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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 148 182
Rank change year-on-year -140 +34 +6
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 560 822 1,464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 2.01% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.38% 10.93% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 400 534 1,130
10th Percentile £38,725 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -

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 7,591 7,520 16,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.17% 18.39% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,505 5,175 12,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
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 8 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 8 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 -139 463 £70,000 -6.67% 288
UK excluding London -133 278 £60,000 -7.69% 175
Work from Home -76 260 £65,000 -6.32% 201
London -103 208 £90,000 +2.86% 152
North of England -30 103 £65,000 -3.79% 57
South East -121 69 £58,000 -17.14% 48
Yorkshire -27 46 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -36 45 £75,000 +9.54% 33
South West -44 33 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Midlands -50 25 £47,500 -26.92% 18
Scotland -28 24 £70,000 +12.00% 12
East of England -74 20 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -12 16 £45,000 -30.77% 8
North East -21 12 £55,000 -20.73% 6
East Midlands -56 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -52 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -38 3 £73,801 +34.18%

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 28 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.86%) OpenStack
4 15 (2.68%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.50%) Apache
5 14 (2.50%) Confluence
6 10 (1.79%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.43%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.71%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.71%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.71%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.71%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.36%) Camunda
9 2 (0.36%) CMS
9 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.36%) WildFly
10 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 347 (61.96%) AWS
2 213 (38.04%) Azure
3 149 (26.61%) GCP
4 95 (16.96%) Serverless
5 72 (12.86%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (11.07%) Amazon S3
7 57 (10.18%) GitHub
8 55 (9.82%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (8.75%) SaaS
10 46 (8.21%) Amazon SQS
10 46 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 43 (7.68%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (6.96%) dbt
13 34 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (5.89%) Power Platform
15 32 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 28 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 28 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
17 26 (4.64%) Amazon ECR
18 25 (4.46%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.07%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.50%) DHCP
2 14 (2.50%) DNS
3 12 (2.14%) VPN
4 10 (1.79%) Firewall
4 10 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.25%) Broadband
5 7 (1.25%) Internet
5 7 (1.25%) Network Security
6 5 (0.89%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.89%) SAN
7 4 (0.71%) SSL
8 3 (0.54%) HTTP
8 3 (0.54%) VLAN
9 2 (0.36%) LAN
9 2 (0.36%) MQTT
9 2 (0.36%) PBX
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 111 (19.82%) MySQL
3 109 (19.46%) MongoDB
4 107 (19.11%) Relational Database
5 90 (16.07%) NoSQL
6 55 (9.82%) Redis
7 42 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
8 36 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (5.54%) DynamoDB
10 29 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (5.18%) Power BI
11 20 (3.57%) DB2
12 17 (3.04%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (3.04%) BigQuery
12 17 (3.04%) Oracle Database
13 16 (2.86%) RDBMS
14 13 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.32%) GIS
15 10 (1.79%) Pinecone
16 9 (1.61%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 126 (22.50%) Git
2 68 (12.14%) Jenkins
3 31 (5.54%) JIRA
4 25 (4.46%) GitLab
5 24 (4.29%) JUnit
6 23 (4.11%) Cucumber
6 23 (4.11%) Cypress.io
6 23 (4.11%) Selenium
7 21 (3.75%) Bitbucket
8 20 (3.57%) TeamCity
9 13 (2.32%) Mockito
10 10 (1.79%) Maven
11 7 (1.25%) Vite
12 6 (1.07%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.89%) Gradle
13 5 (0.89%) JMeter
14 3 (0.54%) Storybook
14 3 (0.54%) Subversion
15 2 (0.36%) ESLint
15 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
General
1 146 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 106 (18.93%) Finance
3 55 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.43%) Banking
7 32 (5.71%) Law
8 27 (4.82%) Retail
9 17 (3.04%) Front Office
10 15 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.14%) Advertising
11 12 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.79%) Games
13 9 (1.61%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.61%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.07%) Legal
