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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 133 197
Rank change year-on-year -144 +64 -7
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 498 1,134 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 2.27% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.41% 12.57% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 340 534 1,015
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 £100,000 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,875 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.59% +10.61% +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 6,718 9,021 14,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 18.04% 19.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,121 5,048 11,549
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 10 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 10 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 -133 425 £75,000 -6.25% 298
London -77 243 £90,000 +2.86% 136
Work from Home -110 225 £70,000 - 183
UK excluding London -177 206 £60,000 -9.59% 215
North of England -27 76 £73,801 +6.48% 68
South East -131 47 £56,250 -29.69% 50
Yorkshire -19 36 £62,500 +13.45% 16
North West -19 32 £85,000 +22.64% 40
Midlands -23 25 £55,200 -15.08% 26
South West -62 25 £65,000 - 33
West Midlands +1 16 £45,000 -30.77% 18
East of England -36 15 £42,500 -26.09% 15
Scotland -40 15 £73,801 +22.49% 20
East Midlands -29 9 £65,000 +8.33% 8
North East -4 8 £55,200 -20.35% 13
Wales -28 5 £73,801 +13.54% 4
Northern Ireland -26 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 (6.83%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.22%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.81%) Confluence
4 13 (2.61%) OpenStack
4 13 (2.61%) Tomcat
4 13 (2.61%) WebSphere
5 12 (2.41%) WebSphere Application Server
6 10 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.61%) ArcGIS
8 7 (1.41%) Apache
9 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.80%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.60%) CMS
10 3 (0.60%) Luigi
10 3 (0.60%) nginx
10 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.40%) Camunda
11 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.40%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 333 (66.87%) AWS
2 172 (34.54%) Azure
3 129 (25.90%) GCP
4 91 (18.27%) Serverless
5 62 (12.45%) Amazon ECS
6 60 (12.05%) Amazon S3
7 58 (11.65%) GitHub
8 54 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (9.04%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (9.04%) dbt
10 43 (8.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (8.43%) SaaS
12 36 (7.23%) Amazon SQS
13 34 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (5.42%) Power Platform
16 25 (5.02%) Amazon ECR
17 23 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
18 22 (4.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 21 (4.22%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.62%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.61%) SSL
3 11 (2.21%) VPN
4 10 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.41%) Firewall
5 7 (1.41%) Internet
6 6 (1.20%) DNS
6 6 (1.20%) Network Security
7 5 (1.00%) DHCP
7 5 (1.00%) VLAN
8 3 (0.60%) MQTT
8 3 (0.60%) WAN
9 2 (0.40%) AMQP
9 2 (0.40%) BGP
9 2 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.40%) HTTP
9 2 (0.40%) OSPF
9 2 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.40%) RTMP
9 2 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (24.50%) SQL Server
2 100 (20.08%) Relational Database
3 87 (17.47%) MySQL
4 84 (16.87%) MongoDB
5 68 (13.65%) NoSQL
6 44 (8.84%) Redis
7 37 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (6.63%) DB2
9 32 (6.43%) DynamoDB
9 32 (6.43%) Elasticsearch
10 31 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (5.02%) Power BI
11 25 (5.02%) RDBMS
12 19 (3.82%) Apache Cassandra
13 18 (3.61%) Apache Iceberg
14 15 (3.01%) Apache Arrow
14 15 (3.01%) Big Data
14 15 (3.01%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (2.81%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 107 (21.49%) Git
2 83 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 31 (6.22%) GitLab
3 31 (6.22%) JIRA
4 28 (5.62%) Cucumber
5 27 (5.42%) JUnit
6 26 (5.22%) Selenium
7 21 (4.22%) Bitbucket
8 18 (3.61%) Cypress.io
8 18 (3.61%) TeamCity
9 14 (2.81%) JMeter
10 13 (2.61%) Mockito
11 7 (1.41%) Vite
12 6 (1.20%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.20%) Maven
12 6 (1.20%) Subversion
13 5 (1.00%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.80%) Gradle
14 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.60%) TestRail
General
1 136 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 111 (22.29%) Finance
3 53 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.43%) Banking
5 33 (6.63%) Law
6 31 (6.22%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.82%) Front Office
8 19 (3.82%) Retail
9 11 (2.21%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.81%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.41%) Marketing
13 6 (1.20%) Tech for Good
14 5 (1.00%) Advertising
14 5 (1.00%) Electronics
14 5 (1.00%) Legal
15 4 (0.80%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 182 (36.55%) Developer
2 96 (19.28%) Senior
3 80 (16.06%) Software Engineer
4 68 (13.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 57 (11.45%) Java Developer
6 52 (10.44%) Lead
