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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 118 139
Rank change year-on-year -49 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 875 762 731
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.35% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.83% 12.93% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 577 550
10th Percentile £359 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £521
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +1.73% +4.15%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £828 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -1.05% +1.17% -3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £32.40 £54.50 £53.70
25th Percentile £61.00 £57.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -18.75% +255.79%
75th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% -18.75% +261.01%

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 8,081 5,895 7,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.35% 18.22% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,353 4,000 5,433
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 103 147
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -35.39%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £76.50 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -45.45%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -37 728 £513 -6.82% 270
UK excluding London -35 402 £470 -1.05% 178
London -49 362 £550 -8.33% 161
Work from Home -61 281 £500 -9.17% 141
North of England -49 131 £475 -5.00% 39
Midlands +7 103 £447 -10.55% 18
West Midlands -23 74 £447 -10.55% 9
South East -37 71 £473 +8.74% 48
North West -26 62 £475 - 21
Yorkshire -21 59 £481 -3.75% 10
Scotland -7 52 £425 -10.53% 13
South West -21 31 £700 +27.27% 38
East Midlands +8 27 £447 -10.15% 9
East of England -32 16 £575 +27.78% 12
North East -47 9 £425 -19.05% 8
Wales -13 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 50 (5.71%) Confluence
2 45 (5.14%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.86%) Apache
5 10 (1.14%) nginx
6 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.69%) Camunda
8 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.46%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.34%) Appian
10 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.34%) IIS
10 3 (0.34%) JBoss
10 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.34%) SAS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Drupal
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.03%) CPLEX
2 6 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
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 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.11%) Odoo
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 455 (52.00%) AWS
2 298 (34.06%) Azure
3 155 (17.71%) GCP
4 143 (16.34%) GitHub
5 100 (11.43%) Amazon S3
6 98 (11.20%) Serverless
7 97 (11.09%) GitHub Actions
8 68 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
11 50 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (3.89%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (3.20%) Power Platform
17 26 (2.97%) Azure AKS
17 26 (2.97%) Route 53
18 24 (2.74%) OpenShift
19 23 (2.63%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.94%) Firewall
2 13 (1.49%) DNS
3 10 (1.14%) SSH
4 9 (1.03%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.57%) HTTP
5 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.46%) SSL
6 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.34%) MQTT
7 3 (0.34%) Network Security
7 3 (0.34%) SAN
7 3 (0.34%) VPN
7 3 (0.34%) WAN
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) NaaS
8 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.11%) LAN
9 1 (0.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 159 (18.17%) MongoDB
2 159 (18.17%) Relational Database
3 130 (14.86%) MySQL
4 127 (14.51%) NoSQL
5 69 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
6 66 (7.54%) Redis
7 60 (6.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 53 (6.06%) DynamoDB
9 40 (4.57%) Big Data
9 40 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (3.54%) RDBMS
11 30 (3.43%) Data Lake
12 27 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (2.97%) Oracle Database
14 23 (2.63%) Metadata
14 23 (2.63%) Power BI
15 19 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
16 18 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (1.94%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (20.57%) Jenkins
2 174 (19.89%) Git
3 97 (11.09%) JIRA
4 81 (9.26%) JUnit
5 72 (8.23%) GitLab
6 53 (6.06%) Mockito
7 41 (4.69%) Maven
8 30 (3.43%) Cucumber
9 26 (2.97%) Gradle
10 24 (2.74%) Selenium
11 23 (2.63%) JMeter
12 22 (2.51%) SonarQube
13 21 (2.40%) Liquibase
14 20 (2.29%) WebDriver
15 17 (1.94%) Gatling
16 14 (1.60%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.49%) jMock
18 11 (1.26%) Bitbucket Server
19 9 (1.03%) Flyway
20 8 (0.91%) Bitbucket
General
1 193 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 179 (20.46%) Finance
3 120 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 100 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (6.63%) Banking
6 29 (3.31%) Front Office
7 23 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.37%) Military
10 11 (1.26%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.03%) Law
12 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.91%) Legal
12 8 (0.91%) Retail
13 6 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
14 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.46%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 345 (39.43%) Developer
2 154 (17.60%) Senior
3 106 (12.11%) Java Developer
4 88 (10.06%) DBA
5 87 (9.94%) Full-Stack Developer
6 85 (9.71%) Python Developer
