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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 116 156
Rank change year-on-year -28 +40 -7
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 837 672 693
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.87% 2.31% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.71% 12.22% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 505 490
10th Percentile £358 £384 £381
25th Percentile £413 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +1.94%
75th Percentile £585 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -5.86% -4.40% +2.25%
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 7,146 5,501 7,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.96% 18.93% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,917 3,815 5,152
10th Percentile £350 £351 £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 £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 101 157
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.85 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.88 £24.25 £20.82
Median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.19% -20.90% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £54.13
90th Percentile £84.20 £76.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £29.80 £39.25
% change year-on-year +67.79% -24.08% -28.64%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -31 695 £500 -6.28% 288
UK excluding London -8 403 £450 -5.86% 175
London -32 332 £550 -4.35% 152
Work from Home -21 268 £484 -9.23% 201
North of England -19 155 £463 -2.63% 57
Midlands +12 108 £475 -5.00% 18
West Midlands +1 88 £478 -1.14% 8
South East -36 75 £433 +0.87% 48
North West -15 74 £447 -3.35% 33
Yorkshire -15 71 £488 -11.36% 19
Scotland +20 50 £431 -6.25% 12
South West -26 28 £606 -6.77% 20
East Midlands -22 19 £397 -20.70% 10
North East -9 9 £425 -8.60% 6
East of England -36 8 £575 +27.78% 14
Northern Ireland +2 6 £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 (6.33%) Confluence
2 25 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.27%) Apache
5 17 (2.03%) nginx
6 10 (1.19%) SAS
7 7 (0.84%) Camunda
8 5 (0.60%) Drupal
8 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.48%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.36%) Appian
10 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.24%) JBoss
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) Traefik
12 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
1 506 (60.45%) AWS
2 256 (30.59%) Azure
3 174 (20.79%) GitHub
4 148 (17.68%) GCP
5 129 (15.41%) Serverless
6 105 (12.54%) Amazon S3
7 101 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
8 73 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (4.54%) OpenShift
13 35 (4.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (3.70%) Power Platform
15 31 (3.70%) Snowflake
16 30 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (2.87%) AWS KMS
17 24 (2.87%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.39%) Firewall
2 18 (2.15%) DNS
3 9 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.96%) HTTP
4 8 (0.96%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.60%) SSL
5 5 (0.60%) VPN
6 4 (0.48%) Internet
6 4 (0.48%) iSCSI
6 4 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.48%) SSH
6 4 (0.48%) WAN
7 3 (0.36%) HTTPS
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%) DHCP
9 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (18.04%) NoSQL
2 140 (16.73%) Relational Database
3 136 (16.25%) SQL Server
4 134 (16.01%) MongoDB
5 128 (15.29%) MySQL
6 70 (8.36%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (7.41%) DynamoDB
8 51 (6.09%) Redis
9 45 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
12 34 (4.06%) RDBMS
13 26 (3.11%) Data Lake
14 25 (2.99%) Power BI
15 23 (2.75%) Big Data
15 23 (2.75%) Metadata
16 22 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (2.51%) Apache Cassandra
18 20 (2.39%) Oracle Database
19 18 (2.15%) DB2
Development Applications
1 185 (22.10%) Jenkins
2 164 (19.59%) Git
3 105 (12.54%) GitLab
4 83 (9.92%) JUnit
5 82 (9.80%) JIRA
6 45 (5.38%) Mockito
7 37 (4.42%) Cucumber
8 28 (3.35%) JMeter
9 27 (3.23%) Maven
10 24 (2.87%) Liquibase
11 23 (2.75%) Gradle
12 20 (2.39%) Selenium
13 16 (1.91%) Bitbucket
13 16 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
13 16 (1.91%) WebDriver
14 14 (1.67%) SonarQube
15 12 (1.43%) ERwin
16 10 (1.19%) Cypress.io
17 9 (1.08%) DbUnit
17 9 (1.08%) jMock
General
1 201 (24.01%) Social Skills
2 180 (21.51%) Finance
3 103 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 75 (8.96%) Banking
5 69 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.99%) Front Office
7 18 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.72%) Law
11 6 (0.72%) Legal
11 6 (0.72%) Retail
12 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.48%) Automotive
13 4 (0.48%) Marketing
14 3 (0.36%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 325 (38.83%) Developer
2 145 (17.32%) Senior
3 101 (12.07%) Java Developer
4 82 (9.80%) Full-Stack Developer
5 78 (9.32%) Python Developer
6 77 (9.20%) Software Engineer
7 69 (8.24%) DBA
8 68 (8.12%) Data Engineer
9 61 (7.29%) Architect
10 54 (6.45%) Lead
11 53 (6.33%) Senior Developer
12 35 (4.18%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 34 (4.06%) Administrator
