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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 175 177
Rank change year-on-year -112 +2 +10
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 560 752 1,556
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.80% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.14% 10.15% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 406 535 1,158
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £58,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,375 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -4.35%

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 7,843 7,409 17,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.94% 17.71% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,587 5,192 12,541
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -121 463 £69,305 -7.59% 261
UK excluding London -112 283 £60,000 -7.69% 157
Work from Home -54 263 £65,000 -7.14% 179
London -110 196 £86,000 -1.71% 143
North of England -39 100 £67,500 - 36
South East -95 81 £57,500 -17.86% 49
Yorkshire -32 46 £52,130 -12.73% 8
North West -41 41 £77,500 +14.71% 20
South West -52 34 £61,250 -5.77% 21
Scotland -30 23 £67,500 +8.00% 11
East of England -57 22 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Midlands -40 21 £51,350 -21.00% 20
North East -31 13 £53,565 -22.80% 8
West Midlands -34 12 £46,250 -28.85% 8
East Midlands -56 9 £60,100 -14.14% 12
Wales -52 5 £73,801 +13.54% 6
Northern Ireland -45 2 £73,801 +34.18% 5

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 33 (5.89%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 17 (3.04%) Apache
5 13 (2.32%) Confluence
5 13 (2.32%) OpenStack
6 11 (1.96%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.61%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.89%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.89%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.36%) Camunda
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.36%) WildFly
10 1 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 346 (61.79%) AWS
2 210 (37.50%) Azure
3 134 (23.93%) GCP
4 97 (17.32%) Serverless
5 63 (11.25%) Amazon S3
6 60 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
6 60 (10.71%) GitHub
7 58 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (9.29%) SaaS
9 49 (8.75%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 37 (6.61%) Power Platform
11 35 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (5.71%) dbt
13 31 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
14 29 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (3.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 20 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.46%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.68%) DHCP
2 15 (2.68%) DNS
3 12 (2.14%) Firewall
4 10 (1.79%) VPN
5 8 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.25%) Broadband
6 7 (1.25%) Internet
6 7 (1.25%) iSCSI
6 7 (1.25%) Network Security
6 7 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (1.25%) SAN
7 3 (0.54%) HTTP
7 3 (0.54%) VLAN
8 2 (0.36%) LAN
8 2 (0.36%) MQTT
8 2 (0.36%) PBX
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) LTE
9 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (23.21%) SQL Server
2 124 (22.14%) MongoDB
3 112 (20.00%) MySQL
4 97 (17.32%) Relational Database
5 95 (16.96%) NoSQL
6 46 (8.21%) Redis
7 36 (6.43%) Elasticsearch
8 34 (6.07%) DynamoDB
9 30 (5.36%) Power BI
10 29 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
13 16 (2.86%) BigQuery
13 16 (2.86%) GIS
13 16 (2.86%) Oracle Database
14 15 (2.68%) DB2
14 15 (2.68%) RDBMS
15 13 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (2.14%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.79%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 126 (22.50%) Git
2 60 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 35 (6.25%) GitLab
4 27 (4.82%) JIRA
5 24 (4.29%) Cypress.io
5 24 (4.29%) JUnit
6 21 (3.75%) Bitbucket
6 21 (3.75%) Selenium
7 20 (3.57%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.21%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.14%) Mockito
10 10 (1.79%) Maven
11 9 (1.61%) Vite
12 6 (1.07%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.89%) Gradle
14 4 (0.71%) JMeter
15 3 (0.54%) Storybook
15 3 (0.54%) Subversion
16 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
16 2 (0.36%) MSTest
General
1 147 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 101 (18.04%) Finance
3 54 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.54%) Banking
7 29 (5.18%) Law
8 28 (5.00%) Retail
9 18 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (3.04%) Front Office
11 13 (2.32%) Advertising
12 10 (1.79%) Games
12 10 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.61%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.07%) Legal
