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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 221 158
Rank change year-on-year -43 -63 +43
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 789 697 1,362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.40% 1.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.84% 9.31% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 584 499 859
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +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 £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 8,926 7,489 12,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.29% 15.02% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,995 4,784 8,438
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £113,750
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 21 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 16 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 21 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 -39 673 £70,000 -6.67% 184
UK excluding London -64 387 £65,000 +4.00% 133
Work from Home +16 385 £67,500 -18.18% 109
London -77 295 £85,000 -19.05% 87
South East -16 127 £62,500 +13.64% 48
North of England -3 125 £65,000 -3.70% 22
North West -14 58 £65,000 -3.70% 13
South West -56 46 £62,500 +19.05% 18
North East -24 40 £65,000 +26.83% 3
Midlands -51 31 £72,155 +3.08% 24
East of England -20 29 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Yorkshire -37 27 £69,308 +2.68% 6
West Midlands -46 22 £81,887 +12.95% 11
Wales -46 19 £70,000 -9.68% 6
Scotland -1 17 £65,000 -3.70% 6
East Midlands -20 9 £60,000 +9.09% 12

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 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (3.93%) Apache
3 27 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.30%) Confluence
5 15 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.14%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.89%) Camunda
8 6 (0.76%) WordPress
9 5 (0.63%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.38%) CMS
10 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.25%) Luigi
11 2 (0.25%) Tornado
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Finacle
2 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 458 (58.05%) AWS
2 278 (35.23%) Azure
3 127 (16.10%) GitHub
4 118 (14.96%) GCP
5 102 (12.93%) Serverless
6 76 (9.63%) Amazon S3
7 74 (9.38%) SaaS
8 68 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
10 53 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
12 40 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (4.94%) GitHub Copilot
14 34 (4.31%) Power Platform
15 29 (3.68%) Azure AKS
16 28 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
17 25 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (2.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.44%) Broadband
2 14 (1.77%) Firewall
3 10 (1.27%) DNS
4 8 (1.01%) DHCP
5 7 (0.89%) iSCSI
5 7 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (0.89%) SAN
5 7 (0.89%) SMS
6 6 (0.76%) AMQP
7 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.63%) VPN
8 4 (0.51%) HTTP
9 2 (0.25%) MQTT
9 2 (0.25%) Network Security
9 2 (0.25%) PBX
9 2 (0.25%) VLAN
10 1 (0.13%) Internet
10 1 (0.13%) SSL
10 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (26.36%) MongoDB
2 189 (23.95%) MySQL
3 143 (18.12%) Relational Database
4 134 (16.98%) SQL Server
5 101 (12.80%) NoSQL
6 86 (10.90%) Redis
7 47 (5.96%) DynamoDB
8 37 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (3.17%) Power BI
12 22 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (2.79%) Metadata
13 20 (2.53%) Big Data
14 17 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
14 17 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
15 15 (1.90%) GIS
15 15 (1.90%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.90%) Pinecone
16 14 (1.77%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 177 (22.43%) Git
2 57 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 56 (7.10%) GitLab
4 35 (4.44%) JIRA
5 29 (3.68%) JUnit
6 28 (3.55%) Cypress.io
7 23 (2.92%) Mockito
8 13 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.39%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.39%) Vite
10 10 (1.27%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.27%) JMeter
11 8 (1.01%) Maven
12 7 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.89%) Mocha
12 7 (0.89%) RSpec
12 7 (0.89%) Storybook
13 6 (0.76%) Selenium
14 5 (0.63%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.63%) Gatling
General
1 190 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 104 (13.18%) Finance
2 104 (13.18%) Public Sector
3 76 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (5.07%) Law
6 37 (4.69%) Games
7 31 (3.93%) Banking
8 23 (2.92%) Legal
9 20 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.28%) Retail
11 17 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.77%) Tech for Good
13 13 (1.65%) Advertising
13 13 (1.65%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.39%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.39%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.27%) Health Technology
16 9 (1.14%) Aviation
17 8 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 275 (34.85%) Developer
2 214 (27.12%) Senior
