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 3 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 105 163
Rank change year-on-year -132 +58 -1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 287 775 462
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 2.78% 2.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.04% 14.40% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 198 329 381
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,438 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% +14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £97,188 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +10.61% -

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 3,571 5,381 5,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.04% 19.28% 21.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,225 2,939 3,968
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,339
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £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 3 months to 6 December 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 3 months to 6 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -116 248 £75,000 -6.25% 453
London -79 139 £88,750 +1.43% 152
UK excluding London -132 129 £62,500 -5.83% 369
Work from Home -95 126 £70,000 -6.67% 328
North of England -2 47 £73,801 +13.54% 84
South East -108 28 £60,000 -25.00% 115
Yorkshire -8 23 £70,000 +55.56% 34
Midlands +3 22 £55,200 -15.08% 46
North West +6 17 £74,401 +14.46% 42
West Midlands +13 13 £48,975 -24.65% 26
South West -16 11 £70,000 +7.69% 52
East Midlands -8 9 £65,000 +18.18% 18
Scotland -21 8 £73,801 +15.77% 21
East of England -33 8 £37,750 -34.35% 39
North East -5 7 £64,501 -6.94% 8
Wales -9 5 £73,801 +13.54% 9
Northern Ireland -8 3 £73,801 +6.48% 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 63 (11.56%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.49%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.12%) Tomcat
5 16 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
6 15 (2.75%) Confluence
7 9 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.65%) nginx
7 9 (1.65%) OpenStack
8 6 (1.10%) Apache
9 4 (0.73%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.55%) CMS
10 3 (0.55%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.55%) Luigi
10 3 (0.55%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.55%) WildFly
11 2 (0.37%) Camunda
11 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.37%) JBoss
11 2 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Endur
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 392 (71.93%) AWS
2 186 (34.13%) Azure
3 165 (30.28%) GCP
4 90 (16.51%) Serverless
5 76 (13.94%) dbt
6 70 (12.84%) Amazon ECS
7 54 (9.91%) GitHub
8 50 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (8.99%) Amazon S3
10 43 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
11 38 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 34 (6.24%) SaaS
13 29 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (4.95%) Amazon ECR
15 22 (4.04%) Power Platform
16 21 (3.85%) Pulumi
17 20 (3.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 20 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (3.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.04%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.49%) SSL
3 17 (3.12%) Firewall
4 9 (1.65%) iSCSI
4 9 (1.65%) Remote Desktop
4 9 (1.65%) SAN
5 7 (1.28%) DNS
5 7 (1.28%) HTTP
5 7 (1.28%) VPN
6 5 (0.92%) FTP
6 5 (0.92%) IMAP
6 5 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (0.92%) SMTP
6 5 (0.92%) SSH
6 5 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.55%) AMQP
7 3 (0.55%) MQTT
8 2 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.37%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (23.67%) SQL Server
2 118 (21.65%) Relational Database
3 109 (20.00%) MySQL
4 87 (15.96%) MongoDB
5 78 (14.31%) NoSQL
6 50 (9.17%) Apache Iceberg
7 48 (8.81%) Amazon Athena
8 45 (8.26%) Apache Arrow
8 45 (8.26%) Dremio
8 45 (8.26%) Redis
9 44 (8.07%) RDBMS
10 40 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
12 35 (6.42%) DB2
13 32 (5.87%) DynamoDB
14 28 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (4.22%) Big Data
16 21 (3.85%) Power BI
17 19 (3.49%) Apache Cassandra
18 18 (3.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 99 (18.17%) Jenkins
2 91 (16.70%) Git
3 39 (7.16%) JUnit
4 33 (6.06%) JIRA
5 26 (4.77%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.77%) GitLab
5 26 (4.77%) JMeter
6 24 (4.40%) Mockito
7 23 (4.22%) Selenium
8 18 (3.30%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.02%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.83%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.92%) Gradle
11 5 (0.92%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.92%) Vagrant
12 4 (0.73%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.73%) Maven
12 4 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.73%) Subversion
12 4 (0.73%) Vite
General
1 138 (25.32%) Finance
2 129 (23.67%) Social Skills
3 50 (9.17%) Front Office
3 50 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 41 (7.52%) Banking
5 38 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (5.14%) Law
7 25 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (4.04%) Marketing
9 14 (2.57%) Retail
10 13 (2.39%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.02%) Financial Institution
12 11 (2.02%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.65%) Electronics
15 8 (1.47%) Advertising
15 8 (1.47%) Legal
