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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 115 132
Rank change year-on-year -49 +17 +21
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 876 787 720
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 2.40% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.86% 13.18% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 600 537
10th Percentile £368 £382 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +4.37%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -2.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £26.60 £54.50 £51.88
25th Percentile £27.75 £57.50 £69.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -18.75% +77.78%
75th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -46.15% -18.75% -

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 8,068 5,969 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.35% 18.19% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,353 4,040 5,090
10th Percentile £356 £342 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
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 254 90 104
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.20 £14.48
25th Percentile £24.45 £23.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £60.36
90th Percentile £76.35 £78.83 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -41.46%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -49 714 £513 -6.82% 291
UK excluding London -28 404 £475 - 160
London -58 346 £550 -8.33% 179
Work from Home -69 280 £500 -13.49% 156
North of England -41 130 £483 -3.40% 39
Midlands 0 104 £448 -10.50% 17
West Midlands -17 75 £448 -5.79% 9
South East -44 72 £470 +8.05% 46
North West -37 60 £480 +2.02% 22
Yorkshire -16 58 £488 -2.50% 12
Scotland -16 49 £425 -10.53% 17
South West -24 31 £700 +30.23% 21
East Midlands +6 27 £447 -12.78% 8
East of England -16 19 £575 +27.78% 12
North East -54 11 £425 -19.05% 5
Wales -14 4 - - 5

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 47 (5.37%) Confluence
2 37 (4.22%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.28%) Apache
5 10 (1.14%) nginx
6 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 5 (0.57%) Camunda
9 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.46%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.34%) IIS
10 3 (0.34%) JBoss
10 3 (0.34%) SAS
11 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.03%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.34%) Trello
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Maya
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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
1 462 (52.74%) AWS
2 308 (35.16%) Azure
3 159 (18.15%) GCP
4 157 (17.92%) GitHub
5 109 (12.44%) GitHub Actions
6 96 (10.96%) Serverless
7 93 (10.62%) Amazon S3
8 68 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (6.39%) Amazon SQS
11 53 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 49 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (3.65%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (3.20%) Azure AKS
17 27 (3.08%) Power Platform
18 26 (2.97%) Route 53
19 23 (2.63%) AWS KMS
20 20 (2.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.17%) Firewall
2 15 (1.71%) DNS
3 10 (1.14%) SSH
4 9 (1.03%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.68%) HTTP
5 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.46%) SAN
7 4 (0.46%) 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%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (19.18%) SQL Server
2 167 (19.06%) Relational Database
3 166 (18.95%) MongoDB
4 137 (15.64%) MySQL
5 118 (13.47%) NoSQL
6 74 (8.45%) Redis
7 68 (7.76%) Amazon RDS
8 63 (7.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 53 (6.05%) DynamoDB
10 38 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (3.65%) Big Data
11 32 (3.65%) RDBMS
12 31 (3.54%) Oracle Database
13 27 (3.08%) Data Lake
14 22 (2.51%) Power BI
15 20 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (2.28%) Metadata
16 17 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
17 15 (1.71%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 193 (22.03%) Jenkins
2 192 (21.92%) Git
3 96 (10.96%) JIRA
4 82 (9.36%) GitLab
4 82 (9.36%) JUnit
5 57 (6.51%) Mockito
6 51 (5.82%) Maven
7 34 (3.88%) Gradle
8 33 (3.77%) Cucumber
9 26 (2.97%) Selenium
10 25 (2.85%) JMeter
11 24 (2.74%) SonarQube
12 22 (2.51%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.28%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.94%) Gatling
15 15 (1.71%) Bitbucket
16 14 (1.60%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.48%) jMock
18 11 (1.26%) Bitbucket Server
19 10 (1.14%) Flyway
General
1 186 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 168 (19.18%) Finance
3 128 (14.61%) Public Sector
4 114 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (6.62%) Banking
6 27 (3.08%) Front Office
7 23 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.37%) Military
10 10 (1.14%) Law
10 10 (1.14%) Legal
11 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.91%) Retail
12 7 (0.80%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
15 4 (0.46%) Marketing
15 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 346 (39.50%) Developer
2 161 (18.38%) Senior
3 121 (13.81%) Java Developer
4 93 (10.62%) DBA
5 82 (9.36%) Software Engineer
6 77 (8.79%) Lead
7 76 (8.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 69 (7.88%) Python Developer
9 68 (7.76%) Data Engineer
10 66 (7.53%) Senior Developer
11 58 (6.62%) Architect
12 45 (5.14%) Administrator
13 41 (4.68%) Java Engineer
14 38 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.11%) Lead Developer