17 5 (0.89%) Automotive
18 4 (0.71%) Back Office
18 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (31.96%) Developer
2 116 (20.71%) Senior
3 94 (16.79%) Software Engineer
4 77 (13.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 75 (13.39%) Lead
6 48 (8.57%) Java Developer
7 40 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 40 (7.14%) Python Engineer
8 33 (5.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 30 (5.36%) Java Engineer
10 29 (5.18%) Lead Developer
11 27 (4.82%) Architect
12 24 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 19 (3.39%) Analyst
15 19 (3.39%) IT Support
15 19 (3.39%) Java Software Engineer
15 19 (3.39%) Python Developer
15 19 (3.39%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (33.39%) React
2 119 (21.25%) Node.js
3 90 (16.07%) RESTful
4 70 (12.50%) Spring
5 66 (11.79%) Spring Boot
6 64 (11.43%) REST
7 62 (11.07%) Django
8 51 (9.11%) FastAPI
8 51 (9.11%) Kafka
9 48 (8.57%) .NET
10 41 (7.32%) HTML
11 39 (6.96%) CSS
12 36 (6.43%) AngularJS
13 33 (5.89%) JSON
14 32 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
15 31 (5.54%) Flask
16 30 (5.36%) Next.js
16 30 (5.36%) Vue
17 24 (4.29%) Jest
17 24 (4.29%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.21%) Replication
6 17 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.86%) Derivative
7 16 (2.86%) Equities
7 16 (2.86%) Fixed Income
8 15 (2.68%) Blog
9 14 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (2.32%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.79%) SCADA
13 9 (1.61%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 82 (14.64%) Linux
2 29 (5.18%) Unix
2 29 (5.18%) Windows
3 15 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.25%) Android
5 7 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.36%) Debian
9 2 (0.36%) VMS
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.18%) AIX
10 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (41.96%) CI/CD
2 196 (35.00%) Agile
3 172 (30.71%) Microservices
4 165 (29.46%) Software Engineering
5 154 (27.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 151 (26.96%) DevOps
7 112 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 112 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (18.57%) AI
9 103 (18.39%) Containerisation
9 103 (18.39%) Test Automation
10 95 (16.96%) Mentoring
11 69 (12.32%) Data Modelling
12 66 (11.79%) Scrum
13 65 (11.61%) Analytics
13 65 (11.61%) TDD
14 60 (10.71%) Observability
15 58 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 53 (9.46%) Clean Code
17 52 (9.29%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 257 (45.89%) Python
2 182 (32.50%) SQL
3 171 (30.54%) Java
4 141 (25.18%) JavaScript
5 109 (19.46%) TypeScript
6 47 (8.39%) C#
7 41 (7.32%) Go
8 31 (5.54%) PowerShell
9 27 (4.82%) Ruby
10 25 (4.46%) PHP
11 17 (3.04%) C
12 16 (2.86%) Bash
13 13 (2.32%) Delphi
14 11 (1.96%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.79%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.61%) C++
17 8 (1.43%) Perl
17 8 (1.43%) Scala
18 7 (1.25%) VB
19 6 (1.07%) Korn
Qualifications
1 90 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.50%) Degree
3 63 (11.25%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.32%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.54%) RHCE
12 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.36%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.46%) QA
3 15 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.50%) GDPR
5 11 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.71%) SLA
7 3 (0.54%) NCSC
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.36%) WCAG
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 190 (33.93%) Docker
2 29 (5.18%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 184 (32.86%) Kubernetes
2 130 (23.21%) Terraform
3 39 (6.96%) Grafana
4 38 (6.79%) Ansible
5 23 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.39%) Argo
7 10 (1.79%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.07%) Data Guard
8 6 (1.07%) Kibana
9 5 (0.89%) Nagios
10 4 (0.71%) Control-M
10 4 (0.71%) Istio
10 4 (0.71%) Rancher
11 3 (0.54%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.36%) Puppet
13 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 68 (12.14%) Oracle
2 52 (9.29%) Microsoft
3 42 (7.50%) Google
4 22 (3.93%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.68%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.32%) Informatica
7 9 (1.61%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.61%) ESRI
8 8 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.43%) Talend
9 7 (1.25%) Databricks
9 7 (1.25%) Dell
9 7 (1.25%) Pega
10 6 (1.07%) Confluent
11 5 (0.89%) IBM
11 5 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.71%) Splunk
12 4 (0.71%) VMware
13 3 (0.54%) Revolut