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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 236 150
Rank change year-on-year -30 -86 +53
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 789 664 1,351
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.34% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.88% 9.20% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 583 466 773
10th Percentile £43,786 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 8,881 7,221 12,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.95% 14.59% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,024 4,564 7,590
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,268
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -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 6 September 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 16 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 6 September 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 -50 669 £69,655 -7.13% 680
UK excluding London -45 386 £65,000 +4.00% 278
Work from Home +3 377 £67,500 -25.00% 318
London -83 292 £85,000 -19.05% 487
South East -12 125 £65,000 - 74
North of England -26 122 £65,000 -3.70% 59
North West -11 57 £65,000 -3.70% 39
South West -56 49 £65,000 +30.00% 48
North East -36 39 £65,000 +26.83% 7
Midlands -40 32 £75,000 +7.14% 31
East of England -29 29 £52,500 +72.13% 19
Yorkshire -45 26 £69,310 -0.99% 13
West Midlands -40 23 £83,774 +15.55% 21
Wales -44 21 £67,500 -12.90% 10
Scotland -4 17 £65,000 -3.70% 20
East Midlands -29 9 £60,000 +9.09% 9

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 31 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (3.42%) Apache
3 26 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 26 (3.30%) Confluence
4 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.89%) Camunda
7 6 (0.76%) WordPress
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.25%) Luigi
9 2 (0.25%) Tornado
10 1 (0.13%) Documentum
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Finacle
2 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 451 (57.16%) AWS
2 270 (34.22%) Azure
3 132 (16.73%) GitHub
4 109 (13.81%) GCP
5 99 (12.55%) Serverless
6 78 (9.89%) SaaS
7 73 (9.25%) Amazon S3
8 69 (8.75%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
13 43 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
14 41 (5.20%) GitHub Copilot
15 34 (4.31%) Power Platform
16 30 (3.80%) Azure AKS
17 29 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
18 27 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (2.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.31%) Broadband
2 12 (1.52%) Firewall
3 11 (1.39%) DNS
4 10 (1.27%) SMS
5 9 (1.14%) AMQP
6 7 (0.89%) HTTP
6 7 (0.89%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.76%) DHCP
8 5 (0.63%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.63%) SAN
9 3 (0.38%) 4G
9 3 (0.38%) 5G
9 3 (0.38%) SSH
9 3 (0.38%) VLAN
10 2 (0.25%) MQTT
10 2 (0.25%) VPN
11 1 (0.13%) Internet
11 1 (0.13%) MPLS
11 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (26.11%) MongoDB
2 186 (23.57%) MySQL
3 140 (17.74%) Relational Database
4 133 (16.86%) SQL Server
5 101 (12.80%) NoSQL
6 90 (11.41%) Redis
7 45 (5.70%) DynamoDB
8 37 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
9 36 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
10 35 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (3.17%) Power BI
12 20 (2.53%) Metadata
13 19 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
13 19 (2.41%) Big Data
14 18 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (1.90%) GIS
15 15 (1.90%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.90%) Pinecone
16 14 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
16 14 (1.77%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 183 (23.19%) Git
2 65 (8.24%) Jenkins
3 59 (7.48%) GitLab
4 31 (3.93%) JIRA
5 28 (3.55%) Cypress.io
5 28 (3.55%) JUnit
6 22 (2.79%) Mockito
7 13 (1.65%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.39%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.39%) Vite
10 10 (1.27%) JMeter
11 9 (1.14%) Selenium
12 8 (1.01%) Maven
13 7 (0.89%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.89%) Mocha
13 7 (0.89%) RSpec
14 6 (0.76%) Storybook
15 5 (0.63%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.63%) Gatling
General
1 188 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 105 (13.31%) Public Sector
3 96 (12.17%) Finance
4 72 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (4.94%) Law
7 35 (4.44%) Banking
8 34 (4.31%) Games
9 24 (3.04%) Legal
10 20 (2.53%) Retail
11 18 (2.28%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.15%) Tech for Good
13 15 (1.90%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.65%) Health Technology
14 13 (1.65%) Legal Technology
15 12 (1.52%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.39%) Advertising
