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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 226 165
Rank change year-on-year -67 -61 +18
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 596 662 1,667
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.56% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.52% 9.46% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 431 486 1,201
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,375 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -4.35%

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 7,927 7,000 17,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.54% 16.45% 17.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,905 4,558 12,506
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £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% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -72 503 £69,305 -7.59% 242
Work from Home +28 308 £67,500 -6.24% 140
UK excluding London -57 307 £62,500 -3.85% 115
London -95 195 £85,000 -10.53% 141
North of England -2 118 £67,500 -1.47% 40
South East -6 102 £57,500 +9.52% 32
Yorkshire -20 49 £62,500 -3.85% 5
North West -18 45 £69,310 -0.11% 31
South West -51 38 £62,500 -3.85% 10
North East -25 24 £65,000 +4.00% 4
Scotland -11 19 £66,250 +10.42% 2
East of England -44 18 £55,000 +48.65% 9
Midlands -60 14 £69,310 +2.59% 18
West Midlands -58 11 £75,000 +11.11% 8
East Midlands -38 3 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Wales -51 2 £59,401 -12.16% 3
Northern Ireland -45 1 £73,801 +34.18% 4

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 28 (4.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.69%) Apache
4 20 (3.36%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.35%) Confluence
5 14 (2.35%) OpenStack
6 11 (1.85%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.34%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.67%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.67%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.50%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.34%) Camunda
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.34%) WildFly
10 2 (0.34%) WordPress
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.17%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 371 (62.25%) AWS
2 222 (37.25%) Azure
3 114 (19.13%) GCP
4 108 (18.12%) Serverless
5 67 (11.24%) GitHub
6 63 (10.57%) Amazon ECS
6 63 (10.57%) Amazon S3
7 57 (9.56%) SaaS
8 56 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (8.39%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (7.21%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
14 34 (5.70%) Power Platform
15 26 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (4.19%) Azure AKS
17 24 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
18 23 (3.86%) Azure Service Bus
19 20 (3.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.69%) Broadband
2 16 (2.68%) DNS
2 16 (2.68%) Firewall
2 16 (2.68%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.52%) DHCP
4 9 (1.51%) VPN
5 8 (1.34%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.34%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.34%) SAN
6 7 (1.17%) Internet
6 7 (1.17%) Network Security
6 7 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.50%) HTTP
7 3 (0.50%) VLAN
8 2 (0.34%) LAN
8 2 (0.34%) MQTT
8 2 (0.34%) PBX
8 2 (0.34%) WAN
9 1 (0.17%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (28.19%) MongoDB
2 132 (22.15%) MySQL
3 116 (19.46%) SQL Server
4 101 (16.95%) NoSQL
5 97 (16.28%) Relational Database
6 39 (6.54%) Redis
7 29 (4.87%) DynamoDB
8 28 (4.70%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (4.53%) Power BI
10 23 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (3.36%) Apache Cassandra
11 20 (3.36%) GIS
12 19 (3.19%) Oracle Database
13 15 (2.52%) RDBMS
14 14 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (2.01%) BigQuery
16 11 (1.85%) MariaDB
16 11 (1.85%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 129 (21.64%) Git
2 53 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 39 (6.54%) GitLab
4 25 (4.19%) Cypress.io
4 25 (4.19%) JIRA
5 22 (3.69%) JUnit
6 18 (3.02%) Mockito
7 16 (2.68%) Bitbucket
7 16 (2.68%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.51%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.51%) JMeter
8 9 (1.51%) Maven
8 9 (1.51%) Selenium
9 7 (1.17%) Vite
10 4 (0.67%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.67%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.50%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.50%) DBeaver
11 3 (0.50%) Gradle
11 3 (0.50%) Storybook
General
1 149 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 96 (16.11%) Finance
3 76 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (5.54%) Retail
7 29 (4.87%) Law
8 28 (4.70%) Banking
9 25 (4.19%) Games
10 19 (3.19%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.85%) Front Office
12 14 (2.35%) Advertising
13 11 (1.85%) Legal
14 10 (1.68%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.01%) Automotive
17 4 (0.67%) Aviation
17 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 209 (35.07%) Developer
2 117 (19.63%) Senior
3 106 (17.79%) Software Engineer
4 90 (15.10%) Lead
