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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 224 162
Rank change year-on-year -37 -62 +38
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 784 688 1,373
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.38% 1.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.83% 9.22% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 577 490 855
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
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 8,878 7,459 12,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.15% 14.93% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,989 4,779 8,366
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £113,750
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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -47 667 £70,000 -6.67% 231
UK excluding London -56 389 £65,000 +4.00% 140
Work from Home +27 380 £67,500 -15.63% 134
London -78 289 £85,000 -19.05% 124
South East -15 126 £65,000 +18.18% 31
North of England -10 124 £65,000 -3.70% 32
North West 0 57 £65,000 -3.70% 22
South West -60 48 £63,750 +30.77% 33
North East -30 40 £65,000 +30.98% 4
Midlands -46 31 £72,155 +3.08% 26
East of England -25 30 £52,500 +69.35% 4
Yorkshire -35 27 £69,308 +2.68% 6
West Midlands -40 22 £83,774 +15.55% 14
Wales -45 21 £67,500 -12.90% 4
Scotland -8 17 £65,000 -3.70% 9
East Midlands -20 9 £60,000 +9.09% 11

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 32 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (3.70%) Apache
3 27 (3.44%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.32%) Confluence
5 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.89%) Camunda
8 6 (0.77%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.77%) WordPress
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.26%) Luigi
10 2 (0.26%) Tornado
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Moodle
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.40%) 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
1 449 (57.27%) AWS
2 275 (35.08%) Azure
3 128 (16.33%) GitHub
4 115 (14.67%) GCP
5 98 (12.50%) Serverless
6 75 (9.57%) Amazon S3
6 75 (9.57%) SaaS
7 68 (8.67%) Amazon ECS
8 56 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 55 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (6.89%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (5.74%) Amazon SQS
13 40 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (5.10%) GitHub Copilot
14 35 (4.46%) Power Platform
15 29 (3.70%) Azure AKS
16 28 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (2.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.46%) Broadband
2 13 (1.66%) Firewall
3 10 (1.28%) DNS
4 8 (1.02%) SMS
5 7 (0.89%) AMQP
5 7 (0.89%) DHCP
6 6 (0.77%) iSCSI
6 6 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (0.77%) SAN
7 5 (0.64%) HTTP
7 5 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.38%) VPN
9 2 (0.26%) MQTT
9 2 (0.26%) VLAN
10 1 (0.13%) 4G
10 1 (0.13%) 5G
10 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.13%) Multicast
10 1 (0.13%) Network Security
10 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (26.53%) MongoDB
2 189 (24.11%) MySQL
3 143 (18.24%) Relational Database
4 133 (16.96%) SQL Server
5 102 (13.01%) NoSQL
6 85 (10.84%) Redis
7 47 (5.99%) DynamoDB
8 37 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (3.32%) Power BI
12 21 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (2.68%) Metadata
13 20 (2.55%) Big Data
14 17 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
14 17 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
15 15 (1.91%) GIS
15 15 (1.91%) Oracle Database
16 14 (1.79%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.79%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 177 (22.58%) Git
2 57 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 56 (7.14%) GitLab
4 33 (4.21%) JIRA
5 29 (3.70%) JUnit
6 28 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 23 (2.93%) Mockito
8 13 (1.66%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.40%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.28%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.28%) JMeter
10 10 (1.28%) Vite
11 8 (1.02%) Maven
12 7 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.89%) Mocha
12 7 (0.89%) RSpec
12 7 (0.89%) Selenium
12 7 (0.89%) Storybook
13 5 (0.64%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.64%) Gatling
General
1 186 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 105 (13.39%) Public Sector
3 102 (13.01%) Finance
4 76 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.10%) Law
7 36 (4.59%) Games
8 34 (4.34%) Banking
9 23 (2.93%) Legal
10 19 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (2.42%) Retail
11 18 (2.30%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.91%) Tech for Good
13 13 (1.66%) Advertising
13 13 (1.66%) Legal Technology
14 12 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.40%) Aerospace
15 11 (1.40%) Health Technology
16 9 (1.15%) Aviation
17 8 (1.02%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 274 (34.95%) Developer
2 215 (27.42%) Senior
3 153 (19.52%) Software Engineer
4 121 (15.43%) Lead
