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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 140 161
Rank change year-on-year +25 +21 +18
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 854 671 764
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.40% 1.83% 1.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.42% 10.38% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 508 542
10th Percentile £368 £325 £405
25th Percentile £425 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.03% -2.91%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.37% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile - - £60.19
25th Percentile £29.00 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £65.58
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -34.43% +19.23%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £71.34
90th Percentile £71.50 - £72.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.05
% change year-on-year - - +37.89%

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 6,362 6,462 7,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.90% 17.61% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,345 4,300 5,453
10th Percentile £333 £340 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 89 152
10th Percentile £20.80 £17.50 £17.13
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £23.06
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -35.04% +2.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.75 £69.06
90th Percentile £82.90 £64.78 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.10 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +78.55% -40.45% +13.38%

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 14 November 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 November 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 November 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 +42 718 £525 - 738
London +30 394 £600 +7.14% 496
UK excluding London +18 359 £486 +2.37% 305
Work from Home +8 298 £534 +6.70% 452
North of England +37 124 £500 +12.36% 107
Midlands +20 80 £515 +5.10% 35
Yorkshire +25 71 £500 -16.67% 23
West Midlands +18 70 £500 +2.04% 20
South East -15 64 £429 -12.05% 86
South West +7 48 £550 +10.83% 30
Scotland -24 47 £463 -2.63% 20
North West -9 39 £470 +7.43% 78
North East +3 15 £588 - 6
East Midlands -12 10 £520 +5.05% 15
Northern Ireland +1 8 £400 - 10
East of England -12 7 £475 +7.04% 17
Wales +1 4 £469 +17.19% 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 50 (5.85%) Confluence
2 36 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.04%) nginx
4 24 (2.81%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.41%) SAS
6 11 (1.29%) Apache
7 8 (0.94%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.70%) Drupal
9 5 (0.59%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.59%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.47%) Alfresco
10 4 (0.47%) Camunda
10 4 (0.47%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.47%) WordPress
11 3 (0.35%) CICS
11 3 (0.35%) JBoss
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.23%) CMS
12 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 514 (60.19%) AWS
2 253 (29.63%) Azure
3 163 (19.09%) GCP
3 163 (19.09%) GitHub
4 142 (16.63%) Amazon S3
5 135 (15.81%) Serverless
6 85 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
7 74 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
8 59 (6.91%) Amazon EC2
9 55 (6.44%) Amazon ECS
9 55 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (5.62%) OpenShift
12 43 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 42 (4.92%) Power Platform
14 34 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (3.75%) Snowflake
16 30 (3.51%) Azure AKS
17 29 (3.40%) AWS KMS
17 29 (3.40%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.81%) Firewall
2 19 (2.22%) DNS
2 19 (2.22%) HTTP
3 14 (1.64%) SSH
4 12 (1.41%) IMAP
4 12 (1.41%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (1.41%) SMTP
5 11 (1.29%) Kerberos
6 10 (1.17%) FTP
7 8 (0.94%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.82%) SSL
9 4 (0.47%) Internet
10 3 (0.35%) MQTT
10 3 (0.35%) VPN
11 1 (0.12%) Calico
11 1 (0.12%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.12%) FCoE
11 1 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.12%) NAS
11 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (15.11%) MySQL
1 129 (15.11%) Relational Database
2 120 (14.05%) NoSQL
3 106 (12.41%) MongoDB
4 97 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
4 97 (11.36%) SQL Server
5 78 (9.13%) Redis
6 71 (8.31%) Amazon Aurora
7 47 (5.50%) DynamoDB
8 43 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
9 38 (4.45%) RDBMS
10 33 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
10 33 (3.86%) Power BI
11 30 (3.51%) Oracle Database
12 26 (3.04%) Apache Iceberg
13 22 (2.58%) Big Data
13 22 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (2.46%) Apache Arrow
14 21 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
14 21 (2.46%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 200 (23.42%) Jenkins
2 174 (20.37%) Git
3 83 (9.72%) JIRA
4 75 (8.78%) GitLab
5 69 (8.08%) JUnit
6 35 (4.10%) Cucumber
6 35 (4.10%) Maven
7 33 (3.86%) SonarQube
8 32 (3.75%) Liquibase
8 32 (3.75%) Mockito
9 27 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (2.46%) Cypress.io
10 21 (2.46%) Gradle
11 16 (1.87%) Bitbucket
11 16 (1.87%) JMeter
11 16 (1.87%) Postman
12 13 (1.52%) Subversion
13 12 (1.41%) Vagrant
14 11 (1.29%) Artifactory
15 10 (1.17%) DBeaver
General
1 253 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 201 (23.54%) Finance
3 109 (12.76%) Public Sector
4 96 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (10.77%) Banking
6 49 (5.74%) Front Office
7 32 (3.75%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.94%) Marketing
13 5 (0.59%) Local Government
13 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.59%) Military
13 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.47%) Electronics
15 3 (0.35%) Law
15 3 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 369 (43.21%) Developer
