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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 144 185
Rank change year-on-year -86 +41 -51
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 601 1,259 999
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.87% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.83% 12.00% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 423 565 842
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £110,000 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

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 6,809 10,488 11,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.10% 15.62% 21.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,454 5,916 9,086
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,042
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,375 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% -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 11 November 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 11 November 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 -96 548 £75,000 +3.45% 745
London -26 323 £100,000 +17.65% 517
UK excluding London -119 271 £62,500 +4.17% 293
Work from Home -90 253 £75,000 +7.14% 465
North of England -30 86 £67,500 +3.85% 102
South East -105 68 £67,500 +12.50% 80
Midlands +28 39 £55,200 -15.08% 32
North West -56 39 £70,000 +9.80% 73
South West -30 36 £54,000 -16.92% 24
Yorkshire +8 31 £70,000 -1.75% 22
West Midlands +37 30 £70,000 +7.69% 18
Scotland -11 23 £73,801 +34.18% 21
North East +18 16 £52,500 -24.25% 7
East of England -44 15 £33,000 -42.61% 18
East Midlands +10 9 £50,000 -9.09% 14
Wales -13 6 £69,401 +6.77% 4
Northern Ireland -3 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 73 (12.15%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.16%) Confluence
3 22 (3.66%) Apache Spark
4 19 (3.16%) Tomcat
4 19 (3.16%) WebSphere
5 16 (2.66%) WebSphere Application Server
6 12 (2.00%) nginx
7 11 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (1.16%) Apache
9 6 (1.00%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.83%) JBoss
11 4 (0.67%) IIS
11 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
12 3 (0.50%) CMS
12 3 (0.50%) Luigi
12 3 (0.50%) SAS
12 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 8 (1.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Notion
4 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 444 (73.88%) AWS
2 197 (32.78%) Azure
3 181 (30.12%) GCP
4 92 (15.31%) Serverless
5 91 (15.14%) dbt
6 76 (12.65%) Amazon ECS
7 64 (10.65%) GitHub
8 59 (9.82%) Amazon EC2
9 53 (8.82%) Amazon S3
10 51 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (5.66%) SaaS
13 33 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (4.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
16 23 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (3.83%) Power Platform
17 22 (3.66%) Route 53
18 21 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (3.49%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.66%) Firewall
1 22 (3.66%) TCP/IP
2 21 (3.49%) SSL
3 11 (1.83%) iSCSI
3 11 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
3 11 (1.83%) SAN
4 10 (1.66%) DNS
4 10 (1.66%) HTTP
5 9 (1.50%) FTP
5 9 (1.50%) SSH
5 9 (1.50%) VPN
6 8 (1.33%) IMAP
6 8 (1.33%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (1.33%) SMTP
7 6 (1.00%) MQTT
8 5 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.50%) AMQP
9 3 (0.50%) Asterisk PBX
9 3 (0.50%) Multicast
9 3 (0.50%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (21.46%) Relational Database
2 125 (20.80%) MySQL
3 123 (20.47%) SQL Server
4 109 (18.14%) MongoDB
5 88 (14.64%) NoSQL
6 67 (11.15%) Amazon Athena
7 65 (10.82%) Apache Iceberg
8 60 (9.98%) Apache Arrow
8 60 (9.98%) Dremio
9 52 (8.65%) Amazon RDS
10 50 (8.32%) RDBMS
11 46 (7.65%) Redis
12 35 (5.82%) DB2
13 34 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
14 31 (5.16%) DynamoDB
15 29 (4.83%) Elasticsearch
16 28 (4.66%) Amazon Aurora
17 23 (3.83%) Big Data
18 21 (3.49%) Power BI
19 18 (3.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 108 (17.97%) Jenkins
2 93 (15.47%) Git
3 48 (7.99%) JUnit
4 46 (7.65%) JIRA
5 32 (5.32%) GitLab
5 32 (5.32%) Mockito
6 28 (4.66%) Selenium
7 27 (4.49%) Cucumber
7 27 (4.49%) JMeter
8 18 (3.00%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.00%) Maven
10 9 (1.50%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.33%) SonarQube
11 8 (1.33%) Vagrant
12 7 (1.16%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (1.16%) DbUnit
12 7 (1.16%) jMock
13 6 (1.00%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.00%) Subversion
13 6 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 187 (31.11%) Finance
2 131 (21.80%) Social Skills
3 78 (12.98%) Public Sector
4 74 (12.31%) Front Office
5 60 (9.98%) Banking
6 54 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (7.82%) Law
8 40 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.99%) Marketing
10 21 (3.49%) Manufacturing
11 18 (3.00%) Telecoms
12 17 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (2.66%) Electronics
14 15 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (2.33%) Investment Banking
15 14 (2.33%) Retail
16 13 (2.16%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.66%) Advertising
18 7 (1.16%) Legal
19 6 (1.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 255 (42.43%) Developer
2 138 (22.96%) Software Engineer
3 116 (19.30%) Senior
4 81 (13.48%) Python Developer
5 77 (12.81%) Lead
6 76 (12.65%) Java Developer
7 74 (12.31%) Python Engineer
