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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 140 181
Rank change year-on-year -92 +41 -45
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 614 1,280 991
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.88% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.89% 12.03% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 436 580 836
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £107,500 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

All Database and 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 6,906 10,638 11,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.04% 15.65% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,528 6,040 9,012
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,787
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,348 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,875 £113,979 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -85 560 £75,000 +3.45% 713
London -23 329 £100,000 +17.65% 483
UK excluding London -113 277 £62,500 - 290
Work from Home -82 264 £75,000 +7.14% 411
North of England -16 88 £67,500 -2.61% 96
South East -110 68 £65,000 +8.33% 84
Midlands +27 41 £55,200 -15.08% 36
North West -26 41 £70,000 +12.00% 73
South West -26 37 £54,000 -16.92% 27
Yorkshire +12 31 £70,000 -3.45% 17
West Midlands +30 30 £70,000 +7.69% 21
Scotland -14 22 £73,801 +30.62% 19
North East +17 16 £52,500 -24.25% 6
East of England -36 16 £37,750 -34.35% 19
East Midlands +9 11 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Wales -10 6 £69,401 +6.77% 4
Northern Ireland -2 3 £73,801 +13.54% 9

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 79 (12.87%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.23%) Confluence
3 24 (3.91%) Apache Spark
4 19 (3.09%) Tomcat
4 19 (3.09%) WebSphere
5 16 (2.61%) WebSphere Application Server
6 12 (1.95%) nginx
7 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (1.14%) Apache
9 6 (0.98%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.81%) JBoss
11 4 (0.65%) IIS
11 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
12 3 (0.49%) CMS
12 3 (0.49%) Luigi
12 3 (0.49%) SAS
12 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
13 2 (0.33%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (1.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Notion
4 1 (0.16%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.16%) Magento
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 453 (73.78%) AWS
2 203 (33.06%) Azure
3 187 (30.46%) GCP
4 92 (14.98%) dbt
4 92 (14.98%) Serverless
5 76 (12.38%) Amazon ECS
6 69 (11.24%) GitHub
7 58 (9.45%) Amazon EC2
8 53 (8.63%) Amazon EKS
9 52 (8.47%) Amazon S3
10 44 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (5.86%) SaaS
12 33 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (5.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
15 26 (4.23%) Power Platform
16 22 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
17 21 (3.42%) Pulumi
17 21 (3.42%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.58%) TCP/IP
2 21 (3.42%) Firewall
2 21 (3.42%) SSL
3 10 (1.63%) DNS
3 10 (1.63%) HTTP
3 10 (1.63%) iSCSI
3 10 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
3 10 (1.63%) SAN
4 9 (1.47%) FTP
4 9 (1.47%) SSH
4 9 (1.47%) VPN
5 8 (1.30%) IMAP
5 8 (1.30%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (1.30%) SMTP
6 5 (0.81%) MQTT
6 5 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.49%) AMQP
7 3 (0.49%) Asterisk PBX
7 3 (0.49%) Multicast
7 3 (0.49%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (21.99%) Relational Database
2 128 (20.85%) SQL Server
3 126 (20.52%) MySQL
4 106 (17.26%) MongoDB
5 86 (14.01%) NoSQL
6 67 (10.91%) Amazon Athena
7 65 (10.59%) Apache Iceberg
8 60 (9.77%) Apache Arrow
8 60 (9.77%) Dremio
9 51 (8.31%) Amazon RDS
10 50 (8.14%) RDBMS
11 47 (7.65%) Redis
12 36 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (5.05%) DynamoDB
14 30 (4.89%) DB2
15 29 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
16 27 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
17 24 (3.91%) Power BI
18 23 (3.75%) Big Data
19 17 (2.77%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 110 (17.92%) Jenkins
2 98 (15.96%) Git
3 47 (7.65%) JIRA
3 47 (7.65%) JUnit
4 33 (5.37%) GitLab
5 31 (5.05%) Mockito
6 29 (4.72%) Selenium
7 28 (4.56%) Cucumber
8 27 (4.40%) JMeter
9 19 (3.09%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.79%) Maven
11 9 (1.47%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.30%) Vagrant
13 7 (1.14%) CircleCI
13 7 (1.14%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.14%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (0.98%) DbUnit
14 6 (0.98%) jMock
14 6 (0.98%) Subversion
General
1 189 (30.78%) Finance
2 138 (22.48%) Social Skills
3 74 (12.05%) Front Office
4 71 (11.56%) Public Sector
5 61 (9.93%) Banking
6 49 (7.98%) Law
7 48 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.86%) Marketing
10 21 (3.42%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.93%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.61%) Electronics
12 16 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (2.28%) Investment Banking
14 14 (2.28%) Retail
15 13 (2.12%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.63%) Advertising
17 7 (1.14%) Legal
18 5 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 261 (42.51%) Developer
2 141 (22.96%) Software Engineer
3 112 (18.24%) Senior
4 83 (13.52%) Lead
5 82 (13.36%) Python Developer
6 77 (12.54%) Java Developer
7 75 (12.21%) Python Engineer
8 73 (11.89%) AWS Engineer
