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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 142 181
Rank change year-on-year -80 +39 -42
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 601 1,262 980
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.88% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.69% 11.91% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 427 571 827
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £107,500 £93,750 £86,875
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

All Database and 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 6,913 10,597 11,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.13% 15.82% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,491 5,993 8,923
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% -

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 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 -86 546 £75,000 +3.45% 782
London -25 321 £100,000 +17.65% 522
UK excluding London -113 270 £62,500 - 315
Work from Home -73 257 £75,000 +7.14% 563
North of England -11 84 £67,500 -2.61% 109
South East -102 67 £65,000 +8.33% 94
Midlands +22 40 £55,200 -15.08% 37
North West -28 38 £70,000 +12.00% 79
South West -22 37 £54,000 -16.92% 30
Yorkshire +15 31 £70,000 -3.45% 23
West Midlands +42 29 £70,000 +7.69% 24
Scotland -19 22 £73,801 +31.27% 17
North East +14 15 £52,500 -24.25% 7
East of England -48 15 £42,500 -26.09% 18
East Midlands +10 11 £50,000 -9.09% 13
Wales -9 6 £69,401 +6.77% 5
Northern Ireland -4 3 £73,801 +13.54% 9

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 73 (12.15%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.66%) Confluence
4 19 (3.16%) WebSphere
5 18 (3.00%) Tomcat
6 16 (2.66%) WebSphere Application Server
7 11 (1.83%) nginx
8 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.00%) Apache
9 6 (1.00%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.67%) JBoss
11 3 (0.50%) CMS
11 3 (0.50%) IIS
11 3 (0.50%) Luigi
11 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
11 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.33%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.33%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Notion
3 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 440 (73.21%) AWS
2 200 (33.28%) Azure
3 181 (30.12%) GCP
4 92 (15.31%) Serverless
5 87 (14.48%) dbt
6 74 (12.31%) Amazon ECS
7 64 (10.65%) GitHub
8 57 (9.48%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (8.49%) Amazon S3
10 45 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
11 35 (5.82%) SaaS
12 32 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
15 25 (4.16%) Power Platform
16 21 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
16 21 (3.49%) Pulumi
17 20 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 20 (3.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.66%) TCP/IP
2 20 (3.33%) Firewall
2 20 (3.33%) SSL
3 10 (1.66%) iSCSI
3 10 (1.66%) Remote Desktop
3 10 (1.66%) SAN
4 9 (1.50%) DNS
4 9 (1.50%) HTTP
5 8 (1.33%) FTP
5 8 (1.33%) SSH
5 8 (1.33%) VPN
6 7 (1.16%) IMAP
6 7 (1.16%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (1.16%) SMTP
7 5 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.67%) MQTT
9 3 (0.50%) AMQP
9 3 (0.50%) Asterisk PBX
9 3 (0.50%) Multicast
10 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (22.30%) Relational Database
2 126 (20.97%) SQL Server
3 123 (20.47%) MySQL
4 103 (17.14%) MongoDB
5 82 (13.64%) NoSQL
6 61 (10.15%) Amazon Athena
7 60 (9.98%) Apache Iceberg
8 55 (9.15%) Apache Arrow
8 55 (9.15%) Dremio
9 50 (8.32%) RDBMS
10 49 (8.15%) Amazon RDS
11 48 (7.99%) Redis
12 35 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (5.16%) DynamoDB
14 30 (4.99%) DB2
15 29 (4.83%) Elasticsearch
16 26 (4.33%) Amazon Aurora
17 23 (3.83%) Power BI
18 22 (3.66%) Big Data
19 17 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 108 (17.97%) Jenkins
2 95 (15.81%) Git
3 46 (7.65%) JUnit
4 43 (7.15%) JIRA
5 31 (5.16%) Mockito
6 30 (4.99%) GitLab
7 27 (4.49%) JMeter
8 26 (4.33%) Selenium
9 25 (4.16%) Cucumber
10 19 (3.16%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.83%) Maven
12 10 (1.66%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.16%) CircleCI
13 7 (1.16%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.16%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.16%) Vagrant
14 6 (1.00%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (1.00%) DbUnit
14 6 (1.00%) jMock
14 6 (1.00%) REST Assured
General
1 181 (30.12%) Finance
2 133 (22.13%) Social Skills
3 68 (11.31%) Front Office
3 68 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.98%) Banking
5 49 (8.15%) Law
6 48 (7.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (5.99%) Marketing
9 21 (3.49%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.16%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.66%) Electronics
12 15 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (2.33%) Investment Banking
13 14 (2.33%) Retail
14 13 (2.16%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.66%) Advertising
16 8 (1.33%) Legal
17 5 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 254 (42.26%) Developer
2 134 (22.30%) Software Engineer
3 113 (18.80%) Senior
4 82 (13.64%) Lead
5 79 (13.14%) Python Developer
6 74 (12.31%) Java Developer
7 72 (11.98%) Python Engineer
8 66 (10.98%) AWS Engineer
