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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 139 150
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 +26
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 833 678 771
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.33% 1.88% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.36% 10.52% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 503 536
10th Percentile £363 £326 £408
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £639
90th Percentile £750 £725 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -3.26% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile - - £34.14
25th Percentile £29.00 - £43.73
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -30.70% +37.89%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £69.03
90th Percentile £71.50 - £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £46.28
% change year-on-year - - +8.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,234 6,444 7,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.45% 17.91% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,278 4,251 5,400
10th Percentile £331 £346 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% -2.73%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 88 143
10th Percentile £23.37 £18.35 £16.61
25th Percentile £29.94 £23.81 £21.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -5.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £54.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.30 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.31 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +119.29% -40.45% +13.38%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 17 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 1 December 2025. 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 +21 703 £525 -4.55% 301
London +22 380 £590 +1.72% 156
UK excluding London +14 357 £475 -3.26% 244
Work from Home -11 272 £525 +0.96% 160
North of England +28 136 £492 +3.58% 43
Midlands +7 74 £525 +6.06% 23
Yorkshire +13 70 £500 -16.67% 10
West Midlands +20 63 £525 +7.14% 15
South East -25 63 £433 -13.50% 122
North West 0 53 £445 - 30
South West +15 47 £550 -1.35% 26
Scotland -10 47 £450 -5.76% 12
North East +6 14 £550 - 3
East Midlands -10 11 £518 +3.50% 8
Northern Ireland +2 8 £400 - 1
Wales -4 4 £469 +20.97% 3
East of England -12 4 £450 +1.41% 16

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 (5.64%) Confluence
2 30 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.88%) nginx
4 22 (2.64%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.44%) SAS
6 11 (1.32%) Apache
7 8 (0.96%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.72%) Drupal
9 5 (0.60%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.48%) CICS
10 4 (0.48%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.48%) WordPress
11 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) Alfresco
12 2 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (1.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (1.32%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 489 (58.70%) AWS
2 242 (29.05%) Azure
3 171 (20.53%) GitHub
4 150 (18.01%) GCP
5 138 (16.57%) Serverless
6 125 (15.01%) Amazon S3
7 84 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (9.24%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (6.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 49 (5.88%) OpenShift
12 48 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
13 47 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (5.04%) Power Platform
15 35 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (3.96%) Snowflake
17 32 (3.84%) Azure AKS
18 27 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
19 26 (3.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 24 (2.88%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.12%) Firewall
2 19 (2.28%) DNS
2 19 (2.28%) HTTP
3 15 (1.80%) SSH
4 12 (1.44%) IMAP
4 12 (1.44%) Kerberos
4 12 (1.44%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (1.44%) SMTP
5 10 (1.20%) FTP
6 9 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.84%) SSL
8 4 (0.48%) Internet
8 4 (0.48%) VPN
9 3 (0.36%) MQTT
10 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
10 2 (0.24%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.24%) LAN
10 2 (0.24%) WAN
11 1 (0.12%) DHCP
11 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (16.45%) Relational Database
2 124 (14.89%) NoSQL
3 121 (14.53%) MySQL
4 109 (13.09%) MongoDB
5 102 (12.24%) SQL Server
6 83 (9.96%) Amazon RDS
7 79 (9.48%) Redis
8 60 (7.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 42 (5.04%) RDBMS
10 39 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (4.68%) DynamoDB
11 34 (4.08%) Power BI
12 27 (3.24%) Oracle Database
13 26 (3.12%) Amazon Athena
14 25 (3.00%) Apache Cassandra
14 25 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (2.64%) Big Data
16 20 (2.40%) Apache Iceberg
16 20 (2.40%) Hadoop
17 17 (2.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 182 (21.85%) Jenkins
2 159 (19.09%) Git
3 80 (9.60%) GitLab
4 78 (9.36%) JIRA
5 58 (6.96%) JUnit
6 31 (3.72%) Cucumber
7 28 (3.36%) Liquibase
7 28 (3.36%) Mockito
8 24 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (2.52%) Cypress.io
9 21 (2.52%) Gradle
9 21 (2.52%) Maven
10 18 (2.16%) Bitbucket
11 17 (2.04%) SonarQube
12 16 (1.92%) JMeter
13 15 (1.80%) Postman
14 12 (1.44%) Vagrant
15 11 (1.32%) Subversion
16 10 (1.20%) DBeaver
16 10 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 246 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 189 (22.69%) Finance
3 105 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 90 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (10.20%) Banking
6 36 (4.32%) Front Office
7 30 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.96%) Marketing
13 7 (0.84%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.60%) Local Government
15 5 (0.60%) Military
15 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.48%) Electronics
16 4 (0.48%) Legal
17 2 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 325 (39.02%) Developer
2 135 (16.21%) Senior
