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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 228 172
Rank change year-on-year -41 -56 +33
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 722 716 1,555
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.46% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.36% 9.45% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 560 526 1,027
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,403 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,500 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -7.71%

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 8,633 7,573 15,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.69% 15.44% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,787 4,892 11,118
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,875 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +3.18% -5.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £105,000
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 18 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 18 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 -60 624 £69,310 -7.59% 211
Work from Home +30 375 £67,500 -10.00% 98
UK excluding London -64 364 £62,500 -3.85% 138
London -71 263 £85,000 -17.87% 118
South East -13 121 £59,750 +8.64% 42
North of England -31 121 £65,000 -3.70% 35
North West -11 52 £65,000 -3.70% 20
South West -43 46 £62,500 +4.17% 16
North East -28 36 £60,000 +14.29% 6
Yorkshire -28 33 £65,000 -3.70% 9
East of England -17 27 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Midlands -50 23 £75,000 +11.11% 16
West Midlands -33 19 £80,000 +18.41% 8
Scotland -6 16 £65,000 -3.70% 12
Wales -55 13 £70,000 -9.68% 5
East Midlands -21 4 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Northern Ireland -67 1 £73,801 +34.18% 4

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 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.19%) Apache
3 23 (3.19%) Confluence
4 21 (2.91%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.83%) WordPress
7 5 (0.69%) Camunda
7 5 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 421 (58.31%) AWS
2 280 (38.78%) Azure
3 130 (18.01%) GCP
4 92 (12.74%) Serverless
5 87 (12.05%) GitHub
6 68 (9.42%) Amazon S3
7 65 (9.00%) SaaS
8 60 (8.31%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
12 44 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
13 42 (5.82%) Amazon SQS
13 42 (5.82%) Power Platform
14 32 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (3.74%) Azure AKS
15 27 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
16 22 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (2.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.85%) Broadband
2 15 (2.08%) Firewall
3 13 (1.80%) DNS
4 12 (1.66%) DHCP
4 12 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.11%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.11%) SAN
5 8 (1.11%) VPN
6 4 (0.55%) Network Security
6 4 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.42%) HTTP
8 2 (0.28%) MQTT
8 2 (0.28%) PBX
8 2 (0.28%) SMS
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) AMQP
9 1 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.14%) LTE
9 1 (0.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (27.70%) MongoDB
2 179 (24.79%) MySQL
3 117 (16.20%) SQL Server
4 111 (15.37%) Relational Database
5 107 (14.82%) NoSQL
6 78 (10.80%) Redis
7 34 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (4.43%) Power BI
9 31 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (4.16%) DynamoDB
11 21 (2.91%) Metadata
12 20 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (2.63%) Big Data
14 18 (2.49%) Apache Cassandra
15 16 (2.22%) Oracle Database
16 15 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (1.94%) Data Lake
17 14 (1.94%) DTS
17 14 (1.94%) GIS
Development Applications
1 138 (19.11%) Git
2 50 (6.93%) Jenkins
3 48 (6.65%) GitLab
4 32 (4.43%) JIRA
5 24 (3.32%) JUnit
6 22 (3.05%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.77%) Mockito
8 14 (1.94%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.80%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.39%) JMeter
10 10 (1.39%) Vite
11 9 (1.25%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.11%) Maven
13 6 (0.83%) Selenium
14 5 (0.69%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.69%) Gatling
15 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 3 (0.42%) Eclipse
16 3 (0.42%) Mocha
16 3 (0.42%) RSpec
General
1 154 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 99 (13.71%) Public Sector
3 97 (13.43%) Finance
4 65 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (4.71%) Games
7 28 (3.88%) Law
8 27 (3.74%) Banking
8 27 (3.74%) Retail
9 19 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.49%) Legal
10 18 (2.49%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.22%) Front Office
12 15 (2.08%) Advertising
13 11 (1.52%) Legal Technology
14 10 (1.39%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.11%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.11%) Aviation
16 7 (0.97%) Automotive
16 7 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 243 (33.66%) Developer
2 164 (22.71%) Senior
3 139 (19.25%) Software Engineer
4 128 (17.73%) Lead
