Hybrid/Remote PostgreSQL DBA Contract Job Trends

PostgreSQL Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median PostgreSQL Database Administrator daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 280 324
Rank change year-on-year -48 +44 +127
Contract jobs requiring a PostgreSQL DBA 7 10 20
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.057% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 15
10th Percentile £433 £412 £529
25th Percentile £453 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £445 £534
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% -16.67% +10.10%
75th Percentile £617 £475 £558
90th Percentile £675 £535 £613
UK median daily rate £478 £445 £534
% change year-on-year +7.30% -16.67% -2.91%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,446 8,904 13,715
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 93.69% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,297 6,062 9,256
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 207 564
10th Percentile £17.47 £14.00 £14.26
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.73 £22.71
Median hourly rate £57.50 £33.99 £44.74
Median % change year-on-year +69.19% -24.04% -14.78%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.63 £64.65
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £75.18
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.52 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.46% -24.62% -18.89%

PostgreSQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'PostgreSQL DBA' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PostgreSQL DBA job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid PostgreSQL DBA job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid PostgreSQL DBA job vacancies

PostgreSQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PostgreSQL DBA over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

PostgreSQL DBA daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 26 May 2026, PostgreSQL DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring PostgreSQL DBA in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Database Security
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) JSON
4 2 (28.57%) Kafka
4 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
4 2 (28.57%) MySQL
4 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
4 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (28.57%) Terraform
4 2 (28.57%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Data Management
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) GIS

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (14.29%) GIS
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Database Security
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Open Source
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) OCP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft