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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 243 138
Rank change year-on-year -21 -105 +57
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 860 620 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.26% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.92% 8.89% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 605 426 644
10th Percentile £44,259 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,313 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%

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 8,669 6,971 11,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.33% 14.12% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,878 4,336 6,459
10th Percentile £36,500 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 October 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 October 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 -30 728 £71,996 -10.01% 1,232
Work from Home +36 403 £67,500 -20.59% 545
UK excluding London -39 394 £65,000 - 459
London -42 348 £82,500 -21.43% 839
South East +3 131 £70,000 +5.66% 105
North of England -27 117 £65,000 -3.70% 122
North West -10 53 £60,000 -14.29% 75
South West -57 50 £82,500 +52.78% 45
Midlands -46 41 £75,000 +5.26% 44
North East -39 39 £65,000 +25.30% 19
West Midlands -49 31 £85,000 +17.24% 30
Wales -49 28 £64,000 -1.54% 16
East of England -38 27 £52,500 +72.13% 48
Yorkshire -43 25 £65,000 -7.14% 33
Scotland -3 11 £65,000 -11.93% 49
East Midlands -26 10 £60,000 +20.00% 14
Northern Ireland -73 2 - - 32

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 27 (3.14%) Confluence
2 25 (2.91%) Apache
2 25 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.81%) Camunda
4 7 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.58%) nginx
5 5 (0.58%) WordPress
6 4 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.47%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.23%) Luigi
8 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.23%) Tornado
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Finacle
2 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 507 (58.95%) AWS
2 288 (33.49%) Azure
3 165 (19.19%) GitHub
4 133 (15.47%) GCP
5 97 (11.28%) Serverless
6 95 (11.05%) SaaS
7 75 (8.72%) GitHub Actions
8 73 (8.49%) Amazon S3
9 72 (8.37%) Amazon EKS
10 71 (8.26%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
12 46 (5.35%) GitHub Copilot
13 43 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (3.60%) Power Platform
16 28 (3.26%) Azure AKS
17 25 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.26%) Broadband
2 24 (2.79%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.33%) VPN
4 14 (1.63%) BGP
4 14 (1.63%) SMS
5 13 (1.51%) AMQP
5 13 (1.51%) Firewall
6 11 (1.28%) DNS
6 11 (1.28%) VLAN
7 6 (0.70%) HTTP
7 6 (0.70%) Network Security
8 4 (0.47%) DHCP
9 3 (0.35%) 4G
9 3 (0.35%) 5G
9 3 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.35%) SSH
10 2 (0.23%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.23%) SAN
10 2 (0.23%) SSL
10 2 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (24.53%) MongoDB
2 189 (21.98%) MySQL
3 141 (16.40%) Relational Database
4 137 (15.93%) SQL Server
5 113 (13.14%) Redis
6 99 (11.51%) NoSQL
7 66 (7.67%) Amazon RDS
8 45 (5.23%) Elasticsearch
9 43 (5.00%) DynamoDB
10 31 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 31 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (2.67%) Power BI
12 21 (2.44%) Big Data
12 21 (2.44%) Metadata
13 20 (2.33%) Pinecone
14 19 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (2.09%) Oracle Database
16 15 (1.74%) Chroma
16 15 (1.74%) Data Lake
17 14 (1.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 210 (24.42%) Git
2 82 (9.53%) Jenkins
3 67 (7.79%) GitLab
4 34 (3.95%) TeamCity
5 29 (3.37%) JIRA
6 27 (3.14%) Cypress.io
6 27 (3.14%) JUnit
7 20 (2.33%) Mockito
8 14 (1.63%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.40%) JMeter
9 12 (1.40%) Vite
10 9 (1.05%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.93%) Selenium
12 7 (0.81%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.81%) Maven
12 7 (0.81%) Mocha
12 7 (0.81%) RSpec
12 7 (0.81%) Storybook
13 5 (0.58%) Appium
13 5 (0.58%) Eclipse
General
1 209 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 117 (13.60%) Finance
3 112 (13.02%) Public Sector
4 89 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (10.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 64 (7.44%) Banking
7 59 (6.86%) Law
8 41 (4.77%) Retail
9 28 (3.26%) Games
10 23 (2.67%) Legal
11 22 (2.56%) Tech for Good
12 20 (2.33%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.86%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.74%) Health Technology
14 15 (1.74%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.63%) Back Office
16 13 (1.51%) Legal Technology
17 10 (1.16%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.93%) Marketing
19 7 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 294 (34.19%) Developer
2 257 (29.88%) Senior
3 176 (20.47%) Software Engineer
4 119 (13.84%) Lead
5 84 (9.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 75 (8.72%) Senior Developer
7 71 (8.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 61 (7.09%) Python Engineer
9 53 (6.16%) Data Engineer
10 52 (6.05%) Java Developer
10 52 (6.05%) Python Developer
