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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 241 142
Rank change year-on-year -16 -99 +57
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 858 615 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.24% 1.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.93% 8.83% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 607 425 646
10th Percentile £44,128 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +11.11% -3.57%
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 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%

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 8,644 6,964 11,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.32% 14.09% 15.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,880 4,326 6,469
10th Percentile £36,418 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £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 £87,500
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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -27 727 £71,371 -10.79% 1,146
Work from Home +29 402 £67,500 -25.00% 492
UK excluding London -35 394 £65,000 - 399
London -47 346 £82,500 -21.43% 800
South East -5 131 £70,000 +5.66% 94
North of England -10 118 £65,000 -3.70% 105
North West -7 54 £61,250 -12.50% 62
South West -59 50 £82,500 +52.78% 37
Midlands -36 41 £75,000 +3.45% 36
North East -43 39 £65,000 +25.30% 15
West Midlands -44 31 £85,000 +17.24% 26
Wales -52 28 £64,000 -1.54% 16
East of England -32 27 £52,500 +72.13% 46
Yorkshire -26 25 £65,000 -7.14% 32
Scotland -4 11 £65,000 -11.93% 41
East Midlands -32 10 £60,000 +20.00% 10
Northern Ireland -82 1 - - 26

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 (3.15%) Confluence
2 26 (3.03%) Apache
2 26 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 24 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.82%) Camunda
4 7 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.70%) WordPress
6 5 (0.58%) nginx
7 4 (0.47%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.47%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.35%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.23%) Luigi
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) Tornado
10 1 (0.12%) Documentum
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 11 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Finacle
2 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 505 (58.86%) AWS
2 288 (33.57%) Azure
3 164 (19.11%) GitHub
4 133 (15.50%) GCP
5 97 (11.31%) Serverless
6 95 (11.07%) SaaS
7 74 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
8 73 (8.51%) Amazon S3
9 72 (8.39%) Amazon EKS
10 71 (8.28%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
12 46 (5.36%) GitHub Copilot
13 43 (5.01%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (3.61%) Power Platform
16 28 (3.26%) Azure AKS
17 25 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.26%) Broadband
2 23 (2.68%) TCP/IP
3 19 (2.21%) VPN
4 14 (1.63%) BGP
4 14 (1.63%) SMS
5 13 (1.52%) AMQP
5 13 (1.52%) Firewall
6 11 (1.28%) VLAN
7 10 (1.17%) DNS
8 6 (0.70%) HTTP
8 6 (0.70%) Network Security
9 4 (0.47%) DHCP
10 3 (0.35%) 4G
10 3 (0.35%) 5G
10 3 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.35%) SSH
11 2 (0.23%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
11 2 (0.23%) SAN
11 2 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (24.59%) MongoDB
2 189 (22.03%) MySQL
3 143 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 137 (15.97%) SQL Server
5 113 (13.17%) Redis
6 101 (11.77%) NoSQL
7 66 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
8 45 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
9 44 (5.13%) DynamoDB
10 31 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
10 31 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (2.68%) Power BI
12 21 (2.45%) Big Data
12 21 (2.45%) Metadata
13 20 (2.33%) Pinecone
14 18 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (2.10%) Oracle Database
15 16 (1.86%) Data Lake
16 15 (1.75%) Chroma
17 14 (1.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 208 (24.24%) Git
2 82 (9.56%) Jenkins
3 67 (7.81%) GitLab
4 34 (3.96%) TeamCity
5 29 (3.38%) JIRA
6 27 (3.15%) Cypress.io
6 27 (3.15%) JUnit
7 20 (2.33%) Mockito
8 13 (1.52%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.40%) JMeter
9 12 (1.40%) Vite
10 9 (1.05%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.93%) Selenium
12 7 (0.82%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.82%) Maven
12 7 (0.82%) Mocha
12 7 (0.82%) RSpec
12 7 (0.82%) Storybook
13 5 (0.58%) Appium
13 5 (0.58%) Eclipse
General
1 208 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 117 (13.64%) Finance
3 113 (13.17%) Public Sector
4 87 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 64 (7.46%) Banking
6 59 (6.88%) Law
7 40 (4.66%) Retail
8 28 (3.26%) Games
9 23 (2.68%) Legal
10 22 (2.56%) Tech for Good
11 20 (2.33%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.75%) Health Technology
13 15 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.63%) Back Office
15 13 (1.52%) Legal Technology
16 9 (1.05%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.93%) Marketing
18 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 294 (34.27%) Developer
2 256 (29.84%) Senior
3 175 (20.40%) Software Engineer
4 120 (13.99%) Lead
5 84 (9.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 74 (8.62%) Senior Developer
