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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 126 157
Rank change year-on-year -16 +31 +16
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 811 662 696
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.99% 2.15% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.19% 11.61% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 494 484
10th Percentile £360 £356 £407
25th Percentile £418 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% -1.50% -0.47%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £480 £506
% change year-on-year -1.15% -5.24% +1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile £29.60 - £38.79
25th Percentile £38.75 - £55.35
Median hourly rate £52.50 £43.00 £68.05
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -36.81% +202.65%
75th Percentile £65.25 - £73.99
90th Percentile £69.40 - £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 - £50.25
% change year-on-year - - +82.73%

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 6,653 5,702 7,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.34% 18.51% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,563 3,816 5,100
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 90 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £16.04
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.97% -9.87% -24.01%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.93 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.10 £70.38 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.85 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +82.83% -25.47% -28.04%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -15 670 £520 -5.45% 404
UK excluding London -7 355 £474 -1.15% 248
London -13 351 £550 -4.35% 216
Work from Home -24 259 £500 -4.76% 221
North of England -24 124 £455 -2.93% 73
Midlands -12 87 £513 +2.50% 43
West Midlands -5 75 £525 +4.48% 29
Yorkshire -10 74 £475 -20.83% 18
South East -26 64 £440 -3.30% 57
Scotland +4 49 £450 -3.23% 28
South West -4 48 £550 -12.00% 29
North West -26 46 £441 -4.24% 43
East Midlands -26 11 £400 -20.00% 14
Northern Ireland +5 7 £400 - 1
East of England -25 5 £588 +34.29% 13
North East -12 3 £463 +0.54% 13

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 51 (6.29%) Confluence
2 23 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.59%) nginx
5 18 (2.22%) Apache
6 11 (1.36%) SAS
7 5 (0.62%) Drupal
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.49%) Camunda
9 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) Appian
10 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 2 (0.25%) Traefik
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.12%) Magento
1 1 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.12%) Shopify
1 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 492 (60.67%) AWS
2 258 (31.81%) Azure
3 184 (22.69%) GitHub
4 155 (19.11%) GCP
5 134 (16.52%) Serverless
6 110 (13.56%) Amazon S3
7 101 (12.45%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (6.91%) OpenShift
10 52 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 49 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.30%) Snowflake
13 40 (4.93%) Power Platform
14 37 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
14 37 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
15 36 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 28 (3.45%) Azure AKS
18 24 (2.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 22 (2.71%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.84%) Firewall
2 18 (2.22%) DNS
3 16 (1.97%) HTTP
4 11 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.11%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.62%) SSH
6 5 (0.62%) SSL
6 5 (0.62%) VPN
7 4 (0.49%) FTP
7 4 (0.49%) IMAP
7 4 (0.49%) Internet
7 4 (0.49%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.49%) SMTP
8 3 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.25%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.25%) LAN
9 2 (0.25%) WAN
10 1 (0.12%) DHCP
10 1 (0.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (15.91%) Relational Database
2 126 (15.54%) NoSQL
3 119 (14.67%) MySQL
4 118 (14.55%) SQL Server
5 111 (13.69%) MongoDB
6 65 (8.01%) Amazon RDS
7 56 (6.91%) Redis
8 55 (6.78%) DynamoDB
9 50 (6.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 46 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
12 31 (3.82%) Power BI
12 31 (3.82%) RDBMS
13 27 (3.33%) Data Lake
14 25 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
15 24 (2.96%) Big Data
16 23 (2.84%) Metadata
17 19 (2.34%) DB2
18 18 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
19 16 (1.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (22.19%) Jenkins
2 163 (20.10%) Git
3 100 (12.33%) GitLab
4 85 (10.48%) JIRA
5 71 (8.75%) JUnit
6 39 (4.81%) Cucumber
7 37 (4.56%) Mockito
8 25 (3.08%) JMeter
9 23 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (2.59%) Gradle
11 17 (2.10%) Liquibase
12 16 (1.97%) Maven
13 15 (1.85%) Selenium
14 13 (1.60%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.60%) Cypress.io
15 12 (1.48%) Postman
16 10 (1.23%) ERwin
17 9 (1.11%) WebDriver
18 8 (0.99%) Artifactory
18 8 (0.99%) SonarQube
General
1 201 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 171 (21.09%) Finance
3 102 (12.58%) Public Sector
4 88 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (9.49%) Banking
6 24 (2.96%) Investment Banking
7 21 (2.59%) Front Office
8 15 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Retail
13 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.62%) Marketing
14 4 (0.49%) Legal
15 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.37%) Electronics
15 3 (0.37%) Games
15 3 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 341 (42.05%) Developer
2 128 (15.78%) Senior
