PostgreSQL Job Trends

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 149 200
Rank change year-on-year -90 +51 -118
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 636 1,341 1,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.73% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.89% 11.26% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 441 721 905
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,770
25th Percentile £59,250 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -4.00%

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 7,151 11,908 13,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.56% 15.35% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,471 7,165 10,436
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,759 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +0.41% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +4.21%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL 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 September 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 15 September 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 -75 588 £80,000 +22.64% 344
London +23 357 £105,000 +16.67% 192
UK excluding London -133 287 £62,500 +13.64% 219
Work from Home -29 267 £90,000 +38.46% 252
South East -74 91 £67,500 +28.57% 85
North of England -95 75 £67,500 +8.00% 58
North West -112 43 £67,500 +12.50% 25
Midlands -41 35 £71,250 +20.76% 11
South West +11 32 £50,000 -16.67% 28
West Midlands +44 29 £72,500 +11.54% 8
East of England -10 28 £30,500 -44.55% 19
Scotland +39 27 £67,500 +35.00% 15
Yorkshire +1 23 £70,000 +6.93% 27
North East +14 9 £51,250 -21.71% 7
East Midlands -59 6 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Northern Ireland +14 5 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Wales 0 1 £60,000 -7.69% 3

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 105 (16.51%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.25%) Confluence
3 25 (3.93%) Tomcat
4 18 (2.83%) nginx
5 15 (2.36%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.57%) IIS
7 10 (1.57%) WebSphere
8 8 (1.26%) CMS
8 8 (1.26%) JBoss
8 8 (1.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (1.10%) Red Hat Fuse
10 6 (0.94%) Apache
10 6 (0.94%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.47%) Luigi
11 3 (0.47%) SAS
12 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.31%) WildFly
12 2 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Notion
4 1 (0.16%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.16%) Magento
2 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 466 (73.27%) AWS
2 201 (31.60%) GCP
3 187 (29.40%) Azure
4 103 (16.19%) dbt
5 89 (13.99%) Serverless
6 81 (12.74%) Amazon EC2
7 57 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
8 56 (8.81%) Amazon S3
9 48 (7.55%) GitHub
10 45 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (5.50%) SaaS
12 33 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
14 30 (4.72%) Power Platform
15 28 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 23 (3.62%) Route 53
18 20 (3.14%) AWS KMS
19 14 (2.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.14%) Firewall
2 19 (2.99%) SSL
3 11 (1.73%) iSCSI
3 11 (1.73%) Remote Desktop
3 11 (1.73%) SAN
4 10 (1.57%) DNS
5 9 (1.42%) DMARC
5 9 (1.42%) FTP
5 9 (1.42%) SSH
6 8 (1.26%) HTTP
6 8 (1.26%) IMAP
6 8 (1.26%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (1.26%) SMTP
7 7 (1.10%) MQTT
7 7 (1.10%) VPN
8 4 (0.63%) SMS
9 3 (0.47%) Asterisk PBX
9 3 (0.47%) Multicast
9 3 (0.47%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.31%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (20.75%) SQL Server
2 128 (20.13%) MySQL
3 127 (19.97%) MongoDB
4 115 (18.08%) Relational Database
5 102 (16.04%) Amazon Athena
6 99 (15.57%) NoSQL
7 96 (15.09%) Apache Iceberg
8 95 (14.94%) Apache Arrow
8 95 (14.94%) Dremio
9 55 (8.65%) RDBMS
10 52 (8.18%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (6.29%) Amazon Aurora
12 30 (4.72%) DynamoDB
13 26 (4.09%) Power BI
14 25 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (3.93%) DB2
15 21 (3.30%) Big Data
16 20 (3.14%) Redis
17 19 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
18 14 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 108 (16.98%) Jenkins
2 93 (14.62%) Git
3 65 (10.22%) JUnit
4 56 (8.81%) Mockito
5 43 (6.76%) JIRA
6 32 (5.03%) Maven
7 30 (4.72%) GitLab
7 30 (4.72%) JMeter
8 23 (3.62%) SonarQube
9 22 (3.46%) Bitbucket
10 21 (3.30%) Selenium
11 16 (2.52%) Cucumber
12 13 (2.04%) IntelliJ
13 12 (1.89%) DbUnit
13 12 (1.89%) jMock
13 12 (1.89%) Postman
14 11 (1.73%) Bitbucket Server
15 8 (1.26%) Subversion
15 8 (1.26%) TestNG
15 8 (1.26%) Vagrant
General
1 224 (35.22%) Finance
2 132 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 119 (18.71%) Front Office
4 101 (15.88%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.96%) Banking
6 54 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
8 48 (7.55%) Law
9 33 (5.19%) Marketing
10 28 (4.40%) Manufacturing
11 24 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.52%) Retail
14 15 (2.36%) Electronics
14 15 (2.36%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.73%) Advertising
16 10 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (1.42%) Czech Language
17 9 (1.42%) Games
18 8 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 320 (50.31%) Developer
2 166 (26.10%) Software Engineer
