PostgreSQL Job Trends

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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 137 193
Rank change year-on-year -136 +56 -8
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 497 1,142 1,198
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 2.21% 1.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.51% 12.38% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 335 531 1,023
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,625 £51,483
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +10.61% +6.23%

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 6,622 9,222 14,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.36% 17.85% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,092 5,095 11,519
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -135 423 £75,000 -4.76% 309
London -71 239 £90,000 +2.86% 164
Work from Home -103 225 £70,000 - 190
UK excluding London -171 207 £62,500 -5.83% 197
North of England -32 75 £73,801 +6.48% 52
South East -128 44 £60,000 -25.00% 49
Yorkshire -4 36 £62,500 +23.90% 10
North West -16 31 £85,000 +21.43% 36
Midlands -14 30 £55,200 -15.08% 26
South West -58 25 £62,500 -3.85% 32
West Midlands +11 20 £55,200 -15.08% 15
East of England -40 15 £42,500 -26.09% 17
Scotland -42 15 £73,801 +22.49% 20
East Midlands -20 10 £60,100 +0.17% 11
North East -4 8 £55,200 -20.35% 7
Wales -28 5 £73,801 +13.54% 3
Northern Ireland -16 3 £73,801 +11.98%

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 33 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.22%) Confluence
3 16 (3.22%) WebSphere
4 15 (3.02%) Tomcat
5 14 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
6 13 (2.62%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.61%) ArcGIS
8 7 (1.41%) Apache
8 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (1.01%) nginx
10 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.80%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.60%) CMS
11 3 (0.60%) Luigi
11 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.60%) WildFly
12 2 (0.40%) Camunda
12 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 341 (68.61%) AWS
2 165 (33.20%) Azure
3 124 (24.95%) GCP
4 93 (18.71%) Serverless
5 66 (13.28%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (12.47%) Amazon S3
7 60 (12.07%) GitHub
8 56 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (9.05%) dbt
11 44 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (8.45%) SaaS
13 36 (7.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (7.24%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (7.24%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (5.23%) Amazon ECR
15 24 (4.83%) Power Platform
16 23 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (4.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 21 (4.23%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.43%) TCP/IP
2 16 (3.22%) SSL
3 11 (2.21%) VPN
4 10 (2.01%) Firewall
5 9 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.41%) DNS
6 7 (1.41%) Internet
6 7 (1.41%) Network Security
7 5 (1.01%) VLAN
8 4 (0.80%) DHCP
8 4 (0.80%) HTTP
9 3 (0.60%) MQTT
9 3 (0.60%) WAN
10 2 (0.40%) AMQP
10 2 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.40%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.40%) OSPF
10 2 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.40%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (24.75%) SQL Server
2 100 (20.12%) Relational Database
3 85 (17.10%) MongoDB
3 85 (17.10%) MySQL
4 68 (13.68%) NoSQL
5 44 (8.85%) Redis
6 37 (7.44%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
7 35 (7.04%) DB2
8 32 (6.44%) DynamoDB
8 32 (6.44%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (5.23%) RDBMS
10 22 (4.43%) Power BI
11 18 (3.62%) Apache Cassandra
11 18 (3.62%) Apache Iceberg
12 15 (3.02%) Apache Arrow
12 15 (3.02%) Hadoop
13 14 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (2.82%) Dremio
13 14 (2.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 107 (21.53%) Git
2 87 (17.51%) Jenkins
3 32 (6.44%) GitLab
3 32 (6.44%) JIRA
4 28 (5.63%) Cucumber
4 28 (5.63%) JUnit
5 26 (5.23%) Selenium
6 21 (4.23%) Bitbucket
7 18 (3.62%) Cypress.io
7 18 (3.62%) TeamCity
8 15 (3.02%) JMeter
9 14 (2.82%) Mockito
10 7 (1.41%) Vite
11 6 (1.21%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.01%) Maven
12 5 (1.01%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.01%) Subversion
13 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.60%) Gradle
14 3 (0.60%) TestRail
General
1 137 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 106 (21.33%) Finance
3 49 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.65%) Banking
5 32 (6.44%) Law
5 32 (6.44%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.82%) Retail
8 15 (3.02%) Front Office
9 11 (2.21%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.01%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.41%) Marketing
13 6 (1.21%) Tech for Good
14 5 (1.01%) Electronics
14 5 (1.01%) Legal
15 4 (0.80%) Back Office
15 4 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 176 (35.41%) Developer
2 96 (19.32%) Senior
3 76 (15.29%) Software Engineer
4 66 (13.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 55 (11.07%) Java Developer
6 48 (9.66%) Lead
7 30 (6.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 27 (5.43%) Python Developer
9 26 (5.23%) Data Engineer
10 25 (5.03%) Principal Engineer
11 23 (4.63%) Python Engineer
12 22 (4.43%) Architect
