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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 236 155
Rank change year-on-year -28 -81 +41
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 821 634 1,314
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.28% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.32% 8.92% 11.16%
Number of salaries quoted 594 439 691
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% +15.91% -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 8,810 7,107 11,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.50% 14.32% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,000 4,462 6,836
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,496
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 £87,000
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 27 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 27 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 -38 697 £70,000 -12.50% 993
UK excluding London -56 391 £65,000 +1.96% 458
Work from Home +27 385 £67,500 -25.00% 477
London -63 313 £82,500 -21.43% 637
South East -13 127 £65,000 -3.70% 102
North of England -3 125 £65,000 -3.70% 132
North West -11 58 £62,500 -7.41% 76
South West -70 47 £65,000 +25.00% 56
North East -34 39 £65,000 +26.83% 20
Midlands -48 39 £75,000 +5.26% 51
West Midlands -39 30 £83,774 +15.55% 37
East of England -27 29 £50,000 +63.93% 36
Yorkshire -26 28 £67,155 -4.06% 38
Wales -48 25 £64,500 +3.20% 15
Scotland 0 10 £65,000 -3.70% 40
East Midlands -35 9 £60,000 +20.00% 14
Northern Ireland -92 1 - - 29

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 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.05%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.05%) Confluence
3 24 (2.92%) Apache
4 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.85%) Camunda
7 6 (0.73%) WordPress
8 4 (0.49%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.49%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.37%) CMS
9 3 (0.37%) nginx
10 2 (0.24%) Luigi
10 2 (0.24%) Tornado
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.34%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Finacle
2 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 482 (58.71%) AWS
2 288 (35.08%) Azure
3 149 (18.15%) GitHub
4 119 (14.49%) GCP
5 107 (13.03%) Serverless
6 84 (10.23%) SaaS
7 76 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
8 72 (8.77%) Amazon S3
9 69 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
11 58 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
12 56 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (5.72%) GitHub Copilot
15 44 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
16 34 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (3.90%) Power Platform
18 31 (3.78%) Azure AKS
19 29 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
20 22 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.41%) Broadband
2 13 (1.58%) Firewall
3 12 (1.46%) SMS
3 12 (1.46%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.34%) AMQP
4 11 (1.34%) DNS
5 7 (0.85%) HTTP
5 7 (0.85%) VPN
6 6 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.61%) DHCP
7 5 (0.61%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.61%) SAN
7 5 (0.61%) VLAN
8 3 (0.37%) 4G
8 3 (0.37%) 5G
8 3 (0.37%) BGP
8 3 (0.37%) SSH
9 1 (0.12%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.12%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (25.09%) MongoDB
2 183 (22.29%) MySQL
3 141 (17.17%) Relational Database
4 140 (17.05%) SQL Server
5 107 (13.03%) Redis
6 99 (12.06%) NoSQL
7 51 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
8 45 (5.48%) DynamoDB
9 44 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
12 24 (2.92%) Power BI
13 20 (2.44%) Big Data
13 20 (2.44%) Metadata
14 17 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (2.07%) Data Lake
15 16 (1.95%) GIS
15 16 (1.95%) Oracle Database
16 15 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (1.83%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 196 (23.87%) Git
2 78 (9.50%) Jenkins
3 63 (7.67%) GitLab
4 30 (3.65%) JIRA
5 28 (3.41%) Cypress.io
5 28 (3.41%) JUnit
6 21 (2.56%) Mockito
7 20 (2.44%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.58%) Claude Code
8 13 (1.58%) JMeter
9 12 (1.46%) Vite
10 11 (1.34%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.34%) Selenium
11 8 (0.97%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.97%) Maven
12 7 (0.85%) Mocha
12 7 (0.85%) RSpec
12 7 (0.85%) Storybook
13 6 (0.73%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.61%) Appium
General
1 196 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 111 (13.52%) Public Sector
3 102 (12.42%) Finance
4 80 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (6.33%) Banking
7 49 (5.97%) Law
8 29 (3.53%) Retail
9 27 (3.29%) Games
10 23 (2.80%) Legal
11 20 (2.44%) Tech for Good
12 18 (2.19%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.83%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.71%) Health Technology
15 13 (1.58%) Legal Technology
15 13 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (1.22%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.10%) Aviation
17 9 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 282 (34.35%) Developer
2 237 (28.87%) Senior
3 159 (19.37%) Software Engineer
4 116 (14.13%) Lead
5 85 (10.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 66 (8.04%) Senior Developer
