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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 225 160
Rank change year-on-year -36 -65 +47
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 778 715 1,396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.44% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.71% 9.39% 10.36%
Number of salaries quoted 593 522 883
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 8,929 7,611 13,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.65% 15.37% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,976 4,904 9,021
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -42 668 £69,310 -7.59% 378
UK excluding London -60 387 £62,500 -3.85% 204
Work from Home +29 385 £67,500 -15.63% 206
London -70 291 £85,000 -19.05% 234
North of England -12 130 £65,000 -3.70% 48
South East -17 127 £60,000 -2.04% 57
North West -4 57 £65,000 -3.70% 28
South West -57 46 £62,500 +6.38% 21
North East -23 40 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Yorkshire -26 33 £65,000 -7.14% 17
East of England -22 28 £52,500 +64.06% 9
Midlands -48 26 £75,000 +10.90% 24
West Midlands -43 19 £80,000 +16.26% 14
Scotland -3 17 £65,000 -1.89% 25
Wales -57 17 £70,000 -9.68% 12
East Midlands -31 7 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Northern Ireland -79 1 £73,801 +34.18% 8

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 33 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.60%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.47%) Apache
4 26 (3.34%) Confluence
5 23 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.77%) Camunda
7 6 (0.77%) WordPress
8 5 (0.64%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.39%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.13%) Tornado
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 455 (58.48%) AWS
2 293 (37.66%) Azure
3 135 (17.35%) GCP
4 106 (13.62%) GitHub
5 95 (12.21%) Serverless
6 70 (9.00%) Amazon S3
7 69 (8.87%) SaaS
8 67 (8.61%) Amazon ECS
9 54 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
12 44 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
13 43 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (5.53%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (5.27%) Power Platform
15 28 (3.60%) Azure AKS
15 28 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
16 27 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
17 26 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (3.21%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.50%) Broadband
2 15 (1.93%) Firewall
3 13 (1.67%) DNS
4 12 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.41%) DHCP
6 8 (1.03%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.03%) SAN
7 7 (0.90%) VPN
8 5 (0.64%) SMS
9 4 (0.51%) AMQP
9 4 (0.51%) HTTP
10 3 (0.39%) Network Security
10 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.26%) MQTT
11 2 (0.26%) PBX
11 2 (0.26%) VLAN
12 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
12 1 (0.13%) LTE
12 1 (0.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (26.61%) MongoDB
2 193 (24.81%) MySQL
3 130 (16.71%) Relational Database
4 124 (15.94%) SQL Server
5 112 (14.40%) NoSQL
6 92 (11.83%) Redis
7 38 (4.88%) DynamoDB
8 36 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
11 31 (3.98%) Power BI
12 23 (2.96%) Metadata
13 22 (2.83%) Big Data
14 21 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (2.57%) Apache Cassandra
16 17 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
17 16 (2.06%) Oracle Database
18 14 (1.80%) Data Lake
18 14 (1.80%) DTS
18 14 (1.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 162 (20.82%) Git
2 56 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 50 (6.43%) GitLab
4 35 (4.50%) JIRA
5 28 (3.60%) JUnit
6 22 (2.83%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.83%) Mockito
7 14 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.67%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.41%) Vite
10 10 (1.29%) JMeter
11 9 (1.16%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.03%) Maven
13 6 (0.77%) RSpec
13 6 (0.77%) Selenium
14 5 (0.64%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.64%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.64%) Gatling
14 5 (0.64%) Storybook
15 4 (0.51%) minitest
General
1 174 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 108 (13.88%) Finance
3 107 (13.75%) Public Sector
4 71 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.50%) Games
7 32 (4.11%) Law
8 25 (3.21%) Banking
9 21 (2.70%) Legal
9 21 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (2.57%) Retail
11 17 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.06%) Front Office
13 15 (1.93%) Advertising
14 12 (1.54%) Legal Technology
15 11 (1.41%) Tech for Good
16 10 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.16%) Aerospace
18 8 (1.03%) Automotive
18 8 (1.03%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 265 (34.06%) Developer
2 197 (25.32%) Senior
3 154 (19.79%) Software Engineer
4 133 (17.10%) Lead
5 85 (10.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 70 (9.00%) Python Engineer
7 57 (7.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 53 (6.81%) Data Engineer
9 52 (6.68%) Lead Developer
