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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 250 146
Rank change year-on-year -5 -104 +51
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 853 619 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.25% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.80% 8.80% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 615 425 663
10th Percentile £44,062 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%

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 8,703 7,035 11,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.37% 14.17% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,925 4,378 6,627
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 October 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 October 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 -22 727 £70,000 -12.50% 1,360
UK excluding London -29 400 £65,000 - 763
Work from Home +33 396 £67,500 -20.59% 869
London -53 337 £82,500 -21.43% 764
South East -4 132 £67,500 +3.85% 167
North of England -2 123 £65,000 -3.70% 185
North West -16 56 £61,250 -9.26% 86
South West -58 50 £65,000 +20.37% 82
Midlands -46 41 £75,000 +7.14% 92
North East -32 40 £65,000 +26.83% 39
West Midlands -34 31 £85,000 +17.24% 49
East of England -29 29 £52,500 +72.13% 84
Yorkshire -36 27 £65,000 -7.14% 64
Wales -41 26 £64,000 +2.40% 35
Scotland -14 11 £65,000 -3.70% 97
East Midlands -37 10 £60,000 +20.00% 43
Northern Ireland -84 1 - - 25

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 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.05%) Apache
2 26 (3.05%) Confluence
3 25 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.82%) Camunda
5 7 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.70%) WordPress
7 4 (0.47%) nginx
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.35%) CMS
8 3 (0.35%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.23%) Luigi
9 2 (0.23%) Tornado
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Finacle
2 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 503 (58.97%) AWS
2 291 (34.11%) Azure
3 161 (18.87%) GitHub
4 123 (14.42%) GCP
5 104 (12.19%) Serverless
6 87 (10.20%) SaaS
7 74 (8.68%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (8.68%) Amazon S3
8 71 (8.32%) GitHub Actions
9 63 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
10 57 (6.68%) AWS Lambda
11 56 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
13 48 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
14 44 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (3.75%) Azure AKS
17 31 (3.63%) Power Platform
18 28 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
19 23 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.28%) Broadband
2 15 (1.76%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.64%) Firewall
4 13 (1.52%) SMS
5 12 (1.41%) AMQP
6 11 (1.29%) DNS
6 11 (1.29%) VPN
7 6 (0.70%) BGP
7 6 (0.70%) HTTP
7 6 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (0.70%) VLAN
8 5 (0.59%) DHCP
8 5 (0.59%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.59%) SAN
9 3 (0.35%) 4G
9 3 (0.35%) 5G
9 3 (0.35%) Network Security
9 3 (0.35%) SSH
10 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
11 1 (0.12%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (25.21%) MongoDB
2 192 (22.51%) MySQL
3 145 (17.00%) Relational Database
4 139 (16.30%) SQL Server
5 112 (13.13%) Redis
6 101 (11.84%) NoSQL
7 57 (6.68%) Amazon RDS
8 48 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (5.28%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
11 30 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (2.70%) Power BI
13 21 (2.46%) Big Data
14 20 (2.34%) Metadata
14 20 (2.34%) Pinecone
15 18 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (2.11%) Oracle Database
16 16 (1.88%) Data Lake
17 15 (1.76%) Chroma
18 14 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 207 (24.27%) Git
2 84 (9.85%) Jenkins
3 71 (8.32%) GitLab
4 30 (3.52%) JIRA
5 28 (3.28%) Cypress.io
5 28 (3.28%) JUnit
6 24 (2.81%) TeamCity
7 21 (2.46%) Mockito
8 13 (1.52%) Claude Code
8 13 (1.52%) JMeter
9 12 (1.41%) Vite
10 10 (1.17%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.06%) Selenium
12 7 (0.82%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.82%) Maven
12 7 (0.82%) Mocha
12 7 (0.82%) RSpec
12 7 (0.82%) Storybook
13 5 (0.59%) Appium
13 5 (0.59%) Eclipse
General
1 205 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 115 (13.48%) Public Sector
3 110 (12.90%) Finance
4 85 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (6.57%) Banking
7 52 (6.10%) Law
8 32 (3.75%) Retail
9 27 (3.17%) Games
10 23 (2.70%) Legal
11 21 (2.46%) Tech for Good
12 17 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.64%) Health Technology
15 13 (1.52%) Legal Technology
16 12 (1.41%) Financial Institution
17 11 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (1.17%) Aerospace
19 8 (0.94%) Aviation
19 8 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 290 (34.00%) Developer
2 252 (29.54%) Senior
3 172 (20.16%) Software Engineer
4 117 (13.72%) Lead
5 85 (9.96%) Full-Stack Developer
6 70 (8.21%) Senior Developer
7 68 (7.97%) Senior Software Engineer
8 63 (7.39%) Python Engineer
