PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PostgreSQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 191 72
Rank change year-on-year +51 -119 +47
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 2,052 1,930 8,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.03% 1.96% 5.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.22% 9.13% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,194 1,177 2,129
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +19.05%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

PostgreSQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,281 21,129 46,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.11% 21.45% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,536 13,165 21,039
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL.

Salary trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +52 1,758 £65,000 -10.34% 497
UK excluding London +80 1,317 £55,000 -4.35% 310
Work from Home +13 911 £65,000 -7.14% 294
London +32 650 £80,000 -5.88% 329
North of England +110 397 £55,000 - 51
South East +103 322 £52,500 -19.23% 167
North West +99 274 £50,000 -23.08% 32
Midlands +85 213 £50,000 -0.50% 22
East Midlands +85 141 £50,000 +5.26% 8
Scotland -40 112 £50,000 -13.04% 15
South West -21 105 £60,000 +1.37% 32
Yorkshire +66 82 £52,500 +16.67% 15
East of England -34 73 £60,000 -7.69% 20
West Midlands +20 68 £50,000 -0.99% 14
Wales +25 56 £51,051 -21.46% 1
North East -1 43 £65,465 +63.66% 4
Northern Ireland +25 39 £85,000 +70.00% 8

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
1 345 (16.81%) ArcGIS
2 332 (16.18%) GeoServer
3 166 (8.09%) Apache
4 138 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
5 42 (2.05%) Confluence
5 42 (2.05%) OpenStack
6 34 (1.66%) nginx
7 22 (1.07%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.78%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.58%) JBoss
10 10 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
11 6 (0.29%) Luigi
12 4 (0.19%) CMS
12 4 (0.19%) IIS
13 2 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.097%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.097%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.049%) Drupal
14 1 (0.049%) Site Server
Applications
1 21 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.097%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.049%) Notion
5 1 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.07%) NEC Housing
2 9 (0.44%) Sage X3
2 9 (0.44%) SAP Business One
3 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.24%) Odoo
4 5 (0.24%) Shopify
5 2 (0.097%) iTrent
5 2 (0.097%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.049%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,180 (57.50%) AWS
2 1,023 (49.85%) Azure
3 239 (11.65%) Serverless
4 238 (11.60%) IBM Cloud
5 179 (8.72%) GCP
6 175 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (6.29%) Azure Service Bus
8 126 (6.14%) Azure API Management
8 126 (6.14%) Azure Functions
8 126 (6.14%) Azure Logic Apps
9 81 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
9 81 (3.95%) GitHub
10 72 (3.51%) SaaS
11 71 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
12 60 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (2.00%) Amazon S3
14 36 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
15 32 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
16 31 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
17 29 (1.41%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.71%) Firewall
2 17 (0.83%) DNS
3 16 (0.78%) HTTP
3 16 (0.78%) Internet
4 14 (0.68%) LAN
5 13 (0.63%) PBX
6 9 (0.44%) MQTT
7 8 (0.39%) WAN
8 7 (0.34%) SAN
8 7 (0.34%) VPN
8 7 (0.34%) Wireless
9 6 (0.29%) FTP
9 6 (0.29%) MPLS
9 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.24%) SSH
11 4 (0.19%) BGP
11 4 (0.19%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.19%) Network Security
12 3 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 468 (22.81%) MongoDB
2 419 (20.42%) NoSQL
3 371 (18.08%) GIS
4 332 (16.18%) QGIS
5 316 (15.40%) MySQL
6 287 (13.99%) Relational Database
7 267 (13.01%) SQL Server
8 238 (11.60%) DB2
9 126 (6.14%) Redis
10 122 (5.95%) Oracle Database
11 99 (4.82%) Apache Ignite
12 93 (4.53%) Oracle Database 11g
13 52 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
14 49 (2.39%) DynamoDB
15 47 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
16 42 (2.05%) Hadoop
17 38 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
17 38 (1.85%) RDBMS
18 34 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 272 (13.26%) Git
2 142 (6.92%) Jenkins
3 82 (4.00%) JIRA
4 71 (3.46%) GitLab
5 69 (3.36%) Cypress.io
6 41 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.46%) Subversion
8 26 (1.27%) JUnit
9 17 (0.83%) PHPUnit
9 17 (0.83%) Selenium
10 16 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 16 (0.78%) Maven
11 11 (0.54%) Gatling
11 11 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
12 10 (0.49%) GNU Toolchain
13 9 (0.44%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.44%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (0.34%) Eclipse
14 7 (0.34%) JMeter
General
1 357 (17.40%) Finance
2 354 (17.25%) Public Sector
3 338 (16.47%) Social Skills
4 149 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 124 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
6 118 (5.75%) Banking
7 107 (5.21%) Front Office
8 67 (3.27%) Games
9 45 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 44 (2.14%) Retail
11 41 (2.00%) Marketing
12 36 (1.75%) Electronics
12 36 (1.75%) Local Government
13 31 (1.51%) Law
14 30 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 29 (1.41%) Legal
16 23 (1.12%) Police
17 22 (1.07%) Back Office
18 19 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 845 (41.18%) Developer
2 667 (32.50%) Software Engineer
3 589 (28.70%) Senior
4 290 (14.13%) Senior Software Engineer
5 276 (13.45%) Full Stack Developer
