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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 219 173
Rank change year-on-year -57 -46 +41
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 628 705 1,697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.59% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.86% 9.55% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 470 512 1,176
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,188 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -8.70%

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 7,989 7,386 17,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 16.63% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,163 4,762 12,631
10th Percentile £35,500 £35,525 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,714 £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 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,925 £98,750
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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -69 540 £69,305 -7.59% 212
Work from Home +31 330 £67,500 -6.24% 135
UK excluding London -82 323 £62,500 -3.85% 139
London -84 218 £85,000 -10.53% 105
North of England -22 115 £65,000 -3.70% 38
South East -3 112 £58,500 +11.43% 46
North West -11 49 £67,500 -2.71% 27
Yorkshire -22 38 £56,065 -16.94% 7
South West -51 38 £62,500 - 17
North East -22 28 £65,000 +23.81% 4
East of England -27 23 £47,500 +46.15% 10
Scotland -4 18 £67,500 +8.00% 9
Midlands -46 13 £75,000 +11.11% 20
West Midlands -42 10 £77,500 +14.71% 12
Wales -60 5 £70,000 -3.53% 1
East Midlands -29 3 £67,500 +12.50% 8
Northern Ireland -36 1 £73,801 +34.18% 3

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 28 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.66%) Apache
4 18 (2.87%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.23%) Confluence
6 12 (1.91%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.27%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.80%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.80%) WordPress
9 3 (0.48%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.32%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Moodle
11 1 (0.16%) nginx
11 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.11%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 381 (60.67%) AWS
2 226 (35.99%) Azure
3 108 (17.20%) GCP
4 101 (16.08%) Serverless
5 67 (10.67%) GitHub
6 58 (9.24%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (9.24%) Amazon S3
6 58 (9.24%) SaaS
7 53 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (6.53%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (6.21%) Power Platform
11 36 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
13 27 (4.30%) Azure AKS
13 27 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.10%) Broadband
2 17 (2.71%) Firewall
3 16 (2.55%) DNS
3 16 (2.55%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.39%) DHCP
5 10 (1.59%) VPN
6 8 (1.27%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.27%) SAN
7 7 (1.11%) Network Security
7 7 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.96%) Internet
9 4 (0.64%) VLAN
10 3 (0.48%) HTTP
11 2 (0.32%) LAN
11 2 (0.32%) MQTT
11 2 (0.32%) PBX
11 2 (0.32%) WAN
12 1 (0.16%) SMS
12 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (30.10%) MongoDB
2 140 (22.29%) MySQL
3 106 (16.88%) SQL Server
4 97 (15.45%) NoSQL
4 97 (15.45%) Relational Database
5 54 (8.60%) Redis
6 31 (4.94%) Power BI
7 26 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (2.87%) DynamoDB
9 17 (2.71%) Apache Cassandra
9 17 (2.71%) Oracle Database
10 16 (2.55%) GIS
11 15 (2.39%) Pinecone
12 14 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (2.07%) Metadata
13 13 (2.07%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.75%) MariaDB
14 11 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 124 (19.75%) Git
2 46 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 42 (6.69%) GitLab
4 26 (4.14%) JIRA
5 24 (3.82%) Cypress.io
6 19 (3.03%) JUnit
7 16 (2.55%) Mockito
8 13 (2.07%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.91%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.59%) JMeter
11 9 (1.43%) Vite
12 7 (1.11%) Maven
12 7 (1.11%) Selenium
13 6 (0.96%) Claude Code
14 5 (0.80%) Cucumber
15 3 (0.48%) DBeaver
15 3 (0.48%) Liquibase
15 3 (0.48%) Mocha
15 3 (0.48%) Storybook
16 2 (0.32%) Jaeger
General
1 145 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 91 (14.49%) Finance
3 81 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.41%) Games
7 31 (4.94%) Retail
8 27 (4.30%) Law
9 25 (3.98%) Banking
10 19 (3.03%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.55%) Front Office
12 15 (2.39%) Advertising
12 15 (2.39%) Legal
13 11 (1.75%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.27%) Aviation
15 8 (1.27%) Legal Technology
16 7 (1.11%) Automotive
17 6 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 212 (33.76%) Developer
2 125 (19.90%) Senior
3 111 (17.68%) Software Engineer
4 96 (15.29%) Lead
5 79 (12.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 51 (8.12%) Python Engineer
7 43 (6.85%) Lead Developer
