PostgreSQL Database Administrator
UK

The median PostgreSQL Database Administrator salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 881 985 1199
Rank change year-on-year +104 +214 -305
Permanent jobs requiring a PostgreSQL DBA 30 14 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.014% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.015% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 13
10th Percentile £45,125 - £43,500
25th Percentile - £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £64,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £67,875 £79,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,750 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% -20.00% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

PostgreSQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured PostgreSQL DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL DBA in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PostgreSQL DBA in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL DBA in the UK

PostgreSQL DBA
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +100 23 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Work from Home +86 13 £60,000 -4.00%
UK excluding London -3 12 £38,750 -3.13% 2
London +124 10 £60,000 -7.69% 1
North of England +34 5 - - 1
West Midlands - 5 - - 1
Midlands - 5 - - 1
North West - 5 - - 1
South East - 2 £38,750 -

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, PostgreSQL DBA job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring PostgreSQL DBA in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 18 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (60.00%) Customer Service
3 17 (56.67%) Performance Tuning
3 17 (56.67%) Oracle
4 16 (53.33%) ITIL
4 16 (53.33%) Unix
4 16 (53.33%) Back Office
4 16 (53.33%) NEC
4 16 (53.33%) Finance
4 16 (53.33%) Oracle Certification
4 16 (53.33%) Local Government
4 16 (53.33%) Problem Management
4 16 (53.33%) Security Cleared
4 16 (53.33%) Oracle Database 12c
4 16 (53.33%) Oracle Database
4 16 (53.33%) NEC Housing
4 16 (53.33%) Driving Licence
4 16 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (53.33%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (53.33%) Public Sector
4 16 (53.33%) Police
4 16 (53.33%) Accessibility
5 10 (33.33%) Insurtech
5 10 (33.33%) Fintech
6 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (10.00%) ETL
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (10.00%) SQL

PostgreSQL DBA Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (53.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 16 (53.33%) Oracle Database
3 16 (53.33%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.67%) Data Hub
5 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.33%) Neo4j
6 1 (3.33%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
1 2 (6.67%) Mercurial
2 1 (3.33%) Liquibase
General
1 18 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (53.33%) Back Office
2 16 (53.33%) Finance
2 16 (53.33%) Local Government
2 16 (53.33%) Police
2 16 (53.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 16 (53.33%) Driving Licence
1 16 (53.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 17 (56.67%) Performance Tuning
3 16 (53.33%) ITIL
3 16 (53.33%) Problem Management
4 10 (33.33%) Fintech
4 10 (33.33%) Insurtech
5 3 (10.00%) ETL
6 2 (6.67%) Data Protection
7 1 (3.33%) Change Control
7 1 (3.33%) CI/CD
7 1 (3.33%) Containerisation
7 1 (3.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (3.33%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.33%) Data Management
7 1 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.33%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.33%) Software Engineering
7 1 (3.33%) Spatial Data Management
7 1 (3.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (53.33%) Oracle Certification
1 16 (53.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (53.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Oracle
2 16 (53.33%) NEC
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft