PostgreSQL Job Trends

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 138 190
Rank change year-on-year -133 +52 0
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 508 1,121 1,199
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 2.25% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.45% 12.45% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 346 524 1,006
10th Percentile £41,250 £49,307 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £119,625 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +6.23%

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 6,816 9,001 14,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.22% 18.08% 19.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,169 5,094 11,486
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -138 431 £75,000 -6.25% 298
London -66 241 £90,000 +2.86% 135
Work from Home -99 233 £70,000 - 181
UK excluding London -180 214 £60,000 -7.69% 213
North of England -18 81 £70,000 +1.00% 64
South East -118 49 £55,000 -31.25% 49
Yorkshire -12 39 £60,000 +8.91% 18
North West -27 33 £85,000 +22.57% 36
South West -58 26 £62,500 -5.66% 29
Midlands -22 25 £55,200 -15.08% 29
West Midlands +2 16 £45,000 -30.77% 19
Scotland -44 15 £73,801 +27.24% 24
East of England -44 15 £42,500 -26.09% 16
North East -6 9 £53,850 -22.30% 11
East Midlands -30 9 £65,000 +8.33% 10
Wales -28 5 £73,801 +13.54% 5
Northern Ireland -24 3 £73,801 +25.62% 1

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 34 (6.69%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.95%) Confluence
4 13 (2.56%) OpenStack
4 13 (2.56%) Tomcat
4 13 (2.56%) WebSphere
5 12 (2.36%) WebSphere Application Server
6 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.57%) ArcGIS
8 7 (1.38%) Apache
9 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.79%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.59%) CMS
10 3 (0.59%) nginx
10 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.39%) Camunda
11 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.39%) WildFly
12 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (1.97%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 340 (66.93%) AWS
2 178 (35.04%) Azure
3 131 (25.79%) GCP
4 92 (18.11%) Serverless
5 62 (12.20%) Amazon ECS
6 59 (11.61%) Amazon S3
6 59 (11.61%) GitHub
7 54 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (9.65%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (9.25%) dbt
10 43 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (8.46%) SaaS
11 36 (7.09%) Amazon SQS
12 34 (6.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (5.51%) Power Platform
15 25 (4.92%) Amazon ECR
16 23 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (4.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 21 (4.13%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.51%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.56%) SSL
3 11 (2.17%) VPN
4 10 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.38%) Firewall
5 7 (1.38%) Internet
6 6 (1.18%) DNS
6 6 (1.18%) Network Security
7 5 (0.98%) DHCP
7 5 (0.98%) VLAN
8 3 (0.59%) MQTT
8 3 (0.59%) WAN
9 2 (0.39%) AMQP
9 2 (0.39%) BGP
9 2 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.39%) HTTP
9 2 (0.39%) OSPF
9 2 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.39%) RTMP
9 2 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (23.62%) SQL Server
2 98 (19.29%) Relational Database
3 93 (18.31%) MySQL
4 91 (17.91%) MongoDB
5 72 (14.17%) NoSQL
6 46 (9.06%) Redis
7 35 (6.89%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (6.69%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (6.50%) DB2
10 31 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (6.10%) DynamoDB
11 25 (4.92%) Power BI
12 23 (4.53%) RDBMS
13 18 (3.54%) Apache Cassandra
13 18 (3.54%) Apache Iceberg
14 15 (2.95%) Apache Arrow
14 15 (2.95%) Big Data
14 15 (2.95%) Oracle Database
15 14 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (2.76%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 107 (21.06%) Git
2 84 (16.54%) Jenkins
3 32 (6.30%) JIRA
4 30 (5.91%) GitLab
5 28 (5.51%) Cucumber
6 27 (5.31%) JUnit
7 26 (5.12%) Selenium
8 22 (4.33%) Bitbucket
9 21 (4.13%) TeamCity
10 18 (3.54%) Cypress.io
11 14 (2.76%) JMeter
12 13 (2.56%) Mockito
13 7 (1.38%) Maven
14 6 (1.18%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.18%) Subversion
14 6 (1.18%) Vite
15 5 (0.98%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.79%) Gradle
16 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
17 3 (0.59%) MLflow
General
1 138 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 114 (22.44%) Finance
3 53 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.86%) Banking
5 38 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 35 (6.89%) Law
7 30 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (4.33%) Retail
9 19 (3.74%) Front Office
10 11 (2.17%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.77%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.18%) Marketing
13 6 (1.18%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.98%) Advertising
14 5 (0.98%) Legal
15 4 (0.79%) Back Office
15 4 (0.79%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 182 (35.83%) Developer
2 98 (19.29%) Senior
3 89 (17.52%) Software Engineer
4 69 (13.58%) Full-Stack Developer
5 57 (11.22%) Java Developer