14 31 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
15 30 (3.58%) Java Engineer
15 30 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
16 29 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
16 29 (3.46%) Lead Developer
17 28 (3.35%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (22.82%) Kafka
2 172 (20.55%) Spring
3 159 (19.00%) React
4 155 (18.52%) RESTful
5 147 (17.56%) REST
6 134 (16.01%) Node.js
7 133 (15.89%) Spring Boot
8 60 (7.17%) FastAPI
9 58 (6.93%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.26%) Hibernate
11 42 (5.02%) JSON
12 40 (4.78%) WireMock
13 38 (4.54%) GraphQL
14 36 (4.30%) .NET
15 33 (3.94%) CSS
16 31 (3.70%) Django
17 30 (3.58%) JPA
18 29 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
19 28 (3.35%) OAuth
19 28 (3.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 118 (14.10%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.70%) Derivative
5 28 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.63%) Fixed Income
8 20 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.39%) Replication
9 19 (2.27%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
10 18 (2.15%) Equities
11 17 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.91%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.67%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.55%) Market Risk
15 11 (1.31%) Clustering
16 8 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 143 (17.08%) Linux
2 28 (3.35%) Unix
3 27 (3.23%) Windows
4 12 (1.43%) 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%) Alpine Linux
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
1 385 (46.00%) CI/CD
2 315 (37.63%) Agile
3 277 (33.09%) DevOps
4 231 (27.60%) Microservices
5 210 (25.09%) Containerisation
6 150 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (16.97%) Software Engineering
8 139 (16.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 134 (16.01%) Full-Stack Development
10 116 (13.86%) Observability
11 111 (13.26%) Data Modelling
12 108 (12.90%) Test Automation
13 103 (12.31%) TDD
14 95 (11.35%) Migration
15 87 (10.39%) ETL
16 86 (10.27%) AI
17 85 (10.16%) Performance Tuning
18 81 (9.68%) Mentoring
19 80 (9.56%) Event-Driven
20 77 (9.20%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 359 (42.89%) Python
2 311 (37.16%) SQL
3 270 (32.26%) Java
4 126 (15.05%) TypeScript
5 114 (13.62%) JavaScript
6 69 (8.24%) Bash
7 60 (7.17%) Go
8 42 (5.02%) PowerShell
9 37 (4.42%) C#
10 19 (2.27%) Scala
10 19 (2.27%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.15%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.55%) PHP
13 11 (1.31%) Ruby
14 9 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.96%) Bicep
16 7 (0.84%) Groovy
17 6 (0.72%) JSX
18 5 (0.60%) Rust
18 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 271 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 215 (25.69%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.63%) Degree
4 48 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.94%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.99%) Master's Degree
8 20 (2.39%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.55%) OCP
11 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.60%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) CISM
14 3 (0.36%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.50%) Data Quality
1 46 (5.50%) QA
2 21 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.43%) GDPR
4 8 (0.96%) SLA
5 7 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.84%) NCSC
5 7 (0.84%) NIST
5 7 (0.84%) WCAG
6 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 304 (36.32%) Docker
2 11 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.96%) Postfix
3 8 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.60%) Ceph
5 5 (0.60%) HDFS
6 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) NFS
7 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.24%) Lustre
7 2 (0.24%) NDS
7 2 (0.24%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 2 (0.24%) Samba
7 2 (0.24%) Squid
7 2 (0.24%) Xen
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 291 (34.77%) Kubernetes
2 159 (19.00%) Terraform
3 127 (15.17%) Grafana
4 93 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 86 (10.27%) Ansible
6 15 (1.79%) Argo
6 15 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.67%) Control-M
7 14 (1.67%) IBM Guardium
7 14 (1.67%) Nessus
8 9 (1.08%) Puppet
8 9 (1.08%) Rancher
9 8 (0.96%) Istio
9 8 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.84%) Data Guard
10 7 (0.84%) HAProxy
11 6 (0.72%) linkerd
12 5 (0.60%) Packer
13 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 151 (18.04%) Oracle
2 104 (12.43%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.90%) Splunk
4 30 (3.58%) Google
5 29 (3.46%) Databricks
6 23 (2.75%) Atlassian
6 23 (2.75%) Red Hat
6 23 (2.75%) VMware
7 22 (2.63%) Informatica
8 18 (2.15%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.91%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.67%) Tenable
11 13 (1.55%) Talend
12 12 (1.43%) IBM
13 11 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
14 10 (1.19%) Greenplum
15 9 (1.08%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.96%) PagerDuty
17 6 (0.72%) Confluent
18 5 (0.60%) OpenAI