16 5 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 223 (40.92%) Developer
2 104 (19.08%) Senior
3 103 (18.90%) Software Engineer
4 67 (12.29%) Python Developer
5 63 (11.56%) Java Developer
5 63 (11.56%) Lead
6 61 (11.19%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (9.91%) Python Engineer
8 53 (9.72%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (9.17%) AWS Developer
10 48 (8.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 48 (8.81%) Python Software Engineer
11 46 (8.44%) AWS Software Engineer
12 34 (6.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 33 (6.06%) Software Developer
14 30 (5.50%) Data Engineer
15 27 (4.95%) Principal Engineer
16 25 (4.59%) Lead Developer
17 24 (4.40%) Architect
17 24 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (31.19%) React
2 122 (22.39%) Node.js
3 87 (15.96%) Spring
4 80 (14.68%) AngularJS
4 80 (14.68%) REST
4 80 (14.68%) Spring Boot
5 76 (13.94%) RESTful
6 70 (12.84%) Django
7 65 (11.93%) Vue
8 63 (11.56%) HTML
9 60 (11.01%) FastAPI
10 56 (10.28%) Kafka
11 46 (8.44%) CSS
11 46 (8.44%) NumPy
11 46 (8.44%) Pandas
12 45 (8.26%) .NET
12 45 (8.26%) SciPy
13 41 (7.52%) Flask
14 36 (6.61%) Web Services
15 30 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 68 (12.48%) Distributed Systems
2 61 (11.19%) Cloud Native
3 47 (8.62%) Equities
3 47 (8.62%) Fixed Income
3 47 (8.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 31 (5.69%) Linux Command Line
6 27 (4.95%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.75%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.39%) Replication
10 12 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (2.20%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.10%) IoT
13 6 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.92%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 102 (18.72%) Linux
2 47 (8.62%) Unix
3 44 (8.07%) Windows
4 27 (4.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.47%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.28%) VMS
7 7 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.92%) Android
8 5 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.92%) Debian
9 3 (0.55%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.37%) CentOS
11 1 (0.18%) Fedora
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (42.75%) Agile
2 224 (41.10%) CI/CD
3 174 (31.93%) Software Engineering
4 159 (29.17%) Microservices
5 146 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
6 141 (25.87%) DevOps
7 117 (21.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 98 (17.98%) Fintech
9 95 (17.43%) Containerisation
10 86 (15.78%) AI
11 76 (13.94%) Mentoring
12 71 (13.03%) Clean Code
13 68 (12.48%) TDD
13 68 (12.48%) Test Automation
14 60 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
15 57 (10.46%) ETL
16 54 (9.91%) Data Engineering
17 52 (9.54%) Scrum
18 51 (9.36%) Analytics
18 51 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 290 (53.21%) Python
2 163 (29.91%) Java
3 161 (29.54%) JavaScript
4 155 (28.44%) SQL
5 125 (22.94%) TypeScript
6 48 (8.81%) C#
7 24 (4.40%) Shell Script
8 19 (3.49%) Go
9 17 (3.12%) Bash
9 17 (3.12%) PHP
10 16 (2.94%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.02%) Ruby
12 10 (1.83%) Rust
13 9 (1.65%) Delphi
14 7 (1.28%) C
14 7 (1.28%) Korn
14 7 (1.28%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.10%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.92%) Groovy
17 3 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 73 (13.39%) Degree
3 66 (12.11%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.42%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.55%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.37%) CCNP
13 2 (0.37%) HNC
13 2 (0.37%) HND
13 2 (0.37%) MCSA
13 2 (0.37%) MCSE
13 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.06%) QA
2 24 (4.40%) SLA
3 15 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.75%) GDPR
4 14 (2.57%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.73%) NIST
6 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.55%) SEPA
7 2 (0.37%) PSD2
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) GAAP
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 214 (39.27%) Docker
2 9 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (0.92%) DFS Replication
3 5 (0.92%) Dovecot
3 5 (0.92%) Postfix
3 5 (0.92%) Squid
4 3 (0.55%) zsh
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.37%) HDFS
5 2 (0.37%) NFS
5 2 (0.37%) pfSense
5 2 (0.37%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 167 (30.64%) Kubernetes
2 86 (15.78%) Terraform
3 30 (5.50%) Kibana
4 29 (5.32%) Grafana
5 28 (5.14%) Ansible
6 20 (3.67%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.20%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (1.28%) Argo
9 5 (0.92%) Nessus
9 5 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.92%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.73%) Puppet
11 3 (0.55%) logstash
11 3 (0.55%) Nagios
12 2 (0.37%) Oozie
13 1 (0.18%) Ambari
13 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.18%) Rancher
13 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (13.94%) Oracle
2 37 (6.79%) Google
3 33 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 32 (5.87%) Splunk
5 30 (5.50%) Microsoft
6 22 (4.04%) Dynatrace
7 21 (3.85%) IBM
8 20 (3.67%) ServiceNow
9 19 (3.49%) Informatica
10 15 (2.75%) Talend
11 14 (2.57%) Atlassian
12 13 (2.39%) SAP
13 11 (2.02%) Dell
14 9 (1.65%) OpenAI
15 8 (1.47%) Databricks
16 6 (1.10%) Salesforce
17 5 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
18 4 (0.73%) ESRI
18 4 (0.73%) Pega
18 4 (0.73%) RedGate