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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 226 154
Rank change year-on-year -33 -72 +50
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 791 686 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.37% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.89% 9.22% 10.80%
Number of salaries quoted 582 491 822
10th Percentile £43,768 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +17.65% -8.93%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £88,739
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -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 8,896 7,440 12,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.13% 14.86% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6,006 4,769 8,025
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,700 £37,101
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% -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 29 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 16 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 29 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 -52 673 £70,000 -6.67% 579
UK excluding London -52 389 £65,000 +4.00% 245
Work from Home +10 381 £67,500 -15.63% 290
London -68 295 £85,000 -19.05% 416
South East -11 127 £65,000 +4.00% 76
North of England -19 123 £65,000 -3.70% 44
North West -7 57 £65,000 -3.70% 28
South West -54 48 £63,750 +30.77% 39
North East -30 40 £65,000 +26.83% 6
Midlands -46 31 £72,155 +3.08% 35
East of England -14 30 £52,500 +69.35% 16
Yorkshire -40 26 £69,310 +0.81% 10
West Midlands -32 22 £83,774 +15.55% 21
Wales -51 21 £67,500 -12.90% 7
Scotland -15 17 £65,000 -3.70% 22
East Midlands -26 9 £60,000 +9.09% 13

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 32 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (3.67%) Apache
3 27 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.29%) Confluence
5 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.88%) Camunda
8 6 (0.76%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.76%) WordPress
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Tornado
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Finacle
2 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 455 (57.52%) AWS
2 275 (34.77%) Azure
3 129 (16.31%) GitHub
4 115 (14.54%) GCP
5 99 (12.52%) Serverless
6 76 (9.61%) SaaS
7 75 (9.48%) Amazon S3
8 68 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (5.69%) Amazon SQS
13 41 (5.18%) Amazon EKS
13 41 (5.18%) GitHub Copilot
14 34 (4.30%) Power Platform
15 29 (3.67%) Azure AKS
16 28 (3.54%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (2.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.42%) Broadband
2 13 (1.64%) Firewall
3 9 (1.14%) DNS
3 9 (1.14%) SMS
4 8 (1.01%) AMQP
5 6 (0.76%) DHCP
5 6 (0.76%) iSCSI
5 6 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (0.76%) SAN
6 5 (0.63%) HTTP
6 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.38%) VPN
8 2 (0.25%) MQTT
8 2 (0.25%) VLAN
9 1 (0.13%) 4G
9 1 (0.13%) 5G
9 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.13%) Internet
9 1 (0.13%) Multicast
9 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (26.30%) MongoDB
2 189 (23.89%) MySQL
3 144 (18.20%) Relational Database
4 135 (17.07%) SQL Server
5 102 (12.90%) NoSQL
6 86 (10.87%) Redis
7 47 (5.94%) DynamoDB
8 38 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (3.16%) Power BI
12 21 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (2.65%) Metadata
13 20 (2.53%) Big Data
14 18 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
16 15 (1.90%) GIS
16 15 (1.90%) Oracle Database
17 14 (1.77%) Data Lake
17 14 (1.77%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 178 (22.50%) Git
2 58 (7.33%) Jenkins
3 56 (7.08%) GitLab
4 32 (4.05%) JIRA
5 29 (3.67%) JUnit
6 28 (3.54%) Cypress.io
7 23 (2.91%) Mockito
8 13 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.39%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.39%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.26%) JMeter
10 10 (1.26%) Vite
11 8 (1.01%) Maven
12 7 (0.88%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.88%) Mocha
12 7 (0.88%) RSpec
12 7 (0.88%) Selenium
12 7 (0.88%) Storybook
13 5 (0.63%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.63%) Gatling
General
1 188 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 105 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 103 (13.02%) Finance
4 75 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.06%) Law
7 35 (4.42%) Banking
7 35 (4.42%) Games
8 23 (2.91%) Legal
9 19 (2.40%) Retail
10 18 (2.28%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.02%) Tech for Good
12 13 (1.64%) Legal Technology
13 12 (1.52%) Advertising
13 12 (1.52%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.52%) Health Technology
13 12 (1.52%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.14%) Aviation
15 8 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 276 (34.89%) Developer
2 217 (27.43%) Senior
3 155 (19.60%) Software Engineer
4 121 (15.30%) Lead
5 90 (11.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 66 (8.34%) Python Engineer
