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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 214 173
Rank change year-on-year -67 -41 +36
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 642 714 1,709
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.59% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.85% 9.66% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 483 521 1,178
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -8.70%

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 8,177 7,395 17,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.67% 16.45% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,362 4,780 12,714
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -9.68%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -77 550 £69,305 -7.59% 179
Work from Home +40 336 £67,500 -9.84% 107
UK excluding London -76 333 £62,500 -3.85% 140
London -101 217 £84,625 -10.92% 90
North of England -13 119 £65,000 -3.70% 33
South East -13 116 £59,500 +13.33% 46
North West -7 54 £67,500 -0.19% 22
South West -53 39 £62,500 +2.04% 10
Yorkshire -22 36 £52,130 -22.77% 6
North East -29 29 £65,000 +23.81% 5
East of England -24 23 £47,500 +50.79% 10
Scotland -15 18 £67,500 +3.85% 5
Midlands -48 14 £75,000 +11.11% 18
West Midlands -44 10 £77,500 +14.81% 9
Wales -64 5 £70,000 -9.68% 1
East Midlands -32 4 £65,000 +18.18% 9
Northern Ireland -35 1 £73,801 +34.18% 21

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 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.58%) Apache
4 19 (2.96%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.65%) Confluence
6 12 (1.87%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.09%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.93%) WordPress
9 4 (0.62%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.47%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.31%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) JBoss
12 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.16%) nginx
12 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (1.40%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 382 (59.50%) AWS
2 233 (36.29%) Azure
3 111 (17.29%) GCP
4 98 (15.26%) Serverless
5 72 (11.21%) GitHub
6 59 (9.19%) SaaS
7 58 (9.03%) Amazon ECS
8 57 (8.88%) Amazon S3
9 51 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
10 43 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
11 41 (6.39%) Power Platform
12 39 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (5.92%) Amazon SQS
13 38 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (4.36%) Azure AKS
16 27 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
17 23 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (2.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (2.80%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.45%) Broadband
2 18 (2.80%) Firewall
3 16 (2.49%) DNS
3 16 (2.49%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.34%) DHCP
5 11 (1.71%) VPN
6 8 (1.25%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.25%) SAN
7 7 (1.09%) Network Security
7 7 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.78%) Internet
8 5 (0.78%) VLAN
9 3 (0.47%) HTTP
10 2 (0.31%) LAN
10 2 (0.31%) MQTT
10 2 (0.31%) PBX
10 2 (0.31%) WAN
11 1 (0.16%) Multicast
11 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (29.91%) MongoDB
2 148 (23.05%) MySQL
3 106 (16.51%) SQL Server
4 97 (15.11%) NoSQL
4 97 (15.11%) Relational Database
5 56 (8.72%) Redis
6 32 (4.98%) Power BI
7 31 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.96%) DynamoDB
10 18 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (2.65%) Oracle Database
12 15 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (2.34%) GIS
12 15 (2.34%) Pinecone
13 14 (2.18%) Metadata
14 13 (2.02%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.71%) MariaDB
15 11 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 125 (19.47%) Git
2 49 (7.63%) Jenkins
3 46 (7.17%) GitLab
4 29 (4.52%) JIRA
5 24 (3.74%) Cypress.io
6 21 (3.27%) JUnit
7 17 (2.65%) Mockito
8 14 (2.18%) Bitbucket
9 13 (2.02%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.56%) JMeter
11 9 (1.40%) Maven
11 9 (1.40%) Vite
12 8 (1.25%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.93%) Selenium
14 5 (0.78%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.62%) Gatling
15 4 (0.62%) Storybook
16 3 (0.47%) DBeaver
16 3 (0.47%) Liquibase
General
1 148 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 94 (14.64%) Finance
3 82 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 61 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.30%) Games
7 30 (4.67%) Retail
8 27 (4.21%) Law
9 24 (3.74%) Banking
10 20 (3.12%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.65%) Legal
13 16 (2.49%) Front Office
14 15 (2.34%) Advertising
15 11 (1.71%) Aerospace
16 10 (1.56%) Legal Technology
17 9 (1.40%) Telecoms
18 8 (1.25%) Aviation
18 8 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
19 7 (1.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 212 (33.02%) Developer
2 131 (20.40%) Senior
3 119 (18.54%) Software Engineer
4 101 (15.73%) Lead
5 80 (12.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (7.79%) Python Engineer
7 46 (7.17%) Lead Developer
