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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 139 184
Rank change year-on-year -105 +45 -18
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 541 1,240 943
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.96% 2.00% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.07% 11.64% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 389 578 807
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -6.90%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

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 6,702 10,650 10,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 17.14% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,305 6,180 8,556
10th Percentile £34,750 £37,500 £36,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,979 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 9 December 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 9 December 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 -94 488 £75,000 - 847
London -31 291 £98,750 +14.49% 224
Work from Home -89 238 £75,000 +7.14% 506
UK excluding London -120 231 £62,500 -3.85% 709
North of England -12 77 £70,000 +1.00% 163
South East -103 61 £62,500 -12.28% 197
Yorkshire +4 38 £70,000 -3.45% 71
Midlands +11 37 £55,200 -15.08% 118
North West -19 28 £70,000 +14.29% 84
South West -33 28 £50,000 -23.08% 77
West Midlands +21 24 £61,350 -5.62% 59
East Midlands +3 13 £55,000 - 53
Scotland -29 13 £73,801 +18.08% 33
East of England -44 12 £42,500 -26.09% 97
North East +12 11 £52,500 -24.25% 8
Wales -20 6 £69,401 +6.77% 20
Northern Ireland -9 3 £73,801 +13.54% 15

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 63 (11.65%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.99%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.51%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.14%) Tomcat
5 16 (2.96%) WebSphere Application Server
6 15 (2.77%) Confluence
7 9 (1.66%) nginx
7 9 (1.66%) OpenStack
8 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.11%) Apache
10 4 (0.74%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.55%) CMS
11 3 (0.55%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.55%) Luigi
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.55%) WildFly
12 2 (0.37%) Camunda
12 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.37%) SAS
12 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (1.29%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Endur
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 388 (71.72%) AWS
2 184 (34.01%) Azure
3 164 (30.31%) GCP
4 89 (16.45%) Serverless
5 76 (14.05%) dbt
6 69 (12.75%) Amazon ECS
7 54 (9.98%) GitHub
8 49 (9.06%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (9.06%) Amazon S3
9 43 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (7.76%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 34 (6.28%) SaaS
13 29 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (4.99%) Amazon ECR
15 22 (4.07%) Power Platform
16 21 (3.88%) Pulumi
17 20 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 20 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.07%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.51%) SSL
3 16 (2.96%) Firewall
4 8 (1.48%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.48%) SAN
5 7 (1.29%) DNS
5 7 (1.29%) HTTP
5 7 (1.29%) VPN
6 5 (0.92%) FTP
6 5 (0.92%) IMAP
6 5 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (0.92%) SMTP
6 5 (0.92%) SSH
6 5 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.55%) AMQP
7 3 (0.55%) MQTT
8 2 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.37%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (23.66%) SQL Server
2 117 (21.63%) Relational Database
3 108 (19.96%) MySQL
4 87 (16.08%) MongoDB
5 78 (14.42%) NoSQL
6 50 (9.24%) Apache Iceberg
7 48 (8.87%) Amazon Athena
8 45 (8.32%) Apache Arrow
8 45 (8.32%) Dremio
8 45 (8.32%) Redis
9 44 (8.13%) RDBMS
10 40 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (6.65%) Amazon RDS
12 35 (6.47%) DB2
13 32 (5.91%) DynamoDB
14 28 (5.18%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (4.25%) Big Data
16 21 (3.88%) Power BI
17 19 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
18 18 (3.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 98 (18.11%) Jenkins
2 90 (16.64%) Git
3 38 (7.02%) JUnit
4 33 (6.10%) JIRA
5 26 (4.81%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.81%) GitLab
5 26 (4.81%) JMeter
6 24 (4.44%) Mockito
7 23 (4.25%) Selenium
8 18 (3.33%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.03%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.85%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.92%) Gradle
11 5 (0.92%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.92%) Vagrant
12 4 (0.74%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.74%) Maven
12 4 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.74%) Subversion
12 4 (0.74%) Vite
General
1 138 (25.51%) Finance
2 128 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 50 (9.24%) Front Office
4 49 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.58%) Banking
6 38 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (5.18%) Law
8 25 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (4.07%) Marketing
10 14 (2.59%) Retail
11 13 (2.40%) Investment Banking
12 12 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.22%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.03%) Financial Institution
13 11 (2.03%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.66%) Electronics
16 8 (1.48%) Advertising
16 8 (1.48%) Legal
17 5 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 222 (41.04%) Developer
2 103 (19.04%) Senior
