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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 216 169
Rank change year-on-year -68 -47 +41
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 632 710 1,710
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.58% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.81% 9.60% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 475 519 1,179
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,250 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -8.70%

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 8,096 7,397 17,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 16.49% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,279 4,783 12,747
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,550 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,687 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,000 £100,000
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 19 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 19 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 -85 542 £69,305 -7.59% 195
Work from Home +28 329 £67,500 -8.08% 120
UK excluding London -77 324 £62,500 -3.85% 135
London -103 218 £85,000 -10.53% 100
South East -9 115 £59,500 +13.33% 46
North of England -16 113 £66,250 -1.85% 36
North West -15 48 £67,500 -1.47% 24
South West -50 38 £62,500 +2.04% 12
Yorkshire -26 36 £52,130 -22.77% 7
North East -24 29 £65,000 +23.81% 5
East of England -29 23 £47,500 +46.15% 9
Scotland -7 18 £67,500 +3.85% 10
Midlands -49 13 £75,000 +11.11% 19
West Midlands -36 9 £80,000 +18.52% 11
Wales -60 5 £70,000 -9.68% 1
East Midlands -32 4 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Northern Ireland -36 1 £73,801 +34.18% 6

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 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.64%) Apache
4 18 (2.85%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.85%) Confluence
5 12 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.11%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.95%) WordPress
8 4 (0.63%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.47%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.32%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.16%) Moodle
11 1 (0.16%) nginx
11 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (1.58%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 380 (60.13%) AWS
2 231 (36.55%) Azure
3 108 (17.09%) GCP
4 99 (15.66%) Serverless
5 70 (11.08%) GitHub
6 59 (9.34%) SaaS
7 58 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
8 57 (9.02%) Amazon S3
9 52 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
11 40 (6.33%) Power Platform
12 38 (6.01%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
14 35 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (4.27%) Azure AKS
15 27 (4.27%) Azure Service Bus
16 23 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (2.85%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.38%) Broadband
2 18 (2.85%) Firewall
3 16 (2.53%) DNS
3 16 (2.53%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.37%) DHCP
5 11 (1.74%) VPN
6 8 (1.27%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.27%) SAN
7 7 (1.11%) Network Security
7 7 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.79%) Internet
8 5 (0.79%) VLAN
9 3 (0.47%) 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
1 187 (29.59%) MongoDB
2 145 (22.94%) MySQL
3 108 (17.09%) SQL Server
4 96 (15.19%) Relational Database
5 95 (15.03%) NoSQL
6 55 (8.70%) Redis
7 31 (4.91%) Power BI
8 29 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
10 25 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (2.85%) DynamoDB
12 17 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (2.69%) Oracle Database
13 15 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (2.37%) GIS
13 15 (2.37%) Pinecone
14 14 (2.22%) Metadata
15 13 (2.06%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.74%) MariaDB
16 11 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 124 (19.62%) Git
2 48 (7.59%) Jenkins
3 44 (6.96%) GitLab
4 29 (4.59%) JIRA
5 24 (3.80%) Cypress.io
6 20 (3.16%) JUnit
7 16 (2.53%) Mockito
8 14 (2.22%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.90%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.58%) JMeter
11 9 (1.42%) Vite
12 8 (1.27%) Maven
13 7 (1.11%) Selenium
14 6 (0.95%) Claude Code
15 5 (0.79%) Cucumber
16 4 (0.63%) Gatling
16 4 (0.63%) Storybook
17 3 (0.47%) DBeaver
17 3 (0.47%) Liquibase
17 3 (0.47%) Mocha
General
1 145 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 91 (14.40%) Finance
3 82 (12.97%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.38%) Games
7 30 (4.75%) Retail
8 27 (4.27%) Law
9 25 (3.96%) Banking
10 20 (3.16%) Manufacturing
11 19 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.69%) Legal
13 16 (2.53%) Front Office
14 15 (2.37%) Advertising
15 11 (1.74%) Aerospace
16 10 (1.58%) Legal Technology
17 9 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (1.27%) Aviation
18 8 (1.27%) Telecoms
19 7 (1.11%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 213 (33.70%) Developer
