger
13 43 (4.95%) OAuth
14 40 (4.60%) Django
14 40 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
15 38 (4.37%) Web Services
16 35 (4.03%) GraphQL
17 34 (3.91%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 162 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 118 (13.58%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.18%) Replication
4 39 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.68%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (2.30%) Equities
10 20 (2.30%) Onboarding
11 19 (2.19%) Derivative
12 17 (1.96%) AI Agents
13 16 (1.84%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.73%) Fixed Income
15 13 (1.50%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (1.04%) Management Information System
18 8 (0.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 111 (12.77%) Linux
2 39 (4.49%) Unix
3 31 (3.57%) Windows
4 25 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.30%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.15%) Solaris
8 6 (0.69%) AIX
8 6 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (46.84%) CI/CD
2 330 (37.97%) Agile
3 281 (32.34%) DevOps
4 274 (31.53%) Microservices
5 198 (22.78%) Containerisation
6 178 (20.48%) Software Engineering
7 152 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (17.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 141 (16.23%) Test Automation
10 132 (15.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 124 (14.27%) Performance Tuning
12 123 (14.15%) Observability
13 120 (13.81%) AI
13 120 (13.81%) Data Modelling
14 111 (12.77%) Migration
15 109 (12.54%) Event-Driven
16 105 (12.08%) TDD
17 100 (11.51%) Scrum
18 99 (11.39%) Validation
19 85 (9.78%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 320 (36.82%) Python
1 320 (36.82%) SQL
2 313 (36.02%) Java
3 158 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 114 (13.12%) JavaScript
5 51 (5.87%) C#
6 48 (5.52%) PowerShell
7 47 (5.41%) Bash
8 34 (3.91%) Go
9 31 (3.57%) Scala
10 21 (2.42%) PL/SQL
11 17 (1.96%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.61%) Groovy
12 14 (1.61%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.50%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.38%) PHP
14 12 (1.38%) Ruby
15 10 (1.15%) Perl
16 8 (0.92%) Rust
17 6 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 316 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 265 (30.49%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.10%) Degree
4 43 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.68%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (2.19%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.15%) OCP
11 9 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.46%) CISSP
14 2 (0.23%) CISM
14 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.12%) CISA
15 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.12%) PhD
15 1 (0.12%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.06%) QA
2 44 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 41 (4.72%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.07%) GDPR
5 16 (1.84%) WCAG
6 6 (0.69%) GMP
6 6 (0.69%) GxP
7 5 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.58%) SLA
8 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.46%) NIST
8 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 338 (38.90%) Docker
2 14 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.92%) Postfix
4 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.69%) Ceph
6 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.46%) Squid
8 3 (0.35%) HDFS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) RACF
10 1 (0.12%) Samba
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 302 (34.75%) Kubernetes
2 152 (17.49%) Terraform
3 117 (13.46%) Grafana
4 88 (10.13%) Prometheus
5 39 (4.49%) Ansible
6 21 (2.42%) Kibana
7 17 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
8 15 (1.73%) Argo
9 12 (1.38%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.15%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 9 (1.04%) Control-M
12 8 (0.92%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.81%) IBM Guardium
13 7 (0.81%) Nessus
14 6 (0.69%) Istio
14 6 (0.69%) Rancher
15 5 (0.58%) Puppet
16 3 (0.35%) Bosun
16 3 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 187 (21.52%) Oracle
2 134 (15.42%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.37%) Google
4 33 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.57%) Databricks
6 22 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.30%) Splunk
8 17 (1.96%) Informatica
8 17 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.61%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.61%) VMware
10 13 (1.50%) Jaspersoft
10 13 (1.50%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.27%) Atlassian
12 10 (1.15%) CyberArk
13 9 (1.04%) Talend
14 8 (0.92%) IBM
14 8 (0.92%) Sybase
15 7 (0.81%) Tenable
15 7 (0.81%) TikTok