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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 112 141
Rank change year-on-year -47 +29 +12
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 884 785 718
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.42% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.93% 13.25% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 597 542
10th Percentile £360 £384 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £599 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.26% - -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile £27.18 £54.50 £53.70
25th Percentile £41.50 £57.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -18.75% +77.78%
75th Percentile £72.11 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% -18.75% +261.01%

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 8,091 5,923 7,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.23% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,349 4,011 5,367
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 101 139
10th Percentile £16.56 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £25.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -6.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.38 £31.64 £31.25
% change year-on-year +21.29% +1.25% -40.48%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -48 727 £520 -5.45% 221
UK excluding London -29 408 £474 -0.26% 151
London -51 354 £550 -8.33% 119
Work from Home -59 288 £500 -9.17% 114
North of England -46 134 £475 -5.00% 38
Midlands -3 104 £447 -10.60% 18
West Midlands -16 75 £447 -5.89% 9
South East -41 71 £473 +8.74% 45
North West -36 63 £478 +0.63% 21
Yorkshire -23 61 £488 -2.50% 10
Scotland -8 53 £425 -10.05% 9
South West -16 31 £700 +27.27% 16
East Midlands +7 27 £447 -12.78% 9
East of England -20 17 £575 +27.78% 10
North East -48 9 £425 -19.05% 7
Wales -8 4 - - 7

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 50 (5.66%) Confluence
2 40 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.60%) Apache
5 10 (1.13%) nginx
6 7 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.68%) Camunda
7 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.45%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.45%) WordPress
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.34%) IIS
9 3 (0.34%) JBoss
9 3 (0.34%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) Appian
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.02%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Maya
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 457 (51.70%) AWS
2 307 (34.73%) Azure
3 160 (18.10%) GCP
4 146 (16.52%) GitHub
5 100 (11.31%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (11.20%) Amazon S3
7 96 (10.86%) Serverless
8 66 (7.47%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
11 48 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 48 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (3.51%) Snowflake
14 27 (3.05%) Power Platform
15 26 (2.94%) Route 53
16 25 (2.83%) Azure AKS
17 23 (2.60%) AWS KMS
17 23 (2.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.92%) Firewall
2 13 (1.47%) DNS
3 10 (1.13%) SSH
4 9 (1.02%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.68%) HTTP
5 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.57%) SAN
7 4 (0.45%) SSL
8 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.34%) MQTT
8 3 (0.34%) Network Security
8 3 (0.34%) VPN
8 3 (0.34%) WAN
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) NaaS
9 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (20.25%) SQL Server
2 162 (18.33%) Relational Database
3 156 (17.65%) MongoDB
4 132 (14.93%) MySQL
5 118 (13.35%) NoSQL
6 69 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
7 68 (7.69%) Redis
8 61 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 49 (5.54%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
11 37 (4.19%) Big Data
12 31 (3.51%) Oracle Database
13 30 (3.39%) RDBMS
14 29 (3.28%) Data Lake
15 24 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (2.71%) Metadata
16 22 (2.49%) Power BI
17 19 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
18 17 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
18 17 (1.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 187 (21.15%) Git
1 187 (21.15%) Jenkins
2 101 (11.43%) JIRA
3 81 (9.16%) JUnit
4 74 (8.37%) GitLab
5 53 (6.00%) Mockito
6 49 (5.54%) Maven
7 34 (3.85%) Gradle
8 31 (3.51%) Cucumber
9 24 (2.71%) Selenium
10 23 (2.60%) JMeter
11 22 (2.49%) SonarQube
12 21 (2.38%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.26%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.92%) Gatling
15 14 (1.58%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.47%) jMock
17 11 (1.24%) Bitbucket Server
18 9 (1.02%) Bitbucket
18 9 (1.02%) Flyway
General
1 189 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 172 (19.46%) Finance
3 122 (13.80%) Public Sector
4 110 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.33%) Banking
6 29 (3.28%) Front Office
7 23 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.36%) Military
10 10 (1.13%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.02%) Law
12 8 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.90%) Legal
12 8 (0.90%) Retail
13 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
14 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.45%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 355 (40.16%) Developer
2 154 (17.42%) Senior
3 116 (13.12%) Java Developer
4 91 (10.29%) DBA
