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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 227 158
Rank change year-on-year -38 -69 +47
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 785 715 1,392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.44% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.79% 9.39% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 594 520 872
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £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 £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 8,927 7,612 13,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.53% 15.35% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,001 4,877 8,725
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,327
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
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 6 August 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 6 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 -56 672 £69,310 -7.59% 510
UK excluding London -59 391 £62,500 -3.85% 203
Work from Home +22 390 £67,500 -15.63% 256
London -74 291 £85,000 -19.05% 359
North of England -3 132 £65,000 -3.70% 48
South East -23 128 £60,000 -2.04% 62
North West -1 58 £65,000 -3.70% 31
South West -49 46 £62,500 +8.70% 23
North East -22 41 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire -20 33 £65,000 -7.14% 12
East of England -29 28 £52,500 +66.67% 8
Midlands -57 26 £75,000 +11.11% 24
West Midlands -44 19 £80,000 +18.30% 10
Wales -48 18 £70,000 -9.68% 10
Scotland +9 17 £65,000 -1.89% 20
East Midlands -20 7 £60,000 +9.09% 14
Northern Ireland -78 1 £73,801 +34.18% 8

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 35 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (3.69%) Apache
3 28 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.31%) Confluence
5 21 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.40%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.76%) Camunda
7 6 (0.76%) WordPress
8 5 (0.64%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Documentum
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (1.66%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 461 (58.73%) AWS
2 289 (36.82%) Azure
3 132 (16.82%) GCP
4 114 (14.52%) GitHub
5 97 (12.36%) Serverless
6 72 (9.17%) Amazon S3
7 69 (8.79%) Amazon ECS
8 68 (8.66%) SaaS
9 56 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
13 43 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (5.10%) Power Platform
15 32 (4.08%) GitHub Copilot
16 29 (3.69%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
18 26 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.46%) Broadband
2 15 (1.91%) Firewall
3 13 (1.66%) DNS
4 12 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.40%) DHCP
6 8 (1.02%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.02%) SAN
7 7 (0.89%) VPN
8 5 (0.64%) HTTP
8 5 (0.64%) SMS
9 4 (0.51%) AMQP
10 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.25%) MQTT
11 2 (0.25%) Network Security
11 2 (0.25%) PBX
11 2 (0.25%) VLAN
12 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
12 1 (0.13%) LTE
12 1 (0.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (26.88%) MongoDB
2 195 (24.84%) MySQL
3 135 (17.20%) Relational Database
4 127 (16.18%) SQL Server
5 112 (14.27%) NoSQL
6 94 (11.97%) Redis
7 41 (5.22%) DynamoDB
8 37 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (3.69%) Power BI
12 23 (2.93%) Metadata
13 21 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (2.68%) Big Data
14 19 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
15 17 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (2.04%) Oracle Database
17 15 (1.91%) GIS
18 14 (1.78%) DTS
18 14 (1.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 165 (21.02%) Git
2 56 (7.13%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.50%) GitLab
4 34 (4.33%) JIRA
5 28 (3.57%) JUnit
6 24 (3.06%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.80%) Mockito
8 14 (1.78%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.66%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.40%) Vite
11 10 (1.27%) JMeter
12 9 (1.15%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.89%) Maven
14 6 (0.76%) RSpec
14 6 (0.76%) Selenium
15 5 (0.64%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.64%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.64%) Gatling
16 4 (0.51%) minitest
16 4 (0.51%) Storybook
General
1 179 (22.80%) Social Skills
2 111 (14.14%) Public Sector
3 105 (13.38%) Finance
4 73 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (4.59%) Law
7 35 (4.46%) Games
8 26 (3.31%) Banking
9 21 (2.68%) Legal
9 21 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (2.55%) Retail
11 17 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.78%) Advertising
13 12 (1.53%) Front Office
13 12 (1.53%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.40%) Tech for Good
15 10 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.15%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.15%) Aviation
17 8 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 266 (33.89%) Developer
