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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 170 185
Rank change year-on-year -126 +15 -1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 555 779 1,515
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.88% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.19% 10.55% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 400 522 1,146
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £41,875
25th Percentile £52,113 £58,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,188 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £124,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -2.86%

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 7,721 7,382 17,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.01% 17.80% 18.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,519 5,180 12,618
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% -10.98%
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 16 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 16 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 -125 462 £70,000 -6.67% 239
UK excluding London -122 277 £60,000 -7.69% 146
Work from Home -72 257 £65,000 -6.47% 182
London -96 202 £86,750 -0.86% 132
North of England -31 100 £66,250 -1.85% 33
South East -111 75 £57,500 -17.86% 49
Yorkshire -27 45 £52,130 -12.73% 10
North West -32 43 £77,500 +14.71% 17
South West -56 34 £61,250 -5.77% 21
Scotland -30 23 £67,500 +8.00% 14
Midlands -49 22 £47,500 -26.92% 15
East of England -59 21 £45,000 -21.74% 8
West Midlands -21 13 £45,000 -30.77% 8
North East -27 12 £55,000 -20.73% 6
East Midlands -51 9 £60,100 -14.14% 7
Wales -51 5 £73,801 +13.54% 6
Northern Ireland -42 2 £73,801 +34.18% 1

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 31 (5.59%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 16 (2.88%) Apache
5 14 (2.52%) Confluence
6 12 (2.16%) OpenStack
7 11 (1.98%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.44%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.72%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.36%) Camunda
10 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.36%) WildFly
11 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.18%) CMS
11 1 (0.18%) IIS
11 1 (0.18%) WordPress
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
1 337 (60.72%) AWS
2 207 (37.30%) Azure
3 139 (25.05%) GCP
4 93 (16.76%) Serverless
5 61 (10.99%) Amazon S3
6 60 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
6 60 (10.81%) GitHub
7 56 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (9.37%) SaaS
9 48 (8.65%) Amazon SQS
10 38 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (6.13%) Power Platform
13 33 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (5.95%) dbt
14 32 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 30 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
17 22 (3.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 20 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.68%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.70%) DHCP
2 15 (2.70%) DNS
3 11 (1.98%) Firewall
4 10 (1.80%) VPN
5 8 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.26%) Broadband
6 7 (1.26%) Internet
6 7 (1.26%) Network Security
7 6 (1.08%) iSCSI
7 6 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (1.08%) SAN
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%) SSL
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (23.06%) SQL Server
2 118 (21.26%) MongoDB
3 111 (20.00%) MySQL
4 97 (17.48%) Relational Database
5 95 (17.12%) NoSQL
6 48 (8.65%) Redis
7 36 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
8 34 (6.13%) DynamoDB
9 31 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (5.41%) Power BI
11 27 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (3.06%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (3.06%) BigQuery
12 17 (3.06%) DB2
12 17 (3.06%) Oracle Database
13 15 (2.70%) RDBMS
14 14 (2.52%) GIS
15 13 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (2.16%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.80%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 125 (22.52%) Git
2 61 (10.99%) Jenkins
3 32 (5.77%) GitLab
4 30 (5.41%) JIRA
5 24 (4.32%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.96%) Bitbucket
6 22 (3.96%) Cucumber
6 22 (3.96%) JUnit
6 22 (3.96%) Selenium
7 19 (3.42%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.98%) Mockito
9 10 (1.80%) Maven
10 9 (1.62%) Vite
11 6 (1.08%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.90%) Gradle
13 4 (0.72%) JMeter
14 3 (0.54%) Storybook
14 3 (0.54%) Subversion
15 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
15 2 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 147 (26.49%) Social Skills
2 102 (18.38%) Finance
3 55 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.13%) Banking
7 31 (5.59%) Law
8 28 (5.05%) Retail
9 17 (3.06%) Front Office
9 17 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.34%) Advertising
11 11 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.80%) Games
13 9 (1.62%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.62%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.08%) Legal
16 5 (0.90%) Automotive
