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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 230 160
Rank change year-on-year -24 -70 +42
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 801 714 1,381
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.43% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.89% 9.37% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 599 517 864
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,174
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%

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 9,015 7,617 13,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.56% 15.27% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,028 4,874 8,625
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,848
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -51 684 £69,310 -7.59% 515
UK excluding London -55 398 £62,500 -3.85% 208
Work from Home +22 393 £67,500 -15.63% 236
London -77 297 £85,000 -19.05% 360
North of England -5 134 £65,000 -3.70% 50
South East -24 130 £60,000 -2.04% 61
North West -4 60 £65,000 -3.70% 33
South West -48 47 £62,500 +8.70% 25
North East -22 41 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire -32 33 £65,000 -5.45% 12
East of England -32 29 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Midlands -47 27 £75,000 +11.01% 25
West Midlands -45 20 £81,887 +19.00% 11
Wales -56 19 £70,000 -9.68% 10
Scotland -11 17 £65,000 -1.89% 23
East Midlands -28 7 £60,000 +9.09% 14
Northern Ireland -75 1 £73,801 +34.18% 5

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 36 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (3.75%) Apache
3 29 (3.62%) Apache Spark
4 27 (3.37%) Confluence
5 20 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.87%) Camunda
8 6 (0.75%) WordPress
9 5 (0.62%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.37%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.25%) Luigi
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.25%) Tornado
12 1 (0.12%) CMS
12 1 (0.12%) nginx
12 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.62%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 471 (58.80%) AWS
2 292 (36.45%) Azure
3 135 (16.85%) GCP
4 119 (14.86%) GitHub
5 98 (12.23%) Serverless
6 72 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
6 72 (8.99%) Amazon S3
7 70 (8.74%) SaaS
8 56 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
11 46 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (5.62%) Amazon SQS
13 43 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (4.99%) Power Platform
15 35 (4.37%) GitHub Copilot
16 29 (3.62%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (3.50%) Azure Service Bus
18 24 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.37%) Broadband
2 15 (1.87%) Firewall
3 13 (1.62%) DNS
4 12 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.37%) DHCP
6 8 (1.00%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.00%) SAN
7 7 (0.87%) VPN
8 6 (0.75%) SMS
9 5 (0.62%) AMQP
9 5 (0.62%) HTTP
10 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.25%) MQTT
11 2 (0.25%) Network Security
11 2 (0.25%) PBX
11 2 (0.25%) VLAN
12 1 (0.12%) LAN
12 1 (0.12%) SSL
12 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (26.97%) MongoDB
2 197 (24.59%) MySQL
3 139 (17.35%) Relational Database
4 129 (16.10%) SQL Server
5 114 (14.23%) NoSQL
6 97 (12.11%) Redis
7 43 (5.37%) DynamoDB
8 38 (4.74%) Elasticsearch
9 37 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (3.62%) Power BI
12 22 (2.75%) Big Data
12 22 (2.75%) Metadata
13 21 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
14 20 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
15 17 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (2.00%) Oracle Database
17 15 (1.87%) GIS
18 14 (1.75%) DTS
18 14 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 168 (20.97%) Git
2 56 (6.99%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.37%) GitLab
4 35 (4.37%) JIRA
5 28 (3.50%) JUnit
6 24 (3.00%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.75%) Mockito
8 14 (1.75%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.62%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.37%) Vite
11 10 (1.25%) Claude Code
11 10 (1.25%) JMeter
12 7 (0.87%) Maven
12 7 (0.87%) RSpec
13 6 (0.75%) Selenium
14 5 (0.62%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.62%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.62%) Gatling
15 4 (0.50%) minitest
15 4 (0.50%) Storybook
General
1 184 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 113 (14.11%) Public Sector
3 110 (13.73%) Finance
4 74 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (4.87%) Law
7 35 (4.37%) Games
8 28 (3.50%) Banking
9 23 (2.87%) Legal
10 22 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.50%) Retail
12 17 (2.12%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.75%) Advertising
14 13 (1.62%) Legal Technology
14 13 (1.62%) Tech for Good
15 12 (1.50%) Front Office
16 10 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.12%) Aviation
17 9 (1.12%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 270 (33.71%) Developer
2 213 (26.59%) Senior
3 162 (20.22%) Software Engineer
4 132 (16.48%) Lead
5 88 (10.99%) Full-Stack Developer
6 68 (8.49%) Python Engineer
7 56 (6.99%) Data Engineer