2 205 (26.11%) Senior
3 157 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 130 (16.56%) Lead
5 87 (11.08%) Full-Stack Developer
6 68 (8.66%) Python Engineer
7 56 (7.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 55 (7.01%) Data Engineer
9 52 (6.62%) Senior Software Engineer
10 51 (6.50%) Python Developer
11 47 (5.99%) Lead Developer
12 45 (5.73%) Architect
13 44 (5.61%) Senior Developer
14 41 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
15 40 (5.10%) Lead Software Engineer
16 39 (4.97%) Software Developer
17 38 (4.84%) Java Developer
18 33 (4.20%) Ruby Developer
19 30 (3.82%) Java Engineer
20 25 (3.18%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (25.48%) React
2 180 (22.93%) Node.js
3 146 (18.60%) RESTful
4 108 (13.76%) REST
5 95 (12.10%) Spring
6 91 (11.59%) Spring Boot
7 85 (10.83%) Kafka
8 68 (8.66%) CSS
9 63 (8.03%) Next.js
9 63 (8.03%) Ruby on Rails
10 62 (7.90%) .NET
11 60 (7.64%) HTML
12 59 (7.52%) FastAPI
13 51 (6.50%) JSON
14 46 (5.86%) AngularJS
15 41 (5.22%) Jest
16 39 (4.97%) Django
17 32 (4.08%) Vue
18 31 (3.95%) JWT
18 31 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 165 (21.02%) Cloud Native
2 101 (12.87%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.97%) Low-Code
4 37 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.08%) Video\Live Streaming
6 28 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 27 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (3.31%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.68%) Algorithms
10 20 (2.55%) Replication
11 19 (2.42%) Data Structures
12 17 (2.17%) Blog
13 15 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.91%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.53%) Derivative
14 12 (1.53%) Equities
14 12 (1.53%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.53%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 114 (14.52%) Linux
2 43 (5.48%) Windows
3 22 (2.80%) Unix
4 17 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.51%) Android
7 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.38%) CentOS
8 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (45.61%) CI/CD
2 293 (37.32%) Agile
3 274 (34.90%) Software Engineering
4 230 (29.30%) Microservices
5 227 (28.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 211 (26.88%) AI
7 202 (25.73%) DevOps
8 173 (22.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 166 (21.15%) Mentoring
10 144 (18.34%) Containerisation
10 144 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 143 (18.22%) Observability
12 138 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
13 134 (17.07%) Test Automation
14 101 (12.87%) API Design
15 100 (12.74%) Clean Code
16 93 (11.85%) Analytics
17 86 (10.96%) Scrum
18 85 (10.83%) Data Modelling
18 85 (10.83%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 338 (43.06%) Python
2 225 (28.66%) SQL
3 200 (25.48%) Java
4 183 (23.31%) JavaScript
5 148 (18.85%) TypeScript
6 67 (8.54%) C#
7 66 (8.41%) Ruby
8 59 (7.52%) Go
9 35 (4.46%) Bash
9 35 (4.46%) PowerShell
10 25 (3.18%) PHP
11 19 (2.42%) Scala
12 14 (1.78%) C++
13 12 (1.53%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.27%) RPG
15 8 (1.02%) Perl
16 7 (0.89%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.76%) Korn
17 6 (0.76%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 111 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 98 (12.48%) Degree
3 79 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.76%) PhD
11 4 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.38%) RHCE
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.25%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.99%) QA
3 27 (3.44%) GDPR
4 18 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.51%) SLA
6 4 (0.51%) WCAG
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.25%) NCSC
8 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 236 (30.06%) Docker
2 23 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.15%) 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
1 204 (25.99%) Kubernetes
2 162 (20.64%) Terraform
3 48 (6.11%) Ansible
4 41 (5.22%) Grafana
5 30 (3.82%) Argo
6 27 (3.44%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.40%) Kibana
8 6 (0.76%) Istio
8 6 (0.76%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.76%) Puppet
9 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.64%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (0.51%) Packer
11 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.38%) Plesk
11 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 87 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.17%) Oracle
3 48 (6.11%) Google
4 25 (3.18%) Databricks
5 21 (2.68%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.29%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.78%) IBM
8 14 (1.78%) Splunk
9 8 (1.02%) Dell
9 8 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.89%) Informatica
10 7 (0.89%) Pega
11 6 (0.76%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.64%) Meraki
13 4 (0.51%) Confluent
13 4 (0.51%) Netezza
13 4 (0.51%) Remedy
13 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.38%) UiPath