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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 118 127
Rank change year-on-year -61 +9 +31
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 854 779 721
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 2.38% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.45% 13.24% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 581 536
10th Percentile £363 £380 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £717 £838 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £482
% change year-on-year -0.31% -1.14% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £25.45 - £48.23
25th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £65.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% -46.88% +49.46%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £72.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.08% -18.75% +28.93%

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 8,171 5,882 7,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 17.96% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,443 3,950 4,924
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 95 100
10th Percentile £15.77 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £22.96 £29.00 £19.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +15.38% -40.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £69.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £32.58 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.40% +8.60% -42.86%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -63 689 £500 -6.76% 866
UK excluding London -33 367 £475 -0.31% 344
London -62 350 £525 -12.50% 617
Work from Home -70 264 £500 -15.18% 401
North of England -52 120 £500 +0.70% 72
Midlands -18 81 £445 -11.00% 39
South East -27 69 £471 +8.16% 102
Yorkshire -26 56 £500 - 15
North West -46 55 £500 +5.26% 46
West Midlands -35 50 £447 -5.84% 23
Scotland -17 46 £425 -12.82% 29
South West -30 31 £700 +33.33% 53
East Midlands +7 30 £425 -17.48% 15
East of England -12 21 £488 +4.28% 27
North East -49 9 £425 -22.73% 11
Wales -14 4 - - 10

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 33 (3.86%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (3.16%) Confluence
4 19 (2.22%) Apache
5 8 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.70%) CMS
8 5 (0.59%) Camunda
8 5 (0.59%) nginx
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.35%) IIS
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.47%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Finacle
3 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.12%) Odoo
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 449 (52.58%) AWS
2 287 (33.61%) Azure
3 160 (18.74%) GitHub
4 127 (14.87%) GCP
5 117 (13.70%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (11.94%) Serverless
7 89 (10.42%) Amazon S3
8 76 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
9 61 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
12 55 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
13 50 (5.85%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (3.75%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (3.16%) AWS KMS
18 25 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
19 23 (2.69%) Azure AKS
19 23 (2.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.04%) DNS
2 20 (2.34%) Firewall
3 19 (2.22%) SSH
4 18 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.87%) HTTP
6 11 (1.29%) HTTPS
7 9 (1.05%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.94%) SAN
9 7 (0.82%) SSL
10 5 (0.59%) 5G
11 4 (0.47%) 4G
11 4 (0.47%) VPN
12 3 (0.35%) Network Security
13 2 (0.23%) DHCP
13 2 (0.23%) FTP
13 2 (0.23%) IMAP
13 2 (0.23%) MQTT
13 2 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (20.14%) MongoDB
2 170 (19.91%) SQL Server
3 164 (19.20%) Relational Database
4 149 (17.45%) MySQL
5 115 (13.47%) NoSQL
6 101 (11.83%) Redis
7 78 (9.13%) Amazon RDS
8 77 (9.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 41 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
9 41 (4.80%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.75%) RDBMS
11 30 (3.51%) Oracle Database
12 28 (3.28%) Big Data
13 26 (3.04%) Data Lake
14 24 (2.81%) Metadata
15 22 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (2.22%) Power BI
17 15 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
18 12 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
18 12 (1.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 193 (22.60%) Git
1 193 (22.60%) Jenkins
2 95 (11.12%) GitLab
3 74 (8.67%) JIRA
4 65 (7.61%) JUnit
5 52 (6.09%) Mockito
6 41 (4.80%) Maven
7 35 (4.10%) Gradle
8 24 (2.81%) Liquibase
9 20 (2.34%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.22%) SonarQube
11 18 (2.11%) Selenium
12 16 (1.87%) Gatling
13 13 (1.52%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.52%) JMeter
14 12 (1.41%) Mocha
15 11 (1.29%) Flyway
16 10 (1.17%) Cypress.io
17 8 (0.94%) WebDriver
18 7 (0.82%) DbUnit
General
1 188 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 139 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 133 (15.57%) Finance
4 118 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.74%) Banking
6 31 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (1.87%) Front Office
8 11 (1.29%) Military
8 11 (1.29%) Retail
9 10 (1.17%) Law
9 10 (1.17%) Legal
9 10 (1.17%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.59%) Automotive
12 5 (0.59%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.59%) Marketing
12 5 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.47%) Billing
13 4 (0.47%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 317 (37.12%) Developer
2 153 (17.92%) Senior
3 105 (12.30%) Java Developer
4 100 (11.71%) DBA
5 72 (8.43%) Software Engineer
