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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 186 176
Rank change year-on-year -115 -10 +8
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 551 732 1,579
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.75% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.04% 9.94% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 397 531 1,163
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £57,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £132,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -5.58%

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 7,824 7,365 17,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.87% 17.59% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,597 5,167 12,583
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,392 £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 24 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 24 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 -117 460 £69,305 -7.59% 229
UK excluding London -117 274 £60,000 -7.69% 146
Work from Home -52 260 £65,000 -7.14% 205
London -98 191 £87,500 - 120
North of England -31 102 £67,500 - 33
South East -90 78 £57,000 -18.57% 51
Yorkshire -33 48 £56,065 -6.35% 7
North West -35 42 £73,401 +8.54% 16
South West -54 34 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Midlands -47 21 £51,350 -21.00% 18
Scotland -38 20 £66,250 +6.00% 10
East of England -63 20 £47,500 -17.39% 10
West Midlands -26 12 £46,250 -28.85% 8
North East -29 12 £52,130 -24.87% 10
East Midlands -58 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -51 3 £55,200 -15.08% 3
Northern Ireland -41 1 £73,801 +34.18% 6

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 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.27%) Apache
3 18 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.36%) Confluence
4 13 (2.36%) OpenStack
5 11 (2.00%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.63%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.91%) GeoServer
7 5 (0.91%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.36%) Camunda
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.36%) WildFly
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.63%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 334 (60.62%) AWS
2 206 (37.39%) Azure
3 122 (22.14%) GCP
4 96 (17.42%) Serverless
5 63 (11.43%) Amazon S3
6 59 (10.71%) GitHub
7 58 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (9.26%) SaaS
9 49 (8.89%) Amazon SQS
10 48 (8.71%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (6.72%) Power Platform
12 36 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
16 30 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 26 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
18 22 (3.99%) Azure AKS
18 22 (3.99%) Azure Service Bus
19 21 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.90%) DNS
2 15 (2.72%) DHCP
3 14 (2.54%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.36%) Firewall
5 9 (1.63%) VPN
6 7 (1.27%) Broadband
6 7 (1.27%) Internet
6 7 (1.27%) iSCSI
6 7 (1.27%) Network Security
6 7 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (1.27%) SAN
6 7 (1.27%) 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%) SSL
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (23.77%) MongoDB
2 129 (23.41%) SQL Server
3 115 (20.87%) MySQL
4 96 (17.42%) Relational Database
5 94 (17.06%) NoSQL
6 35 (6.35%) DynamoDB
7 34 (6.17%) Redis
8 30 (5.44%) Power BI
9 29 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (3.09%) Oracle Database
13 16 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (2.90%) BigQuery
13 16 (2.90%) GIS
14 15 (2.72%) DB2
15 14 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (2.54%) RDBMS
16 13 (2.36%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.81%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 127 (23.05%) Git
2 57 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 42 (7.62%) GitLab
4 27 (4.90%) JIRA
5 24 (4.36%) JUnit
6 23 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 21 (3.81%) Bitbucket
7 21 (3.81%) Selenium
8 19 (3.45%) Cucumber
9 18 (3.27%) TeamCity
10 12 (2.18%) Mockito
11 10 (1.81%) Maven
12 9 (1.63%) Vite
13 6 (1.09%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.91%) 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 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 100 (18.15%) Finance
3 54 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.44%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.63%) Banking
7 28 (5.08%) Law
8 27 (4.90%) Retail
9 18 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (3.09%) Front Office
11 13 (2.36%) Advertising
12 10 (1.81%) Games
12 10 (1.81%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.63%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.27%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.09%) Legal
17 5 (0.91%) Automotive
18 4 (0.73%) Telecoms