2 139 (16.28%) Senior
3 124 (14.52%) Java Developer
4 78 (9.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 71 (8.31%) Senior Developer
6 66 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
7 65 (7.61%) AWS Developer
8 63 (7.38%) Data Engineer
8 63 (7.38%) Software Engineer
9 62 (7.26%) Architect
9 62 (7.26%) Lead
9 62 (7.26%) Python Developer
10 51 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
12 40 (4.68%) Python Engineer
13 35 (4.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 31 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
14 31 (3.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 30 (3.51%) Lead Developer
16 28 (3.28%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (20.61%) Kafka
2 175 (20.49%) React
3 158 (18.50%) Node.js
4 139 (16.28%) Spring
5 125 (14.64%) REST
5 125 (14.64%) RESTful
6 112 (13.11%) Spring Boot
7 69 (8.08%) AngularJS
8 65 (7.61%) CSS
9 59 (6.91%) GraphQL
10 57 (6.67%) HTML
11 47 (5.50%) Hibernate
12 46 (5.39%) Vue
13 42 (4.92%) FastAPI
14 38 (4.45%) Pandas
15 37 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
16 36 (4.22%) NumPy
17 34 (3.98%) JPA
17 34 (3.98%) Web Services
18 31 (3.63%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 95 (11.12%) Cloud Native
2 55 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.27%) Replication
4 32 (3.75%) Fixed Income
5 29 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 27 (3.16%) Equities
6 27 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 25 (2.93%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.34%) Clustering
9 20 (2.34%) Derivative
10 19 (2.22%) Market Risk
11 17 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.87%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.17%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.05%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 141 (16.51%) Linux
2 26 (3.04%) Windows
3 22 (2.58%) Unix
4 15 (1.76%) Amazon Linux
5 14 (1.64%) VMS
6 11 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.35%) Solaris
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.23%) zOS
9 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.12%) MVS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (42.39%) CI/CD
2 356 (41.69%) Agile
3 282 (33.02%) DevOps
4 232 (27.17%) Microservices
5 195 (22.83%) Containerisation
6 185 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (16.63%) Software Engineering
8 140 (16.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 129 (15.11%) TDD
10 125 (14.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 113 (13.23%) Test Automation
12 90 (10.54%) Observability
13 84 (9.84%) Migration
14 79 (9.25%) Mentoring
15 78 (9.13%) AI
16 75 (8.78%) Analytics
16 75 (8.78%) Computer Science
16 75 (8.78%) Scrum
17 74 (8.67%) ETL
18 71 (8.31%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 400 (46.84%) Python
2 320 (37.47%) SQL
3 271 (31.73%) Java
4 164 (19.20%) JavaScript
5 155 (18.15%) TypeScript
6 85 (9.95%) Bash
7 75 (8.78%) Go
8 43 (5.04%) PowerShell
9 27 (3.16%) Groovy
10 24 (2.81%) C#
11 20 (2.34%) Ruby
12 19 (2.22%) PHP
13 18 (2.11%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.41%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.17%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.05%) Perl
17 8 (0.94%) Scala
18 7 (0.82%) JSX
18 7 (0.82%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 224 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 193 (22.60%) SC Cleared
3 100 (11.71%) Degree
4 61 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (4.57%) AWS Certification
6 25 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 24 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.34%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.41%) OCP
11 12 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.94%) MCP
12 8 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
13 7 (0.82%) CISSP
14 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.47%) HND
16 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
17 1 (0.12%) CCIP
17 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.38%) QA
2 44 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.87%) GDPR
5 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.47%) HL7
6 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.23%) SLA
8 2 (0.23%) WCAG
9 1 (0.12%) DICOM
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 282 (33.02%) Docker
2 16 (1.87%) Postfix
3 12 (1.41%) Dovecot
3 12 (1.41%) Squid
4 10 (1.17%) DFS Replication
4 10 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.17%) zsh
5 8 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.70%) Active Directory
7 5 (0.59%) NDS
7 5 (0.59%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 3 (0.35%) NFS
9 2 (0.23%) GPFS
9 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.23%) KVM
9 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) etcd
10 1 (0.12%) SRDF
10 1 (0.12%) Varnish
10 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 290 (33.96%) Kubernetes
2 169 (19.79%) Terraform
3 111 (13.00%) Grafana
4 82 (9.60%) Prometheus
5 73 (8.55%) Ansible
6 27 (3.16%) Argo
7 23 (2.69%) Nessus
8 18 (2.11%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.64%) Puppet
10 12 (1.41%) Control-M
11 11 (1.29%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.17%) Proxmox
12 10 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.05%) Packer
14 7 (0.82%) Istio
15 5 (0.59%) Kibana
16 4 (0.47%) ZABBIX
17 3 (0.35%) Ambari
17 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 119 (13.93%) Oracle
2 84 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.92%) Google
4 41 (4.80%) Splunk
5 25 (2.93%) Red Hat
6 24 (2.81%) Atlassian
7 23 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 23 (2.69%) VMware
8 22 (2.58%) Databricks
9 18 (2.11%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.99%) CA Agile Central
11 16 (1.87%) Jaspersoft
12 14 (1.64%) IBM
13 11 (1.29%) Tenable
14 8 (0.94%) Informatica
15 7 (0.82%) Greenplum
16 6 (0.70%) Cloudera
16 6 (0.70%) Gigya
16 6 (0.70%) SAP
17 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty