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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 240 142
Rank change year-on-year -6 -98 +59
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 858 616 1,319
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.24% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.88% 8.76% 11.62%
Number of salaries quoted 617 425 651
10th Percentile £44,128 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £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 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%

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 8,685 7,032 11,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.35% 14.16% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,948 4,374 6,528
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
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 £87,500
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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -30 729 £70,000 -12.50% 1,120
UK excluding London -21 402 £65,000 - 421
Work from Home +35 400 £67,500 -20.59% 482
London -58 337 £82,500 -21.43% 785
South East +3 134 £70,000 +7.69% 103
North of England -9 123 £65,000 -3.70% 111
North West -5 56 £61,250 -9.26% 62
South West -58 50 £82,500 +52.78% 38
Midlands -32 41 £75,000 +7.14% 46
North East -39 40 £65,000 +26.83% 19
West Midlands -44 31 £85,000 +17.24% 32
East of England -29 29 £52,500 +72.13% 43
Yorkshire -26 27 £65,000 -7.14% 35
Wales -42 26 £64,000 +2.40% 14
Scotland -10 11 £65,000 -3.70% 43
East Midlands -27 10 £60,000 +20.00% 14
Northern Ireland -84 1 - - 26

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 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.03%) Apache
2 26 (3.03%) Confluence
3 25 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.82%) Camunda
5 7 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.70%) WordPress
7 4 (0.47%) nginx
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.35%) CMS
8 3 (0.35%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) Luigi
9 2 (0.23%) Tornado
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Finacle
2 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 507 (59.09%) AWS
2 291 (33.92%) Azure
3 161 (18.76%) GitHub
4 125 (14.57%) GCP
5 103 (12.00%) Serverless
6 89 (10.37%) SaaS
7 76 (8.86%) Amazon S3
8 74 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
9 71 (8.28%) GitHub Actions
10 65 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
11 57 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
12 56 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
13 55 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
14 48 (5.59%) GitHub Copilot
15 44 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
16 35 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (3.73%) Azure AKS
18 31 (3.61%) Power Platform
19 27 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
20 23 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.26%) Broadband
2 17 (1.98%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.63%) SMS
4 13 (1.52%) AMQP
4 13 (1.52%) Firewall
4 13 (1.52%) VPN
5 11 (1.28%) DNS
6 8 (0.93%) BGP
6 8 (0.93%) VLAN
7 6 (0.70%) HTTP
7 6 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.58%) DHCP
8 5 (0.58%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.58%) SAN
9 3 (0.35%) 4G
9 3 (0.35%) 5G
9 3 (0.35%) Network Security
9 3 (0.35%) SSH
10 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
11 1 (0.12%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (25.06%) MongoDB
2 191 (22.26%) MySQL
3 145 (16.90%) Relational Database
4 139 (16.20%) SQL Server
5 113 (13.17%) Redis
6 101 (11.77%) NoSQL
7 59 (6.88%) Amazon RDS
8 48 (5.59%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (5.24%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (2.68%) Power BI
13 22 (2.56%) Big Data
14 20 (2.33%) Metadata
14 20 (2.33%) Pinecone
15 18 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (2.10%) Oracle Database
16 16 (1.86%) Data Lake
17 15 (1.75%) Chroma
18 14 (1.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 207 (24.13%) Git
2 84 (9.79%) Jenkins
3 72 (8.39%) GitLab
4 29 (3.38%) JIRA
5 28 (3.26%) Cypress.io
5 28 (3.26%) JUnit
6 26 (3.03%) TeamCity
7 21 (2.45%) Mockito
8 13 (1.52%) Claude Code
8 13 (1.52%) JMeter
9 12 (1.40%) Vite
10 10 (1.17%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.05%) Selenium
12 7 (0.82%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.82%) Maven
12 7 (0.82%) Mocha
12 7 (0.82%) RSpec
12 7 (0.82%) Storybook
13 5 (0.58%) Appium
13 5 (0.58%) Eclipse
General
1 208 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 115 (13.40%) Public Sector
3 113 (13.17%) Finance
4 85 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (6.76%) Banking
7 54 (6.29%) Law
8 34 (3.96%) Retail
9 27 (3.15%) Games
10 23 (2.68%) Legal
11 22 (2.56%) Tech for Good
12 16 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.75%) Health Technology
13 15 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.63%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.52%) Legal Technology
16 11 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (1.17%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.93%) Back Office
18 8 (0.93%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 291 (33.92%) Developer
2 255 (29.72%) Senior
3 174 (20.28%) Software Engineer
