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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 238 152
Rank change year-on-year -36 -86 +49
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 788 646 1,353
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.31% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.92% 8.97% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 574 448 717
10th Percentile £43,804 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,813 £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 £99,250 £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 8,831 7,205 11,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.74% 14.60% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,999 4,532 7,129
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 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -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 16 September 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 16 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 -52 662 £69,655 -12.93% 1,327
UK excluding London -45 383 £65,000 +4.00% 510
Work from Home +15 372 £67,500 -25.00% 619
London -77 290 £85,000 -19.05% 922
South East -26 122 £65,000 -3.70% 118
North of England -22 121 £65,000 -3.70% 125
North West -4 57 £63,750 -5.56% 71
South West -55 49 £65,000 +20.93% 71
North East -33 39 £65,000 +26.83% 17
Midlands -30 36 £75,000 +5.26% 58
East of England -33 27 £52,500 +72.13% 43
West Midlands -42 27 £83,774 +15.55% 42
Yorkshire -32 25 £69,310 -0.99% 39
Wales -53 24 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Scotland -7 14 £65,000 -3.70% 55
East Midlands -28 9 £60,000 +33.33% 16
Northern Ireland -78 1 - - 31

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 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.17%) Apache
3 25 (3.17%) Confluence
4 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.89%) Camunda
5 7 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.76%) WordPress
7 5 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.51%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Tornado
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.40%) 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
1 460 (58.38%) AWS
2 275 (34.90%) Azure
3 139 (17.64%) GitHub
4 111 (14.09%) GCP
5 99 (12.56%) Serverless
6 75 (9.52%) SaaS
7 73 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
8 71 (9.01%) Amazon S3
9 60 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
11 55 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
12 51 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (5.58%) GitHub Copilot
14 43 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (4.06%) Power Platform
16 31 (3.93%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (2.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.68%) Broadband
2 12 (1.52%) Firewall
3 11 (1.40%) SMS
4 10 (1.27%) AMQP
4 10 (1.27%) DNS
4 10 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.89%) HTTP
6 5 (0.63%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.63%) SAN
7 4 (0.51%) DHCP
8 3 (0.38%) 4G
8 3 (0.38%) 5G
8 3 (0.38%) SSH
8 3 (0.38%) VLAN
8 3 (0.38%) VPN
9 2 (0.25%) MQTT
10 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.13%) Multicast
10 1 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (25.76%) MongoDB
2 180 (22.84%) MySQL
3 136 (17.26%) Relational Database
4 129 (16.37%) SQL Server
5 98 (12.44%) NoSQL
6 96 (12.18%) Redis
7 44 (5.58%) DynamoDB
8 42 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
8 42 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (3.05%) Power BI
11 21 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
12 20 (2.54%) Big Data
13 19 (2.41%) Metadata
14 16 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (2.03%) GIS
14 16 (2.03%) Pinecone
15 15 (1.90%) Data Lake
15 15 (1.90%) Oracle Database
16 14 (1.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 188 (23.86%) Git
2 71 (9.01%) Jenkins
3 60 (7.61%) GitLab
4 31 (3.93%) JIRA
5 28 (3.55%) Cypress.io
5 28 (3.55%) JUnit
6 21 (2.66%) Mockito
7 17 (2.16%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.52%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.52%) JMeter
8 12 (1.52%) Vite
9 11 (1.40%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.27%) Selenium
11 8 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.02%) Maven
12 7 (0.89%) Mocha
12 7 (0.89%) RSpec
13 6 (0.76%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.76%) Storybook
14 5 (0.63%) Gatling
General
1 189 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 110 (13.96%) Public Sector
3 94 (11.93%) Finance
4 74 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (8.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (5.96%) Banking
7 46 (5.84%) Law
8 28 (3.55%) Games
9 27 (3.43%) Retail
10 25 (3.17%) Legal
11 18 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.28%) Tech for Good
12 15 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.78%) Health Technology
13 14 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.65%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.65%) Legal Technology
15 9 (1.14%) Advertising
15 9 (1.14%) Aviation