9 69 (11.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 67 (10.91%) Python Software Engineer
11 65 (10.59%) AWS Developer
12 64 (10.42%) Full-Stack Developer
13 63 (10.26%) AWS Software Engineer
14 46 (7.49%) Java Engineer
15 37 (6.03%) Software Developer
16 35 (5.70%) Lead Developer
17 34 (5.54%) Data Engineer
18 31 (5.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 30 (4.89%) Senior Developer
20 29 (4.72%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (30.29%) React
2 143 (23.29%) Node.js
3 115 (18.73%) Spring
4 107 (17.43%) Spring Boot
5 106 (17.26%) AngularJS
6 92 (14.98%) RESTful
7 89 (14.50%) REST
8 83 (13.52%) Vue
9 74 (12.05%) FastAPI
10 72 (11.73%) Kafka
11 68 (11.07%) Django
11 68 (11.07%) HTML
12 62 (10.10%) NumPy
12 62 (10.10%) Pandas
13 60 (9.77%) SciPy
14 51 (8.31%) CSS
15 44 (7.17%) Flask
15 44 (7.17%) Web Services
16 43 (7.00%) .NET
17 37 (6.03%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 83 (13.52%) Cloud Native
2 66 (10.75%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (10.59%) Equities
3 65 (10.59%) Fixed Income
3 65 (10.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (5.37%) Linux Command Line
5 31 (5.05%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.91%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (3.09%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.77%) Replication
10 12 (1.95%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.95%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.63%) Derivative
11 10 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
13 8 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 120 (19.54%) Linux
2 51 (8.31%) Unix
3 50 (8.14%) Windows
4 28 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.12%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.63%) VMS
7 8 (1.30%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.98%) Debian
8 6 (0.98%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.65%) Android
9 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.49%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.33%) CentOS
12 1 (0.16%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (45.77%) Agile
2 238 (38.76%) CI/CD
3 213 (34.69%) Software Engineering
4 168 (27.36%) Microservices
5 163 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
6 149 (24.27%) DevOps
7 126 (20.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 115 (18.73%) Fintech
9 113 (18.40%) Containerisation
10 95 (15.47%) AI
11 87 (14.17%) Mentoring
12 83 (13.52%) TDD
13 79 (12.87%) Clean Code
13 79 (12.87%) Test Automation
14 70 (11.40%) Asset Management
15 69 (11.24%) Investment Management
16 64 (10.42%) Data Engineering
16 64 (10.42%) ETL
17 63 (10.26%) Risk Management
18 60 (9.77%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 327 (53.26%) Python
2 201 (32.74%) Java
3 192 (31.27%) JavaScript
4 177 (28.83%) SQL
5 153 (24.92%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.49%) C#
7 27 (4.40%) Shell Script
8 25 (4.07%) Bash
9 23 (3.75%) PowerShell
10 20 (3.26%) PHP
11 17 (2.77%) Go
12 14 (2.28%) Rust
13 11 (1.79%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.63%) Groovy
14 10 (1.63%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.47%) Ruby
16 8 (1.30%) Delphi
16 8 (1.30%) Korn
17 6 (0.98%) C
18 4 (0.65%) C++
Qualifications
1 109 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 80 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 77 (12.54%) Degree
4 40 (6.51%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.93%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (2.61%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.28%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.33%) CCNA
13 2 (0.33%) CCNP
13 2 (0.33%) HNC
13 2 (0.33%) HND
13 2 (0.33%) MCSA
13 2 (0.33%) MCSE
13 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.35%) QA
2 27 (4.40%) SLA
3 19 (3.09%) GDPR
4 18 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.12%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.81%) NIST
7 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.49%) SEPA
9 2 (0.33%) PSD2
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.16%) GAAP
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 240 (39.09%) Docker
2 12 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 9 (1.47%) Postfix
5 8 (1.30%) DFS Replication
5 8 (1.30%) Dovecot
5 8 (1.30%) Squid
6 5 (0.81%) zsh
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.49%) HDFS
8 2 (0.33%) NFS
8 2 (0.33%) pfSense
8 2 (0.33%) Samba
9 1 (0.16%) KVM
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 190 (30.94%) Kubernetes
2 95 (15.47%) Terraform
3 33 (5.37%) Kibana
4 32 (5.21%) Grafana
5 25 (4.07%) Ansible
6 22 (3.58%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.95%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (1.30%) Nessus
8 8 (1.30%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.14%) Argo
10 6 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.81%) logstash
11 5 (0.81%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.65%) Puppet
13 3 (0.49%) Oozie
14 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.33%) Nagios
15 1 (0.16%) Ambari
15 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
15 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 95 (15.47%) Oracle
2 45 (7.33%) Google
3 38 (6.19%) Microsoft
4 37 (6.03%) Splunk
5 32 (5.21%) Red Hat
6 25 (4.07%) Dynatrace
7 23 (3.75%) ServiceNow
8 21 (3.42%) SAP
9 20 (3.26%) IBM
10 19 (3.09%) Informatica
11 18 (2.93%) Atlassian
12 16 (2.61%) Databricks
13 15 (2.44%) Talend
14 12 (1.95%) Dell
14 12 (1.95%) OpenAI
15 9 (1.47%) Jaspersoft
15 9 (1.47%) Salesforce
16 7 (1.14%) RedGate
17 4 (0.65%) Vertica
17 4 (0.65%) WSO2