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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 110 128
Rank change year-on-year -68 +18 +45
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 869 809 725
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.45% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.55% 13.37% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 601 541
10th Percentile £355 £375 £338
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £838 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £488 £477
% change year-on-year -1.95% +2.20% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £24.88 - £48.23
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £65.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% -46.88% +22.00%
75th Percentile £63.06 £56.88 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.08% -18.75% +28.93%

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 8,237 6,053 6,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.01% 18.30% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,500 4,058 4,671
10th Percentile £355 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 86 90
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.11 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.96 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £74.68 £83.75 £71.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.39% +24.93% -44.95%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -83 693 £513 -4.65% 1,137
London -62 383 £525 -12.50% 761
UK excluding London -70 332 £478 -1.95% 477
Work from Home -64 272 £500 -16.67% 520
North of England -80 93 £501 +0.24% 137
Midlands -32 73 £446 -10.80% 53
South East -49 67 £460 +8.49% 106
West Midlands -41 51 £448 -10.50% 37
Yorkshire -38 46 £500 - 40
Scotland -27 43 £450 -6.49% 44
North West -49 41 £525 +10.53% 78
South West -42 34 £700 +27.27% 62
East of England -18 24 £500 +5.26% 39
East Midlands -6 21 £425 -17.48% 16
North East -50 6 £463 -15.86% 21
Wales -10 4 - - 15

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 39 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.80%) Confluence
4 30 (3.45%) Apache
5 7 (0.81%) nginx
5 7 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
7 5 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.35%) IIS
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) Appian
9 2 (0.23%) Camunda
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.69%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.23%) Finacle
3 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 453 (52.13%) AWS
2 287 (33.03%) Azure
3 168 (19.33%) GitHub
4 133 (15.30%) GCP
5 118 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
6 97 (11.16%) Amazon S3
7 95 (10.93%) Serverless
8 76 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (7.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 63 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
11 53 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (5.87%) Amazon SQS
13 41 (4.72%) Snowflake
14 31 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 26 (2.99%) AWS KMS
17 24 (2.76%) OpenShift
18 20 (2.30%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.53%) DNS
2 18 (2.07%) Firewall
2 18 (2.07%) HTTP
2 18 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.96%) SSH
4 9 (1.04%) Kerberos
5 8 (0.92%) HTTPS
5 8 (0.92%) SAN
6 6 (0.69%) 5G
7 5 (0.58%) 4G
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) VPN
8 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.35%) Network Security
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) IMAP
10 2 (0.23%) MQTT
10 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (20.37%) SQL Server
2 176 (20.25%) Relational Database
3 170 (19.56%) MySQL
4 167 (19.22%) MongoDB
5 108 (12.43%) NoSQL
6 107 (12.31%) Redis
7 88 (10.13%) Amazon RDS
8 81 (9.32%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (4.60%) DynamoDB
11 33 (3.80%) Metadata
11 33 (3.80%) RDBMS
12 29 (3.34%) Big Data
13 28 (3.22%) Oracle Database
14 25 (2.88%) Data Lake
15 21 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
15 21 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (1.96%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.84%) Power BI
18 15 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 215 (24.74%) Git
2 197 (22.67%) Jenkins
3 103 (11.85%) GitLab
4 78 (8.98%) JIRA
5 67 (7.71%) JUnit
6 59 (6.79%) Mockito
7 56 (6.44%) Maven
8 39 (4.49%) Gradle
9 27 (3.11%) SonarQube
10 21 (2.42%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.96%) Selenium
12 16 (1.84%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.61%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.38%) Gatling
14 12 (1.38%) Mocha
15 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.04%) Flyway
16 9 (1.04%) JMeter
17 7 (0.81%) Claude Code
18 6 (0.69%) DbUnit
General
1 195 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 140 (16.11%) Public Sector
3 137 (15.77%) Finance
4 133 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (6.79%) Banking
6 39 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (1.96%) Front Office
8 15 (1.73%) Retail
9 11 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.15%) Military
10 10 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.04%) Legal
11 9 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.92%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.81%) Law
14 6 (0.69%) Billing
14 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.58%) Automotive
15 5 (0.58%) Marketing
15 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 323 (37.17%) Developer
2 164 (18.87%) Senior
3 121 (13.92%) Java Developer
4 102 (11.74%) DBA
5 73 (8.40%) Senior Developer
6 69 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 67 (7.71%) Data Engineer
