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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 114 135
Rank change year-on-year -45 +21 +24
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 894 788 714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.40% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.90% 13.20% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 600 537
10th Percentile £363 £385 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £464
% change year-on-year - +2.32% -6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 6
10th Percentile £27.18 £54.50 £51.88
25th Percentile £27.75 £57.50 £69.00
Median hourly rate £49.50 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% -18.75% +77.78%
75th Percentile £72.11 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.75 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -49.62% -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 8,200 5,969 7,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.38% 18.15% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,442 4,036 5,054
10th Percentile £355 £345 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
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 257 90 102
10th Percentile £16.42 £19.20 £14.33
25th Percentile £25.05 £23.50 £20.19
Median hourly rate £39.50 £36.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -0.68% -33.64%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.69 £61.19
90th Percentile £76.20 £78.83 £72.40
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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -53 727 £513 -6.39% 369
UK excluding London -26 412 £475 - 204
London -62 354 £550 -8.33% 222
Work from Home -62 287 £500 -14.00% 207
North of England -38 132 £481 -3.12% 50
Midlands +2 104 £448 -10.50% 24
West Midlands -22 75 £448 -5.79% 14
South East -36 75 £468 +7.47% 59
Yorkshire -9 61 £488 -2.50% 16
North West -40 60 £481 +1.26% 31
Scotland -8 52 £425 -10.53% 22
South West -26 31 £700 +27.27% 24
East Midlands +3 27 £447 -12.78% 10
East of England -15 19 £575 +27.78% 9
North East -47 11 £425 -19.05% 3
Wales -10 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 48 (5.37%) Confluence
2 37 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.24%) Apache
5 7 (0.78%) nginx
5 7 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.67%) CMS
7 5 (0.56%) Camunda
8 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.34%) IIS
9 3 (0.34%) JBoss
9 3 (0.34%) SAS
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.22%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.01%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.45%) Trello
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Maya
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 473 (52.91%) AWS
2 313 (35.01%) Azure
3 167 (18.68%) GCP
4 162 (18.12%) GitHub
5 112 (12.53%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (10.96%) Serverless
7 96 (10.74%) Amazon S3
8 70 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (6.49%) Amazon SQS
10 57 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 54 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (3.58%) Snowflake
14 30 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (3.02%) Azure AKS
15 27 (3.02%) Power Platform
16 26 (2.91%) Route 53
17 23 (2.57%) AWS KMS
17 23 (2.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.13%) Firewall
2 16 (1.79%) DNS
3 12 (1.34%) SSH
4 10 (1.12%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.67%) HTTP
5 6 (0.67%) SSL
5 6 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.45%) SAN
7 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.34%) MQTT
7 3 (0.34%) Network Security
7 3 (0.34%) VPN
7 3 (0.34%) WAN
8 2 (0.22%) DHCP
8 2 (0.22%) NaaS
8 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.11%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (19.24%) MongoDB
2 169 (18.90%) SQL Server
3 168 (18.79%) Relational Database
4 140 (15.66%) MySQL
5 123 (13.76%) NoSQL
6 76 (8.50%) Redis
7 69 (7.72%) Amazon RDS
8 64 (7.16%) Amazon Aurora
9 55 (6.15%) DynamoDB
10 38 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (3.69%) RDBMS
12 32 (3.58%) Big Data
13 31 (3.47%) Oracle Database
14 27 (3.02%) Data Lake
15 22 (2.46%) Power BI
16 21 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
17 20 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (2.24%) Metadata
18 17 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
19 15 (1.68%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 201 (22.48%) Jenkins
2 197 (22.04%) Git
3 101 (11.30%) JIRA
4 86 (9.62%) GitLab
5 85 (9.51%) JUnit
6 60 (6.71%) Mockito
7 51 (5.70%) Maven
8 35 (3.91%) Gradle
9 33 (3.69%) Cucumber
10 28 (3.13%) Selenium
11 26 (2.91%) SonarQube
12 25 (2.80%) JMeter
13 23 (2.57%) Liquibase
14 20 (2.24%) WebDriver
15 17 (1.90%) Gatling
16 16 (1.79%) Bitbucket
17 14 (1.57%) DbUnit
18 13 (1.45%) jMock
19 11 (1.23%) Bitbucket Server
20 10 (1.12%) Flyway
General
1 190 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 166 (18.57%) Finance
3 135 (15.10%) Public Sector
4 117 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (6.38%) Banking
6 27 (3.02%) Front Office
7 23 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.34%) Military
10 10 (1.12%) Law
10 10 (1.12%) Legal
11 9 (1.01%) Retail
12 8 (0.89%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.78%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.56%) Automotive
16 4 (0.45%) Marketing
16 4 (0.45%) Private Banking
17 3 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 358 (40.04%) Developer
2 164 (18.34%) Senior
3 124 (13.87%) Java Developer
4 93 (10.40%) DBA
5 86 (9.62%) Software Engineer
