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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 120 128
Rank change year-on-year -62 +8 +34
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 843 779 722
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.36% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.32% 13.12% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 578 536
10th Percentile £363 £378 £366
25th Percentile £425 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £527
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.66% +1.25%
75th Percentile £585 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £487
% change year-on-year -0.84% -1.54% -2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £25.45 - £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% +49.46%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £72.50 -
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 8,165 5,939 6,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.19% 18.02% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 3,981 4,881
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 94 100
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.22 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.02 £19.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.94 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.63 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -45.45%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -71 678 £500 -6.41% 523
UK excluding London -37 360 £475 -0.84% 237
London -68 345 £525 -12.50% 366
Work from Home -67 260 £500 -15.18% 270
North of England -58 116 £494 -0.55% 49
Midlands -19 78 £445 -11.00% 31
South East -39 67 £471 +8.16% 72
Yorkshire -24 55 £500 - 11
North West -51 52 £500 +5.26% 32
West Midlands -36 47 £447 -5.89% 18
Scotland -20 46 £425 -12.82% 21
South West -29 32 £650 +18.18% 39
East Midlands +7 30 £425 -17.48% 12
East of England -6 21 £488 +4.28% 11
North East -44 9 £425 -22.73% 6
Wales -14 4 - - 8

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 32 (3.80%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (3.20%) Confluence
4 20 (2.37%) Apache
5 8 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.71%) CMS
8 5 (0.59%) nginx
9 4 (0.47%) Camunda
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.36%) IIS
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.24%) JBoss
11 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.24%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.95%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.47%) Trello
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Finacle
3 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.12%) Odoo
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 441 (52.31%) AWS
2 283 (33.57%) Azure
3 158 (18.74%) GitHub
4 120 (14.23%) GCP
5 115 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (11.98%) Serverless
7 89 (10.56%) Amazon S3
8 76 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
9 61 (7.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (6.88%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.64%) Amazon ECS
12 55 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
13 51 (6.05%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (3.80%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (3.20%) AWS KMS
18 25 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
19 23 (2.73%) Azure AKS
19 23 (2.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.08%) DNS
2 20 (2.37%) Firewall
3 19 (2.25%) SSH
4 18 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.90%) HTTP
6 11 (1.30%) HTTPS
7 9 (1.07%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.95%) SAN
9 7 (0.83%) SSL
10 5 (0.59%) 5G
11 4 (0.47%) 4G
11 4 (0.47%) VPN
12 3 (0.36%) Network Security
13 2 (0.24%) DHCP
13 2 (0.24%) FTP
13 2 (0.24%) IMAP
13 2 (0.24%) MQTT
13 2 (0.24%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.24%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (19.93%) SQL Server
2 166 (19.69%) MongoDB
3 162 (19.22%) Relational Database
4 150 (17.79%) MySQL
5 109 (12.93%) NoSQL
6 100 (11.86%) Redis
7 79 (9.37%) Amazon RDS
8 76 (9.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 42 (4.98%) DynamoDB
10 40 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
11 30 (3.56%) RDBMS
12 29 (3.44%) Oracle Database
13 27 (3.20%) Big Data
14 25 (2.97%) Data Lake
15 24 (2.85%) Metadata
16 23 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
17 18 (2.14%) Power BI
18 15 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
19 13 (1.54%) Tableau
20 12 (1.42%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 192 (22.78%) Git
2 191 (22.66%) Jenkins
3 94 (11.15%) GitLab
4 74 (8.78%) JIRA
5 63 (7.47%) JUnit
6 50 (5.93%) Mockito
7 41 (4.86%) Maven
8 35 (4.15%) Gradle
9 23 (2.73%) Liquibase
10 20 (2.37%) Cucumber
11 19 (2.25%) SonarQube
12 18 (2.14%) Selenium
13 16 (1.90%) Gatling
14 13 (1.54%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.54%) JMeter
15 12 (1.42%) Mocha
16 10 (1.19%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.19%) Flyway
17 8 (0.95%) WebDriver
18 7 (0.83%) DbUnit
General
1 187 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 141 (16.73%) Public Sector
3 123 (14.59%) Finance
4 117 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (5.69%) Banking
6 31 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.42%) Front Office
8 11 (1.30%) Military
8 11 (1.30%) Retail
9 10 (1.19%) Law
9 10 (1.19%) Legal
9 10 (1.19%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.59%) Automotive
12 5 (0.59%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.59%) Marketing
12 5 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.47%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 312 (37.01%) Developer
2 151 (17.91%) Senior
3 104 (12.34%) Java Developer
4 98 (11.63%) DBA
5 67 (7.95%) Software Engineer
6 65 (7.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 62 (7.35%) Senior Developer
