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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 135 182
Rank change year-on-year -126 +47 +9
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 507 1,158 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.81% 2.18% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.67% 12.25% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 344 543 947
10th Percentile £42,098 £49,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +10.61% +4.35%

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 6,614 9,454 13,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.58% 17.80% 20.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,149 5,254 10,367
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +8.30% -4.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -132 435 £75,000 -3.23% 700
London -71 252 £90,000 +2.86% 155
Work from Home -100 224 £73,151 +4.50% 383
UK excluding London -174 210 £62,500 -5.83% 644
North of England -4 77 £73,801 +6.48% 111
South East -123 43 £60,000 -25.00% 205
Yorkshire -2 37 £65,000 +8.81% 42
Midlands -14 33 £60,100 -7.54% 73
North West -13 32 £85,000 +21.43% 53
South West -53 26 £54,000 -16.92% 88
West Midlands +23 23 £61,350 -5.62% 27
Scotland -36 15 £73,801 +22.49% 39
East of England -38 13 £42,500 -26.09% 98
East Midlands -19 10 £60,100 +0.17% 46
North East -1 8 £55,200 -20.35% 17
Wales -24 5 £73,801 +13.54% 31
Northern Ireland -17 3 £73,801 +11.98% 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 39 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.75%) WebSphere
4 18 (3.55%) Confluence
5 17 (3.35%) Tomcat
6 16 (3.16%) WebSphere Application Server
7 13 (2.56%) OpenStack
8 8 (1.58%) ArcGIS
8 8 (1.58%) nginx
9 6 (1.18%) Apache
10 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.79%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.59%) CMS
11 3 (0.59%) Luigi
11 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.59%) WildFly
12 2 (0.39%) Camunda
12 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.78%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 359 (70.81%) AWS
2 167 (32.94%) Azure
3 132 (26.04%) GCP
4 93 (18.34%) Serverless
5 70 (13.81%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (12.23%) Amazon S3
7 58 (11.44%) GitHub
8 54 (10.65%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (9.86%) dbt
10 45 (8.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (8.28%) SaaS
12 41 (8.09%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (6.51%) Amazon SQS
15 27 (5.33%) Amazon ECR
16 22 (4.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 21 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (4.14%) Power Platform
17 21 (4.14%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.75%) SSL
3 12 (2.37%) Firewall
4 10 (1.97%) VPN
5 8 (1.58%) DNS
5 8 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.38%) Internet
7 6 (1.18%) HTTP
8 5 (0.99%) Network Security
8 5 (0.99%) VLAN
9 4 (0.79%) FTP
9 4 (0.79%) IMAP
9 4 (0.79%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.79%) SMTP
9 4 (0.79%) SSH
10 3 (0.59%) DHCP
10 3 (0.59%) MQTT
10 3 (0.59%) WAN
11 2 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.39%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (24.46%) SQL Server
2 101 (19.92%) Relational Database
3 91 (17.95%) MySQL
4 88 (17.36%) MongoDB
5 71 (14.00%) NoSQL
6 44 (8.68%) Redis
7 38 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
8 37 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
8 37 (7.30%) DB2
9 32 (6.31%) DynamoDB
9 32 (6.31%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (5.72%) RDBMS
11 24 (4.73%) Apache Iceberg
12 20 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (3.94%) Apache Arrow
12 20 (3.94%) Dremio
12 20 (3.94%) Power BI
13 19 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (2.96%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.76%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 109 (21.50%) Git
2 93 (18.34%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.71%) JIRA
4 33 (6.51%) GitLab
5 32 (6.31%) JUnit
6 28 (5.52%) Cucumber
7 26 (5.13%) Selenium
8 21 (4.14%) Bitbucket
9 18 (3.55%) Cypress.io
9 18 (3.55%) JMeter
9 18 (3.55%) Mockito
10 17 (3.35%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.58%) Vite
12 6 (1.18%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.99%) Maven
13 5 (0.99%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.99%) Subversion
14 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.79%) Vagrant
15 3 (0.59%) MLflow
General
1 139 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 113 (22.29%) Finance
3 45 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.48%) Banking
5 37 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 30 (5.92%) Law
7 26 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (4.14%) Front Office
8 21 (4.14%) Retail
9 11 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.97%) Marketing
11 9 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.18%) Electronics
13 6 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.18%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.99%) Legal
15 4 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 187 (36.88%) Developer
2 97 (19.13%) Senior
3 80 (15.78%) Software Engineer
4 66 (13.02%) Full-Stack Developer
5 59 (11.64%) Java Developer
6 47 (9.27%) Lead
7 36 (7.10%) Python Developer
