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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 223 173
Rank change year-on-year -58 -50 +28
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 682 724 1,641
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.52% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.08% 9.59% 9.59%
Number of salaries quoted 519 527 1,102
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +22.45% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,750 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 8,439 7,548 17,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 15.85% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,590 4,887 12,141
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -66 583 £69,310 -7.59% 339
Work from Home +30 359 £69,305 -7.59% 183
UK excluding London -69 344 £65,000 - 173
London -88 240 £85,000 -14.14% 205
North of England -11 118 £65,000 -3.70% 39
South East -22 118 £59,500 +8.18% 50
North West -24 53 £67,500 - 22
South West -55 43 £62,500 +2.04% 23
Yorkshire -18 34 £65,000 -3.70% 8
North East -23 31 £65,000 +25.30% 9
East of England -28 23 £50,000 +58.73% 15
Midlands -51 18 £75,000 +11.11% 27
Scotland -6 17 £66,250 - 13
West Midlands -43 14 £77,500 +14.81% 17
Wales -56 8 £70,000 -9.68% 3
East Midlands -26 4 £65,000 +18.18% 10
Northern Ireland -54 1 £73,801 +34.18% 5

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 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.37%) Apache
4 20 (2.93%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.93%) Confluence
5 12 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.88%) WordPress
7 5 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.59%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.44%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.29%) Camunda
10 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (1.76%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 403 (59.09%) AWS
2 260 (38.12%) Azure
3 121 (17.74%) GCP
4 96 (14.08%) Serverless
5 79 (11.58%) GitHub
6 65 (9.53%) Amazon S3
6 65 (9.53%) SaaS
7 59 (8.65%) Amazon ECS
8 51 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (6.16%) Power Platform
12 40 (5.87%) Amazon SQS
13 34 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
14 28 (4.11%) Azure AKS
14 28 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.96%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (2.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.13%) Broadband
2 17 (2.49%) Firewall
3 15 (2.20%) DNS
3 15 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.05%) DHCP
5 10 (1.47%) VPN
6 8 (1.17%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.17%) SAN
7 6 (0.88%) Network Security
7 6 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.59%) VLAN
9 3 (0.44%) HTTP
10 2 (0.29%) Internet
10 2 (0.29%) LAN
10 2 (0.29%) MQTT
10 2 (0.29%) PBX
10 2 (0.29%) WAN
11 1 (0.15%) Multicast
11 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (29.03%) MongoDB
2 163 (23.90%) MySQL
3 111 (16.28%) SQL Server
4 104 (15.25%) Relational Database
5 101 (14.81%) NoSQL
6 61 (8.94%) Redis
7 33 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (4.69%) Power BI
9 29 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (3.81%) DynamoDB
12 18 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (2.64%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (2.49%) Metadata
13 17 (2.49%) Oracle Database
14 16 (2.35%) GIS
15 14 (2.05%) Pinecone
16 13 (1.91%) Big Data
16 13 (1.91%) DTS
16 13 (1.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 128 (18.77%) Git
2 50 (7.33%) Jenkins
3 45 (6.60%) GitLab
4 30 (4.40%) JIRA
5 23 (3.37%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.23%) JUnit
7 18 (2.64%) Mockito
8 14 (2.05%) Bitbucket
8 14 (2.05%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.47%) JMeter
10 9 (1.32%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.32%) Maven
10 9 (1.32%) Vite
11 6 (0.88%) Selenium
12 5 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.73%) Gatling
13 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.59%) Storybook
14 3 (0.44%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.44%) Mocha
General
1 150 (21.99%) Social Skills
2 96 (14.08%) Finance
3 92 (13.49%) Public Sector
4 61 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (4.99%) Games
7 30 (4.40%) Retail
8 28 (4.11%) Law
9 27 (3.96%) Banking
10 20 (2.93%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.49%) Legal
13 16 (2.35%) Front Office
14 15 (2.20%) Advertising
15 10 (1.47%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.47%) Legal Technology
15 10 (1.47%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.17%) Aviation
17 7 (1.03%) Automotive
18 5 (0.73%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 227 (33.28%) Developer
2 143 (20.97%) Senior
3 131 (19.21%) Software Engineer
4 118 (17.30%) Lead
5 80 (11.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 54 (7.92%) Python Engineer
7 49 (7.18%) Lead Developer
8 46 (6.74%) Architect
