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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 137 196
Rank change year-on-year -136 +59 -4
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 517 1,124 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 2.29% 1.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.63% 12.52% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 359 530 1,006
10th Percentile £41,250 £49,081 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,313 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £113,250 £118,875 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,367 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.59% +15.42% +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 6,780 8,981 14,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.05% 18.33% 19.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,157 5,041 11,526
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,497 £48,688 £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 £87,348 £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 17 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 17 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 -136 438 £75,000 -6.25% 324
Work from Home -97 242 £70,000 -2.77% 183
London -84 240 £95,000 +8.57% 150
UK excluding London -161 223 £60,000 -9.59% 232
North of England -29 86 £70,000 +1.00% 63
South East -121 51 £56,250 -29.69% 55
Yorkshire -20 40 £60,000 +0.44% 18
North West -29 35 £77,500 +11.76% 35
South West -51 26 £62,500 -5.66% 30
Midlands -24 25 £55,200 -15.08% 39
West Midlands +2 16 £45,000 -30.77% 26
East of England -37 15 £42,500 -26.09% 16
Scotland -40 15 £73,801 +27.24% 26
North East -6 11 £52,500 -24.25% 11
East Midlands -26 9 £65,000 +8.33% 13
Wales -32 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -28 4 £73,801 +34.18% 1

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 35 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.48%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.90%) Confluence
4 13 (2.51%) OpenStack
4 13 (2.51%) Tomcat
4 13 (2.51%) WebSphere
5 12 (2.32%) WebSphere Application Server
6 10 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.55%) ArcGIS
8 6 (1.16%) Apache
9 4 (0.77%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.77%) Oracle Spatial
9 4 (0.77%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.58%) CMS
10 3 (0.58%) nginx
11 2 (0.39%) Camunda
11 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (1.93%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 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
1 352 (68.09%) AWS
2 190 (36.75%) Azure
3 138 (26.69%) GCP
4 91 (17.60%) Serverless
5 68 (13.15%) Amazon ECS
6 59 (11.41%) Amazon S3
6 59 (11.41%) GitHub
7 54 (10.44%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (10.06%) dbt
9 50 (9.67%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (9.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 43 (8.32%) SaaS
12 37 (7.16%) Amazon SQS
13 34 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
15 29 (5.61%) Power Platform
16 27 (5.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 26 (5.03%) Pulumi
18 23 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.38%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.51%) SSL
3 10 (1.93%) VPN
3 10 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.35%) Internet
5 6 (1.16%) Firewall
6 5 (0.97%) DHCP
6 5 (0.97%) DNS
6 5 (0.97%) Network Security
6 5 (0.97%) VLAN
7 3 (0.58%) HTTP
7 3 (0.58%) MQTT
7 3 (0.58%) WAN
8 2 (0.39%) AMQP
8 2 (0.39%) BGP
8 2 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) OSPF
8 2 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.39%) RTMP
8 2 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (22.82%) SQL Server
2 97 (18.76%) Relational Database
3 96 (18.57%) MongoDB
4 94 (18.18%) MySQL
5 76 (14.70%) NoSQL
6 53 (10.25%) Redis
7 40 (7.74%) Elasticsearch
8 36 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
9 34 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (6.38%) DB2
11 32 (6.19%) DynamoDB
12 25 (4.84%) Power BI
13 22 (4.26%) RDBMS
14 18 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
14 18 (3.48%) Apache Iceberg
15 15 (2.90%) Apache Arrow
15 15 (2.90%) Oracle Database
16 14 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (2.71%) Big Data
16 14 (2.71%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 106 (20.50%) Git
2 86 (16.63%) Jenkins
3 32 (6.19%) JIRA
4 30 (5.80%) GitLab
5 28 (5.42%) Cucumber
6 27 (5.22%) JUnit
7 26 (5.03%) Selenium
8 22 (4.26%) Bitbucket
9 21 (4.06%) TeamCity
10 19 (3.68%) Cypress.io
11 14 (2.71%) JMeter
12 13 (2.51%) Mockito
13 7 (1.35%) Maven
14 6 (1.16%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.16%) Subversion
14 6 (1.16%) Vite
15 5 (0.97%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.77%) Gradle
16 4 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
17 3 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 136 (26.31%) Social Skills
2 116 (22.44%) Finance
3 53 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.70%) Banking
5 42 (8.12%) Public Sector
6 35 (6.77%) Law
7 34 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (4.45%) Front Office
8 23 (4.45%) Retail
9 11 (2.13%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.93%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.16%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.97%) Advertising
