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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 117 139
Rank change year-on-year -43 +22 +21
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 791 680 720
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.33% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.73% 12.34% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 506 544
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £423 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £647 £638
90th Percentile £700 £800 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £477 £475
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.32% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £53.20 - £53.70
25th Percentile £63.25 £62.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -18.75% +255.79%
75th Percentile £74.13 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 7,372 5,511 7,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 18.92% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,943 3,773 5,232
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.14% -4.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £762 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 102 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.87 £23.13 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.11 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.75% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £72.63 £65.34 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.38 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £30.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.54% -11.94% -40.26%

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 June 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 1 June 2026.

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 June 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 -53 661 £513 -4.56% 404
UK excluding London -17 355 £460 -3.57% 193
London -37 343 £550 -8.33% 254
Work from Home -60 251 £500 -9.09% 248
North of England -31 122 £460 -3.16% 50
Midlands +9 98 £450 -10.00% 21
West Midlands -16 69 £450 -10.00% 11
South East -40 64 £480 +7.56% 57
North West -33 61 £450 -5.26% 30
Yorkshire -28 51 £475 -5.00% 10
Scotland +7 48 £425 -9.77% 9
East Midlands -7 27 £425 -15.00% 10
South West -31 18 £606 +1.00% 30
East of England -36 10 £575 +27.78% 17
North East -24 9 £425 -8.60% 10
Northern Ireland +2 1 £400 -20.00% 8
Wales - 1 - - 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 49 (6.19%) Confluence
2 43 (5.44%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.65%) Apache
5 11 (1.39%) nginx
6 8 (1.01%) Camunda
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.38%) Appian
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.63%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 443 (56.01%) AWS
2 252 (31.86%) Azure
3 135 (17.07%) GitHub
4 132 (16.69%) GCP
5 96 (12.14%) Amazon S3
6 93 (11.76%) Serverless
7 86 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 46 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (5.18%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (4.17%) Power Platform
15 31 (3.92%) Route 53
16 29 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (3.41%) OpenShift
19 25 (3.16%) AWS KMS
19 25 (3.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.40%) DNS
2 17 (2.15%) Firewall
3 8 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.76%) HTTP
5 4 (0.51%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.51%) SSH
5 4 (0.51%) SSL
5 4 (0.51%) VPN
6 3 (0.38%) iSCSI
6 3 (0.38%) SAN
6 3 (0.38%) WAN
7 2 (0.25%) DHCP
7 2 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.25%) MQTT
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Network Security
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) Internet
8 1 (0.13%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (18.84%) SQL Server
2 142 (17.95%) MongoDB
3 129 (16.31%) NoSQL
3 129 (16.31%) Relational Database
4 112 (14.16%) MySQL
5 69 (8.72%) Amazon RDS
6 65 (8.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 61 (7.71%) DynamoDB
8 47 (5.94%) Redis
9 36 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (4.30%) Big Data
11 28 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
12 27 (3.41%) Power BI
13 25 (3.16%) Data Lake
13 25 (3.16%) RDBMS
14 22 (2.78%) Oracle Database
14 22 (2.78%) Tableau
15 20 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (2.53%) Metadata
16 18 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 169 (21.37%) Jenkins
2 152 (19.22%) Git
3 83 (10.49%) GitLab
4 81 (10.24%) JIRA
5 79 (9.99%) JUnit
6 57 (7.21%) Mockito
7 36 (4.55%) Maven
8 28 (3.54%) Cucumber
9 24 (3.03%) Gradle
10 23 (2.91%) JMeter
10 23 (2.91%) Selenium
11 21 (2.65%) Liquibase
11 21 (2.65%) SonarQube
12 19 (2.40%) WebDriver
13 14 (1.77%) DbUnit
14 13 (1.64%) Gatling
14 13 (1.64%) jMock
15 11 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
16 9 (1.14%) Flyway
17 7 (0.88%) ERwin
General
1 170 (21.49%) Social Skills
2 161 (20.35%) Finance
3 107 (13.53%) Public Sector
4 82 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.21%) Banking
6 25 (3.16%) Front Office
7 19 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.52%) Law
11 8 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.76%) Legal
13 5 (0.63%) Automotive
13 5 (0.63%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.63%) Retail
