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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 119 140
Rank change year-on-year -42 +21 +13
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 854 708 721
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 2.32% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.93% 12.64% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 531 541
10th Percentile £360 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £452 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +1.62% +3.35%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -1.31% +0.63% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £32.40 £54.50 £53.70
25th Percentile £61.00 £57.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -18.75% +255.79%
75th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% -18.75% +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 7,811 5,603 7,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.32% 18.34% 17.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,182 3,795 5,402
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £637 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 99 152
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.52 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £26.00 £20.93
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -12.50% -29.08%
75th Percentile £63.94 £64.13 £53.84
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £33.93
% change year-on-year +18.52% -6.75% -38.31%

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 28 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 28 June 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 28 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 -46 712 £521 -5.36% 214
UK excluding London -22 382 £472 -1.31% 148
London -38 363 £550 -8.33% 106
Work from Home -58 270 £500 -9.99% 116
North of England -29 123 £474 -5.25% 37
Midlands +2 100 £447 -10.60% 22
West Midlands -20 69 £450 -10.00% 13
South East -37 69 £473 +8.74% 47
North West -31 62 £470 -1.05% 22
Yorkshire -20 51 £488 -2.50% 8
Scotland +2 48 £425 -11.46% 8
South West -28 30 £700 +27.27% 14
East Midlands +11 29 £445 -10.55% 9
East of England -27 14 £575 +27.78% 12
North East -38 9 £425 -13.27% 7
Wales - 3 - - 4

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 (5.97%) Confluence
2 44 (5.15%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.58%) Apache
5 10 (1.17%) nginx
6 7 (0.82%) Camunda
6 7 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.47%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.35%) Appian
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.35%) IIS
9 3 (0.35%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Drupal
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.05%) CPLEX
2 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 456 (53.40%) AWS
2 284 (33.26%) Azure
3 144 (16.86%) GCP
3 144 (16.86%) GitHub
4 101 (11.83%) Amazon S3
5 98 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
5 98 (11.48%) Serverless
6 73 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
8 51 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (5.85%) Amazon SQS
10 48 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
12 32 (3.75%) Snowflake
13 30 (3.51%) Route 53
14 29 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (3.04%) Power Platform
16 24 (2.81%) Azure AKS
17 23 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (2.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.87%) DNS
1 16 (1.87%) Firewall
2 9 (1.05%) HTTPS
2 9 (1.05%) SSH
3 5 (0.59%) HTTP
3 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.47%) SSL
4 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.35%) iSCSI
5 3 (0.35%) MQTT
5 3 (0.35%) Network Security
5 3 (0.35%) SAN
5 3 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.35%) WAN
6 2 (0.23%) DHCP
6 2 (0.23%) NaaS
6 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.12%) Internet
7 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (20.02%) SQL Server
2 159 (18.62%) MongoDB
3 148 (17.33%) Relational Database
4 133 (15.57%) NoSQL
5 128 (14.99%) MySQL
6 75 (8.78%) Amazon RDS
7 67 (7.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 66 (7.73%) Redis
9 61 (7.14%) DynamoDB
10 39 (4.57%) Big Data
11 37 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
12 30 (3.51%) Data Lake
12 30 (3.51%) RDBMS
13 26 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (2.93%) Oracle Database
15 23 (2.69%) Power BI
16 22 (2.58%) Metadata
17 18 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
18 17 (1.99%) Tableau
19 16 (1.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 178 (20.84%) Jenkins
2 167 (19.56%) Git
3 96 (11.24%) JIRA
4 82 (9.60%) JUnit
5 74 (8.67%) GitLab
6 54 (6.32%) Mockito
7 39 (4.57%) Maven
8 31 (3.63%) Cucumber
9 25 (2.93%) Gradle
10 24 (2.81%) Selenium
11 23 (2.69%) JMeter
12 21 (2.46%) Liquibase
12 21 (2.46%) SonarQube
13 20 (2.34%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.99%) Gatling
15 14 (1.64%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.52%) jMock
17 11 (1.29%) Bitbucket Server
18 9 (1.05%) Flyway
19 8 (0.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 178 (20.84%) Social Skills
2 177 (20.73%) Finance
3 113 (13.23%) Public Sector
4 93 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.56%) Banking
6 29 (3.40%) Front Office
7 20 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.41%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.17%) Military
11 9 (1.05%) Law
12 8 (0.94%) Retail
13 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.70%) Legal
13 6 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.59%) Automotive
14 5 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.35%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.35%) Private Banking
15 3 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 333 (38.99%) Developer
