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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 218 170
Rank change year-on-year -66 -48 +14
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 612 684 1,671
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.58% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.62% 9.48% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 452 501 1,188
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 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 8,035 7,215 17,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 16.64% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,054 4,708 12,511
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 £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 30 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 30 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 -75 519 £69,305 -7.59% 228
Work from Home +34 317 £67,500 -5.59% 111
UK excluding London -75 315 £62,500 - 116
London -111 204 £85,000 -8.11% 130
North of England -28 117 £67,500 -0.19% 38
South East -17 104 £57,500 +9.52% 32
North West -13 48 £69,310 -0.11% 26
Yorkshire -21 44 £60,000 -7.69% 6
South West -49 38 £62,500 +4.17% 14
North East -27 25 £65,000 +4.00% 6
East of England -30 22 £47,500 +28.38% 9
Scotland -6 19 £66,250 +10.42% 3
Midlands -58 14 £75,000 +11.01% 17
West Midlands -48 11 £75,000 +11.11% 8
East Midlands -29 3 £70,000 - 9
Wales -51 3 £65,000 -3.88% 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 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.59%) Apache
4 20 (3.27%) Apache Spark
5 15 (2.45%) Confluence
6 12 (1.96%) OpenStack
6 12 (1.96%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.14%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.65%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.65%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.65%) WordPress
9 3 (0.49%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.33%) WildFly
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) IIS
11 1 (0.16%) JBoss
11 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.47%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 370 (60.46%) AWS
2 226 (36.93%) Azure
3 113 (18.46%) GCP
4 105 (17.16%) Serverless
5 66 (10.78%) GitHub
6 61 (9.97%) Amazon ECS
7 60 (9.80%) Amazon S3
8 57 (9.31%) SaaS
9 54 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (7.52%) Amazon SQS
11 44 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
13 40 (6.54%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (5.88%) Power Platform
15 35 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (4.25%) Azure AKS
17 24 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
17 24 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (3.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
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%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (28.27%) MongoDB
2 134 (21.90%) MySQL
3 115 (18.79%) SQL Server
4 100 (16.34%) NoSQL
5 97 (15.85%) Relational Database
6 42 (6.86%) Redis
7 28 (4.58%) Power BI
8 27 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (4.08%) DynamoDB
11 24 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (3.43%) Apache Cassandra
13 19 (3.10%) GIS
13 19 (3.10%) Oracle Database
14 16 (2.61%) RDBMS
15 14 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (1.96%) BigQuery
17 11 (1.80%) MariaDB
17 11 (1.80%) Metadata
17 11 (1.80%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 125 (20.42%) Git
2 51 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 38 (6.21%) GitLab
4 26 (4.25%) JIRA
5 24 (3.92%) Cypress.io
6 21 (3.43%) JUnit
7 17 (2.78%) Mockito
8 16 (2.61%) Bitbucket
9 15 (2.45%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.63%) JMeter
11 8 (1.31%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.31%) Maven
11 8 (1.31%) Selenium
12 7 (1.14%) Vite
13 5 (0.82%) Claude Code
14 4 (0.65%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.65%) Liquibase
15 3 (0.49%) DBeaver
15 3 (0.49%) Storybook
16 2 (0.33%) Jaeger
General
1 153 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 95 (15.52%) Finance
3 76 (12.42%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.23%) Retail
7 29 (4.74%) Law
8 27 (4.41%) Banking
9 25 (4.08%) Games
10 19 (3.10%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.61%) Front Office
12 15 (2.45%) Advertising
13 13 (2.12%) Legal
14 11 (1.80%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.14%) Automotive
17 6 (0.98%) Aviation
18 5 (0.82%) Telecoms
19 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 212 (34.64%) Developer
2 118 (19.28%) Senior
3 106 (17.32%) Software Engineer
4 90 (14.71%) Lead
5 85 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (7.84%) Java Developer
