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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 116 128
Rank change year-on-year -57 +12 +31
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 860 768 722
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.36% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.52% 13.11% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 570 536
10th Percentile £363 £379 £366
25th Percentile £425 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £530 £527
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +0.66% +1.25%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £838 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £483 £487
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.82% -2.70%
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 8,173 5,858 6,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.25% 18.01% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,444 3,920 4,881
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 94 100
10th Percentile £15.88 £21.22 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.02 £19.77
Median hourly rate £38.38 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £61.31 £64.94 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.30 £79.63 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -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 2 September 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 September 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 September 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 -61 694 £501 -8.89% 937
UK excluding London -42 365 £475 -1.55% 370
London -63 353 £530 -11.67% 682
Work from Home -66 267 £500 -16.53% 461
North of England -61 119 £500 - 78
Midlands -22 82 £445 -11.00% 43
South East -37 68 £470 +8.05% 97
Yorkshire -18 56 £500 - 18
North West -48 55 £500 +5.26% 49
West Midlands -35 51 £447 -5.89% 29
Scotland -27 43 £450 -7.69% 33
South West -28 32 £650 +18.18% 59
East Midlands +6 30 £425 -17.48% 13
East of England -12 21 £488 +5.41% 23
North East -54 8 £425 -22.73% 12
Wales -15 4 - - 13

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 35 (4.07%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (3.72%) Confluence
3 22 (2.56%) Apache
4 8 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.70%) CMS
7 5 (0.58%) nginx
8 4 (0.47%) Camunda
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.35%) IIS
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
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
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.47%) Trello
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (0.81%) 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 (52.21%) AWS
2 291 (33.84%) Azure
3 161 (18.72%) GitHub
4 123 (14.30%) GCP
5 118 (13.72%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (11.74%) Serverless
7 92 (10.70%) Amazon S3
8 74 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
9 62 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 59 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
11 58 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
12 56 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
13 52 (6.05%) Amazon SQS
14 36 (4.19%) Snowflake
15 30 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (3.14%) AWS KMS
18 26 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
19 23 (2.67%) Azure AKS
19 23 (2.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.02%) DNS
2 20 (2.33%) Firewall
3 19 (2.21%) SSH
4 18 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.98%) HTTP
6 11 (1.28%) HTTPS
7 9 (1.05%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.93%) SAN
9 7 (0.81%) SSL
10 5 (0.58%) 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
1 175 (20.35%) SQL Server
2 168 (19.53%) Relational Database
3 166 (19.30%) MongoDB
4 156 (18.14%) MySQL
5 110 (12.79%) NoSQL
6 102 (11.86%) Redis
7 80 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
8 78 (9.07%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
9 43 (5.00%) DynamoDB
10 31 (3.60%) RDBMS
11 30 (3.49%) Oracle Database
12 29 (3.37%) Big Data
13 26 (3.02%) Data Lake
13 26 (3.02%) Metadata
14 23 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (2.09%) Power BI
16 16 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
17 14 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
17 14 (1.63%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 198 (23.02%) Git
1 198 (23.02%) Jenkins
2 96 (11.16%) GitLab
3 77 (8.95%) JIRA
4 68 (7.91%) JUnit
5 56 (6.51%) Mockito
6 47 (5.47%) Maven
7 36 (4.19%) Gradle
8 24 (2.79%) SonarQube
9 23 (2.67%) Liquibase
10 21 (2.44%) Cucumber
11 18 (2.09%) Selenium
12 16 (1.86%) Gatling
13 14 (1.63%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.51%) JMeter
15 12 (1.40%) Mocha
16 10 (1.16%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.16%) Flyway
17 8 (0.93%) WebDriver
18 7 (0.81%) DbUnit
General
1 195 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 143 (16.63%) Public Sector
3 127 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (14.42%) Finance
5 47 (5.47%) Banking
6 33 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (1.51%) Front Office
8 11 (1.28%) Military
8 11 (1.28%) Retail
9 10 (1.16%) Law
9 10 (1.16%) Legal
9 10 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.58%) Automotive
11 5 (0.58%) Billing
11 5 (0.58%) Marketing
11 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 318 (36.98%) Developer
2 157 (18.26%) Senior
