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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 161 180
Rank change year-on-year -125 +19 +9
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 551 798 1,502
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.95% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.22% 10.83% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 392 541 1,147
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,308 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -2.54%

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 7,627 7,371 17,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.13% 17.97% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,537 5,169 12,545
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 April 2026.

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 11 April 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 -138 460 £70,000 -6.67% 288
UK excluding London -140 274 £60,000 -7.69% 175
Work from Home -72 257 £65,000 -6.32% 201
London -97 206 £86,750 -0.86% 152
North of England -40 100 £66,250 -1.94% 57
South East -122 71 £55,750 -20.36% 48
Yorkshire -31 44 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -35 44 £77,500 +13.19% 33
South West -51 34 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Scotland -26 23 £67,500 +8.00% 12
Midlands -54 22 £47,500 -26.92% 18
East of England -61 22 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -24 13 £45,000 -30.77% 8
North East -22 12 £55,000 -20.73% 6
East Midlands -50 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -55 5 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -44 2 £73,801 +34.18%

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 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.72%) Apache
5 14 (2.54%) Confluence
6 12 (2.18%) OpenStack
7 10 (1.81%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.45%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.73%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.73%) Oracle Spatial
9 4 (0.73%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.73%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.36%) Camunda
10 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.36%) WildFly
11 1 (0.18%) CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (1.63%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 341 (61.89%) AWS
2 204 (37.02%) Azure
3 143 (25.95%) GCP
4 92 (16.70%) Serverless
5 62 (11.25%) Amazon S3
6 61 (11.07%) Amazon ECS
7 58 (10.53%) GitHub
8 56 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (9.07%) SaaS
10 46 (8.35%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (5.99%) dbt
14 33 (5.99%) Power Platform
15 32 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
17 25 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
18 22 (3.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 20 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.90%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.54%) DHCP
2 14 (2.54%) DNS
3 11 (2.00%) Firewall
3 11 (2.00%) VPN
4 9 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.27%) Broadband
5 7 (1.27%) Internet
5 7 (1.27%) Network Security
6 6 (1.09%) iSCSI
6 6 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (1.09%) SAN
7 4 (0.73%) SSL
8 3 (0.54%) HTTP
8 3 (0.54%) VLAN
9 2 (0.36%) LAN
9 2 (0.36%) MQTT
9 2 (0.36%) PBX
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (22.69%) SQL Server
2 114 (20.69%) MongoDB
3 112 (20.33%) MySQL
4 99 (17.97%) Relational Database
5 94 (17.06%) NoSQL
6 48 (8.71%) Redis
7 37 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
8 34 (6.17%) DynamoDB
9 30 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
10 29 (5.26%) Power BI
11 19 (3.45%) DB2
12 17 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (3.09%) BigQuery
12 17 (3.09%) Oracle Database
13 16 (2.90%) RDBMS
14 14 (2.54%) GIS
15 13 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.81%) Big Data
16 10 (1.81%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 121 (21.96%) Git
2 60 (10.89%) Jenkins
3 30 (5.44%) JIRA
4 29 (5.26%) GitLab
5 23 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 23 (4.17%) JUnit
6 22 (3.99%) Bitbucket
6 22 (3.99%) Cucumber
6 22 (3.99%) Selenium
7 19 (3.45%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.18%) Mockito
9 10 (1.81%) Maven
10 7 (1.27%) Vite
11 6 (1.09%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.91%) Gradle
12 5 (0.91%) JMeter
13 3 (0.54%) Storybook
13 3 (0.54%) Subversion
14 2 (0.36%) ESLint
14 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
General
1 146 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 105 (19.06%) Finance
3 53 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (8.35%) Public Sector
5 45 (8.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (6.35%) Banking
7 31 (5.63%) Law
8 26 (4.72%) Retail
9 17 (3.09%) Front Office
10 16 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.18%) Advertising
12 11 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.81%) Games
14 9 (1.63%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.63%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.09%) Legal
