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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 198 173
Rank change year-on-year -102 -25 +13
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 555 684 1,599
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.61% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.12% 9.40% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 404 521 1,170
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £59,250 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,813 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -4.35%

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 7,790 7,275 17,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 17.18% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,605 5,099 12,516
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -97 461 £69,305 -7.59% 232
UK excluding London -91 277 £60,000 -7.69% 132
Work from Home -25 264 £65,000 -7.14% 182
London -102 186 £90,000 +2.86% 122
North of England -27 102 £67,500 - 26
South East -64 82 £57,500 -17.86% 54
Yorkshire -34 46 £52,130 -12.93% 5
North West -41 43 £72,500 +7.21% 12
South West -39 35 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Scotland -36 20 £66,250 -0.18% 7
Midlands -43 20 £55,200 -15.08% 15
East of England -35 19 £47,500 -17.39% 10
North East -31 13 £53,565 -22.80% 9
West Midlands -40 11 £47,500 -26.92% 7
East Midlands -49 9 £60,100 -14.14% 8
Wales -53 3 £55,200 -15.08% 2
Northern Ireland -42 1 £73,801 +34.18% 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 33 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 17 (3.06%) Apache
5 13 (2.34%) Confluence
5 13 (2.34%) OpenStack
6 11 (1.98%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.62%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.90%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.90%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.54%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.36%) Camunda
10 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.36%) WildFly
11 1 (0.18%) JBoss
11 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.62%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 338 (60.90%) AWS
2 210 (37.84%) Azure
3 124 (22.34%) GCP
4 98 (17.66%) Serverless
5 64 (11.53%) Amazon S3
6 59 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
7 58 (10.45%) GitHub
8 50 (9.01%) SaaS
9 49 (8.83%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (8.65%) Amazon SQS
11 38 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (6.67%) Power Platform
13 35 (6.31%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (6.31%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (4.68%) Azure AKS
16 26 (4.68%) Azure Service Bus
17 24 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (3.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.88%) DNS
2 15 (2.70%) DHCP
3 14 (2.52%) Firewall
3 14 (2.52%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.62%) VPN
5 8 (1.44%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.44%) SAN
6 7 (1.26%) Broadband
6 7 (1.26%) Internet
6 7 (1.26%) Network Security
6 7 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.54%) HTTP
7 3 (0.54%) VLAN
8 2 (0.36%) LAN
8 2 (0.36%) MQTT
8 2 (0.36%) PBX
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) LTE
9 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (24.68%) MongoDB
2 131 (23.60%) SQL Server
3 112 (20.18%) MySQL
4 93 (16.76%) NoSQL
5 92 (16.58%) Relational Database
6 37 (6.67%) Redis
7 33 (5.95%) DynamoDB
8 30 (5.41%) Power BI
9 28 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (3.60%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (3.24%) Oracle Database
13 16 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (2.88%) BigQuery
13 16 (2.88%) GIS
14 14 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.52%) DB2
14 14 (2.52%) RDBMS
15 13 (2.34%) Pinecone
16 9 (1.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 126 (22.70%) Git
2 60 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 46 (8.29%) GitLab
4 26 (4.68%) JIRA
5 25 (4.50%) JUnit
6 24 (4.32%) Cypress.io
7 21 (3.78%) Bitbucket
7 21 (3.78%) Selenium
8 19 (3.42%) Cucumber
9 18 (3.24%) TeamCity
10 13 (2.34%) Mockito
11 11 (1.98%) Maven
12 9 (1.62%) Vite
13 6 (1.08%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.90%) Gradle
15 3 (0.54%) JMeter
15 3 (0.54%) Liquibase
15 3 (0.54%) Storybook
15 3 (0.54%) Subversion
16 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
General
1 138 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 100 (18.02%) Finance
3 55 (9.91%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (5.41%) Banking
7 28 (5.05%) Law
7 28 (5.05%) Retail
8 19 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.06%) Front Office
10 13 (2.34%) Advertising
11 10 (1.80%) Games
11 10 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.62%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.08%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.08%) Legal
15 5 (0.90%) Automotive
16 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.54%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 177 (31.89%) Developer
2 113 (20.36%) Senior