3 112 (17.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 108 (16.98%) AWS Engineer
4 108 (16.98%) Python Developer
5 103 (16.19%) AWS Developer
5 103 (16.19%) Java Developer
6 98 (15.41%) AWS Software Engineer
7 93 (14.62%) Lead
8 90 (14.15%) Python Engineer
9 88 (13.84%) Senior
10 85 (13.36%) Python Software Engineer
11 70 (11.01%) Java Engineer
12 61 (9.59%) Full-Stack Developer
13 44 (6.92%) Lead Developer
14 41 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
15 35 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 34 (5.35%) Senior Developer
17 31 (4.87%) Software Developer
18 28 (4.40%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (37.26%) React
2 183 (28.77%) Node.js
3 164 (25.79%) AngularJS
4 132 (20.75%) REST
5 119 (18.71%) Spring
6 118 (18.55%) Vue
7 113 (17.77%) Spring Boot
8 103 (16.19%) RESTful
9 97 (15.25%) Pandas
10 96 (15.09%) NumPy
11 95 (14.94%) SciPy
12 73 (11.48%) Kafka
13 65 (10.22%) HTML
14 55 (8.65%) Web Services
15 53 (8.33%) Hibernate
16 50 (7.86%) FastAPI
17 46 (7.23%) ActiveMQ
17 46 (7.23%) jQuery
18 36 (5.66%) .NET
18 36 (5.66%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 108 (16.98%) Fixed Income
2 104 (16.35%) Equities
2 104 (16.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 68 (10.69%) Cloud Native
4 58 (9.12%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (4.87%) Product Ownership
6 27 (4.25%) Algorithms
7 25 (3.93%) Management Information System
8 24 (3.77%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (2.04%) Public Cloud
12 13 (2.04%) Replication
13 12 (1.89%) e-Learning
13 12 (1.89%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.42%) Derivative
15 9 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 116 (18.24%) Linux
2 58 (9.12%) Windows
3 31 (4.87%) Unix
4 19 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.20%) Android
5 14 (2.20%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.73%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.26%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (1.26%) VMS
9 5 (0.79%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.47%) Debian
11 2 (0.31%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (55.97%) Agile
2 229 (36.01%) Software Engineering
3 203 (31.92%) CI/CD
4 172 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (25.94%) Microservices
6 137 (21.54%) Fintech
7 124 (19.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 117 (18.40%) DevOps
9 113 (17.77%) Asset Management
10 112 (17.61%) Investment Management
11 104 (16.35%) Containerisation
11 104 (16.35%) Risk Management
12 95 (14.94%) Mentoring
12 95 (14.94%) Order Management
12 95 (14.94%) Performance Attribution
13 87 (13.68%) Artificial Intelligence
14 85 (13.36%) TDD
15 76 (11.95%) Test Automation
16 69 (10.85%) User Experience
17 68 (10.69%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 303 (47.64%) Python
2 257 (40.41%) JavaScript
3 231 (36.32%) Java
4 206 (32.39%) SQL
4 206 (32.39%) TypeScript
5 41 (6.45%) C#
6 35 (5.50%) Shell Script
7 27 (4.25%) Bash
7 27 (4.25%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.83%) PHP
9 14 (2.20%) Rust
10 13 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.89%) Go
12 11 (1.73%) Groovy
13 10 (1.57%) Kotlin
14 9 (1.42%) Korn
14 9 (1.42%) VBA
15 8 (1.26%) C++
16 7 (1.10%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 84 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 66 (10.38%) SC Cleared
3 60 (9.43%) Degree
4 29 (4.56%) AWS Certification
5 15 (2.36%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.42%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.31%) CCNA
11 2 (0.31%) CCNP
11 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PhD
12 1 (0.16%) MCSA
12 1 (0.16%) MCSE
12 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.96%) QA
2 22 (3.46%) SLA
3 16 (2.52%) GDPR
4 15 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.26%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.94%) NIST
9 3 (0.47%) CDISC
9 3 (0.47%) SEPA
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
10 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 230 (36.16%) Docker
2 20 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.89%) Postfix
4 11 (1.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.26%) DFS Replication
5 8 (1.26%) Dovecot
5 8 (1.26%) Squid
6 5 (0.79%) zsh
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.47%) HDFS
8 2 (0.31%) KVM
8 2 (0.31%) pfSense
8 2 (0.31%) Samba
8 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.31%) Xen
9 1 (0.16%) NFS
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 183 (28.77%) Kubernetes
2 67 (10.53%) Terraform
3 32 (5.03%) Kibana
4 26 (4.09%) Ansible
5 20 (3.14%) Grafana
5 20 (3.14%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.26%) Kustomize
8 8 (1.26%) Nessus
8 8 (1.26%) Packer
8 8 (1.26%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.79%) logstash
10 5 (0.79%) Puppet
11 3 (0.47%) Oozie
12 2 (0.31%) CFEngine
13 1 (0.16%) Argo
13 1 (0.16%) Nagios
Vendors
1 95 (14.94%) Oracle
2 58 (9.12%) Microsoft
3 45 (7.08%) Splunk
4 40 (6.29%) Red Hat
5 31 (4.87%) Dynatrace
6 29 (4.56%) Google
7 22 (3.46%) IBM
8 21 (3.30%) Databricks
9 20 (3.14%) SAP
10 19 (2.99%) Informatica
11 15 (2.36%) Atlassian
11 15 (2.36%) ServiceNow
12 13 (2.04%) Jaspersoft
13 12 (1.89%) Talend
14 11 (1.73%) Dell
15 9 (1.42%) Salesforce
16 8 (1.26%) Cisco
17 7 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
18 6 (0.94%) OpenAI
19 5 (0.79%) RedGate