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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 226 159
Rank change year-on-year -33 -67 +47
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 790 701 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.40% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.83% 9.35% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 584 505 863
10th Percentile £42,875 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,308 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
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 8,951 7,494 12,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.33% 15.00% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,012 4,782 8,483
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,550
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.51%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,964
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 18 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 18 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 -36 676 £70,000 -6.67% 192
UK excluding London -58 389 £65,000 +4.00% 143
Work from Home +23 384 £67,500 -15.63% 111
London -77 296 £85,000 -19.05% 96
South East -8 129 £62,500 +8.70% 50
North of England -1 125 £65,000 -3.70% 28
North West +4 57 £65,000 -3.70% 15
South West -56 46 £62,500 +19.05% 17
North East -30 39 £65,000 +26.83% 5
Midlands -47 31 £72,155 +6.70% 23
Yorkshire -27 29 £67,153 -0.51% 8
East of England -32 29 £52,500 +66.67% 5
West Midlands -38 22 £81,887 +16.98% 11
Wales -55 19 £70,000 -9.68% 5
Scotland -15 17 £65,000 -3.70% 10
East Midlands -23 9 £60,000 +9.09% 12

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 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (3.92%) Apache
3 28 (3.54%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.29%) Confluence
5 17 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.27%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.89%) Camunda
8 6 (0.76%) WordPress
9 5 (0.63%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.38%) CMS
10 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.25%) Luigi
11 2 (0.25%) Tornado
12 1 (0.13%) Documentum
12 1 (0.13%) Moodle
12 1 (0.13%) nginx
12 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
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
1 459 (58.10%) AWS
2 279 (35.32%) Azure
3 125 (15.82%) GitHub
4 122 (15.44%) GCP
5 100 (12.66%) Serverless
6 74 (9.37%) Amazon S3
7 73 (9.24%) SaaS
8 67 (8.48%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
11 51 (6.46%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
13 40 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
14 39 (4.94%) GitHub Copilot
15 35 (4.43%) Power Platform
16 29 (3.67%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.54%) Azure Service Bus
18 25 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.43%) Broadband
2 15 (1.90%) Firewall
3 11 (1.39%) DNS
4 9 (1.14%) DHCP
5 8 (1.01%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.01%) SAN
6 7 (0.89%) SMS
7 6 (0.76%) AMQP
8 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.63%) VPN
9 4 (0.51%) HTTP
10 2 (0.25%) MQTT
10 2 (0.25%) Network Security
10 2 (0.25%) PBX
10 2 (0.25%) VLAN
11 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.13%) Internet
11 1 (0.13%) Multicast
11 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (26.33%) MongoDB
2 192 (24.30%) MySQL
3 144 (18.23%) Relational Database
4 135 (17.09%) SQL Server
5 102 (12.91%) NoSQL
6 89 (11.27%) Redis
7 46 (5.82%) DynamoDB
8 36 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (3.29%) Power BI
12 22 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (2.78%) Metadata
13 21 (2.66%) Big Data
14 18 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
15 17 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (1.90%) GIS
16 15 (1.90%) Oracle Database
17 14 (1.77%) Data Lake
17 14 (1.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 175 (22.15%) Git
2 56 (7.09%) Jenkins
3 55 (6.96%) GitLab
4 35 (4.43%) JIRA
5 29 (3.67%) JUnit
6 27 (3.42%) Cypress.io
7 23 (2.91%) Mockito
8 13 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.39%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.39%) Vite
10 10 (1.27%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.27%) JMeter
11 7 (0.89%) Maven
11 7 (0.89%) RSpec
11 7 (0.89%) Storybook
12 6 (0.76%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.76%) Mocha
12 6 (0.76%) Selenium
13 5 (0.63%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.63%) Gatling
General
1 190 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 105 (13.29%) Finance
3 104 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 76 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.06%) Law
7 37 (4.68%) Games
8 31 (3.92%) Banking
9 23 (2.91%) Legal
10 22 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.28%) Retail
12 16 (2.03%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.77%) Advertising
13 14 (1.77%) Tech for Good
14 13 (1.65%) Legal Technology
15 11 (1.39%) Aerospace
15 11 (1.39%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.27%) Health Technology
17 9 (1.14%) Aviation
18 8 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 273 (34.56%) Developer
2 215 (27.22%) Senior
3 156 (19.75%) Software Engineer
4 128 (16.20%) Lead