3 89 (16.04%) Software Engineer
4 76 (13.69%) Lead
5 75 (13.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (8.47%) Java Developer
7 39 (7.03%) Python Engineer
8 38 (6.85%) Data Engineer
9 33 (5.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 32 (5.77%) Java Engineer
11 29 (5.23%) Lead Developer
12 26 (4.68%) Architect
13 24 (4.32%) Lead Software Engineer
14 23 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
15 20 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
15 20 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (3.60%) Software Developer
16 19 (3.42%) Analyst
16 19 (3.42%) Java Software Engineer
16 19 (3.42%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (32.79%) React
2 131 (23.60%) Node.js
3 85 (15.32%) RESTful
4 70 (12.61%) Spring
5 66 (11.89%) Spring Boot
6 62 (11.17%) REST
7 50 (9.01%) Kafka
8 49 (8.83%) Django
8 49 (8.83%) FastAPI
9 43 (7.75%) .NET
10 39 (7.03%) CSS
10 39 (7.03%) HTML
11 35 (6.31%) AngularJS
12 33 (5.95%) JSON
13 32 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
14 30 (5.41%) Flask
15 28 (5.05%) Next.js
16 26 (4.68%) Ruby on Rails
16 26 (4.68%) Vue
17 25 (4.50%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 94 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.60%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.88%) Derivative
7 16 (2.88%) Equities
7 16 (2.88%) Fixed Income
7 16 (2.88%) Replication
8 14 (2.52%) Blog
9 13 (2.34%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.80%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.80%) SCADA
10 10 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.62%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 81 (14.59%) Linux
2 38 (6.85%) Windows
3 25 (4.50%) Unix
4 18 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.26%) Android
6 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.72%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.54%) CentOS
10 2 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.18%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) Debian
11 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (42.88%) CI/CD
2 214 (38.56%) Agile
3 178 (32.07%) Microservices
4 160 (28.83%) Software Engineering
5 150 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 149 (26.85%) DevOps
7 108 (19.46%) Test Automation
8 104 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
9 103 (18.56%) Mentoring
10 102 (18.38%) Containerisation
11 101 (18.20%) Infrastructure as Code
12 98 (17.66%) AI
13 77 (13.87%) Scrum
14 70 (12.61%) Data Modelling
15 66 (11.89%) Analytics
15 66 (11.89%) TDD
16 62 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 54 (9.73%) Data Pipeline
18 51 (9.19%) Observability
19 50 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 243 (43.78%) Python
2 183 (32.97%) Java
3 177 (31.89%) SQL
4 138 (24.86%) JavaScript
5 109 (19.64%) TypeScript
6 44 (7.93%) C#
7 39 (7.03%) Go
8 31 (5.59%) PowerShell
9 29 (5.23%) Ruby
10 25 (4.50%) PHP
11 19 (3.42%) Bash
12 18 (3.24%) C
13 13 (2.34%) Delphi
14 11 (1.98%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.80%) C++
15 10 (1.80%) Scala
15 10 (1.80%) Shell Script
16 8 (1.44%) Perl
17 7 (1.26%) Korn
17 7 (1.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.43%) Degree
3 57 (10.27%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.80%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.80%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.54%) RHCE
11 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.36%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.29%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.50%) QA
3 15 (2.70%) GDPR
3 15 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.54%) NCSC
5 3 (0.54%) SLA
6 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.36%) WCAG
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 178 (32.07%) Docker
2 30 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 186 (33.51%) Kubernetes
2 130 (23.42%) Terraform
3 43 (7.75%) Ansible
4 40 (7.21%) Grafana
5 31 (5.59%) Argo
6 24 (4.32%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.08%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.08%) Puppet
8 5 (0.90%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.90%) Data Guard
8 5 (0.90%) Istio
9 4 (0.72%) Control-M
9 4 (0.72%) Kibana
9 4 (0.72%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.72%) Nagios
9 4 (0.72%) Rancher
10 3 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.54%) Packer
11 2 (0.36%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 71 (12.79%) Oracle
2 54 (9.73%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.59%) Google
4 23 (4.14%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.88%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.34%) Informatica
7 9 (1.62%) ESRI
8 8 (1.44%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.44%) Dell
8 8 (1.44%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.44%) Talend
9 7 (1.26%) Databricks
9 7 (1.26%) Pega
10 6 (1.08%) Confluent
11 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.72%) IBM
12 4 (0.72%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.72%) VMware
13 3 (0.54%) Revolut
13 3 (0.54%) Splunk