5 90 (11.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 65 (8.29%) Python Engineer
7 61 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
8 58 (7.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 53 (6.76%) Data Engineer
9 53 (6.76%) Senior Developer
10 47 (5.99%) Architect
10 47 (5.99%) Python Developer
11 45 (5.74%) Java Developer
12 41 (5.23%) DevOps Engineer
13 39 (4.97%) Lead Developer
14 36 (4.59%) Software Developer
15 34 (4.34%) Ruby Developer
16 31 (3.95%) Lead Software Engineer
17 29 (3.70%) Database Engineer
18 26 (3.32%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (25.89%) React
2 179 (22.83%) Node.js
3 167 (21.30%) Terraform
4 147 (18.75%) RESTful
5 120 (15.31%) REST
6 104 (13.27%) Spring
7 100 (12.76%) Spring Boot
8 96 (12.24%) Kafka
9 77 (9.82%) CSS
10 72 (9.18%) .NET
11 67 (8.55%) Next.js
12 66 (8.42%) Ruby on Rails
13 64 (8.16%) HTML
14 55 (7.02%) FastAPI
15 50 (6.38%) AngularJS
16 48 (6.12%) Jest
16 48 (6.12%) JSON
17 42 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
18 36 (4.59%) Hibernate
18 36 (4.59%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 156 (19.90%) Cloud Native
2 110 (14.03%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.72%) Low-Code
5 32 (4.08%) Video\Live Streaming
6 31 (3.95%) AI Agents
7 27 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (2.93%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.81%) Replication
10 21 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (2.55%) Algorithms
12 19 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (2.30%) Blog
14 17 (2.17%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.91%) Virtual Team
16 13 (1.66%) Management Information System
17 12 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (1.53%) IoT
17 12 (1.53%) Public Cloud
17 12 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 112 (14.29%) Linux
2 38 (4.85%) Windows
3 17 (2.17%) Unix
4 16 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.77%) Android
6 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.26%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (46.43%) CI/CD
2 284 (36.22%) Agile
3 280 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 236 (30.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 229 (29.21%) Microservices
6 222 (28.32%) AI
7 206 (26.28%) DevOps
8 177 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 153 (19.52%) Mentoring
10 150 (19.13%) Observability
11 145 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 143 (18.24%) Containerisation
13 141 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
14 130 (16.58%) Test Automation
15 105 (13.39%) API Design
16 99 (12.63%) Clean Code
17 97 (12.37%) Event-Driven
18 96 (12.24%) Scrum
19 92 (11.73%) Data Modelling
20 89 (11.35%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 323 (41.20%) Python
2 212 (27.04%) SQL
3 193 (24.62%) Java
4 182 (23.21%) JavaScript
5 154 (19.64%) TypeScript
6 73 (9.31%) C#
7 68 (8.67%) Ruby
8 62 (7.91%) Go
9 34 (4.34%) Bash
10 27 (3.44%) PowerShell
11 21 (2.68%) PHP
12 19 (2.42%) Scala
13 13 (1.66%) C++
13 13 (1.66%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.28%) RPG
15 9 (1.15%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.89%) Perl
17 5 (0.64%) Korn
18 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 111 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 101 (12.88%) Degree
3 82 (10.46%) SC Cleared
4 31 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.89%) PhD
11 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.26%) CISSP
13 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.26%) RHCE
13 2 (0.26%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 58 (7.40%) QA
3 30 (3.83%) GDPR
4 21 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.64%) SLA
6 5 (0.64%) WCAG
7 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.26%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 239 (30.48%) Docker
2 17 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Samba
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 205 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 58 (7.40%) Ansible
3 50 (6.38%) Grafana
4 32 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 31 (3.95%) Argo
6 10 (1.28%) Kibana
7 6 (0.77%) Istio
7 6 (0.77%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.77%) Puppet
8 5 (0.64%) Data Guard
8 5 (0.64%) Packer
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.38%) Plesk
10 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.26%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.26%) logstash
11 2 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.57%) Oracle
3 40 (5.10%) Google
4 26 (3.32%) Databricks
5 23 (2.93%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.30%) Splunk
7 17 (2.17%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.17%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.79%) IBM
9 7 (0.89%) Pega
9 7 (0.89%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.77%) Dell
10 6 (0.77%) Informatica
10 6 (0.77%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.64%) Meraki
12 4 (0.51%) Netezza
12 4 (0.51%) Remedy
12 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.38%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.38%) New Relic