19 3 (0.54%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 176 (31.94%) Developer
2 111 (20.15%) Senior
3 92 (16.70%) Software Engineer
4 76 (13.79%) Lead
5 75 (13.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (8.53%) Java Developer
7 40 (7.26%) Data Engineer
7 40 (7.26%) Python Engineer
8 33 (5.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 30 (5.44%) Java Engineer
10 29 (5.26%) Lead Developer
11 26 (4.72%) Architect
12 24 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
13 21 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) Analyst
14 19 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) Python Developer
14 19 (3.45%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (33.39%) React
2 127 (23.05%) Node.js
3 86 (15.61%) RESTful
4 68 (12.34%) Spring
5 64 (11.62%) Spring Boot
6 63 (11.43%) REST
7 50 (9.07%) Kafka
8 49 (8.89%) Django
8 49 (8.89%) FastAPI
9 45 (8.17%) .NET
10 39 (7.08%) CSS
10 39 (7.08%) HTML
11 35 (6.35%) AngularJS
12 32 (5.81%) Elastic Stack
12 32 (5.81%) JSON
13 30 (5.44%) Flask
14 29 (5.26%) Next.js
15 28 (5.08%) Vue
16 24 (4.36%) Ruby on Rails
17 23 (4.17%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 93 (16.88%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.63%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.27%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.09%) Replication
7 16 (2.90%) Derivative
7 16 (2.90%) Equities
7 16 (2.90%) Fixed Income
8 14 (2.54%) Blog
9 13 (2.36%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.81%) SCADA
10 10 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.63%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.45%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 77 (13.97%) Linux
2 35 (6.35%) Windows
3 23 (4.17%) Unix
4 17 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.27%) Android
6 7 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.09%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
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
1 231 (41.92%) CI/CD
2 205 (37.21%) Agile
3 174 (31.58%) Microservices
4 162 (29.40%) Software Engineering
5 151 (27.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 146 (26.50%) DevOps
7 106 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (19.24%) Test Automation
8 103 (18.69%) AI
8 103 (18.69%) Containerisation
9 102 (18.51%) Mentoring
10 101 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 72 (13.07%) Scrum
12 69 (12.52%) Data Modelling
13 64 (11.62%) Analytics
13 64 (11.62%) TDD
14 58 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (9.44%) Observability
16 51 (9.26%) Fintech
16 51 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 245 (44.46%) Python
2 183 (33.21%) SQL
3 176 (31.94%) Java
4 138 (25.05%) JavaScript
5 107 (19.42%) TypeScript
6 44 (7.99%) C#
7 40 (7.26%) Go
8 30 (5.44%) PowerShell
9 27 (4.90%) Ruby
10 26 (4.72%) PHP
11 18 (3.27%) Bash
11 18 (3.27%) C
12 13 (2.36%) Delphi
13 11 (2.00%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.81%) C++
14 10 (1.81%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.45%) Perl
15 8 (1.45%) Scala
16 7 (1.27%) VB
17 6 (1.09%) Korn
Qualifications
1 80 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.34%) Degree
3 54 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.36%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.54%) RHCE
12 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.36%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.17%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.72%) QA
3 15 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.54%) GDPR
5 11 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.73%) SLA
7 3 (0.54%) NCSC
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.36%) WCAG
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 179 (32.49%) Docker
2 29 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.73%) 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 (33.76%) Kubernetes
2 125 (22.69%) Terraform
3 40 (7.26%) Grafana
4 39 (7.08%) Ansible
5 27 (4.90%) Argo
6 24 (4.36%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.09%) Data Guard
8 5 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.91%) Istio
8 5 (0.91%) Nagios
9 4 (0.73%) Control-M
9 4 (0.73%) Kibana
9 4 (0.73%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.73%) Puppet
9 4 (0.73%) Rancher
10 3 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.18%) Plesk
12 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 69 (12.52%) Oracle
2 51 (9.26%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.63%) Google
4 23 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.90%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.36%) Informatica
7 9 (1.63%) ESRI
8 8 (1.45%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.45%) Talend
9 7 (1.27%) Databricks
9 7 (1.27%) Dell
9 7 (1.27%) Pega
10 6 (1.09%) Confluent
11 5 (0.91%) IBM
11 5 (0.91%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.73%) VMware
13 3 (0.54%) Revolut
13 3 (0.54%) Splunk