PostgreSQL Jobs

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 140 186
Rank change year-on-year -91 +46 -114
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 680 2,007 2,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 2.04% 2.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.14% 11.07% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 519 1,180 1,261
10th Percentile £47,446 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £59,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £133,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -8.00%

All Database and 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 7,436 18,137 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 18.44% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 12,594 13,904
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 -82 593 £75,000 +15.38% 712
UK excluding London -116 343 £65,000 +18.18% 320
London -17 342 £87,500 +9.38% 421
Work from Home -49 311 £70,000 +6.93% 573
South East -30 117 £68,750 +19.57% 57
North of England -122 77 £67,500 +22.73% 126
North West -122 52 £67,626 +31.95% 96
East of England +21 37 £55,000 -15.38% 29
Scotland +48 33 £66,367 +32.73% 16
South West +49 30 £65,000 +8.33% 43
Midlands -83 30 £65,000 +30.00% 38
Wales +13 27 £65,000 +24.76% 9
West Midlands +5 21 £65,000 +30.00% 24
Yorkshire +5 19 £59,869 +8.85% 27
East Midlands -63 9 £70,000 +40.00% 14
Northern Ireland +3 7 £55,000 -26.67% 5
North East +15 6 £69,384 +5.99% 3

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 46 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (4.41%) Confluence
3 15 (2.21%) nginx
4 14 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.06%) CMS
4 14 (2.06%) Tomcat
5 13 (1.91%) JBoss
6 12 (1.76%) Red Hat Fuse
7 7 (1.03%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.88%) Apache
8 6 (0.88%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.88%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.88%) WordPress
9 5 (0.74%) IIS
10 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.44%) SAS
11 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.15%) Camunda
12 1 (0.15%) Sitefinity
12 1 (0.15%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Odoo
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 399 (58.68%) AWS
2 186 (27.35%) Azure
3 160 (23.53%) GCP
4 84 (12.35%) Serverless
5 67 (9.85%) Amazon EC2
6 64 (9.41%) GitHub
7 60 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
8 52 (7.65%) dbt
9 51 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (7.50%) Amazon S3
10 48 (7.06%) SaaS
11 34 (5.00%) Power Platform
12 32 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 20 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 17 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.79%) TCP/IP
2 18 (2.65%) Network Security
3 13 (1.91%) Internet
4 11 (1.62%) DNS
5 10 (1.47%) MQTT
6 8 (1.18%) SSL
6 8 (1.18%) VPN
7 6 (0.88%) Bluetooth
7 6 (0.88%) DHCP
7 6 (0.88%) Firewall
7 6 (0.88%) SAN
8 5 (0.74%) Modbus
8 5 (0.74%) NAS
8 5 (0.74%) SMS
8 5 (0.74%) VSAN
9 4 (0.59%) DMARC
10 2 (0.29%) Broadband
10 2 (0.29%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.15%) LAN
11 1 (0.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (19.26%) MySQL
2 125 (18.38%) MongoDB
3 123 (18.09%) Relational Database
4 120 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 84 (12.35%) NoSQL
6 50 (7.35%) RDBMS
7 49 (7.21%) Amazon RDS
8 41 (6.03%) Redis
9 40 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
10 37 (5.44%) Elasticsearch
11 35 (5.15%) Apache Arrow
11 35 (5.15%) Apache Iceberg
11 35 (5.15%) Dremio
12 27 (3.97%) Power BI
13 18 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (2.21%) DynamoDB
15 14 (2.06%) Data Lake
15 14 (2.06%) Tableau
16 11 (1.62%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 141 (20.74%) Git
2 114 (16.76%) Jenkins
3 56 (8.24%) JUnit
4 49 (7.21%) GitLab
5 48 (7.06%) JIRA
6 38 (5.59%) Mockito
7 29 (4.26%) Maven
8 27 (3.97%) SonarQube
9 23 (3.38%) JMeter
10 19 (2.79%) Bitbucket
10 19 (2.79%) Postman
11 18 (2.65%) IntelliJ
12 15 (2.21%) Selenium
13 11 (1.62%) Gradle
14 10 (1.47%) Robot Framework
14 10 (1.47%) Visual Studio
15 9 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
15 9 (1.32%) TestNG
16 8 (1.18%) Cucumber
17 7 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 198 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 174 (25.59%) Finance
3 81 (11.91%) Front Office
4 76 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (7.50%) Banking
7 38 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (3.53%) Manufacturing
9 21 (3.09%) Marketing
10 18 (2.65%) Games
11 16 (2.35%) Law
12 15 (2.21%) Retail
12 15 (2.21%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.76%) Legal
13 12 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.62%) Electronics
14 11 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.47%) Tech for Good
16 9 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 303 (44.56%) Developer
2 158 (23.24%) Software Engineer
3 153 (22.50%) Senior
4 79 (11.62%) Lead