8 73 (12.15%) AWS Engineer
9 69 (11.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 67 (11.15%) Python Software Engineer
11 64 (10.65%) AWS Developer
12 63 (10.48%) AWS Software Engineer
13 60 (9.98%) Full-Stack Developer
14 44 (7.32%) Java Engineer
15 37 (6.16%) Software Developer
16 35 (5.82%) Lead Developer
17 31 (5.16%) Data Engineer
17 31 (5.16%) Senior Developer
18 30 (4.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 29 (4.83%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (29.78%) React
2 140 (23.29%) Node.js
3 115 (19.13%) Spring
4 110 (18.30%) AngularJS
5 107 (17.80%) Spring Boot
6 90 (14.98%) RESTful
7 88 (14.64%) REST
8 80 (13.31%) Vue
9 70 (11.65%) Kafka
10 69 (11.48%) FastAPI
11 65 (10.82%) Django
12 63 (10.48%) HTML
13 62 (10.32%) NumPy
13 62 (10.32%) Pandas
14 60 (9.98%) SciPy
15 46 (7.65%) CSS
16 45 (7.49%) Web Services
17 41 (6.82%) .NET
17 41 (6.82%) Flask
18 37 (6.16%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 79 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 65 (10.82%) Equities
2 65 (10.82%) Fixed Income
2 65 (10.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 63 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (5.49%) Linux Command Line
5 32 (5.32%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.83%) Algorithms
6 23 (3.83%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (3.00%) Replication
9 17 (2.83%) Data Structures
10 14 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (2.00%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.83%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.66%) Derivative
14 9 (1.50%) Distributed Applications
14 9 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
16 7 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 127 (21.13%) Linux
2 57 (9.48%) Windows
3 51 (8.49%) Unix
4 29 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.16%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.66%) VMS
7 9 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.33%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (1.33%) Android
8 8 (1.33%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.00%) Debian
9 6 (1.00%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.33%) CentOS
12 1 (0.17%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (46.42%) Agile
2 226 (37.60%) CI/CD
3 209 (34.78%) Software Engineering
4 159 (26.46%) Microservices
5 158 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
6 141 (23.46%) DevOps
7 121 (20.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 115 (19.13%) Fintech
9 104 (17.30%) Containerisation
10 96 (15.97%) AI
11 87 (14.48%) Mentoring
12 81 (13.48%) TDD
13 77 (12.81%) Test Automation
14 76 (12.65%) Clean Code
15 70 (11.65%) Asset Management
16 69 (11.48%) Investment Management
17 63 (10.48%) Risk Management
18 61 (10.15%) ETL
19 60 (9.98%) Order Management
19 60 (9.98%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 321 (53.41%) Python
2 196 (32.61%) Java
3 185 (30.78%) JavaScript
4 177 (29.45%) SQL
5 144 (23.96%) TypeScript
6 43 (7.15%) C#
7 27 (4.49%) Shell Script
8 26 (4.33%) Bash
9 23 (3.83%) PowerShell
10 19 (3.16%) PHP
11 14 (2.33%) Go
11 14 (2.33%) Rust
12 11 (1.83%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.66%) Groovy
13 10 (1.66%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.50%) Korn
15 8 (1.33%) Delphi
16 7 (1.16%) Ruby
17 5 (0.83%) C
17 5 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.81%) Degree
3 73 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.49%) AWS Certification
5 24 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.00%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.33%) CCNA
13 2 (0.33%) CCNP
13 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.33%) HNC
13 2 (0.33%) HND
13 2 (0.33%) MCSA
13 2 (0.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.66%) QA
2 27 (4.49%) SLA
3 18 (3.00%) GDPR
4 14 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.83%) NIST
7 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.50%) SEPA
9 2 (0.33%) PSD2
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) GAAP
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 231 (38.44%) Docker
2 13 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 9 (1.50%) Postfix
5 8 (1.33%) DFS Replication
5 8 (1.33%) Dovecot
5 8 (1.33%) Squid
6 5 (0.83%) zsh
7 3 (0.50%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.50%) HDFS
8 2 (0.33%) NFS
8 2 (0.33%) pfSense
8 2 (0.33%) Samba
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 178 (29.62%) Kubernetes
2 87 (14.48%) Terraform
3 33 (5.49%) Kibana
4 29 (4.83%) Grafana
5 23 (3.83%) Ansible
6 19 (3.16%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.00%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (1.33%) Nessus
8 8 (1.33%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.83%) logstash
10 5 (0.83%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.67%) Puppet
12 3 (0.50%) Argo
12 3 (0.50%) Oozie
13 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.33%) Nagios
14 1 (0.17%) CFEngine
14 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 96 (15.97%) Oracle
2 44 (7.32%) Google
3 38 (6.32%) Microsoft
3 38 (6.32%) Splunk
4 37 (6.16%) Red Hat
5 26 (4.33%) IBM
6 25 (4.16%) Dynatrace
7 23 (3.83%) ServiceNow
8 21 (3.49%) SAP
9 19 (3.16%) Informatica
10 18 (3.00%) Atlassian
11 16 (2.66%) Databricks
12 15 (2.50%) Talend
13 13 (2.16%) Dell
14 10 (1.66%) Jaspersoft
14 10 (1.66%) OpenAI
15 9 (1.50%) Salesforce
16 7 (1.16%) RedGate
17 4 (0.67%) Pega
17 4 (0.67%) WSO2