PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 131 164
Rank change year-on-year +10 +33 -7
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 770 723 794
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.36% 1.88% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.03% 10.49% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 545 559
10th Percentile £380 £357 £400
25th Percentile £457 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £745 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile - £48.23 £60.19
25th Percentile £29.00 £65.44 £60.91
Median hourly rate £42.50 £80.00 £65.58
Median % change year-on-year -46.88% +22.00% +19.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £71.34
90th Percentile £72.50 - £72.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £62.05
% change year-on-year -18.75% +28.93% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,909 6,892 8,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.08% 17.95% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,946 4,764 5,952
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £541
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -1.93% -1.65%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £749 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £482 £500
% change year-on-year -1.45% -3.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 85 165
10th Percentile £22.84 £17.50 £20.93
25th Percentile £30.15 £20.75 £31.04
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -36.36% +22.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.95 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.60 £78.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.49 £30.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year +18.30% -43.93% +52.86%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL 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 14 September 2025.

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 14 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 17 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 14 September 2025. 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 +22 644 £550 - 348
London +19 392 £600 +4.35% 198
Work from Home +20 305 £600 +20.00% 263
UK excluding London +9 278 £493 +2.28% 218
North of England +37 103 £500 -9.09% 59
Midlands +23 52 £500 -9.09% 11
North West +15 52 £475 -3.65% 26
Scotland -14 44 £481 +1.10% 15
West Midlands +8 41 £488 -11.36% 8
South East -29 36 £429 -14.20% 86
Yorkshire +6 35 £500 -16.67% 27
South West +14 28 £545 +21.11% 28
North East +11 17 £550 - 7
East Midlands +10 11 £518 -5.91% 3
East of England +13 8 £475 +31.03% 16
Northern Ireland - 5 £500 - 1
Wales +5 4 £469 +17.19% 3

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 50 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (4.42%) Confluence
3 23 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 19 (2.47%) nginx
5 13 (1.69%) Apache
6 7 (0.91%) SAS
7 6 (0.78%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.65%) Alfresco
8 5 (0.65%) MQSeries
8 5 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
8 5 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.52%) Camunda
9 4 (0.52%) JBoss
9 4 (0.52%) WordPress
10 3 (0.39%) CICS
10 3 (0.39%) Drupal
10 3 (0.39%) Luigi
10 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 456 (59.22%) AWS
2 191 (24.81%) Azure
3 158 (20.52%) GCP
4 114 (14.81%) Amazon S3
5 90 (11.69%) GitHub
6 88 (11.43%) Serverless
7 67 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
9 45 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (5.06%) dbt
12 39 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (3.90%) Power Platform
14 26 (3.38%) Route 53
15 21 (2.73%) AWS KMS
15 21 (2.73%) Azure AKS
16 20 (2.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.60%) Firewall
2 15 (1.95%) DNS
3 14 (1.82%) SSH
4 13 (1.69%) HTTP
5 12 (1.56%) IMAP
5 12 (1.56%) OpenLDAP
5 12 (1.56%) SMTP
6 10 (1.30%) FTP
7 7 (0.91%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.65%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.39%) MQTT
10 2 (0.26%) SSL
11 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.13%) LAN
11 1 (0.13%) NAS
11 1 (0.13%) Network Security
11 1 (0.13%) SAN
11 1 (0.13%) STUN
11 1 (0.13%) VPN
11 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (15.71%) Relational Database
2 112 (14.55%) MongoDB
3 110 (14.29%) MySQL
4 91 (11.82%) Amazon RDS
5 88 (11.43%) NoSQL
6 75 (9.74%) SQL Server
7 70 (9.09%) Redis
8 63 (8.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 48 (6.23%) Amazon Athena
10 36 (4.68%) Apache Arrow
10 36 (4.68%) Apache Iceberg
10 36 (4.68%) Dremio
10 36 (4.68%) DynamoDB
11 27 (3.51%) RDBMS
12 26 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (2.99%) Power BI
14 22 (2.86%) Oracle Database
15 18 (2.34%) Big Data
16 17 (2.21%) Hadoop
17 16 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 164 (21.30%) Jenkins
2 142 (18.44%) Git
3 75 (9.74%) JUnit
4 63 (8.18%) JIRA
5 59 (7.66%) Mockito
6 55 (7.14%) GitLab
7 47 (6.10%) Liquibase
8 44 (5.71%) Maven
9 40 (5.19%) Gradle
10 39 (5.06%) SonarQube
11 19 (2.47%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.95%) Subversion
13 14 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (1.69%) Cucumber
15 12 (1.56%) Vagrant
16 10 (1.30%) MLflow
16 10 (1.30%) Postman
17 9 (1.17%) Selenium
17 9 (1.17%) webpack
18 8 (1.04%) Artifactory
General
1 208 (27.01%) Finance
2 207 (26.88%) Social Skills
3 129 (16.75%) Public Sector
4 92 (11.95%) Banking
5 78 (10.13%) Front Office
6 64 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
7 38 (4.94%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 22 (2.86%) Marketing
10 20 (2.60%) Electronics
10 20 (2.60%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.91%) Military
14 5 (0.65%) Retail
15 4 (0.52%) Local Government
15 4 (0.52%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 392 (50.91%) Developer
2 138 (17.92%) Java Developer
3 110 (14.29%) Senior
