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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 246 148
Rank change year-on-year -14 -98 +46
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 839 625 1,320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.27% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.49% 8.90% 11.44%
Number of salaries quoted 604 432 681
10th Percentile £44,029 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,750
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 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%

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 8,839 7,023 11,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.49% 14.24% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,002 4,392 6,682
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 £87,000
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 30 September 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 September 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 -27 714 £70,000 -11.11% 946
UK excluding London -49 400 £65,000 - 390
Work from Home +27 396 £67,500 -25.00% 437
London -71 321 £82,500 -21.43% 624
South East -13 131 £66,250 -1.85% 74
North of England -12 125 £65,000 -3.70% 113
North West -13 58 £62,500 -7.41% 68
South West -60 50 £65,000 +25.00% 53
Midlands -53 40 £75,000 +5.26% 41
North East -36 39 £65,000 +26.83% 14
West Midlands -43 31 £83,774 +15.55% 31
East of England -29 30 £52,500 +72.13% 37
Yorkshire -29 28 £67,155 -4.06% 33
Wales -51 25 £64,500 +3.20% 14
Scotland +1 10 £65,000 -3.70% 37
East Midlands -37 9 £60,000 +20.00% 10
Northern Ireland -93 1 - - 24

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 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
1 27 (3.22%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.10%) Apache
3 25 (2.98%) Confluence
4 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.95%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.83%) Camunda
6 6 (0.72%) WordPress
7 4 (0.48%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.48%) nginx
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.36%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.36%) CMS
8 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.24%) Luigi
9 2 (0.24%) Tornado
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.31%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Finacle
2 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 498 (59.36%) AWS
2 290 (34.56%) Azure
3 151 (18.00%) GitHub
4 125 (14.90%) GCP
5 109 (12.99%) Serverless
6 85 (10.13%) SaaS
7 77 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
8 73 (8.70%) Amazon S3
9 70 (8.34%) GitHub Actions
10 63 (7.51%) Amazon EKS
11 58 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
12 56 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
14 48 (5.72%) GitHub Copilot
15 45 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
16 34 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (3.69%) Azure AKS
17 31 (3.69%) Power Platform
18 29 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
19 22 (2.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.34%) Broadband
2 14 (1.67%) Firewall
3 13 (1.55%) SMS
3 13 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.43%) AMQP
5 11 (1.31%) DNS
6 9 (1.07%) VPN
7 7 (0.83%) HTTP
8 6 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (0.60%) DHCP
9 5 (0.60%) iSCSI
9 5 (0.60%) SAN
9 5 (0.60%) VLAN
10 4 (0.48%) BGP
11 3 (0.36%) 4G
11 3 (0.36%) 5G
11 3 (0.36%) SSH
12 2 (0.24%) Network Security
12 2 (0.24%) OpenVPN
13 1 (0.12%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (24.67%) MongoDB
2 183 (21.81%) MySQL
3 147 (17.52%) Relational Database
4 141 (16.81%) SQL Server
5 107 (12.75%) Redis
6 102 (12.16%) NoSQL
7 54 (6.44%) Amazon RDS
8 46 (5.48%) DynamoDB
9 44 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (3.22%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (2.74%) Power BI
13 20 (2.38%) Big Data
13 20 (2.38%) Metadata
14 18 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (2.03%) Data Lake
15 17 (2.03%) Oracle Database
16 16 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (1.91%) GIS
17 15 (1.79%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 199 (23.72%) Git
2 80 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 64 (7.63%) GitLab
4 30 (3.58%) JIRA
5 28 (3.34%) Cypress.io
5 28 (3.34%) JUnit
6 23 (2.74%) TeamCity
7 21 (2.50%) Mockito
8 13 (1.55%) Claude Code
8 13 (1.55%) JMeter
9 12 (1.43%) Vite
10 11 (1.31%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.31%) Selenium
11 8 (0.95%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.95%) Maven
12 7 (0.83%) Mocha
12 7 (0.83%) RSpec
12 7 (0.83%) Storybook
13 6 (0.72%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.60%) Appium
General
1 204 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 112 (13.35%) Public Sector
3 107 (12.75%) Finance
4 84 (10.01%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (9.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (6.67%) Banking
7 52 (6.20%) Law
8 32 (3.81%) Retail
9 27 (3.22%) Games
10 23 (2.74%) Legal
11 21 (2.50%) Tech for Good
12 18 (2.15%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.79%) Health Technology
13 15 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.55%) Legal Technology
15 12 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.31%) Aerospace
17 10 (1.19%) Financial Institution
18 9 (1.07%) Aviation
19 8 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 285 (33.97%) Developer
