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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 231 159
Rank change year-on-year -30 -72 +41
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 783 722 1,384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.45% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.75% 9.46% 10.51%
Number of salaries quoted 594 528 872
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8,945 7,636 13,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 15.35% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,976 4,925 8,745
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -47 672 £69,310 -7.59% 379
UK excluding London -63 389 £62,500 - 203
Work from Home +19 386 £67,500 -15.63% 215
London -73 293 £85,000 -19.05% 236
North of England -6 132 £65,000 -3.70% 48
South East -2 128 £60,000 -2.04% 55
North West -2 58 £65,000 -3.70% 31
South West -57 46 £62,500 +8.70% 21
North East -24 41 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Yorkshire -32 33 £65,000 -7.14% 14
East of England -30 27 £52,500 +64.06% 8
Midlands -46 26 £75,000 +10.90% 28
West Midlands -46 19 £80,000 +16.26% 17
Scotland -7 17 £65,000 -1.89% 23
Wales -54 17 £70,000 -9.68% 6
East Midlands -23 7 £60,000 +9.09% 11
Northern Ireland -82 1 £73,801 +34.18% 14

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 34 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.58%) Apache
2 28 (3.58%) Apache Spark
3 26 (3.32%) Confluence
4 22 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.40%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.77%) Camunda
6 6 (0.77%) WordPress
7 5 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.13%) Tornado
10 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.66%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 461 (58.88%) AWS
2 295 (37.68%) Azure
3 137 (17.50%) GCP
4 109 (13.92%) GitHub
5 97 (12.39%) Serverless
6 71 (9.07%) Amazon S3
7 68 (8.68%) Amazon ECS
7 68 (8.68%) SaaS
8 56 (7.15%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (6.39%) Amazon EC2
11 44 (5.62%) Amazon SQS
12 43 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (5.24%) Power Platform
14 29 (3.70%) Azure AKS
14 29 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
15 27 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
16 26 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.47%) Broadband
2 15 (1.92%) Firewall
3 13 (1.66%) DNS
4 12 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.40%) DHCP
6 8 (1.02%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.02%) SAN
7 7 (0.89%) VPN
8 5 (0.64%) HTTP
8 5 (0.64%) SMS
9 4 (0.51%) AMQP
10 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.26%) MQTT
11 2 (0.26%) Network Security
11 2 (0.26%) PBX
11 2 (0.26%) VLAN
12 1 (0.13%) LAN
12 1 (0.13%) SSL
12 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (26.82%) MongoDB
2 195 (24.90%) MySQL
3 132 (16.86%) Relational Database
4 125 (15.96%) SQL Server
5 114 (14.56%) NoSQL
6 92 (11.75%) Redis
7 40 (5.11%) DynamoDB
8 37 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
9 35 (4.47%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (3.83%) Power BI
11 23 (2.94%) Metadata
12 22 (2.81%) Big Data
13 21 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
14 20 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
15 17 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (2.04%) Oracle Database
17 15 (1.92%) GIS
18 14 (1.79%) DTS
18 14 (1.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 165 (21.07%) Git
2 56 (7.15%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.51%) GitLab
4 35 (4.47%) JIRA
5 28 (3.58%) JUnit
6 23 (2.94%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.81%) Mockito
8 14 (1.79%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.66%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.40%) Vite
11 10 (1.28%) JMeter
12 9 (1.15%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.02%) Maven
14 6 (0.77%) RSpec
14 6 (0.77%) Selenium
15 5 (0.64%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.64%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.64%) Gatling
15 5 (0.64%) Storybook
16 4 (0.51%) minitest
General
1 175 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 109 (13.92%) Public Sector
3 108 (13.79%) Finance
4 72 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.47%) Games
7 33 (4.21%) Law
8 26 (3.32%) Banking
9 21 (2.68%) Legal
9 21 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (2.55%) Retail
11 17 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.04%) Front Office
13 15 (1.92%) Advertising
14 12 (1.53%) Legal Technology
15 11 (1.40%) Tech for Good
16 10 (1.28%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.15%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.15%) Aviation
18 8 (1.02%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 267 (34.10%) Developer
2 199 (25.42%) Senior
3 157 (20.05%) Software Engineer
4 133 (16.99%) Lead
5 87 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 70 (8.94%) Python Engineer
7 58 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 54 (6.90%) Data Engineer