4 91 (11.82%) Software Engineer
5 73 (9.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 72 (9.35%) AWS Developer
7 68 (8.83%) Senior Developer
8 66 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
9 65 (8.44%) Python Developer
10 63 (8.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 63 (8.18%) Lead
11 53 (6.88%) Architect
12 51 (6.62%) React Developer
13 47 (6.10%) Data Engineer
14 45 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
15 43 (5.58%) Python Engineer
15 43 (5.58%) Senior Java Developer
16 37 (4.81%) AWS Software Engineer
17 36 (4.68%) Lead Developer
18 30 (3.90%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (29.48%) React
2 189 (24.55%) Kafka
3 176 (22.86%) Node.js
4 148 (19.22%) Spring
5 137 (17.79%) Spring Boot
6 93 (12.08%) RESTful
7 86 (11.17%) REST
8 82 (10.65%) AngularJS
9 59 (7.66%) Vue
10 54 (7.01%) GraphQL
10 54 (7.01%) HTML
11 49 (6.36%) Hibernate
12 48 (6.23%) Pandas
13 46 (5.97%) NumPy
13 46 (5.97%) Swagger
14 43 (5.58%) CSS
15 40 (5.19%) JPA
16 38 (4.94%) OpenAPI
17 36 (4.68%) SciPy
17 36 (4.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.18%) Fixed Income
2 46 (5.97%) Equities
2 46 (5.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (5.84%) Cloud Native
4 36 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (4.16%) Replication
6 24 (3.12%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 19 (2.47%) Derivative
10 17 (2.21%) Onboarding
11 16 (2.08%) Market Risk
12 13 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.56%) Clustering
13 12 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.91%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.91%) Reinsurance
16 6 (0.78%) Data Centre
16 6 (0.78%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 91 (11.82%) Linux
2 24 (3.12%) Windows
3 14 (1.82%) VMS
4 13 (1.69%) Unix
5 12 (1.56%) Amazon Linux
5 12 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.78%) Solaris
7 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.26%) zOS
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.13%) MVS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (45.19%) Agile
2 276 (35.84%) CI/CD
3 241 (31.30%) DevOps
4 222 (28.83%) Microservices
5 182 (23.64%) Software Engineering
6 155 (20.13%) TDD
7 147 (19.09%) Containerisation
8 135 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
9 127 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
10 92 (11.95%) Test Automation
11 87 (11.30%) Migration
12 81 (10.52%) Fintech
13 78 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
14 76 (9.87%) Mentoring
15 72 (9.35%) Scrum
16 70 (9.09%) Clean Code
17 67 (8.70%) Risk Management
18 66 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
19 64 (8.31%) Asset Management
19 64 (8.31%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 310 (40.26%) Python
2 302 (39.22%) SQL
3 279 (36.23%) Java
4 199 (25.84%) TypeScript
5 194 (25.19%) JavaScript
6 66 (8.57%) Bash
7 42 (5.45%) Go
7 42 (5.45%) PowerShell
8 26 (3.38%) C#
9 24 (3.12%) Groovy
10 17 (2.21%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.82%) PHP
11 14 (1.82%) Ruby
12 13 (1.69%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.30%) Perl
14 9 (1.17%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.91%) C++
15 7 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.91%) Scala
16 5 (0.65%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 195 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 172 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 72 (9.35%) Degree
4 35 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 35 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.56%) Numerate Degree
8 11 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.43%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.91%) CISSP
10 7 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.52%) MCP
12 3 (0.39%) HND
13 2 (0.26%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.79%) QA
2 27 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.30%) GDPR
5 7 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.52%) HL7
7 3 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.26%) SLA
8 2 (0.26%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) DICOM
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 233 (30.26%) Docker
2 18 (2.34%) Postfix
3 12 (1.56%) Dovecot
3 12 (1.56%) Squid
4 10 (1.30%) DFS Replication
5 8 (1.04%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.04%) zsh
6 6 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.39%) NFS
9 2 (0.26%) GPFS
9 2 (0.26%) iptables
9 2 (0.26%) KVM
10 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.13%) etcd
10 1 (0.13%) SRDF
10 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 205 (26.62%) Kubernetes
2 123 (15.97%) Terraform
3 64 (8.31%) Grafana
4 43 (5.58%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.29%) Ansible
6 15 (1.95%) Argo
7 12 (1.56%) Nessus
8 10 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.30%) Proxmox
8 10 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.17%) Kibana
10 7 (0.91%) Puppet
11 5 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.65%) Istio
11 5 (0.65%) Packer
12 4 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.39%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.39%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.26%) Ambari
14 2 (0.26%) SELinux
Vendors
1 97 (12.60%) Oracle
2 65 (8.44%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.38%) Google
4 24 (3.12%) SAP
4 24 (3.12%) ServiceNow
5 22 (2.86%) Splunk
6 18 (2.34%) CA Agile Central
6 18 (2.34%) Jaspersoft
7 17 (2.21%) Databricks
7 17 (2.21%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.82%) VMware
9 13 (1.69%) Atlassian
9 13 (1.69%) IBM
10 12 (1.56%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.91%) Informatica
12 6 (0.78%) Gigya
12 6 (0.78%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.78%) Okta
12 6 (0.78%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.65%) Dataiku