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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 125 137
Rank change year-on-year -39 +12 +24
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 790 662 725
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.31% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.80% 12.24% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 494 542
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £423 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.14%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £636
90th Percentile £700 £813 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £479 £479
% change year-on-year -6.01% +0.05% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £39.50 - £34.05
25th Percentile £52.75 £62.50 £57.94
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -13.33% +233.56%
75th Percentile £72.11 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £78.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 7,312 5,410 7,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 18.91% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,922 3,714 5,229
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 94 148
10th Percentile £14.17 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.12 £23.69 £20.93
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.53% -17.60% -31.73%
75th Percentile £72.25 £65.62 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.13 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £31.64 £38.50
% change year-on-year +31.83% -17.82% -32.40%

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 26 May 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 26 May 2026.

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 26 May 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 -47 659 £513 -6.39% 242
UK excluding London -20 360 £450 -6.01% 114
London -47 339 £550 -8.33% 142
Work from Home -50 249 £500 -9.09% 141
North of England -25 129 £450 -5.26% 39
Midlands -6 93 £450 -10.00% 18
North West -19 68 £450 -5.26% 30
West Midlands -23 67 £450 -10.00% 8
South East -41 63 £471 +2.61% 32
Scotland +10 51 £425 -9.77% 2
Yorkshire -25 51 £475 -5.00% 5
East Midlands -12 24 £445 -11.00% 10
South West -28 20 £606 -3.04% 10
East of England -40 10 £575 +27.78% 9
North East -19 9 £425 -8.60% 4
Northern Ireland 0 1 £400 -20.00% 4
Wales -11 1 - - 3