6 54 (10.63%) Lead
7 31 (6.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 30 (5.91%) Python Developer
9 29 (5.71%) Java Engineer
10 26 (5.12%) Data Engineer
10 26 (5.12%) Python Engineer
11 24 (4.72%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (4.33%) Architect
12 22 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (3.94%) Senior Developer
15 19 (3.74%) AWS Developer
15 19 (3.74%) Python Software Engineer
16 18 (3.54%) Software Developer
17 17 (3.35%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (33.27%) React
2 106 (20.87%) Node.js
3 85 (16.73%) Spring
4 79 (15.55%) Spring Boot
5 73 (14.37%) RESTful
6 69 (13.58%) REST
7 66 (12.99%) Django
8 54 (10.63%) AngularJS
9 52 (10.24%) FastAPI
10 51 (10.04%) Kafka
11 50 (9.84%) HTML
12 47 (9.25%) .NET
13 45 (8.86%) CSS
14 39 (7.68%) Vue
15 36 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (5.91%) Flask
17 29 (5.71%) Web Services
18 27 (5.31%) Next.js
19 26 (5.12%) JSON
20 25 (4.92%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 69 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 58 (11.42%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
3 24 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.54%) Equities
5 18 (3.54%) Fixed Income
6 17 (3.35%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.95%) Blog
8 15 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (2.36%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.77%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.77%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.77%) Replication
13 6 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.18%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 90 (17.72%) Linux
2 40 (7.87%) Unix
3 30 (5.91%) Windows
4 17 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.77%) Android
6 9 (1.77%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.98%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.59%) Debian
10 2 (0.39%) VMS
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.20%) CentOS
11 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (42.52%) CI/CD
2 192 (37.80%) Agile
3 162 (31.89%) Microservices
4 161 (31.69%) Software Engineering
5 135 (26.57%) DevOps
6 134 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (24.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 91 (17.91%) Containerisation
9 86 (16.93%) Test Automation
10 82 (16.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 74 (14.57%) AI
12 73 (14.37%) Fintech
13 69 (13.58%) Mentoring
14 63 (12.40%) Scrum
15 60 (11.81%) Data Modelling
16 59 (11.61%) TDD
17 57 (11.22%) Technical Leadership
18 55 (10.83%) Clean Code
19 50 (9.84%) BDD
20 48 (9.45%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 237 (46.65%) Python
2 175 (34.45%) Java
3 161 (31.69%) SQL
4 146 (28.74%) JavaScript
5 109 (21.46%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.66%) C#
7 30 (5.91%) Go
8 24 (4.72%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.74%) PHP
9 19 (3.74%) Ruby
10 15 (2.95%) C
11 14 (2.76%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.36%) T-SQL
13 11 (2.17%) Delphi
14 9 (1.77%) Rust
15 7 (1.38%) C++
16 6 (1.18%) Bash
17 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.79%) Perl
18 3 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 89 (17.52%) Security Cleared
2 67 (13.19%) Degree
3 59 (11.61%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (5.12%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.36%) AWS Certified Developer
7 12 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.39%) HNC
11 2 (0.39%) HND
11 2 (0.39%) MCSA
11 2 (0.39%) MCSE
11 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.35%) QA
3 15 (2.95%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.95%) SLA
4 13 (2.56%) GDPR
4 13 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.59%) SEPA
6 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.39%) PSD2
7 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.20%) GAAP
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 185 (36.42%) Docker
2 12 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.39%) NFS
5 1 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.20%) pfSense
5 1 (0.20%) Samba
Systems Management
1 170 (33.46%) Kubernetes
2 106 (20.87%) Terraform
3 40 (7.87%) Ansible
4 34 (6.69%) Grafana
5 16 (3.15%) Kibana
6 15 (2.95%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.36%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (2.17%) Argo
9 4 (0.79%) Control-M
9 4 (0.79%) Nagios
9 4 (0.79%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.59%) Puppet
10 3 (0.59%) Rancher
11 2 (0.39%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.20%) Ambari
12 1 (0.20%) Podman
12 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (14.76%) Oracle
2 36 (7.09%) Google
3 29 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.33%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.74%) Informatica
6 17 (3.35%) IBM
7 15 (2.95%) Atlassian
8 14 (2.76%) OpenAI
9 13 (2.56%) Talend
10 11 (2.17%) Splunk
11 10 (1.97%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.97%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.57%) ESRI
13 6 (1.18%) SAP
14 5 (0.98%) VMware
15 4 (0.79%) Databricks
15 4 (0.79%) Pega
15 4 (0.79%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.79%) WSO2
16 3 (0.59%) Revolut