6 206 (10.04%) Senior Developer
7 189 (9.21%) Full Stack Engineer
8 153 (7.46%) Python Engineer
9 146 (7.12%) Python Developer
10 137 (6.68%) Java Developer
11 134 (6.53%) Azure Engineer
12 126 (6.14%) Azure Developer
13 124 (6.04%) React Developer
14 111 (5.41%) Python Software Engineer
15 109 (5.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 95 (4.63%) Database Developer
17 92 (4.48%) PostgreSQL Developer
18 80 (3.90%) Senior Database Developer
19 78 (3.80%) Java Engineer
20 74 (3.61%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 967 (47.12%) React
2 700 (34.11%) CSS
3 685 (33.38%) .NET
4 468 (22.81%) REST
5 407 (19.83%) HTML
6 388 (18.91%) Web Services
7 385 (18.76%) AngularJS
8 341 (16.62%) PostGIS
9 338 (16.47%) OpenLayers
10 336 (16.37%) Leaflet
11 330 (16.08%) Node.js
12 320 (15.59%) .NET Core
12 320 (15.59%) Vue
13 268 (13.06%) ASP.NET
14 267 (13.01%) jQuery
15 260 (12.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 244 (11.89%) ASP.NET Core
17 241 (11.74%) Ember.js
18 238 (11.60%) Backbone.js
19 181 (8.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 265 (12.91%) Algorithms
2 258 (12.57%) Data Structures
3 243 (11.84%) Blockchain
4 241 (11.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (5.56%) e-Learning
6 113 (5.51%) Hedge funds
7 99 (4.82%) Fixed Income
8 76 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
9 52 (2.53%) Equities
10 51 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
11 41 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
12 33 (1.61%) Product Ownership
13 27 (1.32%) Client/Server
13 27 (1.32%) Driving Licence
14 23 (1.12%) Blog
14 23 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
15 20 (0.97%) Data Centre
15 20 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (0.97%) Private Cloud
16 19 (0.93%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 507 (24.71%) Linux
2 325 (15.84%) Windows
3 243 (11.84%) Android
4 239 (11.65%) Apple iOS
5 58 (2.83%) Unix
6 54 (2.63%) Ubuntu
7 22 (1.07%) AIX
8 20 (0.97%) Windows Server
9 15 (0.73%) CentOS
9 15 (0.73%) Debian
10 13 (0.63%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.34%) SUSE
11 7 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 7 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.19%) VMS
14 1 (0.049%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.049%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (44.59%) Agile
2 810 (39.47%) Software Engineering
3 738 (35.96%) DevOps
4 633 (30.85%) Web Development
5 575 (28.02%) Full Stack Development
6 502 (24.46%) Artificial Intelligence
7 424 (20.66%) Actionable Insight
8 314 (15.30%) OO
9 312 (15.20%) User Experience
10 309 (15.06%) Design Patterns
11 274 (13.35%) Microservices
12 266 (12.96%) Mentoring
12 266 (12.96%) MVC
13 264 (12.87%) OOP
14 261 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
15 254 (12.38%) SOLID
16 251 (12.23%) CI/CD
17 250 (12.18%) MVVM
18 240 (11.70%) Responsive Web Design
19 238 (11.60%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1,040 (50.68%) Python
2 914 (44.54%) JavaScript
3 841 (40.98%) SQL
4 608 (29.63%) C#
5 558 (27.19%) Java
6 268 (13.06%) TypeScript
7 146 (7.12%) Go
8 106 (5.17%) Kotlin
9 105 (5.12%) PL/SQL
10 82 (4.00%) PHP
11 73 (3.56%) Bash
12 70 (3.41%) Scala
13 67 (3.27%) C++
14 61 (2.97%) C
15 50 (2.44%) PowerShell
16 45 (2.19%) Ruby
17 29 (1.41%) T-SQL
18 26 (1.27%) Shell Script
19 24 (1.17%) VB
20 21 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 465 (22.66%) Security Cleared
2 426 (20.76%) SC Cleared
3 195 (9.50%) Degree
4 92 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
7 21 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 17 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 17 (0.83%) CCNA
8 17 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.19%) MCSE
12 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.19%) PhD
13 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.097%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.097%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.097%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (2.29%) QA
2 46 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.46%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 6 (0.29%) GMP
5 5 (0.24%) MiFID
5 5 (0.24%) SLA
6 1 (0.049%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.049%) GDPR
6 1 (0.049%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.049%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 359 (17.50%) Docker
2 47 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.71%) Hyper-V
4 16 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (0.19%) VMware Server
8 4 (0.19%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.049%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.049%) etcd
11 1 (0.049%) Firmware
11 1 (0.049%) iptables
11 1 (0.049%) KVM
11 1 (0.049%) Postfix
11 1 (0.049%) vCloud
11 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 293 (14.28%) Kubernetes
2 170 (8.28%) Terraform
3 136 (6.63%) Ansible
4 47 (2.29%) Grafana
5 21 (1.02%) Puppet
6 16 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.73%) Progress Chef
8 13 (0.63%) Kibana
9 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.34%) Data Guard
9 7 (0.34%) Foglight
9 7 (0.34%) Packer
10 6 (0.29%) logstash
10 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 5 (0.24%) Consul
11 5 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.19%) Podman
12 4 (0.19%) SCOM
12 4 (0.19%) vMotion
Vendors
1 340 (16.57%) ESRI
2 268 (13.06%) Oracle
3 246 (11.99%) Red Hat
4 239 (11.65%) IBM
5 176 (8.58%) Google
6 118 (5.75%) Microsoft
7 39 (1.90%) SAP
8 37 (1.80%) WSO2
9 36 (1.75%) VMware
10 23 (1.12%) Atlassian
11 22 (1.07%) NEC
12 18 (0.88%) Apple
13 17 (0.83%) Splunk
14 16 (0.78%) Databricks
15 13 (0.63%) Palo Alto
16 9 (0.44%) Sage
17 8 (0.39%) Cisco
17 8 (0.39%) Dynatrace
17 8 (0.39%) New Relic
18 7 (0.34%) SaltStack