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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 115 132
Rank change year-on-year -43 +17 +21
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 883 787 720
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 2.40% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.85% 13.18% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 600 537
10th Percentile £369 £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 8,139 5,969 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.19% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,404 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 255 90 104
10th Percentile £16.28 £19.20 £14.48
25th Percentile £24.25 £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 £76.30 £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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -47 716 £513 -6.82% 326
UK excluding London -22 408 £475 - 177
London -62 347 £550 -8.33% 198
Work from Home -69 285 £500 -13.49% 166
North of England -40 131 £483 -3.40% 48
Midlands -1 104 £448 -10.50% 19
West Midlands -22 75 £448 -5.79% 10
South East -46 72 £470 +8.05% 51
North West -38 61 £480 +2.02% 30
Yorkshire -20 58 £488 -2.50% 12
Scotland -10 52 £425 -10.53% 16
South West -22 31 £700 +30.23% 21
East Midlands +7 27 £447 -12.78% 9
East of England -13 19 £575 +27.78% 10
North East -53 11 £425 -19.05% 6
Wales -15 4 - - 6

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 (5.32%) Confluence
2 37 (4.19%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.27%) Apache
5 10 (1.13%) nginx
6 7 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 5 (0.57%) Camunda
9 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.45%) 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 (1.02%) 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
1 466 (52.77%) AWS
2 308 (34.88%) Azure
3 159 (18.01%) GCP
4 157 (17.78%) GitHub
5 109 (12.34%) GitHub Actions
6 97 (10.99%) Serverless
7 95 (10.76%) Amazon S3
8 69 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (6.46%) Amazon SQS
9 57 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
11 52 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 52 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (3.62%) Snowflake
13 30 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (3.17%) Azure AKS
15 27 (3.06%) Power Platform
16 26 (2.94%) Route 53
17 23 (2.60%) AWS KMS
17 23 (2.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.15%) Firewall
2 15 (1.70%) DNS
3 10 (1.13%) SSH
4 9 (1.02%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.68%) HTTP
5 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.45%) SAN
7 4 (0.45%) 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
1 169 (19.14%) SQL Server
2 168 (19.03%) MongoDB
2 168 (19.03%) Relational Database
3 138 (15.63%) MySQL
4 120 (13.59%) NoSQL
5 74 (8.38%) Redis
6 68 (7.70%) Amazon RDS
7 64 (7.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 54 (6.12%) DynamoDB
9 38 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (3.74%) RDBMS
11 32 (3.62%) Big Data
12 31 (3.51%) Oracle Database
13 27 (3.06%) Data Lake
14 22 (2.49%) Power BI
15 20 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (2.27%) Metadata
16 17 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
17 15 (1.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 196 (22.20%) Jenkins
2 193 (21.86%) Git
3 96 (10.87%) JIRA
4 87 (9.85%) GitLab
5 83 (9.40%) JUnit
6 58 (6.57%) Mockito
7 51 (5.78%) Maven
8 34 (3.85%) Gradle
9 33 (3.74%) Cucumber
10 26 (2.94%) Selenium
10 26 (2.94%) SonarQube
11 25 (2.83%) JMeter
12 22 (2.49%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.27%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.93%) Gatling
15 15 (1.70%) Bitbucket
16 14 (1.59%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.47%) jMock
18 11 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
19 10 (1.13%) Flyway
General
1 188 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 168 (19.03%) Finance
3 133 (15.06%) Public Sector
4 115 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (6.57%) Banking
6 27 (3.06%) Front Office
7 23 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.36%) Military
10 10 (1.13%) Law
10 10 (1.13%) Legal
11 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.91%) Retail
12 7 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
15 4 (0.45%) Marketing
15 4 (0.45%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 351 (39.75%) Developer
2 163 (18.46%) Senior
3 121 (13.70%) Java Developer
4 93 (10.53%) DBA
5 83 (9.40%) Software Engineer
6 77 (8.72%) Full-Stack Developer
6 77 (8.72%) Lead
7 69 (7.81%) Python Developer
8 68 (7.70%) Data Engineer
9 67 (7.59%) Senior Developer
10 58 (6.57%) Architect
11 45 (5.10%) Administrator
12 42 (4.76%) Java Engineer
13 38 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
14 36 (4.08%) Lead Developer
15 34 (3.85%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 31 (3.51%) Backend Developer
18 30 (3.40%) Python Engineer