3 110 (12.79%) Java Developer
4 102 (11.86%) DBA
5 68 (7.91%) Senior Developer
6 67 (7.79%) Software Engineer
7 65 (7.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (7.33%) Lead
9 62 (7.21%) Data Engineer
10 58 (6.74%) Administrator
11 50 (5.81%) Python Developer
12 47 (5.47%) Architect
13 44 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
14 39 (4.53%) Java Engineer
15 36 (4.19%) Software Developer
16 29 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
17 27 (3.14%) PostgreSQL DBA
17 27 (3.14%) Python Engineer
18 26 (3.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 24 (2.79%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (26.86%) REST
2 192 (22.33%) Spring
3 186 (21.63%) RESTful
4 184 (21.40%) Kafka
5 163 (18.95%) Spring Boot
6 161 (18.72%) Terraform
7 152 (17.67%) React
8 108 (12.56%) Node.js
9 73 (8.49%) CSS
10 72 (8.37%) HTML
11 64 (7.44%) .NET
12 56 (6.51%) OAuth
13 54 (6.28%) AngularJS
14 52 (6.05%) Django
15 51 (5.93%) FastAPI
16 48 (5.58%) OpenAPI
16 48 (5.58%) Swagger
17 47 (5.47%) OAuth2
18 43 (5.00%) GraphQL
19 42 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 174 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 105 (12.21%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.81%) Replication
4 42 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.30%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.56%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.09%) Algorithms
9 18 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.40%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.05%) Equities
14 9 (1.05%) LIMS
15 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
15 8 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 117 (13.60%) Linux
2 41 (4.77%) Unix
3 39 (4.53%) Windows
4 27 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.79%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.28%) Solaris
8 9 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.93%) 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
1 420 (48.84%) CI/CD
2 304 (35.35%) Agile
3 292 (33.95%) DevOps
4 268 (31.16%) Microservices
5 199 (23.14%) Containerisation
6 171 (19.88%) Software Engineering
7 162 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (17.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 147 (17.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 139 (16.16%) Test Automation
11 129 (15.00%) Data Modelling
12 123 (14.30%) Performance Tuning
13 122 (14.19%) Observability
14 121 (14.07%) AI
15 117 (13.60%) Event-Driven
16 114 (13.26%) Migration
17 99 (11.51%) Validation
18 98 (11.40%) Scrum
19 95 (11.05%) TDD
20 93 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 325 (37.79%) SQL
2 314 (36.51%) Python
3 309 (35.93%) Java
4 151 (17.56%) TypeScript
5 109 (12.67%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.86%) C#
7 50 (5.81%) Bash
8 43 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.60%) Go
9 31 (3.60%) Scala
10 18 (2.09%) Groovy
11 17 (1.98%) Perl
11 17 (1.98%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.63%) Kotlin
12 14 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.51%) Ruby
14 11 (1.28%) PHP
15 10 (1.16%) Korn
15 10 (1.16%) Rust
15 10 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 304 (35.35%) Security Cleared
2 259 (30.12%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.05%) Degree
4 47 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.56%) AWS Certification
9 18 (2.09%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.05%) OCP
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.12%) CISA
14 1 (0.12%) CISM
14 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.49%) QA
2 47 (5.47%) Accessibility
2 47 (5.47%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.09%) GDPR
4 15 (1.74%) WCAG
5 8 (0.93%) GMP
5 8 (0.93%) GxP
6 7 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 6 (0.70%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.58%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.35%) GRC
10 3 (0.35%) SEPA
11 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 342 (39.77%) Docker
2 14 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.51%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.81%) Postfix
7 6 (0.70%) Ceph
7 6 (0.70%) Squid
8 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) RACF
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 287 (33.37%) Kubernetes
2 110 (12.79%) Grafana
3 85 (9.88%) Prometheus
4 38 (4.42%) Ansible
5 24 (2.79%) Kibana
6 17 (1.98%) Argo
7 15 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (1.28%) Data Guard
9 10 (1.16%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 8 (0.93%) Control-M
11 8 (0.93%) Karpenter
12 7 (0.81%) Nessus
13 6 (0.70%) Istio
14 5 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
14 5 (0.58%) Puppet
14 5 (0.58%) Rancher
15 4 (0.47%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 184 (21.40%) Oracle
2 129 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.77%) Databricks
3 41 (4.77%) Google
4 34 (3.95%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.67%) Dynatrace
5 23 (2.67%) Splunk
6 18 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.86%) Informatica
7 16 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.63%) VMware
9 10 (1.16%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (1.05%) NetApp
10 9 (1.05%) Talend
11 8 (0.93%) CyberArk
11 8 (0.93%) Red Hat
11 8 (0.93%) Sybase
12 7 (0.81%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.81%) TikTok
13 6 (0.70%) Solace