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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 114 131
Rank change year-on-year -55 +17 +32
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 876 785 720
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.64% 2.39% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.72% 13.20% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 586 540
10th Percentile £363 £380 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £483
% change year-on-year - -1.55% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £25.45 - £52.05
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £75.00
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 8,169 5,949 7,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.25% 18.15% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,449 3,991 4,958
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £605 £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 253 96 100
10th Percentile £15.79 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £19.90
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% +1.52% -37.34%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.34% +6.83% -40.00%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -65 707 £500 -9.09% 179
UK excluding London -29 385 £475 - 132
London -64 354 £530 -11.67% 83
Work from Home -76 272 £500 -14.89% 106
North of England -56 126 £488 -2.50% 24
Midlands -6 91 £446 -10.80% 24
South East -38 69 £473 +8.74% 46
North West -39 60 £493 +3.68% 13
West Midlands -26 59 £448 -5.79% 11
Yorkshire -17 56 £500 - 7
Scotland -17 49 £425 -10.53% 7
South West -33 32 £700 +33.33% 13
East Midlands +4 31 £425 -17.07% 12
East of England -8 19 £513 +9.63% 9
North East -43 10 £425 -22.73% 4
Wales -16 4 - - 6

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 34 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.77%) Confluence
3 28 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.28%) Apache
5 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.68%) CMS
6 6 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.57%) Camunda
8 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.34%) IIS
8 3 (0.34%) nginx
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.34%) SAS
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.91%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 461 (52.63%) AWS
2 291 (33.22%) Azure
3 163 (18.61%) GitHub
4 138 (15.75%) GCP
5 120 (13.70%) GitHub Actions
6 105 (11.99%) Serverless
7 88 (10.05%) Amazon S3
8 77 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (6.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (6.05%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (3.77%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (3.08%) AWS KMS
17 26 (2.97%) Power Platform
17 26 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
18 24 (2.74%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.40%) DNS
2 19 (2.17%) Firewall
3 15 (1.71%) SSH
4 12 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.26%) HTTP
6 10 (1.14%) HTTPS
7 7 (0.80%) SSL
8 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.57%) SAN
9 4 (0.46%) VPN
10 3 (0.34%) 5G
10 3 (0.34%) Network Security
11 2 (0.23%) 4G
11 2 (0.23%) DHCP
11 2 (0.23%) MQTT
11 2 (0.23%) NaaS
11 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.23%) WAN
12 1 (0.11%) Internet
12 1 (0.11%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (20.09%) MongoDB
2 172 (19.63%) SQL Server
3 168 (19.18%) Relational Database
4 150 (17.12%) MySQL
5 116 (13.24%) NoSQL
6 97 (11.07%) Redis
7 76 (8.68%) Amazon Aurora
7 76 (8.68%) Amazon RDS
8 42 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (4.79%) DynamoDB
9 35 (4.00%) RDBMS
10 31 (3.54%) Oracle Database
11 28 (3.20%) Big Data
12 27 (3.08%) Data Lake
13 24 (2.74%) Metadata
14 23 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (2.51%) Power BI
16 16 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
18 13 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 194 (22.15%) Jenkins
2 190 (21.69%) Git
3 96 (10.96%) GitLab
4 82 (9.36%) JIRA
5 68 (7.76%) JUnit
6 54 (6.16%) Mockito
7 44 (5.02%) Maven
8 34 (3.88%) Gradle
9 24 (2.74%) Liquibase
10 23 (2.63%) Cucumber
11 20 (2.28%) Selenium
11 20 (2.28%) SonarQube
12 17 (1.94%) Gatling
12 17 (1.94%) JMeter
13 16 (1.83%) Bitbucket
14 11 (1.26%) Flyway
14 11 (1.26%) WebDriver
15 10 (1.14%) Cypress.io
15 10 (1.14%) Mocha
16 8 (0.91%) DbUnit
General
1 190 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 146 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 140 (15.98%) Finance
4 118 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.59%) Banking
6 30 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.17%) Front Office
8 12 (1.37%) Military
9 11 (1.26%) Retail
10 10 (1.14%) Law
10 10 (1.14%) Legal
11 9 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
14 5 (0.57%) Billing
14 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.46%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 330 (37.67%) Developer
2 167 (19.06%) Senior
3 108 (12.33%) Java Developer
4 103 (11.76%) DBA
5 77 (8.79%) Software Engineer
6 71 (8.11%) Lead
7 69 (7.88%) Senior Developer
8 68 (7.76%) Data Engineer
9 66 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 62 (7.08%) Python Developer
11 54 (6.16%) Administrator
12 52 (5.94%) Architect
13 42 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
14 41 (4.68%) Java Engineer
