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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 224 168
Rank change year-on-year -41 -56 +32
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 753 716 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.46% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.57% 9.44% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 583 525 930
10th Percentile £42,100 £43,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £85,125 £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 8,791 7,588 14,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 15.45% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,867 4,895 9,801
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,182 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +1.97% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -40 647 £69,310 -7.59% 293
Work from Home +21 380 £67,500 -15.63% 154
UK excluding London -57 377 £62,500 -3.85% 159
London -78 277 £85,000 -17.87% 179
South East -24 125 £59,750 +3.91% 52
North of England -8 123 £65,000 -3.70% 42
North West -18 52 £65,000 -3.70% 25
South West -48 48 £62,500 +4.17% 18
North East -22 38 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire -34 33 £65,000 -3.70% 12
East of England -17 27 £52,500 +64.06% 7
Midlands -53 25 £75,000 +11.01% 16
West Midlands -35 19 £80,000 +18.30% 9
Scotland 0 17 £65,000 -3.70% 16
Wales -52 16 £70,000 -9.68% 3
East Midlands -35 6 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Northern Ireland -73 1 £73,801 +34.18% 6

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 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 24 (3.19%) Confluence
5 23 (3.05%) Apache
6 12 (1.59%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.80%) Camunda
7 6 (0.80%) WordPress
8 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.40%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Documentum
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (1.73%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 435 (57.77%) AWS
2 290 (38.51%) Azure
3 129 (17.13%) GCP
4 100 (13.28%) GitHub
5 97 (12.88%) Serverless
6 69 (9.16%) Amazon S3
6 69 (9.16%) SaaS
7 65 (8.63%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
11 44 (5.84%) Amazon SQS
12 42 (5.58%) Power Platform
13 41 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
16 28 (3.72%) Azure AKS
16 28 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
17 25 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (2.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.65%) Broadband
2 15 (1.99%) Firewall
3 14 (1.86%) DNS
4 12 (1.59%) DHCP
4 12 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.06%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.06%) SAN
5 8 (1.06%) VPN
6 4 (0.53%) HTTP
6 4 (0.53%) SMS
6 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.40%) AMQP
7 3 (0.40%) Network Security
8 2 (0.27%) MQTT
8 2 (0.27%) PBX
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
9 1 (0.13%) LTE
9 1 (0.13%) SSL
9 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (26.96%) MongoDB
2 189 (25.10%) MySQL
3 121 (16.07%) Relational Database
3 121 (16.07%) SQL Server
4 110 (14.61%) NoSQL
5 87 (11.55%) Redis
6 35 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (4.65%) DynamoDB
7 33 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
8 32 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (4.12%) Power BI
10 22 (2.92%) Metadata
11 21 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (2.79%) Big Data
12 19 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (1.99%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.86%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.86%) DTS
15 14 (1.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 155 (20.58%) Git
2 54 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.77%) GitLab
4 33 (4.38%) JIRA
5 26 (3.45%) JUnit
6 22 (2.92%) Cypress.io
7 21 (2.79%) Mockito
8 13 (1.73%) Bitbucket
9 12 (1.59%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.46%) Vite
11 10 (1.33%) JMeter
12 9 (1.20%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.06%) Maven
14 6 (0.80%) RSpec
14 6 (0.80%) Selenium
15 5 (0.66%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.66%) Gatling
15 5 (0.66%) Storybook
16 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.53%) minitest
General
1 158 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 105 (13.94%) Public Sector
3 100 (13.28%) Finance
4 71 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.65%) Games
7 26 (3.45%) Law
8 22 (2.92%) Banking
9 20 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (2.52%) Legal
10 19 (2.52%) Retail
11 17 (2.26%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.12%) Front Office
13 15 (1.99%) Advertising
14 11 (1.46%) Legal Technology
15 10 (1.33%) Tech for Good
15 10 (1.33%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.20%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.20%) Aviation
17 8 (1.06%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 258 (34.26%) Developer
2 184 (24.44%) Senior
3 147 (19.52%) Software Engineer