3 107 (12.85%) Java Developer
4 71 (8.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 65 (7.80%) Architect
5 65 (7.80%) Data Engineer
6 63 (7.56%) Senior Developer
7 61 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
8 58 (6.96%) Python Developer
8 58 (6.96%) Software Engineer
9 52 (6.24%) AWS Developer
10 51 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
11 49 (5.88%) Lead
12 39 (4.68%) DBA
13 38 (4.56%) Python Engineer
14 36 (4.32%) Senior Java Developer
15 35 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 29 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
17 26 (3.12%) Backend Developer
17 26 (3.12%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (21.01%) Kafka
2 159 (19.09%) React
3 136 (16.33%) Node.js
4 125 (15.01%) Spring
5 123 (14.77%) RESTful
6 117 (14.05%) REST
7 106 (12.73%) Spring Boot
8 66 (7.92%) CSS
9 55 (6.60%) AngularJS
9 55 (6.60%) HTML
10 53 (6.36%) GraphQL
11 43 (5.16%) FastAPI
12 41 (4.92%) Hibernate
13 40 (4.80%) Vue
14 38 (4.56%) JSON
15 36 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
16 32 (3.84%) RabbitMQ
17 31 (3.72%) .NET
17 31 (3.72%) Django
18 30 (3.60%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.24%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.40%) Replication
4 28 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
4 28 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 24 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 23 (2.76%) Fixed Income
7 20 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.28%) Derivative
8 19 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.16%) Clustering
9 18 (2.16%) Equities
9 18 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 18 (2.16%) Market Risk
10 16 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.92%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.32%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 143 (17.17%) Linux
2 30 (3.60%) Windows
3 22 (2.64%) Unix
4 15 (1.80%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (1.80%) VMS
5 11 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.36%) Solaris
8 3 (0.36%) zOS
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (43.22%) CI/CD
2 330 (39.62%) Agile
3 278 (33.37%) DevOps
4 219 (26.29%) Microservices
5 196 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 185 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
7 130 (15.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 128 (15.37%) Software Engineering
9 127 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
10 113 (13.57%) TDD
11 108 (12.97%) Test Automation
12 91 (10.92%) Observability
13 85 (10.20%) Migration
14 82 (9.84%) AI
15 76 (9.12%) ETL
16 75 (9.00%) Computer Science
17 73 (8.76%) Data Modelling
18 70 (8.40%) Analytics
19 68 (8.16%) Mentoring
20 66 (7.92%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 391 (46.94%) Python
2 302 (36.25%) SQL
3 245 (29.41%) Java
4 144 (17.29%) JavaScript
5 138 (16.57%) TypeScript
6 86 (10.32%) Bash
7 72 (8.64%) Go
8 39 (4.68%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.48%) C#
10 27 (3.24%) Groovy
11 26 (3.12%) PHP
12 18 (2.16%) Ruby
12 18 (2.16%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.44%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.32%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.96%) Perl
16 7 (0.84%) JSX
16 7 (0.84%) Scala
16 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 219 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 184 (22.09%) SC Cleared
3 100 (12.00%) Degree
4 63 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.48%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.28%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.44%) OCP
9 12 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (0.96%) MCP
11 7 (0.84%) CISSP
12 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.48%) HND
15 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
16 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.72%) QA
2 41 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.80%) GDPR
5 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.36%) SLA
7 3 (0.36%) WCAG
8 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.24%) HL7
8 2 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) DICOM
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 276 (33.13%) Docker
2 13 (1.56%) Postfix
3 12 (1.44%) Dovecot
3 12 (1.44%) Squid
3 12 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.20%) DFS Replication
4 10 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.96%) zsh
6 5 (0.60%) NDS
6 5 (0.60%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 5 (0.60%) NFS
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.36%) KVM
8 3 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.36%) Xen
9 2 (0.24%) GPFS
9 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) HDFS
10 1 (0.12%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 289 (34.69%) Kubernetes
2 173 (20.77%) Terraform
3 108 (12.97%) Grafana
4 79 (9.48%) Ansible
5 77 (9.24%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.36%) Argo
7 23 (2.76%) Nessus
8 19 (2.28%) Progress Chef
9 17 (2.04%) Puppet
10 12 (1.44%) Control-M
11 11 (1.32%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.20%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.08%) Packer
14 8 (0.96%) Istio
15 6 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.60%) Kibana
16 5 (0.60%) Rancher
17 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
18 3 (0.36%) Ambari
Vendors
1 127 (15.25%) Oracle
2 86 (10.32%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.28%) Google
4 41 (4.92%) Splunk
5 27 (3.24%) Red Hat
6 26 (3.12%) VMware
7 21 (2.52%) Databricks
7 21 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.16%) Atlassian
8 18 (2.16%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.80%) IBM
10 13 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
11 11 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
11 11 (1.32%) Tenable
12 8 (0.96%) Greenplum
12 8 (0.96%) Informatica
13 7 (0.84%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.84%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.72%) Gigya
14 6 (0.72%) SAP