11 50 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 48 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
12 48 (5.58%) Software Developer
13 43 (5.00%) DBA
14 41 (4.77%) Architect
15 37 (4.30%) Lead Developer
16 35 (4.07%) Database Engineer
17 32 (3.72%) Ruby Developer
18 31 (3.60%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (25.58%) Terraform
2 214 (24.88%) React
3 175 (20.35%) Node.js
4 157 (18.26%) RESTful
5 135 (15.70%) REST
6 119 (13.84%) Spring
7 117 (13.60%) Kafka
8 114 (13.26%) Spring Boot
9 86 (10.00%) .NET
10 73 (8.49%) CSS
11 69 (8.02%) Next.js
12 61 (7.09%) Ruby on Rails
13 60 (6.98%) FastAPI
13 60 (6.98%) HTML
14 56 (6.51%) RabbitMQ
15 52 (6.05%) Jest
16 46 (5.35%) AngularJS
17 43 (5.00%) JPA
17 43 (5.00%) JSON
18 41 (4.77%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 187 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 142 (16.51%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.58%) Blog
4 41 (4.77%) Product Ownership
5 36 (4.19%) AI Agents
6 30 (3.49%) Low-Code
6 30 (3.49%) Replication
7 29 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (2.91%) Video\Live Streaming
9 24 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (2.79%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.67%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.98%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.86%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.63%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.51%) Distributed Computing
14 13 (1.51%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 126 (14.65%) Linux
2 38 (4.42%) Windows
3 18 (2.09%) Unix
4 16 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.70%) Android
6 6 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) AIX
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) macOS
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 319 (37.09%) Software Engineering
3 302 (35.12%) Agile
4 253 (29.42%) AI
5 249 (28.95%) Microservices
6 230 (26.74%) DevOps
7 224 (26.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 210 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 204 (23.72%) Observability
10 171 (19.88%) Mentoring
11 166 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
12 154 (17.91%) Test Automation
13 151 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 146 (16.98%) Containerisation
15 121 (14.07%) Clean Code
16 120 (13.95%) Event-Driven
17 96 (11.16%) Scrum
18 95 (11.05%) API Design
19 90 (10.47%) Decision-Making
20 89 (10.35%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 350 (40.70%) Python
2 252 (29.30%) SQL
3 228 (26.51%) Java
4 183 (21.28%) JavaScript
5 168 (19.53%) TypeScript
6 85 (9.88%) C#
7 76 (8.84%) Go
8 63 (7.33%) Ruby
9 54 (6.28%) Bash
10 27 (3.14%) PHP
11 24 (2.79%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.33%) Scala
13 17 (1.98%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.51%) C++
15 12 (1.40%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.28%) Groovy
17 10 (1.16%) RPG
18 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.47%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 139 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 113 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.70%) Degree
4 31 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.02%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.79%) Master's Degree
7 23 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.05%) PhD
10 8 (0.93%) CISSP
11 7 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.70%) CCSP
12 6 (0.70%) CISM
13 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.26%) QA
2 51 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.49%) GDPR
4 25 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.09%) SOC 2
7 16 (1.86%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.70%) NIST
9 5 (0.58%) SLA
10 4 (0.47%) WCAG
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 1
System Software
1 282 (32.79%) Docker
2 9 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Ceph
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Lustre
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.12%) Samba
6 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 254 (29.53%) Kubernetes
2 109 (12.67%) Grafana
3 68 (7.91%) Prometheus
4 67 (7.79%) Ansible
5 35 (4.07%) Argo
6 14 (1.63%) Kibana
7 11 (1.28%) Rancher
8 9 (1.05%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.93%) Istio
9 8 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.70%) Cilium
10 6 (0.70%) logstash
10 6 (0.70%) Packer
10 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.70%) Puppet
11 5 (0.58%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.35%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.23%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 82 (9.53%) Microsoft
2 78 (9.07%) Oracle
3 47 (5.47%) Google
4 34 (3.95%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.72%) Databricks
6 28 (3.26%) Dynatrace
6 28 (3.26%) Splunk
7 17 (1.98%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.74%) Mistral
8 15 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.63%) IBM
10 8 (0.93%) Informatica
11 6 (0.70%) VMware
12 5 (0.58%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.47%) ESRI
13 4 (0.47%) Netezza
13 4 (0.47%) Remedy
13 4 (0.47%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.47%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.35%) Adobe