7 56 (6.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 56 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
8 50 (6.24%) Python Developer
9 48 (5.99%) Lead Developer
10 46 (5.74%) Senior Developer
11 45 (5.62%) Architect
12 41 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
13 40 (4.99%) Java Developer
13 40 (4.99%) Lead Software Engineer
14 39 (4.87%) Software Developer
15 34 (4.24%) Ruby Developer
16 30 (3.75%) Java Engineer
17 26 (3.25%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (25.47%) React
2 182 (22.72%) Node.js
3 150 (18.73%) RESTful
4 109 (13.61%) REST
5 99 (12.36%) Spring
6 94 (11.74%) Spring Boot
7 88 (10.99%) Kafka
8 69 (8.61%) CSS
9 65 (8.11%) .NET
9 65 (8.11%) Ruby on Rails
10 64 (7.99%) Next.js
11 61 (7.62%) HTML
12 58 (7.24%) FastAPI
13 51 (6.37%) JSON
14 49 (6.12%) AngularJS
15 43 (5.37%) Jest
16 40 (4.99%) Django
17 34 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
18 33 (4.12%) JWT
19 32 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 168 (20.97%) Cloud Native
2 104 (12.98%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.87%) Low-Code
3 39 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (3.50%) AI Agents
6 27 (3.37%) Onboarding
7 26 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.62%) Algorithms
9 20 (2.50%) Replication
10 18 (2.25%) Blog
10 18 (2.25%) Data Structures
11 17 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.87%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.50%) Equities
14 12 (1.50%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.50%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (1.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (14.61%) Linux
2 43 (5.37%) Windows
3 22 (2.75%) Unix
4 17 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.62%) Android
7 5 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.37%) CentOS
8 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (45.82%) CI/CD
2 300 (37.45%) Agile
3 283 (35.33%) Software Engineering
4 235 (29.34%) Microservices
5 230 (28.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 217 (27.09%) AI
7 207 (25.84%) DevOps
8 176 (21.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 170 (21.22%) Mentoring
10 150 (18.73%) Observability
11 148 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 146 (18.23%) Containerisation
13 144 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
14 136 (16.98%) Test Automation
15 104 (12.98%) API Design
16 103 (12.86%) Clean Code
17 95 (11.86%) Analytics
18 89 (11.11%) Scrum
19 88 (10.99%) Event-Driven
20 86 (10.74%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 340 (42.45%) Python
2 227 (28.34%) SQL
3 205 (25.59%) Java
4 187 (23.35%) JavaScript
5 154 (19.23%) TypeScript
6 69 (8.61%) C#
7 68 (8.49%) Ruby
8 62 (7.74%) Go
9 35 (4.37%) Bash
10 34 (4.24%) PowerShell
11 26 (3.25%) PHP
12 19 (2.37%) Scala
13 14 (1.75%) C++
14 12 (1.50%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.25%) RPG
16 8 (1.00%) Kotlin
16 8 (1.00%) Perl
17 6 (0.75%) Korn
18 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 113 (14.11%) Security Cleared
2 101 (12.61%) Degree
3 81 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.75%) PhD
11 4 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.37%) RHCE
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.25%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.87%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.24%) QA
3 28 (3.50%) GDPR
4 18 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.50%) SLA
6 4 (0.50%) WCAG
7 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.25%) NCSC
8 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.12%) HL7
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.12%) MiFID
9 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 243 (30.34%) Docker
2 22 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.37%) Firmware
4 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Samba
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 211 (26.34%) Kubernetes
2 167 (20.85%) Terraform
3 52 (6.49%) Ansible
4 45 (5.62%) Grafana
5 31 (3.87%) Argo
6 29 (3.62%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.37%) Kibana
8 6 (0.75%) Istio
8 6 (0.75%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.75%) Puppet
9 5 (0.62%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.62%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.62%) Packer
10 4 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.37%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.37%) Plesk
11 3 (0.37%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.25%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 87 (10.86%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.24%) Oracle
3 48 (5.99%) Google
4 25 (3.12%) Databricks
5 21 (2.62%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.37%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.25%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.87%) Splunk
9 14 (1.75%) IBM
10 8 (1.00%) Dell
10 8 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.87%) Informatica
11 7 (0.87%) Pega
11 7 (0.87%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.62%) Meraki
13 4 (0.50%) Confluent
13 4 (0.50%) Netezza
13 4 (0.50%) Remedy
13 4 (0.50%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.37%) UiPath