3 156 (19.77%) Software Engineer
4 126 (15.97%) Lead
5 91 (11.53%) Full-Stack Developer
6 68 (8.62%) Python Engineer
7 61 (7.73%) Senior Software Engineer
8 60 (7.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 53 (6.72%) Data Engineer
10 49 (6.21%) Senior Developer
11 48 (6.08%) Python Developer
12 46 (5.83%) Architect
13 44 (5.58%) Lead Developer
14 42 (5.32%) Java Developer
15 41 (5.20%) DevOps Engineer
16 38 (4.82%) Software Developer
17 34 (4.31%) Lead Software Engineer
17 34 (4.31%) Ruby Developer
18 28 (3.55%) Database Engineer
19 26 (3.30%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (26.36%) React
2 184 (23.32%) Node.js
3 165 (20.91%) Terraform
4 145 (18.38%) RESTful
5 120 (15.21%) REST
6 102 (12.93%) Spring
7 98 (12.42%) Spring Boot
8 91 (11.53%) Kafka
9 77 (9.76%) CSS
10 70 (8.87%) .NET
11 68 (8.62%) Next.js
12 66 (8.37%) Ruby on Rails
13 64 (8.11%) HTML
14 56 (7.10%) FastAPI
15 50 (6.34%) AngularJS
16 48 (6.08%) JSON
17 47 (5.96%) Jest
18 39 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
19 35 (4.44%) Django
19 35 (4.44%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 155 (19.65%) Cloud Native
2 107 (13.56%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.07%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.69%) Low-Code
5 32 (4.06%) AI Agents
5 32 (4.06%) Video\Live Streaming
6 26 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.66%) Replication
9 20 (2.53%) Algorithms
10 19 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (2.15%) Blog
11 17 (2.15%) Data Structures
11 17 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.77%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.65%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (1.52%) IoT
14 12 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 113 (14.32%) Linux
2 40 (5.07%) Windows
3 17 (2.15%) Unix
3 17 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.76%) Android
5 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) Debian
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (46.39%) CI/CD
2 289 (36.63%) Agile
3 280 (35.49%) Software Engineering
4 237 (30.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 231 (29.28%) Microservices
6 223 (28.26%) AI
7 206 (26.11%) DevOps
8 176 (22.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 156 (19.77%) Mentoring
10 147 (18.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 147 (18.63%) Observability
11 145 (18.38%) Containerisation
12 142 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
13 129 (16.35%) Test Automation
14 104 (13.18%) API Design
15 98 (12.42%) Clean Code
16 95 (12.04%) Event-Driven
17 93 (11.79%) Scrum
18 92 (11.66%) Data Modelling
19 87 (11.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 331 (41.95%) Python
2 217 (27.50%) SQL
3 191 (24.21%) Java
4 187 (23.70%) JavaScript
5 159 (20.15%) TypeScript
6 72 (9.13%) C#
7 68 (8.62%) Ruby
8 62 (7.86%) Go
9 34 (4.31%) Bash
10 29 (3.68%) PowerShell
11 22 (2.79%) PHP
12 19 (2.41%) Scala
13 14 (1.77%) C++
14 12 (1.52%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.27%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.27%) RPG
16 7 (0.89%) Perl
17 5 (0.63%) Korn
18 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 103 (13.05%) Degree
3 85 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 31 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.04%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.89%) PhD
11 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.38%) RHCE
14 2 (0.25%) CISSP
14 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.25%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.73%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.97%) QA
3 30 (3.80%) GDPR
4 21 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.76%) SLA
7 5 (0.63%) WCAG
8 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.25%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 242 (30.67%) Docker
2 19 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.01%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Samba
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 206 (26.11%) Kubernetes
2 57 (7.22%) Ansible
3 45 (5.70%) Grafana
4 31 (3.93%) Argo
5 29 (3.68%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.27%) Kibana
7 6 (0.76%) Istio
7 6 (0.76%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.76%) Puppet
8 5 (0.63%) Data Guard
8 5 (0.63%) Packer
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.38%) Plesk
10 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.25%) logstash
11 2 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 84 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.63%) Oracle
3 41 (5.20%) Google
4 26 (3.30%) Databricks
5 24 (3.04%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.28%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.15%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.03%) Splunk
9 14 (1.77%) IBM
10 8 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.89%) Dell
11 7 (0.89%) Pega
12 6 (0.76%) Informatica
12 6 (0.76%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.63%) Meraki
14 4 (0.51%) Netezza
14 4 (0.51%) Remedy
14 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
15 3 (0.38%) Atlassian
15 3 (0.38%) New Relic