5 90 (11.39%) Full-Stack Developer
6 68 (8.61%) Python Engineer
7 61 (7.72%) Senior Software Engineer
8 59 (7.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 55 (6.96%) Data Engineer
10 49 (6.20%) Senior Developer
11 48 (6.08%) Python Developer
12 46 (5.82%) Architect
13 44 (5.57%) Lead Developer
14 42 (5.32%) Java Developer
15 41 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
16 37 (4.68%) Software Developer
17 35 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
18 34 (4.30%) Ruby Developer
19 28 (3.54%) Database Engineer
20 26 (3.29%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (25.95%) React
2 182 (23.04%) Node.js
3 144 (18.23%) RESTful
4 116 (14.68%) REST
5 102 (12.91%) Spring
6 98 (12.41%) Spring Boot
7 92 (11.65%) Kafka
8 76 (9.62%) CSS
9 69 (8.73%) .NET
9 69 (8.73%) Next.js
10 65 (8.23%) HTML
10 65 (8.23%) Ruby on Rails
11 56 (7.09%) FastAPI
12 50 (6.33%) AngularJS
13 48 (6.08%) JSON
14 46 (5.82%) Jest
15 38 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
16 35 (4.43%) Django
17 34 (4.30%) Hibernate
18 33 (4.18%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 155 (19.62%) Cloud Native
2 108 (13.67%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.68%) Low-Code
5 32 (4.05%) Video\Live Streaming
6 31 (3.92%) AI Agents
7 26 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (3.04%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.66%) Replication
10 20 (2.53%) Algorithms
11 19 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (2.15%) Blog
12 17 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (2.03%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.90%) Management Information System
15 13 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
15 13 (1.65%) Virtual Team
16 12 (1.52%) IoT
16 12 (1.52%) Public Cloud
16 12 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 114 (14.43%) Linux
2 40 (5.06%) Windows
3 17 (2.15%) Unix
3 17 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.76%) Android
5 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) Debian
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (46.33%) CI/CD
2 289 (36.58%) Agile
3 279 (35.32%) Software Engineering
4 235 (29.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 229 (28.99%) Microservices
6 221 (27.97%) AI
7 205 (25.95%) DevOps
8 177 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 157 (19.87%) Mentoring
10 149 (18.86%) Observability
11 147 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 144 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
13 143 (18.10%) Containerisation
14 129 (16.33%) Test Automation
15 104 (13.16%) API Design
16 99 (12.53%) Clean Code
17 93 (11.77%) Event-Driven
17 93 (11.77%) Scrum
18 90 (11.39%) Analytics
19 88 (11.14%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 332 (42.03%) Python
2 215 (27.22%) SQL
3 191 (24.18%) Java
4 186 (23.54%) JavaScript
5 158 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 71 (8.99%) C#
7 67 (8.48%) Ruby
8 63 (7.97%) Go
9 35 (4.43%) Bash
10 30 (3.80%) PowerShell
11 23 (2.91%) PHP
12 18 (2.28%) Scala
13 14 (1.77%) C++
14 12 (1.52%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.27%) RPG
16 9 (1.14%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.89%) Perl
18 6 (0.76%) Korn
19 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 113 (14.30%) Security Cleared
2 103 (13.04%) Degree
3 84 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.04%) Master's Degree
6 23 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.89%) PhD
11 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.38%) RHCE
14 2 (0.25%) CISSP
14 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.25%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.72%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.71%) QA
3 30 (3.80%) GDPR
4 20 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.76%) SLA
7 5 (0.63%) WCAG
8 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.25%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 244 (30.89%) Docker
2 21 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.14%) 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
1 210 (26.58%) Kubernetes
2 165 (20.89%) Terraform
3 57 (7.22%) Ansible
4 44 (5.57%) Grafana
5 31 (3.92%) Argo
6 30 (3.80%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.27%) Kibana
8 6 (0.76%) Istio
8 6 (0.76%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.76%) Puppet
9 5 (0.63%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.63%) Packer
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.38%) Plesk
11 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.25%) Nagios
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 84 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.49%) Oracle
3 42 (5.32%) Google
4 26 (3.29%) Databricks
5 23 (2.91%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.41%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.15%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.03%) Splunk
9 14 (1.77%) IBM
10 8 (1.01%) Dell
10 8 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.89%) Pega
11 7 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.76%) Informatica
13 5 (0.63%) Meraki
14 4 (0.51%) Netezza
14 4 (0.51%) Remedy
14 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
15 3 (0.38%) Atlassian
15 3 (0.38%) New Relic