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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 232 156
Rank change year-on-year -30 -76 +44
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 784 686 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.37% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.84% 9.22% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 575 491 823
10th Percentile £43,822 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £88,727
90th Percentile £99,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 8,871 7,441 12,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.07% 14.85% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,976 4,769 7,982
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,700 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,450 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.01% +3.71% -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 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 16 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 31 August 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 -51 667 £69,310 -7.59% 534
UK excluding London -71 387 £65,000 +4.00% 243
Work from Home +4 378 £67,500 -15.63% 278
London -75 291 £85,000 -19.05% 372
South East -7 126 £65,000 +4.00% 71
North of England -33 123 £65,000 -3.70% 51
North West -2 57 £65,000 -3.70% 34
South West -58 48 £63,750 +30.77% 40
North East -29 40 £65,000 +26.83% 6
Midlands -45 31 £72,155 +3.08% 34
East of England -15 29 £52,500 +69.35% 11
Yorkshire -38 26 £69,310 +0.81% 11
West Midlands -38 22 £83,774 +15.55% 20
Wales -52 21 £67,500 -12.90% 8
Scotland -14 17 £65,000 -3.70% 22
East Midlands -25 9 £60,000 +9.09% 13

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 32 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (3.70%) Apache
3 27 (3.44%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.32%) Confluence
5 12 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.89%) Camunda
8 6 (0.77%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.77%) WordPress
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.26%) Luigi
10 2 (0.26%) Tornado
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Moodle
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Finacle
2 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 449 (57.27%) AWS
2 270 (34.44%) Azure
3 129 (16.45%) GitHub
4 110 (14.03%) GCP
5 98 (12.50%) Serverless
6 76 (9.69%) SaaS
7 74 (9.44%) Amazon S3
8 67 (8.55%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (6.89%) GitHub Actions
12 50 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
13 44 (5.61%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
14 41 (5.23%) GitHub Copilot
15 34 (4.34%) Power Platform
16 29 (3.70%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
18 27 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (2.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.46%) Broadband
2 13 (1.66%) Firewall
3 9 (1.15%) DNS
3 9 (1.15%) SMS
4 8 (1.02%) AMQP
5 6 (0.77%) DHCP
5 6 (0.77%) iSCSI
5 6 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (0.77%) SAN
6 5 (0.64%) HTTP
6 5 (0.64%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.38%) VPN
8 2 (0.26%) MQTT
8 2 (0.26%) VLAN
9 1 (0.13%) 4G
9 1 (0.13%) 5G
9 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.13%) Multicast
9 1 (0.13%) Network Security
9 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (26.28%) MongoDB
2 188 (23.98%) MySQL
3 143 (18.24%) Relational Database
4 135 (17.22%) SQL Server
5 101 (12.88%) NoSQL
6 86 (10.97%) Redis
7 47 (5.99%) DynamoDB
8 37 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (3.19%) Power BI
12 21 (2.68%) Metadata
13 20 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (2.55%) Big Data
14 18 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
15 16 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
16 15 (1.91%) GIS
16 15 (1.91%) Oracle Database
17 14 (1.79%) Data Lake
17 14 (1.79%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 177 (22.58%) Git
2 58 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 56 (7.14%) GitLab
4 32 (4.08%) JIRA
5 29 (3.70%) JUnit
6 27 (3.44%) Cypress.io
7 23 (2.93%) Mockito
8 13 (1.66%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.40%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.40%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.28%) JMeter
10 10 (1.28%) Vite
11 8 (1.02%) Maven
12 7 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.89%) Mocha
12 7 (0.89%) RSpec
12 7 (0.89%) Selenium
12 7 (0.89%) Storybook
13 5 (0.64%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.64%) Gatling
General
1 188 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 105 (13.39%) Public Sector
3 98 (12.50%) Finance
4 74 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.10%) Law
7 35 (4.46%) Banking
7 35 (4.46%) Games
8 23 (2.93%) Legal
9 19 (2.42%) Retail
10 18 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.04%) Tech for Good
12 13 (1.66%) Legal Technology
13 12 (1.53%) Advertising
13 12 (1.53%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.53%) Health Technology
13 12 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.15%) Aviation
15 8 (1.02%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 270 (34.44%) Developer