16 33 (3.77%) Software Developer
17 31 (3.54%) Backend Developer
17 31 (3.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 30 (3.42%) Python Engineer
19 29 (3.31%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (24.09%) REST
2 202 (23.06%) Spring
3 184 (21.00%) Kafka
4 180 (20.55%) RESTful
5 176 (20.09%) React
6 160 (18.26%) Spring Boot
7 130 (14.84%) Node.js
8 65 (7.42%) AngularJS
9 62 (7.08%) FastAPI
10 53 (6.05%) HTML
11 52 (5.94%) CSS
12 49 (5.59%) .NET
13 48 (5.48%) OpenAPI
13 48 (5.48%) Swagger
14 44 (5.02%) Web Services
15 41 (4.68%) Django
16 38 (4.34%) JPA
17 37 (4.22%) Hibernate
17 37 (4.22%) RabbitMQ
18 36 (4.11%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 154 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 117 (13.36%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (4.79%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.11%) Replication
5 34 (3.88%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 25 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.85%) Derivative
7 25 (2.85%) Equities
8 23 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (2.28%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.05%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.48%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.37%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.03%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.47%) Linux
2 35 (4.00%) Unix
3 33 (3.77%) Windows
4 29 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.91%) Solaris
8 5 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.46%) AIX
10 3 (0.34%) Android
10 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.34%) VMS
10 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.23%) zOS
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (46.00%) CI/CD
2 338 (38.58%) Agile
3 280 (31.96%) Microservices
4 277 (31.62%) DevOps
5 211 (24.09%) Containerisation
6 181 (20.66%) Software Engineering
7 160 (18.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 159 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
9 131 (14.95%) Test Automation
10 127 (14.50%) AI
11 121 (13.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 119 (13.58%) Observability
12 119 (13.58%) Performance Tuning
13 115 (13.13%) Data Modelling
14 108 (12.33%) TDD
15 106 (12.10%) Migration
16 105 (11.99%) Scrum
17 98 (11.19%) Event-Driven
18 90 (10.27%) Analytics
19 87 (9.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 342 (39.04%) Python
2 318 (36.30%) Java
3 317 (36.19%) SQL
4 159 (18.15%) TypeScript
5 127 (14.50%) JavaScript
6 52 (5.94%) C#
7 45 (5.14%) PowerShell
8 41 (4.68%) Bash
9 33 (3.77%) Go
10 29 (3.31%) Scala
11 19 (2.17%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.71%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.48%) Groovy
13 13 (1.48%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.48%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.37%) PHP
15 11 (1.26%) Ruby
16 9 (1.03%) Perl
17 7 (0.80%) Rust
18 6 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 307 (35.05%) Security Cleared
2 260 (29.68%) SC Cleared
3 61 (6.96%) Degree
4 43 (4.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 24 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (1.60%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.14%) OCP
12 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.68%) CISSP
14 4 (0.46%) CISM
14 4 (0.46%) PhD
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.11%) CISA
17 1 (0.11%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.65%) QA
2 41 (4.68%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.45%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.71%) GDPR
4 15 (1.71%) WCAG
5 6 (0.68%) GMP
5 6 (0.68%) GxP
6 5 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
6 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.46%) NIST
7 4 (0.46%) SLA
8 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.23%) GRC
System Software
1 341 (38.93%) Docker
2 13 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.26%) Postfix
4 11 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.57%) Ceph
7 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.34%) HDFS
8 3 (0.34%) Squid
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.11%) NFS
10 1 (0.11%) RACF
10 1 (0.11%) Samba
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 305 (34.82%) Kubernetes
2 141 (16.10%) Terraform
3 120 (13.70%) Grafana
4 91 (10.39%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.34%) Ansible
6 17 (1.94%) Oracle RMAN
7 15 (1.71%) Argo
8 14 (1.60%) Kibana
9 12 (1.37%) Data Guard
10 11 (1.26%) Control-M
10 11 (1.26%) IBM Guardium
10 11 (1.26%) Nessus
11 10 (1.14%) HAProxy
11 10 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (0.80%) Rancher
13 6 (0.68%) Istio
14 4 (0.46%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.34%) Bosun
15 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
15 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 186 (21.23%) Oracle
2 131 (14.95%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.45%) Google
4 34 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.42%) Databricks
6 22 (2.51%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.40%) Splunk
8 17 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
8 17 (1.94%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.83%) Atlassian
10 15 (1.71%) Informatica
11 14 (1.60%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.37%) VMware
13 11 (1.26%) IBM
13 11 (1.26%) Tenable
14 10 (1.14%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.14%) Talend
15 9 (1.03%) Sybase
16 7 (0.80%) TikTok