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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 140 179
Rank change year-on-year -88 +39 -44
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 609 1,288 983
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.89% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.84% 12.09% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 430 587 829
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,401 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £109,375 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% +2.08% -

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 6,886 10,657 11,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.00% 15.68% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,514 6,055 8,954
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 £87,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,250 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.48% -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 14 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 14 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 -92 556 £75,000 +3.45% 735
London -28 325 £100,000 +17.65% 496
UK excluding London -111 277 £62,500 +2.04% 302
Work from Home -83 260 £75,000 +7.14% 450
North of England -24 88 £67,500 +3.85% 107
South East -109 68 £65,000 +8.33% 85
Midlands +32 41 £55,200 -15.08% 34
North West -27 41 £70,000 +9.80% 78
South West -23 37 £54,000 -16.92% 30
Yorkshire +7 31 £70,000 -1.75% 23
West Midlands +29 30 £70,000 +7.69% 19
Scotland -20 22 £73,801 +30.62% 20
North East +17 16 £52,500 -24.25% 6
East of England -37 16 £37,750 -34.35% 16
East Midlands +6 11 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Wales -13 6 £69,401 +6.77% 4
Northern Ireland -3 3 £73,801 +13.54% 10

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 77 (12.64%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.27%) Confluence
3 23 (3.78%) Apache Spark
4 19 (3.12%) Tomcat
4 19 (3.12%) WebSphere
5 16 (2.63%) WebSphere Application Server
6 12 (1.97%) nginx
7 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (1.15%) Apache
9 6 (0.99%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.82%) JBoss
11 4 (0.66%) IIS
11 4 (0.66%) 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 (1.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.82%) 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
1 449 (73.73%) AWS
2 200 (32.84%) Azure
3 184 (30.21%) GCP
4 92 (15.11%) Serverless
5 91 (14.94%) dbt
6 76 (12.48%) Amazon ECS
7 68 (11.17%) GitHub
8 58 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
9 52 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
9 52 (8.54%) Amazon S3
10 44 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (5.58%) SaaS
12 33 (5.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (4.43%) Amazon ECR
15 24 (3.94%) Power Platform
16 22 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
17 21 (3.45%) Pulumi
17 21 (3.45%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.61%) TCP/IP
2 21 (3.45%) Firewall
2 21 (3.45%) SSL
3 10 (1.64%) DNS
3 10 (1.64%) HTTP
3 10 (1.64%) iSCSI
3 10 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
3 10 (1.64%) SAN
4 9 (1.48%) FTP
4 9 (1.48%) SSH
4 9 (1.48%) VPN
5 8 (1.31%) IMAP
5 8 (1.31%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (1.31%) SMTP
6 5 (0.82%) MQTT
6 5 (0.82%) 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
1 133 (21.84%) Relational Database
2 127 (20.85%) SQL Server
3 126 (20.69%) MySQL
4 107 (17.57%) MongoDB
5 87 (14.29%) NoSQL
6 67 (11.00%) Amazon Athena
7 65 (10.67%) Apache Iceberg
8 60 (9.85%) Apache Arrow
8 60 (9.85%) Dremio
9 51 (8.37%) Amazon RDS
10 50 (8.21%) RDBMS
11 47 (7.72%) Redis
12 35 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (5.25%) DB2
14 31 (5.09%) DynamoDB
15 29 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
16 27 (4.43%) Amazon Aurora
17 23 (3.78%) Big Data
18 22 (3.61%) Power BI
19 17 (2.79%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 110 (18.06%) Jenkins
2 96 (15.76%) Git
3 47 (7.72%) JIRA
3 47 (7.72%) JUnit
4 33 (5.42%) GitLab
5 31 (5.09%) Mockito
6 29 (4.76%) Selenium
7 28 (4.60%) Cucumber
8 27 (4.43%) JMeter
9 19 (3.12%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.81%) Maven
11 9 (1.48%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.31%) Vagrant
13 7 (1.15%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.15%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (0.99%) DbUnit
14 6 (0.99%) jMock
14 6 (0.99%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.99%) Subversion
General
1 188 (30.87%) Finance
2 136 (22.33%) Social Skills
3 74 (12.15%) Front Office
4 73 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 61 (10.02%) Banking
6 50 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (7.72%) Law
8 40 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.91%) Marketing
10 21 (3.45%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.96%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.63%) Electronics
12 16 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (2.30%) Investment Banking
14 14 (2.30%) Retail
15 13 (2.13%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.64%) Advertising
17 7 (1.15%) Legal
18 5 (0.82%) Games
Job Titles
1 259 (42.53%) Developer
2 139 (22.82%) Software Engineer
3 112 (18.39%) Senior
4 82 (13.46%) Lead
4 82 (13.46%) Python Developer
