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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 231 155
Rank change year-on-year -37 -76 +43
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 794 657 1,344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.32% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.90% 9.10% 11.09%
Number of salaries quoted 586 458 726
10th Percentile £43,840 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
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 8,924 7,223 12,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.93% 14.57% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,046 4,540 7,276
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
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 £52,837
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.20% -3.93%

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 9 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 9 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 -51 668 £69,655 -7.13% 895
UK excluding London -45 388 £65,000 +4.00% 349
Work from Home +13 382 £67,500 -25.00% 1,975
London -83 292 £85,000 -19.05% 640
South East -5 123 £65,000 - 85
North of England -20 121 £65,000 -3.70% 80
North West -2 57 £65,000 -3.70% 50
South West -52 51 £65,000 +30.00% 59
North East -34 39 £65,000 +26.83% 10
Midlands -55 33 £75,000 +7.14% 36
East of England -35 29 £52,500 +72.13% 26
Yorkshire -45 25 £69,310 -0.99% 21
West Midlands -40 24 £83,774 +15.55% 25
Wales -50 23 £65,000 -16.13% 10
Scotland -1 18 £65,000 -3.70% 35
East Midlands -33 9 £60,000 +9.09% 10

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 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (3.40%) Apache
2 27 (3.40%) Apache Spark
3 26 (3.27%) Confluence
4 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.88%) Camunda
6 7 (0.88%) SharePoint
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%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
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
1 454 (57.18%) AWS
2 272 (34.26%) Azure
3 134 (16.88%) GitHub
4 110 (13.85%) GCP
5 100 (12.59%) Serverless
6 80 (10.08%) SaaS
7 74 (9.32%) Amazon S3
8 70 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
9 57 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
11 55 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
13 46 (5.79%) Amazon SQS
14 43 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
15 41 (5.16%) GitHub Copilot
16 34 (4.28%) Power Platform
17 30 (3.78%) Azure AKS
18 29 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
19 21 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.28%) Broadband
2 12 (1.51%) Firewall
3 11 (1.39%) SMS
4 10 (1.26%) AMQP
4 10 (1.26%) DNS
5 7 (0.88%) HTTP
5 7 (0.88%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.63%) DHCP
6 5 (0.63%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.63%) SAN
7 3 (0.38%) 4G
7 3 (0.38%) 5G
7 3 (0.38%) SSH
7 3 (0.38%) VLAN
8 2 (0.25%) MQTT
8 2 (0.25%) VPN
9 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.13%) Multicast
9 1 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (26.07%) MongoDB
2 186 (23.43%) MySQL
3 139 (17.51%) Relational Database
4 132 (16.62%) SQL Server
5 102 (12.85%) NoSQL
6 90 (11.34%) Redis
7 45 (5.67%) DynamoDB
8 38 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
9 36 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (3.15%) Power BI
12 20 (2.52%) Big Data
12 20 (2.52%) Metadata
13 19 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (1.89%) GIS
15 15 (1.89%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.89%) Pinecone
16 14 (1.76%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 185 (23.30%) Git
2 67 (8.44%) Jenkins
3 59 (7.43%) GitLab
4 31 (3.90%) JIRA
5 29 (3.65%) Cypress.io
5 29 (3.65%) JUnit
6 23 (2.90%) Mockito
7 13 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.51%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.39%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.39%) Vite
10 10 (1.26%) JMeter
11 9 (1.13%) Maven
11 9 (1.13%) Selenium
12 8 (1.01%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.88%) Mocha
13 7 (0.88%) RSpec
14 6 (0.76%) Storybook
15 5 (0.63%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.63%) Gatling
General
1 189 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 107 (13.48%) Public Sector
3 96 (12.09%) Finance
4 74 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (4.91%) Law
7 37 (4.66%) Banking
8 34 (4.28%) Games
9 24 (3.02%) Legal
10 20 (2.52%) Retail
11 18 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.27%) Tech for Good
12 16 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.89%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.76%) Health Technology
15 13 (1.64%) Legal Technology
16 12 (1.51%) Aerospace
17 10 (1.26%) Advertising
18 9 (1.13%) Aviation
19 8 (1.01%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 277 (34.89%) Developer
