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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 135 198
Rank change year-on-year -133 +63 -8
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 540 1,011 1,294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 2.31% 1.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.73% 12.37% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 378 563 1,060
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,824 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £93,563 £97,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £100,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +1.81%

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 6,983 8,175 15,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.49% 18.71% 19.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,205 5,163 12,215
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -152 452 £73,801 -4.77% 389
UK excluding London -153 253 £60,000 -7.69% 251
Work from Home -103 241 £65,000 -6.32% 290
London -84 223 £90,000 +2.86% 186
North of England -28 94 £65,000 -5.06% 68
South East -133 63 £57,500 -23.33% 72
Yorkshire -25 42 £52,130 -9.13% 26
North West -26 40 £77,500 +11.82% 33
South West -44 28 £62,500 -3.85% 29
Midlands -36 26 £55,200 -15.08% 31
Scotland -29 19 £67,500 +8.00% 14
East of England -57 18 £45,000 -21.74% 34
West Midlands -8 17 £50,100 -22.92% 22
North East -16 12 £53,565 -22.76% 10
East Midlands -41 9 £65,000 -7.14% 9
Wales -39 6 £73,801 +13.54% 6
Northern Ireland -25 4 £73,801 +18.74% 2

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 26 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.78%) Confluence
5 14 (2.59%) OpenStack
6 12 (2.22%) Apache
7 9 (1.67%) Tomcat
7 9 (1.67%) WebSphere
8 8 (1.48%) ArcGIS
8 8 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
9 6 (1.11%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.74%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.74%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.37%) Camunda
11 2 (0.37%) CMS
11 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.37%) nginx
11 2 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.19%) IIS
12 1 (0.19%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Endur
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 357 (66.11%) AWS
2 210 (38.89%) Azure
3 148 (27.41%) GCP
4 95 (17.59%) Serverless
5 70 (12.96%) Amazon ECS
6 63 (11.67%) Amazon S3
7 58 (10.74%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (10.37%) GitHub
9 48 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (7.78%) Amazon SQS
12 41 (7.59%) dbt
12 41 (7.59%) SaaS
13 35 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (5.74%) Power Platform
15 28 (5.19%) Amazon ECR
16 27 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 25 (4.63%) Pulumi
18 23 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.30%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.41%) VPN
3 11 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (1.85%) DHCP
4 10 (1.85%) DNS
5 9 (1.67%) SSL
6 8 (1.48%) Firewall
7 7 (1.30%) Internet
7 7 (1.30%) Network Security
8 4 (0.74%) VLAN
9 3 (0.56%) HTTP
9 3 (0.56%) iSCSI
9 3 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.56%) SAN
10 2 (0.37%) AMQP
10 2 (0.37%) PBX
10 2 (0.37%) WAN
11 1 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.19%) LTE
11 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (22.04%) SQL Server
2 104 (19.26%) MongoDB
3 103 (19.07%) Relational Database
4 101 (18.70%) MySQL
5 84 (15.56%) NoSQL
6 54 (10.00%) Redis
7 40 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
8 36 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (5.93%) DynamoDB
10 31 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
11 28 (5.19%) Power BI
12 27 (5.00%) DB2
13 20 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
14 18 (3.33%) RDBMS
15 17 (3.15%) BigQuery
16 14 (2.59%) Oracle Database
17 12 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (2.22%) Big Data
17 12 (2.22%) GIS
18 9 (1.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 118 (21.85%) Git
2 79 (14.63%) Jenkins
3 31 (5.74%) GitLab
4 30 (5.56%) JIRA
5 29 (5.37%) JUnit
6 27 (5.00%) Cucumber
7 22 (4.07%) Cypress.io
7 22 (4.07%) Selenium
8 20 (3.70%) Bitbucket
8 20 (3.70%) TeamCity
9 15 (2.78%) Mockito
10 9 (1.67%) JMeter
11 7 (1.30%) Maven
11 7 (1.30%) Vite
12 6 (1.11%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.74%) Gradle
13 4 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.74%) Subversion
14 3 (0.56%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.56%) Storybook
General
1 142 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 113 (20.93%) Finance
3 57 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (7.41%) Banking
7 34 (6.30%) Law
8 23 (4.26%) Retail
9 19 (3.52%) Front Office
10 10 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.30%) Advertising
11 7 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.74%) Back Office
13 4 (0.74%) Games
13 4 (0.74%) Legal
13 4 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 185 (34.26%) Developer
2 108 (20.00%) Senior
3 99 (18.33%) Software Engineer
4 75 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 66 (12.22%) Lead
