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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 116 145
Rank change year-on-year -34 +29 +11
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 814 696 727
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 2.37% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.21% 12.48% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 516 520
10th Percentile £359 £400 £368
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £627
90th Percentile £700 £763 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £498
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.52% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.95 £34.05
25th Percentile £45.00 £47.88 £57.94
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -28.00% +233.56%
75th Percentile £69.72 £61.38 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +190.91%

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 7,262 5,579 7,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.46% 19.01% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,949 3,851 5,147
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £595 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £483
% change year-on-year -3.06% +1.45% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 108 144
10th Percentile £16.71 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £58.55
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +53.98% -20.90% -30.43%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -36 682 £500 -9.09% 254
UK excluding London -22 379 £450 -6.25% 170
London -36 339 £550 -5.98% 128
Work from Home -37 258 £500 -9.09% 193
North of England -29 143 £450 -5.26% 36
Midlands -1 94 £459 -8.20% 17
North West -17 78 £450 -5.26% 19
South East -46 73 £433 -6.54% 73
West Midlands -12 69 £475 -13.64% 9
Yorkshire -33 55 £475 -10.38% 7
Scotland +8 47 £425 -7.61% 6
East Midlands -20 24 £410 -18.00% 8
South West -41 21 £578 -7.52% 19
East of England -33 10 £575 +27.78% 10
North East -15 9 £425 -8.60% 10
Northern Ireland +4 3 £400 -20.00% 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 54 (6.63%) Confluence
2 39 (4.79%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.33%) Apache
5 17 (2.09%) nginx
6 7 (0.86%) Camunda
7 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.61%) SAS
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.37%) Appian
8 3 (0.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) Drupal
8 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.49%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) 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
Cloud Services
1 484 (59.46%) AWS
2 256 (31.45%) Azure
3 154 (18.92%) GitHub
4 125 (15.36%) GCP
5 114 (14.00%) Amazon S3
6 109 (13.39%) Serverless
7 94 (11.55%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (5.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
10 42 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (4.42%) OpenShift
14 34 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
15 28 (3.44%) Power Platform
16 26 (3.19%) Snowflake
17 24 (2.95%) Route 53
18 20 (2.46%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.46%) Firewall
2 18 (2.21%) DNS
3 7 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.74%) HTTP
4 6 (0.74%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.49%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.49%) SSH
5 4 (0.49%) VPN
5 4 (0.49%) WAN
6 3 (0.37%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.37%) Internet
6 3 (0.37%) SAN
6 3 (0.37%) SSL
7 2 (0.25%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.25%) LAN
7 2 (0.25%) MQTT
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (18.43%) SQL Server
2 145 (17.81%) MongoDB
3 144 (17.69%) Relational Database
4 134 (16.46%) NoSQL
5 123 (15.11%) MySQL
6 76 (9.34%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (7.62%) DynamoDB
8 56 (6.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 53 (6.51%) Redis
10 35 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (4.18%) Big Data
12 33 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
12 33 (4.05%) RDBMS
13 27 (3.32%) Data Lake
14 23 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (2.83%) Power BI
15 22 (2.70%) Metadata
16 20 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
16 20 (2.46%) Tableau
17 18 (2.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 173 (21.25%) Jenkins
2 158 (19.41%) Git
3 88 (10.81%) GitLab
4 84 (10.32%) JIRA
5 79 (9.71%) JUnit
6 49 (6.02%) Mockito
7 31 (3.81%) Maven
8 30 (3.69%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.83%) JMeter
10 22 (2.70%) Gradle
11 20 (2.46%) Selenium
12 17 (2.09%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.97%) WebDriver
14 15 (1.84%) Bitbucket
14 15 (1.84%) Liquibase
15 12 (1.47%) Gatling
16 11 (1.35%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.35%) jMock
17 9 (1.11%) Artifactory
17 9 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 180 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 164 (20.15%) Finance
3 97 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 75 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.63%) Banking
6 26 (3.19%) Front Office
7 17 (2.09%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.86%) Law
11 7 (0.86%) Legal
12 6 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Retail
13 5 (0.61%) Automotive
13 5 (0.61%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.37%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.37%) Games
14 3 (0.37%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 320 (39.31%) Developer
2 137 (16.83%) Senior
3 102 (12.53%) Java Developer
4 82 (10.07%) Full-Stack Developer
5 78 (9.58%) DBA
5 78 (9.58%) Python Developer
6 75 (9.21%) Software Engineer
7 69 (8.48%) Data Engineer
8 60 (7.37%) Architect
9 54 (6.63%) Lead