4 119 (13.87%) Lead
5 85 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
6 72 (8.39%) Senior Developer
7 68 (7.93%) Senior Software Engineer
8 63 (7.34%) Python Engineer
9 57 (6.64%) Data Engineer
10 53 (6.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 52 (6.06%) Java Developer
12 51 (5.94%) Python Developer
13 50 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
14 46 (5.36%) Software Developer
15 42 (4.90%) DBA
16 39 (4.55%) Architect
17 35 (4.08%) Lead Developer
18 34 (3.96%) Database Engineer
19 33 (3.85%) Ruby Developer
20 31 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (25.41%) React
2 212 (24.71%) Terraform
3 181 (21.10%) Node.js
4 155 (18.07%) RESTful
5 132 (15.38%) REST
6 119 (13.87%) Kafka
6 119 (13.87%) Spring
7 114 (13.29%) Spring Boot
8 84 (9.79%) .NET
9 73 (8.51%) CSS
10 69 (8.04%) Next.js
11 63 (7.34%) Ruby on Rails
12 62 (7.23%) FastAPI
13 60 (6.99%) HTML
14 55 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
15 52 (6.06%) Jest
16 47 (5.48%) AngularJS
17 46 (5.36%) JSON
18 42 (4.90%) JPA
19 41 (4.78%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 180 (20.98%) Cloud Native
2 135 (15.73%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.55%) Blog
5 36 (4.20%) AI Agents
6 30 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (3.50%) Low-Code
7 28 (3.26%) Replication
8 25 (2.91%) Video\Live Streaming
9 24 (2.80%) Onboarding
9 24 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (2.56%) Virtual Team
12 17 (1.98%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (1.86%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.75%) Public Cloud
15 14 (1.63%) Management Information System
16 13 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
16 13 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 125 (14.57%) Linux
2 40 (4.66%) Windows
3 20 (2.33%) Unix
4 15 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.70%) Android
6 6 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) AIX
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (49.53%) CI/CD
2 317 (36.95%) Software Engineering
3 304 (35.43%) Agile
4 252 (29.37%) AI
5 250 (29.14%) Microservices
6 231 (26.92%) DevOps
7 227 (26.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 203 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 198 (23.08%) Observability
10 169 (19.70%) Mentoring
11 165 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
12 155 (18.07%) Test Automation
13 153 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 149 (17.37%) Containerisation
15 119 (13.87%) Clean Code
16 117 (13.64%) Event-Driven
17 98 (11.42%) Scrum
18 96 (11.19%) API Design
19 89 (10.37%) Analytics
19 89 (10.37%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 346 (40.33%) Python
2 246 (28.67%) SQL
3 223 (25.99%) Java
4 184 (21.45%) JavaScript
5 168 (19.58%) TypeScript
6 84 (9.79%) C#
7 70 (8.16%) Go
8 65 (7.58%) Ruby
9 52 (6.06%) Bash
10 28 (3.26%) PHP
11 26 (3.03%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.33%) Scala
13 17 (1.98%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.52%) C++
15 12 (1.40%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.28%) Groovy
17 10 (1.17%) RPG
18 5 (0.58%) Korn
18 5 (0.58%) Perl
19 4 (0.47%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 139 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.05%) SC Cleared
3 94 (10.96%) Degree
4 31 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 23 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.05%) PhD
10 7 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.58%) CISSP
12 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.35%) CCSP
13 3 (0.35%) CISM
14 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.93%) QA
2 54 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.26%) GDPR
4 23 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.40%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.58%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 285 (33.22%) Docker
2 12 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
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 Machines
Systems Management
1 245 (28.55%) Kubernetes
2 96 (11.19%) Grafana
3 66 (7.69%) Ansible
4 63 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.31%) Argo
6 14 (1.63%) Kibana
7 12 (1.40%) Rancher
8 8 (0.93%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.82%) Istio
10 6 (0.70%) logstash
10 6 (0.70%) Packer
10 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.70%) Puppet
11 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.47%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.35%) Cilium
13 3 (0.35%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.23%) Bugsnag
14 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 85 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.86%) Oracle
3 40 (4.66%) Google
4 34 (3.96%) OpenAI
5 31 (3.61%) Databricks
6 29 (3.38%) Dynatrace
7 26 (3.03%) Splunk
8 18 (2.10%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.75%) Mistral
9 15 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.63%) IBM
11 8 (0.93%) Informatica
12 5 (0.58%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.58%) Dell
12 5 (0.58%) VMware
13 4 (0.47%) Netezza
13 4 (0.47%) Remedy
13 4 (0.47%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.47%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.35%) ESRI