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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 238 149
Rank change year-on-year -27 -89 +51
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 778 636 1,341
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.29% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.82% 8.89% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 568 441 721
10th Percentile £43,930 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,403 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +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 8,816 7,151 11,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.74% 14.55% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,974 4,471 7,165
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 £62,759
Median % change year-on-year - -4.40% +0.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -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 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 15 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 -62 655 £70,000 -12.50% 1,261
UK excluding London -40 376 £65,000 +4.00% 495
Work from Home +23 369 £67,500 -25.00% 605
London -71 288 £85,000 -19.05% 877
South East -13 122 £65,000 -3.70% 108
North of England -17 119 £65,000 -3.70% 120
North West -7 56 £65,000 -3.70% 65
South West -66 46 £65,000 +30.00% 64
North East -32 38 £65,000 +26.83% 16
Midlands -49 35 £75,000 +5.26% 59
East of England -29 27 £52,500 +72.13% 47
West Midlands -42 26 £83,774 +15.55% 43
Yorkshire -42 25 £69,310 -0.99% 40
Wales -51 22 £67,500 +12.50% 15
Scotland -9 14 £65,000 -3.70% 52
East Midlands -25 9 £60,000 +33.33% 15
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 33

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 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.21%) Apache
3 25 (3.21%) Confluence
4 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.90%) Camunda
5 7 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.77%) WordPress
7 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.51%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.39%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.39%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Luigi
9 2 (0.26%) Tornado
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Finacle
2 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 454 (58.35%) AWS
2 268 (34.45%) Azure
3 135 (17.35%) GitHub
4 109 (14.01%) GCP
5 99 (12.72%) Serverless
6 75 (9.64%) SaaS
7 72 (9.25%) Amazon ECS
8 71 (9.13%) Amazon S3
9 58 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (7.20%) AWS Lambda
11 55 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
12 51 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (5.53%) Amazon SQS
14 42 (5.40%) GitHub Copilot
15 33 (4.24%) Power Platform
16 31 (3.98%) Azure AKS
17 30 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
19 21 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.73%) Broadband
2 12 (1.54%) Firewall
3 11 (1.41%) DNS
3 11 (1.41%) SMS
4 10 (1.29%) AMQP
5 9 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.90%) HTTP
7 5 (0.64%) DHCP
7 5 (0.64%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.64%) SAN
8 3 (0.39%) 4G
8 3 (0.39%) 5G
8 3 (0.39%) SSH
8 3 (0.39%) VLAN
8 3 (0.39%) VPN
9 2 (0.26%) MQTT
10 1 (0.13%) Multicast
10 1 (0.13%) SNMP
10 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (25.58%) MongoDB
2 175 (22.49%) MySQL
3 134 (17.22%) Relational Database
4 129 (16.58%) SQL Server
5 95 (12.21%) NoSQL
5 95 (12.21%) Redis
6 44 (5.66%) DynamoDB
7 41 (5.27%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (3.21%) Power BI
11 21 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
12 20 (2.57%) Big Data
13 19 (2.44%) Metadata
14 15 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.93%) GIS
14 15 (1.93%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.93%) Pinecone
15 14 (1.80%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 184 (23.65%) Git
2 69 (8.87%) Jenkins
3 59 (7.58%) GitLab
4 31 (3.98%) JIRA
5 28 (3.60%) Cypress.io
6 27 (3.47%) JUnit
7 21 (2.70%) Mockito
8 17 (2.19%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.54%) JMeter
10 11 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.41%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.41%) Vite
11 10 (1.29%) Selenium
12 8 (1.03%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.03%) Maven
13 7 (0.90%) Mocha
13 7 (0.90%) RSpec
14 6 (0.77%) Storybook
15 5 (0.64%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.64%) Gatling
General
1 185 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 107 (13.75%) Public Sector
3 94 (12.08%) Finance
4 72 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (8.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (5.91%) Law
7 45 (5.78%) Banking
8 28 (3.60%) Games
9 26 (3.34%) Retail
10 24 (3.08%) Legal
11 18 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.31%) Tech for Good
12 15 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.80%) Health Technology
14 13 (1.67%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.67%) Legal Technology
15 10 (1.29%) Advertising
16 9 (1.16%) Aviation
17 8 (1.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 269 (34.58%) Developer
