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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 221 171
Rank change year-on-year -46 -50 +39
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 727 721 1,542
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.46% 1.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.43% 9.47% 9.86%
Number of salaries quoted 565 531 1,017
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £42,000
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 £85,250 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,750 £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 8,629 7,617 15,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.64% 15.44% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5,789 4,925 10,921
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,100 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £105,000
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 20 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 20 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 -57 629 £69,310 -7.59% 197
Work from Home +33 377 £67,500 -12.90% 94
UK excluding London -67 365 £62,500 -3.85% 131
London -76 267 £85,000 -19.05% 107
North of England -9 120 £65,000 -3.70% 32
South East -11 120 £59,750 +8.64% 41
North West -19 50 £65,000 -3.70% 19
South West -44 48 £62,500 +4.17% 15
North East -19 37 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Yorkshire -19 33 £65,000 -3.70% 7
East of England -22 28 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Midlands -46 23 £75,000 +11.11% 15
West Midlands -30 19 £80,000 +18.41% 7
Scotland -5 16 £65,000 -3.70% 11
Wales -56 13 £70,000 -9.68% 5
East Midlands -26 4 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Northern Ireland -66 1 £73,801 +34.18% 4

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 28 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.16%) Apache
3 23 (3.16%) Confluence
4 22 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.65%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.83%) WordPress
7 5 (0.69%) Camunda
7 5 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 421 (57.91%) AWS
2 279 (38.38%) Azure
3 128 (17.61%) GCP
4 92 (12.65%) Serverless
5 88 (12.10%) GitHub
6 68 (9.35%) Amazon S3
7 65 (8.94%) SaaS
8 60 (8.25%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
12 44 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (5.91%) Power Platform
14 42 (5.78%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (4.54%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
17 27 (3.71%) Azure AKS
17 27 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (2.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.81%) Broadband
2 15 (2.06%) Firewall
3 13 (1.79%) DNS
4 12 (1.65%) DHCP
4 12 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.10%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.10%) SAN
5 8 (1.10%) VPN
6 4 (0.55%) Network Security
6 4 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.41%) HTTP
8 2 (0.28%) MQTT
8 2 (0.28%) PBX
8 2 (0.28%) SMS
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) AMQP
9 1 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.14%) LTE
9 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (27.51%) MongoDB
2 180 (24.76%) MySQL
3 116 (15.96%) SQL Server
4 112 (15.41%) Relational Database
5 106 (14.58%) NoSQL
6 78 (10.73%) Redis
7 34 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (4.54%) Power BI
9 31 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (4.13%) DynamoDB
11 22 (3.03%) Metadata
12 20 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (2.75%) Big Data
13 18 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (2.06%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.93%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.93%) DTS
15 14 (1.93%) GIS
Development Applications
1 140 (19.26%) Git
2 50 (6.88%) Jenkins
3 47 (6.46%) GitLab
4 32 (4.40%) JIRA
5 24 (3.30%) JUnit
6 22 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.75%) Mockito
8 14 (1.93%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.79%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.38%) JMeter
10 10 (1.38%) Vite
11 9 (1.24%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.10%) Maven
13 6 (0.83%) Selenium
14 5 (0.69%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.69%) Gatling
15 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 3 (0.41%) Eclipse
16 3 (0.41%) Mocha
16 3 (0.41%) RSpec
General
1 152 (20.91%) Social Skills
2 99 (13.62%) Finance
2 99 (13.62%) Public Sector
3 65 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.68%) Games
6 28 (3.85%) Law
7 27 (3.71%) Banking
7 27 (3.71%) Retail
8 19 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (2.48%) Legal
10 17 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.20%) Front Office
12 15 (2.06%) Advertising
13 11 (1.51%) Legal Technology
14 10 (1.38%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.10%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.10%) Aviation
15 8 (1.10%) Tech for Good
16 7 (0.96%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 244 (33.56%) Developer