8 32 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (6.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 30 (5.92%) Python Engineer
10 26 (5.13%) Data Engineer
11 25 (4.93%) AWS Developer
11 25 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
11 25 (4.93%) Python Software Engineer
12 22 (4.34%) Architect
12 22 (4.34%) Senior Software Engineer
13 21 (4.14%) AWS Software Engineer
13 21 (4.14%) Linux Support
14 20 (3.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 20 (3.94%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (32.15%) React
2 106 (20.91%) Node.js
3 83 (16.37%) Spring
4 78 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 72 (14.20%) REST
6 68 (13.41%) Django
6 68 (13.41%) RESTful
7 56 (11.05%) AngularJS
7 56 (11.05%) FastAPI
8 53 (10.45%) HTML
9 49 (9.66%) Kafka
10 45 (8.88%) .NET
11 44 (8.68%) CSS
11 44 (8.68%) Vue
12 37 (7.30%) Elastic Stack
13 31 (6.11%) Flask
14 30 (5.92%) Web Services
15 26 (5.13%) Next.js
16 24 (4.73%) .NET Core
17 22 (4.34%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.23%) Distributed Systems
2 57 (11.24%) Cloud Native
3 28 (5.52%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (4.73%) Product Ownership
5 23 (4.54%) Management Information System
6 20 (3.94%) Equities
6 20 (3.94%) Fixed Income
6 20 (3.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 16 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.56%) Replication
10 12 (2.37%) Algorithms
11 11 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.97%) Blog
12 10 (1.97%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.78%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 104 (20.51%) Linux
2 46 (9.07%) Unix
3 40 (7.89%) Windows
4 22 (4.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.76%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.78%) Android
6 9 (1.78%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.58%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.18%) VMS
9 4 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.59%) Debian
10 3 (0.59%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.39%) CentOS
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (43.59%) CI/CD
2 189 (37.28%) Agile
3 157 (30.97%) Microservices
4 149 (29.39%) Software Engineering
5 146 (28.80%) Problem-Solving
6 141 (27.81%) DevOps
7 119 (23.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 92 (18.15%) Containerisation
9 79 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 76 (14.99%) AI
11 73 (14.40%) Fintech
11 73 (14.40%) Test Automation
12 59 (11.64%) Scrum
13 58 (11.44%) TDD
14 57 (11.24%) Clean Code
15 55 (10.85%) Technical Leadership
16 53 (10.45%) Mentoring
17 51 (10.06%) ETL
18 48 (9.47%) Data Modelling
19 47 (9.27%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 249 (49.11%) Python
2 163 (32.15%) Java
3 154 (30.37%) SQL
4 144 (28.40%) JavaScript
5 108 (21.30%) TypeScript
6 42 (8.28%) C#
7 30 (5.92%) Go
8 18 (3.55%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.55%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.35%) PHP
9 17 (3.35%) Ruby
10 16 (3.16%) C
11 9 (1.78%) Delphi
11 9 (1.78%) Rust
12 7 (1.38%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.18%) C++
14 4 (0.79%) Bash
14 4 (0.79%) Groovy
14 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.59%) RPG
Qualifications
1 91 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 72 (14.20%) Degree
3 60 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.71%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.55%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.37%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.39%) HNC
12 2 (0.39%) HND
12 2 (0.39%) MCSA
12 2 (0.39%) MCSE
12 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.54%) SLA
2 18 (3.55%) QA
3 17 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.76%) GDPR
5 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.59%) SEPA
7 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.39%) PSD2
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) GAAP
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 195 (38.46%) Docker
2 6 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.79%) DFS Replication
3 4 (0.79%) Dovecot
3 4 (0.79%) Postfix
3 4 (0.79%) Squid
4 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.39%) NFS
5 2 (0.39%) pfSense
5 2 (0.39%) Samba
Systems Management
1 171 (33.73%) Kubernetes
2 106 (20.91%) Terraform
3 41 (8.09%) Ansible
4 31 (6.11%) Grafana
5 19 (3.75%) Kibana
6 17 (3.35%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.37%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (2.17%) Argo
9 6 (1.18%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.99%) Puppet
11 4 (0.79%) Control-M
11 4 (0.79%) Nagios
11 4 (0.79%) Nessus
11 4 (0.79%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.59%) Rancher
13 2 (0.39%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.20%) Ambari
14 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (15.19%) Oracle
2 35 (6.90%) Google
3 28 (5.52%) Red Hat
4 24 (4.73%) Microsoft
5 23 (4.54%) IBM
6 19 (3.75%) Informatica
7 18 (3.55%) ServiceNow
8 16 (3.16%) Atlassian
8 16 (3.16%) Splunk
9 13 (2.56%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.56%) OpenAI
9 13 (2.56%) Talend
10 8 (1.58%) ESRI
10 8 (1.58%) SAP
11 5 (0.99%) VMware
12 4 (0.79%) Dell
12 4 (0.79%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (0.79%) Pega
12 4 (0.79%) WSO2
13 3 (0.59%) Salesforce