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 47 (5.95%) Confluence
2 42 (5.32%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.53%) Apache
5 11 (1.39%) nginx
6 8 (1.01%) Camunda
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.38%) Appian
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.63%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 438 (55.44%) AWS
2 251 (31.77%) Azure
3 133 (16.84%) GitHub
4 127 (16.08%) GCP
5 97 (12.28%) Serverless
6 96 (12.15%) Amazon S3
7 83 (10.51%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (6.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 46 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (4.18%) Power Platform
15 30 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (3.80%) Route 53
16 29 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.67%) Snowflake
17 28 (3.54%) OpenShift
18 25 (3.16%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.15%) DNS
1 17 (2.15%) Firewall
2 6 (0.76%) HTTP
2 6 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (0.51%) SSH
3 4 (0.51%) SSL
3 4 (0.51%) VPN
4 3 (0.38%) iSCSI
4 3 (0.38%) SAN
4 3 (0.38%) WAN
5 2 (0.25%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.25%) MQTT
5 2 (0.25%) NaaS
5 2 (0.25%) Network Security
5 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (18.61%) MongoDB
1 147 (18.61%) SQL Server
2 137 (17.34%) Relational Database
3 133 (16.84%) NoSQL
4 111 (14.05%) MySQL
5 69 (8.73%) Amazon RDS
6 64 (8.10%) Amazon Aurora
7 59 (7.47%) DynamoDB
8 49 (6.20%) Redis
9 37 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (4.18%) Big Data
11 30 (3.80%) RDBMS
12 29 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
13 27 (3.42%) Power BI
14 25 (3.16%) Data Lake
15 22 (2.78%) Oracle Database
15 22 (2.78%) Tableau
16 20 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (2.53%) Metadata
17 19 (2.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 163 (20.63%) Jenkins
2 149 (18.86%) Git
3 80 (10.13%) GitLab
4 78 (9.87%) JIRA
5 76 (9.62%) JUnit
6 56 (7.09%) Mockito
7 36 (4.56%) Maven
8 26 (3.29%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.91%) Gradle
10 21 (2.66%) SonarQube
11 20 (2.53%) JMeter
11 20 (2.53%) Selenium
12 19 (2.41%) Liquibase
13 16 (2.03%) WebDriver
14 14 (1.77%) DbUnit
15 13 (1.65%) Gatling
15 13 (1.65%) jMock
16 11 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
17 8 (1.01%) Flyway
18 7 (0.89%) Artifactory
General
1 161 (20.38%) Finance
1 161 (20.38%) Social Skills
2 99 (12.53%) Public Sector
3 79 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.34%) Banking
5 25 (3.16%) Front Office
6 15 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (1.90%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (1.39%) Law
9 8 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (0.89%) Legal
11 5 (0.63%) Automotive
11 5 (0.63%) Retail
12 4 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.51%) Military
13 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.25%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 307 (38.86%) Developer
2 142 (17.97%) Senior
3 95 (12.03%) Java Developer
4 79 (10.00%) Python Developer
5 77 (9.75%) Software Engineer
6 73 (9.24%) DBA
7 72 (9.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 70 (8.86%) Data Engineer
9 69 (8.73%) Architect
10 57 (7.22%) Lead
10 57 (7.22%) Senior Developer
11 35 (4.43%) Java Engineer
12 34 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
13 33 (4.18%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 30 (3.80%) Senior Java Developer
15 28 (3.54%) Administrator
16 27 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (3.42%) Lead Developer
17 25 (3.16%) Data Architect
17 25 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (24.68%) Kafka
2 178 (22.53%) Spring
3 157 (19.87%) React
4 144 (18.23%) RESTful
5 138 (17.47%) Spring Boot
6 137 (17.34%) REST
7 116 (14.68%) Node.js
8 66 (8.35%) FastAPI
9 60 (7.59%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.32%) GraphQL
11 40 (5.06%) JPA
12 37 (4.68%) .NET
12 37 (4.68%) Hibernate
13 36 (4.56%) JSON
14 35 (4.43%) HTML
14 35 (4.43%) WireMock
15 34 (4.30%) Web Services
16 33 (4.18%) CSS
17 32 (4.05%) Django
18 31 (3.92%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 111 (14.05%) Cloud Native
2 89 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.67%) Derivative
5 26 (3.29%) Replication
6 25 (3.16%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (2.78%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.66%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (2.53%) Equities
11 16 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (2.03%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.27%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.01%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.01%) Market Risk
15 7 (0.89%) Clustering
15 7 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 110 (13.92%) Linux
2 33 (4.18%) Unix
3 23 (2.91%) Windows
4 15 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.51%) Solaris
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.38%) zOS
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.13%) SUSE
8 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (44.43%) CI/CD
2 293 (37.09%) Agile
3 248 (31.39%) DevOps
4 220 (27.85%) Microservices
5 189 (23.92%) Containerisation
6 147 (18.61%) Software Engineering
7 137 (17.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
9 123 (15.57%) Observability
10 116 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 110 (13.92%) Data Modelling
12 109 (13.80%) Test Automation
13 104 (13.16%) TDD
14 97 (12.28%) AI
15 95 (12.03%) Performance Tuning
16 94 (11.90%) Migration
17 81 (10.25%) Event-Driven
18 78 (9.87%) Mentoring
19 75 (9.49%) ETL
19 75 (9.49%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 338 (42.78%) Python
2 301 (38.10%) SQL
3 284 (35.95%) Java
4 136 (17.22%) TypeScript
5 118 (14.94%) JavaScript
6 49 (6.20%) Bash
7 45 (5.70%) PowerShell
8 41 (5.19%) C#
9 33 (4.18%) Go
10 32 (4.05%) Scala
11 21 (2.66%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.53%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.27%) Bicep
13 10 (1.27%) Groovy
13 10 (1.27%) PHP
14 9 (1.14%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.01%) Ruby
16 5 (0.63%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.63%) Rust
17 4 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 255 (32.28%) Security Cleared
2 211 (26.71%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.72%) Degree
4 34 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.04%) DV Cleared
6 21 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.76%) CISSP
10 6 (0.76%) OCP
11 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.51%) CISM
13 3 (0.38%) PhD
13 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.71%) QA
2 43 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.27%) GDPR
4 10 (1.27%) SLA
5 9 (1.14%) WCAG
6 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.89%) NIST
7 6 (0.76%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.76%) NCSC
7 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) DICOM
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 284 (35.95%) Docker
2 11 (1.39%) Postfix
3 9 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.63%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.63%) Ceph
7 4 (0.51%) HDFS
7 4 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.38%) Squid
9 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.13%) NFS
10 1 (0.13%) RACF
10 1 (0.13%) Samba
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 253 (32.03%) Kubernetes
2 133 (16.84%) Terraform
3 129 (16.33%) Grafana
4 90 (11.39%) Prometheus
5 54 (6.84%) Ansible
6 16 (2.03%) Control-M
6 16 (2.03%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (2.03%) Nessus
7 15 (1.90%) Argo
8 13 (1.65%) Kibana
8 13 (1.65%) Oracle RMAN
9 12 (1.52%) Data Guard
10 11 (1.39%) HAProxy
11 9 (1.14%) Istio
12 8 (1.01%) Rancher
13 5 (0.63%) linkerd
14 4 (0.51%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.51%) Puppet
15 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
15 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 146 (18.48%) Oracle
2 97 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.18%) Databricks
4 29 (3.67%) Splunk
5 24 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.66%) Informatica
7 20 (2.53%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.41%) Google
9 18 (2.28%) Atlassian
10 17 (2.15%) Jaspersoft
11 16 (2.03%) Tenable
12 14 (1.77%) Talend
12 14 (1.77%) VMware
13 13 (1.65%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.52%) Salesforce
15 10 (1.27%) Confluent
16 9 (1.14%) IBM
17 8 (1.01%) OpenAI
17 8 (1.01%) Sybase
18 7 (0.89%) Greenplum