5 83 (9.39%) Full-Stack Developer
6 82 (9.28%) Software Engineer
7 81 (9.16%) Python Developer
8 78 (8.82%) Lead
9 67 (7.58%) Data Engineer
10 62 (7.01%) Architect
11 60 (6.79%) Senior Developer
12 43 (4.86%) Administrator
13 39 (4.41%) Java Engineer
14 37 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.07%) Lead Developer
16 33 (3.73%) Backend Developer
17 32 (3.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 32 (3.62%) Software Developer
18 29 (3.28%) Python Engineer
19 27 (3.05%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (22.96%) Spring
2 200 (22.62%) REST
3 177 (20.02%) React
4 176 (19.91%) Kafka
5 172 (19.46%) RESTful
6 160 (18.10%) Spring Boot
7 130 (14.71%) Node.js
8 72 (8.14%) FastAPI
9 67 (7.58%) AngularJS
10 51 (5.77%) HTML
11 49 (5.54%) .NET
11 49 (5.54%) CSS
12 47 (5.32%) OpenAPI
12 47 (5.32%) Swagger
13 45 (5.09%) Web Services
14 41 (4.64%) GraphQL
15 40 (4.52%) Django
16 38 (4.30%) JPA
17 36 (4.07%) Hibernate
17 36 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 145 (16.40%) Cloud Native
2 106 (11.99%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.85%) Replication
5 31 (3.51%) Data Structures
6 27 (3.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (2.94%) Derivative
8 24 (2.71%) Equities
9 23 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (2.38%) Fixed Income
10 21 (2.38%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.04%) Management Information System
12 16 (1.81%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.58%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.36%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (0.90%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 119 (13.46%) Linux
2 34 (3.85%) Windows
3 33 (3.73%) Unix
4 29 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.90%) Solaris
8 5 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.34%) AIX
9 3 (0.34%) Android
9 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.34%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) zOS
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (44.57%) CI/CD
2 338 (38.24%) Agile
3 271 (30.66%) Microservices
4 267 (30.20%) DevOps
5 217 (24.55%) Containerisation
6 177 (20.02%) Software Engineering
7 165 (18.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 163 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (14.03%) AI
10 120 (13.57%) Test Automation
11 117 (13.24%) Observability
12 113 (12.78%) Data Modelling
13 112 (12.67%) Infrastructure as Code
14 110 (12.44%) Performance Tuning
15 107 (12.10%) Migration
16 103 (11.65%) TDD
17 98 (11.09%) Scrum
18 92 (10.41%) Event-Driven
19 89 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
20 87 (9.84%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 359 (40.61%) Python
2 331 (37.44%) SQL
3 314 (35.52%) Java
4 153 (17.31%) TypeScript
5 133 (15.05%) JavaScript
6 58 (6.56%) C#
7 48 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.41%) Bash
9 32 (3.62%) Go
10 30 (3.39%) Scala
11 19 (2.15%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.58%) PHP
14 13 (1.47%) Groovy
14 13 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.24%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.24%) Ruby
16 9 (1.02%) Perl
17 7 (0.79%) Rust
18 6 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 312 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 264 (29.86%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.58%) Degree
4 39 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.70%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (0.90%) OCP
12 6 (0.68%) CISSP
13 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.45%) CISM
14 3 (0.34%) PhD
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.35%) QA
2 43 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.47%) GDPR
5 12 (1.36%) WCAG
6 5 (0.57%) GMP
6 5 (0.57%) GxP
6 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
6 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.45%) NIST
7 4 (0.45%) SLA
8 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 331 (37.44%) Docker
2 11 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.24%) Postfix
2 11 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.57%) Ceph
5 4 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.34%) HDFS
6 3 (0.34%) Squid
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) Samba
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 294 (33.26%) Kubernetes
2 133 (15.05%) Terraform
3 122 (13.80%) Grafana
4 92 (10.41%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.30%) Ansible
6 17 (1.92%) Control-M
6 17 (1.92%) IBM Guardium
6 17 (1.92%) Nessus
6 17 (1.92%) Oracle RMAN
7 13 (1.47%) Kibana
8 12 (1.36%) Data Guard
9 11 (1.24%) Argo
10 10 (1.13%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.79%) Rancher
12 6 (0.68%) Istio
13 4 (0.45%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
14 3 (0.34%) Puppet
14 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 191 (21.61%) Oracle
2 141 (15.95%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.52%) Google
4 32 (3.62%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.28%) Databricks
6 18 (2.04%) Informatica
6 18 (2.04%) Splunk
7 17 (1.92%) Atlassian
7 17 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
7 17 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.92%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.92%) Tenable
8 13 (1.47%) Talend
9 11 (1.24%) IBM
9 11 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.24%) VMware
10 10 (1.13%) CyberArk
10 10 (1.13%) Sybase
11 7 (0.79%) TikTok