PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 239 154
Rank change year-on-year -28 -85 +51
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 794 662 1,358
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.33% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.92% 9.14% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 580 463 735
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%

All Database & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,898 7,245 12,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.84% 14.58% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,041 4,548 7,327
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -4.55%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the UK

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 16 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 11 September 2026. 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 -56 670 £69,310 -10.57% 509
UK excluding London -50 384 £65,000 +4.00% 225
Work from Home +22 383 £67,500 -25.00% 379
London -78 296 £83,750 -20.24% 337
North of England +2 122 £65,000 -3.70% 52
South East -17 122 £65,000 - 58
North West -9 57 £65,000 -3.70% 29
South West -59 49 £65,000 +30.00% 46
North East -26 39 £65,000 +26.83% 6
Midlands -53 33 £75,000 +7.14% 24
East of England -28 29 £52,500 +72.13% 17
Yorkshire -45 26 £69,310 -0.99% 17
West Midlands -37 24 £83,774 +15.55% 18
Wales -48 23 £65,000 -16.13% 8
Scotland -2 16 £67,500 - 14
East Midlands -33 9 £60,000 +9.09% 5

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 30 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (3.40%) Apache Spark
3 26 (3.27%) Apache
3 26 (3.27%) Confluence
4 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.88%) Camunda
6 7 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.76%) WordPress
8 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.50%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Tornado
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Finacle
2 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 461 (58.06%) AWS
2 270 (34.01%) Azure
3 133 (16.75%) GitHub
4 108 (13.60%) GCP
5 103 (12.97%) Serverless
6 77 (9.70%) SaaS
7 73 (9.19%) Amazon S3
8 70 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
9 58 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
11 55 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
13 49 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (5.67%) Amazon SQS
15 41 (5.16%) GitHub Copilot
16 35 (4.41%) Power Platform
17 30 (3.78%) Azure AKS
18 29 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
19 22 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.28%) Broadband
2 12 (1.51%) Firewall
3 11 (1.39%) SMS
4 10 (1.26%) AMQP
4 10 (1.26%) DNS
5 7 (0.88%) HTTP
5 7 (0.88%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.63%) DHCP
6 5 (0.63%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.63%) SAN
7 3 (0.38%) 4G
7 3 (0.38%) 5G
7 3 (0.38%) SSH
7 3 (0.38%) VLAN
8 2 (0.25%) MQTT
8 2 (0.25%) VPN
9 1 (0.13%) Internet
9 1 (0.13%) MPLS
9 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (25.82%) MongoDB
2 183 (23.05%) MySQL
3 138 (17.38%) Relational Database
4 132 (16.62%) SQL Server
5 101 (12.72%) NoSQL
6 93 (11.71%) Redis
7 45 (5.67%) DynamoDB
8 40 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
9 38 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (3.27%) Power BI
12 22 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
13 20 (2.52%) Big Data
14 19 (2.39%) Metadata
15 16 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (2.02%) GIS
15 16 (2.02%) Oracle Database
16 15 (1.89%) Pinecone
17 14 (1.76%) Data Lake
17 14 (1.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 186 (23.43%) Git
2 71 (8.94%) Jenkins
3 59 (7.43%) GitLab
4 30 (3.78%) JIRA
5 29 (3.65%) JUnit
6 28 (3.53%) Cypress.io
7 23 (2.90%) Mockito
8 15 (1.89%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.64%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.51%) JMeter
11 11 (1.39%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.39%) Vite
12 10 (1.26%) Selenium
13 9 (1.13%) Maven
14 8 (1.01%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.88%) Mocha
15 7 (0.88%) RSpec
16 6 (0.76%) Storybook
17 5 (0.63%) Eclipse
17 5 (0.63%) Gatling
General
1 186 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 107 (13.48%) Public Sector
3 96 (12.09%) Finance
4 74 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (8.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (5.42%) Law
7 42 (5.29%) Banking
8 33 (4.16%) Games
9 24 (3.02%) Legal
9 24 (3.02%) Retail
10 18 (2.27%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.27%) Tech for Good
11 16 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.76%) Health Technology
14 13 (1.64%) Legal Technology
15 12 (1.51%) Aerospace
16 10 (1.26%) Advertising
17 9 (1.13%) Aviation
18 8 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 275 (34.63%) Developer
2 221 (27.83%) Senior
3 155 (19.52%) Software Engineer
4 117 (14.74%) Lead
