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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 111 148
Rank change year-on-year -36 +37 +9
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 836 689 719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.82% 2.36% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.51% 12.42% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 514 511
10th Percentile £358 £395 £381
25th Percentile £413 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.29%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -5.76% -4.50% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile £39.50 £44.95 £31.35
25th Percentile £42.50 £47.88 £36.75
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -19.40% +197.98%
75th Percentile £69.33 £61.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £65.05 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £54.25
% change year-on-year - - +97.27%

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 7,266 5,548 7,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.84% 18.99% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,997 3,849 5,159
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £649 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £488
% change year-on-year -2.06% -0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 109 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.03 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.44
90th Percentile £83.65 £76.50 £71.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £36.75
% change year-on-year +58.03% -13.90% -33.18%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -33 699 £500 -6.28% 288
UK excluding London -14 390 £450 -5.76% 175
London -35 343 £550 -4.35% 152
Work from Home -31 268 £488 -9.22% 201
North of England -31 142 £450 -5.26% 57
Midlands +6 100 £463 -7.50% 18
South East -30 79 £433 -1.14% 48
North West -9 77 £449 -5.58% 33
West Midlands -8 76 £475 -7.77% 8
Yorkshire -26 56 £475 -13.64% 19
Scotland +16 45 £425 -6.59% 12
South West -30 26 £550 -13.73% 20
East Midlands -16 23 £406 -18.80% 10
East of England -37 10 £575 +27.78% 14
North East -14 8 £425 -8.60% 6
Northern Ireland -1 5 £400 -20.00%

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 53 (6.34%) Confluence
2 27 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.15%) Apache
5 17 (2.03%) nginx
6 10 (1.20%) SAS
7 7 (0.84%) Camunda
8 5 (0.60%) Drupal
8 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.36%) Appian
9 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) CPLEX
3 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Maya
4 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
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 500 (59.81%) AWS
2 259 (30.98%) Azure
3 166 (19.86%) GitHub
4 133 (15.91%) GCP
5 114 (13.64%) Serverless
6 106 (12.68%) Amazon S3
7 95 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
8 72 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (5.02%) OpenShift
12 40 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
13 37 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (3.83%) Amazon SQS
16 31 (3.71%) Power Platform
17 30 (3.59%) Snowflake
18 24 (2.87%) Azure AKS
19 22 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.39%) Firewall
2 18 (2.15%) DNS
3 9 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.96%) HTTP
5 7 (0.84%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.60%) SSL
7 4 (0.48%) Internet
7 4 (0.48%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.48%) SSH
7 4 (0.48%) VPN
7 4 (0.48%) WAN
8 3 (0.36%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.24%) LAN
9 2 (0.24%) NaaS
9 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) DHCP
10 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (17.34%) Relational Database
2 139 (16.63%) SQL Server
3 137 (16.39%) MongoDB
3 137 (16.39%) NoSQL
4 132 (15.79%) MySQL
5 72 (8.61%) Amazon RDS
6 64 (7.66%) DynamoDB
7 54 (6.46%) Redis
8 44 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 39 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
10 36 (4.31%) RDBMS
11 27 (3.23%) Data Lake
12 25 (2.99%) Big Data
12 25 (2.99%) Metadata
12 25 (2.99%) Power BI
13 22 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (2.63%) Oracle Database
14 20 (2.39%) Apache Cassandra
15 18 (2.15%) DB2
Development Applications
1 169 (20.22%) Jenkins
2 161 (19.26%) Git
3 91 (10.89%) GitLab
4 84 (10.05%) JUnit
5 83 (9.93%) JIRA
6 47 (5.62%) Mockito
7 36 (4.31%) Cucumber
8 28 (3.35%) JMeter
8 28 (3.35%) Maven
9 23 (2.75%) Gradle
10 20 (2.39%) Selenium
11 17 (2.03%) Liquibase
12 16 (1.91%) Bitbucket
12 16 (1.91%) WebDriver
13 15 (1.79%) SonarQube
13 15 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (1.08%) Cypress.io
14 9 (1.08%) DbUnit
14 9 (1.08%) ERwin
14 9 (1.08%) jMock
General
1 187 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 170 (20.33%) Finance
3 100 (11.96%) Public Sector
4 67 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (7.30%) Banking
6 26 (3.11%) Front Office
7 18 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.84%) Legal
12 6 (0.72%) Law
12 6 (0.72%) Retail
12 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.60%) Automotive
13 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.48%) Marketing
15 3 (0.36%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.36%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 331 (39.59%) Developer
2 149 (17.82%) Senior
3 105 (12.56%) Java Developer