8 41 (6.53%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.37%) Architect
9 40 (6.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 36 (5.73%) Data Engineer
11 35 (5.57%) Java Engineer
11 35 (5.57%) Python Developer
12 34 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
13 33 (5.25%) Lead Software Engineer
14 31 (4.94%) Senior Developer
15 24 (3.82%) Software Developer
16 22 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
17 21 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
18 20 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (27.87%) React
2 157 (25.00%) Node.js
3 115 (18.31%) RESTful
4 80 (12.74%) REST
5 74 (11.78%) Spring
6 70 (11.15%) Spring Boot
7 55 (8.76%) Kafka
8 52 (8.28%) FastAPI
9 49 (7.80%) CSS
10 45 (7.17%) HTML
10 45 (7.17%) Ruby on Rails
11 44 (7.01%) JSON
12 43 (6.85%) .NET
13 37 (5.89%) Next.js
14 35 (5.57%) Django
15 34 (5.41%) AngularJS
16 33 (5.25%) Jest
17 29 (4.62%) Vue
18 26 (4.14%) Flask
19 25 (3.98%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 139 (22.13%) Cloud Native
2 67 (10.67%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.25%) Low-Code
4 32 (5.10%) Video\Live Streaming
5 22 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 22 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.18%) Algorithms
7 19 (3.03%) Blog
8 18 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.87%) Replication
9 16 (2.55%) Derivative
9 16 (2.55%) Equities
9 16 (2.55%) Fixed Income
9 16 (2.55%) Management Information System
10 13 (2.07%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.59%) SCADA
13 9 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 97 (15.45%) Linux
2 43 (6.85%) Windows
3 25 (3.98%) Unix
4 19 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.48%) CentOS
8 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.32%) Android
9 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Debian
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (42.52%) CI/CD
2 226 (35.99%) Agile
3 197 (31.37%) Software Engineering
4 190 (30.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 180 (28.66%) Microservices
6 145 (23.09%) AI
6 145 (23.09%) DevOps
7 142 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 119 (18.95%) Mentoring
9 115 (18.31%) Test Automation
10 111 (17.68%) Containerisation
11 106 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
12 104 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 95 (15.13%) Observability
14 77 (12.26%) Data Modelling
15 74 (11.78%) Scrum
16 73 (11.62%) Analytics
17 71 (11.31%) API Design
18 69 (10.99%) TDD
19 64 (10.19%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 277 (44.11%) Python
2 179 (28.50%) Java
3 178 (28.34%) SQL
4 156 (24.84%) JavaScript
5 123 (19.59%) TypeScript
6 54 (8.60%) Go
7 49 (7.80%) C#
8 46 (7.32%) Ruby
9 40 (6.37%) PowerShell
10 31 (4.94%) Bash
11 26 (4.14%) PHP
12 15 (2.39%) Shell Script
13 14 (2.23%) C++
14 12 (1.91%) C
14 12 (1.91%) Scala
14 12 (1.91%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.59%) Perl
16 7 (1.11%) Korn
17 6 (0.96%) VB
18 4 (0.64%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 88 (14.01%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.26%) Degree
3 63 (10.03%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.71%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.64%) PhD
11 3 (0.48%) RHCE
11 3 (0.48%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.32%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.16%) CISSP
13 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.12%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.78%) QA
3 23 (3.66%) GDPR
4 17 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.91%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.48%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.32%) NCSC
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.16%) HL7
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 172 (27.39%) Docker
2 30 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 179 (28.50%) Kubernetes
2 131 (20.86%) Terraform
3 37 (5.89%) Ansible
4 33 (5.25%) Grafana
5 29 (4.62%) Argo
6 20 (3.18%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.59%) Kibana
8 7 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.11%) Puppet
9 6 (0.96%) Istio
9 6 (0.96%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.80%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.64%) Control-M
11 4 (0.64%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.48%) Packer
12 3 (0.48%) Plesk
13 2 (0.32%) Nagios
13 2 (0.32%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.46%) Oracle
3 33 (5.25%) Google
4 19 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.87%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.23%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.59%) Splunk
8 8 (1.27%) Databricks
8 8 (1.27%) Dell
8 8 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.11%) Pega
10 6 (0.96%) Informatica
11 5 (0.80%) ESRI
11 5 (0.80%) IBM
11 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.80%) VMware
12 4 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.64%) Confluent
12 4 (0.64%) Netezza
12 4 (0.64%) Remedy