2 220 (28.28%) Senior
3 152 (19.54%) Software Engineer
4 115 (14.78%) Lead
5 85 (10.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 63 (8.10%) Senior Software Engineer
7 61 (7.84%) Python Engineer
8 58 (7.46%) Senior Developer
9 55 (7.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 54 (6.94%) Data Engineer
11 48 (6.17%) Python Developer
12 46 (5.91%) Java Developer
13 44 (5.66%) Architect
13 44 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
14 39 (5.01%) Software Developer
15 35 (4.50%) Lead Developer
16 33 (4.24%) Database Engineer
16 33 (4.24%) Ruby Developer
17 27 (3.47%) Java Engineer
17 27 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (25.19%) React
2 185 (23.78%) Terraform
3 172 (22.11%) Node.js
4 142 (18.25%) RESTful
5 120 (15.42%) REST
6 106 (13.62%) Kafka
7 105 (13.50%) Spring
8 101 (12.98%) Spring Boot
9 74 (9.51%) .NET
10 73 (9.38%) CSS
11 65 (8.35%) Ruby on Rails
12 64 (8.23%) Next.js
13 61 (7.84%) HTML
14 53 (6.81%) FastAPI
15 49 (6.30%) Jest
16 47 (6.04%) AngularJS
16 47 (6.04%) RabbitMQ
17 44 (5.66%) JSON
18 36 (4.63%) Django
18 36 (4.63%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 167 (21.47%) Cloud Native
2 116 (14.91%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.98%) AI Agents
4 31 (3.98%) Low-Code
5 28 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (3.47%) Blog
7 26 (3.34%) Video\Live Streaming
8 25 (3.21%) Replication
9 22 (2.83%) Onboarding
10 21 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (2.19%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.93%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.93%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.80%) Public Cloud
15 13 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
15 13 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 117 (15.04%) Linux
2 36 (4.63%) Windows
3 18 (2.31%) Unix
4 14 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.77%) Android
6 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) CentOS
7 1 (0.13%) Debian
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (48.84%) CI/CD
2 282 (36.25%) Agile
3 276 (35.48%) Software Engineering
4 226 (29.05%) Microservices
5 223 (28.66%) AI
6 216 (27.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 210 (26.99%) DevOps
8 182 (23.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 162 (20.82%) Observability
10 150 (19.28%) Mentoring
11 144 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
12 143 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 139 (17.87%) Containerisation
14 136 (17.48%) Test Automation
15 108 (13.88%) Clean Code
16 101 (12.98%) Event-Driven
17 96 (12.34%) Scrum
18 93 (11.95%) API Design
19 85 (10.93%) Data Modelling
20 79 (10.15%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 317 (40.75%) Python
2 219 (28.15%) SQL
3 198 (25.45%) Java
4 177 (22.75%) JavaScript
5 150 (19.28%) TypeScript
6 74 (9.51%) C#
7 67 (8.61%) Ruby
8 57 (7.33%) Go
9 42 (5.40%) Bash
10 26 (3.34%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.57%) PHP
11 20 (2.57%) Scala
12 16 (2.06%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.67%) C++
14 10 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.29%) RPG
15 6 (0.77%) Groovy
15 6 (0.77%) Perl
16 5 (0.64%) Korn
17 3 (0.39%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 121 (15.55%) Security Cleared
2 93 (11.95%) Degree
3 91 (11.70%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.03%) PhD
10 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.26%) CISSP
12 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.26%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.71%) QA
2 56 (7.20%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.60%) GDPR
4 22 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.64%) WCAG
7 4 (0.51%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.26%) 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%) NCSC
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 248 (31.88%) Docker
2 12 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 217 (27.89%) Kubernetes
2 69 (8.87%) Grafana
3 64 (8.23%) Ansible
4 46 (5.91%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.24%) Argo
6 12 (1.54%) Kibana
7 9 (1.16%) Rancher
8 7 (0.90%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.77%) Istio
9 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.77%) Puppet
10 5 (0.64%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.64%) Packer
11 4 (0.51%) logstash
12 3 (0.39%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.39%) Plesk
12 3 (0.39%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.39%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.26%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 79 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.38%) Oracle
3 29 (3.73%) Google
4 25 (3.21%) Databricks
4 25 (3.21%) OpenAI
5 24 (3.08%) Dynatrace
6 22 (2.83%) Splunk
7 18 (2.31%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.80%) IBM
9 11 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.03%) Mistral
11 7 (0.90%) Informatica
12 5 (0.64%) Dell
12 5 (0.64%) Meraki
13 4 (0.51%) ESRI
13 4 (0.51%) Netezza
13 4 (0.51%) Remedy
13 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
13 4 (0.51%) VMware
14 3 (0.39%) Atlassian