4 129 (17.13%) Lead
5 85 (11.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 66 (8.76%) Python Engineer
7 55 (7.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 50 (6.64%) Lead Developer
9 49 (6.51%) Data Engineer
9 49 (6.51%) Python Developer
10 45 (5.98%) Architect
11 42 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
12 41 (5.44%) DevOps Engineer
12 41 (5.44%) Lead Software Engineer
13 40 (5.31%) Java Developer
14 39 (5.18%) Senior Developer
15 36 (4.78%) Software Developer
16 30 (3.98%) Java Engineer
16 30 (3.98%) Ruby Developer
17 23 (3.05%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (26.03%) React
2 178 (23.64%) Node.js
3 144 (19.12%) RESTful
4 107 (14.21%) REST
5 94 (12.48%) Spring
6 90 (11.95%) Spring Boot
7 81 (10.76%) Kafka
8 66 (8.76%) CSS
9 61 (8.10%) Next.js
10 60 (7.97%) FastAPI
11 58 (7.70%) HTML
11 58 (7.70%) Ruby on Rails
12 54 (7.17%) .NET
13 53 (7.04%) JSON
14 43 (5.71%) AngularJS
15 37 (4.91%) Jest
16 36 (4.78%) Django
17 33 (4.38%) Vue
18 30 (3.98%) Hibernate
18 30 (3.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 153 (20.32%) Cloud Native
2 94 (12.48%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.18%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.25%) Onboarding
4 32 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.25%) Video\Live Streaming
5 27 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.19%) AI Agents
7 22 (2.92%) Data Structures
8 21 (2.79%) Algorithms
9 18 (2.39%) Replication
10 16 (2.12%) Derivative
10 16 (2.12%) Equities
10 16 (2.12%) Fixed Income
11 15 (1.99%) Blog
11 15 (1.99%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 108 (14.34%) Linux
2 42 (5.58%) Windows
3 21 (2.79%) Unix
4 16 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.40%) CentOS
8 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.27%) Android
9 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (45.02%) CI/CD
2 281 (37.32%) Agile
3 261 (34.66%) Software Engineering
4 222 (29.48%) Full-Stack Development
4 222 (29.48%) Microservices
5 195 (25.90%) AI
6 194 (25.76%) DevOps
7 166 (22.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 162 (21.51%) Mentoring
9 141 (18.73%) Containerisation
10 137 (18.19%) Observability
11 131 (17.40%) Test Automation
12 129 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 127 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
14 96 (12.75%) API Design
15 92 (12.22%) Analytics
16 89 (11.82%) Clean Code
17 87 (11.55%) Data Modelling
18 83 (11.02%) Scrum
19 77 (10.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 329 (43.69%) Python
2 219 (29.08%) SQL
3 197 (26.16%) Java
4 179 (23.77%) JavaScript
5 145 (19.26%) TypeScript
6 62 (8.23%) C#
7 61 (8.10%) Ruby
8 56 (7.44%) Go
9 41 (5.44%) PowerShell
10 36 (4.78%) Bash
11 26 (3.45%) PHP
12 18 (2.39%) Scala
13 15 (1.99%) C++
14 12 (1.59%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.33%) RPG
15 10 (1.33%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.06%) Perl
17 6 (0.80%) Korn
17 6 (0.80%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 108 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 83 (11.02%) Degree
3 76 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.80%) PhD
10 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.40%) RHCE
12 2 (0.27%) CISSP
12 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.27%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.27%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.70%) Data Quality
2 46 (6.11%) QA
3 25 (3.32%) GDPR
4 17 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.53%) WCAG
7 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.40%) SLA
8 2 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.27%) NCSC
8 2 (0.27%) 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
1 223 (29.61%) Docker
2 26 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 2 (0.27%) Samba
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 196 (26.03%) Kubernetes
2 153 (20.32%) Terraform
3 43 (5.71%) Ansible
4 39 (5.18%) Grafana
5 29 (3.85%) Argo
6 27 (3.59%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.46%) Kibana
8 6 (0.80%) Istio
8 6 (0.80%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.80%) Puppet
9 5 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.53%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.53%) Packer
11 3 (0.40%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.40%) Plesk
11 3 (0.40%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (11.02%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.43%) Oracle
3 47 (6.24%) Google
4 23 (3.05%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.52%) Databricks
5 19 (2.52%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.39%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.86%) Splunk
8 13 (1.73%) IBM
9 8 (1.06%) Dell
9 8 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.93%) Pega
11 6 (0.80%) Informatica
11 6 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.66%) Meraki
13 4 (0.53%) Confluent
13 4 (0.53%) Netezza
13 4 (0.53%) Remedy
14 3 (0.40%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.40%) UiPath