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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 218 171
Rank change year-on-year -64 -47 +41
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 630 712 1,705
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.59% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.83% 9.62% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 474 520 1,176
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £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 £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,625 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -3.85% +20.93% -6.52%

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 8,045 7,399 17,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 16.54% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,245 4,783 12,717
10th Percentile £35,750 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,726 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -9.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,000 £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 18 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 18 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 -79 539 £69,305 -7.59% 280
Work from Home +28 329 £67,500 -6.24% 152
UK excluding London -74 323 £62,500 -3.85% 170
London -100 216 £85,000 -10.53% 171
South East -2 114 £59,500 +13.33% 54
North of England -24 113 £66,250 -1.85% 34
North West -10 48 £67,500 -1.47% 25
South West -55 38 £62,500 +2.04% 13
Yorkshire -22 36 £52,130 -22.77% 4
North East -29 29 £65,000 +23.81% 5
East of England -28 23 £47,500 +46.15% 12
Scotland -6 18 £67,500 +8.00% 9
Midlands -57 13 £75,000 +11.11% 20
West Midlands -41 9 £80,000 +18.52% 10
Wales -58 5 £70,000 -9.68% 3
East Midlands -32 4 £65,000 +13.04% 10
Northern Ireland -38 1 £73,801 +34.18% 29

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 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.65%) Apache
4 18 (2.86%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.70%) Confluence
6 12 (1.90%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.11%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.95%) WordPress
9 4 (0.63%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.48%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.32%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.16%) nginx
12 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (1.43%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 380 (60.32%) AWS
2 229 (36.35%) Azure
3 108 (17.14%) GCP
4 100 (15.87%) Serverless
5 69 (10.95%) GitHub
6 59 (9.37%) Amazon ECS
6 59 (9.37%) SaaS
7 57 (9.05%) Amazon S3
8 53 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (6.35%) Power Platform
11 39 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
14 35 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (4.29%) Azure AKS
15 27 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
16 22 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (2.86%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.40%) Broadband
2 18 (2.86%) Firewall
3 16 (2.54%) DNS
3 16 (2.54%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.38%) DHCP
5 11 (1.75%) 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 5 (0.79%) Internet
8 5 (0.79%) VLAN
9 3 (0.48%) HTTP
10 2 (0.32%) LAN
10 2 (0.32%) MQTT
10 2 (0.32%) PBX
10 2 (0.32%) WAN
11 1 (0.16%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (29.84%) MongoDB
2 144 (22.86%) MySQL
3 107 (16.98%) SQL Server
4 96 (15.24%) Relational Database
5 95 (15.08%) NoSQL
6 55 (8.73%) Redis
7 31 (4.92%) Power BI
8 28 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
10 25 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (2.70%) DynamoDB
11 17 (2.70%) Oracle Database
12 15 (2.38%) GIS
12 15 (2.38%) Pinecone
13 14 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.06%) Metadata
14 13 (2.06%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.75%) MariaDB
15 11 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 123 (19.52%) Git
2 48 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 44 (6.98%) GitLab
4 29 (4.60%) JIRA
5 25 (3.97%) Cypress.io
6 20 (3.17%) JUnit
7 16 (2.54%) Mockito
8 14 (2.22%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.90%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.59%) JMeter
11 9 (1.43%) Vite
12 8 (1.27%) Maven
13 7 (1.11%) Selenium
14 6 (0.95%) Claude Code
15 5 (0.79%) Cucumber
16 4 (0.63%) Gatling
16 4 (0.63%) Storybook
17 3 (0.48%) DBeaver
17 3 (0.48%) Liquibase
17 3 (0.48%) Mocha
General
1 145 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 91 (14.44%) Finance
3 82 (13.02%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.40%) Games
7 30 (4.76%) Retail
8 27 (4.29%) Law
9 25 (3.97%) Banking
10 20 (3.17%) Manufacturing
11 19 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.70%) Legal
13 16 (2.54%) Front Office
14 15 (2.38%) Advertising
15 11 (1.75%) Aerospace
16 10 (1.59%) Legal Technology
17 9 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (1.27%) Aviation
