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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 212 174
Rank change year-on-year -62 -38 +37
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 625 707 1,689
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.60% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.78% 9.58% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 463 513 1,174
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £63,206
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +18.66% -9.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £104,750 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,750 £53,750
% change year-on-year -1.96% +18.60% -6.52%

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 8,029 7,379 17,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.69% 16.69% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,126 4,749 12,601
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,197 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,960 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £97,500
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 11 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 11 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 -74 536 £69,305 -7.59% 247
Work from Home +24 328 £67,500 -5.92% 153
UK excluding London -62 321 £62,500 -1.96% 140
London -97 215 £84,250 -11.32% 131
North of England -10 117 £66,250 -1.85% 49
South East -12 110 £58,500 +11.43% 43
North West -5 51 £68,405 -1.41% 31
Yorkshire -25 38 £56,065 -16.94% 11
South West -46 38 £62,500 - 16
North East -26 28 £65,000 +23.81% 7
East of England -30 22 £47,500 +36.69% 9
Scotland -5 18 £67,500 +8.00% 4
Midlands -46 13 £75,000 +11.01% 18
West Midlands -41 10 £77,500 +14.71% 10
Wales -57 4 £69,401 -4.36% 3
East Midlands -29 3 £67,500 +3.85% 8
Northern Ireland -40 1 £73,801 +34.18% 3

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 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.52%) Apache
4 17 (2.72%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.24%) Confluence
6 12 (1.92%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.28%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.96%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.64%) WordPress
10 3 (0.48%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.48%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.48%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) IIS
12 1 (0.16%) JBoss
12 1 (0.16%) nginx
12 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 381 (60.96%) AWS
2 226 (36.16%) Azure
3 108 (17.28%) GCP
4 100 (16.00%) Serverless
5 68 (10.88%) GitHub
6 58 (9.28%) Amazon ECS
7 56 (8.96%) SaaS
8 55 (8.80%) Amazon S3
9 52 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
11 40 (6.40%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (6.24%) Power Platform
13 38 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
15 35 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
16 27 (4.32%) Azure AKS
16 27 (4.32%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
18 20 (3.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 17 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.96%) Broadband
2 17 (2.72%) Firewall
3 16 (2.56%) DNS
3 16 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.40%) DHCP
5 10 (1.60%) VPN
6 8 (1.28%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.28%) SAN
7 7 (1.12%) Internet
7 7 (1.12%) Network Security
7 7 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.64%) VLAN
9 3 (0.48%) HTTP
10 2 (0.32%) LAN
10 2 (0.32%) MQTT
10 2 (0.32%) PBX
10 2 (0.32%) WAN
11 1 (0.16%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (30.08%) MongoDB
2 139 (22.24%) MySQL
3 107 (17.12%) SQL Server
4 98 (15.68%) NoSQL
5 97 (15.52%) Relational Database
6 49 (7.84%) Redis
7 31 (4.96%) Power BI
8 26 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (3.04%) DynamoDB
12 18 (2.88%) GIS
13 17 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (2.72%) Oracle Database
14 16 (2.56%) Pinecone
15 14 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (2.08%) Metadata
16 13 (2.08%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.76%) MariaDB
17 11 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 124 (19.84%) Git
2 48 (7.68%) Jenkins
3 42 (6.72%) GitLab
4 25 (4.00%) JIRA
5 24 (3.84%) Cypress.io
6 20 (3.20%) JUnit
7 17 (2.72%) Mockito
8 13 (2.08%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.08%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.60%) JMeter
9 10 (1.60%) Vite
10 8 (1.28%) Maven
11 7 (1.12%) Selenium
12 6 (0.96%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.80%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.64%) Liquibase
15 3 (0.48%) DBeaver
15 3 (0.48%) Mocha
15 3 (0.48%) Storybook
16 2 (0.32%) MSTest
General
1 147 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 90 (14.40%) Finance
3 80 (12.80%) Public Sector
4 57 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.44%) Games
7 31 (4.96%) Retail
8 27 (4.32%) Law
9 24 (3.84%) Banking
10 19 (3.04%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.56%) Front Office
12 15 (2.40%) Advertising
12 15 (2.40%) Legal
13 11 (1.76%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.28%) Legal Technology
