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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 213 167
Rank change year-on-year -71 -46 +19
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 585 664 1,639
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.53% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.39% 9.00% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 415 502 1,197
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,257 £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 £86,688 £102,188 £88,750
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 7,914 7,381 17,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.70% 16.96% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,783 4,955 12,505
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 £77,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £115,000 £96,539
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 15 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 15 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 -70 491 £69,305 -7.59% 275
UK excluding London -61 296 £62,500 -3.85% 135
Work from Home +33 295 £65,000 -7.14% 305
London -99 196 £88,750 -1.39% 155
North of England -2 110 £67,500 -1.47% 44
South East -27 101 £57,500 -6.12% 42
Yorkshire -26 47 £60,000 - 11
North West -8 44 £69,310 -0.11% 25
South West -44 35 £62,500 -3.85% 19
Scotland -14 20 £66,250 +8.16% 4
North East -23 19 £65,000 -6.32% 8
East of England -30 18 £55,000 +15.79% 6
Midlands -50 14 £65,000 -3.70% 19
West Midlands -42 9 £69,310 +2.68% 4
East Midlands -25 5 £65,000 -7.14% 15
Wales -51 2 £59,401 -8.61% 3
Northern Ireland -40 1 £73,801 +34.18%

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 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (3.59%) Apache
3 20 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.56%) Confluence
5 14 (2.39%) OpenStack
6 11 (1.88%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.37%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.68%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.51%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.34%) Camunda
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.34%) WildFly
10 2 (0.34%) WordPress
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 365 (62.39%) AWS
2 213 (36.41%) Azure
3 116 (19.83%) GCP
4 109 (18.63%) Serverless
5 63 (10.77%) Amazon S3
6 60 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
7 59 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (9.91%) GitHub
9 54 (9.23%) SaaS
10 51 (8.72%) Amazon SQS
11 41 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
11 41 (7.01%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
14 33 (5.64%) Power Platform
15 26 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (4.27%) Azure AKS
17 24 (4.10%) Azure Service Bus
18 23 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
19 19 (3.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.76%) Broadband
2 16 (2.74%) DNS
2 16 (2.74%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.56%) DHCP
3 15 (2.56%) Firewall
4 9 (1.54%) VPN
5 8 (1.37%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.37%) SAN
6 7 (1.20%) Internet
6 7 (1.20%) Network Security
6 7 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.51%) HTTP
7 3 (0.51%) VLAN
8 2 (0.34%) LAN
8 2 (0.34%) MQTT
8 2 (0.34%) PBX
8 2 (0.34%) WAN
9 1 (0.17%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (27.52%) MongoDB
2 123 (21.03%) MySQL
3 118 (20.17%) SQL Server
4 96 (16.41%) NoSQL
5 93 (15.90%) Relational Database
6 38 (6.50%) Redis
7 33 (5.64%) DynamoDB
8 28 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
9 26 (4.44%) Power BI
10 20 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (3.25%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (3.08%) GIS
13 17 (2.91%) Oracle Database
14 16 (2.74%) RDBMS
15 14 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (2.22%) DB2
17 12 (2.05%) BigQuery
18 11 (1.88%) MariaDB
18 11 (1.88%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 126 (21.54%) Git
2 53 (9.06%) Jenkins
3 38 (6.50%) GitLab
4 26 (4.44%) JIRA
5 25 (4.27%) Cypress.io
6 21 (3.59%) JUnit
7 18 (3.08%) Bitbucket
7 18 (3.08%) Mockito
8 17 (2.91%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.71%) Selenium
10 9 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.54%) Maven
11 8 (1.37%) JMeter
12 7 (1.20%) Vite
13 4 (0.68%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.68%) Liquibase
14 3 (0.51%) Gradle
14 3 (0.51%) Storybook
15 2 (0.34%) ESLint
15 2 (0.34%) Jaeger
General
1 139 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 96 (16.41%) Finance
3 70 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 57 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.47%) Retail
7 29 (4.96%) Banking
7 29 (4.96%) Law
8 25 (4.27%) Games
9 19 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.91%) Front Office
11 16 (2.74%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.22%) Advertising
13 10 (1.71%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.37%) Legal
16 6 (1.03%) Automotive
17 4 (0.68%) Aviation
17 4 (0.68%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 197 (33.68%) Developer
