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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 111 142
Rank change year-on-year -38 +31 +13
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 824 703 725
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.78% 2.39% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.40% 12.49% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 520 519
10th Percentile £360 £392 £373
25th Percentile £413 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £498
% change year-on-year -6.15% -3.62% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.95 £34.05
25th Percentile £45.00 £47.88 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -28.00% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.72 £61.38 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +190.91%

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 7,225 5,630 7,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.61% 19.12% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,927 3,887 5,130
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.28%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £650
90th Percentile £697 £763 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £480
% change year-on-year -2.56% +1.56% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 108 146
10th Percentile £16.97 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.10 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.51% -13.56% -34.69%
75th Percentile £74.13 £65.62 £54.78
90th Percentile £82.65 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -33.33%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -41 692 £503 -6.34% 250
UK excluding London -27 381 £450 -6.15% 153
London -38 344 £550 -5.98% 134
Work from Home -32 264 £500 -9.09% 170
North of England -22 143 £450 -5.26% 35
Midlands -3 96 £459 -8.20% 20
North West -25 78 £450 -5.26% 20
South East -37 76 £433 -6.49% 50
West Midlands -11 72 £475 -7.77% 8
Yorkshire -37 55 £475 -13.64% 8
Scotland +9 45 £425 -7.61% 9
East Midlands -17 23 £406 -18.80% 12
South West -35 22 £550 -13.73% 20
East of England -33 10 £575 +27.78% 9
North East -10 9 £425 -8.60% 7
Northern Ireland +1 3 £400 -20.00% 4

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 57 (6.92%) Confluence
2 38 (4.61%) Apache Spark
3 26 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.31%) Apache
5 17 (2.06%) nginx
6 8 (0.97%) SAS
7 7 (0.85%) Camunda
8 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.36%) Appian
9 3 (0.36%) CMS
9 3 (0.36%) Drupal
9 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
10 2 (0.24%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.49%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Odoo
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 496 (60.19%) AWS
2 262 (31.80%) Azure
3 160 (19.42%) GitHub
4 127 (15.41%) GCP
5 118 (14.32%) Amazon S3
6 113 (13.71%) Serverless
7 96 (11.65%) GitHub Actions
8 79 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
10 44 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
12 42 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (4.49%) OpenShift
15 34 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (3.28%) Power Platform
17 25 (3.03%) Snowflake
18 24 (2.91%) Azure AKS
18 24 (2.91%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.55%) Firewall
2 18 (2.18%) DNS
3 8 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.85%) HTTP
5 6 (0.73%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.49%) iSCSI
6 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.49%) SSH
6 4 (0.49%) SSL
6 4 (0.49%) VPN
6 4 (0.49%) WAN
7 3 (0.36%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.36%) Internet
7 3 (0.36%) SAN
8 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.24%) LAN
8 2 (0.24%) NaaS
8 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (17.72%) SQL Server
2 145 (17.60%) MongoDB
3 142 (17.23%) Relational Database
4 138 (16.75%) NoSQL
5 123 (14.93%) MySQL
6 79 (9.59%) Amazon RDS
7 64 (7.77%) DynamoDB
8 58 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 54 (6.55%) Redis
10 35 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (4.13%) Big Data
11 34 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (4.00%) RDBMS
13 27 (3.28%) Data Lake
14 24 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (2.79%) Metadata
16 22 (2.67%) Power BI
17 21 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
18 20 (2.43%) Oracle Database
19 19 (2.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 178 (21.60%) Jenkins
2 162 (19.66%) Git
3 90 (10.92%) GitLab
4 87 (10.56%) JIRA
5 82 (9.95%) JUnit
6 49 (5.95%) Mockito
7 33 (4.00%) Maven
8 32 (3.88%) Cucumber
9 25 (3.03%) JMeter
10 22 (2.67%) Gradle
11 21 (2.55%) Selenium
12 17 (2.06%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.94%) Liquibase
13 16 (1.94%) WebDriver
14 15 (1.82%) Bitbucket
15 13 (1.58%) Gatling
16 11 (1.33%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.33%) jMock
16 11 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (1.21%) Artifactory
General
1 179 (21.72%) Social Skills
2 163 (19.78%) Finance
3 100 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 76 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.55%) Banking
6 26 (3.16%) Front Office
7 16 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.85%) Legal
12 6 (0.73%) Law
12 6 (0.73%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.61%) Automotive
13 5 (0.61%) Marketing
14 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.36%) Games
15 3 (0.36%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 328 (39.81%) Developer
2 144 (17.48%) Senior
3 106 (12.86%) Java Developer
4 84 (10.19%) Full-Stack Developer