16 7 (1.12%) Automotive
16 7 (1.12%) Aviation
17 5 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 213 (34.08%) Developer
2 124 (19.84%) Senior
3 108 (17.28%) Software Engineer
4 93 (14.88%) Lead
5 79 (12.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 51 (8.16%) Python Engineer
7 43 (6.88%) Lead Developer
8 41 (6.56%) Java Developer
9 39 (6.24%) Architect
9 39 (6.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 36 (5.76%) Python Developer
11 35 (5.60%) Data Engineer
11 35 (5.60%) Java Engineer
12 32 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
12 32 (5.12%) Lead Software Engineer
13 31 (4.96%) Senior Developer
14 25 (4.00%) Software Developer
15 22 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (27.84%) React
2 155 (24.80%) Node.js
3 115 (18.40%) RESTful
4 80 (12.80%) REST
5 73 (11.68%) Spring
6 69 (11.04%) Spring Boot
7 54 (8.64%) FastAPI
8 53 (8.48%) Kafka
9 48 (7.68%) CSS
10 45 (7.20%) HTML
10 45 (7.20%) JSON
11 44 (7.04%) Ruby on Rails
12 43 (6.88%) .NET
13 37 (5.92%) Django
14 36 (5.76%) Next.js
15 34 (5.44%) AngularJS
16 33 (5.28%) Jest
17 29 (4.64%) Vue
18 26 (4.16%) Flask
19 25 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 136 (21.76%) Cloud Native
2 64 (10.24%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.28%) Low-Code
4 32 (5.12%) Video\Live Streaming
5 24 (3.84%) Data Structures
6 21 (3.36%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.20%) Algorithms
8 19 (3.04%) Blog
9 18 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (2.88%) Replication
10 17 (2.72%) Onboarding
11 16 (2.56%) Derivative
11 16 (2.56%) Equities
11 16 (2.56%) Fixed Income
11 16 (2.56%) Management Information System
12 13 (2.08%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.76%) SCADA
14 10 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 96 (15.36%) Linux
2 43 (6.88%) Windows
3 25 (4.00%) Unix
4 19 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.48%) CentOS
9 2 (0.32%) Android
9 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Debian
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (42.08%) CI/CD
2 225 (36.00%) Agile
3 192 (30.72%) Software Engineering
4 189 (30.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 177 (28.32%) Microservices
6 142 (22.72%) AI
7 140 (22.40%) DevOps
8 139 (22.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 116 (18.56%) Mentoring
10 115 (18.40%) Test Automation
11 111 (17.76%) Containerisation
12 107 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
13 104 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 92 (14.72%) Observability
15 76 (12.16%) Data Modelling
16 74 (11.84%) Scrum
17 70 (11.20%) Analytics
18 69 (11.04%) API Design
19 68 (10.88%) TDD
20 62 (9.92%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 281 (44.96%) Python
2 179 (28.64%) Java
3 176 (28.16%) SQL
4 157 (25.12%) JavaScript
5 123 (19.68%) TypeScript
6 56 (8.96%) Go
7 48 (7.68%) C#
8 45 (7.20%) Ruby
9 39 (6.24%) PowerShell
10 30 (4.80%) Bash
11 26 (4.16%) PHP
12 15 (2.40%) Shell Script
13 14 (2.24%) C++
14 13 (2.08%) C
15 12 (1.92%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.76%) Perl
16 11 (1.76%) Scala
17 7 (1.12%) Korn
17 7 (1.12%) VB
18 4 (0.64%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 90 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.32%) Degree
3 63 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.64%) PhD
10 3 (0.48%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.48%) RHCE
11 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.32%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.16%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.16%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.64%) QA
3 21 (3.36%) GDPR
4 17 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.48%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.32%) NCSC
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
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
1 173 (27.68%) Docker
2 30 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 180 (28.80%) Kubernetes
2 130 (20.80%) Terraform
3 38 (6.08%) Ansible
4 32 (5.12%) Grafana
5 29 (4.64%) Argo
6 19 (3.04%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.60%) Kibana
8 7 (1.12%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.12%) Puppet
9 6 (0.96%) Istio
9 6 (0.96%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.80%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.64%) Control-M
11 4 (0.64%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.48%) Packer
12 3 (0.48%) Plesk
12 3 (0.48%) Rancher
13 2 (0.32%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.32%) Nagios
Vendors
1 74 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.52%) Oracle
3 33 (5.28%) Google
4 20 (3.20%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.04%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.24%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.44%) Splunk
8 8 (1.28%) Dell
8 8 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.12%) Databricks
9 7 (1.12%) Pega
10 6 (0.96%) ESRI
10 6 (0.96%) Informatica
11 5 (0.80%) IBM
11 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.80%) VMware
12 4 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.64%) Confluent
12 4 (0.64%) Netezza
12 4 (0.64%) Remedy