5 71 (10.44%) Java Developer
6 65 (9.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 61 (8.97%) Senior Developer
8 57 (8.38%) Python Developer
9 55 (8.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 48 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
11 47 (6.91%) Java Engineer
12 41 (6.03%) AWS Developer
13 38 (5.59%) AWS Software Engineer
14 37 (5.44%) React Developer
15 35 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
16 33 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (4.26%) Python Engineer
18 27 (3.97%) Python Software Engineer
19 25 (3.68%) Team Leader
20 24 (3.53%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (38.68%) React
2 166 (24.41%) Node.js
3 159 (23.38%) REST
4 114 (16.76%) RESTful
5 105 (15.44%) AngularJS
6 96 (14.12%) Spring
7 86 (12.65%) .NET
8 84 (12.35%) Spring Boot
9 82 (12.06%) HTML
10 75 (11.03%) Django
11 74 (10.88%) Kafka
12 68 (10.00%) CSS
12 68 (10.00%) Vue
13 67 (9.85%) Web Services
14 40 (5.88%) Pandas
15 38 (5.59%) NumPy
16 37 (5.44%) Hibernate
17 36 (5.29%) SciPy
18 35 (5.15%) Next.js
19 33 (4.85%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 66 (9.71%) Distributed Systems
2 64 (9.41%) Fixed Income
3 42 (6.18%) Cloud Native
4 32 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 31 (4.56%) Equities
5 31 (4.56%) IoT
6 26 (3.82%) Mobile App
7 17 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.35%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.35%) Product Ownership
9 15 (2.21%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.62%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.32%) Life Science
13 8 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
15 6 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 135 (19.85%) Linux
2 53 (7.79%) Unix
3 45 (6.62%) Windows
4 10 (1.47%) Rocky
5 6 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.44%) Android
7 3 (0.44%) Debian
7 3 (0.44%) VMS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (48.68%) Agile
2 243 (35.74%) Software Engineering
3 228 (33.53%) Problem-Solving
4 226 (33.24%) CI/CD
5 175 (25.74%) Microservices
6 165 (24.26%) DevOps
7 150 (22.06%) Full-Stack Development
8 119 (17.50%) Containerisation
9 109 (16.03%) Mentoring
10 107 (15.74%) Fintech
11 89 (13.09%) TDD
12 88 (12.94%) Scrum
13 87 (12.79%) Roadmaps
14 73 (10.74%) Test Automation
15 69 (10.15%) User Experience
16 64 (9.41%) Asset Management
17 63 (9.26%) Investment Management
18 54 (7.94%) BDD
19 52 (7.65%) Analytics
19 52 (7.65%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 311 (45.74%) Python
2 258 (37.94%) JavaScript
3 251 (36.91%) SQL
4 197 (28.97%) TypeScript
5 193 (28.38%) Java
6 79 (11.62%) C#
7 41 (6.03%) C++
8 38 (5.59%) PHP
9 31 (4.56%) Go
10 28 (4.12%) Shell Script
11 22 (3.24%) C
12 19 (2.79%) Rust
13 18 (2.65%) PowerShell
14 17 (2.50%) Ruby
15 13 (1.91%) Bash
16 11 (1.62%) PL/SQL
17 7 (1.03%) Perl
17 7 (1.03%) Scala
17 7 (1.03%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 99 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 78 (11.47%) Degree
2 78 (11.47%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (4.71%) Master's Degree
4 15 (2.21%) PhD
5 12 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.18%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.74%) OCP
10 5 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.29%) CISSP
12 2 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.76%) QA
2 15 (2.21%) ISO 9001
3 14 (2.06%) SLA
4 12 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.62%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.03%) GDPR
7 6 (0.88%) CDISC
7 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.59%) GMP
9 3 (0.44%) MiFID
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 256 (37.65%) Docker
2 15 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.74%) Firmware
3 5 (0.74%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.29%) Postfix
4 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 223 (32.79%) Kubernetes
2 72 (10.59%) Terraform
3 39 (5.74%) Ansible
4 27 (3.97%) Prometheus
5 23 (3.38%) Grafana
6 20 (2.94%) Kibana
7 14 (2.06%) Argo
8 12 (1.76%) Packer
9 11 (1.62%) AWS Copilot
10 10 (1.47%) Progress Chef
11 9 (1.32%) Kustomize
12 7 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.59%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.59%) Istio
14 4 (0.59%) Oozie
14 4 (0.59%) Puppet
15 2 (0.29%) Control-M
15 2 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
16 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 70 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.38%) Google
2 57 (8.38%) Oracle
3 25 (3.68%) Splunk
4 24 (3.53%) Dynatrace
5 21 (3.09%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.50%) Databricks
7 13 (1.91%) Cisco
8 12 (1.76%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.76%) SAP
9 9 (1.32%) New Relic
10 8 (1.18%) VMware
11 6 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (0.88%) Siemens
12 5 (0.74%) IBM
13 4 (0.59%) Juniper
13 4 (0.59%) Palo Alto
14 3 (0.44%) Sophis
14 3 (0.44%) StreamSets
15 2 (0.29%) Ping Identity