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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 134 203
Rank change year-on-year -141 +69 -12
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 515 1,100 1,188
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 2.33% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.51% 12.63% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 359 548 971
10th Percentile £41,000 £49,007 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £96,875 £98,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £116,500 £118,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,934 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.36% +16.41% +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 6,861 8,706 14,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 18.42% 19.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,166 5,069 11,518
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -153 435 £74,651 -3.68% 284
Work from Home -110 234 £67,500 -3.23% 151
UK excluding London -163 231 £60,000 -10.36% 193
London -93 228 £95,000 +8.57% 138
North of England -17 90 £68,750 -0.80% 63
South East -139 57 £56,250 -29.69% 50
Yorkshire -10 43 £60,000 +4.59% 15
North West -31 37 £77,500 +11.70% 34
Midlands -32 26 £55,200 -15.08% 24
South West -46 23 £65,000 -1.89% 24
West Midlands -3 17 £50,100 -22.92% 20
Scotland -38 15 £73,801 +22.49% 16
East of England -48 15 £42,500 -26.09% 12
North East -10 10 £53,665 -22.61% 15
East Midlands -41 9 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Wales -30 6 £73,801 +13.54% 5
Northern Ireland -29 4 £73,801 +34.18% 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 30 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (2.91%) Confluence
5 13 (2.52%) OpenStack
6 11 (2.14%) Tomcat
6 11 (2.14%) WebSphere
7 10 (1.94%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (1.75%) Apache
9 8 (1.55%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.97%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.78%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.78%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.58%) nginx
13 2 (0.39%) Camunda
13 2 (0.39%) CMS
13 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
14 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (2.14%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Endur
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 349 (67.77%) AWS
2 194 (37.67%) Azure
3 136 (26.41%) GCP
4 95 (18.45%) Serverless
5 69 (13.40%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (12.04%) Amazon S3
7 57 (11.07%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (10.68%) GitHub
9 50 (9.71%) Amazon EKS
10 49 (9.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (8.93%) dbt
12 39 (7.57%) Amazon SQS
13 38 (7.38%) SaaS
14 36 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 30 (5.83%) Amazon ECR
17 29 (5.63%) Power Platform
18 27 (5.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 26 (5.05%) Pulumi
20 21 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.80%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.52%) VPN
3 12 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (2.14%) SSL
5 9 (1.75%) DHCP
5 9 (1.75%) DNS
6 8 (1.55%) Firewall
7 7 (1.36%) Internet
8 6 (1.17%) Network Security
9 5 (0.97%) VLAN
10 3 (0.58%) HTTP
10 3 (0.58%) MQTT
10 3 (0.58%) WAN
11 2 (0.39%) BGP
11 2 (0.39%) OSPF
11 2 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.39%) RTMP
11 2 (0.39%) SAN
11 2 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (22.14%) SQL Server
2 97 (18.83%) MongoDB
2 97 (18.83%) Relational Database
3 90 (17.48%) MySQL
4 77 (14.95%) NoSQL
5 55 (10.68%) Redis
6 41 (7.96%) Elasticsearch
7 37 (7.18%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (6.02%) DB2
8 31 (6.02%) DynamoDB
9 26 (5.05%) Power BI
10 17 (3.30%) Apache Cassandra
10 17 (3.30%) RDBMS
11 15 (2.91%) Oracle Database
12 13 (2.52%) Big Data
13 12 (2.33%) BigQuery
14 11 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
14 11 (2.14%) GIS
15 10 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 107 (20.78%) Git
2 84 (16.31%) Jenkins
3 31 (6.02%) JIRA
4 30 (5.83%) GitLab
5 28 (5.44%) Cucumber
6 27 (5.24%) JUnit
7 26 (5.05%) Selenium
8 21 (4.08%) Bitbucket
8 21 (4.08%) TeamCity
9 20 (3.88%) Cypress.io
10 13 (2.52%) JMeter
10 13 (2.52%) Mockito
11 7 (1.36%) Maven
11 7 (1.36%) Vite
12 6 (1.17%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.17%) Subversion
13 5 (0.97%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.78%) Gradle
14 4 (0.78%) Jaeger
14 4 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 136 (26.41%) Social Skills
2 109 (21.17%) Finance
3 52 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.16%) Banking
4 42 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.60%) Law
7 23 (4.47%) Retail
8 20 (3.88%) Front Office
9 11 (2.14%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.36%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.17%) Advertising
13 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.78%) Back Office
14 4 (0.78%) Legal
14 4 (0.78%) Marketing
14 4 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 178 (34.56%) Developer
2 104 (20.19%) Senior
3 93 (18.06%) Software Engineer