12 22 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (4.43%) Java Engineer
12 22 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (3.82%) AWS Developer
13 19 (3.82%) Linux Support
14 18 (3.62%) DBA
14 18 (3.62%) Python Software Engineer
14 18 (3.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (31.99%) React
2 103 (20.72%) Node.js
3 81 (16.30%) Spring
4 76 (15.29%) Spring Boot
5 68 (13.68%) REST
6 66 (13.28%) Django
7 65 (13.08%) RESTful
8 54 (10.87%) FastAPI
9 51 (10.26%) Kafka
10 50 (10.06%) HTML
11 48 (9.66%) AngularJS
12 46 (9.26%) .NET
13 43 (8.65%) CSS
14 37 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
15 36 (7.24%) Vue
16 30 (6.04%) Flask
17 28 (5.63%) Web Services
18 27 (5.43%) Next.js
19 25 (5.03%) .NET Core
20 22 (4.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 61 (12.27%) Distributed Systems
2 59 (11.87%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.23%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (4.83%) Product Ownership
5 22 (4.43%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.82%) Equities
7 14 (2.82%) Fixed Income
7 14 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.62%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.41%) Algorithms
9 12 (2.41%) Blog
10 11 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (2.21%) Replication
11 10 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.81%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.41%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.21%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 97 (19.52%) Linux
2 43 (8.65%) Unix
3 35 (7.04%) Windows
4 20 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.81%) Android
6 9 (1.81%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.80%) VMS
8 4 (0.80%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.60%) Debian
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.40%) CentOS
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (43.86%) CI/CD
2 180 (36.22%) Agile
3 152 (30.58%) Microservices
4 150 (30.18%) Software Engineering
5 140 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (27.36%) DevOps
7 120 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
8 90 (18.11%) Containerisation
9 82 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 76 (15.29%) AI
10 76 (15.29%) Test Automation
11 66 (13.28%) Fintech
12 60 (12.07%) Scrum
13 55 (11.07%) Clean Code
13 55 (11.07%) Mentoring
13 55 (11.07%) Technical Leadership
14 54 (10.87%) Data Modelling
14 54 (10.87%) TDD
15 51 (10.26%) ETL
16 46 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 237 (47.69%) Python
2 164 (33.00%) Java
3 155 (31.19%) SQL
4 137 (27.57%) JavaScript
5 104 (20.93%) TypeScript
6 43 (8.65%) C#
7 30 (6.04%) Go
8 21 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 18 (3.62%) PHP
9 18 (3.62%) Ruby
10 16 (3.22%) C
11 15 (3.02%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.01%) Delphi
12 10 (2.01%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.81%) Rust
14 6 (1.21%) Bash
14 6 (1.21%) C++
15 4 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.60%) Perl
16 3 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 88 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 68 (13.68%) Degree
3 59 (11.87%) SC Cleared
4 31 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (6.04%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.02%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.41%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.41%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.40%) CCNP
12 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.40%) HNC
12 2 (0.40%) HND
12 2 (0.40%) MCSA
12 2 (0.40%) MCSE
12 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.02%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.82%) SLA
3 18 (3.62%) QA
4 14 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.62%) GDPR
6 9 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.60%) SEPA
8 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.40%) PSD2
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) GAAP
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 187 (37.63%) Docker
2 9 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.40%) DFS Replication
4 2 (0.40%) Dovecot
4 2 (0.40%) NFS
4 2 (0.40%) pfSense
4 2 (0.40%) Postfix
4 2 (0.40%) Samba
4 2 (0.40%) Squid
Systems Management
1 167 (33.60%) Kubernetes
2 106 (21.33%) Terraform
3 41 (8.25%) Ansible
4 31 (6.24%) Grafana
5 16 (3.22%) Kibana
6 15 (3.02%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.41%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (2.21%) Argo
9 6 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.01%) Puppet
11 4 (0.80%) Control-M
11 4 (0.80%) Nagios
12 3 (0.60%) Rancher
13 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
13 2 (0.40%) Nessus
13 2 (0.40%) Proxmox
14 1 (0.20%) Ambari
14 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (15.49%) Oracle
2 35 (7.04%) Google
3 26 (5.23%) Microsoft
4 25 (5.03%) Red Hat
5 20 (4.02%) IBM
6 19 (3.82%) Informatica
7 16 (3.22%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.62%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.62%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.62%) Splunk
8 13 (2.62%) Talend
9 10 (2.01%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.61%) ESRI
11 7 (1.41%) SAP
12 5 (1.01%) VMware
13 4 (0.80%) Dell
13 4 (0.80%) Pega
13 4 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.80%) WSO2
14 3 (0.60%) RedGate