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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 191 74
Rank change year-on-year +50 -117 +47
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 2,007 2,086 7,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.05% 1.99% 4.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.10% 9.23% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,170 1,263 2,162
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,625 £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 £87,500 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +15.74%

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 18,076 22,599 42,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 21.59% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12,541 13,991 21,425
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 £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +49 1,692 £65,000 -13.33% 359
UK excluding London +76 1,296 £55,000 -4.35% 196
Work from Home +16 938 £65,465 -6.48% 247
London +14 616 £80,000 -5.88% 181
North of England +125 397 £55,000 +10.00% 44
South East +95 303 £57,500 -11.54% 38
North West +129 266 £51,250 -21.15% 25
Midlands +79 208 £50,000 -9.09% 24
East Midlands +69 139 £50,000 +5.26% 9
Scotland -39 117 £50,000 -9.09% 22
South West -21 100 £60,000 +1.37% 36
Yorkshire +85 90 £55,000 +22.22% 15
East of England -28 75 £65,000 -10.34% 26
West Midlands +24 68 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Wales +32 59 £52,101 -18.14% 2
North East +3 43 £65,465 +63.66% 4
Northern Ireland +26 42 £75,000 +50.00% 9

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 (17.19%) ArcGIS
2 332 (16.54%) GeoServer
3 133 (6.63%) Apache
4 100 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
5 54 (2.69%) Confluence
6 44 (2.19%) OpenStack
7 37 (1.84%) nginx
8 27 (1.35%) Apache Spark
9 19 (0.95%) SharePoint
10 12 (0.60%) JBoss
11 11 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
12 6 (0.30%) CMS
13 3 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.100%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.100%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.100%) Drupal
14 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.100%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.050%) Luigi
Applications
1 23 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.100%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.050%) Notion
5 1 (0.050%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (0.65%) NEC Housing
2 9 (0.45%) Sage X3
2 9 (0.45%) SAP Business One
3 6 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.25%) Odoo
4 5 (0.25%) Shopify
5 3 (0.15%) iTrent
6 2 (0.100%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.100%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,128 (56.20%) AWS
2 963 (47.98%) Azure
3 237 (11.81%) Serverless
4 221 (11.01%) IBM Cloud
5 169 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
6 158 (7.87%) GCP
7 124 (6.18%) Azure Service Bus
8 121 (6.03%) Azure API Management
8 121 (6.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 118 (5.88%) Azure Functions
10 90 (4.48%) GitHub
11 77 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
11 77 (3.84%) SaaS
12 74 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
13 65 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (2.14%) Amazon S3
15 41 (2.04%) Power Platform
16 38 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
17 30 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.99%) Firewall
2 18 (0.90%) Internet
2 18 (0.90%) PBX
3 16 (0.80%) HTTP
4 15 (0.75%) LAN
5 12 (0.60%) DNS
6 9 (0.45%) MQTT
6 9 (0.45%) WAN
7 7 (0.35%) VPN
7 7 (0.35%) Wireless
8 6 (0.30%) MPLS
8 6 (0.30%) SAN
8 6 (0.30%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.25%) FTP
9 5 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.20%) BGP
10 4 (0.20%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.20%) Network Security
10 4 (0.20%) SSH
10 4 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 453 (22.57%) MongoDB
2 393 (19.58%) NoSQL
3 370 (18.44%) GIS
4 352 (17.54%) MySQL
5 332 (16.54%) QGIS
6 281 (14.00%) Relational Database
7 260 (12.95%) SQL Server
8 222 (11.06%) DB2
9 128 (6.38%) Oracle Database
10 107 (5.33%) Oracle Database 11g
11 106 (5.28%) Redis
12 69 (3.44%) Apache Ignite
13 56 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
14 42 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
15 37 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 37 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
16 36 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
16 36 (1.79%) RDBMS
17 35 (1.74%) DynamoDB
18 34 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 285 (14.20%) Git
2 169 (8.42%) Jenkins
3 100 (4.98%) JIRA
4 72 (3.59%) GitLab
5 49 (2.44%) Bitbucket
6 47 (2.34%) Cypress.io
7 33 (1.64%) Subversion
8 29 (1.44%) JUnit
9 23 (1.15%) Selenium
10 19 (0.95%) Maven
11 17 (0.85%) PHPUnit
12 16 (0.80%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.55%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.50%) GNU Toolchain
14 10 (0.50%) Postman
15 9 (0.45%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.45%) JMeter
15 9 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
16 8 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
17 7 (0.35%) Mockito
General
1 330 (16.44%) Public Sector
2 327 (16.29%) Finance
3 317 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 136 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 128 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 109 (5.43%) Banking
7 78 (3.89%) Front Office
8 74 (3.69%) Games
9 52 (2.59%) Retail
10 47 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 40 (1.99%) Marketing
12 30 (1.49%) Legal
12 30 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.35%) Local Government
14 26 (1.30%) Law
15 25 (1.25%) Electronics
16 21 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.85%) Health Technology
18 16 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