5 87 (14.60%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (8.39%) Java Developer
7 47 (7.89%) Python Engineer
8 39 (6.54%) Lead Developer
9 34 (5.70%) Data Engineer
9 34 (5.70%) Lead Software Engineer
10 33 (5.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (5.20%) Architect
11 31 (5.20%) Java Engineer
12 30 (5.03%) Python Developer
13 26 (4.36%) Senior Developer
14 24 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
15 22 (3.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 22 (3.69%) Software Developer
16 21 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
17 20 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (31.04%) React
2 158 (26.51%) Node.js
3 114 (19.13%) RESTful
4 80 (13.42%) REST
5 72 (12.08%) Spring
6 69 (11.58%) Spring Boot
7 51 (8.56%) .NET
8 50 (8.39%) Kafka
9 47 (7.89%) CSS
10 46 (7.72%) FastAPI
11 45 (7.55%) HTML
12 44 (7.38%) JSON
13 37 (6.21%) AngularJS
13 37 (6.21%) Django
14 35 (5.87%) Ruby on Rails
15 31 (5.20%) Next.js
16 30 (5.03%) Jest
17 28 (4.70%) Vue
18 25 (4.19%) Redux
18 25 (4.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (20.47%) Cloud Native
2 57 (9.56%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.03%) Low-Code
5 23 (3.86%) Video\Live Streaming
6 22 (3.69%) Data Structures
7 19 (3.19%) Blog
7 19 (3.19%) Management Information System
8 18 (3.02%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.02%) Replication
9 17 (2.85%) Algorithms
10 16 (2.68%) Derivative
10 16 (2.68%) Equities
10 16 (2.68%) Fixed Income
11 15 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.68%) SCADA
15 9 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 87 (14.60%) Linux
2 42 (7.05%) Windows
3 24 (4.03%) Unix
4 20 (3.36%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.34%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.67%) Android
8 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.67%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.50%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (42.95%) CI/CD
2 229 (38.42%) Agile
3 187 (31.38%) Software Engineering
4 183 (30.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 183 (30.70%) Microservices
5 140 (23.49%) DevOps
6 123 (20.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 119 (19.97%) AI
8 115 (19.30%) Test Automation
9 114 (19.13%) Mentoring
10 108 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (16.78%) Containerisation
12 88 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 79 (13.26%) Scrum
14 73 (12.25%) Data Modelling
14 73 (12.25%) TDD
15 68 (11.41%) Analytics
16 66 (11.07%) Observability
17 59 (9.90%) Clean Code
18 57 (9.56%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 263 (44.13%) Python
2 184 (30.87%) Java
3 174 (29.19%) SQL
4 158 (26.51%) JavaScript
5 120 (20.13%) TypeScript
6 48 (8.05%) C#
6 48 (8.05%) Go
7 36 (6.04%) Ruby
8 33 (5.54%) PowerShell
9 24 (4.03%) PHP
10 22 (3.69%) Bash
11 14 (2.35%) C
11 14 (2.35%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.01%) C++
13 11 (1.85%) Perl
13 11 (1.85%) Scala
14 10 (1.68%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.17%) Korn
15 7 (1.17%) VB
16 4 (0.67%) RPG
Qualifications
1 83 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 73 (12.25%) Degree
3 55 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.34%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.34%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.50%) RHCE
12 2 (0.34%) PhD
12 2 (0.34%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.36%) QA
3 20 (3.36%) GDPR
4 16 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.50%) NCSC
6 3 (0.50%) SLA
7 2 (0.34%) WCAG
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.17%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.17%) HL7
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.17%) MiFID
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 177 (29.70%) Docker
2 30 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.34%) Samba
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 176 (29.53%) Kubernetes
2 130 (21.81%) Terraform
3 43 (7.21%) Ansible
4 30 (5.03%) Grafana
5 27 (4.53%) Argo
6 18 (3.02%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.51%) Kibana
8 8 (1.34%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.34%) Puppet
9 5 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.84%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.84%) Istio
10 4 (0.67%) Control-M
10 4 (0.67%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.67%) Nagios
10 4 (0.67%) Rancher
11 3 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.50%) Packer
11 3 (0.50%) Plesk
12 2 (0.34%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 75 (12.58%) Oracle
2 66 (11.07%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.20%) Google
4 20 (3.36%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.35%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.35%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.51%) Informatica
7 8 (1.34%) Dell
7 8 (1.34%) ESRI
7 8 (1.34%) Splunk
8 7 (1.17%) Databricks
8 7 (1.17%) Pega
8 7 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.01%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.84%) IBM
10 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.84%) Talend
11 4 (0.67%) Confluent
11 4 (0.67%) VMware
12 3 (0.50%) Revolut