10 51 (6.27%) Senior Developer
11 37 (4.55%) Administrator
11 37 (4.55%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 34 (4.18%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (3.93%) Java Engineer
14 28 (3.44%) Lead Developer
15 27 (3.32%) Senior Java Developer
16 26 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
16 26 (3.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 26 (3.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (23.83%) Kafka
2 177 (21.74%) Spring
3 157 (19.29%) React
4 140 (17.20%) RESTful
5 136 (16.71%) Spring Boot
6 131 (16.09%) REST
7 126 (15.48%) Node.js
8 62 (7.62%) FastAPI
9 58 (7.13%) AngularJS
10 45 (5.53%) Hibernate
11 40 (4.91%) .NET
11 40 (4.91%) JSON
12 39 (4.79%) GraphQL
13 38 (4.67%) WireMock
14 37 (4.55%) CSS
15 36 (4.42%) HTML
16 35 (4.30%) JPA
17 30 (3.69%) Django
18 29 (3.56%) Redux
19 28 (3.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 107 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 74 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.28%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.69%) Derivative
5 27 (3.32%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.19%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.70%) Fixed Income
7 22 (2.70%) Replication
8 20 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (2.21%) Equities
10 17 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (2.09%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.35%) Market Risk
12 9 (1.11%) Clustering
12 9 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.98%) PACS
13 8 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 136 (16.71%) Linux
2 41 (5.04%) Unix
3 25 (3.07%) Windows
4 13 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.49%) zOS
7 3 (0.37%) Android
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.25%) Solaris
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
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
1 361 (44.35%) CI/CD
2 306 (37.59%) Agile
3 255 (31.33%) DevOps
4 206 (25.31%) Microservices
5 199 (24.45%) Containerisation
6 145 (17.81%) Software Engineering
7 140 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
8 139 (17.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 125 (15.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 118 (14.50%) Observability
11 109 (13.39%) Test Automation
12 106 (13.02%) Data Modelling
13 99 (12.16%) TDD
14 92 (11.30%) Migration
15 90 (11.06%) AI
16 89 (10.93%) Performance Tuning
17 80 (9.83%) ETL
18 79 (9.71%) Mentoring
19 75 (9.21%) Analytics
20 74 (9.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 350 (43.00%) Python
2 305 (37.47%) SQL
3 282 (34.64%) Java
4 125 (15.36%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.25%) JavaScript
6 67 (8.23%) Bash
7 46 (5.65%) PowerShell
8 42 (5.16%) C#
9 31 (3.81%) Go
9 31 (3.81%) Scala
10 21 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.46%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.35%) PHP
13 9 (1.11%) Groovy
13 9 (1.11%) Ruby
14 8 (0.98%) Bicep
14 8 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.86%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.61%) Delphi
16 5 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 268 (32.92%) Security Cleared
2 217 (26.66%) SC Cleared
3 68 (8.35%) Degree
4 37 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.44%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.21%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
9 13 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.23%) OCP
12 6 (0.74%) CISSP
13 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.49%) CISM
15 3 (0.37%) PhD
15 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 1 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.65%) QA
2 40 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.47%) GDPR
5 9 (1.11%) SLA
6 7 (0.86%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.86%) NCSC
6 7 (0.86%) NIST
6 7 (0.86%) WCAG
7 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.25%) HL7
9 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.12%) DICOM
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 305 (37.47%) Docker
2 11 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.23%) Postfix
4 9 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.61%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.61%) Ceph
6 5 (0.61%) HDFS
7 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.37%) NFS
8 2 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.25%) Lustre
8 2 (0.25%) Samba
8 2 (0.25%) Squid
8 2 (0.25%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) KVM
9 1 (0.12%) Varnish
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 262 (32.19%) Kubernetes
2 146 (17.94%) Terraform
3 124 (15.23%) Grafana
4 82 (10.07%) Prometheus
5 67 (8.23%) Ansible
6 16 (1.97%) Argo
6 16 (1.97%) Control-M
6 16 (1.97%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (1.97%) Nessus
7 12 (1.47%) HAProxy
8 11 (1.35%) Kibana
8 11 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (1.35%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.23%) Data Guard
9 10 (1.23%) Puppet
10 9 (1.11%) Rancher
11 8 (0.98%) Istio
12 6 (0.74%) linkerd
13 4 (0.49%) Packer
14 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 147 (18.06%) Oracle
2 106 (13.02%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.05%) Databricks
4 32 (3.93%) Splunk
5 23 (2.83%) Atlassian
6 22 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.58%) Red Hat
8 20 (2.46%) Google
8 20 (2.46%) Informatica
8 20 (2.46%) VMware
9 16 (1.97%) Tenable
10 14 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
11 13 (1.60%) Talend
12 12 (1.47%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.47%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.23%) Confluent
14 9 (1.11%) IBM
15 8 (0.98%) PagerDuty
16 7 (0.86%) Greenplum
16 7 (0.86%) OpenAI