4 85 (10.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 78 (9.33%) Python Developer
6 74 (8.85%) DBA
7 72 (8.61%) Software Engineer
8 65 (7.78%) Data Engineer
9 62 (7.42%) Architect
10 55 (6.58%) Lead
11 54 (6.46%) Senior Developer
12 36 (4.31%) Administrator
13 35 (4.19%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 33 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 31 (3.71%) Java Engineer
15 31 (3.71%) Senior Java Developer
16 30 (3.59%) Lead Developer
16 30 (3.59%) Senior Data Engineer
17 28 (3.35%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (23.92%) Kafka
2 179 (21.41%) Spring
3 160 (19.14%) React
4 139 (16.63%) RESTful
5 137 (16.39%) REST
5 137 (16.39%) Spring Boot
6 135 (16.15%) Node.js
7 60 (7.18%) AngularJS
8 59 (7.06%) FastAPI
9 46 (5.50%) Hibernate
10 41 (4.90%) GraphQL
10 41 (4.90%) JSON
11 40 (4.78%) WireMock
12 38 (4.55%) .NET
13 32 (3.83%) JPA
14 31 (3.71%) Django
15 30 (3.59%) CSS
16 28 (3.35%) Keycloak
16 28 (3.35%) OAuth
16 28 (3.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 108 (12.92%) Cloud Native
2 74 (8.85%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.71%) Derivative
5 28 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.63%) Fixed Income
8 21 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.51%) Replication
9 19 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (2.27%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.15%) Equities
11 17 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (1.67%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.56%) Market Risk
14 12 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.32%) Clustering
16 8 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (0.96%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 131 (15.67%) Linux
2 32 (3.83%) Unix
3 27 (3.23%) Windows
4 13 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.48%) zOS
7 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
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
1 374 (44.74%) CI/CD
2 307 (36.72%) Agile
3 265 (31.70%) DevOps
4 224 (26.79%) Microservices
5 199 (23.80%) Containerisation
6 149 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (16.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 135 (16.15%) Software Engineering
9 121 (14.47%) Observability
10 120 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 111 (13.28%) Data Modelling
12 105 (12.56%) Test Automation
13 102 (12.20%) TDD
14 96 (11.48%) Migration
15 91 (10.89%) AI
16 89 (10.65%) ETL
17 86 (10.29%) Performance Tuning
18 81 (9.69%) Mentoring
19 80 (9.57%) Event-Driven
20 77 (9.21%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 349 (41.75%) Python
2 315 (37.68%) SQL
3 278 (33.25%) Java
4 127 (15.19%) TypeScript
5 112 (13.40%) JavaScript
6 70 (8.37%) Bash
7 44 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 42 (5.02%) Go
9 39 (4.67%) C#
10 21 (2.51%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.39%) PL/SQL
12 18 (2.15%) Scala
13 13 (1.56%) PHP
14 11 (1.32%) Ruby
15 9 (1.08%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.96%) Bicep
17 7 (0.84%) Groovy
17 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.72%) Rust
19 5 (0.60%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 272 (32.54%) Security Cleared
2 219 (26.20%) SC Cleared
3 76 (9.09%) Degree
4 34 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
9 13 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.44%) OCP
11 11 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.60%) CISSP
14 4 (0.48%) CISM
15 3 (0.36%) PhD
15 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.74%) QA
2 44 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.51%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.56%) GDPR
5 9 (1.08%) SLA
6 7 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.84%) NCSC
6 7 (0.84%) WCAG
7 6 (0.72%) NIST
7 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.24%) HL7
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 302 (36.12%) Docker
2 12 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.96%) Postfix
5 7 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.60%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.60%) Ceph
6 5 (0.60%) 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%) NDS
8 2 (0.24%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 2 (0.24%) Samba
8 2 (0.24%) Squid
8 2 (0.24%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 284 (33.97%) Kubernetes
2 140 (16.75%) Terraform
3 115 (13.76%) Grafana
4 80 (9.57%) Prometheus
5 76 (9.09%) Ansible
6 18 (2.15%) Argo
7 15 (1.79%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.67%) Control-M
8 14 (1.67%) IBM Guardium
8 14 (1.67%) Nessus
9 10 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (1.20%) Puppet
9 10 (1.20%) Rancher
10 9 (1.08%) Data Guard
10 9 (1.08%) Istio
11 7 (0.84%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.72%) linkerd
13 5 (0.60%) Packer
14 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 155 (18.54%) Oracle
2 103 (12.32%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.83%) Databricks
4 28 (3.35%) Splunk
5 24 (2.87%) VMware
6 23 (2.75%) Atlassian
6 23 (2.75%) Google
6 23 (2.75%) Red Hat
7 21 (2.51%) Informatica
8 19 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.79%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.67%) Tenable
11 13 (1.56%) Talend
12 12 (1.44%) Jaspersoft
13 11 (1.32%) Salesforce
14 9 (1.08%) IBM
15 8 (0.96%) Greenplum
15 8 (0.96%) PagerDuty
16 7 (0.84%) Confluent
17 6 (0.72%) OpenAI