14 4 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.51%) Military
15 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 304 (38.43%) Developer
2 147 (18.58%) Senior
3 94 (11.88%) Java Developer
4 78 (9.86%) Software Engineer
5 77 (9.73%) Python Developer
6 73 (9.23%) Full-Stack Developer
7 72 (9.10%) Architect
8 71 (8.98%) Data Engineer
9 67 (8.47%) DBA
10 59 (7.46%) Lead
11 57 (7.21%) Senior Developer
12 37 (4.68%) Java Engineer
13 34 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.79%) Senior Java Developer
15 28 (3.54%) Lead Developer
16 27 (3.41%) Administrator
16 27 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (3.41%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 25 (3.16%) Data Architect
17 25 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (23.64%) Kafka
2 181 (22.88%) Spring
3 156 (19.72%) React
4 146 (18.46%) RESTful
5 138 (17.45%) REST
5 138 (17.45%) Spring Boot
6 119 (15.04%) Node.js
7 64 (8.09%) FastAPI
8 60 (7.59%) AngularJS
9 43 (5.44%) GraphQL
10 41 (5.18%) JPA
11 40 (5.06%) .NET
12 38 (4.80%) WireMock
13 37 (4.68%) Hibernate
14 35 (4.42%) HTML
14 35 (4.42%) Web Services
15 34 (4.30%) Django
16 33 (4.17%) CSS
17 32 (4.05%) JSON
17 32 (4.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 116 (14.66%) Cloud Native
2 89 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.67%) Derivative
5 28 (3.54%) Replication
6 22 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 20 (2.53%) Equities
8 20 (2.53%) Fixed Income
9 19 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (2.02%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.01%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.01%) Market Risk
13 7 (0.88%) Clustering
13 7 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 113 (14.29%) Linux
2 33 (4.17%) Unix
3 25 (3.16%) Windows
4 16 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.51%) Solaris
6 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.38%) zOS
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.13%) SUSE
8 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (44.63%) CI/CD
2 299 (37.80%) Agile
3 246 (31.10%) DevOps
4 224 (28.32%) Microservices
5 192 (24.27%) Containerisation
6 148 (18.71%) Software Engineering
7 142 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (15.68%) Observability
10 113 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 110 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 109 (13.78%) Data Modelling
13 105 (13.27%) TDD
14 94 (11.88%) AI
15 93 (11.76%) Migration
15 93 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
16 82 (10.37%) Event-Driven
17 77 (9.73%) Mentoring
17 77 (9.73%) Scrum
18 76 (9.61%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 336 (42.48%) Python
2 306 (38.69%) SQL
3 285 (36.03%) Java
4 141 (17.83%) TypeScript
5 118 (14.92%) JavaScript
6 48 (6.07%) Bash
7 45 (5.69%) PowerShell
8 42 (5.31%) C#
9 32 (4.05%) Go
9 32 (4.05%) Scala
10 21 (2.65%) PL/SQL
11 19 (2.40%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.26%) Bicep
12 10 (1.26%) Groovy
12 10 (1.26%) PHP
13 9 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.01%) Ruby
15 5 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.63%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) Korn
Qualifications
1 264 (33.38%) Security Cleared
2 218 (27.56%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.96%) Degree
4 34 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.39%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.76%) CISSP
13 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.63%) OCP
14 4 (0.51%) CISM
15 3 (0.38%) PhD
16 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.08%) QA
2 43 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.26%) GDPR
5 9 (1.14%) SLA
5 9 (1.14%) WCAG
6 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.88%) NIST
7 6 (0.76%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.63%) NCSC
8 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 289 (36.54%) Docker
2 11 (1.39%) Postfix
3 9 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.63%) Ceph
6 4 (0.51%) HDFS
6 4 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.38%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.13%) NFS
9 1 (0.13%) RACF
9 1 (0.13%) Samba
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 258 (32.62%) Kubernetes
2 128 (16.18%) Grafana
3 127 (16.06%) Terraform
4 91 (11.50%) Prometheus
5 48 (6.07%) Ansible
6 16 (2.02%) Control-M
6 16 (2.02%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.02%) Nessus
7 13 (1.64%) Argo
7 13 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.52%) Data Guard
8 12 (1.52%) Kibana
9 11 (1.39%) HAProxy
10 8 (1.01%) Istio
11 7 (0.88%) Rancher
12 4 (0.51%) linkerd
12 4 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.51%) Puppet
13 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (18.08%) Oracle
2 102 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.55%) Databricks
4 28 (3.54%) Splunk
5 24 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.65%) Informatica
7 20 (2.53%) Google
8 19 (2.40%) Red Hat
9 18 (2.28%) Atlassian
10 17 (2.15%) Jaspersoft
11 16 (2.02%) Tenable
12 14 (1.77%) Talend
12 14 (1.77%) VMware
13 13 (1.64%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.52%) Salesforce
15 10 (1.26%) Confluent
16 9 (1.14%) IBM
17 8 (1.01%) Sybase
18 7 (0.88%) OpenAI
19 5 (0.63%) Siebel