16 5 (0.90%) Back Office
17 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 180 (32.43%) Developer
2 113 (20.36%) Senior
3 93 (16.76%) Software Engineer
4 76 (13.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 76 (13.69%) Lead
5 49 (8.83%) Java Developer
6 41 (7.39%) Data Engineer
7 38 (6.85%) Python Engineer
8 31 (5.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 30 (5.41%) Lead Developer
10 29 (5.23%) Java Engineer
11 27 (4.86%) Architect
12 24 (4.32%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (3.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 22 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (3.60%) Python Developer
15 19 (3.42%) Analyst
15 19 (3.42%) IT Support
15 19 (3.42%) Java Software Engineer
15 19 (3.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (33.33%) React
2 112 (20.18%) Node.js
3 93 (16.76%) RESTful
4 71 (12.79%) Spring
5 67 (12.07%) Spring Boot
6 64 (11.53%) Django
7 63 (11.35%) REST
8 53 (9.55%) FastAPI
9 49 (8.83%) Kafka
10 47 (8.47%) .NET
11 43 (7.75%) CSS
11 43 (7.75%) HTML
12 34 (6.13%) AngularJS
13 33 (5.95%) Flask
14 32 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
14 32 (5.77%) Next.js
15 31 (5.59%) Vue
16 30 (5.41%) JSON
17 24 (4.32%) Jest
18 23 (4.14%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.58%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.83%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.42%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.42%) Replication
5 18 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.88%) Blog
7 16 (2.88%) Derivative
7 16 (2.88%) Equities
7 16 (2.88%) Fixed Income
8 15 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (2.52%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.62%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.62%) SCADA
12 8 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 79 (14.23%) Linux
2 29 (5.23%) Unix
3 27 (4.86%) Windows
4 15 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.26%) Android
6 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.90%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.36%) Debian
9 2 (0.36%) VMS
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.18%) AIX
10 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (41.26%) CI/CD
2 194 (34.95%) Agile
3 170 (30.63%) Microservices
4 165 (29.73%) Software Engineering
5 153 (27.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 149 (26.85%) DevOps
7 115 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
8 109 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (18.74%) AI
10 102 (18.38%) Containerisation
11 99 (17.84%) Test Automation
12 92 (16.58%) Mentoring
13 67 (12.07%) Data Modelling
14 63 (11.35%) Analytics
15 62 (11.17%) TDD
16 61 (10.99%) Scrum
17 59 (10.63%) Observability
18 57 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
19 55 (9.91%) Clean Code
19 55 (9.91%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 252 (45.41%) Python
2 185 (33.33%) SQL
3 167 (30.09%) Java
4 141 (25.41%) JavaScript
5 106 (19.10%) TypeScript
6 44 (7.93%) C#
7 41 (7.39%) Go
8 31 (5.59%) PowerShell
9 26 (4.68%) Ruby
10 23 (4.14%) PHP
11 17 (3.06%) C
12 14 (2.52%) Bash
13 13 (2.34%) Delphi
14 11 (1.98%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.62%) C++
15 9 (1.62%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.26%) Perl
17 6 (1.08%) VB
18 5 (0.90%) Korn
19 4 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 91 (16.40%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.79%) Degree
3 65 (11.71%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.52%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.54%) RHCE
11 2 (0.36%) ITIL 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 42 (7.57%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.32%) QA
3 15 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.52%) GDPR
5 11 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.90%) SLA
7 3 (0.54%) NCSC
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 186 (33.51%) Docker
2 28 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 180 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 126 (22.70%) Terraform
3 40 (7.21%) Grafana
4 34 (6.13%) Ansible
5 22 (3.96%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.70%) Argo
7 10 (1.80%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (1.26%) Kibana
9 6 (1.08%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.90%) Nagios
11 4 (0.72%) Control-M
11 4 (0.72%) Rancher
12 3 (0.54%) Istio
12 3 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.54%) Puppet
13 2 (0.36%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.18%) Podman
14 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 68 (12.25%) Oracle
2 48 (8.65%) Microsoft
3 45 (8.11%) Google
4 20 (3.60%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.34%) Informatica
5 13 (2.34%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.44%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.44%) ESRI
6 8 (1.44%) Talend
7 7 (1.26%) Databricks
7 7 (1.26%) Pega
8 6 (1.08%) Confluent
8 6 (1.08%) Dell
8 6 (1.08%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.08%) IBM
8 6 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.72%) Splunk
10 4 (0.72%) VMware
11 3 (0.54%) Revolut