2 150 (17.56%) Senior
3 102 (11.94%) Java Developer
4 85 (9.95%) DBA
4 85 (9.95%) Full-Stack Developer
4 85 (9.95%) Python Developer
5 83 (9.72%) Software Engineer
6 74 (8.67%) Lead
7 70 (8.20%) Data Engineer
8 67 (7.85%) Architect
9 56 (6.56%) Senior Developer
10 38 (4.45%) Java Engineer
11 36 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.10%) Administrator
13 34 (3.98%) Lead Developer
14 32 (3.75%) Backend Developer
15 29 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 28 (3.28%) Python Engineer
17 27 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
17 27 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (23.19%) Spring
2 186 (21.78%) Kafka
3 176 (20.61%) REST
4 174 (20.37%) React
5 163 (19.09%) RESTful
6 156 (18.27%) Spring Boot
7 132 (15.46%) Node.js
8 73 (8.55%) FastAPI
9 65 (7.61%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.39%) OpenAPI
10 46 (5.39%) Swagger
11 44 (5.15%) Django
12 42 (4.92%) .NET
12 42 (4.92%) GraphQL
12 42 (4.92%) JPA
13 41 (4.80%) HTML
14 39 (4.57%) CSS
14 39 (4.57%) Web Services
15 38 (4.45%) Hibernate
15 38 (4.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 143 (16.74%) Cloud Native
2 107 (12.53%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.28%) Derivative
4 28 (3.28%) Replication
5 27 (3.16%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.04%) Distributed Architecture
7 24 (2.81%) Equities
7 24 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.46%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.34%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.99%) Onboarding
13 16 (1.87%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.17%) AI Agents
15 10 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (0.94%) Clustering
16 8 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 112 (13.11%) Linux
2 30 (3.51%) Unix
3 28 (3.28%) Windows
4 23 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.94%) Solaris
8 4 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Android
9 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) VMS
10 2 (0.23%) zOS
11 1 (0.12%) AIX
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (43.68%) CI/CD
2 321 (37.59%) Agile
3 261 (30.56%) DevOps
4 259 (30.33%) Microservices
5 221 (25.88%) Containerisation
6 168 (19.67%) Software Engineering
7 162 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 139 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 120 (14.05%) Test Automation
10 115 (13.47%) Observability
11 114 (13.35%) AI
12 108 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 106 (12.41%) Data Modelling
14 103 (12.06%) Migration
14 103 (12.06%) TDD
15 101 (11.83%) Performance Tuning
16 91 (10.66%) Event-Driven
17 87 (10.19%) Analytics
18 86 (10.07%) Scrum
19 84 (9.84%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 353 (41.33%) Python
2 316 (37.00%) SQL
3 292 (34.19%) Java
4 152 (17.80%) TypeScript
5 123 (14.40%) JavaScript
6 51 (5.97%) C#
7 46 (5.39%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.57%) Bash
9 31 (3.63%) Scala
10 28 (3.28%) Go
11 18 (2.11%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.76%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.52%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.41%) PHP
15 9 (1.05%) Groovy
15 9 (1.05%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.82%) Ruby
17 6 (0.70%) Bicep
18 5 (0.59%) C++
18 5 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 299 (35.01%) Security Cleared
2 248 (29.04%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.61%) Degree
4 34 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.76%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.70%) CISSP
12 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.47%) CISM
13 4 (0.47%) OCP
14 3 (0.35%) PhD
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.12%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.96%) QA
2 44 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.41%) WCAG
5 10 (1.17%) GDPR
6 8 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.94%) NIST
7 6 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.47%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 323 (37.82%) Docker
2 12 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.29%) Postfix
4 10 (1.17%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (1.05%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.59%) Ceph
7 4 (0.47%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.35%) HDFS
8 3 (0.35%) Squid
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) RACF
10 1 (0.12%) Samba
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 284 (33.26%) Kubernetes
2 130 (15.22%) Terraform
3 116 (13.58%) Grafana
4 87 (10.19%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.80%) Ansible
6 16 (1.87%) Control-M
6 16 (1.87%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (1.87%) Nessus
7 13 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.41%) Data Guard
8 12 (1.41%) Kibana
9 10 (1.17%) Argo
9 10 (1.17%) HAProxy
10 7 (0.82%) Rancher
11 6 (0.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 5 (0.59%) Istio
13 4 (0.47%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.35%) Puppet
15 2 (0.23%) Consul
15 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 162 (18.97%) Oracle
2 129 (15.11%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.75%) Databricks
4 28 (3.28%) Google
5 27 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.46%) Informatica
7 20 (2.34%) Splunk
8 18 (2.11%) Atlassian
9 17 (1.99%) Jaspersoft
9 17 (1.99%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.87%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.87%) Tenable
11 14 (1.64%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.52%) Talend
13 10 (1.17%) Sybase
14 9 (1.05%) CyberArk
14 9 (1.05%) IBM
14 9 (1.05%) OpenAI
14 9 (1.05%) VMware
15 7 (0.82%) Confluent