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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 143 184
Rank change year-on-year -140 +41 +4
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 555 845 1,464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 2.06% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.38% 11.21% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 392 539 1,130
10th Percentile £38,875 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -

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 7,524 7,540 16,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.21% 18.40% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,449 5,176 12,452
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -10.18%
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 6 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 6 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 -144 459 £70,000 -6.67% 288
UK excluding London -129 274 £60,000 -7.69% 175
Work from Home -76 255 £65,000 -6.32% 201
London -98 210 £90,000 +2.86% 152
North of England -34 102 £65,000 -3.88% 57
South East -127 66 £55,000 -21.43% 48
Yorkshire -27 45 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -28 45 £75,000 +9.54% 33
South West -48 33 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Midlands -40 25 £47,500 -26.92% 18
Scotland -30 24 £70,000 +12.00% 12
East of England -71 20 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -19 16 £45,000 -30.77% 8
North East -23 12 £55,000 -20.69% 6
East Midlands -46 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -53 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -38 3 £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 27 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.88%) OpenStack
4 14 (2.52%) Confluence
5 13 (2.34%) Apache
5 13 (2.34%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.62%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.44%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.72%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.72%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.36%) Camunda
9 2 (0.36%) CMS
9 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.36%) WildFly
10 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (1.62%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 345 (62.16%) AWS
2 213 (38.38%) Azure
3 150 (27.03%) GCP
4 93 (16.76%) Serverless
5 71 (12.79%) Amazon ECS
6 60 (10.81%) Amazon S3
7 57 (10.27%) GitHub
8 53 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (8.47%) SaaS
10 46 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 45 (8.11%) Amazon SQS
12 43 (7.75%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (7.03%) dbt
14 33 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (5.95%) Power Platform
15 32 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (4.68%) Amazon ECR
16 26 (4.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 25 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
17 25 (4.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.13%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.34%) DHCP
2 13 (2.34%) DNS
3 12 (2.16%) VPN
4 10 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.44%) Firewall
6 7 (1.26%) Broadband
6 7 (1.26%) Internet
6 7 (1.26%) Network Security
7 4 (0.72%) SSL
8 3 (0.54%) HTTP
8 3 (0.54%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.54%) SAN
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
1 123 (22.16%) SQL Server
2 109 (19.64%) MongoDB
2 109 (19.64%) MySQL
3 106 (19.10%) Relational Database
4 90 (16.22%) NoSQL
5 53 (9.55%) Redis
6 40 (7.21%) Elasticsearch
7 36 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (5.59%) DynamoDB
9 29 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (5.23%) Power BI
10 20 (3.60%) DB2
11 17 (3.06%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (3.06%) BigQuery
11 17 (3.06%) Oracle Database
12 16 (2.88%) RDBMS
13 13 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (2.34%) GIS
14 10 (1.80%) Pinecone
15 9 (1.62%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 125 (22.52%) Git
2 67 (12.07%) Jenkins
3 31 (5.59%) JIRA
4 25 (4.50%) GitLab
5 24 (4.32%) JUnit
6 23 (4.14%) Cucumber
7 22 (3.96%) Cypress.io
7 22 (3.96%) Selenium
8 21 (3.78%) Bitbucket
9 20 (3.60%) TeamCity
10 13 (2.34%) Mockito
11 10 (1.80%) Maven
12 7 (1.26%) Vite
13 6 (1.08%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.90%) Gradle
14 5 (0.90%) JMeter
15 3 (0.54%) Storybook
15 3 (0.54%) Subversion
16 2 (0.36%) ESLint
16 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
General
1 142 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 108 (19.46%) Finance
3 55 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (6.67%) Banking
7 32 (5.77%) Law
8 27 (4.86%) Retail
9 17 (3.06%) Front Office
10 12 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.98%) Advertising
12 10 (1.80%) Games
13 9 (1.62%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.44%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.08%) Legal
17 5 (0.90%) Automotive
17 5 (0.90%) Back Office