15 35 (4.00%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.65%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 30 (3.42%) Backend Developer
18 29 (3.31%) Lead Developer
19 27 (3.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 27 (3.08%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (25.57%) REST
2 193 (22.03%) Spring
3 187 (21.35%) Kafka
4 186 (21.23%) RESTful
5 162 (18.49%) React
6 161 (18.38%) Spring Boot
6 161 (18.38%) Terraform
7 115 (13.13%) Node.js
8 63 (7.19%) CSS
8 63 (7.19%) HTML
9 61 (6.96%) FastAPI
10 55 (6.28%) .NET
11 51 (5.82%) Django
12 50 (5.71%) OAuth
13 49 (5.59%) AngularJS
14 48 (5.48%) OpenAPI
14 48 (5.48%) Swagger
15 42 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (4.45%) OAuth2
17 37 (4.22%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 166 (18.95%) Cloud Native
2 109 (12.44%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.37%) Replication
4 40 (4.57%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.77%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (2.51%) Distributed Architecture
10 20 (2.28%) AI Agents
10 20 (2.28%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.94%) Equities
12 16 (1.83%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.71%) Derivative
14 13 (1.48%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.26%) Fixed Income
16 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
17 8 (0.91%) Life Science
18 7 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 111 (12.67%) Linux
2 42 (4.79%) Unix
3 33 (3.77%) Windows
4 24 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.28%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.91%) Solaris
8 7 (0.80%) AIX
8 7 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.23%) VMS
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (47.72%) CI/CD
2 324 (36.99%) Agile
3 301 (34.36%) DevOps
4 267 (30.48%) Microservices
5 199 (22.72%) Containerisation
6 180 (20.55%) Software Engineering
7 154 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (17.01%) Full-Stack Development
9 144 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 141 (16.10%) Test Automation
11 127 (14.50%) AI
11 127 (14.50%) Data Modelling
12 125 (14.27%) Performance Tuning
13 122 (13.93%) Observability
14 114 (13.01%) Event-Driven
15 113 (12.90%) Migration
16 97 (11.07%) TDD
16 97 (11.07%) Validation
17 95 (10.84%) Scrum
18 90 (10.27%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 331 (37.79%) Python
2 324 (36.99%) SQL
3 311 (35.50%) Java
4 159 (18.15%) TypeScript
5 113 (12.90%) JavaScript
6 55 (6.28%) C#
7 48 (5.48%) Bash
8 46 (5.25%) PowerShell
9 35 (4.00%) Go
10 30 (3.42%) Scala
11 19 (2.17%) PL/SQL
12 18 (2.05%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.83%) Groovy
14 14 (1.60%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.48%) Perl
16 12 (1.37%) Ruby
17 11 (1.26%) PHP
17 11 (1.26%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.91%) Rust
19 7 (0.80%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 306 (34.93%) Security Cleared
2 256 (29.22%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.05%) Degree
4 47 (5.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 24 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.28%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.91%) OCP
12 3 (0.34%) CISSP
13 2 (0.23%) CISM
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.11%) CISA
14 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.11%) RHCE
14 1 (0.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.11%) QA
2 50 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 46 (5.25%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.94%) GDPR
5 16 (1.83%) WCAG
6 7 (0.80%) GMP
6 7 (0.80%) GxP
7 6 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.57%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.57%) SLA
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.34%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 344 (39.27%) Docker
2 14 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.68%) Ceph
5 6 (0.68%) Postfix
6 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.46%) Squid
8 3 (0.34%) HDFS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.11%) NFS
10 1 (0.11%) RACF
10 1 (0.11%) Samba
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 298 (34.02%) Kubernetes
2 111 (12.67%) Grafana
3 83 (9.47%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.57%) Ansible
5 22 (2.51%) Kibana
6 17 (1.94%) Oracle RMAN
7 15 (1.71%) Argo
8 12 (1.37%) Data Guard
9 10 (1.14%) Control-M
9 10 (1.14%) HAProxy
9 10 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 8 (0.91%) Karpenter
11 7 (0.80%) IBM Guardium
11 7 (0.80%) Nessus
12 6 (0.68%) Istio
12 6 (0.68%) Rancher
13 5 (0.57%) Puppet
14 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
15 3 (0.34%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 187 (21.35%) Oracle
2 133 (15.18%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.57%) Google
4 34 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 32 (3.65%) Databricks
6 23 (2.63%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.51%) Splunk
8 19 (2.17%) Informatica
9 17 (1.94%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.83%) OpenAI
11 14 (1.60%) VMware
12 11 (1.26%) Talend
13 10 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
13 10 (1.14%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.03%) CyberArk
15 8 (0.91%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.91%) Sybase
16 7 (0.80%) Tenable
16 7 (0.80%) TikTok
17 6 (0.68%) IBM