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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 236 152
Rank change year-on-year -33 -84 +45
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 782 657 1,344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.32% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.85% 9.07% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 573 458 732
10th Percentile £43,786 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +17.65% -8.93%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 8,837 7,241 12,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.79% 14.60% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,988 4,543 7,309
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
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 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -55 660 £70,000 -9.68% 719
Work from Home +13 377 £67,500 -25.00% 1,994
UK excluding London -65 375 £65,000 +4.00% 286
London -71 294 £85,000 -19.05% 491
South East -11 121 £65,000 - 72
North of England -12 120 £65,000 -3.70% 71
North West -7 56 £65,000 -3.70% 37
South West -66 46 £65,000 +30.00% 46
North East -33 38 £65,000 +26.83% 7
Midlands -40 34 £75,000 +7.14% 33
East of England -28 27 £52,500 +72.13% 26
Yorkshire -48 26 £69,310 -0.99% 27
West Midlands -45 25 £83,774 +15.55% 27
Wales -49 23 £65,000 -5.45% 9
Scotland -4 14 £65,000 -3.70% 20
East Midlands -32 9 £60,000 +33.33% 5

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 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 26 (3.32%) Apache
4 25 (3.20%) Confluence
5 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.90%) Camunda
6 7 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.77%) WordPress
8 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.51%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Luigi
10 2 (0.26%) Tornado
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.41%) 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
1 457 (58.44%) AWS
2 265 (33.89%) Azure
3 134 (17.14%) GitHub
4 103 (13.17%) GCP
5 101 (12.92%) Serverless
6 76 (9.72%) SaaS
7 72 (9.21%) Amazon S3
8 70 (8.95%) Amazon ECS
9 57 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
12 48 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (5.24%) GitHub Copilot
15 34 (4.35%) Power Platform
16 30 (3.84%) Azure AKS
17 29 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (3.58%) Azure Service Bus
19 21 (2.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.35%) Broadband
2 12 (1.53%) Firewall
3 11 (1.41%) SMS
4 10 (1.28%) AMQP
4 10 (1.28%) DNS
5 8 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.90%) HTTP
7 5 (0.64%) DHCP
7 5 (0.64%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.64%) SAN
8 3 (0.38%) 4G
8 3 (0.38%) 5G
8 3 (0.38%) SSH
8 3 (0.38%) VLAN
9 2 (0.26%) MQTT
9 2 (0.26%) VPN
10 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.13%) SNMP
10 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (25.96%) MongoDB
2 179 (22.89%) MySQL
3 135 (17.26%) Relational Database
4 129 (16.50%) SQL Server
5 99 (12.66%) NoSQL
6 94 (12.02%) Redis
7 44 (5.63%) DynamoDB
8 40 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
9 39 (4.99%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (3.20%) Power BI
12 22 (2.81%) Amazon Aurora
13 20 (2.56%) Big Data
14 19 (2.43%) Metadata
15 16 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.92%) GIS
16 15 (1.92%) Oracle Database
16 15 (1.92%) Pinecone
17 14 (1.79%) Data Lake
17 14 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 182 (23.27%) Git
2 69 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 58 (7.42%) GitLab
4 30 (3.84%) JIRA
5 28 (3.58%) Cypress.io
6 27 (3.45%) JUnit
7 21 (2.69%) Mockito
8 15 (1.92%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.53%) JMeter
10 11 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.41%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.41%) Vite
11 10 (1.28%) Selenium
12 9 (1.15%) Maven
13 8 (1.02%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.90%) Mocha
14 7 (0.90%) RSpec
15 6 (0.77%) Storybook
16 5 (0.64%) Eclipse
16 5 (0.64%) Gatling
General
1 185 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 107 (13.68%) Public Sector
3 94 (12.02%) Finance
4 73 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (5.50%) Law
7 42 (5.37%) Banking
8 33 (4.22%) Games
9 24 (3.07%) Legal
9 24 (3.07%) Retail
10 18 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.30%) Tech for Good
11 15 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.92%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.79%) Health Technology
13 13 (1.66%) Legal Technology
14 12 (1.53%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.28%) Advertising
16 9 (1.15%) Aviation
17 8 (1.02%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 269 (34.40%) Developer
2 219 (28.01%) Senior
3 150 (19.18%) Software Engineer
4 116 (14.83%) Lead
5 85 (10.87%) Full-Stack Developer
6 64 (8.18%) Python Engineer