2 242 (28.84%) Senior
3 171 (20.38%) Software Engineer
4 115 (13.71%) Lead
5 86 (10.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 68 (8.10%) Senior Software Engineer
7 67 (7.99%) Senior Developer
8 65 (7.75%) Python Engineer
9 56 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 56 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 52 (6.20%) Java Developer
11 49 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
12 46 (5.48%) Python Developer
12 46 (5.48%) Software Developer
13 43 (5.13%) Architect
14 34 (4.05%) Database Engineer
14 34 (4.05%) Lead Developer
15 33 (3.93%) DBA
15 33 (3.93%) Ruby Developer
16 32 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (25.39%) React
2 206 (24.55%) Terraform
3 181 (21.57%) Node.js
4 151 (18.00%) RESTful
5 134 (15.97%) REST
6 117 (13.95%) Kafka
7 116 (13.83%) Spring
8 112 (13.35%) Spring Boot
9 85 (10.13%) .NET
10 73 (8.70%) CSS
11 67 (7.99%) Next.js
12 64 (7.63%) Ruby on Rails
13 61 (7.27%) HTML
14 58 (6.91%) FastAPI
15 53 (6.32%) RabbitMQ
16 50 (5.96%) Jest
17 48 (5.72%) AngularJS
18 47 (5.60%) JSON
19 41 (4.89%) JPA
20 39 (4.65%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 179 (21.33%) Cloud Native
2 131 (15.61%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.29%) Blog
5 30 (3.58%) AI Agents
5 30 (3.58%) Low-Code
6 29 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (3.46%) Replication
7 25 (2.98%) Video\Live Streaming
8 24 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (2.74%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.38%) Virtual Team
11 17 (2.03%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.91%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.67%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
14 13 (1.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 121 (14.42%) Linux
2 41 (4.89%) Windows
3 20 (2.38%) Unix
4 16 (1.91%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.72%) Android
6 6 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.60%) 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
1 415 (49.46%) CI/CD
2 305 (36.35%) Software Engineering
3 299 (35.64%) Agile
4 247 (29.44%) AI
5 245 (29.20%) Microservices
6 231 (27.53%) DevOps
7 229 (27.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 199 (23.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 182 (21.69%) Observability
10 162 (19.31%) Mentoring
11 161 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
12 153 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 153 (18.24%) Test Automation
13 150 (17.88%) Containerisation
14 117 (13.95%) Clean Code
15 115 (13.71%) Event-Driven
16 103 (12.28%) Scrum
17 95 (11.32%) API Design
18 88 (10.49%) Analytics
18 88 (10.49%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 343 (40.88%) Python
2 242 (28.84%) SQL
3 216 (25.74%) Java
4 185 (22.05%) JavaScript
5 160 (19.07%) TypeScript
6 84 (10.01%) C#
7 66 (7.87%) Ruby
8 65 (7.75%) Go
9 47 (5.60%) Bash
10 27 (3.22%) PHP
10 27 (3.22%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.38%) Scala
12 17 (2.03%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.55%) C++
14 11 (1.31%) Groovy
15 10 (1.19%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.19%) RPG
16 6 (0.72%) Perl
17 5 (0.60%) Korn
18 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 133 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 104 (12.40%) SC Cleared
3 94 (11.20%) Degree
4 31 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.98%) Master's Degree
6 24 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.07%) PhD
10 8 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.48%) CISSP
12 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.24%) CCSP
14 2 (0.24%) CISM
14 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.87%) QA
2 56 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.46%) GDPR
4 25 (2.98%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.95%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.72%) WCAG
8 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) SLA
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.24%) NIST
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 283 (33.73%) Docker
2 12 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.24%) 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
1 238 (28.37%) Kubernetes
2 89 (10.61%) Grafana
3 66 (7.87%) Ansible
4 58 (6.91%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.29%) Argo
6 14 (1.67%) Kibana
7 12 (1.43%) Rancher
8 7 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.72%) Istio
9 6 (0.72%) logstash
9 6 (0.72%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.72%) Puppet
10 5 (0.60%) Packer
11 4 (0.48%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.36%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.36%) Plesk
12 3 (0.36%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.36%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.24%) Bugsnag
13 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.06%) Oracle
3 35 (4.17%) Google
4 31 (3.69%) Databricks
5 29 (3.46%) Dynatrace
6 26 (3.10%) OpenAI
7 25 (2.98%) Splunk
8 18 (2.15%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.79%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.67%) IBM
11 9 (1.07%) Mistral
12 8 (0.95%) Informatica
13 5 (0.60%) Dell
13 5 (0.60%) VMware
14 4 (0.48%) ESRI
14 4 (0.48%) Meraki
14 4 (0.48%) Netezza
14 4 (0.48%) Remedy
14 4 (0.48%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.48%) TIBCO