2 217 (27.68%) Senior
3 152 (19.39%) Software Engineer
4 117 (14.92%) Lead
5 88 (11.22%) Full-Stack Developer
6 64 (8.16%) Python Engineer
7 61 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
8 58 (7.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 54 (6.89%) Data Engineer
9 54 (6.89%) Senior Developer
10 48 (6.12%) Architect
11 46 (5.87%) Java Developer
12 45 (5.74%) Python Developer
13 42 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
14 36 (4.59%) Software Developer
15 35 (4.46%) Lead Developer
16 34 (4.34%) Ruby Developer
17 29 (3.70%) Database Engineer
18 28 (3.57%) Lead Software Engineer
19 26 (3.32%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (25.51%) React
2 174 (22.19%) Node.js
3 172 (21.94%) Terraform
4 147 (18.75%) RESTful
5 123 (15.69%) REST
6 106 (13.52%) Spring
7 102 (13.01%) Spring Boot
8 98 (12.50%) Kafka
9 76 (9.69%) .NET
9 76 (9.69%) CSS
10 67 (8.55%) Next.js
11 65 (8.29%) Ruby on Rails
12 63 (8.04%) HTML
13 55 (7.02%) FastAPI
14 50 (6.38%) AngularJS
15 48 (6.12%) JSON
16 47 (5.99%) Jest
17 43 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
18 37 (4.72%) JPA
19 36 (4.59%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 160 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 110 (14.03%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.72%) Low-Code
5 32 (4.08%) Video\Live Streaming
6 31 (3.95%) AI Agents
7 27 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 22 (2.81%) Replication
9 21 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.55%) Algorithms
11 19 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (2.30%) Blog
13 17 (2.17%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.91%) Virtual Team
15 13 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
15 13 (1.66%) Management Information System
16 12 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (1.53%) IoT
16 12 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 111 (14.16%) Linux
2 37 (4.72%) Windows
3 17 (2.17%) Unix
4 15 (1.91%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.77%) Android
6 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.26%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (46.94%) CI/CD
2 283 (36.10%) Agile
3 281 (35.84%) Software Engineering
4 235 (29.97%) Full-Stack Development
5 229 (29.21%) Microservices
6 223 (28.44%) AI
7 210 (26.79%) DevOps
8 181 (23.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 153 (19.52%) Observability
10 149 (19.01%) Mentoring
11 144 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 142 (18.11%) Containerisation
13 141 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
14 132 (16.84%) Test Automation
15 104 (13.27%) API Design
16 100 (12.76%) Clean Code
17 98 (12.50%) Event-Driven
18 96 (12.24%) Scrum
19 94 (11.99%) Data Modelling
20 88 (11.22%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 320 (40.82%) Python
2 216 (27.55%) SQL
3 195 (24.87%) Java
4 177 (22.58%) JavaScript
5 152 (19.39%) TypeScript
6 78 (9.95%) C#
7 67 (8.55%) Ruby
8 62 (7.91%) Go
9 35 (4.46%) Bash
10 27 (3.44%) PowerShell
11 21 (2.68%) PHP
12 19 (2.42%) Scala
13 14 (1.79%) C++
14 13 (1.66%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.28%) RPG
16 9 (1.15%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.89%) Perl
18 5 (0.64%) Korn
19 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 111 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 100 (12.76%) Degree
3 82 (10.46%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.19%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.02%) PhD
11 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.26%) CISSP
13 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.26%) RHCE
13 2 (0.26%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 59 (7.53%) QA
3 30 (3.83%) GDPR
4 21 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.64%) SLA
6 5 (0.64%) WCAG
7 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.26%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 240 (30.61%) Docker
2 15 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Samba
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 208 (26.53%) Kubernetes
2 59 (7.53%) Ansible
3 51 (6.51%) Grafana
4 33 (4.21%) Prometheus
5 31 (3.95%) Argo
6 10 (1.28%) Kibana
7 6 (0.77%) Istio
7 6 (0.77%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.77%) Puppet
8 5 (0.64%) Data Guard
8 5 (0.64%) Packer
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.38%) Plesk
10 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.38%) Rancher
10 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.26%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 82 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.57%) Oracle
3 38 (4.85%) Google
4 26 (3.32%) Databricks
5 23 (2.93%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.30%) Splunk
7 17 (2.17%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.79%) IBM
9 7 (0.89%) Mistral
9 7 (0.89%) Pega
9 7 (0.89%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.77%) Dell
10 6 (0.77%) Informatica
10 6 (0.77%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.64%) Meraki
12 4 (0.51%) Netezza
12 4 (0.51%) Remedy
12 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.38%) Atlassian