9 53 (6.77%) Python Developer
10 51 (6.51%) Lead Developer
11 48 (6.13%) Senior Software Engineer
12 45 (5.75%) Architect
13 43 (5.49%) Lead Software Engineer
14 42 (5.36%) Senior Developer
15 41 (5.24%) DevOps Engineer
16 40 (5.11%) Java Developer
17 39 (4.98%) Software Developer
18 32 (4.09%) Ruby Developer
19 29 (3.70%) Java Engineer
20 25 (3.19%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (26.05%) React
2 182 (23.24%) Node.js
3 147 (18.77%) RESTful
4 110 (14.05%) REST
5 95 (12.13%) Spring
6 90 (11.49%) Spring Boot
7 85 (10.86%) Kafka
8 69 (8.81%) CSS
9 64 (8.17%) Next.js
10 61 (7.79%) Ruby on Rails
11 60 (7.66%) .NET
11 60 (7.66%) FastAPI
11 60 (7.66%) HTML
12 51 (6.51%) JSON
13 46 (5.87%) AngularJS
14 40 (5.11%) Jest
15 39 (4.98%) Django
16 34 (4.34%) Vue
17 32 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
18 31 (3.96%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 162 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 99 (12.64%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.98%) Low-Code
4 36 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.09%) Video\Live Streaming
6 29 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 27 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (3.32%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.68%) Algorithms
10 20 (2.55%) Data Structures
10 20 (2.55%) Replication
11 17 (2.17%) Blog
12 16 (2.04%) Derivative
12 16 (2.04%) Equities
12 16 (2.04%) Fixed Income
13 15 (1.92%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.53%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 113 (14.43%) Linux
2 43 (5.49%) Windows
3 22 (2.81%) Unix
4 17 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.51%) Android
7 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.38%) CentOS
8 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (45.59%) CI/CD
2 295 (37.68%) Agile
3 271 (34.61%) Software Engineering
4 229 (29.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 228 (29.12%) Microservices
6 207 (26.44%) AI
7 203 (25.93%) DevOps
8 170 (21.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 167 (21.33%) Mentoring
10 143 (18.26%) Containerisation
11 142 (18.14%) Observability
12 139 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 135 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
14 133 (16.99%) Test Automation
15 99 (12.64%) API Design
16 97 (12.39%) Clean Code
17 94 (12.01%) Analytics
18 86 (10.98%) Scrum
19 84 (10.73%) Data Modelling
20 83 (10.60%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 342 (43.68%) Python
2 228 (29.12%) SQL
3 200 (25.54%) Java
4 187 (23.88%) JavaScript
5 150 (19.16%) TypeScript
6 65 (8.30%) C#
7 64 (8.17%) Ruby
8 60 (7.66%) Go
9 37 (4.73%) PowerShell
10 36 (4.60%) Bash
11 25 (3.19%) PHP
12 18 (2.30%) Scala
13 15 (1.92%) C++
14 12 (1.53%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.28%) RPG
16 8 (1.02%) Perl
17 7 (0.89%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.89%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.77%) Korn
19 5 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 111 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 94 (12.01%) Degree
3 79 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.77%) PhD
11 4 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.38%) RHCE
13 2 (0.26%) CISSP
13 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.26%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.26%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.92%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.00%) QA
3 27 (3.45%) GDPR
4 18 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.51%) SLA
6 4 (0.51%) WCAG
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.26%) NCSC
8 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 237 (30.27%) Docker
2 24 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.26%) Samba
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 205 (26.18%) Kubernetes
2 161 (20.56%) Terraform
3 47 (6.00%) Ansible
4 41 (5.24%) Grafana
5 30 (3.83%) Argo
6 27 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.40%) Kibana
8 6 (0.77%) Istio
8 6 (0.77%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.77%) Puppet
9 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.64%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (0.51%) Packer
11 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.38%) Plesk
11 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 87 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.20%) Oracle
3 49 (6.26%) Google
4 24 (3.07%) Databricks
5 21 (2.68%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.43%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.30%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.79%) IBM
8 14 (1.79%) Splunk
9 8 (1.02%) Dell
9 8 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.89%) Informatica
10 7 (0.89%) Pega
11 6 (0.77%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.64%) Meraki
13 4 (0.51%) Confluent
13 4 (0.51%) Netezza
13 4 (0.51%) Remedy
13 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.38%) UiPath