5 82 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 62 (8.59%) Python Engineer
7 51 (7.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 50 (6.93%) Lead Developer
9 48 (6.65%) Python Developer
10 46 (6.37%) Architect
10 46 (6.37%) Data Engineer
11 42 (5.82%) Lead Software Engineer
12 40 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
13 38 (5.26%) Java Developer
14 35 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
15 32 (4.43%) Java Engineer
15 32 (4.43%) Senior Developer
15 32 (4.43%) Software Developer
16 27 (3.74%) Ruby Developer
17 22 (3.05%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (25.62%) React
2 173 (23.96%) Node.js
3 140 (19.39%) RESTful
4 96 (13.30%) REST
5 88 (12.19%) Spring
6 85 (11.77%) Spring Boot
7 75 (10.39%) Kafka
8 60 (8.31%) FastAPI
9 58 (8.03%) CSS
10 54 (7.48%) Ruby on Rails
11 53 (7.34%) Next.js
12 52 (7.20%) HTML
13 51 (7.06%) JSON
14 49 (6.79%) .NET
15 37 (5.12%) AngularJS
16 35 (4.85%) Django
17 34 (4.71%) Jest
18 31 (4.29%) Vue
19 27 (3.74%) Flask
19 27 (3.74%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 153 (21.19%) Cloud Native
2 90 (12.47%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.40%) Low-Code
4 33 (4.57%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.43%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.43%) Video\Live Streaming
6 27 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (3.19%) Data Structures
8 22 (3.05%) Blog
9 21 (2.91%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.91%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.49%) Replication
11 16 (2.22%) Derivative
11 16 (2.22%) Equities
11 16 (2.22%) Fixed Income
12 15 (2.08%) Management Information System
12 15 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.66%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 105 (14.54%) Linux
2 42 (5.82%) Windows
3 21 (2.91%) Unix
4 16 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.42%) CentOS
8 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) AIX
9 1 (0.14%) Debian
9 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (44.32%) CI/CD
2 262 (36.29%) Agile
3 247 (34.21%) Software Engineering
4 216 (29.92%) Microservices
5 206 (28.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 186 (25.76%) DevOps
7 178 (24.65%) AI
8 162 (22.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 155 (21.47%) Mentoring
10 136 (18.84%) Containerisation
11 127 (17.59%) Test Automation
12 124 (17.17%) Observability
13 118 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 118 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
14 92 (12.74%) API Design
15 87 (12.05%) Analytics
15 87 (12.05%) Data Modelling
16 82 (11.36%) Clean Code
17 78 (10.80%) Scrum
18 77 (10.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 317 (43.91%) Python
2 212 (29.36%) SQL
3 199 (27.56%) Java
4 164 (22.71%) JavaScript
5 132 (18.28%) TypeScript
6 57 (7.89%) Ruby
7 56 (7.76%) C#
8 54 (7.48%) Go
9 42 (5.82%) PowerShell
10 36 (4.99%) Bash
11 25 (3.46%) PHP
12 17 (2.35%) Scala
13 15 (2.08%) C++
14 12 (1.66%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.66%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.39%) RPG
16 8 (1.11%) Perl
17 6 (0.83%) Korn
18 5 (0.69%) C
18 5 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 102 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 80 (11.08%) Degree
3 69 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.77%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.69%) PhD
11 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.42%) RHCE
13 2 (0.28%) CISSP
13 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.28%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.28%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.26%) QA
3 23 (3.19%) GDPR
4 16 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.55%) WCAG
7 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.42%) SLA
8 2 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.28%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 206 (28.53%) Docker
2 27 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.28%) Samba
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 193 (26.73%) Kubernetes
2 152 (21.05%) Terraform
3 40 (5.54%) Ansible
4 38 (5.26%) Grafana
5 29 (4.02%) Argo
6 25 (3.46%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.39%) Kibana
8 7 (0.97%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.97%) Puppet
9 6 (0.83%) Istio
9 6 (0.83%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.55%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.42%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.42%) Packer
12 3 (0.42%) Plesk
12 3 (0.42%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 78 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.97%) Oracle
3 45 (6.23%) Google
4 23 (3.19%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.49%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.35%) Databricks
6 17 (2.35%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.80%) IBM
7 13 (1.80%) Splunk
8 8 (1.11%) Dell
8 8 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.97%) Pega
10 6 (0.83%) Informatica
11 5 (0.69%) Meraki
11 5 (0.69%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.55%) Confluent
12 4 (0.55%) Netezza
12 4 (0.55%) Remedy
13 3 (0.42%) ESRI
13 3 (0.42%) Revolut