8 46 (6.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 43 (6.30%) Data Engineer
10 42 (6.16%) Python Developer
11 40 (5.87%) DevOps Engineer
11 40 (5.87%) Lead Software Engineer
12 39 (5.72%) Java Developer
13 35 (5.13%) Java Engineer
14 29 (4.25%) Senior Software Engineer
14 29 (4.25%) Software Developer
15 28 (4.11%) Senior Developer
16 22 (3.23%) Ruby Developer
17 21 (3.08%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (26.25%) React
2 168 (24.63%) Node.js
3 129 (18.91%) RESTful
4 86 (12.61%) REST
5 83 (12.17%) Spring
6 80 (11.73%) Spring Boot
7 68 (9.97%) Kafka
8 54 (7.92%) FastAPI
9 53 (7.77%) CSS
10 50 (7.33%) Ruby on Rails
11 49 (7.18%) JSON
12 48 (7.04%) .NET
13 47 (6.89%) HTML
14 44 (6.45%) Next.js
15 38 (5.57%) AngularJS
16 33 (4.84%) Jest
17 32 (4.69%) Django
18 28 (4.11%) Vue
19 25 (3.67%) Redux
20 24 (3.52%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 148 (21.70%) Cloud Native
2 77 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (5.43%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.69%) Video\Live Streaming
5 27 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.81%) Onboarding
7 24 (3.52%) Data Structures
7 24 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (3.37%) Blog
9 21 (3.08%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.64%) Replication
11 16 (2.35%) AI Agents
11 16 (2.35%) Derivative
11 16 (2.35%) Equities
11 16 (2.35%) Fixed Income
11 16 (2.35%) Management Information System
12 14 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.61%) SCADA
15 10 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 102 (14.96%) Linux
2 45 (6.60%) Windows
3 22 (3.23%) Unix
4 19 (2.79%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.44%) CentOS
8 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) AIX
10 1 (0.15%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (42.96%) CI/CD
2 246 (36.07%) Agile
3 232 (34.02%) Software Engineering
4 207 (30.35%) Microservices
5 197 (28.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 171 (25.07%) DevOps
7 156 (22.87%) AI
8 155 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 143 (20.97%) Mentoring
10 126 (18.48%) Containerisation
10 126 (18.48%) Test Automation
11 112 (16.42%) Observability
12 111 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
13 109 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 85 (12.46%) Data Modelling
15 81 (11.88%) Analytics
15 81 (11.88%) API Design
16 76 (11.14%) Scrum
17 73 (10.70%) TDD
18 72 (10.56%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 294 (43.11%) Python
2 198 (29.03%) SQL
3 197 (28.89%) Java
4 161 (23.61%) JavaScript
5 133 (19.50%) TypeScript
6 55 (8.06%) Go
7 54 (7.92%) C#
8 53 (7.77%) Ruby
9 44 (6.45%) PowerShell
10 36 (5.28%) Bash
11 26 (3.81%) PHP
12 15 (2.20%) C++
13 14 (2.05%) Scala
14 12 (1.76%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.76%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.47%) Perl
16 9 (1.32%) RPG
17 8 (1.17%) C
18 7 (1.03%) Korn
19 6 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 79 (11.58%) Degree
3 67 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.64%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.73%) PhD
11 4 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.44%) RHCE
13 2 (0.29%) CISSP
13 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.29%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.29%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.84%) QA
3 23 (3.37%) GDPR
4 17 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.59%) WCAG
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.44%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.29%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 193 (28.30%) Docker
2 29 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.29%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 191 (28.01%) Kubernetes
2 144 (21.11%) Terraform
3 40 (5.87%) Ansible
4 38 (5.57%) Grafana
5 31 (4.55%) Argo
6 23 (3.37%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.47%) Kibana
8 7 (1.03%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.03%) Puppet
9 6 (0.88%) Istio
9 6 (0.88%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.59%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.44%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.44%) Packer
12 3 (0.44%) Plesk
12 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.44%) Rancher
12 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 74 (10.85%) Oracle
3 36 (5.28%) Google
4 20 (2.93%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.79%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.49%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.20%) Databricks
8 12 (1.76%) Splunk
9 11 (1.61%) IBM
10 8 (1.17%) Dell
10 8 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.03%) Pega
12 5 (0.73%) Informatica
12 5 (0.73%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.73%) VMware
13 4 (0.59%) Confluent
13 4 (0.59%) ESRI
13 4 (0.59%) Netezza
13 4 (0.59%) Remedy
14 3 (0.44%) Meraki