7 64 (7.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 60 (7.31%) Python Engineer
9 57 (6.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 56 (6.82%) Data Engineer
11 50 (6.09%) Java Developer
12 48 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
13 46 (5.60%) Python Developer
14 44 (5.36%) Software Developer
15 43 (5.24%) Architect
16 35 (4.26%) Lead Developer
17 33 (4.02%) Database Engineer
17 33 (4.02%) Ruby Developer
18 32 (3.90%) DBA
19 29 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (25.09%) React
2 196 (23.87%) Terraform
3 179 (21.80%) Node.js
4 149 (18.15%) RESTful
5 130 (15.83%) REST
6 116 (14.13%) Kafka
7 113 (13.76%) Spring
8 109 (13.28%) Spring Boot
9 83 (10.11%) .NET
10 73 (8.89%) CSS
11 67 (8.16%) Next.js
12 64 (7.80%) Ruby on Rails
13 61 (7.43%) HTML
14 55 (6.70%) FastAPI
15 52 (6.33%) RabbitMQ
16 50 (6.09%) Jest
17 46 (5.60%) JSON
18 45 (5.48%) AngularJS
19 40 (4.87%) JPA
20 38 (4.63%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 172 (20.95%) Cloud Native
2 128 (15.59%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.90%) Blog
5 30 (3.65%) AI Agents
5 30 (3.65%) Low-Code
6 29 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (3.41%) Replication
8 25 (3.05%) Video\Live Streaming
9 24 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (2.68%) Onboarding
12 20 (2.44%) Virtual Team
13 17 (2.07%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.83%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.71%) Public Cloud
16 12 (1.46%) Management Information System
16 12 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 120 (14.62%) Linux
2 39 (4.75%) Windows
3 20 (2.44%) Unix
4 15 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.73%) Android
6 6 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.24%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) AIX
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (49.33%) CI/CD
2 295 (35.93%) Agile
3 291 (35.44%) Software Engineering
4 242 (29.48%) AI
5 240 (29.23%) Microservices
6 228 (27.77%) DevOps
7 225 (27.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 194 (23.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 178 (21.68%) Observability
10 160 (19.49%) Mentoring
11 156 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
12 150 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 149 (18.15%) Containerisation
14 147 (17.90%) Test Automation
15 114 (13.89%) Event-Driven
16 111 (13.52%) Clean Code
17 102 (12.42%) Scrum
18 96 (11.69%) API Design
19 87 (10.60%) Decision-Making
20 86 (10.48%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 335 (40.80%) Python
2 238 (28.99%) SQL
3 208 (25.33%) Java
4 181 (22.05%) JavaScript
5 157 (19.12%) TypeScript
6 81 (9.87%) C#
7 66 (8.04%) Ruby
8 64 (7.80%) Go
9 48 (5.85%) Bash
10 27 (3.29%) PowerShell
11 24 (2.92%) PHP
12 20 (2.44%) Scala
13 17 (2.07%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.46%) C++
15 10 (1.22%) Groovy
15 10 (1.22%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.22%) RPG
16 6 (0.73%) Perl
17 5 (0.61%) Korn
18 4 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 130 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 101 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 94 (11.45%) Degree
4 30 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.92%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (0.97%) PhD
9 6 (0.73%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.37%) CISSP
10 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.24%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.92%) QA
2 56 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.53%) GDPR
4 25 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.85%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.73%) WCAG
8 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.49%) SLA
9 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
10 1 (0.12%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 274 (33.37%) Docker
2 12 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
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 Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 229 (27.89%) Kubernetes
2 84 (10.23%) Grafana
3 64 (7.80%) Ansible
4 57 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.38%) Argo
6 13 (1.58%) Kibana
7 12 (1.46%) Rancher
8 7 (0.85%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.73%) Istio
9 6 (0.73%) logstash
9 6 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.73%) Puppet
10 5 (0.61%) Packer
11 4 (0.49%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.37%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.37%) Plesk
12 3 (0.37%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.24%) Bugsnag
13 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 89 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.14%) Oracle
3 32 (3.90%) Google
4 28 (3.41%) Databricks
4 28 (3.41%) Dynatrace
5 26 (3.17%) OpenAI
6 25 (3.05%) Splunk
7 18 (2.19%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.71%) IBM
8 14 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.10%) Mistral
10 8 (0.97%) Informatica
11 5 (0.61%) Dell
12 4 (0.49%) ESRI
12 4 (0.49%) Meraki
12 4 (0.49%) Netezza
12 4 (0.49%) Remedy
12 4 (0.49%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.49%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.49%) VMware