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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 245 149
Rank change year-on-year -11 -96 +46
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 844 628 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.27% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.60% 8.90% 11.44%
Number of salaries quoted 608 433 688
10th Percentile £43,930 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,750
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 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -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 8,790 7,059 11,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.45% 14.27% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,014 4,416 6,717
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £79,500 £80,000 £87,348
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -26 719 £70,000 -12.50% 1,020
UK excluding London -49 402 £65,000 - 465
Work from Home +28 397 £67,500 -25.00% 492
London -65 324 £82,500 -21.43% 656
South East -21 130 £67,500 - 101
North of England -20 127 £65,000 -3.70% 128
North West -13 58 £62,500 -7.41% 75
South West -59 51 £65,000 +25.00% 64
North East -35 41 £65,000 +26.83% 18
Midlands -40 41 £75,000 +5.26% 50
West Midlands -43 32 £84,387 +16.40% 35
East of England -23 30 £52,500 +72.13% 40
Yorkshire -27 28 £67,155 -4.06% 39
Wales -49 25 £64,500 +3.20% 20
Scotland -3 10 £65,000 -3.70% 44
East Midlands -32 9 £60,000 +20.00% 15
Northern Ireland -88 1 - - 21

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 27 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
1 27 (3.20%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.08%) Apache
3 25 (2.96%) Confluence
4 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.95%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.83%) Camunda
6 6 (0.71%) WordPress
7 4 (0.47%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.47%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.47%) nginx
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.36%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.36%) CMS
8 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.24%) Luigi
9 2 (0.24%) Tornado
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Finacle
2 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 500 (59.24%) AWS
2 292 (34.60%) Azure
3 153 (18.13%) GitHub
4 127 (15.05%) GCP
5 108 (12.80%) Serverless
6 86 (10.19%) SaaS
7 76 (9.00%) Amazon ECS
8 73 (8.65%) Amazon S3
9 71 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
10 64 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
11 57 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
12 56 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (5.81%) GitHub Copilot
15 44 (5.21%) Amazon SQS
16 34 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (3.79%) Azure AKS
18 31 (3.67%) Power Platform
19 29 (3.44%) Azure Service Bus
20 24 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.32%) Broadband
2 14 (1.66%) Firewall
2 14 (1.66%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.54%) SMS
4 12 (1.42%) AMQP
5 11 (1.30%) DNS
6 10 (1.18%) VPN
7 7 (0.83%) HTTP
8 6 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (0.71%) VLAN
9 5 (0.59%) BGP
9 5 (0.59%) DHCP
9 5 (0.59%) iSCSI
9 5 (0.59%) SAN
10 3 (0.36%) 4G
10 3 (0.36%) 5G
10 3 (0.36%) SSH
11 2 (0.24%) Network Security
11 2 (0.24%) OpenVPN
12 1 (0.12%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (24.64%) MongoDB
2 185 (21.92%) MySQL
3 148 (17.54%) Relational Database
4 141 (16.71%) SQL Server
5 107 (12.68%) Redis
6 103 (12.20%) NoSQL
7 55 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
8 46 (5.45%) DynamoDB
9 45 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
11 28 (3.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (2.73%) Power BI
13 20 (2.37%) Big Data
13 20 (2.37%) Metadata
14 18 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (2.13%) Data Lake
15 17 (2.01%) Oracle Database
16 16 (1.90%) GIS
17 15 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
17 15 (1.78%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 199 (23.58%) Git
2 80 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 64 (7.58%) GitLab
4 30 (3.55%) JIRA
5 28 (3.32%) Cypress.io
5 28 (3.32%) JUnit
6 24 (2.84%) TeamCity
7 21 (2.49%) Mockito
8 13 (1.54%) Claude Code
8 13 (1.54%) JMeter
9 12 (1.42%) Vite
10 11 (1.30%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.18%) Selenium
12 9 (1.07%) Maven
13 8 (0.95%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.83%) Mocha
14 7 (0.83%) RSpec
14 7 (0.83%) Storybook
15 6 (0.71%) Eclipse
16 5 (0.59%) Gatling
General
1 205 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 115 (13.63%) Public Sector
3 109 (12.91%) Finance
4 84 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (9.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (6.75%) Banking
7 53 (6.28%) Law
8 33 (3.91%) Retail
9 27 (3.20%) Games
10 23 (2.73%) Legal
11 21 (2.49%) Tech for Good
12 18 (2.13%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.78%) Health Technology
13 15 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.54%) Legal Technology
15 12 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.30%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.18%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.95%) Aviation
18 8 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 285 (33.77%) Developer
2 245 (29.03%) Senior
3 172 (20.38%) Software Engineer