16 8 (1.02%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 276 (35.03%) Developer
2 223 (28.30%) Senior
3 152 (19.29%) Software Engineer
4 115 (14.59%) Lead
5 87 (11.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 63 (7.99%) Senior Software Engineer
7 62 (7.87%) Python Engineer
8 60 (7.61%) Senior Developer
9 56 (7.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 55 (6.98%) Data Engineer
11 48 (6.09%) Java Developer
11 48 (6.09%) Python Developer
12 45 (5.71%) Architect
13 44 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
14 42 (5.33%) Software Developer
15 35 (4.44%) Lead Developer
16 33 (4.19%) Database Engineer
16 33 (4.19%) Ruby Developer
17 27 (3.43%) Java Engineer
17 27 (3.43%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (25.25%) React
2 189 (23.98%) Terraform
3 173 (21.95%) Node.js
4 145 (18.40%) RESTful
5 121 (15.36%) REST
6 109 (13.83%) Kafka
6 109 (13.83%) Spring
7 105 (13.32%) Spring Boot
8 75 (9.52%) .NET
9 73 (9.26%) CSS
10 65 (8.25%) Next.js
10 65 (8.25%) Ruby on Rails
11 61 (7.74%) HTML
12 54 (6.85%) FastAPI
13 50 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
14 49 (6.22%) Jest
15 47 (5.96%) AngularJS
16 44 (5.58%) JSON
17 38 (4.82%) JPA
18 37 (4.70%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 169 (21.45%) Cloud Native
2 119 (15.10%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.93%) AI Agents
4 31 (3.93%) Low-Code
5 28 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (3.43%) Blog
7 26 (3.30%) Replication
7 26 (3.30%) Video\Live Streaming
8 23 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (2.79%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.41%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.90%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.90%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.78%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 118 (14.97%) Linux
2 37 (4.70%) Windows
3 19 (2.41%) 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%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) CentOS
7 1 (0.13%) Debian
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (48.86%) CI/CD
2 288 (36.55%) Agile
3 281 (35.66%) Software Engineering
4 231 (29.31%) Microservices
5 227 (28.81%) AI
6 219 (27.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 215 (27.28%) DevOps
8 187 (23.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 166 (21.07%) Observability
10 154 (19.54%) Mentoring
11 147 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
12 145 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 144 (18.27%) Containerisation
14 137 (17.39%) Test Automation
15 109 (13.83%) Clean Code
16 104 (13.20%) Event-Driven
17 99 (12.56%) Scrum
18 96 (12.18%) API Design
19 86 (10.91%) Data Modelling
20 81 (10.28%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 321 (40.74%) Python
2 223 (28.30%) SQL
3 202 (25.63%) Java
4 179 (22.72%) JavaScript
5 153 (19.42%) TypeScript
6 77 (9.77%) C#
7 67 (8.50%) Ruby
8 59 (7.49%) Go
9 42 (5.33%) Bash
10 27 (3.43%) PowerShell
11 21 (2.66%) PHP
12 20 (2.54%) Scala
13 16 (2.03%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.65%) C++
15 10 (1.27%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.27%) RPG
16 6 (0.76%) Groovy
16 6 (0.76%) Perl
17 5 (0.63%) Korn
18 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 94 (11.93%) Degree
2 94 (11.93%) SC Cleared
3 31 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (3.05%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.79%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.02%) PhD
9 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.25%) CISSP
11 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.13%) RHCE
12 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.87%) QA
2 56 (7.11%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.55%) GDPR
4 22 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.63%) WCAG
7 4 (0.51%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) NCSC
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 255 (32.36%) Docker
2 11 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 220 (27.92%) Kubernetes
2 71 (9.01%) Grafana
3 64 (8.12%) Ansible
4 48 (6.09%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.19%) Argo
6 12 (1.52%) Kibana
7 9 (1.14%) Rancher
8 7 (0.89%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.76%) Istio
9 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.76%) Puppet
10 5 (0.63%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.63%) logstash
10 5 (0.63%) Packer
11 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.38%) Plesk
11 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.25%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 81 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.39%) Oracle
3 29 (3.68%) Google
4 26 (3.30%) Databricks
4 26 (3.30%) OpenAI
5 24 (3.05%) Dynatrace
5 24 (3.05%) Splunk
6 18 (2.28%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.78%) IBM
8 11 (1.40%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.14%) Mistral
10 7 (0.89%) Informatica
11 5 (0.63%) Dell
11 5 (0.63%) Meraki
12 4 (0.51%) ESRI
12 4 (0.51%) Netezza
12 4 (0.51%) Remedy
12 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.51%) VMware
13 3 (0.38%) Atlassian