6 65 (7.61%) Full-Stack Developer
7 64 (7.49%) Lead
8 63 (7.38%) Senior Developer
9 62 (7.26%) Data Engineer
10 58 (6.79%) Python Developer
11 57 (6.67%) Administrator
12 50 (5.85%) Architect
13 45 (5.27%) DevOps Engineer
14 41 (4.80%) Java Engineer
15 34 (3.98%) Software Developer
16 29 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
16 29 (3.40%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 26 (3.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.04%) Python Engineer
18 25 (2.93%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (26.35%) REST
2 188 (22.01%) Spring
3 182 (21.31%) Kafka
3 182 (21.31%) RESTful
4 161 (18.85%) Terraform
5 159 (18.62%) Spring Boot
6 158 (18.50%) React
7 112 (13.11%) Node.js
8 72 (8.43%) CSS
8 72 (8.43%) HTML
9 58 (6.79%) .NET
10 56 (6.56%) FastAPI
11 53 (6.21%) OAuth
12 51 (5.97%) AngularJS
13 50 (5.85%) Django
14 47 (5.50%) OpenAPI
14 47 (5.50%) Swagger
15 43 (5.04%) OAuth2
16 41 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
17 38 (4.45%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 166 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 104 (12.18%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.74%) Replication
4 42 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.98%) Data Structures
6 29 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.46%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.46%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.87%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.52%) Equities
14 12 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.29%) Derivative
16 10 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
17 8 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
17 8 (0.94%) Life Science
17 8 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 116 (13.58%) Linux
2 40 (4.68%) Unix
3 35 (4.10%) Windows
4 27 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.64%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.94%) Solaris
9 7 (0.82%) AIX
10 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (48.95%) CI/CD
2 308 (36.07%) Agile
3 297 (34.78%) DevOps
4 263 (30.80%) Microservices
5 196 (22.95%) Containerisation
6 173 (20.26%) Software Engineering
7 155 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
8 147 (17.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 146 (17.10%) Full-Stack Development
10 136 (15.93%) Test Automation
11 125 (14.64%) Data Modelling
12 123 (14.40%) Performance Tuning
13 122 (14.29%) AI
14 121 (14.17%) Observability
15 112 (13.11%) Event-Driven
15 112 (13.11%) Migration
16 97 (11.36%) Validation
17 91 (10.66%) TDD
18 90 (10.54%) Scrum
19 87 (10.19%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 320 (37.47%) Python
2 316 (37.00%) SQL
3 305 (35.71%) Java
4 153 (17.92%) TypeScript
5 113 (13.23%) JavaScript
6 55 (6.44%) C#
7 51 (5.97%) Bash
8 43 (5.04%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.98%) Go
10 30 (3.51%) Scala
11 18 (2.11%) Groovy
12 17 (1.99%) Perl
12 17 (1.99%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.76%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.52%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.41%) Ruby
16 11 (1.29%) PHP
17 10 (1.17%) Korn
18 9 (1.05%) Rust
18 9 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 294 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 248 (29.04%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.09%) Degree
4 46 (5.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 25 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (2.58%) AWS Certification
8 18 (2.11%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.05%) OCP
12 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.12%) CISA
14 1 (0.12%) CISM
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.55%) QA
2 49 (5.74%) Accessibility
3 45 (5.27%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.99%) GDPR
5 16 (1.87%) WCAG
6 7 (0.82%) GMP
6 7 (0.82%) GxP
7 6 (0.70%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 6 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.59%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.59%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.35%) SEPA
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) HL7
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 342 (40.05%) Docker
2 14 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.52%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.82%) Postfix
6 6 (0.70%) Ceph
6 6 (0.70%) Squid
7 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.12%) NFS
9 1 (0.12%) RACF
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 293 (34.31%) Kubernetes
2 106 (12.41%) Grafana
3 81 (9.48%) Prometheus
4 39 (4.57%) Ansible
5 24 (2.81%) Kibana
6 16 (1.87%) Argo
6 16 (1.87%) Oracle RMAN
7 12 (1.41%) Data Guard
8 10 (1.17%) HAProxy
9 9 (1.05%) Control-M
9 9 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 8 (0.94%) Karpenter
10 8 (0.94%) Nessus
11 6 (0.70%) IBM Guardium
11 6 (0.70%) Istio
11 6 (0.70%) Rancher
12 5 (0.59%) Puppet
13 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.35%) Bosun
14 3 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 180 (21.08%) Oracle
2 128 (14.99%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.45%) Google
4 34 (3.98%) Databricks
4 34 (3.98%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.69%) Dynatrace
5 23 (2.69%) Splunk
6 16 (1.87%) Informatica
6 16 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.64%) VMware
8 10 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.05%) NetApp
10 8 (0.94%) CyberArk
10 8 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.94%) Sybase
10 8 (0.94%) Talend
11 7 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.82%) TikTok
12 6 (0.70%) Tenable