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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 224 168
Rank change year-on-year -70 -56 +20
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 604 654 1,668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.54% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.56% 9.37% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 441 479 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 £86,250 £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 7,986 6,977 17,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 16.41% 17.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,962 4,538 12,494
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 27 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 27 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 -73 510 £69,305 -7.59% 246
Work from Home +37 312 £67,500 -6.24% 141
UK excluding London -52 312 £62,500 -3.85% 118
London -105 198 £85,000 -8.11% 142
North of England +3 118 £67,500 -1.47% 40
South East -5 105 £57,500 +9.52% 31
Yorkshire -10 49 £62,500 -3.85% 5
North West -23 45 £69,310 -0.11% 30
South West -48 37 £62,500 -3.85% 14
North East -22 24 £65,000 +4.00% 5
Scotland -11 19 £66,250 +15.22% 2
East of England -45 19 £47,500 +28.38% 9
Midlands -50 15 £72,155 +6.80% 18
West Midlands -50 11 £75,000 +11.11% 8
East Midlands -39 4 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Wales -56 3 £65,000 -3.88% 3
Northern Ireland -43 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 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.64%) Apache
4 20 (3.31%) Apache Spark
5 15 (2.48%) Confluence
6 14 (2.32%) OpenStack
7 12 (1.99%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.32%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.50%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.50%) WordPress
11 2 (0.33%) Camunda
11 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.33%) WildFly
12 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.17%) Moodle
12 1 (0.17%) nginx
12 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 373 (61.75%) AWS
2 227 (37.58%) Azure
3 114 (18.87%) GCP
4 108 (17.88%) Serverless
5 67 (11.09%) GitHub
6 63 (10.43%) Amazon S3
7 62 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
8 57 (9.44%) SaaS
9 56 (9.27%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
11 43 (7.12%) Amazon EC2
11 43 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
12 41 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
13 35 (5.79%) Power Platform
14 27 (4.47%) Azure AKS
15 26 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (3.97%) Azure Service Bus
17 20 (3.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.64%) Broadband
2 16 (2.65%) DNS
2 16 (2.65%) Firewall
2 16 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.48%) DHCP
4 9 (1.49%) VPN
5 8 (1.32%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.32%) SAN
6 7 (1.16%) Internet
6 7 (1.16%) Network Security
6 7 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.50%) HTTP
7 3 (0.50%) VLAN
8 2 (0.33%) LAN
8 2 (0.33%) MQTT
8 2 (0.33%) PBX
8 2 (0.33%) WAN
9 1 (0.17%) LTE
9 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (27.81%) MongoDB
2 133 (22.02%) MySQL
3 117 (19.37%) SQL Server
4 102 (16.89%) NoSQL
5 97 (16.06%) Relational Database
6 42 (6.95%) Redis
7 29 (4.80%) DynamoDB
8 28 (4.64%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (4.47%) Power BI
10 24 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
13 20 (3.31%) GIS
14 19 (3.15%) Oracle Database
15 15 (2.48%) RDBMS
16 14 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (1.99%) BigQuery
18 11 (1.82%) MariaDB
18 11 (1.82%) Pinecone
19 10 (1.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 130 (21.52%) Git
2 53 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 39 (6.46%) GitLab
4 26 (4.30%) JIRA
5 25 (4.14%) Cypress.io
6 23 (3.81%) JUnit
7 18 (2.98%) Mockito
8 16 (2.65%) Bitbucket
8 16 (2.65%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.66%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.66%) JMeter
10 9 (1.49%) Maven
10 9 (1.49%) Selenium
11 7 (1.16%) Vite
12 4 (0.66%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.66%) Liquibase
13 3 (0.50%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.50%) DBeaver
13 3 (0.50%) Gradle
13 3 (0.50%) Storybook
General
1 153 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 96 (15.89%) Finance
3 76 (12.58%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (5.46%) Retail
7 29 (4.80%) Law
8 28 (4.64%) Banking
9 25 (4.14%) Games
10 19 (3.15%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.81%) Front Office
12 15 (2.48%) Advertising
13 11 (1.82%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.82%) Legal
14 9 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.16%) Automotive
16 6 (0.99%) Aviation
17 4 (0.66%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 211 (34.93%) Developer
2 119 (19.70%) Senior
3 108 (17.88%) Software Engineer
4 90 (14.90%) Lead
5 86 (14.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (8.28%) Java Developer
