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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 228 158
Rank change year-on-year -30 -70 +44
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 784 721 1,382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.45% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.75% 9.45% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 597 528 870
10th Percentile £42,300 £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 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8,957 7,629 13,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 15.37% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,987 4,920 8,779
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,622 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,313 £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 2 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 2 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 -52 673 £69,310 -7.59% 375
UK excluding London -50 389 £62,500 - 198
Work from Home +24 388 £67,500 -15.63% 207
London -66 294 £85,000 -19.05% 230
North of England -8 131 £65,000 -3.70% 54
South East -8 129 £60,000 -2.04% 56
North West -7 57 £65,000 -3.70% 35
South West -53 46 £62,500 +8.70% 18
North East -23 41 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Yorkshire -31 33 £65,000 -7.14% 16
East of England -29 27 £52,500 +64.06% 8
Midlands -46 26 £75,000 +10.90% 24
West Midlands -51 19 £80,000 +16.26% 14
Scotland -9 17 £65,000 -1.89% 22
Wales -59 17 £70,000 -9.68% 6
East Midlands -32 7 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Northern Ireland -79 1 £73,801 +34.18% 10

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 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.44%) Apache
4 26 (3.32%) Confluence
5 23 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.40%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.77%) Camunda
7 6 (0.77%) WordPress
8 5 (0.64%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.38%) 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%) Documentum
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (1.66%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 459 (58.55%) AWS
2 295 (37.63%) Azure
3 136 (17.35%) GCP
4 107 (13.65%) GitHub
5 97 (12.37%) Serverless
6 71 (9.06%) Amazon S3
7 69 (8.80%) SaaS
8 68 (8.67%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
11 50 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
12 44 (5.61%) Amazon SQS
13 43 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
14 42 (5.36%) Power Platform
15 29 (3.70%) Azure AKS
15 29 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
16 27 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
17 26 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
17 26 (3.32%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.46%) Broadband
2 15 (1.91%) Firewall
3 13 (1.66%) DNS
4 12 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.40%) DHCP
6 8 (1.02%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.02%) SAN
7 7 (0.89%) VPN
8 5 (0.64%) HTTP
8 5 (0.64%) SMS
9 4 (0.51%) AMQP
10 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.26%) MQTT
11 2 (0.26%) Network Security
11 2 (0.26%) PBX
11 2 (0.26%) VLAN
12 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
12 1 (0.13%) LAN
12 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (26.66%) MongoDB
2 195 (24.87%) MySQL
3 132 (16.84%) Relational Database
4 126 (16.07%) SQL Server
5 113 (14.41%) NoSQL
6 92 (11.73%) Redis
7 39 (4.97%) DynamoDB
8 37 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
9 35 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
10 31 (3.95%) Power BI
11 23 (2.93%) Metadata
12 22 (2.81%) Big Data
13 21 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
14 20 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
15 17 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (2.04%) Oracle Database
17 15 (1.91%) GIS
18 14 (1.79%) DTS
18 14 (1.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 164 (20.92%) Git
2 56 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 50 (6.38%) GitLab
4 35 (4.46%) JIRA
5 28 (3.57%) JUnit
6 23 (2.93%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.81%) Mockito
8 14 (1.79%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.66%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.40%) Vite
11 10 (1.28%) JMeter
12 9 (1.15%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.02%) Maven
14 6 (0.77%) RSpec
14 6 (0.77%) Selenium
15 5 (0.64%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.64%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.64%) Gatling
15 5 (0.64%) Storybook
16 4 (0.51%) minitest
General
1 174 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 110 (14.03%) Finance
3 108 (13.78%) Public Sector
4 73 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.46%) Games
7 33 (4.21%) Law
8 26 (3.32%) Banking
9 21 (2.68%) Legal
9 21 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (2.55%) Retail
11 17 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.04%) Front Office
13 15 (1.91%) Advertising
14 12 (1.53%) Legal Technology
15 11 (1.40%) Tech for Good
