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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 121 157
Rank change year-on-year -20 +36 +16
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 806 663 705
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.19% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.09% 11.77% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 497 495
10th Percentile £360 £356 £407
25th Percentile £417 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -0.19%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £477 £506
% change year-on-year -1.68% -5.73% +2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile £35.00 - £42.47
25th Percentile £40.00 - £64.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -37.77% +207.32%
75th Percentile £66.50 - £75.00
90th Percentile £69.44 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +154.55%

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 6,668 5,631 7,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.27% 18.64% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,599 3,791 5,140
10th Percentile £342 £350 £350
25th Percentile £412 £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 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 92 169
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.98
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.21 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.50 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.28% -9.87% -22.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.70 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +79.17% -25.00% -27.27%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -17 670 £515 -5.50% 316
UK excluding London -12 357 £469 -1.68% 222
London -14 346 £550 -4.35% 147
Work from Home -26 258 £500 -4.76% 182
North of England -19 123 £463 - 65
Midlands -2 93 £500 - 35
West Midlands -3 79 £513 +1.99% 27
Yorkshire -11 74 £475 -20.83% 16
South East -25 68 £434 -0.86% 55
South West -7 46 £550 -12.00% 29
Scotland +2 45 £450 -3.23% 18
North West -32 45 £450 -1.64% 37
East Midlands -29 13 £401 -19.80% 8
Northern Ireland +5 7 £400 - 2
East of England -23 5 £588 +30.56% 16
North East -13 3 £463 +0.27% 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 52 (6.45%) Confluence
2 22 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (2.73%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.36%) nginx
4 18 (2.23%) Apache
5 12 (1.49%) SAS
6 5 (0.62%) Drupal
7 4 (0.50%) Camunda
7 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.25%) Appian
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.25%) Traefik
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
5 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
1 487 (60.42%) AWS
2 259 (32.13%) Azure
3 184 (22.83%) GitHub
4 156 (19.35%) GCP
5 125 (15.51%) Serverless
6 109 (13.52%) Amazon S3
7 102 (12.66%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (6.70%) OpenShift
10 48 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (5.21%) Snowflake
13 38 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (4.71%) Power Platform
14 37 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
15 36 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
16 35 (4.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 29 (3.60%) Azure AKS
18 25 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
19 24 (2.98%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.98%) Firewall
2 17 (2.11%) DNS
3 15 (1.86%) HTTP
4 11 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.12%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.62%) SSL
6 5 (0.62%) VPN
7 4 (0.50%) Internet
7 4 (0.50%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.50%) SSH
8 3 (0.37%) FTP
8 3 (0.37%) IMAP
8 3 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.37%) SAN
8 3 (0.37%) SMTP
9 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.25%) LAN
9 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (15.63%) NoSQL
2 125 (15.51%) Relational Database
3 124 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 121 (15.01%) MySQL
5 107 (13.28%) MongoDB
6 67 (8.31%) Amazon RDS
7 58 (7.20%) DynamoDB
8 56 (6.95%) Redis
9 47 (5.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 45 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
12 32 (3.97%) RDBMS
13 30 (3.72%) Power BI
14 26 (3.23%) Data Lake
15 24 (2.98%) Apache Cassandra
16 23 (2.85%) Big Data
17 22 (2.73%) Metadata
18 19 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
19 18 (2.23%) DB2
20 17 (2.11%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 184 (22.83%) Jenkins
2 158 (19.60%) Git
3 101 (12.53%) GitLab
4 85 (10.55%) JIRA
5 74 (9.18%) JUnit
6 39 (4.84%) Cucumber
7 38 (4.71%) Mockito
8 25 (3.10%) JMeter
9 23 (2.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (2.61%) Gradle
11 19 (2.36%) Maven
12 17 (2.11%) Liquibase
13 15 (1.86%) Selenium
14 14 (1.74%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.49%) Cypress.io
15 12 (1.49%) Postman
16 10 (1.24%) ERwin
16 10 (1.24%) SonarQube
17 9 (1.12%) WebDriver
18 8 (0.99%) Artifactory
General
1 205 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 178 (22.08%) Finance
3 98 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 84 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (9.55%) Banking
6 24 (2.98%) Front Office
7 23 (2.85%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Retail
14 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.62%) Marketing
15 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.37%) Electronics
15 3 (0.37%) Games
15 3 (0.37%) Law
15 3 (0.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 331 (41.07%) Developer
2 129 (16.00%) Senior
3 101 (12.53%) Java Developer
4 79 (9.80%) Full-Stack Developer