2 120 (20.51%) Senior
3 101 (17.26%) Software Engineer
4 84 (14.36%) Lead
5 82 (14.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (8.03%) Java Developer
7 45 (7.69%) Python Engineer
8 35 (5.98%) Lead Developer
9 33 (5.64%) Data Engineer
9 33 (5.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (5.30%) Architect
10 31 (5.30%) Java Engineer
10 31 (5.30%) Lead Software Engineer
11 27 (4.62%) Python Developer
12 24 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.93%) Senior Developer
14 22 (3.76%) Software Developer
15 21 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (3.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 21 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (31.11%) React
2 153 (26.15%) Node.js
3 109 (18.63%) RESTful
4 75 (12.82%) REST
5 67 (11.45%) Spring
6 64 (10.94%) Spring Boot
7 51 (8.72%) .NET
8 48 (8.21%) Kafka
9 43 (7.35%) HTML
10 42 (7.18%) CSS
10 42 (7.18%) FastAPI
10 42 (7.18%) JSON
11 35 (5.98%) AngularJS
11 35 (5.98%) Django
12 32 (5.47%) Ruby on Rails
13 30 (5.13%) Jest
13 30 (5.13%) Next.js
14 27 (4.62%) Vue
15 25 (4.27%) Redux
15 25 (4.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 114 (19.49%) Cloud Native
2 57 (9.74%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.10%) Low-Code
5 23 (3.93%) Video\Live Streaming
6 20 (3.42%) Management Information System
7 19 (3.25%) Data Structures
8 18 (3.08%) Blog
8 18 (3.08%) Onboarding
9 16 (2.74%) Derivative
9 16 (2.74%) Equities
9 16 (2.74%) Fixed Income
9 16 (2.74%) Replication
10 15 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.39%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.71%) SCADA
14 9 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.37%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 85 (14.53%) Linux
2 39 (6.67%) Windows
3 25 (4.27%) Unix
4 19 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.85%) Android
7 5 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.85%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.68%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.51%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (42.56%) CI/CD
2 222 (37.95%) Agile
3 185 (31.62%) Software Engineering
4 178 (30.43%) Microservices
5 174 (29.74%) Full-Stack Development
6 136 (23.25%) DevOps
7 117 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 115 (19.66%) Test Automation
9 112 (19.15%) AI
10 108 (18.46%) Mentoring
11 100 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
12 95 (16.24%) Containerisation
13 83 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 80 (13.68%) Scrum
15 68 (11.62%) Analytics
15 68 (11.62%) Data Modelling
15 68 (11.62%) TDD
16 66 (11.28%) Observability
17 56 (9.57%) Clean Code
18 54 (9.23%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 259 (44.27%) Python
2 182 (31.11%) Java
3 171 (29.23%) SQL
4 156 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 115 (19.66%) TypeScript
6 50 (8.55%) C#
7 48 (8.21%) Go
8 33 (5.64%) Ruby
9 31 (5.30%) PowerShell
10 26 (4.44%) PHP
11 21 (3.59%) Bash
12 15 (2.56%) C
13 14 (2.39%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.88%) C++
15 10 (1.71%) Perl
15 10 (1.71%) Scala
15 10 (1.71%) T-SQL
16 7 (1.20%) Korn
16 7 (1.20%) VB
17 5 (0.85%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 80 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.14%) Degree
3 53 (9.06%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.51%) RHCE
10 2 (0.34%) PhD
10 2 (0.34%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.44%) QA
3 17 (2.91%) GDPR
4 15 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.51%) NCSC
6 3 (0.51%) SLA
7 2 (0.34%) 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%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 168 (28.72%) Docker
2 30 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.34%) Samba
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 175 (29.91%) Kubernetes
2 128 (21.88%) Terraform
3 41 (7.01%) Ansible
4 30 (5.13%) Grafana
5 27 (4.62%) Argo
6 19 (3.25%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.37%) Kibana
8 6 (1.03%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.03%) Puppet
9 5 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.85%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.85%) Istio
10 4 (0.68%) Control-M
10 4 (0.68%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.68%) Nagios
10 4 (0.68%) Rancher
11 3 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.51%) Packer
11 3 (0.51%) Plesk
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 67 (11.45%) Oracle
2 61 (10.43%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.13%) Google
4 20 (3.42%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.39%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.22%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.88%) Informatica
8 8 (1.37%) Dell
8 8 (1.37%) ESRI
9 7 (1.20%) Databricks
9 7 (1.20%) Pega
9 7 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.20%) Splunk
10 6 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.03%) Talend
11 5 (0.85%) Confluent
11 5 (0.85%) IBM
11 5 (0.85%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.68%) VMware
13 3 (0.51%) Remedy