7 61 (7.71%) Senior Software Engineer
8 58 (7.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 54 (6.83%) Data Engineer
9 54 (6.83%) Senior Developer
10 48 (6.07%) Architect
11 47 (5.94%) Python Developer
12 46 (5.82%) Java Developer
13 42 (5.31%) DevOps Engineer
14 39 (4.93%) Lead Developer
15 36 (4.55%) Software Developer
16 34 (4.30%) Ruby Developer
17 31 (3.92%) Lead Software Engineer
18 29 (3.67%) Database Engineer
19 26 (3.29%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (25.92%) React
2 179 (22.63%) Node.js
3 172 (21.74%) Terraform
4 147 (18.58%) RESTful
5 124 (15.68%) REST
6 106 (13.40%) Spring
7 102 (12.90%) Spring Boot
8 98 (12.39%) Kafka
9 77 (9.73%) CSS
10 76 (9.61%) .NET
11 67 (8.47%) Next.js
12 66 (8.34%) Ruby on Rails
13 64 (8.09%) HTML
14 55 (6.95%) FastAPI
15 50 (6.32%) AngularJS
16 48 (6.07%) Jest
16 48 (6.07%) JSON
17 43 (5.44%) RabbitMQ
18 37 (4.68%) JPA
19 36 (4.55%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 160 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 110 (13.91%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.68%) Low-Code
5 32 (4.05%) Video\Live Streaming
6 31 (3.92%) AI Agents
7 27 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (2.91%) Replication
9 22 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 21 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (2.53%) Algorithms
12 19 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (2.28%) Blog
14 17 (2.15%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.90%) Virtual Team
16 14 (1.77%) Management Information System
17 13 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
18 12 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
18 12 (1.52%) Public Cloud
18 12 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 112 (14.16%) Linux
2 37 (4.68%) Windows
3 17 (2.15%) Unix
4 15 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.76%) Android
6 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
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%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (46.52%) CI/CD
2 287 (36.28%) Agile
3 285 (36.03%) Software Engineering
4 237 (29.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 230 (29.08%) Microservices
6 224 (28.32%) AI
7 210 (26.55%) DevOps
8 181 (22.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 153 (19.34%) Mentoring
9 153 (19.34%) Observability
10 145 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 142 (17.95%) Containerisation
12 141 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
13 132 (16.69%) Test Automation
14 105 (13.27%) API Design
15 100 (12.64%) Clean Code
16 98 (12.39%) Event-Driven
17 96 (12.14%) Scrum
18 94 (11.88%) Data Modelling
19 88 (11.13%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 325 (41.09%) Python
2 216 (27.31%) SQL
3 195 (24.65%) Java
4 183 (23.14%) JavaScript
5 156 (19.72%) TypeScript
6 78 (9.86%) C#
7 68 (8.60%) Ruby
8 62 (7.84%) Go
9 35 (4.42%) Bash
10 27 (3.41%) PowerShell
11 21 (2.65%) PHP
12 19 (2.40%) Scala
13 14 (1.77%) C++
14 13 (1.64%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.26%) RPG
16 9 (1.14%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.88%) Perl
18 5 (0.63%) Korn
19 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 111 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 101 (12.77%) Degree
3 82 (10.37%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.16%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.01%) PhD
11 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.25%) RHCE
13 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 59 (7.46%) QA
3 30 (3.79%) GDPR
4 21 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.63%) SLA
6 5 (0.63%) WCAG
7 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 241 (30.47%) Docker
2 15 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Samba
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 208 (26.30%) Kubernetes
2 59 (7.46%) Ansible
3 51 (6.45%) Grafana
4 33 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 31 (3.92%) Argo
6 10 (1.26%) Kibana
7 6 (0.76%) Istio
7 6 (0.76%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.76%) Puppet
8 5 (0.63%) Data Guard
8 5 (0.63%) Packer
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.38%) Plesk
10 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.38%) Rancher
10 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.25%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 83 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.48%) Oracle
3 39 (4.93%) Google
4 26 (3.29%) Databricks
5 23 (2.91%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.28%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.28%) Splunk
7 17 (2.15%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.77%) IBM
9 7 (0.88%) Pega
9 7 (0.88%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.76%) Dell
10 6 (0.76%) Informatica
10 6 (0.76%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.63%) Meraki
12 4 (0.51%) Netezza
12 4 (0.51%) Remedy
12 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.38%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.38%) New Relic