6 56 (10.37%) Java Developer
7 32 (5.93%) Java Engineer
8 30 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 30 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 26 (4.81%) Lead Developer
9 26 (4.81%) Python Engineer
10 25 (4.63%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (4.44%) Architect
12 22 (4.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 22 (4.07%) Python Developer
13 21 (3.89%) Principal Engineer
13 21 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (3.70%) Analyst
15 19 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
16 18 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (33.89%) React
2 112 (20.74%) Node.js
3 88 (16.30%) Spring
4 87 (16.11%) RESTful
5 82 (15.19%) Spring Boot
6 72 (13.33%) Django
7 62 (11.48%) REST
8 54 (10.00%) FastAPI
9 52 (9.63%) Kafka
10 50 (9.26%) HTML
11 48 (8.89%) CSS
12 47 (8.70%) .NET
13 40 (7.41%) AngularJS
14 36 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
15 31 (5.74%) Vue
16 30 (5.56%) Next.js
17 29 (5.37%) Flask
18 27 (5.00%) JSON
18 27 (5.00%) Web Services
19 24 (4.44%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 82 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 52 (9.63%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.33%) Data Structures
6 18 (3.33%) Equities
6 18 (3.33%) Fixed Income
7 17 (3.15%) Derivative
7 17 (3.15%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.78%) Blog
9 15 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.59%) Replication
11 11 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.67%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.48%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.30%) Driving Licence
14 7 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (16.67%) Linux
2 42 (7.78%) Unix
3 30 (5.56%) Windows
4 15 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.30%) Android
6 7 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.56%) Debian
9 2 (0.37%) CentOS
9 2 (0.37%) VMS
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.19%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (42.04%) CI/CD
2 203 (37.59%) Agile
3 174 (32.22%) Microservices
4 169 (31.30%) Software Engineering
5 155 (28.70%) DevOps
6 144 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 127 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (19.26%) Containerisation
9 98 (18.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 93 (17.22%) Mentoring
11 91 (16.85%) Test Automation
12 84 (15.56%) AI
13 66 (12.22%) TDD
14 65 (12.04%) Fintech
15 62 (11.48%) Scrum
16 59 (10.93%) Clean Code
16 59 (10.93%) Data Modelling
17 57 (10.56%) Observability
17 57 (10.56%) Technical Leadership
18 50 (9.26%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 247 (45.74%) Python
2 185 (34.26%) Java
3 171 (31.67%) SQL
4 150 (27.78%) JavaScript
5 116 (21.48%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.15%) C#
7 34 (6.30%) Go
8 29 (5.37%) PowerShell
9 22 (4.07%) PHP
10 21 (3.89%) Ruby
11 17 (3.15%) C
12 13 (2.41%) Delphi
13 12 (2.22%) Shell Script
14 11 (2.04%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.67%) C++
16 8 (1.48%) Bash
16 8 (1.48%) Rust
17 5 (0.93%) Perl
18 4 (0.74%) Pascal
18 4 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 72 (13.33%) Degree
3 70 (12.96%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.89%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.37%) RHCE
12 2 (0.37%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.37%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.19%) MCSA
13 1 (0.19%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.93%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.33%) QA
3 13 (2.41%) GDPR
3 13 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.85%) SLA
5 9 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.37%) NCSC
7 2 (0.37%) PSD2
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 200 (37.04%) Docker
2 20 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.37%) Samba
5 1 (0.19%) Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) NFS
Systems Management
1 176 (32.59%) Kubernetes
2 120 (22.22%) Terraform
3 40 (7.41%) Ansible
4 34 (6.30%) Grafana
5 19 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.15%) AWS Copilot
7 13 (2.41%) Kibana
8 11 (2.04%) Argo
9 5 (0.93%) Nagios
10 4 (0.74%) Control-M
10 4 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.56%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.56%) Puppet
11 3 (0.56%) Rancher
12 1 (0.19%) Ambari
12 1 (0.19%) Istio
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
12 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (12.78%) Oracle
2 52 (9.63%) Google
3 38 (7.04%) Microsoft
4 21 (3.89%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.78%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.59%) Informatica
7 13 (2.41%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.41%) IBM
8 11 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.67%) Talend
10 8 (1.48%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.48%) ESRI
10 8 (1.48%) Pega
11 7 (1.30%) Splunk
12 6 (1.11%) Databricks
13 5 (0.93%) Confluent
13 5 (0.93%) Dell
13 5 (0.93%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.93%) VMware
13 5 (0.93%) WSO2