6 48 (7.84%) Python Engineer
7 40 (6.54%) Lead Developer
8 34 (5.56%) Architect
8 34 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 33 (5.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 33 (5.39%) Lead Software Engineer
10 31 (5.07%) Java Engineer
11 30 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 30 (4.90%) Python Developer
12 27 (4.41%) Senior Developer
13 24 (3.92%) Software Developer
14 23 (3.76%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (3.43%) DBA
15 21 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (29.41%) React
2 158 (25.82%) Node.js
3 112 (18.30%) RESTful
4 78 (12.75%) REST
5 73 (11.93%) Spring
6 69 (11.27%) Spring Boot
7 53 (8.66%) Kafka
8 49 (8.01%) .NET
9 48 (7.84%) FastAPI
10 47 (7.68%) CSS
11 45 (7.35%) HTML
11 45 (7.35%) JSON
12 39 (6.37%) Ruby on Rails
13 38 (6.21%) Django
14 34 (5.56%) AngularJS
15 32 (5.23%) Next.js
16 30 (4.90%) Jest
17 28 (4.58%) Vue
18 25 (4.08%) Redux
19 24 (3.92%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 124 (20.26%) Cloud Native
2 56 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (3.92%) Low-Code
4 23 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.76%) Video\Live Streaming
5 22 (3.59%) Data Structures
6 19 (3.10%) Blog
6 19 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 19 (3.10%) Replication
7 18 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.78%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.61%) Derivative
9 16 (2.61%) Equities
9 16 (2.61%) Fixed Income
10 13 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.63%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.63%) SCADA
13 9 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 95 (15.52%) Linux
2 44 (7.19%) Windows
3 25 (4.08%) Unix
4 20 (3.27%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.31%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.65%) Android
8 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.65%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.49%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Debian
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (42.32%) CI/CD
2 229 (37.42%) Agile
3 188 (30.72%) Software Engineering
4 183 (29.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 181 (29.58%) Microservices
6 143 (23.37%) DevOps
7 127 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 122 (19.93%) AI
9 116 (18.95%) Mentoring
10 111 (18.14%) Test Automation
11 109 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
12 102 (16.67%) Containerisation
13 93 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 79 (12.91%) Scrum
15 74 (12.09%) Data Modelling
16 71 (11.60%) Analytics
16 71 (11.60%) Observability
17 70 (11.44%) TDD
18 61 (9.97%) Clean Code
19 57 (9.31%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 264 (43.14%) Python
2 182 (29.74%) Java
3 177 (28.92%) SQL
4 159 (25.98%) JavaScript
5 123 (20.10%) TypeScript
6 49 (8.01%) C#
7 47 (7.68%) Go
8 40 (6.54%) Ruby
9 37 (6.05%) PowerShell
10 26 (4.25%) Bash
10 26 (4.25%) PHP
11 15 (2.45%) Shell Script
12 14 (2.29%) 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 84 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 75 (12.25%) Degree
3 56 (9.15%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.63%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.98%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.49%) PhD
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 11 (1.80%) 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
1 177 (28.92%) Kubernetes
2 131 (21.41%) Terraform
3 43 (7.03%) Ansible
4 31 (5.07%) Grafana
5 29 (4.74%) Argo
6 18 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.63%) Kibana
8 8 (1.31%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.31%) Puppet
9 5 (0.82%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.82%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.82%) Istio
10 4 (0.65%) Control-M
10 4 (0.65%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.65%) Nagios
11 3 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.49%) Packer
11 3 (0.49%) Plesk
11 3 (0.49%) Rancher
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 77 (12.58%) Oracle
2 71 (11.60%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.07%) Google
4 19 (3.10%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.29%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.29%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.47%) Informatica
6 9 (1.47%) Splunk
7 8 (1.31%) Dell
7 8 (1.31%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.14%) Databricks
8 7 (1.14%) ESRI
8 7 (1.14%) Pega
9 6 (0.98%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.98%) IBM
10 5 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.82%) Talend
11 4 (0.65%) Netezza
11 4 (0.65%) Remedy
11 4 (0.65%) VMware