5 76 (9.43%) Python Developer
6 68 (8.44%) Software Engineer
7 66 (8.19%) Data Engineer
8 62 (7.69%) Architect
9 57 (7.07%) Senior Developer
10 54 (6.70%) Lead
11 46 (5.71%) DBA
12 37 (4.59%) AWS Developer
13 35 (4.34%) Data Architect
13 35 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
14 33 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
15 32 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
16 30 (3.72%) Backend Developer
16 30 (3.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
18 25 (3.10%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (21.71%) Kafka
2 156 (19.35%) Spring
3 155 (19.23%) React
4 139 (17.25%) Node.js
5 131 (16.25%) RESTful
6 126 (15.63%) REST
7 115 (14.27%) Spring Boot
8 59 (7.32%) FastAPI
9 54 (6.70%) AngularJS
10 47 (5.83%) Hibernate
11 46 (5.71%) CSS
12 42 (5.21%) JSON
13 40 (4.96%) GraphQL
14 36 (4.47%) .NET
14 36 (4.47%) HTML
15 32 (3.97%) WireMock
16 31 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
17 30 (3.72%) Django
17 30 (3.72%) Vue
18 28 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 121 (15.01%) Cloud Native
2 75 (9.31%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (3.97%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.72%) Derivative
5 28 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.23%) Replication
7 21 (2.61%) Fixed Income
8 20 (2.48%) Data Structures
9 19 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (2.11%) Market Risk
12 16 (1.99%) Equities
12 16 (1.99%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (1.61%) Algorithms
15 12 (1.49%) Clustering
16 11 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
17 6 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 144 (17.87%) Linux
2 30 (3.72%) Windows
3 25 (3.10%) Unix
4 9 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.87%) VMS
6 6 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.50%) zOS
9 3 (0.37%) Android
10 2 (0.25%) Solaris
10 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (47.52%) CI/CD
2 293 (36.35%) Agile
3 267 (33.13%) DevOps
4 213 (26.43%) Containerisation
5 207 (25.68%) Microservices
6 167 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
7 136 (16.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 134 (16.63%) Software Engineering
9 128 (15.88%) Observability
10 124 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 103 (12.78%) Test Automation
12 97 (12.03%) Data Modelling
13 94 (11.66%) TDD
14 92 (11.41%) Migration
15 87 (10.79%) ETL
16 82 (10.17%) Analytics
16 82 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
17 79 (9.80%) AI
18 78 (9.68%) Computer Science
18 78 (9.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 382 (47.39%) Python
2 301 (37.34%) SQL
3 244 (30.27%) Java
4 139 (17.25%) JavaScript
5 125 (15.51%) TypeScript
6 70 (8.68%) Bash
7 65 (8.06%) Go
8 43 (5.33%) PowerShell
9 36 (4.47%) C#
10 18 (2.23%) PHP
10 18 (2.23%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.74%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.61%) Ruby
13 11 (1.36%) Scala
14 9 (1.12%) Groovy
15 8 (0.99%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.87%) JSX
17 6 (0.74%) Bicep
18 5 (0.62%) Delphi
19 4 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 254 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 212 (26.30%) SC Cleared
3 98 (12.16%) Degree
4 58 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 25 (3.10%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.85%) AWS Certification
10 16 (1.99%) OCP
10 16 (1.99%) Oracle Certification
11 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.50%) CISSP
14 3 (0.37%) CISM
14 3 (0.37%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.47%) QA
3 17 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.86%) GDPR
5 8 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.87%) NCSC
6 7 (0.87%) NIST
7 6 (0.74%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.74%) SLA
8 5 (0.62%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.50%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 296 (36.72%) Docker
2 11 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.99%) Postfix
5 5 (0.62%) NDS
5 5 (0.62%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (0.50%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.50%) zsh
7 3 (0.37%) DFS Replication
7 3 (0.37%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.37%) HDFS
7 3 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.37%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.25%) Lustre
8 2 (0.25%) NFS
8 2 (0.25%) Samba
8 2 (0.25%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) etcd
Systems Management
1 300 (37.22%) Kubernetes
2 163 (20.22%) Terraform
3 129 (16.00%) Grafana
4 94 (11.66%) Prometheus
5 90 (11.17%) Ansible
6 26 (3.23%) Nessus
7 23 (2.85%) Argo
7 23 (2.85%) Control-M
7 23 (2.85%) IBM Guardium
7 23 (2.85%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.61%) Puppet
9 9 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.12%) Istio
10 6 (0.74%) linkerd
11 5 (0.62%) Packer
11 5 (0.62%) Rancher
12 4 (0.50%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.37%) Kibana
13 3 (0.37%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 129 (16.00%) Oracle
2 99 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 43 (5.33%) Splunk
4 38 (4.71%) Google
5 29 (3.60%) Databricks
6 28 (3.47%) Red Hat
7 25 (3.10%) VMware
8 24 (2.98%) Atlassian
9 23 (2.85%) Informatica
9 23 (2.85%) Tenable
10 16 (1.99%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.86%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.74%) Greenplum
13 12 (1.49%) IBM
13 12 (1.49%) Talend
14 11 (1.36%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (0.99%) PagerDuty
16 5 (0.62%) Cloudera
16 5 (0.62%) Confluent
16 5 (0.62%) Salesforce