8 44 (6.85%) Architect
9 40 (6.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 39 (6.07%) Java Developer
11 38 (5.92%) Data Engineer
11 38 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (5.61%) Python Developer
13 35 (5.45%) Java Engineer
13 35 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.67%) Senior Developer
15 25 (3.89%) Software Developer
16 22 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
17 21 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
17 21 (3.27%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (27.26%) React
2 158 (24.61%) Node.js
3 119 (18.54%) RESTful
4 80 (12.46%) REST
5 76 (11.84%) Spring
6 73 (11.37%) Spring Boot
7 60 (9.35%) Kafka
8 50 (7.79%) CSS
8 50 (7.79%) FastAPI
9 49 (7.63%) Ruby on Rails
10 46 (7.17%) .NET
10 46 (7.17%) HTML
11 45 (7.01%) JSON
12 41 (6.39%) Next.js
13 35 (5.45%) AngularJS
14 33 (5.14%) Jest
15 32 (4.98%) Django
16 30 (4.67%) Vue
17 25 (3.89%) Redux
18 24 (3.74%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 142 (22.12%) Cloud Native
2 70 (10.90%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.30%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.98%) Video\Live Streaming
5 24 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 22 (3.43%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (3.12%) Algorithms
8 20 (3.12%) Blog
9 19 (2.96%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.80%) Replication
11 16 (2.49%) Derivative
11 16 (2.49%) Equities
11 16 (2.49%) Fixed Income
11 16 (2.49%) Management Information System
12 13 (2.02%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.71%) SCADA
13 11 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 106 (16.51%) Linux
2 46 (7.17%) Windows
3 24 (3.74%) Unix
4 20 (3.12%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.47%) CentOS
8 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.31%) Android
9 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Debian
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (43.30%) CI/CD
2 233 (36.29%) Agile
3 208 (32.40%) Software Engineering
4 191 (29.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 183 (28.50%) Microservices
6 153 (23.83%) DevOps
7 147 (22.90%) AI
8 145 (22.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 124 (19.31%) Mentoring
10 116 (18.07%) Containerisation
10 116 (18.07%) Test Automation
11 109 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 108 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
13 99 (15.42%) Observability
14 83 (12.93%) Data Modelling
15 75 (11.68%) Analytics
16 74 (11.53%) API Design
17 73 (11.37%) Scrum
18 69 (10.75%) TDD
19 66 (10.28%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 281 (43.77%) Python
2 187 (29.13%) SQL
3 183 (28.50%) Java
4 155 (24.14%) JavaScript
5 128 (19.94%) TypeScript
6 54 (8.41%) Go
7 53 (8.26%) C#
8 50 (7.79%) Ruby
9 45 (7.01%) PowerShell
10 35 (5.45%) Bash
11 26 (4.05%) PHP
12 14 (2.18%) C++
12 14 (2.18%) Scala
12 14 (2.18%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.87%) T-SQL
14 11 (1.71%) C
15 10 (1.56%) Perl
16 7 (1.09%) Korn
17 6 (0.93%) RPG
17 6 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 93 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.15%) Degree
3 64 (9.97%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.71%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.62%) PhD
10 3 (0.47%) RHCE
10 3 (0.47%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.31%) CISSP
11 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.31%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.10%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.83%) QA
3 23 (3.58%) GDPR
4 18 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.47%) SLA
6 3 (0.47%) WCAG
7 2 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.31%) NCSC
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.16%) HL7
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 177 (27.57%) Docker
2 30 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Firmware
5 2 (0.31%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 187 (29.13%) Kubernetes
2 134 (20.87%) Terraform
3 41 (6.39%) Ansible
4 34 (5.30%) Grafana
5 31 (4.83%) Argo
6 21 (3.27%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.56%) Kibana
8 7 (1.09%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.09%) Puppet
9 6 (0.93%) Istio
9 6 (0.93%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.62%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.47%) Control-M
12 3 (0.47%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.47%) Plesk
12 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.47%) Rancher
12 3 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.21%) Oracle
3 33 (5.14%) Google
4 19 (2.96%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.80%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.34%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.87%) Databricks
8 10 (1.56%) Splunk
9 8 (1.25%) Dell
9 8 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.09%) IBM
10 7 (1.09%) Pega
11 6 (0.93%) Informatica
11 6 (0.93%) VMware
12 5 (0.78%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.62%) Confluent
13 4 (0.62%) ESRI
13 4 (0.62%) Netezza
13 4 (0.62%) Remedy
14 3 (0.47%) Talend