7 71 (8.28%) Senior Software Engineer
8 61 (7.11%) Python Engineer
9 54 (6.29%) Data Engineer
10 52 (6.06%) Java Developer
10 52 (6.06%) Python Developer
11 50 (5.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 48 (5.59%) Software Developer
13 47 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
14 43 (5.01%) DBA
15 41 (4.78%) Architect
16 37 (4.31%) Lead Developer
17 35 (4.08%) Database Engineer
18 32 (3.73%) Ruby Developer
19 31 (3.61%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (25.52%) Terraform
2 214 (24.94%) React
3 175 (20.40%) Node.js
4 157 (18.30%) RESTful
5 132 (15.38%) REST
6 119 (13.87%) Kafka
6 119 (13.87%) Spring
7 114 (13.29%) Spring Boot
8 86 (10.02%) .NET
9 73 (8.51%) CSS
10 69 (8.04%) Next.js
11 61 (7.11%) Ruby on Rails
12 60 (6.99%) FastAPI
12 60 (6.99%) HTML
13 56 (6.53%) RabbitMQ
14 52 (6.06%) Jest
15 46 (5.36%) AngularJS
16 43 (5.01%) JPA
17 42 (4.90%) JSON
18 41 (4.78%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 187 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 142 (16.55%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.59%) Blog
4 41 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 35 (4.08%) AI Agents
6 30 (3.50%) Low-Code
7 29 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (3.38%) Replication
8 25 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (2.91%) Video\Live Streaming
9 24 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (2.80%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.68%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.98%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (1.75%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.63%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
14 13 (1.52%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 123 (14.34%) Linux
2 37 (4.31%) Windows
3 18 (2.10%) Unix
4 15 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.70%) Android
5 6 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.70%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (49.88%) CI/CD
2 318 (37.06%) Software Engineering
3 302 (35.20%) Agile
4 252 (29.37%) AI
5 248 (28.90%) Microservices
6 228 (26.57%) DevOps
7 223 (25.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 209 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 205 (23.89%) Observability
10 170 (19.81%) Mentoring
11 164 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
12 153 (17.83%) Test Automation
13 152 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 146 (17.02%) Containerisation
15 121 (14.10%) Clean Code
16 120 (13.99%) Event-Driven
17 96 (11.19%) Scrum
18 95 (11.07%) API Design
19 90 (10.49%) Decision-Making
20 89 (10.37%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 348 (40.56%) Python
2 251 (29.25%) SQL
3 228 (26.57%) Java
4 183 (21.33%) JavaScript
5 167 (19.46%) TypeScript
6 85 (9.91%) C#
7 75 (8.74%) Go
8 63 (7.34%) Ruby
9 52 (6.06%) Bash
10 28 (3.26%) PHP
11 23 (2.68%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.33%) Scala
13 17 (1.98%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.52%) C++
15 12 (1.40%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.28%) Groovy
17 10 (1.17%) RPG
18 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.47%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 139 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 113 (13.17%) SC Cleared
3 90 (10.49%) Degree
4 29 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 23 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.05%) PhD
10 8 (0.93%) CISSP
11 7 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.70%) CCSP
12 6 (0.70%) CISM
13 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.16%) QA
2 53 (6.18%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.26%) GDPR
4 24 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.10%) SOC 2
6 15 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.70%) NIST
8 5 (0.58%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) WCAG
10 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 1
System Software
1 280 (32.63%) Docker
2 9 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.23%) 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
1 251 (29.25%) Kubernetes
2 109 (12.70%) Grafana
3 68 (7.93%) Prometheus
4 66 (7.69%) Ansible
5 35 (4.08%) Argo
6 13 (1.52%) Kibana
7 11 (1.28%) Rancher
8 9 (1.05%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.93%) Istio
9 8 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.70%) Cilium
10 6 (0.70%) logstash
10 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.70%) Puppet
11 5 (0.58%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.58%) Packer
12 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.35%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.23%) Plesk
Vendors
1 83 (9.67%) Microsoft
2 77 (8.97%) Oracle
3 47 (5.48%) Google
4 34 (3.96%) OpenAI
5 31 (3.61%) Databricks
6 28 (3.26%) Dynatrace
7 27 (3.15%) Splunk
8 17 (1.98%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.75%) Mistral
9 15 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.63%) IBM
11 8 (0.93%) Informatica
12 5 (0.58%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.58%) VMware
13 4 (0.47%) ESRI
13 4 (0.47%) Netezza
13 4 (0.47%) Remedy
13 4 (0.47%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.47%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.35%) Adobe