9 52 (6.68%) Python Developer
10 47 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
11 45 (5.78%) Architect
12 42 (5.40%) Java Developer
12 42 (5.40%) Lead Software Engineer
13 41 (5.27%) DevOps Engineer
13 41 (5.27%) Senior Developer
14 38 (4.88%) Software Developer
15 32 (4.11%) Ruby Developer
16 29 (3.73%) Java Engineer
17 25 (3.21%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (25.58%) React
2 178 (22.88%) Node.js
3 145 (18.64%) RESTful
4 111 (14.27%) REST
5 97 (12.47%) Spring
6 92 (11.83%) Spring Boot
7 84 (10.80%) Kafka
8 67 (8.61%) CSS
9 64 (8.23%) Next.js
10 60 (7.71%) FastAPI
10 60 (7.71%) Ruby on Rails
11 58 (7.46%) HTML
12 56 (7.20%) .NET
13 52 (6.68%) JSON
14 44 (5.66%) AngularJS
15 39 (5.01%) Django
16 38 (4.88%) Jest
17 33 (4.24%) Vue
18 31 (3.98%) Hibernate
18 31 (3.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 159 (20.44%) Cloud Native
2 99 (12.72%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.01%) Low-Code
4 36 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.11%) Video\Live Streaming
6 29 (3.73%) Onboarding
7 27 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (3.21%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.70%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.70%) Data Structures
10 20 (2.57%) Replication
11 17 (2.19%) Blog
12 16 (2.06%) Derivative
12 16 (2.06%) Equities
12 16 (2.06%) Fixed Income
13 15 (1.93%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (14.52%) Linux
2 43 (5.53%) Windows
3 22 (2.83%) Unix
4 17 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.39%) Android
7 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.39%) CentOS
7 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) Debian
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (45.37%) CI/CD
2 291 (37.40%) Agile
3 268 (34.45%) Software Engineering
4 227 (29.18%) Microservices
5 226 (29.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 204 (26.22%) AI
7 200 (25.71%) DevOps
8 170 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 166 (21.34%) Mentoring
10 143 (18.38%) Containerisation
11 142 (18.25%) Observability
12 138 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 134 (17.22%) Test Automation
14 133 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
15 99 (12.72%) API Design
16 95 (12.21%) Clean Code
17 93 (11.95%) Analytics
18 85 (10.93%) Data Modelling
18 85 (10.93%) Scrum
19 81 (10.41%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 339 (43.57%) Python
2 226 (29.05%) SQL
3 201 (25.84%) Java
4 182 (23.39%) JavaScript
5 147 (18.89%) TypeScript
6 63 (8.10%) C#
6 63 (8.10%) Ruby
7 59 (7.58%) Go
8 38 (4.88%) PowerShell
9 37 (4.76%) Bash
10 25 (3.21%) PHP
11 18 (2.31%) Scala
12 15 (1.93%) C++
13 12 (1.54%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.29%) RPG
15 8 (1.03%) Perl
15 8 (1.03%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.90%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.77%) Korn
18 5 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 110 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 90 (11.57%) Degree
3 78 (10.03%) SC Cleared
4 31 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.19%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.93%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.77%) PhD
11 5 (0.64%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.39%) RHCE
14 2 (0.26%) CISSP
14 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.26%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.26%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.97%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.04%) QA
3 26 (3.34%) GDPR
4 18 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.51%) SLA
6 4 (0.51%) WCAG
7 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.26%) NCSC
8 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 234 (30.08%) Docker
2 24 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
5 2 (0.26%) Samba
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 203 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 160 (20.57%) Terraform
3 46 (5.91%) Ansible
4 41 (5.27%) Grafana
5 30 (3.86%) Argo
6 27 (3.47%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.41%) Kibana
8 6 (0.77%) Istio
8 6 (0.77%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.77%) Puppet
9 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.64%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (0.51%) Packer
11 3 (0.39%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.39%) Plesk
11 3 (0.39%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.39%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 86 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.25%) Oracle
3 48 (6.17%) Google
4 23 (2.96%) Databricks
4 23 (2.96%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.31%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.80%) IBM
7 14 (1.80%) Splunk
8 8 (1.03%) Dell
8 8 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.90%) Informatica
9 7 (0.90%) Pega
10 6 (0.77%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.64%) Meraki
12 4 (0.51%) Confluent
12 4 (0.51%) Netezza
12 4 (0.51%) Remedy
12 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.39%) Atlassian