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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 225 176
Rank change year-on-year -59 -49 +40
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 612 694 1,679
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.58% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.75% 9.57% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 456 506 1,181
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.19% -8.57%
75th Percentile £85,500 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +15.91% -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 7,896 7,252 17,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.52% 16.56% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,994 4,690 12,511
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £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 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -70 522 £69,310 -7.59% 393
Work from Home +30 320 £67,500 -5.59% 396
UK excluding London -73 316 £62,500 -1.96% 174
London -91 206 £84,625 -10.92% 245
North of England -28 114 £67,500 - 62
South East -22 108 £57,500 +9.52% 40
North West -24 47 £69,310 -0.11% 41
Yorkshire -20 42 £60,000 -9.43% 13
South West -46 39 £62,500 +2.04% 21
North East -31 25 £65,000 +4.00% 8
East of England -34 22 £47,500 +36.69% 11
Scotland -9 18 £67,500 +12.50% 9
Midlands -60 12 £75,000 +10.90% 20
West Midlands -53 10 £77,500 +14.71% 10
Wales -57 4 £69,401 +2.62% 5
East Midlands -35 2 £75,000 +7.14% 10
Northern Ireland -42 1 £73,801 +34.18% 10

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 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.59%) Apache
4 17 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.61%) Confluence
6 12 (1.96%) SharePoint
7 11 (1.80%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.98%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.65%) WordPress
10 3 (0.49%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.49%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.49%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.16%) nginx
12 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (1.31%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 369 (60.29%) AWS
2 222 (36.27%) Azure
3 110 (17.97%) GCP
4 105 (17.16%) Serverless
5 65 (10.62%) GitHub
6 60 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
7 58 (9.48%) Amazon S3
8 57 (9.31%) SaaS
9 54 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (7.19%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (6.37%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (5.88%) Power Platform
14 35 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (4.41%) Azure AKS
16 26 (4.25%) Azure Service Bus
17 23 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
18 20 (3.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 20 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.59%) Broadband
2 16 (2.61%) DNS
2 16 (2.61%) Firewall
2 16 (2.61%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.45%) DHCP
4 9 (1.47%) VPN
5 8 (1.31%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.31%) SAN
6 7 (1.14%) Internet
6 7 (1.14%) Network Security
6 7 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.49%) HTTP
7 3 (0.49%) VLAN
8 2 (0.33%) LAN
8 2 (0.33%) MQTT
8 2 (0.33%) PBX
8 2 (0.33%) WAN
9 1 (0.16%) SMS
9 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (28.43%) MongoDB
2 134 (21.90%) MySQL
3 106 (17.32%) SQL Server
4 98 (16.01%) NoSQL
5 96 (15.69%) Relational Database
6 45 (7.35%) Redis
7 28 (4.58%) Power BI
8 27 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (3.43%) DynamoDB
12 18 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (2.94%) GIS
12 18 (2.94%) Oracle Database
13 14 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.12%) RDBMS
15 12 (1.96%) BigQuery
15 12 (1.96%) Pinecone
16 11 (1.80%) MariaDB
16 11 (1.80%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 124 (20.26%) Git
2 50 (8.17%) Jenkins
3 39 (6.37%) GitLab
4 27 (4.41%) JIRA
5 24 (3.92%) Cypress.io
6 20 (3.27%) JUnit
7 17 (2.78%) Mockito
8 15 (2.45%) Bitbucket
9 14 (2.29%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.63%) JMeter
11 9 (1.47%) Selenium
12 8 (1.31%) Maven
13 7 (1.14%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.14%) Vite
14 6 (0.98%) Claude Code
15 4 (0.65%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.65%) Liquibase
16 3 (0.49%) DBeaver
16 3 (0.49%) Mocha
16 3 (0.49%) Storybook
General
1 148 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 90 (14.71%) Finance
3 78 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 56 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.23%) Retail
7 26 (4.25%) Banking
7 26 (4.25%) Law
8 25 (4.08%) Games
9 19 (3.10%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (2.61%) Front Office
11 15 (2.45%) Advertising
12 13 (2.12%) Legal
13 11 (1.80%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.14%) Automotive
15 7 (1.14%) Aviation
16 5 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 210 (34.31%) Developer
2 117 (19.12%) Senior
3 105 (17.16%) Software Engineer
4 89 (14.54%) Lead