3 102 (12.58%) Java Developer
4 83 (10.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 77 (9.49%) Python Developer
6 68 (8.38%) Data Engineer
7 64 (7.89%) Software Engineer
8 63 (7.77%) Architect
9 58 (7.15%) Senior Developer
10 49 (6.04%) Lead
11 41 (5.06%) AWS Developer
12 40 (4.93%) DBA
13 36 (4.44%) Data Architect
13 36 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
15 33 (4.07%) Senior Java Developer
16 30 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
18 28 (3.45%) Backend Developer
19 26 (3.21%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (21.82%) Kafka
2 158 (19.48%) Spring
3 156 (19.24%) React
4 138 (17.02%) Node.js
5 133 (16.40%) RESTful
6 123 (15.17%) REST
7 116 (14.30%) Spring Boot
8 60 (7.40%) FastAPI
9 55 (6.78%) AngularJS
10 49 (6.04%) CSS
11 44 (5.43%) Hibernate
12 42 (5.18%) JSON
13 39 (4.81%) GraphQL
13 39 (4.81%) HTML
14 36 (4.44%) .NET
15 33 (4.07%) Django
15 33 (4.07%) Vue
16 32 (3.95%) WireMock
17 30 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
18 28 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 118 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 28 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.33%) Derivative
5 27 (3.33%) Replication
6 20 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.47%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.22%) Fixed Income
8 18 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.22%) Market Risk
9 17 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.97%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.60%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.60%) Equities
13 11 (1.36%) Clustering
14 10 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 146 (18.00%) Linux
2 30 (3.70%) Windows
3 25 (3.08%) Unix
4 8 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.99%) VMS
5 7 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.49%) zOS
8 3 (0.37%) Android
8 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (47.35%) CI/CD
2 290 (35.76%) Agile
3 264 (32.55%) DevOps
4 211 (26.02%) Containerisation
5 207 (25.52%) Microservices
6 165 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (17.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 133 (16.40%) Software Engineering
9 132 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 128 (15.78%) Observability
11 106 (13.07%) Test Automation
12 99 (12.21%) Data Modelling
13 97 (11.96%) TDD
14 90 (11.10%) Migration
15 88 (10.85%) ETL
16 83 (10.23%) AI
16 83 (10.23%) Analytics
17 79 (9.74%) Computer Science
18 77 (9.49%) Performance Tuning
19 75 (9.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 388 (47.84%) Python
2 310 (38.22%) SQL
3 250 (30.83%) Java
4 139 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 129 (15.91%) TypeScript
6 69 (8.51%) Bash
7 64 (7.89%) Go
8 38 (4.69%) C#
8 38 (4.69%) PowerShell
9 19 (2.34%) PHP
10 16 (1.97%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.48%) Groovy
11 12 (1.48%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.48%) Ruby
11 12 (1.48%) Scala
12 8 (0.99%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.86%) JSX
14 6 (0.74%) Bicep
14 6 (0.74%) VBA
15 5 (0.62%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 246 (30.33%) Security Cleared
2 203 (25.03%) SC Cleared
3 99 (12.21%) Degree
4 59 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 25 (3.08%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.84%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.60%) OCP
10 13 (1.60%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.37%) PhD
13 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.25%) CISM
14 2 (0.25%) CISSP
14 2 (0.25%) HND
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.44%) QA
3 19 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.60%) GDPR
5 8 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.86%) NCSC
7 6 (0.74%) SLA
8 5 (0.62%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.62%) NIST
8 5 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.49%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 298 (36.74%) Docker
2 11 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.86%) Postfix
5 6 (0.74%) zsh
6 5 (0.62%) NDS
6 5 (0.62%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 4 (0.49%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.49%) Dovecot
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.49%) Squid
8 3 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.25%) HDFS
9 2 (0.25%) Lustre
9 2 (0.25%) NFS
9 2 (0.25%) Xen
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) Samba
Systems Management
1 303 (37.36%) Kubernetes
2 164 (20.22%) Terraform
3 128 (15.78%) Grafana
4 94 (11.59%) Prometheus
5 90 (11.10%) Ansible
6 26 (3.21%) Nessus
7 23 (2.84%) Argo
7 23 (2.84%) Progress Chef
8 22 (2.71%) Control-M
8 22 (2.71%) IBM Guardium
9 13 (1.60%) Puppet
10 9 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (1.11%) Istio
11 6 (0.74%) linkerd
12 5 (0.62%) Packer
12 5 (0.62%) Rancher
13 4 (0.49%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.49%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.37%) Kibana
14 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (15.29%) Oracle
2 94 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.43%) Splunk
4 39 (4.81%) Google
5 31 (3.82%) Databricks
6 27 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 25 (3.08%) VMware
8 22 (2.71%) Atlassian
8 22 (2.71%) Informatica
8 22 (2.71%) Tenable
9 16 (1.97%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.85%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.73%) Greenplum
12 11 (1.36%) IBM
12 11 (1.36%) Talend
13 9 (1.11%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (0.99%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.62%) Cloudera
15 5 (0.62%) Confluent
15 5 (0.62%) Salesforce