9 64 (10.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 64 (10.65%) Python Software Engineer
10 63 (10.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 60 (9.98%) AWS Developer
12 57 (9.48%) AWS Software Engineer
13 41 (6.82%) Java Engineer
14 37 (6.16%) Software Developer
15 35 (5.82%) Lead Developer
16 33 (5.49%) Data Engineer
17 31 (5.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 30 (4.99%) Senior Developer
19 27 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (30.12%) React
2 137 (22.80%) Node.js
3 111 (18.47%) Spring
4 103 (17.14%) Spring Boot
5 101 (16.81%) AngularJS
6 91 (15.14%) RESTful
7 87 (14.48%) REST
8 78 (12.98%) Vue
9 74 (12.31%) FastAPI
10 69 (11.48%) Kafka
11 68 (11.31%) Django
11 68 (11.31%) HTML
12 57 (9.48%) NumPy
12 57 (9.48%) Pandas
13 55 (9.15%) SciPy
14 51 (8.49%) CSS
15 44 (7.32%) Flask
16 43 (7.15%) Web Services
17 42 (6.99%) .NET
18 37 (6.16%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 66 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (9.82%) Equities
3 59 (9.82%) Fixed Income
3 59 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (5.49%) Linux Command Line
5 31 (5.16%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.99%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (3.16%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.66%) Replication
10 12 (2.00%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.00%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.83%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.66%) Derivative
12 10 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.50%) Distributed Applications
14 8 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
15 7 (1.16%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 116 (19.30%) Linux
2 49 (8.15%) Unix
3 47 (7.82%) Windows
4 28 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.00%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.50%) VMS
7 8 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (1.00%) Debian
9 6 (1.00%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.67%) Android
10 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.33%) CentOS
13 1 (0.17%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (44.43%) Agile
2 232 (38.60%) CI/CD
3 203 (33.78%) Software Engineering
4 165 (27.45%) Microservices
5 162 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (23.96%) DevOps
7 125 (20.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 110 (18.30%) Containerisation
9 109 (18.14%) Fintech
10 95 (15.81%) AI
11 85 (14.14%) Mentoring
12 79 (13.14%) Clean Code
13 78 (12.98%) TDD
14 76 (12.65%) Test Automation
15 64 (10.65%) Asset Management
16 63 (10.48%) Data Engineering
16 63 (10.48%) Investment Management
17 62 (10.32%) ETL
18 59 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
19 58 (9.65%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 319 (53.08%) Python
2 191 (31.78%) Java
3 185 (30.78%) JavaScript
4 172 (28.62%) SQL
5 146 (24.29%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.65%) C#
7 27 (4.49%) Shell Script
8 23 (3.83%) Bash
9 20 (3.33%) PHP
9 20 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 19 (3.16%) Go
11 14 (2.33%) Rust
12 11 (1.83%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.66%) Ruby
13 10 (1.66%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.50%) Groovy
15 8 (1.33%) Delphi
15 8 (1.33%) Korn
16 6 (1.00%) C
17 4 (0.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 107 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.98%) SC Cleared
3 77 (12.81%) Degree
4 38 (6.32%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.00%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.33%) CCNA
13 2 (0.33%) CCNP
13 2 (0.33%) HNC
13 2 (0.33%) HND
13 2 (0.33%) MCSA
13 2 (0.33%) MCSE
13 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.49%) QA
2 26 (4.33%) SLA
3 20 (3.33%) GDPR
4 17 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.83%) NIST
7 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.50%) SEPA
8 2 (0.33%) PSD2
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 233 (38.77%) Docker
2 11 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (1.33%) Postfix
5 7 (1.16%) DFS Replication
5 7 (1.16%) Dovecot
5 7 (1.16%) Squid
6 5 (0.83%) zsh
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Flume
7 2 (0.33%) HDFS
7 2 (0.33%) NFS
7 2 (0.33%) pfSense
7 2 (0.33%) Samba
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 184 (30.62%) Kubernetes
2 93 (15.47%) Terraform
3 32 (5.32%) Grafana
3 32 (5.32%) Kibana
4 24 (3.99%) Ansible
5 22 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.00%) AWS Copilot
7 7 (1.16%) Argo
7 7 (1.16%) Nessus
7 7 (1.16%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.67%) logstash
9 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.50%) Puppet
11 2 (0.33%) Nagios
11 2 (0.33%) Oozie
12 1 (0.17%) Ambari
12 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 93 (15.47%) Oracle
2 44 (7.32%) Google
3 37 (6.16%) Microsoft
3 37 (6.16%) Splunk
4 32 (5.32%) Red Hat
5 25 (4.16%) Dynatrace
6 22 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 20 (3.33%) IBM
7 20 (3.33%) SAP
8 18 (3.00%) Atlassian
8 18 (3.00%) Informatica
9 15 (2.50%) Databricks
9 15 (2.50%) Talend
10 12 (2.00%) Dell
10 12 (2.00%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.50%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.33%) Jaspersoft
13 7 (1.16%) RedGate
14 4 (0.67%) Vertica
14 4 (0.67%) WSO2