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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 135 183
Rank change year-on-year -124 +48 +5
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 506 1,157 1,133
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.81% 2.19% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.68% 12.27% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 343 541 965
10th Percentile £42,040 £49,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +10.61% +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 6,587 9,428 13,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.50% 17.85% 20.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,120 5,221 10,587
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,468
25th Percentile £43,375 £47,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -128 434 £75,000 -6.17% 677
London -76 251 £90,000 +2.86% 160
Work from Home -100 228 £72,500 +3.57% 356
UK excluding London -162 209 £62,500 -5.83% 613
North of England -10 77 £73,801 +6.48% 110
South East -127 43 £60,000 -25.00% 188
Yorkshire -1 37 £65,000 +8.81% 41
Midlands -18 32 £60,100 -7.54% 71
North West -19 32 £85,000 +19.73% 54
South West -58 26 £54,000 -16.92% 88
West Midlands +12 22 £61,350 -5.62% 26
Scotland -41 15 £73,801 +22.49% 35
East of England -41 13 £42,500 -26.09% 92
East Midlands -19 10 £60,100 +0.17% 45
North East 0 8 £55,200 -20.35% 16
Wales -24 5 £73,801 +13.54% 30
Northern Ireland -15 3 £73,801 +11.98% 14

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 39 (7.71%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.75%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.36%) Confluence
4 17 (3.36%) Tomcat
5 16 (3.16%) WebSphere Application Server
6 13 (2.57%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.58%) ArcGIS
8 7 (1.38%) nginx
9 6 (1.19%) Apache
10 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.79%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.59%) CMS
11 3 (0.59%) Luigi
11 3 (0.59%) WildFly
12 2 (0.40%) Camunda
12 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.78%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 358 (70.75%) AWS
2 165 (32.61%) Azure
3 134 (26.48%) GCP
4 93 (18.38%) Serverless
5 68 (13.44%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (12.25%) Amazon S3
7 58 (11.46%) GitHub
8 55 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (10.08%) dbt
10 50 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 43 (8.50%) SaaS
13 39 (7.71%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (6.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (6.72%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (5.34%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 21 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (4.15%) Power Platform
18 21 (4.15%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.14%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.75%) SSL
3 11 (2.17%) Firewall
4 10 (1.98%) VPN
5 8 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.38%) DNS
6 7 (1.38%) Internet
7 6 (1.19%) Network Security
8 5 (0.99%) HTTP
8 5 (0.99%) VLAN
9 3 (0.59%) DHCP
9 3 (0.59%) FTP
9 3 (0.59%) IMAP
9 3 (0.59%) MQTT
9 3 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.59%) SMTP
9 3 (0.59%) SSH
9 3 (0.59%) WAN
10 2 (0.40%) PBX
10 2 (0.40%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (24.11%) SQL Server
2 101 (19.96%) Relational Database
3 90 (17.79%) MySQL
4 88 (17.39%) MongoDB
5 71 (14.03%) NoSQL
6 44 (8.70%) Redis
7 37 (7.31%) Amazon RDS
7 37 (7.31%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (7.31%) DB2
8 32 (6.32%) DynamoDB
8 32 (6.32%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (5.53%) RDBMS
10 24 (4.74%) Apache Iceberg
11 20 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
11 20 (3.95%) Apache Arrow
11 20 (3.95%) Dremio
11 20 (3.95%) Power BI
12 19 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (2.96%) Hadoop
14 14 (2.77%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 108 (21.34%) Git
2 91 (17.98%) Jenkins
3 33 (6.52%) GitLab
3 33 (6.52%) JIRA
4 31 (6.13%) JUnit
5 28 (5.53%) Cucumber
6 26 (5.14%) Selenium
7 21 (4.15%) Bitbucket
8 18 (3.56%) Cypress.io
8 18 (3.56%) TeamCity
9 17 (3.36%) JMeter
9 17 (3.36%) Mockito
10 8 (1.58%) Vite
11 6 (1.19%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.99%) Maven
12 5 (0.99%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.99%) Subversion
13 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.59%) Gradle
14 3 (0.59%) TestRail
General
1 138 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 115 (22.73%) Finance
3 46 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.89%) Banking
5 35 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.32%) Law
7 28 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (4.15%) Front Office
8 21 (4.15%) Retail
9 11 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.98%) Marketing
11 9 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.19%) Electronics
13 6 (1.19%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.99%) Legal
14 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 186 (36.76%) Developer
2 96 (18.97%) Senior
3 81 (16.01%) Software Engineer
4 65 (12.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 58 (11.46%) Java Developer
6 48 (9.49%) Lead
7 36 (7.11%) Python Developer