19 29 (3.28%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (24.35%) REST
2 208 (23.56%) Spring
3 185 (20.95%) Kafka
4 182 (20.61%) RESTful
5 179 (20.27%) React
6 166 (18.80%) Spring Boot
7 133 (15.06%) Node.js
8 65 (7.36%) AngularJS
9 62 (7.02%) FastAPI
10 53 (6.00%) HTML
11 52 (5.89%) CSS
12 50 (5.66%) .NET
13 48 (5.44%) OpenAPI
13 48 (5.44%) Swagger
14 44 (4.98%) Web Services
15 41 (4.64%) Django
16 40 (4.53%) RabbitMQ
17 38 (4.30%) JPA
17 38 (4.30%) OAuth
18 37 (4.19%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 159 (18.01%) Cloud Native
2 119 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.08%) Replication
5 34 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.83%) Derivative
8 25 (2.83%) Equities
9 23 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.27%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.27%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.04%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.59%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.47%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.36%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.02%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.36%) Linux
2 36 (4.08%) Unix
3 34 (3.85%) Windows
4 29 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.91%) Solaris
8 5 (0.57%) AIX
8 5 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Android
9 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.34%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) zOS
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (46.32%) CI/CD
2 344 (38.96%) Agile
3 286 (32.39%) Microservices
4 283 (32.05%) DevOps
5 213 (24.12%) Containerisation
6 183 (20.72%) Software Engineering
7 162 (18.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 161 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
9 134 (15.18%) Test Automation
10 127 (14.38%) AI
11 123 (13.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 123 (13.93%) Observability
12 119 (13.48%) Performance Tuning
13 116 (13.14%) Data Modelling
14 111 (12.57%) TDD
15 107 (12.12%) Migration
16 105 (11.89%) Scrum
17 102 (11.55%) Event-Driven
18 91 (10.31%) Analytics
19 89 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 344 (38.96%) Python
2 325 (36.81%) Java
3 318 (36.01%) SQL
4 164 (18.57%) TypeScript
5 130 (14.72%) JavaScript
6 53 (6.00%) C#
7 45 (5.10%) PowerShell
8 41 (4.64%) Bash
9 33 (3.74%) Go
10 29 (3.28%) Scala
11 19 (2.15%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.47%) Groovy
13 13 (1.47%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.47%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.36%) PHP
15 11 (1.25%) Ruby
16 9 (1.02%) Perl
17 7 (0.79%) Rust
18 6 (0.68%) Korn
Qualifications
1 308 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 260 (29.45%) SC Cleared
3 61 (6.91%) Degree
4 43 (4.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 24 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (1.59%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.13%) OCP
12 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.68%) CISSP
14 4 (0.45%) CISM
14 4 (0.45%) 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%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.59%) QA
2 41 (4.64%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.81%) GDPR
5 15 (1.70%) WCAG
6 6 (0.68%) GMP
6 6 (0.68%) GxP
7 5 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.45%) NIST
8 4 (0.45%) SLA
9 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 343 (38.84%) Docker
2 13 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.25%) Postfix
3 11 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.57%) Ceph
6 4 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.34%) HDFS
7 3 (0.34%) Squid
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.11%) NFS
9 1 (0.11%) RACF
9 1 (0.11%) Samba
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 307 (34.77%) Kubernetes
2 144 (16.31%) Terraform
3 123 (13.93%) Grafana
4 91 (10.31%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.30%) Ansible
6 17 (1.93%) Kibana
6 17 (1.93%) Oracle RMAN
7 15 (1.70%) Argo
8 12 (1.36%) Data Guard
9 11 (1.25%) Control-M
9 11 (1.25%) IBM Guardium
9 11 (1.25%) Nessus
10 10 (1.13%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.79%) Rancher
12 6 (0.68%) Istio
13 4 (0.45%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.34%) Bosun
14 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
14 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 187 (21.18%) Oracle
2 131 (14.84%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.42%) Google
4 34 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.40%) Databricks
6 22 (2.49%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.38%) Splunk
8 17 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
8 17 (1.93%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.81%) Atlassian
10 15 (1.70%) Informatica
11 14 (1.59%) OpenAI
12 13 (1.47%) VMware
13 11 (1.25%) IBM
13 11 (1.25%) Tenable
14 10 (1.13%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.13%) Talend
15 9 (1.02%) Sybase
16 7 (0.79%) TikTok