18 8 (1.27%) Telecoms
19 7 (1.11%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 214 (33.97%) Developer
2 127 (20.16%) Senior
3 112 (17.78%) Software Engineer
4 99 (15.71%) Lead
5 82 (13.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (7.94%) Python Engineer
7 46 (7.30%) Lead Developer
8 43 (6.83%) Architect
9 40 (6.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 40 (6.35%) Java Developer
10 36 (5.71%) Data Engineer
10 36 (5.71%) Python Developer
11 35 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
12 34 (5.40%) Java Engineer
13 33 (5.24%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.76%) Senior Developer
15 25 (3.97%) Software Developer
16 21 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (27.78%) React
2 159 (25.24%) Node.js
3 116 (18.41%) RESTful
4 80 (12.70%) REST
5 74 (11.75%) Spring
6 71 (11.27%) Spring Boot
7 55 (8.73%) Kafka
8 50 (7.94%) CSS
8 50 (7.94%) FastAPI
8 50 (7.94%) Ruby on Rails
9 46 (7.30%) HTML
10 45 (7.14%) JSON
11 44 (6.98%) .NET
12 38 (6.03%) Next.js
13 34 (5.40%) AngularJS
13 34 (5.40%) Jest
14 32 (5.08%) Django
15 29 (4.60%) Vue
16 25 (3.97%) Redux
17 24 (3.81%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 137 (21.75%) Cloud Native
2 68 (10.79%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.40%) Low-Code
4 32 (5.08%) Video\Live Streaming
5 23 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.33%) Data Structures
7 20 (3.17%) Algorithms
7 20 (3.17%) Blog
7 20 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.86%) Replication
9 16 (2.54%) Derivative
9 16 (2.54%) Equities
9 16 (2.54%) Fixed Income
9 16 (2.54%) Management Information System
10 13 (2.06%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.75%) SCADA
11 11 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 101 (16.03%) Linux
2 45 (7.14%) Windows
3 25 (3.97%) Unix
4 20 (3.17%) 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 (0.63%) 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
1 271 (43.02%) CI/CD
2 226 (35.87%) Agile
3 200 (31.75%) Software Engineering
4 191 (30.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 180 (28.57%) Microservices
6 147 (23.33%) DevOps
7 143 (22.70%) AI
7 143 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 120 (19.05%) Mentoring
9 116 (18.41%) Test Automation
10 112 (17.78%) Containerisation
11 105 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
13 97 (15.40%) Observability
14 78 (12.38%) Data Modelling
15 74 (11.75%) Scrum
16 73 (11.59%) Analytics
16 73 (11.59%) API Design
17 69 (10.95%) TDD
18 64 (10.16%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 277 (43.97%) Python
2 181 (28.73%) SQL
3 180 (28.57%) Java
4 156 (24.76%) JavaScript
5 124 (19.68%) TypeScript
6 53 (8.41%) Go
7 51 (8.10%) C#
7 51 (8.10%) Ruby
8 41 (6.51%) PowerShell
9 32 (5.08%) Bash
10 26 (4.13%) PHP
11 15 (2.38%) Shell Script
12 14 (2.22%) C++
13 13 (2.06%) Scala
14 12 (1.90%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.75%) C
16 10 (1.59%) Perl
17 7 (1.11%) Korn
18 6 (0.95%) VB
19 5 (0.79%) RPG
Qualifications
1 89 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.22%) Degree
3 64 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.75%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.63%) PhD
10 3 (0.48%) RHCE
10 3 (0.48%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.32%) CISSP
11 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.32%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.10%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.76%) QA
3 23 (3.65%) GDPR
4 18 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.48%) SLA
6 3 (0.48%) WCAG
7 2 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.32%) NCSC
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
1 176 (27.94%) Docker
2 30 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.95%) 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 (28.41%) Kubernetes
2 130 (20.63%) Terraform
3 38 (6.03%) Ansible
4 34 (5.40%) Grafana
5 29 (4.60%) Argo
6 21 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.59%) Kibana
8 7 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.11%) Puppet
9 6 (0.95%) Istio
9 6 (0.95%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.79%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.63%) Control-M
11 4 (0.63%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.48%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.48%) Packer
12 3 (0.48%) Plesk
12 3 (0.48%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.43%) Oracle
3 33 (5.24%) Google
4 19 (3.02%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.38%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.59%) Databricks
7 10 (1.59%) Splunk
8 8 (1.27%) Dell
8 8 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.11%) Pega
10 6 (0.95%) IBM
10 6 (0.95%) Informatica
10 6 (0.95%) VMware
11 5 (0.79%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.63%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.63%) Confluent
12 4 (0.63%) ESRI
12 4 (0.63%) Netezza
12 4 (0.63%) Remedy