5 82 (13.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (8.01%) Python Engineer
7 45 (7.35%) Java Developer
8 40 (6.54%) Lead Developer
9 36 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (5.56%) Architect
10 34 (5.56%) Data Engineer
10 34 (5.56%) Java Engineer
11 32 (5.23%) Lead Software Engineer
12 31 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
13 30 (4.90%) Python Developer
14 27 (4.41%) Senior Developer
15 25 (4.08%) Software Developer
16 23 (3.76%) AWS Engineer
17 21 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
18 20 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (28.92%) React
2 159 (25.98%) Node.js
3 110 (17.97%) RESTful
4 80 (13.07%) REST
5 75 (12.25%) Spring
6 71 (11.60%) Spring Boot
7 53 (8.66%) Kafka
8 49 (8.01%) CSS
8 49 (8.01%) FastAPI
9 47 (7.68%) HTML
10 46 (7.52%) JSON
11 45 (7.35%) .NET
12 42 (6.86%) Ruby on Rails
13 37 (6.05%) Django
14 34 (5.56%) AngularJS
15 33 (5.39%) Jest
16 31 (5.07%) Next.js
17 28 (4.58%) Vue
18 25 (4.08%) Flask
18 25 (4.08%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 125 (20.42%) Cloud Native
2 56 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (3.92%) Low-Code
4 23 (3.76%) Data Structures
4 23 (3.76%) Video\Live Streaming
5 21 (3.43%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.10%) Blog
6 19 (3.10%) Replication
7 18 (2.94%) Algorithms
7 18 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.61%) Derivative
8 16 (2.61%) Equities
8 16 (2.61%) Fixed Income
8 16 (2.61%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.63%) SCADA
12 9 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 93 (15.20%) Linux
2 43 (7.03%) Windows
3 25 (4.08%) Unix
4 19 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.65%) Android
7 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.49%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Debian
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (41.83%) CI/CD
2 226 (36.93%) Agile
3 183 (29.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 183 (29.90%) Microservices
4 182 (29.74%) Software Engineering
5 142 (23.20%) DevOps
6 130 (21.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 123 (20.10%) AI
8 115 (18.79%) Mentoring
9 110 (17.97%) Test Automation
10 108 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
11 107 (17.48%) Containerisation
12 93 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 78 (12.75%) Scrum
14 76 (12.42%) Observability
15 72 (11.76%) Data Modelling
16 70 (11.44%) TDD
17 68 (11.11%) Analytics
18 61 (9.97%) Clean Code
19 58 (9.48%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 267 (43.63%) Python
2 182 (29.74%) Java
3 174 (28.43%) SQL
4 160 (26.14%) JavaScript
5 121 (19.77%) TypeScript
6 48 (7.84%) Go
7 47 (7.68%) C#
8 43 (7.03%) Ruby
9 38 (6.21%) PowerShell
10 29 (4.74%) Bash
11 26 (4.25%) PHP
12 15 (2.45%) Shell Script
13 13 (2.12%) C
13 13 (2.12%) C++
14 12 (1.96%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.80%) Perl
15 11 (1.80%) Scala
16 7 (1.14%) Korn
16 7 (1.14%) VB
17 5 (0.82%) RPG
Qualifications
1 87 (14.22%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.58%) Degree
3 59 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.82%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.65%) PhD
11 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.49%) RHCE
12 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.33%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.16%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.52%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.74%) QA
3 21 (3.43%) GDPR
4 16 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.49%) SLA
7 2 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.33%) NCSC
7 2 (0.33%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) HL7
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 175 (28.59%) Docker
2 30 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) Firmware
5 2 (0.33%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 181 (29.58%) Kubernetes
2 131 (21.41%) Terraform
3 40 (6.54%) Ansible
4 32 (5.23%) Grafana
5 31 (5.07%) Argo
6 19 (3.10%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.63%) Kibana
8 7 (1.14%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.14%) Puppet
9 6 (0.98%) Istio
9 6 (0.98%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.82%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.82%) Data Guard
11 4 (0.65%) Control-M
12 3 (0.49%) Nagios
12 3 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.49%) Packer
12 3 (0.49%) Plesk
12 3 (0.49%) Rancher
13 2 (0.33%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 73 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.76%) Oracle
3 32 (5.23%) Google
4 20 (3.27%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.45%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.47%) Splunk
8 8 (1.31%) Dell
8 8 (1.31%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.14%) Databricks
9 7 (1.14%) Pega
10 6 (0.98%) ESRI
10 6 (0.98%) IBM
10 6 (0.98%) Informatica
11 5 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.65%) Confluent
12 4 (0.65%) Netezza
12 4 (0.65%) Remedy
12 4 (0.65%) VMware