2 165 (22.70%) Senior
3 141 (19.39%) Software Engineer
4 127 (17.47%) Lead
5 82 (11.28%) Full-Stack Developer
6 61 (8.39%) Python Engineer
7 51 (7.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 50 (6.88%) Lead Developer
9 49 (6.74%) Python Developer
10 47 (6.46%) Data Engineer
11 46 (6.33%) Architect
12 42 (5.78%) Lead Software Engineer
13 40 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
14 38 (5.23%) Java Developer
15 35 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (4.40%) Java Engineer
16 32 (4.40%) Senior Developer
16 32 (4.40%) Software Developer
17 27 (3.71%) Ruby Developer
18 22 (3.03%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (25.31%) React
2 174 (23.93%) Node.js
3 140 (19.26%) RESTful
4 98 (13.48%) REST
5 89 (12.24%) Spring
6 86 (11.83%) Spring Boot
7 77 (10.59%) Kafka
8 59 (8.12%) CSS
8 59 (8.12%) FastAPI
9 54 (7.43%) Ruby on Rails
10 53 (7.29%) HTML
10 53 (7.29%) Next.js
11 51 (7.02%) JSON
12 48 (6.60%) .NET
13 37 (5.09%) AngularJS
14 34 (4.68%) Django
14 34 (4.68%) Jest
15 30 (4.13%) Vue
16 27 (3.71%) Flask
16 27 (3.71%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 153 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 91 (12.52%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.36%) Low-Code
4 33 (4.54%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.40%) Video\Live Streaming
6 27 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (3.16%) Data Structures
8 22 (3.03%) Blog
9 21 (2.89%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.89%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.48%) Replication
11 16 (2.20%) Derivative
11 16 (2.20%) Equities
11 16 (2.20%) Fixed Income
12 15 (2.06%) Management Information System
12 15 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.65%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 105 (14.44%) Linux
2 41 (5.64%) Windows
3 21 (2.89%) Unix
4 15 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.41%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) AIX
9 1 (0.14%) Debian
9 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (44.29%) CI/CD
2 261 (35.90%) Agile
3 249 (34.25%) Software Engineering
4 217 (29.85%) Microservices
5 208 (28.61%) Full-Stack Development
6 186 (25.58%) DevOps
7 179 (24.62%) AI
8 162 (22.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 155 (21.32%) Mentoring
10 136 (18.71%) Containerisation
11 129 (17.74%) Test Automation
12 124 (17.06%) Observability
13 119 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
14 92 (12.65%) API Design
15 88 (12.10%) Analytics
15 88 (12.10%) Data Modelling
16 84 (11.55%) Clean Code
17 77 (10.59%) Scrum
17 77 (10.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 321 (44.15%) Python
2 213 (29.30%) SQL
3 200 (27.51%) Java
4 165 (22.70%) JavaScript
5 133 (18.29%) TypeScript
6 57 (7.84%) Ruby
7 56 (7.70%) C#
8 54 (7.43%) Go
9 42 (5.78%) PowerShell
10 36 (4.95%) Bash
11 25 (3.44%) PHP
12 18 (2.48%) Scala
13 16 (2.20%) C++
14 12 (1.65%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.65%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.38%) RPG
16 8 (1.10%) Perl
17 6 (0.83%) Korn
18 5 (0.69%) C
18 5 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 102 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 78 (10.73%) Degree
3 69 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.69%) PhD
11 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.41%) RHCE
13 2 (0.28%) CISSP
13 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.28%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.28%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.98%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.09%) QA
3 24 (3.30%) GDPR
4 16 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.55%) WCAG
7 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.28%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 209 (28.75%) Docker
2 27 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.28%) Samba
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 195 (26.82%) Kubernetes
2 153 (21.05%) Terraform
3 40 (5.50%) Ansible
4 38 (5.23%) Grafana
5 29 (3.99%) Argo
6 25 (3.44%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.38%) Kibana
8 6 (0.83%) Istio
8 6 (0.83%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.83%) Puppet
9 5 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.55%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.41%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.41%) Packer
11 3 (0.41%) Plesk
11 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 79 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.63%) Oracle
3 44 (6.05%) Google
4 23 (3.16%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.48%) Databricks
5 18 (2.48%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.34%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.79%) IBM
7 13 (1.79%) Splunk
8 8 (1.10%) Dell
8 8 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.96%) Pega
10 6 (0.83%) Informatica
11 5 (0.69%) Meraki
11 5 (0.69%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.55%) Confluent
12 4 (0.55%) Netezza
12 4 (0.55%) Remedy
13 3 (0.41%) ESRI
13 3 (0.41%) Revolut