16 5 (0.89%) Automotive
16 5 (0.89%) Back Office
16 5 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 190 (33.93%) Developer
2 112 (20.00%) Senior
3 93 (16.61%) Software Engineer
4 81 (14.46%) Full-Stack Developer
5 76 (13.57%) Lead
6 57 (10.18%) Java Developer
7 37 (6.61%) Data Engineer
8 36 (6.43%) Python Engineer
9 31 (5.54%) Lead Developer
10 30 (5.36%) Architect
11 29 (5.18%) Java Engineer
12 28 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 25 (4.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
15 22 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.75%) Python Developer
17 20 (3.57%) IT Support
17 20 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
18 19 (3.39%) DBA
18 19 (3.39%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (32.86%) React
2 112 (20.00%) Node.js
3 93 (16.61%) RESTful
4 79 (14.11%) Spring
5 76 (13.57%) Spring Boot
6 75 (13.39%) Django
7 69 (12.32%) REST
8 53 (9.46%) FastAPI
9 48 (8.57%) HTML
9 48 (8.57%) Kafka
10 47 (8.39%) CSS
11 46 (8.21%) .NET
12 42 (7.50%) AngularJS
13 37 (6.61%) Elastic Stack
14 35 (6.25%) Flask
15 32 (5.71%) Vue
16 31 (5.54%) Next.js
17 28 (5.00%) JSON
18 25 (4.46%) Web Services
19 23 (4.11%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 87 (15.54%) Cloud Native
2 56 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
5 19 (3.39%) Replication
6 18 (3.21%) Data Structures
6 18 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.86%) Blog
7 16 (2.86%) Derivative
7 16 (2.86%) Equities
7 16 (2.86%) Fixed Income
7 16 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.50%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.61%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.43%) IoT
12 8 (1.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 86 (15.36%) Linux
2 36 (6.43%) Unix
3 27 (4.82%) Windows
4 15 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.25%) Android
6 7 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.25%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.71%) Debian
9 3 (0.54%) CentOS
10 2 (0.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (40.36%) CI/CD
2 198 (35.36%) Agile
3 173 (30.89%) Microservices
4 167 (29.82%) Software Engineering
5 158 (28.21%) DevOps
6 155 (27.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 123 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
8 112 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 102 (18.21%) Containerisation
10 101 (18.04%) AI
11 98 (17.50%) Test Automation
12 92 (16.43%) Mentoring
13 67 (11.96%) Data Modelling
13 67 (11.96%) TDD
14 65 (11.61%) Clean Code
15 64 (11.43%) Scrum
16 61 (10.89%) Observability
17 59 (10.54%) Analytics
18 57 (10.18%) Fintech
19 55 (9.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 255 (45.54%) Python
2 177 (31.61%) SQL
3 172 (30.71%) Java
4 150 (26.79%) JavaScript
5 106 (18.93%) TypeScript
6 46 (8.21%) C#
7 39 (6.96%) Go
8 30 (5.36%) PowerShell
9 26 (4.64%) Ruby
10 24 (4.29%) PHP
11 17 (3.04%) C
12 13 (2.32%) Delphi
13 11 (1.96%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.79%) Bash
14 10 (1.79%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.61%) C++
16 6 (1.07%) Perl
17 5 (0.89%) Rust
17 5 (0.89%) VB
18 4 (0.71%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 95 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 75 (13.39%) Degree
3 70 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 16 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.54%) RHCE
11 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
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 39 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.11%) QA
3 15 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.50%) GDPR
5 11 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.07%) SLA
7 3 (0.54%) NCSC
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
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%) PSD2
9 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 198 (35.36%) Docker
2 26 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.07%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 182 (32.50%) Kubernetes
2 130 (23.21%) Terraform
3 39 (6.96%) Ansible
4 37 (6.61%) Grafana
5 19 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.04%) AWS Copilot
7 9 (1.61%) Argo
8 8 (1.43%) Kibana
9 5 (0.89%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.89%) Nagios
10 4 (0.71%) Control-M
11 3 (0.54%) Puppet
11 3 (0.54%) Rancher
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.18%) Ambari
13 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.18%) Plesk
13 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (11.79%) Oracle
2 53 (9.46%) Google
3 45 (8.04%) Microsoft
4 18 (3.21%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.32%) Informatica
5 13 (2.32%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.96%) Pega
7 9 (1.61%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.43%) ESRI
8 8 (1.43%) IBM
8 8 (1.43%) Talend
9 6 (1.07%) Databricks
9 6 (1.07%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.07%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.07%) WSO2
10 5 (0.89%) Confluent
10 5 (0.89%) Dell
10 5 (0.89%) Splunk
11 4 (0.71%) VMware