PostgreSQL Contracts

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 137 155
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 692 738 1,021
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.36% 1.69% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.46% 10.09% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 531 724
10th Percentile £400 £369 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +3.35% -7.64%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £620
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £492 £489
% change year-on-year -2.34% +0.51% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 19
10th Percentile £44.95 £34.05 -
25th Percentile £47.88 £57.94 £21.24
Median hourly rate £54.00 £75.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +233.56% -60.16%
75th Percentile £61.38 £85.00 £44.32
90th Percentile £65.05 - £45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year - +190.91% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 17 Contract 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 1 May 2025. 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 +33 579 £548 -0.45% 960
London +7 339 £585 +1.74% 555
Work from Home +41 284 £550 +8.48% 734
UK excluding London +20 248 £480 -2.34% 572
North of England +54 90 £475 -12.04% 156
North West +44 59 £475 -11.05% 114
South East -11 55 £463 -5.56% 214
Scotland -23 37 £460 -2.59% 22
Midlands +28 26 £500 -4.31% 62
Yorkshire +18 26 £530 -11.67% 36
South West +55 24 £625 +25.00% 61
West Midlands +16 18 £550 +13.11% 33
East of England +40 12 £450 -33.33% 65
East Midlands +14 8 £500 -33.33% 25
North East +1 5 £465 -15.45% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £500 - 6
Wales 0 1 £238 -52.85% 11

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (5.78%) Confluence
2 28 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (3.90%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.60%) Apache
5 9 (1.30%) Camunda
5 9 (1.30%) nginx
6 7 (1.01%) CMS
7 5 (0.72%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.72%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.58%) Alfresco
9 3 (0.43%) SAS
10 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.29%) IIS
10 2 (0.29%) JBoss
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Simulink
2 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.29%) Actimize
2 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle TCA
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 402 (58.09%) AWS
2 124 (17.92%) Azure
3 90 (13.01%) GCP
3 90 (13.01%) Serverless
4 75 (10.84%) Amazon S3
5 66 (9.54%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (7.80%) GitHub
7 43 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (4.77%) Amazon SQS
9 26 (3.76%) Power Platform
10 25 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (3.32%) dbt
13 22 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (3.18%) Slack
14 21 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (2.75%) OpenShift
16 18 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (2.31%) Route 53
18 15 (2.17%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.32%) HTTP
2 18 (2.60%) Firewall
3 15 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.30%) VPN
5 6 (0.87%) DNS
6 5 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.72%) SSL
7 4 (0.58%) DHCP
7 4 (0.58%) NAS
7 4 (0.58%) SAN
8 2 (0.29%) MQTT
8 2 (0.29%) Network Security
8 2 (0.29%) Skype
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.29%) Wireless
9 1 (0.14%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.14%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (21.97%) MongoDB
2 134 (19.36%) MySQL
3 125 (18.06%) Relational Database
4 77 (11.13%) NoSQL
5 76 (10.98%) Amazon RDS
5 76 (10.98%) SQL Server
6 50 (7.23%) Redis
7 37 (5.35%) Oracle Database
8 35 (5.06%) Amazon Athena
8 35 (5.06%) DynamoDB
9 33 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (4.48%) Apache Cassandra
11 27 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
11 27 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (3.61%) Hadoop
13 23 (3.32%) RDBMS
14 22 (3.18%) Power BI
15 21 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
16 17 (2.46%) Big Data
17 16 (2.31%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 123 (17.77%) Git
2 114 (16.47%) Jenkins
3 83 (11.99%) JUnit
4 66 (9.54%) GitLab
5 65 (9.39%) JIRA
6 52 (7.51%) Mockito
7 40 (5.78%) Gradle
7 40 (5.78%) Liquibase
8 34 (4.91%) Maven
9 20 (2.89%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.75%) Jasmine
11 18 (2.60%) SonarQube
12 13 (1.88%) Postman
13 10 (1.45%) Bitbucket
14 9 (1.30%) Artifactory
14 9 (1.30%) Cypress.io
15 8 (1.16%) Selenium
15 8 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (1.01%) gulp
17 6 (0.87%) ERwin
General
1 155 (22.40%) Finance
2 147 (21.24%) Social Skills
3 126 (18.21%) Public Sector
4 73 (10.55%) Banking
5 61 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (7.37%) Front Office
7 26 (3.76%) Marketing
7 26 (3.76%) Telecoms
8 22 (3.18%) Electronics
8 22 (3.18%) Manufacturing
9 21 (3.03%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.30%) Military
11 6 (0.87%) Billing
11 6 (0.87%) Retail
12 4 (0.58%) Back Office
12 4 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.58%) Law
12 4 (0.58%) Legal
12 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 358 (51.73%) Developer
2 132 (19.08%) Java Developer
3 95 (13.73%) Software Engineer
4 92 (13.29%) Senior
5 67 (9.68%) Lead
6 66 (9.54%) Full-Stack Developer