7 79 (9.03%) Software Engineer
8 77 (8.80%) Lead
9 71 (8.11%) Data Engineer
10 64 (7.31%) Architect
11 58 (6.63%) Senior Developer
12 40 (4.57%) Java Engineer
13 39 (4.46%) Administrator
14 38 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
15 35 (4.00%) Lead Developer
16 33 (3.77%) Backend Developer
17 30 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 29 (3.31%) Python Engineer
18 29 (3.31%) Software Developer
19 27 (3.09%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (22.97%) Spring
2 189 (21.60%) REST
3 183 (20.91%) Kafka
4 179 (20.46%) React
5 170 (19.43%) RESTful
6 159 (18.17%) Spring Boot
7 129 (14.74%) Node.js
8 72 (8.23%) FastAPI
9 67 (7.66%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.26%) .NET
10 46 (5.26%) OpenAPI
10 46 (5.26%) Swagger
11 44 (5.03%) Django
12 43 (4.91%) GraphQL
12 43 (4.91%) HTML
13 42 (4.80%) Web Services
14 41 (4.69%) CSS
15 38 (4.34%) WireMock
16 37 (4.23%) JPA
17 35 (4.00%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 146 (16.69%) Cloud Native
2 106 (12.11%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.43%) Replication
5 27 (3.09%) Derivative
5 27 (3.09%) Distributed Architecture
6 26 (2.97%) Data Structures
7 25 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (2.74%) Equities
8 24 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (2.40%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.29%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.29%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.60%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.37%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.91%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 119 (13.60%) Linux
2 31 (3.54%) Unix
2 31 (3.54%) Windows
3 25 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.26%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.91%) Solaris
7 5 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.34%) Android
8 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.34%) VMS
8 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.23%) AIX
9 2 (0.23%) zOS
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (44.46%) CI/CD
2 328 (37.49%) Agile
3 268 (30.63%) DevOps
4 266 (30.40%) Microservices
5 228 (26.06%) Containerisation
6 171 (19.54%) Software Engineering
7 166 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 152 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (13.83%) AI
10 119 (13.60%) Test Automation
11 116 (13.26%) Observability
12 111 (12.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 107 (12.23%) Data Modelling
13 107 (12.23%) TDD
14 104 (11.89%) Migration
14 104 (11.89%) Performance Tuning
15 92 (10.51%) Event-Driven
16 89 (10.17%) Scrum
17 87 (9.94%) Analytics
18 85 (9.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 363 (41.49%) Python
2 324 (37.03%) SQL
3 310 (35.43%) Java
4 152 (17.37%) TypeScript
5 128 (14.63%) JavaScript
6 57 (6.51%) C#
7 48 (5.49%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.46%) Bash
9 31 (3.54%) Scala
10 30 (3.43%) Go
11 17 (1.94%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.71%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.37%) Groovy
14 12 (1.37%) PHP
15 10 (1.14%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.14%) Ruby
16 7 (0.80%) Rust
17 6 (0.69%) Bicep
18 5 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 306 (34.97%) Security Cleared
2 258 (29.49%) SC Cleared
3 69 (7.89%) Degree
4 35 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (0.91%) OCP
11 6 (0.69%) CISSP
12 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.46%) CISM
14 3 (0.34%) PhD
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.43%) QA
2 42 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.89%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.37%) GDPR
4 12 (1.37%) WCAG
5 5 (0.57%) ISO 9000
5 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.46%) NIST
6 4 (0.46%) SLA
7 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.34%) GMP
7 3 (0.34%) GxP
7 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.23%) GRC
8 2 (0.23%) HL7
8 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 331 (37.83%) Docker
2 12 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.26%) Postfix
4 10 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.57%) Ceph
7 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.34%) HDFS
8 3 (0.34%) Squid
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) 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
1 294 (33.60%) Kubernetes
2 136 (15.54%) Terraform
3 120 (13.71%) Grafana
4 91 (10.40%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.69%) Ansible
6 17 (1.94%) Control-M
6 17 (1.94%) IBM Guardium
6 17 (1.94%) Nessus
7 13 (1.49%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (1.37%) Kibana
9 11 (1.26%) Argo
10 10 (1.14%) HAProxy
11 9 (1.03%) Data Guard
12 7 (0.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (0.80%) Rancher
13 5 (0.57%) Istio
14 4 (0.46%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.34%) Puppet
15 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
16 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 175 (20.00%) Oracle
2 140 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.00%) Google
4 30 (3.43%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.31%) Databricks
6 21 (2.40%) Informatica
7 20 (2.29%) Splunk
8 18 (2.06%) Atlassian
9 17 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
9 17 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.94%) Tenable
10 16 (1.83%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.71%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.49%) Talend
13 11 (1.26%) OpenAI
14 10 (1.14%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.14%) IBM
14 10 (1.14%) Sybase
14 10 (1.14%) VMware
15 6 (0.69%) TikTok