8 31 (6.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 30 (5.93%) Python Engineer
10 29 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (5.14%) Data Engineer
12 25 (4.94%) AWS Developer
12 25 (4.94%) Principal Engineer
12 25 (4.94%) Python Software Engineer
13 22 (4.35%) Architect
13 22 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (4.15%) AWS Software Engineer
14 21 (4.15%) Linux Support
15 20 (3.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 20 (3.95%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (32.21%) React
2 106 (20.95%) Node.js
3 82 (16.21%) Spring
4 77 (15.22%) Spring Boot
5 71 (14.03%) REST
6 68 (13.44%) Django
6 68 (13.44%) RESTful
7 56 (11.07%) AngularJS
7 56 (11.07%) FastAPI
8 52 (10.28%) HTML
9 50 (9.88%) Kafka
10 45 (8.89%) .NET
11 44 (8.70%) CSS
11 44 (8.70%) Vue
12 37 (7.31%) Elastic Stack
13 31 (6.13%) Flask
14 29 (5.73%) Web Services
15 26 (5.14%) Next.js
16 24 (4.74%) .NET Core
17 21 (4.15%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 61 (12.06%) Distributed Systems
2 59 (11.66%) Cloud Native
3 28 (5.53%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 23 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.95%) Equities
5 20 (3.95%) Fixed Income
5 20 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.37%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.37%) Blog
8 12 (2.37%) Replication
9 11 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.78%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 104 (20.55%) Linux
2 46 (9.09%) Unix
3 39 (7.71%) Windows
4 22 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.77%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.78%) Android
6 9 (1.78%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.38%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.99%) VMS
9 3 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.59%) Debian
9 3 (0.59%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.40%) CentOS
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (43.68%) CI/CD
2 187 (36.96%) Agile
3 156 (30.83%) Microservices
4 151 (29.84%) Software Engineering
5 145 (28.66%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (27.67%) DevOps
7 118 (23.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 93 (18.38%) Containerisation
9 80 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 76 (15.02%) AI
11 75 (14.82%) Fintech
12 74 (14.62%) Test Automation
13 59 (11.66%) Scrum
14 58 (11.46%) Clean Code
15 57 (11.26%) TDD
16 56 (11.07%) Technical Leadership
17 54 (10.67%) Mentoring
18 51 (10.08%) ETL
19 48 (9.49%) Data Modelling
20 46 (9.09%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 249 (49.21%) Python
2 164 (32.41%) Java
3 153 (30.24%) SQL
4 143 (28.26%) JavaScript
5 108 (21.34%) TypeScript
6 42 (8.30%) C#
7 30 (5.93%) Go
8 18 (3.56%) PowerShell
9 17 (3.36%) PHP
9 17 (3.36%) Ruby
9 17 (3.36%) Shell Script
10 16 (3.16%) C
11 9 (1.78%) Delphi
11 9 (1.78%) Rust
12 8 (1.58%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.19%) C++
14 5 (0.99%) Bash
15 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.59%) RPG
16 3 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.03%) Degree
3 59 (11.66%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.52%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.56%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.37%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.99%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.40%) HNC
13 2 (0.40%) HND
13 2 (0.40%) MCSA
13 2 (0.40%) MCSE
13 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.55%) SLA
2 18 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.56%) QA
3 14 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.37%) GDPR
5 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.59%) SEPA
7 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.40%) PSD2
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) GAAP
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 194 (38.34%) Docker
2 7 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.59%) DFS Replication
3 3 (0.59%) Dovecot
3 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.59%) Postfix
3 3 (0.59%) Squid
3 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.40%) NFS
4 2 (0.40%) pfSense
4 2 (0.40%) Samba
Systems Management
1 172 (33.99%) Kubernetes
2 108 (21.34%) Terraform
3 41 (8.10%) Ansible
4 31 (6.13%) Grafana
5 18 (3.56%) Kibana
6 16 (3.16%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.37%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (2.17%) Argo
9 6 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.99%) Puppet
11 4 (0.79%) Control-M
11 4 (0.79%) Nagios
12 3 (0.59%) Nessus
12 3 (0.59%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.59%) Rancher
13 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.20%) Ambari
14 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (15.02%) Oracle
2 35 (6.92%) Google
3 28 (5.53%) Red Hat
4 24 (4.74%) Microsoft
5 23 (4.55%) IBM
6 19 (3.75%) Informatica
7 16 (3.16%) Atlassian
8 15 (2.96%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.96%) Splunk
9 13 (2.57%) OpenAI
9 13 (2.57%) Talend
10 12 (2.37%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.58%) ESRI
11 8 (1.58%) SAP
12 5 (0.99%) VMware
13 4 (0.79%) Dell
13 4 (0.79%) Pega
13 4 (0.79%) WSO2
14 3 (0.59%) RedGate
14 3 (0.59%) Salesforce