5 80 (9.71%) Python Developer
6 76 (9.22%) DBA
7 74 (8.98%) Software Engineer
8 69 (8.37%) Data Engineer
9 60 (7.28%) Architect
10 55 (6.67%) Lead
11 53 (6.43%) Senior Developer
12 36 (4.37%) Administrator
12 36 (4.37%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 35 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.64%) Java Engineer
15 29 (3.52%) Lead Developer
15 29 (3.52%) Senior Data Engineer
15 29 (3.52%) Senior Java Developer
16 28 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (24.03%) Kafka
2 178 (21.60%) Spring
3 155 (18.81%) React
4 140 (16.99%) RESTful
5 136 (16.50%) Spring Boot
6 135 (16.38%) REST
7 128 (15.53%) Node.js
8 61 (7.40%) FastAPI
9 59 (7.16%) AngularJS
10 45 (5.46%) Hibernate
11 40 (4.85%) GraphQL
11 40 (4.85%) JSON
11 40 (4.85%) WireMock
12 38 (4.61%) .NET
12 38 (4.61%) CSS
13 36 (4.37%) HTML
14 34 (4.13%) JPA
15 30 (3.64%) Django
16 28 (3.40%) OAuth
16 28 (3.40%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 104 (12.62%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.34%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.52%) Derivative
5 27 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.16%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.67%) Fixed Income
7 22 (2.67%) Replication
8 20 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.18%) Equities
10 18 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (1.33%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.33%) Market Risk
13 9 (1.09%) Clustering
14 8 (0.97%) PACS
14 8 (0.97%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 137 (16.63%) Linux
2 38 (4.61%) Unix
3 26 (3.16%) Windows
4 13 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.49%) zOS
7 3 (0.36%) Android
7 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) Solaris
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (44.90%) CI/CD
2 314 (38.11%) Agile
3 261 (31.67%) DevOps
4 213 (25.85%) Microservices
5 200 (24.27%) Containerisation
6 145 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
7 144 (17.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 141 (17.11%) Software Engineering
9 125 (15.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 120 (14.56%) Observability
11 110 (13.35%) Test Automation
12 106 (12.86%) Data Modelling
13 102 (12.38%) TDD
14 92 (11.17%) Migration
15 88 (10.68%) AI
15 88 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
16 82 (9.95%) ETL
17 79 (9.59%) Mentoring
18 78 (9.47%) Event-Driven
19 75 (9.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 353 (42.84%) Python
2 311 (37.74%) SQL
3 284 (34.47%) Java
4 125 (15.17%) TypeScript
5 118 (14.32%) JavaScript
6 69 (8.37%) Bash
7 46 (5.58%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.73%) C#
9 37 (4.49%) Go
10 33 (4.00%) Scala
11 20 (2.43%) PL/SQL
11 20 (2.43%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.33%) PHP
13 9 (1.09%) Groovy
13 9 (1.09%) Ruby
14 8 (0.97%) Bicep
14 8 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.97%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.61%) Delphi
15 5 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 269 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 217 (26.33%) SC Cleared
3 71 (8.62%) Degree
4 37 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.43%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.70%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
9 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.33%) OCP
10 10 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.73%) CISSP
12 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.49%) CISM
14 3 (0.36%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.83%) QA
2 41 (4.98%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.70%) GDPR
5 9 (1.09%) SLA
6 7 (0.85%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.85%) NCSC
6 7 (0.85%) NIST
6 7 (0.85%) WCAG
7 6 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS
10 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) DICOM
11 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 314 (38.11%) Docker
2 11 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.21%) Postfix
4 9 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.61%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.61%) Ceph
6 5 (0.61%) HDFS
7 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.36%) NFS
8 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.24%) Lustre
8 2 (0.24%) Samba
8 2 (0.24%) Squid
8 2 (0.24%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) KVM
9 1 (0.12%) Varnish
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 276 (33.50%) Kubernetes
2 151 (18.33%) Terraform
3 128 (15.53%) Grafana
4 85 (10.32%) Prometheus
5 68 (8.25%) Ansible
6 17 (2.06%) Argo
7 16 (1.94%) Control-M
7 16 (1.94%) IBM Guardium
7 16 (1.94%) Nessus
8 12 (1.46%) HAProxy
8 12 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.21%) Kibana
9 10 (1.21%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (1.21%) Puppet
9 10 (1.21%) Rancher
10 9 (1.09%) Data Guard
10 9 (1.09%) Istio
11 6 (0.73%) linkerd
12 5 (0.61%) Packer
13 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 149 (18.08%) Oracle
2 106 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.00%) Databricks
3 33 (4.00%) Splunk
4 25 (3.03%) Atlassian
5 22 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 22 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.55%) VMware
7 20 (2.43%) Google
7 20 (2.43%) Informatica
8 16 (1.94%) Tenable
9 14 (1.70%) Jaspersoft
10 13 (1.58%) Talend
11 12 (1.46%) Dynatrace
12 11 (1.33%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.21%) Confluent
14 9 (1.09%) IBM
15 8 (0.97%) PagerDuty
16 7 (0.85%) Greenplum
17 6 (0.73%) OpenAI