7 61 (7.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 57 (7.29%) Senior Developer
9 56 (7.16%) Data Engineer
9 56 (7.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 49 (6.27%) Python Developer
11 47 (6.01%) Java Developer
12 46 (5.88%) Architect
13 45 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
14 38 (4.86%) Software Developer
15 35 (4.48%) Lead Developer
16 34 (4.35%) Ruby Developer
17 32 (4.09%) Database Engineer
18 28 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
19 27 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (25.32%) React
2 181 (23.15%) Terraform
3 172 (21.99%) Node.js
4 145 (18.54%) RESTful
5 123 (15.73%) REST
6 108 (13.81%) Kafka
7 106 (13.55%) Spring
8 102 (13.04%) Spring Boot
9 75 (9.59%) .NET
9 75 (9.59%) CSS
10 66 (8.44%) Ruby on Rails
11 65 (8.31%) Next.js
12 63 (8.06%) HTML
13 54 (6.91%) FastAPI
14 48 (6.14%) AngularJS
14 48 (6.14%) Jest
15 47 (6.01%) RabbitMQ
16 45 (5.75%) JSON
17 37 (4.73%) JPA
18 35 (4.48%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 166 (21.23%) Cloud Native
2 115 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.12%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.60%) Low-Code
5 31 (3.96%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.96%) Video\Live Streaming
6 28 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.94%) Blog
7 23 (2.94%) Replication
8 22 (2.81%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.56%) Algorithms
10 20 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (2.30%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.92%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.66%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 115 (14.71%) Linux
2 35 (4.48%) Windows
3 18 (2.30%) Unix
4 13 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.77%) Android
6 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) CentOS
7 1 (0.13%) Debian
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (48.21%) CI/CD
2 283 (36.19%) Agile
3 278 (35.55%) Software Engineering
4 229 (29.28%) AI
5 225 (28.77%) Microservices
6 224 (28.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 210 (26.85%) DevOps
8 187 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 163 (20.84%) Observability
10 150 (19.18%) Mentoring
11 147 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 144 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
13 140 (17.90%) Containerisation
14 139 (17.77%) Test Automation
15 106 (13.55%) Clean Code
16 101 (12.92%) API Design
16 101 (12.92%) Event-Driven
17 98 (12.53%) Scrum
18 91 (11.64%) Data Modelling
19 84 (10.74%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 325 (41.56%) Python
2 221 (28.26%) SQL
3 196 (25.06%) Java
4 178 (22.76%) JavaScript
5 150 (19.18%) TypeScript
6 75 (9.59%) C#
7 68 (8.70%) Ruby
8 62 (7.93%) Go
9 41 (5.24%) Bash
10 26 (3.32%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.56%) Scala
12 18 (2.30%) PHP
13 16 (2.05%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.66%) C++
15 10 (1.28%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.28%) RPG
16 6 (0.77%) Groovy
16 6 (0.77%) Perl
17 5 (0.64%) Korn
18 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 93 (11.89%) Degree
3 91 (11.64%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.20%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.02%) PhD
10 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.26%) CISSP
12 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.26%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.13%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.18%) QA
2 58 (7.42%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.58%) GDPR
4 22 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.64%) WCAG
7 4 (0.51%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 247 (31.59%) Docker
2 12 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 214 (27.37%) Kubernetes
2 66 (8.44%) Grafana
3 63 (8.06%) Ansible
4 45 (5.75%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.22%) Argo
6 11 (1.41%) Kibana
7 8 (1.02%) Rancher
8 7 (0.90%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.77%) Istio
9 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.77%) Puppet
10 5 (0.64%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.64%) Packer
11 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.38%) logstash
11 3 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.38%) Plesk
11 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 80 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.21%) Oracle
3 28 (3.58%) Google
4 25 (3.20%) Databricks
4 25 (3.20%) OpenAI
5 24 (3.07%) Dynatrace
6 21 (2.69%) Splunk
7 18 (2.30%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.79%) IBM
9 11 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.02%) Mistral
11 7 (0.90%) Informatica
12 5 (0.64%) Dell
12 5 (0.64%) Meraki
13 4 (0.51%) ESRI
13 4 (0.51%) Netezza
13 4 (0.51%) Remedy
13 4 (0.51%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.38%) VMware