17 9 (1.14%) Aviation
18 8 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 272 (34.47%) Developer
2 218 (27.63%) Senior
3 151 (19.14%) Software Engineer
4 119 (15.08%) Lead
5 87 (11.03%) Full-Stack Developer
6 64 (8.11%) Python Engineer
7 62 (7.86%) Senior Software Engineer
8 57 (7.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 56 (7.10%) Senior Developer
10 54 (6.84%) Data Engineer
11 48 (6.08%) Architect
12 47 (5.96%) Python Developer
13 46 (5.83%) Java Developer
14 43 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.56%) Software Developer
16 35 (4.44%) Lead Developer
17 34 (4.31%) Ruby Developer
18 29 (3.68%) Database Engineer
19 28 (3.55%) Lead Software Engineer
20 27 (3.42%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (25.73%) React
2 177 (22.43%) Terraform
3 176 (22.31%) Node.js
4 147 (18.63%) RESTful
5 125 (15.84%) REST
6 106 (13.43%) Spring
7 103 (13.05%) Kafka
8 102 (12.93%) Spring Boot
9 78 (9.89%) CSS
10 75 (9.51%) .NET
11 66 (8.37%) Next.js
11 66 (8.37%) Ruby on Rails
12 65 (8.24%) HTML
13 57 (7.22%) FastAPI
14 49 (6.21%) AngularJS
15 48 (6.08%) Jest
15 48 (6.08%) JSON
16 46 (5.83%) RabbitMQ
17 37 (4.69%) JPA
18 35 (4.44%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 164 (20.79%) Cloud Native
2 110 (13.94%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.56%) Low-Code
5 31 (3.93%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.93%) Video\Live Streaming
6 27 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.92%) Replication
8 21 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.41%) Algorithms
9 19 (2.41%) Blog
9 19 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (2.15%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.90%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.52%) IoT
13 12 (1.52%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 112 (14.20%) Linux
2 37 (4.69%) Windows
3 17 (2.15%) Unix
4 15 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.76%) Android
6 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Debian
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (47.53%) CI/CD
2 283 (35.87%) Agile
3 279 (35.36%) Software Engineering
4 231 (29.28%) Full-Stack Development
5 228 (28.90%) Microservices
6 226 (28.64%) AI
7 213 (27.00%) DevOps
8 186 (23.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 159 (20.15%) Observability
10 153 (19.39%) Mentoring
11 144 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 142 (18.00%) Containerisation
12 142 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
13 135 (17.11%) Test Automation
14 104 (13.18%) API Design
15 101 (12.80%) Clean Code
16 100 (12.67%) Event-Driven
17 96 (12.17%) Scrum
18 91 (11.53%) Data Modelling
19 87 (11.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 324 (41.06%) Python
2 220 (27.88%) SQL
3 195 (24.71%) Java
4 180 (22.81%) JavaScript
5 154 (19.52%) TypeScript
6 77 (9.76%) C#
7 68 (8.62%) Ruby
8 62 (7.86%) Go
9 38 (4.82%) Bash
10 26 (3.30%) PowerShell
11 21 (2.66%) PHP
12 19 (2.41%) Scala
13 15 (1.90%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.77%) C++
15 10 (1.27%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.27%) RPG
16 7 (0.89%) Perl
17 5 (0.63%) Korn
18 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 116 (14.70%) Security Cleared
2 98 (12.42%) Degree
3 86 (10.90%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.53%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.01%) PhD
11 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.73%) QA
2 59 (7.48%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.80%) GDPR
4 22 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.63%) WCAG
7 4 (0.51%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 246 (31.18%) Docker
2 14 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 212 (26.87%) Kubernetes
2 60 (7.60%) Ansible
3 58 (7.35%) Grafana
4 39 (4.94%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.06%) Argo
6 10 (1.27%) Kibana
7 7 (0.89%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.76%) Istio
8 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.76%) Puppet
9 5 (0.63%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.63%) Packer
9 5 (0.63%) Rancher
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.38%) Plesk
11 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 80 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.25%) Oracle
3 36 (4.56%) Google
4 25 (3.17%) Databricks
4 25 (3.17%) OpenAI
5 20 (2.53%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.28%) Splunk
7 17 (2.15%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.77%) IBM
9 9 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.01%) Mistral
11 7 (0.89%) Pega
12 5 (0.63%) Dell
12 5 (0.63%) Informatica
12 5 (0.63%) Meraki
12 5 (0.63%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.51%) Netezza
13 4 (0.51%) Remedy
13 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.38%) New Relic