PostgreSQL Jobs

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 145 216
Rank change year-on-year -103 +71 -146
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 713 2,067 1,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.27% 1.88% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.16% 11.12% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 520 1,180 1,126
10th Percentile £46,125 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% -8.00%

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 7,784 18,580 19,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.89% 16.86% 21.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,839 12,642 12,717
10th Percentile £36,000 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £98,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL.

Salary trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 14 June 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 14 June 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 -102 638 £75,000 +15.38% 1,621
London -8 363 £95,000 +18.75% 978
UK excluding London -126 361 £65,000 +23.81% 889
Work from Home -107 296 £71,991 +10.76% 1,088
South East -59 102 £52,500 - 385
North of England -122 99 £67,500 +22.73% 215
North West -132 66 £69,384 +32.16% 148
Midlands -61 42 £67,500 +35.00% 82
Scotland +45 38 £62,500 +25.00% 35
East of England +12 35 £32,500 -43.48% 55
South West +44 34 £62,500 +4.17% 61
West Midlands +26 31 £67,500 +35.00% 25
Yorkshire +2 21 £67,500 +28.57% 47
Wales +10 19 £77,500 +51.81% 16
North East +19 12 £52,500 -19.80% 20
East Midlands -56 11 £60,000 +20.00% 55
Northern Ireland +13 7 £55,000 -35.29% 19