7 59 (8.53%) Senior Developer
8 51 (7.37%) React Developer
9 48 (6.94%) Data Engineer
10 46 (6.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 44 (6.36%) DBA
11 44 (6.36%) Python Developer
11 44 (6.36%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 38 (5.49%) AWS Developer
12 38 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
13 35 (5.06%) Lead Developer
14 32 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
15 30 (4.34%) Architect
16 27 (3.90%) Lead Java Developer
17 23 (3.32%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (28.76%) React
2 158 (22.83%) Kafka
3 152 (21.97%) Spring
3 152 (21.97%) Spring Boot
4 120 (17.34%) Node.js
5 93 (13.44%) RESTful
6 72 (10.40%) AngularJS
7 71 (10.26%) REST
8 64 (9.25%) Swagger
9 59 (8.53%) HTML
9 59 (8.53%) OpenAPI
10 56 (8.09%) CSS
11 51 (7.37%) .NET
12 42 (6.07%) Hibernate
13 38 (5.49%) Redux
14 37 (5.35%) Web Services
15 33 (4.77%) NumPy
16 32 (4.62%) Pandas
16 32 (4.62%) Vue
17 29 (4.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.79%) Fixed Income
2 22 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (2.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 17 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.31%) Data Structures
4 16 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (2.17%) Derivative
6 14 (2.02%) Equities
6 14 (2.02%) Replication
7 12 (1.73%) PKI
8 10 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.30%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.01%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.01%) Clustering
11 7 (1.01%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.87%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.87%) Market Risk
12 6 (0.87%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 90 (13.01%) Linux
2 42 (6.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (3.32%) Windows
4 17 (2.46%) Unix
5 9 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.58%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.43%) CentOS
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.29%) Solaris
10 2 (0.29%) SUSE
11 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (42.92%) Agile
2 225 (32.51%) CI/CD
3 210 (30.35%) Microservices
4 196 (28.32%) DevOps
5 168 (24.28%) Software Engineering
6 151 (21.82%) Containerisation
7 139 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
8 125 (18.06%) TDD
9 109 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 101 (14.60%) Migration
11 74 (10.69%) Test Automation
12 71 (10.26%) Clean Code
13 69 (9.97%) Continuous Integration
14 62 (8.96%) Mentoring
15 58 (8.38%) ETL
16 56 (8.09%) Fintech
16 56 (8.09%) Scrum
17 51 (7.37%) Asset Management
17 51 (7.37%) Event-Driven
18 50 (7.23%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 322 (46.53%) SQL
2 244 (35.26%) Java
3 236 (34.10%) Python
4 170 (24.57%) JavaScript
5 141 (20.38%) TypeScript
6 50 (7.23%) Bash
7 35 (5.06%) C#
8 33 (4.77%) PL/SQL
9 15 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.17%) Shell Script
10 14 (2.02%) Go
10 14 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.59%) RPG
11 11 (1.59%) RPG IV
12 7 (1.01%) C++
12 7 (1.01%) PHP
13 6 (0.87%) Perl
13 6 (0.87%) Ruby
13 6 (0.87%) Scala
13 6 (0.87%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 222 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 193 (27.89%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.23%) Degree
4 25 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.46%) AWS Certified Developer
6 16 (2.31%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
9 8 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.58%) OCP
11 4 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.43%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.29%) MCSA
13 2 (0.29%) MCSE
13 2 (0.29%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.90%) QA
2 25 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.58%) GDPR
6 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.29%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.14%) MiFID
8 1 (0.14%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 211 (30.49%) Docker
2 7 (1.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (0.72%) Postfix
3 5 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.29%) iptables
6 1 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 187 (27.02%) Kubernetes
2 81 (11.71%) Terraform
3 51 (7.37%) Grafana
4 40 (5.78%) Ansible
5 28 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.02%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.30%) Argo
7 9 (1.30%) Puppet
8 8 (1.16%) Istio
9 7 (1.01%) Kibana
10 3 (0.43%) Control-M
10 3 (0.43%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.29%) OPNET
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.29%) Packer
11 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.29%) SCCM
11 2 (0.29%) SELinux
11 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (20.38%) Oracle
2 45 (6.50%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.62%) SAP
4 23 (3.32%) Google
5 17 (2.46%) Informatica
6 16 (2.31%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.17%) Splunk
8 13 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.73%) Atlassian
9 12 (1.73%) Databricks
10 8 (1.16%) Solace
10 8 (1.16%) VMware
11 7 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
12 6 (0.87%) IBM
12 6 (0.87%) Talend
12 6 (0.87%) Virgin Media
13 5 (0.72%) Confluent
13 5 (0.72%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.72%) MuleSoft