5 76 (12.48%) Java Developer
6 75 (12.32%) Python Engineer
7 73 (11.99%) AWS Engineer
8 69 (11.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 67 (11.00%) Python Software Engineer
10 65 (10.67%) AWS Developer
11 63 (10.34%) AWS Software Engineer
12 62 (10.18%) Full-Stack Developer
13 46 (7.55%) Java Engineer
14 37 (6.08%) Software Developer
15 35 (5.75%) Lead Developer
16 33 (5.42%) Data Engineer
17 30 (4.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 30 (4.93%) Senior Developer
18 29 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (30.05%) React
2 140 (22.99%) Node.js
3 114 (18.72%) Spring
4 107 (17.57%) AngularJS
5 106 (17.41%) Spring Boot
6 92 (15.11%) RESTful
7 89 (14.61%) REST
8 82 (13.46%) Vue
9 73 (11.99%) FastAPI
10 71 (11.66%) Kafka
11 68 (11.17%) Django
12 67 (11.00%) HTML
13 62 (10.18%) NumPy
13 62 (10.18%) Pandas
14 60 (9.85%) SciPy
15 50 (8.21%) CSS
16 44 (7.22%) Flask
16 44 (7.22%) Web Services
17 43 (7.06%) .NET
18 36 (5.91%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 66 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (10.67%) Equities
3 65 (10.67%) Fixed Income
3 65 (10.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (5.42%) Linux Command Line
5 31 (5.09%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.94%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.45%) Algorithms
8 20 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (2.79%) Replication
10 14 (2.30%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.81%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.64%) Derivative
13 10 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.48%) Distributed Applications
15 8 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
16 7 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 121 (19.87%) Linux
2 52 (8.54%) Windows
3 51 (8.37%) Unix
4 28 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.13%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.64%) VMS
7 8 (1.31%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.99%) Debian
8 6 (0.99%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.66%) Android
9 4 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.49%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.33%) CentOS
12 1 (0.16%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (45.98%) Agile
2 235 (38.59%) CI/CD
3 211 (34.65%) Software Engineering
4 164 (26.93%) Microservices
5 162 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (23.97%) DevOps
7 123 (20.20%) Full-Stack Development
8 115 (18.88%) Fintech
9 110 (18.06%) Containerisation
10 96 (15.76%) AI
11 88 (14.45%) Mentoring
12 83 (13.63%) TDD
13 78 (12.81%) Clean Code
14 77 (12.64%) Test Automation
15 70 (11.49%) Asset Management
16 69 (11.33%) Investment Management
17 63 (10.34%) ETL
17 63 (10.34%) Risk Management
18 62 (10.18%) Data Engineering
19 60 (9.85%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 325 (53.37%) Python
2 199 (32.68%) Java
3 188 (30.87%) JavaScript
4 178 (29.23%) SQL
5 149 (24.47%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.55%) C#
7 27 (4.43%) Shell Script
8 25 (4.11%) Bash
9 23 (3.78%) PowerShell
10 20 (3.28%) PHP
11 17 (2.79%) Go
12 14 (2.30%) Rust
13 11 (1.81%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.64%) Groovy
14 10 (1.64%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.31%) Delphi
15 8 (1.31%) Korn
15 8 (1.31%) Ruby
16 6 (0.99%) C
17 4 (0.66%) C++
Qualifications
1 106 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.48%) Degree
4 40 (6.57%) AWS Certification
5 25 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.13%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.99%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.33%) CCNA
12 2 (0.33%) CCNP
12 2 (0.33%) HNC
12 2 (0.33%) HND
12 2 (0.33%) MCSA
12 2 (0.33%) MCSE
12 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.40%) QA
2 27 (4.43%) SLA
3 18 (2.96%) GDPR
4 16 (2.63%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.13%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.82%) NIST
7 4 (0.66%) 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%) GAAP
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 234 (38.42%) Docker
2 12 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 9 (1.48%) Postfix
5 8 (1.31%) DFS Replication
5 8 (1.31%) Dovecot
5 8 (1.31%) Squid
6 5 (0.82%) 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
1 185 (30.38%) Kubernetes
2 91 (14.94%) Terraform
3 33 (5.42%) Kibana
4 31 (5.09%) Grafana
5 24 (3.94%) Ansible
6 21 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.97%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (1.31%) Nessus
8 8 (1.31%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.82%) logstash
10 5 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.66%) Argo
11 4 (0.66%) Puppet
12 3 (0.49%) Oozie
13 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.33%) Nagios
14 1 (0.16%) Ambari
14 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 95 (15.60%) Oracle
2 45 (7.39%) Google
3 37 (6.08%) Microsoft
3 37 (6.08%) Splunk
4 33 (5.42%) Red Hat
5 25 (4.11%) Dynatrace
6 23 (3.78%) ServiceNow
7 22 (3.61%) IBM
8 21 (3.45%) SAP
9 19 (3.12%) Informatica
10 18 (2.96%) Atlassian
11 16 (2.63%) Databricks
12 15 (2.46%) Talend
13 12 (1.97%) Dell
14 11 (1.81%) OpenAI
15 9 (1.48%) Jaspersoft
15 9 (1.48%) Salesforce
16 7 (1.15%) RedGate
17 4 (0.66%) Vertica
17 4 (0.66%) WSO2