17 5 (0.91%) Automotive
17 5 (0.91%) Back Office
18 4 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 178 (32.30%) Developer
2 111 (20.15%) Senior
3 94 (17.06%) Software Engineer
4 75 (13.61%) Full-Stack Developer
5 74 (13.43%) Lead
6 50 (9.07%) Java Developer
7 41 (7.44%) Data Engineer
8 39 (7.08%) Python Engineer
9 29 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 29 (5.26%) Java Engineer
9 29 (5.26%) Lead Developer
10 28 (5.08%) Architect
11 24 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 22 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (3.81%) Python Developer
15 19 (3.45%) Analyst
15 19 (3.45%) IT Support
15 19 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
16 18 (3.27%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (33.21%) React
2 109 (19.78%) Node.js
3 94 (17.06%) RESTful
4 72 (13.07%) Spring
5 69 (12.52%) Spring Boot
6 68 (12.34%) Django
7 64 (11.62%) REST
8 53 (9.62%) FastAPI
9 49 (8.89%) Kafka
10 45 (8.17%) .NET
10 45 (8.17%) HTML
11 44 (7.99%) CSS
12 34 (6.17%) AngularJS
12 34 (6.17%) Flask
13 32 (5.81%) Elastic Stack
13 32 (5.81%) Vue
14 31 (5.63%) JSON
15 30 (5.44%) Next.js
16 23 (4.17%) Jest
17 22 (3.99%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.97%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.27%) Replication
6 17 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.90%) Blog
7 16 (2.90%) Derivative
7 16 (2.90%) Equities
7 16 (2.90%) Fixed Income
7 16 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.54%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.63%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.63%) SCADA
12 8 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 82 (14.88%) Linux
2 32 (5.81%) Unix
3 29 (5.26%) Windows
4 15 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.27%) Android
6 7 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.09%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.91%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.54%) CentOS
9 3 (0.54%) Debian
10 2 (0.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (40.65%) CI/CD
2 193 (35.03%) Agile
3 168 (30.49%) Microservices
4 166 (30.13%) Software Engineering
5 151 (27.40%) DevOps
6 150 (27.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 113 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (19.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 102 (18.51%) AI
10 100 (18.15%) Containerisation
10 100 (18.15%) Test Automation
11 92 (16.70%) Mentoring
12 68 (12.34%) Data Modelling
13 65 (11.80%) TDD
14 61 (11.07%) Scrum
15 60 (10.89%) Analytics
16 58 (10.53%) Fintech
17 57 (10.34%) Clean Code
17 57 (10.34%) Observability
18 55 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 252 (45.74%) Python
2 179 (32.49%) SQL
3 168 (30.49%) Java
4 140 (25.41%) JavaScript
5 104 (18.87%) TypeScript
6 42 (7.62%) C#
7 40 (7.26%) Go
8 30 (5.44%) PowerShell
9 25 (4.54%) Ruby
10 23 (4.17%) PHP
11 17 (3.09%) C
12 13 (2.36%) Delphi
13 11 (2.00%) Bash
13 11 (2.00%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.81%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.63%) C++
16 7 (1.27%) Perl
17 6 (1.09%) VB
18 5 (0.91%) Korn
18 5 (0.91%) Rust
Qualifications
1 87 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 73 (13.25%) Degree
3 61 (11.07%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.90%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.54%) RHCE
12 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.36%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.17%) QA
3 15 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.54%) GDPR
5 11 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.09%) SLA
7 3 (0.54%) NCSC
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) WCAG
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) PSD2
9 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 187 (33.94%) Docker
2 27 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 178 (32.30%) Kubernetes
2 123 (22.32%) Terraform
3 38 (6.90%) Grafana
4 34 (6.17%) Ansible
5 20 (3.63%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.18%) Argo
7 10 (1.81%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (1.45%) Kibana
9 5 (0.91%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.91%) Nagios
10 4 (0.73%) Control-M
10 4 (0.73%) Rancher
11 3 (0.54%) Puppet
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.18%) Ambari
13 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.18%) Plesk
13 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (11.80%) Oracle
2 46 (8.35%) Google
2 46 (8.35%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 13 (2.36%) Informatica
5 11 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.45%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.45%) ESRI
6 8 (1.45%) IBM
6 8 (1.45%) Talend
7 7 (1.27%) Pega
8 6 (1.09%) Databricks
8 6 (1.09%) Dell
8 6 (1.09%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.91%) Confluent
9 5 (0.91%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.91%) Splunk
10 4 (0.73%) VMware
11 3 (0.54%) Revolut