8 61 (7.24%) Data Engineer
8 61 (7.24%) Lead
9 56 (6.64%) Administrator
10 53 (6.29%) Python Developer
11 47 (5.58%) Architect
12 45 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
13 40 (4.74%) Java Engineer
14 35 (4.15%) Software Developer
15 30 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
16 26 (3.08%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 25 (2.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 24 (2.85%) Backend Developer
18 24 (2.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (26.33%) REST
2 186 (22.06%) Spring
3 182 (21.59%) RESTful
4 180 (21.35%) Kafka
5 161 (19.10%) Terraform
6 157 (18.62%) Spring Boot
7 151 (17.91%) React
8 107 (12.69%) Node.js
9 72 (8.54%) CSS
9 72 (8.54%) HTML
10 60 (7.12%) .NET
11 54 (6.41%) FastAPI
11 54 (6.41%) OAuth
12 51 (6.05%) Django
13 48 (5.69%) AngularJS
14 47 (5.58%) OpenAPI
14 47 (5.58%) Swagger
15 44 (5.22%) OAuth2
16 41 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
17 38 (4.51%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 167 (19.81%) Cloud Native
2 104 (12.34%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.81%) Replication
4 41 (4.86%) Product Ownership
5 34 (4.03%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.37%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.37%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.90%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.42%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.07%) Equities
16 8 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
16 8 (0.95%) PKI
17 7 (0.83%) Derivative
17 7 (0.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 118 (14.00%) Linux
2 40 (4.74%) Unix
3 37 (4.39%) Windows
4 27 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (2.61%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.66%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.07%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.95%) Solaris
9 7 (0.83%) AIX
10 3 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (49.11%) CI/CD
2 300 (35.59%) Agile
3 292 (34.64%) DevOps
4 262 (31.08%) Microservices
5 194 (23.01%) Containerisation
6 168 (19.93%) Software Engineering
7 156 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (17.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 145 (17.20%) Full-Stack Development
10 134 (15.90%) Test Automation
11 122 (14.47%) Data Modelling
12 121 (14.35%) Observability
12 121 (14.35%) Performance Tuning
13 118 (14.00%) AI
14 111 (13.17%) Event-Driven
14 111 (13.17%) Migration
15 96 (11.39%) Validation
16 91 (10.79%) TDD
17 90 (10.68%) Scrum
18 86 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 314 (37.25%) SQL
2 312 (37.01%) Python
3 302 (35.82%) Java
4 146 (17.32%) TypeScript
5 108 (12.81%) JavaScript
6 56 (6.64%) C#
7 51 (6.05%) Bash
8 43 (5.10%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.68%) Go
10 30 (3.56%) Scala
11 18 (2.14%) Groovy
12 17 (2.02%) Perl
12 17 (2.02%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.66%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.54%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.42%) Ruby
16 11 (1.30%) PHP
17 10 (1.19%) Korn
17 10 (1.19%) T-SQL
18 9 (1.07%) Rust
Qualifications
1 299 (35.47%) Security Cleared
2 253 (30.01%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.17%) Degree
4 46 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.61%) AWS Certification
9 17 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.66%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.07%) OCP
13 8 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.24%) CISSP
15 1 (0.12%) CISA
15 1 (0.12%) CISM
15 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.66%) QA
2 49 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 44 (5.22%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.90%) GDPR
4 16 (1.90%) WCAG
5 7 (0.83%) GMP
5 7 (0.83%) GxP
6 6 (0.71%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 6 (0.71%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.59%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.59%) SLA
8 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.36%) SEPA
10 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.24%) NIST
10 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 336 (39.86%) Docker
2 14 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.54%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.83%) Postfix
7 6 (0.71%) Ceph
7 6 (0.71%) Squid
8 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) RACF
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 288 (34.16%) Kubernetes
2 106 (12.57%) Grafana
3 81 (9.61%) Prometheus
4 38 (4.51%) Ansible
5 24 (2.85%) Kibana
6 17 (2.02%) Argo
7 15 (1.78%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (1.30%) Data Guard
9 10 (1.19%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.07%) Control-M
10 9 (1.07%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 8 (0.95%) Karpenter
11 8 (0.95%) Nessus
12 6 (0.71%) IBM Guardium
12 6 (0.71%) Istio
13 5 (0.59%) Puppet
13 5 (0.59%) Rancher
14 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.36%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
15 3 (0.36%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 177 (21.00%) Oracle
2 125 (14.83%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.51%) Google
4 35 (4.15%) Databricks
5 34 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.73%) Dynatrace
6 23 (2.73%) Splunk
7 16 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.78%) Informatica
8 15 (1.78%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.66%) VMware
10 10 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.07%) NetApp
12 8 (0.95%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.95%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.95%) Sybase
12 8 (0.95%) Talend
13 7 (0.83%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.83%) TikTok
14 6 (0.71%) Tenable