6 80 (8.95%) Full-Stack Developer
7 78 (8.72%) Lead
8 69 (7.72%) Python Developer
9 68 (7.61%) Senior Developer
10 66 (7.38%) Data Engineer
11 58 (6.49%) Architect
12 45 (5.03%) Administrator
13 42 (4.70%) Java Engineer
14 38 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.03%) Lead Developer
16 35 (3.91%) Software Developer
17 32 (3.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 31 (3.47%) Backend Developer
19 30 (3.36%) Python Engineer
20 29 (3.24%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (24.50%) REST
2 212 (23.71%) Spring
3 188 (21.03%) Kafka
4 186 (20.81%) RESTful
5 184 (20.58%) React
6 169 (18.90%) Spring Boot
7 138 (15.44%) Node.js
8 65 (7.27%) AngularJS
9 62 (6.94%) FastAPI
10 55 (6.15%) HTML
11 54 (6.04%) CSS
12 50 (5.59%) .NET
13 49 (5.48%) OpenAPI
13 49 (5.48%) Swagger
14 44 (4.92%) Web Services
15 43 (4.81%) Django
16 40 (4.47%) OAuth
16 40 (4.47%) RabbitMQ
17 38 (4.25%) JPA
18 37 (4.14%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 162 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 119 (13.31%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.03%) Replication
5 34 (3.80%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 26 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.80%) Derivative
8 25 (2.80%) Equities
9 23 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.24%) Fixed Income
11 18 (2.01%) Algorithms
11 18 (2.01%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.57%) AI Agents
12 14 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.34%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.01%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 115 (12.86%) Linux
2 36 (4.03%) Unix
3 34 (3.80%) Windows
4 29 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.89%) Solaris
8 5 (0.56%) AIX
8 5 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Android
9 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.22%) VMS
10 2 (0.22%) 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
1 414 (46.31%) CI/CD
2 348 (38.93%) Agile
3 293 (32.77%) Microservices
4 283 (31.66%) DevOps
5 213 (23.83%) Containerisation
6 187 (20.92%) Software Engineering
7 165 (18.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 163 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
9 138 (15.44%) Test Automation
10 126 (14.09%) Observability
11 125 (13.98%) AI
12 123 (13.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 120 (13.42%) Performance Tuning
14 117 (13.09%) Data Modelling
15 113 (12.64%) TDD
16 109 (12.19%) Migration
17 107 (11.97%) Scrum
18 106 (11.86%) Event-Driven
19 92 (10.29%) Analytics
19 92 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 344 (38.48%) Python
2 331 (37.02%) Java
3 321 (35.91%) SQL
4 170 (19.02%) TypeScript
5 133 (14.88%) JavaScript
6 53 (5.93%) C#
7 45 (5.03%) PowerShell
8 41 (4.59%) Bash
9 36 (4.03%) Go
10 29 (3.24%) Scala
11 19 (2.13%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.57%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.45%) Groovy
13 13 (1.45%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.45%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.34%) PHP
15 11 (1.23%) Ruby
16 9 (1.01%) Perl
17 7 (0.78%) Rust
18 6 (0.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 310 (34.68%) Security Cleared
2 262 (29.31%) SC Cleared
3 62 (6.94%) Degree
4 44 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (1.57%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.12%) OCP
12 8 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.67%) CISSP
14 4 (0.45%) CISM
14 4 (0.45%) PhD
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.11%) CISA
17 1 (0.11%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.61%) QA
2 43 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.36%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.79%) GDPR
4 16 (1.79%) WCAG
5 6 (0.67%) GMP
5 6 (0.67%) GxP
6 5 (0.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.56%) ISO 9000
6 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.56%) SLA
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.45%) NIST
8 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.22%) HL7
9 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 348 (38.93%) Docker
2 14 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.23%) Postfix
5 10 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
6 8 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.67%) Ceph
8 5 (0.56%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.45%) Squid
10 3 (0.34%) HDFS
11 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.11%) NFS
12 1 (0.11%) RACF
12 1 (0.11%) Samba
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 315 (35.23%) Kubernetes
2 144 (16.11%) Terraform
3 125 (13.98%) Grafana
4 93 (10.40%) Prometheus
5 39 (4.36%) Ansible
6 18 (2.01%) Kibana
7 17 (1.90%) Oracle RMAN
8 15 (1.68%) Argo
9 12 (1.34%) Control-M
9 12 (1.34%) Data Guard
9 12 (1.34%) IBM Guardium
9 12 (1.34%) Nessus
10 10 (1.12%) HAProxy
10 10 (1.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.78%) Rancher
12 6 (0.67%) 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 (20.92%) Oracle
2 131 (14.65%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.47%) Google
4 35 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.47%) Databricks
6 22 (2.46%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.35%) Splunk
8 17 (1.90%) Jaspersoft
8 17 (1.90%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.79%) Atlassian
10 15 (1.68%) Informatica
10 15 (1.68%) OpenAI
11 14 (1.57%) VMware
12 12 (1.34%) Tenable
13 11 (1.23%) IBM
14 10 (1.12%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.12%) Talend
15 9 (1.01%) Sybase
16 7 (0.78%) TikTok