7 31 (6.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 30 (6.02%) Python Developer
9 26 (5.22%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.22%) Python Engineer
10 25 (5.02%) Principal Engineer
11 22 (4.42%) Architect
11 22 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (4.42%) Java Engineer
12 21 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (3.82%) AWS Developer
13 19 (3.82%) Python Software Engineer
13 19 (3.82%) Senior Developer
14 18 (3.61%) DBA
14 18 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (33.73%) React
2 106 (21.29%) Node.js
3 83 (16.67%) Spring
4 78 (15.66%) Spring Boot
5 69 (13.86%) REST
6 66 (13.25%) RESTful
7 65 (13.05%) Django
8 54 (10.84%) FastAPI
9 52 (10.44%) AngularJS
9 52 (10.44%) Kafka
10 50 (10.04%) HTML
11 47 (9.44%) .NET
12 45 (9.04%) CSS
13 38 (7.63%) Elastic Stack
13 38 (7.63%) Vue
14 31 (6.22%) Flask
15 29 (5.82%) Web Services
16 28 (5.62%) Next.js
17 25 (5.02%) .NET Core
18 24 (4.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 61 (12.25%) Distributed Systems
2 58 (11.65%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
3 24 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.61%) Equities
5 18 (3.61%) Fixed Income
6 17 (3.41%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (2.41%) Blog
11 11 (2.21%) Algorithms
11 11 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.21%) Onboarding
12 10 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.81%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.81%) Replication
14 6 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.20%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.87%) Linux
2 40 (8.03%) Unix
3 30 (6.02%) Windows
4 17 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.81%) Android
6 9 (1.81%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.00%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.80%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.60%) Debian
10 2 (0.40%) VMS
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.20%) CentOS
11 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (43.17%) CI/CD
2 185 (37.15%) Agile
3 155 (31.12%) Microservices
4 154 (30.92%) Software Engineering
5 137 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
6 133 (26.71%) DevOps
7 125 (25.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 90 (18.07%) Containerisation
9 82 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 76 (15.26%) AI
10 76 (15.26%) Test Automation
11 71 (14.26%) Fintech
12 61 (12.25%) Scrum
13 59 (11.85%) Data Modelling
13 59 (11.85%) Mentoring
14 55 (11.04%) Technical Leadership
15 53 (10.64%) TDD
16 52 (10.44%) Clean Code
17 51 (10.24%) ETL
18 49 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 238 (47.79%) Python
2 166 (33.33%) Java
3 157 (31.53%) SQL
4 142 (28.51%) JavaScript
5 108 (21.69%) TypeScript
6 43 (8.63%) C#
7 30 (6.02%) Go
8 24 (4.82%) PowerShell
9 18 (3.61%) PHP
9 18 (3.61%) Ruby
10 15 (3.01%) C
11 14 (2.81%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.61%) T-SQL
13 11 (2.21%) Delphi
14 9 (1.81%) Rust
15 7 (1.41%) C++
16 6 (1.20%) Bash
17 4 (0.80%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.60%) Perl
18 3 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 88 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 66 (13.25%) Degree
3 60 (12.05%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (5.22%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.41%) AWS Certified Developer
7 12 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.40%) HNC
11 2 (0.40%) HND
11 2 (0.40%) MCSA
11 2 (0.40%) MCSE
11 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.82%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.61%) QA
3 15 (3.01%) SLA
4 14 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.61%) GDPR
6 12 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.60%) SEPA
8 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.40%) PSD2
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) GAAP
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 184 (36.95%) Docker
2 11 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) NFS
5 1 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.20%) pfSense
5 1 (0.20%) Samba
Systems Management
1 165 (33.13%) Kubernetes
2 102 (20.48%) Terraform
3 41 (8.23%) Ansible
4 30 (6.02%) Grafana
5 15 (3.01%) Kibana
6 14 (2.81%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.41%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (2.21%) Argo
9 6 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.00%) Puppet
11 4 (0.80%) Control-M
11 4 (0.80%) Nagios
12 3 (0.60%) Rancher
13 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.20%) Ambari
14 1 (0.20%) Podman
14 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (15.06%) Oracle
2 36 (7.23%) Google
3 27 (5.42%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.42%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.82%) Informatica
6 17 (3.41%) IBM
7 15 (3.01%) Atlassian
7 15 (3.01%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.61%) Talend
9 11 (2.21%) Splunk
10 10 (2.01%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.81%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.61%) ESRI
13 7 (1.41%) SAP
14 5 (1.00%) VMware
15 4 (0.80%) Pega
15 4 (0.80%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.80%) WSO2
16 3 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
16 3 (0.60%) Databricks