4 70 (13.59%) Full-Stack Developer
5 59 (11.46%) Lead
6 55 (10.68%) Java Developer
7 33 (6.41%) Java Engineer
8 30 (5.83%) Data Engineer
8 30 (5.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 26 (5.05%) Python Engineer
10 24 (4.66%) Python Developer
11 23 (4.47%) Lead Developer
11 23 (4.47%) Principal Engineer
12 21 (4.08%) Architect
12 21 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (3.88%) Software Developer
14 19 (3.69%) Analyst
14 19 (3.69%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (33.79%) React
2 108 (20.97%) Node.js
3 84 (16.31%) Spring
4 79 (15.34%) RESTful
5 78 (15.15%) Spring Boot
6 72 (13.98%) Django
7 59 (11.46%) REST
8 54 (10.49%) Kafka
9 52 (10.10%) FastAPI
10 49 (9.51%) HTML
11 45 (8.74%) CSS
12 44 (8.54%) .NET
13 43 (8.35%) AngularJS
14 36 (6.99%) Elastic Stack
15 35 (6.80%) Vue
16 29 (5.63%) Flask
17 28 (5.44%) Next.js
18 26 (5.05%) Web Services
19 25 (4.85%) JSON
20 24 (4.66%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 77 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 56 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.44%) Linux Command Line
4 21 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.69%) Equities
5 19 (3.69%) Fixed Income
6 16 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.91%) Blog
7 15 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.52%) Derivative
9 10 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.75%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.75%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.75%) Replication
11 8 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.36%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 90 (17.48%) Linux
2 44 (8.54%) Unix
3 29 (5.63%) Windows
4 16 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.94%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.36%) Android
6 7 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.36%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.58%) Debian
9 2 (0.39%) VMS
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.19%) CentOS
10 1 (0.19%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (42.72%) CI/CD
2 194 (37.67%) Agile
3 167 (32.43%) Microservices
4 160 (31.07%) Software Engineering
5 144 (27.96%) DevOps
6 129 (25.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 128 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (19.03%) Containerisation
9 93 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 87 (16.89%) Test Automation
11 83 (16.12%) Mentoring
12 82 (15.92%) AI
13 69 (13.40%) Fintech
14 67 (13.01%) TDD
15 61 (11.84%) Scrum
16 58 (11.26%) Clean Code
17 56 (10.87%) Data Modelling
18 55 (10.68%) Technical Leadership
19 53 (10.29%) Observability
20 52 (10.10%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 243 (47.18%) Python
2 182 (35.34%) Java
3 166 (32.23%) SQL
4 146 (28.35%) JavaScript
5 110 (21.36%) TypeScript
6 42 (8.16%) C#
7 32 (6.21%) Go
8 27 (5.24%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.69%) PHP
9 19 (3.69%) Ruby
10 16 (3.11%) C
11 14 (2.72%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.52%) Delphi
13 10 (1.94%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.75%) C++
14 9 (1.75%) Rust
15 7 (1.36%) Bash
16 4 (0.78%) Pascal
16 4 (0.78%) Perl
17 3 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 67 (13.01%) SC Cleared
3 65 (12.62%) Degree
4 31 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.66%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
8 10 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.19%) HNC
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.19%) RHCE
12 1 (0.19%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.91%) QA
3 12 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.33%) GDPR
3 12 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.14%) SLA
5 3 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.58%) SEPA
6 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.39%) PSD2
7 1 (0.19%) GAAP
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 196 (38.06%) Docker
2 16 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.39%) NFS
5 1 (0.19%) Samba
Systems Management
1 169 (32.82%) Kubernetes
2 111 (21.55%) Terraform
3 40 (7.77%) Ansible
4 33 (6.41%) Grafana
5 18 (3.50%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.30%) AWS Copilot
7 15 (2.91%) Kibana
8 11 (2.14%) Argo
9 5 (0.97%) Nagios
10 4 (0.78%) Control-M
10 4 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.58%) Puppet
11 3 (0.58%) Rancher
12 2 (0.39%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.19%) Ambari
13 1 (0.19%) Podman
13 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (13.40%) Oracle
2 40 (7.77%) Google
3 31 (6.02%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.27%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.91%) IBM
5 15 (2.91%) Informatica
5 15 (2.91%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.72%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.94%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.94%) Talend
8 9 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.75%) Splunk
9 8 (1.55%) ESRI
10 5 (0.97%) Confluent
10 5 (0.97%) Databricks
10 5 (0.97%) VMware
11 4 (0.78%) Dell
11 4 (0.78%) Pega
11 4 (0.78%) WSO2
12 3 (0.58%) Salesforce