8 62 (7.13%) Lead
8 62 (7.13%) Software Engineer
9 58 (6.67%) Administrator
10 55 (6.33%) Python Developer
11 52 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 47 (5.41%) Architect
13 37 (4.26%) Java Engineer
14 35 (4.03%) Python Engineer
15 31 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (3.11%) Senior Java Developer
17 26 (2.99%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 26 (2.99%) Software Developer
18 25 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (28.88%) REST
2 192 (22.09%) Kafka
3 190 (21.86%) Spring
4 187 (21.52%) RESTful
5 169 (19.45%) Terraform
6 168 (19.33%) Spring Boot
7 153 (17.61%) React
8 99 (11.39%) Node.js
9 82 (9.44%) CSS
9 82 (9.44%) HTML
10 67 (7.71%) .NET
11 63 (7.25%) OAuth
12 58 (6.67%) AngularJS
13 57 (6.56%) Django
14 51 (5.87%) FastAPI
14 51 (5.87%) OAuth2
15 45 (5.18%) Web Services
16 44 (5.06%) GraphQL
17 43 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
18 42 (4.83%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 184 (21.17%) Cloud Native
2 107 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.98%) Replication
4 45 (5.18%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.26%) Data Structures
6 32 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.99%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.19%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.84%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.04%) Equities
15 9 (1.04%) LIMS
15 9 (1.04%) PKI
16 8 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 121 (13.92%) Linux
2 54 (6.21%) Unix
3 42 (4.83%) Windows
4 28 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.76%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.96%) Solaris
7 15 (1.73%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.15%) AIX
9 9 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 2 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.23%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.23%) Rocky
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (49.60%) CI/CD
2 307 (35.33%) Agile
3 301 (34.64%) DevOps
4 268 (30.84%) Microservices
5 196 (22.55%) Containerisation
6 176 (20.25%) Software Engineering
7 158 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 157 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
9 149 (17.15%) Test Automation
10 143 (16.46%) Full-Stack Development
11 132 (15.19%) AI
12 130 (14.96%) Data Modelling
13 129 (14.84%) Event-Driven
14 127 (14.61%) Observability
15 124 (14.27%) Performance Tuning
16 111 (12.77%) Migration
17 107 (12.31%) Scrum
18 100 (11.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 99 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
20 96 (11.05%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 337 (38.78%) SQL
2 319 (36.71%) Python
3 299 (34.41%) Java
4 158 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 125 (14.38%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.79%) C#
7 52 (5.98%) Bash
8 38 (4.37%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.91%) Go
10 29 (3.34%) Scala
11 23 (2.65%) Groovy
12 19 (2.19%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.96%) Perl
14 15 (1.73%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.61%) T-SQL
16 13 (1.50%) PL/SQL
17 12 (1.38%) PHP
18 10 (1.15%) Korn
19 9 (1.04%) Ruby
20 7 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 306 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 266 (30.61%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.90%) Degree
4 49 (5.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (2.99%) AWS Certification
9 22 (2.53%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.84%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.27%) OCP
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
14 1 (0.12%) CISA
14 1 (0.12%) CISM
14 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.78%) QA
2 47 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 46 (5.29%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.19%) GDPR
5 13 (1.50%) WCAG
6 8 (0.92%) GMP
6 8 (0.92%) GxP
6 8 (0.92%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.58%) SLA
9 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.46%) SEPA
10 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) PSD2
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 353 (40.62%) Docker
2 12 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.69%) Postfix
6 4 (0.46%) Squid
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Ceph
7 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 294 (33.83%) Kubernetes
2 116 (13.35%) Grafana
3 92 (10.59%) Prometheus
4 31 (3.57%) Ansible
4 31 (3.57%) Kibana
5 15 (1.73%) Argo
6 12 (1.38%) Karpenter
6 12 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
7 10 (1.15%) Data Guard
8 9 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 8 (0.92%) Control-M
10 7 (0.81%) Istio
10 7 (0.81%) Nessus
10 7 (0.81%) Puppet
11 6 (0.69%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
12 5 (0.58%) Rancher
12 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.46%) Bosun
13 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 188 (21.63%) Oracle
2 126 (14.50%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.29%) Google
4 43 (4.95%) Databricks
5 35 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 27 (3.11%) Splunk
7 25 (2.88%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.07%) Informatica
8 18 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.73%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.27%) Talend
11 10 (1.15%) VMware
12 9 (1.04%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (0.92%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.92%) NetApp
13 8 (0.92%) Sybase
14 7 (0.81%) Foundry
14 7 (0.81%) IBM
14 7 (0.81%) TikTok
15 6 (0.69%) BeyondTrust