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 77 (10.80%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (5.47%) Confluence
3 19 (2.66%) Tomcat
4 15 (2.10%) JBoss
4 15 (2.10%) nginx
5 14 (1.96%) Red Hat Fuse
6 13 (1.82%) CMS
7 11 (1.54%) IIS
8 8 (1.12%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.98%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.98%) WordPress
10 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.70%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.56%) Apache
13 3 (0.42%) SAS
14 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.14%) Joomla!
14 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Notion
4 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.14%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 466 (65.36%) AWS
2 219 (30.72%) Azure
3 195 (27.35%) GCP
4 86 (12.06%) dbt
4 86 (12.06%) Serverless
5 79 (11.08%) Amazon EC2
6 66 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
7 63 (8.84%) GitHub
8 57 (7.99%) Amazon S3
9 51 (7.15%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (5.47%) Amazon SQS
11 34 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (4.63%) SaaS
13 32 (4.49%) Power Platform
14 23 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (2.81%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 20 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
18 19 (2.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.66%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.24%) Network Security
3 13 (1.82%) SSL
4 12 (1.68%) DNS
5 11 (1.54%) Firewall
6 10 (1.40%) MQTT
7 9 (1.26%) DMARC
7 9 (1.26%) SAN
8 8 (1.12%) Internet
9 6 (0.84%) VPN
10 5 (0.70%) DHCP
10 5 (0.70%) Modbus
10 5 (0.70%) NAS
10 5 (0.70%) SSH
10 5 (0.70%) VSAN
11 4 (0.56%) FTP
11 4 (0.56%) HTTP
11 4 (0.56%) iSCSI
11 4 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (19.78%) MongoDB
1 141 (19.78%) Relational Database
2 132 (18.51%) MySQL
3 129 (18.09%) SQL Server
4 104 (14.59%) NoSQL
5 80 (11.22%) Amazon Athena
6 70 (9.82%) Apache Arrow
6 70 (9.82%) Apache Iceberg
6 70 (9.82%) Dremio
7 60 (8.42%) Amazon RDS
8 56 (7.85%) RDBMS
9 43 (6.03%) Redis
10 41 (5.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 36 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
12 29 (4.07%) DynamoDB
13 27 (3.79%) Power BI
14 17 (2.38%) DB2
15 11 (1.54%) Big Data
15 11 (1.54%) Tableau
16 9 (1.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 138 (19.35%) Git
2 104 (14.59%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.26%) JUnit
4 55 (7.71%) JIRA
5 45 (6.31%) Mockito
6 41 (5.75%) GitLab
7 37 (5.19%) Maven
8 33 (4.63%) SonarQube
9 26 (3.65%) Bitbucket
10 24 (3.37%) Selenium
11 22 (3.09%) IntelliJ
12 21 (2.95%) JMeter
13 19 (2.66%) Postman
14 14 (1.96%) Cucumber
15 12 (1.68%) DbUnit
15 12 (1.68%) jMock
16 11 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
17 9 (1.26%) Gradle
17 9 (1.26%) TestNG
17 9 (1.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 232 (32.54%) Finance
2 178 (24.96%) Social Skills
3 107 (15.01%) Front Office
4 106 (14.87%) Public Sector
5 75 (10.52%) Banking
6 69 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (7.01%) Law
9 35 (4.91%) Marketing
10 32 (4.49%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.66%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.52%) Electronics
12 18 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.96%) Games
15 11 (1.54%) Retail
16 10 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (1.40%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.26%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 337 (47.27%) Developer
2 180 (25.25%) Software Engineer
3 148 (20.76%) Senior
4 104 (14.59%) Lead
5 98 (13.74%) Java Developer
6 96 (13.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 85 (11.92%) AWS Engineer
7 85 (11.92%) Python Developer
8 81 (11.36%) Java Engineer
9 77 (10.80%) AWS Developer
10 74 (10.38%) AWS Software Engineer
11 64 (8.98%) Python Engineer
12 60 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
13 59 (8.27%) Python Software Engineer
13 59 (8.27%) Senior Developer
14 40 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 40 (5.61%) Java Software Engineer
15 38 (5.33%) Lead Developer
16 34 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
17 29 (4.07%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (38.99%) React
2 190 (26.65%) Node.js
3 154 (21.60%) AngularJS
3 154 (21.60%) REST
4 124 (17.39%) RESTful
4 124 (17.39%) Spring
5 116 (16.27%) Spring Boot
6 97 (13.60%) Vue
7 85 (11.92%) Kafka
8 75 (10.52%) .NET
8 75 (10.52%) Pandas
9 73 (10.24%) NumPy
10 71 (9.96%) SciPy
11 70 (9.82%) HTML
12 63 (8.84%) Web Services
13 59 (8.27%) CSS
14 51 (7.15%) Django
15 45 (6.31%) Hibernate
16 43 (6.03%) FastAPI
16 43 (6.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 90 (12.62%) Fixed Income
2 73 (10.24%) Equities
2 73 (10.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 62 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 58 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.09%) Algorithms
6 21 (2.95%) Data Structures
7 20 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (2.66%) IoT
9 18 (2.52%) Mobile App
10 15 (2.10%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.96%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.68%) e-Learning
13 12 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.40%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.40%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 143 (20.06%) Linux
2 63 (8.84%) Windows
3 58 (8.13%) Unix
4 15 (2.10%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.68%) Android
6 8 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.70%) VMS
8 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.28%) Debian
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (54.98%) Agile
2 265 (37.17%) Software Engineering
3 239 (33.52%) CI/CD
4 230 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 182 (25.53%) Microservices
6 166 (23.28%) DevOps
7 151 (21.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 132 (18.51%) Containerisation
9 128 (17.95%) Mentoring
10 126 (17.67%) Fintech
11 100 (14.03%) TDD
12 95 (13.32%) Asset Management
13 94 (13.18%) Investment Management
13 94 (13.18%) Test Automation
14 90 (12.62%) Scrum
15 86 (12.06%) Risk Management
16 80 (11.22%) User Experience
17 70 (9.82%) Order Management
17 70 (9.82%) Performance Attribution
18 69 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 301 (42.22%) Python
2 272 (38.15%) JavaScript
3 255 (35.76%) SQL
4 253 (35.48%) Java
5 218 (30.58%) TypeScript
6 68 (9.54%) C#
7 36 (5.05%) PHP
8 27 (3.79%) Shell Script
9 26 (3.65%) Bash
10 24 (3.37%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.09%) Go
12 19 (2.66%) C++
13 15 (2.10%) Rust
14 10 (1.40%) Groovy
14 10 (1.40%) Kotlin
15 9 (1.26%) Ruby
15 9 (1.26%) VBA
16 8 (1.12%) C
16 8 (1.12%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 87 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 68 (9.54%) Degree
4 25 (3.51%) Master's Degree
5 22 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.68%) PhD
9 9 (1.26%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.56%) OCP
13 4 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.28%) CISSP
15 2 (0.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.27%) QA
2 17 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.24%) SLA
4 15 (2.10%) ISO 9001
5 12 (1.68%) GDPR
5 12 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.84%) CDISC
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) GMP
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 263 (36.89%) Docker
2 20 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.98%) Postfix
4 5 (0.70%) Firmware
4 5 (0.70%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (0.56%) zsh
6 3 (0.42%) Apache Flume
6 3 (0.42%) DFS Replication
6 3 (0.42%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.42%) HDFS
6 3 (0.42%) Squid
6 3 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.28%) KVM
7 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.28%) Xen
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 221 (31.00%) Kubernetes
2 81 (11.36%) Terraform
3 38 (5.33%) Ansible
4 28 (3.93%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.79%) Grafana
6 23 (3.23%) Kibana
7 16 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.68%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.54%) AWS Copilot
10 9 (1.26%) Kustomize
10 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.26%) Packer
11 8 (1.12%) Argo
12 6 (0.84%) logstash
12 6 (0.84%) Puppet
13 4 (0.56%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.56%) Istio
14 3 (0.42%) Nessus
14 3 (0.42%) Oozie
14 3 (0.42%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 82 (11.50%) Oracle
2 74 (10.38%) Microsoft
3 57 (7.99%) Google
4 31 (4.35%) Splunk
5 26 (3.65%) Dynatrace
5 26 (3.65%) Red Hat
6 25 (3.51%) Databricks
7 23 (3.23%) SAP
8 20 (2.81%) Atlassian
9 16 (2.24%) IBM
10 10 (1.40%) Cisco
10 10 (1.40%) Informatica
11 9 (1.26%) VMware
12 8 (1.12%) Jaspersoft
13 7 (0.98%) CA Agile Central
13 7 (0.98%) New Relic
14 5 (0.70%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.70%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.56%) AppDynamics
15 4 (0.56%) Dell