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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 235 134
Rank change year-on-year -20 -101 +67
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 885 613 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.25% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.15% 8.80% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 618 421 647
10th Percentile £44,428 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +8.21% -0.99%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%

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 8,719 6,964 11,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.34% 14.16% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,963 4,332 6,384
10th Percentile £36,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 15 October 2026.

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 October 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 -21 753 £71,371 -10.79% 175
Work from Home +40 415 £67,500 -20.59% 168
UK excluding London -54 405 £65,000 - 115
London -49 361 £83,750 -20.24% 85
South East -1 134 £70,000 +5.66% 27
North of England -22 123 £65,000 -3.70% 37
North West -11 57 £61,250 -10.91% 20
South West -58 50 £82,500 +52.78% 23
Midlands -37 44 £75,000 +7.14% 14
North East -33 41 £65,000 +25.30% 8
West Midlands -44 32 £85,000 +17.24% 11
Wales -41 28 £64,000 -1.54% 1
East of England -38 27 £52,500 +72.13% 6
Yorkshire -35 25 £65,000 -7.14% 14
East Midlands -22 12 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Scotland -1 10 £65,000 -11.93% 5
Northern Ireland -79 2 - - 3

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 27 (3.05%) Confluence
2 24 (2.71%) Apache
2 24 (2.71%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.79%) Camunda
4 7 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.68%) nginx
6 5 (0.56%) WordPress
7 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.45%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.45%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.34%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.23%) Luigi
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) Tornado
10 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.23%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.11%) Finacle
3 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 522 (58.98%) AWS
2 291 (32.88%) Azure
3 168 (18.98%) GitHub
4 137 (15.48%) GCP
5 99 (11.19%) SaaS
6 96 (10.85%) Serverless
7 78 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (8.47%) Amazon EKS
9 74 (8.36%) Amazon S3
10 70 (7.91%) Amazon ECS
11 54 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
11 54 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
12 52 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (5.31%) GitHub Copilot
14 42 (4.75%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 31 (3.50%) Power Platform
17 28 (3.16%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.16%) Broadband
2 27 (3.05%) TCP/IP
3 24 (2.71%) VPN
4 17 (1.92%) BGP
5 15 (1.69%) AMQP
5 15 (1.69%) Firewall
5 15 (1.69%) SMS
6 12 (1.36%) VLAN
7 11 (1.24%) DNS
8 8 (0.90%) Network Security
9 6 (0.68%) HTTP
10 4 (0.45%) DHCP
11 3 (0.34%) 4G
11 3 (0.34%) 5G
11 3 (0.34%) OpenVPN
11 3 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.34%) SSH
12 2 (0.23%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.23%) tcpdump
12 2 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (23.95%) MongoDB
2 195 (22.03%) MySQL
3 147 (16.61%) Relational Database
4 138 (15.59%) SQL Server
5 118 (13.33%) Redis
6 102 (11.53%) NoSQL
7 71 (8.02%) Amazon RDS
8 47 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
9 44 (4.97%) DynamoDB
10 34 (3.84%) Amazon Aurora
11 30 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (2.60%) Power BI
13 21 (2.37%) Big Data
13 21 (2.37%) Metadata
14 19 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (2.15%) Oracle Database
14 19 (2.15%) Pinecone
15 15 (1.69%) Chroma
15 15 (1.69%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 218 (24.63%) Git
2 86 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 70 (7.91%) GitLab
4 37 (4.18%) TeamCity
5 29 (3.28%) JIRA
6 27 (3.05%) JUnit
7 26 (2.94%) Cypress.io
8 20 (2.26%) Mockito
9 14 (1.58%) Claude Code
10 12 (1.36%) JMeter
11 11 (1.24%) Vite
12 9 (1.02%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.90%) Mocha
13 8 (0.90%) Selenium
14 7 (0.79%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.79%) Maven
14 7 (0.79%) RSpec
14 7 (0.79%) Storybook
15 5 (0.56%) Appium
15 5 (0.56%) Eclipse
General
1 219 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 125 (14.12%) Finance
3 116 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 89 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (10.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (7.34%) Banking
6 62 (7.01%) Law
7 40 (4.52%) Retail
8 28 (3.16%) Games
9 23 (2.60%) Financial Institution
9 23 (2.60%) Legal
9 23 (2.60%) Tech for Good
10 17 (1.92%) Back Office
11 16 (1.81%) Health Technology
11 16 (1.81%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.69%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.47%) Legal Technology
14 12 (1.36%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.90%) Marketing
16 7 (0.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 298 (33.67%) Developer
2 269 (30.40%) Senior
3 184 (20.79%) Software Engineer
4 121 (13.67%) Lead
5 85 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
6 79 (8.93%) Senior Developer