2 128 (20.25%) Senior
3 113 (17.88%) Software Engineer
4 99 (15.66%) Lead
5 81 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (7.91%) Python Engineer
7 46 (7.28%) Lead Developer
8 44 (6.96%) Architect
9 40 (6.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 40 (6.33%) Java Developer
10 36 (5.70%) Data Engineer
10 36 (5.70%) Python Developer
11 35 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
12 34 (5.38%) Java Engineer
13 33 (5.22%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.75%) Senior Developer
15 25 (3.96%) Software Developer
16 21 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (27.69%) React
2 159 (25.16%) Node.js
3 116 (18.35%) RESTful
4 80 (12.66%) REST
5 75 (11.87%) Spring
6 72 (11.39%) Spring Boot
7 56 (8.86%) Kafka
8 51 (8.07%) CSS
9 50 (7.91%) FastAPI
10 49 (7.75%) Ruby on Rails
11 47 (7.44%) HTML
12 45 (7.12%) .NET
12 45 (7.12%) JSON
13 38 (6.01%) Next.js
14 35 (5.54%) AngularJS
15 33 (5.22%) Jest
16 32 (5.06%) Django
17 30 (4.75%) Vue
18 25 (3.96%) Redux
19 24 (3.80%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 137 (21.68%) Cloud Native
2 68 (10.76%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.38%) Low-Code
4 32 (5.06%) Video\Live Streaming
5 24 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.32%) Data Structures
6 21 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (3.16%) Algorithms
7 20 (3.16%) Blog
8 19 (3.01%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.85%) Replication
10 16 (2.53%) Derivative
10 16 (2.53%) Equities
10 16 (2.53%) Fixed Income
10 16 (2.53%) Management Information System
11 13 (2.06%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.74%) SCADA
12 11 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 101 (15.98%) Linux
2 45 (7.12%) Windows
3 25 (3.96%) Unix
4 20 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.47%) CentOS
8 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
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
1 272 (43.04%) CI/CD
2 228 (36.08%) Agile
3 201 (31.80%) Software Engineering
4 190 (30.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 181 (28.64%) Microservices
6 147 (23.26%) DevOps
7 144 (22.78%) AI
8 143 (22.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 121 (19.15%) Mentoring
10 116 (18.35%) Test Automation
11 113 (17.88%) Containerisation
12 105 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 104 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
14 97 (15.35%) Observability
15 79 (12.50%) Data Modelling
16 74 (11.71%) Analytics
16 74 (11.71%) Scrum
17 73 (11.55%) API Design
18 69 (10.92%) TDD
19 65 (10.28%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 277 (43.83%) Python
2 182 (28.80%) SQL
3 181 (28.64%) Java
4 155 (24.53%) JavaScript
5 124 (19.62%) TypeScript
6 53 (8.39%) Go
7 52 (8.23%) C#
8 50 (7.91%) Ruby
9 41 (6.49%) PowerShell
10 32 (5.06%) Bash
11 26 (4.11%) PHP
12 15 (2.37%) Shell Script
13 14 (2.22%) C++
14 13 (2.06%) Scala
15 12 (1.90%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.74%) C
17 10 (1.58%) Perl
18 7 (1.11%) Korn
19 6 (0.95%) RPG
19 6 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.18%) Degree
3 64 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.74%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.63%) PhD
10 3 (0.47%) RHCE
10 3 (0.47%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.32%) CISSP
11 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.32%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.23%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.75%) QA
3 23 (3.64%) GDPR
4 18 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.47%) SLA
6 3 (0.47%) WCAG
7 2 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.32%) NCSC
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
1 177 (28.01%) Docker
2 30 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.95%) 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 (28.48%) Kubernetes
2 131 (20.73%) Terraform
3 38 (6.01%) Ansible
4 34 (5.38%) Grafana
5 29 (4.59%) Argo
6 21 (3.32%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.58%) Kibana
8 7 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.11%) Puppet
9 6 (0.95%) Istio
9 6 (0.95%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.79%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.63%) Control-M
11 4 (0.63%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.47%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.47%) Packer
12 3 (0.47%) Plesk
12 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 73 (11.55%) Oracle
3 33 (5.22%) Google
4 19 (3.01%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.85%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.37%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.58%) Databricks
7 10 (1.58%) Splunk
8 8 (1.27%) Dell
8 8 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.11%) IBM
9 7 (1.11%) Pega
10 6 (0.95%) Informatica
10 6 (0.95%) VMware
11 5 (0.79%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.63%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.63%) Confluent
12 4 (0.63%) ESRI
12 4 (0.63%) Netezza
12 4 (0.63%) Remedy