9 57 (6.68%) Data Engineer
10 53 (6.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 51 (5.98%) Java Developer
11 51 (5.98%) Python Developer
12 50 (5.86%) DevOps Engineer
13 46 (5.39%) Software Developer
14 42 (4.92%) DBA
15 40 (4.69%) Architect
16 35 (4.10%) Lead Developer
17 34 (3.99%) Database Engineer
18 33 (3.87%) Ruby Developer
19 31 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (25.79%) React
2 210 (24.62%) Terraform
3 180 (21.10%) Node.js
4 155 (18.17%) RESTful
5 132 (15.47%) REST
6 118 (13.83%) Kafka
7 117 (13.72%) Spring
8 112 (13.13%) Spring Boot
9 84 (9.85%) .NET
10 74 (8.68%) CSS
11 69 (8.09%) Next.js
12 63 (7.39%) Ruby on Rails
13 62 (7.27%) FastAPI
14 61 (7.15%) HTML
15 54 (6.33%) RabbitMQ
16 52 (6.10%) Jest
17 47 (5.51%) AngularJS
18 46 (5.39%) JSON
19 41 (4.81%) Hibernate
19 41 (4.81%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 176 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 132 (15.47%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.34%) AI Agents
4 37 (4.34%) Blog
5 31 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (3.52%) Low-Code
7 28 (3.28%) Replication
8 25 (2.93%) Video\Live Streaming
9 24 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.70%) Onboarding
11 22 (2.58%) Virtual Team
12 17 (1.99%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (1.88%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.76%) Public Cloud
15 14 (1.64%) Management Information System
16 13 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
16 13 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 126 (14.77%) Linux
2 40 (4.69%) Windows
3 20 (2.34%) Unix
4 15 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.70%) Android
6 6 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) AIX
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (49.36%) CI/CD
2 314 (36.81%) Software Engineering
3 304 (35.64%) Agile
4 253 (29.66%) AI
5 249 (29.19%) Microservices
6 232 (27.20%) DevOps
7 227 (26.61%) Full-Stack Development
8 203 (23.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 194 (22.74%) Observability
10 169 (19.81%) Mentoring
11 164 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
12 153 (17.94%) Test Automation
13 151 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 149 (17.47%) Containerisation
15 115 (13.48%) Clean Code
16 114 (13.36%) Event-Driven
17 99 (11.61%) Scrum
18 96 (11.25%) API Design
19 89 (10.43%) Analytics
19 89 (10.43%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 345 (40.45%) Python
2 244 (28.60%) SQL
3 218 (25.56%) Java
4 185 (21.69%) JavaScript
5 168 (19.70%) TypeScript
6 84 (9.85%) C#
7 68 (7.97%) Go
8 65 (7.62%) Ruby
9 50 (5.86%) Bash
10 28 (3.28%) PHP
11 26 (3.05%) PowerShell
12 19 (2.23%) Scala
13 17 (1.99%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.52%) C++
15 11 (1.29%) Groovy
15 11 (1.29%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.17%) RPG
17 5 (0.59%) Korn
17 5 (0.59%) Perl
18 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 137 (16.06%) Security Cleared
2 110 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 95 (11.14%) Degree
4 32 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.81%) Master's Degree
7 23 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.06%) PhD
10 8 (0.94%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.59%) CISSP
13 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.35%) CCSP
14 3 (0.35%) CISM
15 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.74%) QA
2 54 (6.33%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.28%) GDPR
4 24 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.17%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.59%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 284 (33.29%) Docker
2 12 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Ceph
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Lustre
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.12%) Samba
6 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 242 (28.37%) Kubernetes
2 94 (11.02%) Grafana
3 65 (7.62%) Ansible
4 60 (7.03%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.22%) Argo
6 14 (1.64%) Kibana
7 12 (1.41%) Rancher
8 7 (0.82%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.70%) Istio
9 6 (0.70%) logstash
9 6 (0.70%) Packer
9 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.70%) Puppet
10 4 (0.47%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.35%) Cilium
11 3 (0.35%) Plesk
11 3 (0.35%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.23%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 86 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.91%) Oracle
3 38 (4.45%) Google
4 34 (3.99%) OpenAI
5 31 (3.63%) Databricks
6 29 (3.40%) Dynatrace
7 26 (3.05%) Splunk
8 17 (1.99%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.76%) Mistral
9 15 (1.76%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.64%) IBM
11 8 (0.94%) Informatica
12 5 (0.59%) Dell
12 5 (0.59%) VMware
13 4 (0.47%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.47%) Netezza
13 4 (0.47%) Remedy
13 4 (0.47%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.47%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.35%) ESRI