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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 228 165
Rank change year-on-year -27 -63 +42
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 750 713 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.45% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.59% 9.39% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 579 524 954
10th Percentile £42,400 £42,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £100,250 £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 8,736 7,596 14,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.69% 15.47% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,835 4,900 10,021
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 24 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 24 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 -47 645 £69,310 -7.59% 341
Work from Home +27 381 £67,500 -15.63% 176
UK excluding London -50 375 £62,500 -3.85% 184
London -68 276 £85,000 -18.47% 204
South East -1 124 £59,500 +3.48% 54
North of England -17 122 £65,000 -3.70% 59
North West -16 51 £65,000 -3.70% 38
South West -43 48 £62,500 +4.17% 21
North East -20 38 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Yorkshire -28 33 £65,000 -3.70% 15
East of England -17 28 £52,500 +66.67% 8
Midlands -49 25 £75,000 +11.01% 17
West Midlands -44 19 £80,000 +18.30% 9
Scotland -4 16 £65,000 -3.70% 17
Wales -53 16 £70,000 -9.68% 3
East Midlands -30 6 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Northern Ireland -72 1 £73,801 +34.18% 7

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 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.20%) Confluence
4 23 (3.07%) Apache
5 12 (1.60%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.80%) Camunda
6 6 (0.80%) WordPress
7 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Documentum
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) JBoss
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
10 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
1 433 (57.73%) AWS
2 286 (38.13%) Azure
3 128 (17.07%) GCP
4 97 (12.93%) GitHub
4 97 (12.93%) Serverless
5 70 (9.33%) Amazon S3
6 69 (9.20%) SaaS
7 65 (8.67%) Amazon ECS
8 52 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
10 45 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
11 42 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (5.60%) Power Platform
12 39 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
14 27 (3.60%) Azure AKS
14 27 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
15 25 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (2.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.67%) Broadband
2 15 (2.00%) Firewall
3 14 (1.87%) DNS
4 12 (1.60%) DHCP
4 12 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.07%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.07%) SAN
5 8 (1.07%) VPN
6 4 (0.53%) Network Security
6 4 (0.53%) SMS
6 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.40%) AMQP
7 3 (0.40%) HTTP
8 2 (0.27%) MQTT
8 2 (0.27%) PBX
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
9 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.13%) LAN
9 1 (0.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (27.07%) MongoDB
2 187 (24.93%) MySQL
3 119 (15.87%) Relational Database
4 118 (15.73%) SQL Server
5 110 (14.67%) NoSQL
6 87 (11.60%) Redis
7 35 (4.67%) DynamoDB
8 34 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
10 32 (4.27%) Power BI
11 31 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (2.93%) Metadata
13 21 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (2.80%) Big Data
14 19 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
15 16 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (2.00%) Oracle Database
17 14 (1.87%) Data Lake
17 14 (1.87%) DTS
18 13 (1.73%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 152 (20.27%) Git
2 53 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 50 (6.67%) GitLab
4 33 (4.40%) JIRA
5 26 (3.47%) JUnit
6 22 (2.93%) Cypress.io
7 21 (2.80%) Mockito
8 13 (1.73%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.73%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.33%) JMeter
9 10 (1.33%) Vite
10 9 (1.20%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.07%) Maven
12 6 (0.80%) RSpec
12 6 (0.80%) Selenium
13 5 (0.67%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.67%) Gatling
13 5 (0.67%) Storybook
14 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.53%) minitest
General
1 159 (21.20%) Social Skills
2 104 (13.87%) Public Sector
3 100 (13.33%) Finance
4 71 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.67%) Games
7 26 (3.47%) Law
8 24 (3.20%) Banking
9 21 (2.80%) Retail
10 20 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.53%) Legal
12 17 (2.27%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.13%) Front Office