17 5 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 190 (34.23%) Developer
2 110 (19.82%) Senior
3 93 (16.76%) Software Engineer
4 82 (14.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 73 (13.15%) Lead
6 58 (10.45%) Java Developer
7 35 (6.31%) Data Engineer
7 35 (6.31%) Python Engineer
8 30 (5.41%) Architect
8 30 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 30 (5.41%) Lead Developer
9 29 (5.23%) Java Engineer
10 24 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 24 (4.32%) Lead Software Engineer
11 22 (3.96%) Python Developer
11 22 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (3.42%) Analyst
12 19 (3.42%) DBA
12 19 (3.42%) Java Software Engineer
12 19 (3.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (33.15%) React
2 111 (20.00%) Node.js
3 94 (16.94%) RESTful
4 78 (14.05%) Spring
5 77 (13.87%) Django
6 75 (13.51%) Spring Boot
7 70 (12.61%) REST
8 54 (9.73%) FastAPI
9 48 (8.65%) HTML
10 47 (8.47%) CSS
11 46 (8.29%) Kafka
12 44 (7.93%) .NET
13 41 (7.39%) AngularJS
14 37 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
15 35 (6.31%) Flask
16 32 (5.77%) Vue
17 31 (5.59%) Next.js
18 27 (4.86%) JSON
19 25 (4.50%) Web Services
20 22 (3.96%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 85 (15.32%) Cloud Native
2 56 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
5 19 (3.42%) Replication
6 18 (3.24%) Data Structures
6 18 (3.24%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.88%) Blog
7 16 (2.88%) Derivative
7 16 (2.88%) Equities
7 16 (2.88%) Fixed Income
7 16 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.88%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.52%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.62%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.44%) IoT
12 8 (1.44%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 84 (15.14%) Linux
2 36 (6.49%) Unix
3 27 (4.86%) Windows
4 15 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.26%) Android
6 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.26%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.72%) Debian
9 3 (0.54%) CentOS
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
1 226 (40.72%) CI/CD
2 198 (35.68%) Agile
3 174 (31.35%) Microservices
4 168 (30.27%) Software Engineering
5 157 (28.29%) DevOps
6 155 (27.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 121 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
8 112 (20.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 102 (18.38%) Containerisation
10 100 (18.02%) AI
11 99 (17.84%) Test Automation
12 93 (16.76%) Mentoring
13 67 (12.07%) Data Modelling
13 67 (12.07%) TDD
14 64 (11.53%) Clean Code
15 63 (11.35%) Scrum
16 60 (10.81%) Observability
17 59 (10.63%) Fintech
18 58 (10.45%) Analytics
19 56 (10.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 256 (46.13%) Python
2 179 (32.25%) SQL
3 173 (31.17%) Java
4 149 (26.85%) JavaScript
5 107 (19.28%) TypeScript
6 44 (7.93%) C#
7 39 (7.03%) Go
8 28 (5.05%) PowerShell
9 24 (4.32%) PHP
9 24 (4.32%) Ruby
10 17 (3.06%) C
11 13 (2.34%) Delphi
12 11 (1.98%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.80%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.62%) C++
15 8 (1.44%) Bash
16 6 (1.08%) Perl
16 6 (1.08%) Rust
17 5 (0.90%) VB
18 4 (0.72%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 95 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 73 (13.15%) Degree
3 69 (12.43%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.88%) AWS Certification
5 16 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.54%) RHCE
11 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.36%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.96%) QA
3 15 (2.70%) GDPR
3 15 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.08%) SLA
6 3 (0.54%) NCSC
6 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.36%) PSD2
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.18%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 195 (35.14%) Docker
2 23 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (0.72%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.36%) Samba
5 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 181 (32.61%) Kubernetes
2 130 (23.42%) Terraform
3 38 (6.85%) Ansible
4 37 (6.67%) Grafana
5 19 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.06%) AWS Copilot
7 9 (1.62%) Argo
8 8 (1.44%) Kibana
9 5 (0.90%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.90%) Nagios
10 4 (0.72%) Control-M
11 3 (0.54%) Puppet
11 3 (0.54%) Rancher
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.18%) Istio
13 1 (0.18%) Podman
13 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 67 (12.07%) Oracle
2 53 (9.55%) Google
3 43 (7.75%) Microsoft
4 16 (2.88%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.34%) Informatica
5 13 (2.34%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.98%) Pega
7 9 (1.62%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.44%) ESRI
8 8 (1.44%) IBM
8 8 (1.44%) Talend
9 6 (1.08%) Databricks
9 6 (1.08%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.08%) WSO2
10 5 (0.90%) Confluent
10 5 (0.90%) Splunk
11 4 (0.72%) VMware
12 3 (0.54%) Dell