14 5 (0.97%) Marketing
15 4 (0.77%) Back Office
15 4 (0.77%) Legal
16 3 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 187 (36.17%) Developer
2 102 (19.73%) Senior
3 95 (18.38%) Software Engineer
4 71 (13.73%) Full-Stack Developer
5 56 (10.83%) Java Developer
6 54 (10.44%) Lead
7 33 (6.38%) Java Engineer
8 31 (6.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 31 (6.00%) Python Developer
9 29 (5.61%) Python Engineer
10 27 (5.22%) Data Engineer
11 24 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (4.06%) Architect
13 21 (4.06%) Python Software Engineer
14 20 (3.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 20 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
14 20 (3.87%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (3.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (33.85%) React
2 112 (21.66%) Node.js
3 85 (16.44%) Spring
4 79 (15.28%) Spring Boot
5 77 (14.89%) RESTful
6 71 (13.73%) Django
7 66 (12.77%) REST
8 54 (10.44%) AngularJS
9 52 (10.06%) Kafka
10 51 (9.86%) FastAPI
11 49 (9.48%) HTML
12 48 (9.28%) .NET
13 44 (8.51%) CSS
14 40 (7.74%) Vue
15 36 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (5.61%) Flask
16 29 (5.61%) Web Services
17 27 (5.22%) JSON
18 26 (5.03%) Next.js
19 25 (4.84%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 73 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 58 (11.22%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.61%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (4.64%) Product Ownership
5 22 (4.26%) Equities
5 22 (4.26%) Fixed Income
6 18 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.29%) Data Structures
8 16 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.90%) Blog
9 15 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (2.32%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.74%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.74%) Derivative
13 9 (1.74%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.74%) Replication
14 6 (1.16%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 94 (18.18%) Linux
2 46 (8.90%) Unix
3 30 (5.80%) Windows
4 16 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.74%) Android
6 9 (1.74%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.97%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.58%) Debian
10 2 (0.39%) VMS
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.19%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (42.55%) CI/CD
2 203 (39.26%) Agile
3 167 (32.30%) Software Engineering
4 165 (31.91%) Microservices
5 141 (27.27%) DevOps
6 133 (25.73%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (24.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 95 (18.38%) Containerisation
9 88 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 87 (16.83%) Test Automation
11 78 (15.09%) Mentoring
12 76 (14.70%) Fintech
13 75 (14.51%) AI
14 68 (13.15%) TDD
15 63 (12.19%) Scrum
16 59 (11.41%) Data Modelling
17 58 (11.22%) Clean Code
18 56 (10.83%) Technical Leadership
19 53 (10.25%) BDD
20 50 (9.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 247 (47.78%) Python
2 184 (35.59%) Java
3 164 (31.72%) SQL
4 150 (29.01%) JavaScript
5 113 (21.86%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.51%) C#
7 30 (5.80%) Go
8 24 (4.64%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.68%) PHP
9 19 (3.68%) Ruby
10 15 (2.90%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.71%) C
12 12 (2.32%) T-SQL
13 11 (2.13%) Delphi
14 9 (1.74%) Rust
15 8 (1.55%) C++
16 5 (0.97%) Bash
17 4 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.77%) Perl
18 3 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 93 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 67 (12.96%) Degree
3 63 (12.19%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (5.03%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 12 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) HNC
10 2 (0.39%) HND
10 2 (0.39%) MCSA
10 2 (0.39%) MCSE
10 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.29%) QA
3 14 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.71%) SLA
4 13 (2.51%) GDPR
4 13 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.58%) SEPA
6 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.39%) PSD2
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) GAAP
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 189 (36.56%) Docker
2 11 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.39%) NFS
Systems Management
1 169 (32.69%) Kubernetes
2 111 (21.47%) Terraform
3 40 (7.74%) Ansible
4 34 (6.58%) Grafana
5 17 (3.29%) AWS Copilot
6 16 (3.09%) Kibana
7 15 (2.90%) Prometheus
8 11 (2.13%) Argo
9 4 (0.77%) Control-M
9 4 (0.77%) Nagios
9 4 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.58%) Puppet
10 3 (0.58%) Rancher
11 2 (0.39%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.19%) Ambari
12 1 (0.19%) Podman
12 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (14.31%) Oracle
2 39 (7.54%) Google
3 29 (5.61%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 18 (3.48%) Informatica
6 17 (3.29%) IBM
7 15 (2.90%) Atlassian
8 14 (2.71%) OpenAI
9 13 (2.51%) Talend
10 11 (2.13%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.93%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.93%) Splunk
12 8 (1.55%) ESRI
13 5 (0.97%) SAP
13 5 (0.97%) VMware
14 4 (0.77%) Confluent
14 4 (0.77%) Databricks
14 4 (0.77%) Pega
14 4 (0.77%) WSO2
15 3 (0.58%) Revolut