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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 242 148
Rank change year-on-year -23 -94 +44
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 797 642 1,344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.31% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.95% 8.98% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 578 447 721
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £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 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -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 8,907 7,146 11,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.67% 14.55% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6,014 4,499 7,091
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
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 21 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 21 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 -53 673 £69,310 -13.36% 1,289
UK excluding London -45 385 £65,000 +4.00% 501
Work from Home +16 374 £67,500 -25.00% 591
London -80 297 £82,500 -21.43% 912
South East -25 124 £65,000 -3.70% 118
North of England -22 122 £65,000 -3.70% 129
North West -18 57 £63,750 -5.56% 74
South West -56 47 £65,000 +25.00% 65
North East -29 39 £65,000 +26.83% 21
Midlands -50 38 £75,000 +5.26% 54
West Midlands -48 29 £83,774 +15.55% 38
East of England -36 28 £50,000 +63.93% 36
Yorkshire -34 26 £69,310 -0.99% 36
Wales -48 24 £65,000 +8.33% 15
Scotland -2 12 £65,000 -3.70% 58
East Midlands -29 9 £60,000 +33.33% 16
Northern Ireland -85 1 - - 28

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 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.14%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.14%) Confluence
3 24 (3.01%) Apache
4 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.88%) Camunda
5 7 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.75%) WordPress
7 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.50%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
7 4 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) nginx
9 2 (0.25%) Luigi
9 2 (0.25%) Tornado
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Finacle
2 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 471 (59.10%) AWS
2 278 (34.88%) Azure
3 142 (17.82%) GitHub
4 111 (13.93%) GCP
5 104 (13.05%) Serverless
6 75 (9.41%) SaaS
7 74 (9.28%) Amazon ECS
8 72 (9.03%) Amazon S3
9 64 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
11 55 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (6.65%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (5.65%) GitHub Copilot
15 44 (5.52%) Amazon SQS
16 32 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (3.89%) Azure AKS
17 31 (3.89%) Power Platform
18 28 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
19 21 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.51%) Broadband
2 12 (1.51%) Firewall
2 12 (1.51%) SMS
3 11 (1.38%) AMQP
3 11 (1.38%) DNS
4 9 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.88%) HTTP
6 6 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.63%) DHCP
7 5 (0.63%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.63%) SAN
8 4 (0.50%) VPN
9 3 (0.38%) 4G
9 3 (0.38%) 5G
9 3 (0.38%) SSH
9 3 (0.38%) VLAN
10 2 (0.25%) MQTT
11 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.13%) Multicast
11 1 (0.13%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (25.35%) MongoDB
2 178 (22.33%) MySQL
3 138 (17.31%) Relational Database
4 134 (16.81%) SQL Server
5 100 (12.55%) Redis
6 98 (12.30%) NoSQL
7 47 (5.90%) Amazon RDS
8 44 (5.52%) DynamoDB
9 41 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (3.01%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (2.89%) Power BI
13 20 (2.51%) Big Data
14 19 (2.38%) Metadata
15 16 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (2.01%) Data Lake
15 16 (2.01%) GIS
15 16 (2.01%) Pinecone
16 14 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (1.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 194 (24.34%) Git
2 76 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 62 (7.78%) GitLab
4 31 (3.89%) JIRA
5 28 (3.51%) Cypress.io
5 28 (3.51%) JUnit
6 21 (2.63%) Mockito
7 17 (2.13%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.63%) JMeter
9 12 (1.51%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.51%) Vite
10 11 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.38%) Selenium
11 8 (1.00%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.00%) Maven
12 7 (0.88%) Mocha
12 7 (0.88%) RSpec
13 6 (0.75%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.75%) Storybook
14 5 (0.63%) Appium
General
1 191 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 107 (13.43%) Public Sector
3 96 (12.05%) Finance
4 77 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (8.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (6.02%) Banking
7 46 (5.77%) Law
8 27 (3.39%) Games
9 26 (3.26%) Retail
10 25 (3.14%) Legal
11 19 (2.38%) Tech for Good
12 18 (2.26%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.88%) Health Technology
13 15 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.63%) Legal Technology
14 13 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.51%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.13%) Aviation
