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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 116 127
Rank change year-on-year -69 +11 +48
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 857 793 731
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.42% 1.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.57% 13.21% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 589 548
10th Percentile £350 £375 £344
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +0.48% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £838 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £475
% change year-on-year -3.36% +3.47% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £24.88 - -
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% -46.88% +22.00%
75th Percentile £63.06 £56.88 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 -
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 8,109 6,002 6,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.91% 18.29% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,415 4,021 4,648
10th Percentile £355 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £711 £738 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 85 88
10th Percentile £16.56 £21.09 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.82 £29.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.50 £72.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.53% +18.30% -44.95%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -80 682 £513 -5.09% 942
London -58 379 £525 -12.50% 619
UK excluding London -67 324 £475 -3.36% 399
Work from Home -64 270 £500 -16.67% 436
North of England -76 91 £501 +0.24% 122
Midlands -30 72 £445 -11.00% 43
South East -41 64 £460 +6.98% 73
West Midlands -42 50 £448 -10.50% 31
Yorkshire -37 46 £500 - 35
Scotland -31 42 £450 -6.49% 39
North West -62 39 £525 +10.53% 72
South West -40 34 £700 +27.27% 52
East of England -5 23 £500 +5.26% 35
East Midlands -6 21 £425 -17.48% 12
North East -46 6 £463 -25.96% 17
Wales -14 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 39 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.85%) Confluence
4 30 (3.50%) Apache
5 7 (0.82%) nginx
5 7 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.70%) CMS
7 5 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) IIS
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) Appian
9 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) Camunda
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.70%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.47%) 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 (0.70%) 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
1 446 (52.04%) AWS
2 286 (33.37%) Azure
3 166 (19.37%) GitHub
4 133 (15.52%) GCP
5 117 (13.65%) GitHub Actions
6 96 (11.20%) Amazon S3
7 92 (10.74%) Serverless
8 74 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
9 64 (7.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 63 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
11 53 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
12 50 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
13 40 (4.67%) Snowflake
14 30 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 26 (3.03%) AWS KMS
17 23 (2.68%) OpenShift
18 20 (2.33%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.57%) DNS
2 18 (2.10%) Firewall
2 18 (2.10%) HTTP
2 18 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.98%) SSH
4 9 (1.05%) Kerberos
5 8 (0.93%) HTTPS
5 8 (0.93%) SAN
6 6 (0.70%) 5G
7 5 (0.58%) 4G
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) VPN
8 4 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.35%) Network Security
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) IMAP
10 2 (0.23%) MQTT
10 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (20.54%) SQL Server
2 174 (20.30%) Relational Database
3 167 (19.49%) MongoDB
3 167 (19.49%) MySQL
4 107 (12.49%) NoSQL
5 106 (12.37%) Redis
6 86 (10.04%) Amazon RDS
7 80 (9.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 43 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (4.67%) DynamoDB
10 33 (3.85%) Metadata
10 33 (3.85%) RDBMS
11 29 (3.38%) Big Data
12 26 (3.03%) Oracle Database
13 25 (2.92%) Data Lake
14 21 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (1.98%) BigQuery
17 15 (1.75%) Power BI
18 14 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 214 (24.97%) Git
2 197 (22.99%) Jenkins
3 102 (11.90%) GitLab
4 77 (8.98%) JIRA
5 67 (7.82%) JUnit
6 59 (6.88%) Mockito
7 56 (6.53%) Maven
8 39 (4.55%) Gradle
9 27 (3.15%) SonarQube
10 21 (2.45%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.98%) Selenium
12 16 (1.87%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.63%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.40%) Gatling
14 12 (1.40%) Mocha
15 10 (1.17%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.05%) Flyway
16 9 (1.05%) JMeter
17 7 (0.82%) Claude Code
18 6 (0.70%) DbUnit
General
1 194 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 140 (16.34%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.75%) Finance
4 133 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (6.88%) Banking
6 39 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (1.98%) Front Office
8 15 (1.75%) Retail
9 11 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.17%) Military
10 10 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.05%) Legal
11 9 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.93%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.82%) Law
14 6 (0.70%) Billing
14 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.58%) Marketing
15 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.47%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 320 (37.34%) Developer
2 164 (19.14%) Senior