19 14 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 834 (41.55%) Developer
2 619 (30.84%) Software Engineer
3 610 (30.39%) Senior
4 284 (14.15%) Senior Software Engineer
5 256 (12.76%) Full Stack Developer
6 233 (11.61%) Senior Developer
7 179 (8.92%) Full Stack Engineer
8 139 (6.93%) Java Developer
9 124 (6.18%) Azure Engineer
10 119 (5.93%) Python Engineer
11 118 (5.88%) Azure Developer
12 116 (5.78%) Python Developer
13 110 (5.48%) Database Developer
14 105 (5.23%) PostgreSQL Developer
15 94 (4.68%) Senior Database Developer
16 93 (4.63%) React Developer
17 80 (3.99%) Python Software Engineer
18 75 (3.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 72 (3.59%) Lead
20 66 (3.29%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 925 (46.09%) React
2 691 (34.43%) CSS
3 672 (33.48%) .NET
4 438 (21.82%) REST
5 392 (19.53%) HTML
6 378 (18.83%) AngularJS
7 356 (17.74%) Web Services
8 340 (16.94%) PostGIS
9 338 (16.84%) OpenLayers
10 336 (16.74%) Leaflet
11 320 (15.94%) Node.js
12 319 (15.89%) .NET Core
13 297 (14.80%) Vue
14 252 (12.56%) ASP.NET
15 251 (12.51%) jQuery
16 245 (12.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 226 (11.26%) ASP.NET Core
18 224 (11.16%) Ember.js
19 221 (11.01%) Backbone.js
20 168 (8.37%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 249 (12.41%) Algorithms
2 243 (12.11%) Data Structures
3 225 (11.21%) Blockchain
4 224 (11.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 104 (5.18%) e-Learning
6 81 (4.04%) Hedge funds
7 69 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
7 69 (3.44%) Fixed Income
8 39 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (1.89%) Product Ownership
9 38 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (1.40%) Equities
11 27 (1.35%) Client/Server
12 23 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
13 22 (1.10%) IoT
14 21 (1.05%) Data Centre
15 20 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (1.00%) Private Cloud
16 18 (0.90%) Mobile App
17 17 (0.85%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 493 (24.56%) Linux
2 309 (15.40%) Windows
3 226 (11.26%) Android
4 222 (11.06%) Apple iOS
5 53 (2.64%) Ubuntu
6 50 (2.49%) Unix
7 22 (1.10%) AIX
8 19 (0.95%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.85%) CentOS
10 15 (0.75%) Debian
11 14 (0.70%) Windows Server
12 10 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 8 (0.40%) Windows 10
13 8 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.35%) SUSE
15 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.20%) VMS
17 1 (0.050%) Rocky
17 1 (0.050%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 875 (43.60%) Agile
2 764 (38.07%) Software Engineering
3 709 (35.33%) DevOps
4 619 (30.84%) Web Development
5 535 (26.66%) Full Stack Development
6 485 (24.17%) Artificial Intelligence
7 439 (21.87%) Actionable Insight
8 296 (14.75%) Design Patterns
9 295 (14.70%) User Experience
10 294 (14.65%) OO
11 271 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
12 264 (13.15%) CI/CD
13 259 (12.90%) Microservices
14 253 (12.61%) Mentoring
15 250 (12.46%) MVC
16 249 (12.41%) OOP
17 238 (11.86%) SOLID
18 233 (11.61%) MVVM
19 223 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
20 221 (11.01%) Co-Creation
Programming Languages
1 985 (49.08%) Python
2 897 (44.69%) JavaScript
3 820 (40.86%) SQL
4 603 (30.04%) C#
5 515 (25.66%) Java
6 246 (12.26%) TypeScript
7 146 (7.27%) Go
8 121 (6.03%) PL/SQL
9 103 (5.13%) Kotlin
10 82 (4.09%) PHP
11 80 (3.99%) Bash
12 69 (3.44%) C++
13 61 (3.04%) C
14 57 (2.84%) Scala
15 51 (2.54%) PowerShell
16 44 (2.19%) Ruby
17 27 (1.35%) Shell Script
18 26 (1.30%) VB
19 25 (1.25%) T-SQL
20 17 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 443 (22.07%) Security Cleared
2 414 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 179 (8.92%) Degree
4 75 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 23 (1.15%) CCNA
6 23 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 17 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (0.40%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.25%) MCSE
12 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.15%) PhD
14 2 (0.100%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.100%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.100%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (2.49%) QA
2 38 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 6 (0.30%) GMP
5 5 (0.25%) SLA
6 3 (0.15%) MiFID
7 1 (0.050%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.050%) GDPR
7 1 (0.050%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.050%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 369 (18.39%) Docker
2 50 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.74%) Hyper-V
4 17 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.20%) vSphere
7 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.15%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.100%) Firmware
8 2 (0.100%) iptables
9 1 (0.050%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.050%) etcd
9 1 (0.050%) Postfix
9 1 (0.050%) vCloud
9 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 311 (15.50%) Kubernetes
2 173 (8.62%) Terraform
3 136 (6.78%) Ansible
4 51 (2.54%) Grafana
5 19 (0.95%) Puppet
6 15 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.60%) Kibana
9 9 (0.45%) Consul
10 8 (0.40%) Packer
11 7 (0.35%) Data Guard
11 7 (0.35%) Foglight
12 6 (0.30%) logstash
12 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 5 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.20%) SCOM
15 3 (0.15%) Argo
15 3 (0.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 340 (16.94%) ESRI
2 278 (13.85%) Oracle
3 229 (11.41%) Red Hat
4 223 (11.11%) IBM
5 155 (7.72%) Google
6 127 (6.33%) Microsoft
7 41 (2.04%) VMware
8 39 (1.94%) SAP
9 38 (1.89%) WSO2
10 32 (1.59%) Atlassian
11 18 (0.90%) Apple
11 18 (0.90%) Palo Alto
12 15 (0.75%) Databricks
12 15 (0.75%) Splunk
13 13 (0.65%) NEC
14 9 (0.45%) Sage
15 8 (0.40%) Cisco
15 8 (0.40%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.40%) New Relic
16 7 (0.35%) Mapbox