7 48 (7.95%) Python Engineer
8 39 (6.46%) Lead Developer
9 34 (5.63%) Data Engineer
9 34 (5.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 34 (5.63%) Lead Software Engineer
10 32 (5.30%) Architect
11 31 (5.13%) Java Engineer
12 29 (4.80%) Python Developer
13 27 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (4.47%) Senior Developer
14 24 (3.97%) Software Developer
15 22 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (3.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 21 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (30.63%) React
2 158 (26.16%) Node.js
3 115 (19.04%) RESTful
4 78 (12.91%) REST
5 73 (12.09%) Spring
6 70 (11.59%) Spring Boot
7 52 (8.61%) .NET
7 52 (8.61%) Kafka
8 49 (8.11%) CSS
9 47 (7.78%) HTML
10 46 (7.62%) FastAPI
11 45 (7.45%) JSON
12 37 (6.13%) Django
13 36 (5.96%) Ruby on Rails
14 35 (5.79%) AngularJS
15 32 (5.30%) Next.js
16 30 (4.97%) Jest
17 29 (4.80%) Vue
18 25 (4.14%) Redux
18 25 (4.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (20.20%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (3.97%) Low-Code
3 24 (3.97%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.81%) Video\Live Streaming
5 22 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 19 (3.15%) Blog
6 19 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.98%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.98%) Replication
8 17 (2.81%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.65%) Derivative
9 16 (2.65%) Equities
9 16 (2.65%) Fixed Income
9 16 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.66%) SCADA
13 9 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 91 (15.07%) Linux
2 42 (6.95%) Windows
3 24 (3.97%) Unix
4 20 (3.31%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.66%) Android
8 4 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.66%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.50%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (43.21%) CI/CD
2 233 (38.58%) Agile
3 189 (31.29%) Software Engineering
4 185 (30.63%) Microservices
5 184 (30.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 144 (23.84%) DevOps
7 126 (20.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 120 (19.87%) AI
9 115 (19.04%) Mentoring
9 115 (19.04%) Test Automation
10 110 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
11 102 (16.89%) Containerisation
12 91 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 81 (13.41%) Scrum
14 72 (11.92%) Data Modelling
14 72 (11.92%) TDD
15 70 (11.59%) Analytics
16 69 (11.42%) Observability
17 62 (10.26%) Clean Code
18 57 (9.44%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 265 (43.87%) Python
2 185 (30.63%) Java
3 178 (29.47%) SQL
4 160 (26.49%) JavaScript
5 122 (20.20%) TypeScript
6 50 (8.28%) C#
7 49 (8.11%) Go
8 37 (6.13%) Ruby
9 35 (5.79%) PowerShell
10 25 (4.14%) PHP
11 24 (3.97%) Bash
12 14 (2.32%) C
12 14 (2.32%) Shell Script
13 13 (2.15%) C++
14 11 (1.82%) Perl
14 11 (1.82%) Scala
14 11 (1.82%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.16%) Korn
15 7 (1.16%) VB
16 5 (0.83%) RPG
Qualifications
1 85 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 76 (12.58%) Degree
3 57 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 33 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.50%) PhD
12 3 (0.50%) RHCE
13 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.33%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.45%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.64%) QA
3 21 (3.48%) GDPR
4 16 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.50%) NCSC
6 3 (0.50%) SLA
7 2 (0.33%) 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
1 179 (29.64%) Docker
2 30 (4.97%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) Firmware
5 2 (0.33%) Samba
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 179 (29.64%) Kubernetes
2 132 (21.85%) Terraform
3 42 (6.95%) Ansible
4 31 (5.13%) Grafana
5 27 (4.47%) Argo
6 18 (2.98%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.66%) Kibana
8 8 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.32%) Puppet
9 5 (0.83%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.83%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.83%) Istio
10 4 (0.66%) Control-M
10 4 (0.66%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.66%) Nagios
10 4 (0.66%) Rancher
11 3 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.50%) Packer
11 3 (0.50%) Plesk
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 75 (12.42%) Oracle
2 69 (11.42%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.13%) Google
4 20 (3.31%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.32%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.32%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.49%) Informatica
6 9 (1.49%) Splunk
7 8 (1.32%) Dell
7 8 (1.32%) ESRI
8 7 (1.16%) Databricks
8 7 (1.16%) Pega
8 7 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.99%) IBM
10 5 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.83%) Talend
11 4 (0.66%) Confluent
11 4 (0.66%) VMware
12 3 (0.50%) Revolut