5 86 (10.83%) Full-Stack Developer
6 63 (7.93%) Python Engineer
7 62 (7.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 57 (7.18%) Senior Developer
9 56 (7.05%) Data Engineer
9 56 (7.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 50 (6.30%) Java Developer
11 48 (6.05%) Architect
11 48 (6.05%) Python Developer
12 45 (5.67%) DevOps Engineer
13 37 (4.66%) Software Developer
14 35 (4.41%) Lead Developer
15 34 (4.28%) Ruby Developer
16 31 (3.90%) Database Engineer
17 28 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
17 28 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (25.57%) React
2 184 (23.17%) Terraform
3 176 (22.17%) Node.js
4 149 (18.77%) RESTful
5 124 (15.62%) REST
6 110 (13.85%) Kafka
6 110 (13.85%) Spring
7 106 (13.35%) Spring Boot
8 77 (9.70%) CSS
9 75 (9.45%) .NET
10 66 (8.31%) Ruby on Rails
11 65 (8.19%) HTML
11 65 (8.19%) Next.js
12 54 (6.80%) FastAPI
13 49 (6.17%) AngularJS
13 49 (6.17%) JSON
13 49 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
14 48 (6.05%) Jest
15 39 (4.91%) JPA
16 37 (4.66%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 171 (21.54%) Cloud Native
2 114 (14.36%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.53%) Low-Code
5 31 (3.90%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.90%) Video\Live Streaming
6 28 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (3.15%) Replication
8 23 (2.90%) Blog
8 23 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (2.77%) Onboarding
10 21 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (2.39%) Algorithms
12 18 (2.27%) Virtual Team
13 17 (2.14%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
14 13 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.64%) IoT
14 13 (1.64%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (14.11%) Linux
2 36 (4.53%) Windows
3 17 (2.14%) Unix
4 14 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.76%) Android
6 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) CentOS
7 1 (0.13%) Debian
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (48.24%) CI/CD
2 290 (36.52%) Agile
3 282 (35.52%) Software Engineering
4 230 (28.97%) Microservices
5 229 (28.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 227 (28.59%) AI
7 218 (27.46%) DevOps
8 187 (23.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 163 (20.53%) Observability
10 152 (19.14%) Mentoring
11 148 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 144 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
13 142 (17.88%) Containerisation
14 141 (17.76%) Test Automation
15 105 (13.22%) API Design
16 104 (13.10%) Clean Code
17 101 (12.72%) Event-Driven
18 100 (12.59%) Scrum
19 92 (11.59%) Data Modelling
20 85 (10.71%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 329 (41.44%) Python
2 224 (28.21%) SQL
3 201 (25.31%) Java
4 182 (22.92%) JavaScript
5 152 (19.14%) TypeScript
6 76 (9.57%) C#
7 68 (8.56%) Ruby
8 63 (7.93%) Go
9 41 (5.16%) Bash
10 27 (3.40%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.52%) PHP
11 20 (2.52%) Scala
12 16 (2.02%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.64%) C++
14 10 (1.26%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.26%) RPG
15 7 (0.88%) Perl
16 6 (0.76%) Groovy
17 5 (0.63%) Korn
18 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 93 (11.71%) Degree
3 91 (11.46%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.15%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.64%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.01%) PhD
10 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.25%) CISSP
12 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.19%) QA
2 58 (7.30%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.65%) GDPR
4 22 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.63%) WCAG
7 4 (0.50%) SLA
7 4 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 251 (31.61%) Docker
2 12 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 219 (27.58%) Kubernetes
2 66 (8.31%) Grafana
3 63 (7.93%) Ansible
4 45 (5.67%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.03%) Argo
6 11 (1.39%) Kibana
7 8 (1.01%) Rancher
8 7 (0.88%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.76%) Istio
9 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.76%) Puppet
10 5 (0.63%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.63%) Packer
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.38%) Plesk
12 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 80 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.32%) Oracle
3 31 (3.90%) Google
4 26 (3.27%) Databricks
5 25 (3.15%) OpenAI
6 24 (3.02%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.64%) Splunk
8 18 (2.27%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.76%) IBM
10 11 (1.39%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.01%) Mistral
12 7 (0.88%) Informatica
13 6 (0.76%) Pega
14 5 (0.63%) Dell
14 5 (0.63%) Meraki
15 4 (0.50%) ESRI
15 4 (0.50%) Netezza
15 4 (0.50%) Remedy
15 4 (0.50%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.50%) TIBCO