4 115 (13.63%) Lead
5 85 (10.07%) Full-Stack Developer
6 68 (8.06%) Senior Software Engineer
7 67 (7.94%) Senior Developer
8 66 (7.82%) Python Engineer
9 58 (6.87%) Data Engineer
10 56 (6.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 53 (6.28%) Java Developer
12 49 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
13 46 (5.45%) Python Developer
13 46 (5.45%) Software Developer
14 43 (5.09%) Architect
15 34 (4.03%) Database Engineer
15 34 (4.03%) Lead Developer
16 33 (3.91%) Ruby Developer
17 32 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
17 32 (3.79%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (25.36%) React
2 207 (24.53%) Terraform
3 181 (21.45%) Node.js
4 155 (18.36%) RESTful
5 134 (15.88%) REST
6 118 (13.98%) Kafka
6 118 (13.98%) Spring
7 113 (13.39%) Spring Boot
8 84 (9.95%) .NET
9 75 (8.89%) CSS
10 68 (8.06%) Next.js
11 63 (7.46%) Ruby on Rails
12 62 (7.35%) HTML
13 59 (6.99%) FastAPI
14 53 (6.28%) RabbitMQ
15 50 (5.92%) AngularJS
15 50 (5.92%) Jest
16 47 (5.57%) JSON
17 41 (4.86%) JPA
18 40 (4.74%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 180 (21.33%) Cloud Native
2 132 (15.64%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.38%) Blog
5 31 (3.67%) AI Agents
6 30 (3.55%) Low-Code
7 29 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (3.32%) Replication
9 25 (2.96%) Video\Live Streaming
10 23 (2.73%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (2.49%) Virtual Team
13 18 (2.13%) Data Structures
14 17 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
15 16 (1.90%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.66%) Public Cloud
17 13 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
17 13 (1.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 121 (14.34%) Linux
2 40 (4.74%) Windows
3 20 (2.37%) Unix
4 15 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.71%) Android
6 6 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) AIX
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (49.53%) CI/CD
2 308 (36.49%) Software Engineering
3 302 (35.78%) Agile
4 249 (29.50%) AI
5 244 (28.91%) Microservices
6 232 (27.49%) DevOps
7 229 (27.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 199 (23.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 184 (21.80%) Observability
10 163 (19.31%) Mentoring
11 162 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
12 154 (18.25%) Test Automation
13 153 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 150 (17.77%) Containerisation
15 119 (14.10%) Clean Code
16 116 (13.74%) Event-Driven
17 104 (12.32%) Scrum
18 95 (11.26%) API Design
19 91 (10.78%) Analytics
20 89 (10.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 347 (41.11%) Python
2 246 (29.15%) SQL
3 222 (26.30%) Java
4 186 (22.04%) JavaScript
5 161 (19.08%) TypeScript
6 83 (9.83%) C#
7 67 (7.94%) Go
8 65 (7.70%) Ruby
9 49 (5.81%) Bash
10 27 (3.20%) PHP
11 26 (3.08%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.37%) Scala
13 17 (2.01%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.54%) C++
15 11 (1.30%) Groovy
16 10 (1.18%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.18%) RPG
17 6 (0.71%) Perl
18 5 (0.59%) Korn
19 4 (0.47%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 135 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 106 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 95 (11.26%) Degree
4 32 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.96%) Master's Degree
7 22 (2.61%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.07%) PhD
10 8 (0.95%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.47%) CISSP
12 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.24%) CCSP
14 2 (0.24%) CISM
14 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.70%) QA
2 57 (6.75%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.44%) GDPR
4 24 (2.84%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.07%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.59%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.24%) NIST
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 283 (33.53%) Docker
2 12 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Ceph
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Lustre
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.12%) Samba
6 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 241 (28.55%) Kubernetes
2 90 (10.66%) Grafana
3 66 (7.82%) Ansible
4 59 (6.99%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.27%) Argo
6 14 (1.66%) Kibana
7 12 (1.42%) Rancher
8 7 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.71%) Istio
9 6 (0.71%) logstash
9 6 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.71%) Puppet
10 5 (0.59%) Packer
11 4 (0.47%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.36%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.36%) Plesk
12 3 (0.36%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.36%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.24%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 89 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 75 (8.89%) Oracle
3 37 (4.38%) Google
4 31 (3.67%) Databricks
5 29 (3.44%) Dynatrace
6 27 (3.20%) OpenAI
7 25 (2.96%) Splunk
8 18 (2.13%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.66%) IBM
11 9 (1.07%) Mistral
12 8 (0.95%) Informatica
13 5 (0.59%) Dell
13 5 (0.59%) VMware
14 4 (0.47%) ESRI
14 4 (0.47%) Meraki
14 4 (0.47%) Netezza
14 4 (0.47%) Remedy
14 4 (0.47%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.47%) TIBCO