3 121 (14.12%) Java Developer
4 101 (11.79%) DBA
5 73 (8.52%) Senior Developer
6 69 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
7 67 (7.82%) Data Engineer
8 61 (7.12%) Lead
8 61 (7.12%) Software Engineer
9 58 (6.77%) Administrator
10 55 (6.42%) Python Developer
11 51 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
12 47 (5.48%) Architect
13 37 (4.32%) Java Engineer
14 35 (4.08%) Python Engineer
15 31 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (3.15%) Senior Java Developer
17 26 (3.03%) Software Developer
18 25 (2.92%) PostgreSQL DBA
19 24 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (29.17%) REST
2 189 (22.05%) Kafka
3 188 (21.94%) Spring
4 186 (21.70%) RESTful
5 167 (19.49%) Spring Boot
6 166 (19.37%) Terraform
7 150 (17.50%) React
8 94 (10.97%) Node.js
9 82 (9.57%) CSS
9 82 (9.57%) HTML
10 67 (7.82%) .NET
11 61 (7.12%) OAuth
12 58 (6.77%) AngularJS
13 57 (6.65%) Django
14 50 (5.83%) FastAPI
14 50 (5.83%) OAuth2
15 45 (5.25%) Web Services
16 43 (5.02%) GraphQL
16 43 (5.02%) RabbitMQ
17 42 (4.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 183 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 107 (12.49%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (6.07%) Replication
4 45 (5.25%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.32%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (3.03%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.22%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.87%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.05%) Equities
15 9 (1.05%) LIMS
15 9 (1.05%) PKI
16 8 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 120 (14.00%) Linux
2 53 (6.18%) Unix
3 42 (4.90%) Windows
4 28 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.80%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.98%) Solaris
7 15 (1.75%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.17%) AIX
9 9 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 2 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.23%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.23%) Rocky
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (49.94%) CI/CD
2 306 (35.71%) Agile
3 299 (34.89%) DevOps
4 266 (31.04%) Microservices
5 194 (22.64%) Containerisation
6 175 (20.42%) Software Engineering
7 157 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (18.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 149 (17.39%) Test Automation
10 142 (16.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 131 (15.29%) AI
12 129 (15.05%) Event-Driven
13 127 (14.82%) Data Modelling
14 125 (14.59%) Observability
15 122 (14.24%) Performance Tuning
16 108 (12.60%) Migration
17 107 (12.49%) Scrum
18 100 (11.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 99 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
20 95 (11.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 334 (38.97%) SQL
2 315 (36.76%) Python
3 296 (34.54%) Java
4 156 (18.20%) TypeScript
5 122 (14.24%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.88%) C#
7 51 (5.95%) Bash
8 37 (4.32%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.97%) Go
10 28 (3.27%) Scala
11 23 (2.68%) Groovy
12 18 (2.10%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.98%) Perl
14 15 (1.75%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.63%) T-SQL
16 12 (1.40%) PHP
16 12 (1.40%) PL/SQL
17 10 (1.17%) Korn
18 8 (0.93%) Ruby
19 7 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 300 (35.01%) Security Cleared
2 263 (30.69%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.00%) Degree
4 49 (5.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (3.03%) AWS Certification
9 22 (2.57%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.28%) OCP
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
14 1 (0.12%) CISA
14 1 (0.12%) CISM
14 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.68%) QA
2 47 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 46 (5.37%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.10%) GDPR
5 13 (1.52%) WCAG
6 8 (0.93%) GMP
6 8 (0.93%) GxP
6 8 (0.93%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.82%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.58%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.47%) SEPA
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) PSD2
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 350 (40.84%) Docker
2 12 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.70%) Postfix
6 4 (0.47%) Squid
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
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 292 (34.07%) Kubernetes
2 115 (13.42%) Grafana
3 91 (10.62%) Prometheus
4 31 (3.62%) Kibana
5 30 (3.50%) Ansible
6 15 (1.75%) Argo
7 12 (1.40%) Karpenter
8 10 (1.17%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (1.05%) Data Guard
9 9 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 8 (0.93%) Control-M
11 7 (0.82%) Istio
11 7 (0.82%) Nessus
11 7 (0.82%) Puppet
12 6 (0.70%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.58%) Rancher
13 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.47%) Bosun
14 4 (0.47%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 182 (21.24%) Oracle
2 126 (14.70%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.37%) Google
4 43 (5.02%) Databricks
5 35 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 27 (3.15%) Splunk
7 24 (2.80%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.10%) Informatica
8 18 (2.10%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.28%) Talend
11 10 (1.17%) VMware
12 9 (1.05%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (0.93%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.93%) NetApp
13 8 (0.93%) Sybase
14 7 (0.82%) Foundry
14 7 (0.82%) IBM
14 7 (0.82%) TikTok
15 6 (0.70%) New Relic