2 103 (19.04%) Software Engineer
3 67 (12.38%) Python Developer
4 62 (11.46%) Java Developer
4 62 (11.46%) Lead
5 61 (11.28%) Full-Stack Developer
6 53 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
6 53 (9.80%) Python Engineer
7 50 (9.24%) AWS Developer
8 48 (8.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 48 (8.87%) Python Software Engineer
9 46 (8.50%) AWS Software Engineer
10 34 (6.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 33 (6.10%) Software Developer
12 30 (5.55%) Data Engineer
13 27 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
14 25 (4.62%) Lead Developer
15 24 (4.44%) Architect
15 24 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (31.24%) React
2 122 (22.55%) Node.js
3 86 (15.90%) Spring
4 80 (14.79%) AngularJS
5 79 (14.60%) Spring Boot
6 78 (14.42%) REST
7 74 (13.68%) RESTful
8 70 (12.94%) Django
9 65 (12.01%) Vue
10 63 (11.65%) HTML
11 59 (10.91%) FastAPI
12 56 (10.35%) Kafka
13 46 (8.50%) CSS
13 46 (8.50%) NumPy
13 46 (8.50%) Pandas
14 45 (8.32%) .NET
14 45 (8.32%) SciPy
15 41 (7.58%) Flask
16 35 (6.47%) Web Services
17 30 (5.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 67 (12.38%) Distributed Systems
2 60 (11.09%) Cloud Native
3 47 (8.69%) Equities
3 47 (8.69%) Fixed Income
3 47 (8.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 31 (5.73%) Linux Command Line
4 31 (5.73%) Management Information System
5 27 (4.99%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.77%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.40%) Replication
9 12 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (2.22%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.11%) IoT
12 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.92%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 101 (18.67%) Linux
2 47 (8.69%) Unix
3 43 (7.95%) Windows
4 26 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.85%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.48%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.29%) VMS
8 6 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.92%) Android
9 5 (0.92%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.92%) Debian
10 3 (0.55%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.37%) CentOS
12 1 (0.18%) Fedora
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (42.70%) Agile
2 224 (41.40%) CI/CD
3 174 (32.16%) Software Engineering
4 157 (29.02%) Microservices
5 145 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (25.69%) DevOps
7 117 (21.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 98 (18.11%) Fintech
9 93 (17.19%) Containerisation
10 86 (15.90%) AI
11 76 (14.05%) Mentoring
12 71 (13.12%) Clean Code
13 68 (12.57%) Test Automation
14 67 (12.38%) TDD
15 60 (11.09%) Infrastructure as Code
16 56 (10.35%) ETL
17 54 (9.98%) Data Engineering
18 51 (9.43%) Analytics
18 51 (9.43%) Scrum
18 51 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 289 (53.42%) Python
2 161 (29.76%) Java
2 161 (29.76%) JavaScript
3 154 (28.47%) SQL
4 125 (23.11%) TypeScript
5 48 (8.87%) C#
6 24 (4.44%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.51%) Go
8 17 (3.14%) PHP
9 16 (2.96%) Bash
9 16 (2.96%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.03%) Ruby
11 10 (1.85%) Rust
12 9 (1.66%) Delphi
13 7 (1.29%) C
13 7 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.11%) Korn
14 6 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.92%) Groovy
16 3 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 91 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 71 (13.12%) Degree
3 65 (12.01%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.47%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.66%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.55%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.37%) CCNP
12 2 (0.37%) HNC
12 2 (0.37%) HND
12 2 (0.37%) MCSA
12 2 (0.37%) MCSE
12 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.91%) QA
2 23 (4.25%) SLA
3 15 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.77%) GDPR
4 13 (2.40%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.74%) NIST
6 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.55%) SEPA
7 2 (0.37%) PSD2
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) GAAP
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 210 (38.82%) Docker
2 8 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (0.92%) DFS Replication
3 5 (0.92%) Dovecot
3 5 (0.92%) Postfix
3 5 (0.92%) Squid
4 3 (0.55%) zsh
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.37%) HDFS
5 2 (0.37%) NFS
5 2 (0.37%) pfSense
5 2 (0.37%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 164 (30.31%) Kubernetes
2 86 (15.90%) Terraform
3 30 (5.55%) Kibana
4 29 (5.36%) Grafana
5 27 (4.99%) Ansible
6 20 (3.70%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.22%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (1.29%) Argo
9 5 (0.92%) Nessus
9 5 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.92%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.74%) Puppet
11 3 (0.55%) logstash
11 3 (0.55%) Nagios
12 2 (0.37%) Oozie
13 1 (0.18%) Ambari
13 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.18%) Rancher
13 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (13.86%) Oracle
2 37 (6.84%) Google
3 32 (5.91%) Red Hat
4 31 (5.73%) Splunk
5 28 (5.18%) Microsoft
6 22 (4.07%) Dynatrace
7 21 (3.88%) IBM
8 19 (3.51%) Informatica
8 19 (3.51%) ServiceNow
9 15 (2.77%) Talend
10 14 (2.59%) Atlassian
11 12 (2.22%) SAP
12 10 (1.85%) Dell
13 9 (1.66%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.29%) Databricks
15 6 (1.11%) Salesforce
16 5 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
17 4 (0.74%) ESRI
17 4 (0.74%) Pega
17 4 (0.74%) RedGate