14 15 (2.00%) Advertising
15 11 (1.47%) Legal Technology
16 10 (1.33%) Tech for Good
16 10 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.20%) Aerospace
18 8 (1.07%) Automotive
18 8 (1.07%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 256 (34.13%) Developer
2 182 (24.27%) Senior
3 146 (19.47%) Software Engineer
4 128 (17.07%) Lead
5 84 (11.20%) Full-Stack Developer
6 66 (8.80%) Python Engineer
7 54 (7.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 50 (6.67%) Lead Developer
9 49 (6.53%) Data Engineer
9 49 (6.53%) Python Developer
10 44 (5.87%) Architect
11 42 (5.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 41 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
12 41 (5.47%) Lead Software Engineer
13 40 (5.33%) Java Developer
14 38 (5.07%) Senior Developer
15 36 (4.80%) Software Developer
16 30 (4.00%) Java Engineer
16 30 (4.00%) Ruby Developer
17 23 (3.07%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (25.60%) React
2 176 (23.47%) Node.js
3 144 (19.20%) RESTful
4 104 (13.87%) REST
5 94 (12.53%) Spring
6 90 (12.00%) Spring Boot
7 81 (10.80%) Kafka
8 64 (8.53%) CSS
9 60 (8.00%) FastAPI
10 59 (7.87%) Next.js
11 58 (7.73%) Ruby on Rails
12 56 (7.47%) HTML
13 54 (7.20%) JSON
14 51 (6.80%) .NET
15 41 (5.47%) AngularJS
16 36 (4.80%) Django
16 36 (4.80%) Jest
17 33 (4.40%) Vue
18 30 (4.00%) Hibernate
18 30 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 153 (20.40%) Cloud Native
2 94 (12.53%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.20%) Low-Code
4 33 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.27%) Video\Live Streaming
6 26 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.20%) AI Agents
8 23 (3.07%) Data Structures
9 21 (2.80%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.40%) Replication
11 17 (2.27%) Blog
12 16 (2.13%) Derivative
12 16 (2.13%) Equities
12 16 (2.13%) Fixed Income
13 15 (2.00%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (1.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (14.53%) Linux
2 42 (5.60%) Windows
3 21 (2.80%) Unix
4 16 (2.13%) 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
1 338 (45.07%) CI/CD
2 277 (36.93%) Agile
3 259 (34.53%) Software Engineering
4 220 (29.33%) Microservices
5 219 (29.20%) Full-Stack Development
6 193 (25.73%) AI
7 192 (25.60%) DevOps
8 165 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 161 (21.47%) Mentoring
10 142 (18.93%) Containerisation
11 135 (18.00%) Observability
12 132 (17.60%) Test Automation
13 128 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 125 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
15 96 (12.80%) API Design
16 91 (12.13%) Analytics
17 89 (11.87%) Clean Code
18 88 (11.73%) Data Modelling
19 82 (10.93%) Scrum
20 77 (10.27%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 329 (43.87%) Python
2 218 (29.07%) SQL
3 199 (26.53%) Java
4 176 (23.47%) JavaScript
5 144 (19.20%) TypeScript
6 61 (8.13%) Ruby
7 59 (7.87%) C#
8 56 (7.47%) Go
9 42 (5.60%) PowerShell
10 37 (4.93%) Bash
11 26 (3.47%) PHP
12 18 (2.40%) Scala
13 15 (2.00%) C++
14 12 (1.60%) Shell Script
15 11 (1.47%) T-SQL
16 10 (1.33%) RPG
17 8 (1.07%) Perl
18 6 (0.80%) Korn
18 6 (0.80%) Kotlin
19 5 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 106 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 81 (10.80%) Degree
3 74 (9.87%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.73%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.87%) Data Quality
2 46 (6.13%) QA
3 25 (3.33%) GDPR
4 17 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.53%) WCAG
6 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.40%) SLA
7 2 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.27%) NCSC
7 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.13%) HL7
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.13%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 221 (29.47%) Docker
2 26 (3.47%) 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
1 197 (26.27%) Kubernetes
2 155 (20.67%) Terraform
3 43 (5.73%) Ansible
4 39 (5.20%) Grafana
5 29 (3.87%) Argo
6 26 (3.47%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.47%) Kibana
8 6 (0.80%) Istio
8 6 (0.80%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.80%) Puppet
9 5 (0.67%) 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 79 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.33%) Oracle
3 46 (6.13%) Google
4 23 (3.07%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.53%) Databricks
6 18 (2.40%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.40%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.87%) Splunk
8 13 (1.73%) IBM
9 8 (1.07%) Dell
9 8 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.93%) Pega
11 6 (0.80%) Informatica
11 6 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.67%) 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