17 8 (1.00%) Advertising
17 8 (1.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 276 (34.63%) Developer
2 223 (27.98%) Senior
3 154 (19.32%) Software Engineer
4 111 (13.93%) Lead
5 85 (10.66%) Full-Stack Developer
6 62 (7.78%) Senior Developer
6 62 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
7 60 (7.53%) Python Engineer
8 56 (7.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 55 (6.90%) Data Engineer
10 49 (6.15%) Java Developer
11 48 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
12 46 (5.77%) Python Developer
13 44 (5.52%) Architect
14 43 (5.40%) Software Developer
15 33 (4.14%) Lead Developer
15 33 (4.14%) Ruby Developer
16 32 (4.02%) Database Engineer
17 29 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
18 27 (3.39%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (25.47%) React
2 190 (23.84%) Terraform
3 174 (21.83%) Node.js
4 146 (18.32%) RESTful
5 125 (15.68%) REST
6 112 (14.05%) Kafka
7 111 (13.93%) Spring
8 107 (13.43%) Spring Boot
9 80 (10.04%) .NET
10 74 (9.28%) CSS
11 65 (8.16%) Ruby on Rails
12 64 (8.03%) Next.js
13 62 (7.78%) HTML
14 53 (6.65%) FastAPI
15 50 (6.27%) RabbitMQ
16 49 (6.15%) Jest
17 47 (5.90%) AngularJS
18 45 (5.65%) JSON
19 39 (4.89%) JPA
20 37 (4.64%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 166 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 121 (15.18%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.89%) AI Agents
5 30 (3.76%) Low-Code
6 28 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (3.39%) Blog
7 27 (3.39%) Replication
8 25 (3.14%) Video\Live Streaming
9 22 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (2.76%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.38%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.88%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.88%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.76%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 119 (14.93%) Linux
2 39 (4.89%) Windows
3 20 (2.51%) Unix
4 15 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.75%) Android
6 6 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.25%) Debian
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (49.18%) CI/CD
2 291 (36.51%) Agile
3 283 (35.51%) Software Engineering
4 235 (29.49%) AI
5 233 (29.23%) Microservices
6 221 (27.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 218 (27.35%) DevOps
8 190 (23.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 169 (21.20%) Observability
10 153 (19.20%) Mentoring
11 151 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
12 147 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 145 (18.19%) Containerisation
14 142 (17.82%) Test Automation
15 111 (13.93%) Clean Code
16 107 (13.43%) Event-Driven
17 100 (12.55%) Scrum
18 94 (11.79%) API Design
19 85 (10.66%) Data Modelling
20 82 (10.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 327 (41.03%) Python
2 230 (28.86%) SQL
3 203 (25.47%) Java
4 183 (22.96%) JavaScript
5 152 (19.07%) TypeScript
6 81 (10.16%) C#
7 67 (8.41%) Ruby
8 59 (7.40%) Go
9 46 (5.77%) Bash
10 27 (3.39%) PowerShell
11 22 (2.76%) PHP
12 20 (2.51%) Scala
13 17 (2.13%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.63%) C++
15 10 (1.25%) Groovy
15 10 (1.25%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.25%) RPG
16 6 (0.75%) Perl
17 5 (0.63%) Korn
18 4 (0.50%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 126 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 97 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 95 (11.92%) Degree
4 32 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.13%) PhD
10 8 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.78%) QA
2 55 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.64%) GDPR
4 22 (2.76%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.63%) WCAG
7 4 (0.50%) SLA
7 4 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 264 (33.12%) Docker
2 12 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Ceph
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Lustre
6 1 (0.13%) NFS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Samba
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 221 (27.73%) Kubernetes
2 75 (9.41%) Grafana
3 64 (8.03%) Ansible
4 52 (6.52%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.39%) Argo
6 13 (1.63%) Kibana
7 12 (1.51%) Rancher
8 7 (0.88%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.75%) Istio
9 6 (0.75%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.75%) Puppet
10 5 (0.63%) logstash
10 5 (0.63%) Packer
11 4 (0.50%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.38%) Plesk
12 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 84 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.03%) Oracle
3 27 (3.39%) Dynatrace
3 27 (3.39%) Google
4 26 (3.26%) Databricks
4 26 (3.26%) OpenAI
5 24 (3.01%) Splunk
6 18 (2.26%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.76%) IBM
7 14 (1.76%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.13%) Mistral
9 8 (1.00%) Informatica
10 5 (0.63%) Dell
10 5 (0.63%) Meraki
11 4 (0.50%) ESRI
11 4 (0.50%) Netezza
11 4 (0.50%) Remedy
11 4 (0.50%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.50%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.50%) VMware