2 221 (27.83%) Senior
3 153 (19.27%) Software Engineer
4 119 (14.99%) Lead
5 88 (11.08%) Full-Stack Developer
6 65 (8.19%) Python Engineer
7 62 (7.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 58 (7.30%) Senior Developer
9 57 (7.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 56 (7.05%) Data Engineer
11 49 (6.17%) Java Developer
12 48 (6.05%) Architect
13 47 (5.92%) Python Developer
14 43 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (4.66%) Software Developer
16 35 (4.41%) Lead Developer
17 34 (4.28%) Ruby Developer
18 29 (3.65%) Database Engineer
19 28 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
20 27 (3.40%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (25.82%) React
2 181 (22.80%) Terraform
3 177 (22.29%) Node.js
4 150 (18.89%) RESTful
5 125 (15.74%) REST
6 110 (13.85%) Spring
7 107 (13.48%) Kafka
8 106 (13.35%) Spring Boot
9 78 (9.82%) CSS
10 75 (9.45%) .NET
11 67 (8.44%) Ruby on Rails
12 66 (8.31%) Next.js
13 65 (8.19%) HTML
14 57 (7.18%) FastAPI
15 49 (6.17%) AngularJS
15 49 (6.17%) Jest
15 49 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
16 48 (6.05%) JSON
17 40 (5.04%) JPA
18 37 (4.66%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 167 (21.03%) Cloud Native
2 112 (14.11%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.53%) Low-Code
5 31 (3.90%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.90%) Video\Live Streaming
6 27 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.64%) Replication
8 21 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (2.39%) Algorithms
9 19 (2.39%) Blog
10 17 (2.14%) Data Structures
10 17 (2.14%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.64%) IoT
12 12 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (14.23%) Linux
2 37 (4.66%) Windows
3 17 (2.14%) Unix
4 15 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.88%) 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 5 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Debian
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (47.73%) CI/CD
2 287 (36.15%) Agile
3 283 (35.64%) Software Engineering
4 233 (29.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 231 (29.09%) Microservices
6 226 (28.46%) AI
7 217 (27.33%) DevOps
8 188 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 161 (20.28%) Observability
10 155 (19.52%) Mentoring
11 146 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 144 (18.14%) Containerisation
12 144 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
13 135 (17.00%) Test Automation
14 106 (13.35%) API Design
15 103 (12.97%) Clean Code
16 102 (12.85%) Event-Driven
17 98 (12.34%) Scrum
18 92 (11.59%) Data Modelling
19 87 (10.96%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 326 (41.06%) Python
2 223 (28.09%) SQL
3 199 (25.06%) Java
4 182 (22.92%) JavaScript
5 154 (19.40%) TypeScript
6 77 (9.70%) C#
7 69 (8.69%) Ruby
8 63 (7.93%) Go
9 38 (4.79%) Bash
10 27 (3.40%) PowerShell
11 22 (2.77%) PHP
12 20 (2.52%) Scala
13 15 (1.89%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.76%) C++
15 10 (1.26%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.26%) RPG
16 7 (0.88%) Perl
17 5 (0.63%) Korn
18 4 (0.50%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 119 (14.99%) Security Cleared
2 96 (12.09%) Degree
3 87 (10.96%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.15%) Master's Degree
6 23 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.64%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.01%) PhD
10 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.25%) CISSP
12 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.19%) QA
2 59 (7.43%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.78%) GDPR
4 22 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.63%) WCAG
7 4 (0.50%) SLA
7 4 (0.50%) 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
1 249 (31.36%) Docker
2 13 (1.64%) 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
1 216 (27.20%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.81%) Ansible
3 60 (7.56%) Grafana
4 41 (5.16%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.03%) Argo
6 10 (1.26%) Kibana
7 7 (0.88%) 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 (0.50%) 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%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 78 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.19%) Oracle
3 34 (4.28%) Google
4 26 (3.27%) Databricks
5 25 (3.15%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.52%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.52%) Splunk
7 17 (2.14%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.76%) IBM
9 9 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.01%) Mistral
11 7 (0.88%) Pega
12 6 (0.76%) Informatica
13 5 (0.63%) Dell
13 5 (0.63%) Meraki
13 5 (0.63%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.50%) Netezza
14 4 (0.50%) Remedy
14 4 (0.50%) TIBCO
15 3 (0.38%) New Relic