16 10 (1.28%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.15%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.15%) Aviation
18 8 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 268 (34.18%) Developer
2 199 (25.38%) Senior
3 157 (20.03%) Software Engineer
4 134 (17.09%) Lead
5 87 (11.10%) Full-Stack Developer
6 70 (8.93%) Python Engineer
7 58 (7.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 53 (6.76%) Data Engineer
8 53 (6.76%) Python Developer
9 52 (6.63%) Lead Developer
10 48 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 45 (5.74%) Architect
12 43 (5.48%) Lead Software Engineer
13 42 (5.36%) Java Developer
13 42 (5.36%) Senior Developer
14 41 (5.23%) DevOps Engineer
15 39 (4.97%) Software Developer
16 32 (4.08%) Ruby Developer
17 29 (3.70%) Java Engineer
18 25 (3.19%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (25.89%) React
2 181 (23.09%) Node.js
3 146 (18.62%) RESTful
4 112 (14.29%) REST
5 97 (12.37%) Spring
6 92 (11.73%) Spring Boot
7 84 (10.71%) Kafka
8 69 (8.80%) CSS
9 64 (8.16%) Next.js
10 61 (7.78%) Ruby on Rails
11 60 (7.65%) FastAPI
11 60 (7.65%) HTML
12 59 (7.53%) .NET
13 52 (6.63%) JSON
14 45 (5.74%) AngularJS
15 39 (4.97%) Django
15 39 (4.97%) Jest
16 33 (4.21%) Vue
17 31 (3.95%) Hibernate
17 31 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 161 (20.54%) Cloud Native
2 99 (12.63%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.97%) Low-Code
4 35 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.08%) Video\Live Streaming
6 30 (3.83%) Onboarding
7 27 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (3.32%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.68%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.68%) Data Structures
10 20 (2.55%) Replication
11 17 (2.17%) Blog
12 16 (2.04%) Derivative
12 16 (2.04%) Equities
12 16 (2.04%) Fixed Income
13 15 (1.91%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (1.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (14.41%) Linux
2 43 (5.48%) Windows
3 22 (2.81%) Unix
4 17 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.28%) 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 4 (0.51%) Android
7 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.38%) CentOS
8 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (45.41%) CI/CD
2 293 (37.37%) Agile
3 271 (34.57%) Software Engineering
4 229 (29.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 229 (29.21%) Microservices
5 206 (26.28%) AI
6 202 (25.77%) DevOps
7 170 (21.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 167 (21.30%) Mentoring
9 142 (18.11%) Containerisation
9 142 (18.11%) Observability
10 139 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 135 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
12 133 (16.96%) Test Automation
13 99 (12.63%) API Design
14 96 (12.24%) Clean Code
15 94 (11.99%) Analytics
16 86 (10.97%) Scrum
17 85 (10.84%) Data Modelling
18 82 (10.46%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 342 (43.62%) Python
2 227 (28.95%) SQL
3 201 (25.64%) Java
4 186 (23.72%) JavaScript
5 149 (19.01%) TypeScript
6 65 (8.29%) C#
7 64 (8.16%) Ruby
8 60 (7.65%) Go
9 38 (4.85%) PowerShell
10 36 (4.59%) Bash
11 25 (3.19%) PHP
12 18 (2.30%) Scala
13 15 (1.91%) C++
14 12 (1.53%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.28%) RPG
16 8 (1.02%) Perl
16 8 (1.02%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.89%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.77%) Korn
19 5 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 111 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 93 (11.86%) Degree
3 79 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.77%) PhD
11 4 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.38%) RHCE
13 2 (0.26%) CISSP
13 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.26%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.26%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.91%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.99%) QA
3 27 (3.44%) GDPR
4 18 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.51%) SLA
6 4 (0.51%) WCAG
7 3 (0.38%) 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
1 236 (30.10%) Docker
2 25 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.26%) Samba
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 205 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 161 (20.54%) Terraform
3 47 (5.99%) Ansible
4 41 (5.23%) Grafana
5 30 (3.83%) Argo
6 27 (3.44%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.40%) 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 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.38%) Plesk
11 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 87 (11.10%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.18%) Oracle
3 48 (6.12%) Google
4 23 (2.93%) Databricks
4 23 (2.93%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.42%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.30%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.79%) IBM
7 14 (1.79%) Splunk
8 8 (1.02%) Dell
8 8 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.89%) Informatica
9 7 (0.89%) 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 (0.38%) UiPath