7 72 (8.14%) Senior Software Engineer
8 63 (7.12%) Python Engineer
9 54 (6.10%) Data Engineer
9 54 (6.10%) Java Developer
10 52 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 52 (5.88%) Python Developer
11 49 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
12 48 (5.42%) DBA
13 47 (5.31%) Software Developer
14 41 (4.63%) Architect
15 38 (4.29%) Lead Developer
16 34 (3.84%) Database Engineer
16 34 (3.84%) Java Engineer
17 32 (3.62%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (25.76%) Terraform
2 219 (24.75%) React
3 182 (20.56%) Node.js
4 166 (18.76%) RESTful
5 141 (15.93%) REST
6 125 (14.12%) Spring
7 120 (13.56%) Spring Boot
8 117 (13.22%) Kafka
9 88 (9.94%) .NET
10 78 (8.81%) CSS
11 70 (7.91%) Next.js
12 65 (7.34%) HTML
13 60 (6.78%) FastAPI
13 60 (6.78%) Ruby on Rails
14 57 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
15 52 (5.88%) Jest
16 48 (5.42%) AngularJS
17 44 (4.97%) JPA
17 44 (4.97%) JSON
18 42 (4.75%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 195 (22.03%) Cloud Native
2 145 (16.38%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.76%) Blog
4 42 (4.75%) Product Ownership
5 36 (4.07%) AI Agents
6 31 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (3.39%) Low-Code
8 29 (3.28%) Replication
9 25 (2.82%) Onboarding
9 25 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.82%) Video\Live Streaming
10 24 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (2.60%) Virtual Team
12 18 (2.03%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.81%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.81%) Management Information System
15 14 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
16 13 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 131 (14.80%) Linux
2 38 (4.29%) Windows
3 18 (2.03%) Unix
4 16 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.68%) Android
6 6 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) macOS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (49.94%) CI/CD
2 332 (37.51%) Software Engineering
3 312 (35.25%) Agile
4 256 (28.93%) AI
4 256 (28.93%) Microservices
5 239 (27.01%) DevOps
6 229 (25.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 215 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 209 (23.62%) Observability
9 178 (20.11%) Mentoring
10 170 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
11 158 (17.85%) Test Automation
12 153 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 148 (16.72%) Containerisation
14 124 (14.01%) Clean Code
15 123 (13.90%) Event-Driven
16 96 (10.85%) API Design
16 96 (10.85%) Scrum
17 91 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
18 90 (10.17%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 352 (39.77%) Python
2 264 (29.83%) SQL
3 239 (27.01%) Java
4 191 (21.58%) JavaScript
5 174 (19.66%) TypeScript
6 88 (9.94%) C#
7 79 (8.93%) Go
8 62 (7.01%) Ruby
9 54 (6.10%) Bash
10 30 (3.39%) PHP
11 23 (2.60%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.26%) Scala
13 17 (1.92%) Shell Script
14 15 (1.69%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.58%) C++
16 11 (1.24%) Groovy
17 10 (1.13%) RPG
18 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.45%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 147 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 122 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.40%) Degree
4 32 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 22 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.13%) CISSP
8 10 (1.13%) PhD
9 9 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.90%) CCSP
10 8 (0.90%) CISM
11 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.45%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.25%) QA
2 51 (5.76%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.28%) GDPR
4 27 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 27 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.37%) SOC 2
6 19 (2.15%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.90%) NIST
8 5 (0.56%) SLA
9 4 (0.45%) WCAG
10 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
11 1 (0.11%) SOC 1
System Software
1 292 (32.99%) Docker
2 9 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.11%) Ceph
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Lustre
6 1 (0.11%) NFS
6 1 (0.11%) Samba
6 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 264 (29.83%) Kubernetes
2 115 (12.99%) Grafana
3 71 (8.02%) Prometheus
4 68 (7.68%) Ansible
5 36 (4.07%) Argo
6 15 (1.69%) Kibana
7 11 (1.24%) Rancher
8 10 (1.13%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.02%) Istio
9 9 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.90%) Cilium
11 6 (0.68%) logstash
11 6 (0.68%) Packer
11 6 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.68%) Puppet
12 4 (0.45%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.34%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.34%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.23%) Bugsnag
14 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 80 (9.04%) Microsoft
1 80 (9.04%) Oracle
2 50 (5.65%) Google
3 34 (3.84%) OpenAI
4 31 (3.50%) Databricks
5 28 (3.16%) Splunk
6 27 (3.05%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.58%) IBM
8 14 (1.58%) Mistral
8 14 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.90%) Informatica
10 6 (0.68%) VMware
11 5 (0.56%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.45%) Adobe
12 4 (0.45%) ESRI
12 4 (0.45%) Netezza
12 4 (0.45%) Remedy
12 4 (0.45%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.45%) TIBCO