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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 224 154
Rank change year-on-year -41 -70 +44
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 786 684 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.37% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.90% 9.24% 10.98%
Number of salaries quoted 577 489 824
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £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 £88,716
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 8,830 7,399 12,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.04% 14.80% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,978 4,742 7,982
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -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 September 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 16 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 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 -53 668 £69,310 -7.59% 906
UK excluding London -48 385 £65,000 +4.00% 366
Work from Home +16 377 £67,500 -16.92% 447
London -65 293 £83,750 -20.24% 660
South East -18 125 £65,000 +1.96% 93
North of England -14 122 £65,000 -3.70% 78
North West -12 56 £65,000 -3.70% 48
South West -62 48 £63,750 +30.77% 58
North East -29 40 £65,000 +26.83% 11
Midlands -54 31 £72,155 +3.08% 42
East of England -22 29 £52,500 +69.35% 23
Yorkshire -38 26 £69,310 +0.81% 20
West Midlands -34 22 £83,774 +15.55% 26
Wales -51 21 £67,500 -12.90% 13
Scotland -14 17 £65,000 -3.70% 35
East Midlands -20 9 £60,000 +9.09% 15

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 32 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.56%) Apache
3 27 (3.44%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.31%) Confluence
5 11 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.89%) Camunda
8 6 (0.76%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.76%) WordPress
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Tornado
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
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
1 451 (57.38%) AWS
2 271 (34.48%) Azure
3 131 (16.67%) GitHub
4 110 (13.99%) GCP
5 99 (12.60%) Serverless
6 76 (9.67%) SaaS
7 74 (9.41%) Amazon S3
8 67 (8.52%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (6.36%) Amazon EC2
12 44 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
13 41 (5.22%) GitHub Copilot
14 34 (4.33%) Power Platform
15 30 (3.82%) Azure AKS
16 29 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (2.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.45%) Broadband
2 12 (1.53%) Firewall
3 9 (1.15%) DNS
3 9 (1.15%) SMS
4 8 (1.02%) AMQP
5 6 (0.76%) DHCP
6 5 (0.64%) HTTP
6 5 (0.64%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.64%) SAN
6 5 (0.64%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.25%) MQTT
7 2 (0.25%) VLAN
7 2 (0.25%) VPN
8 1 (0.13%) Internet
8 1 (0.13%) LAN
8 1 (0.13%) SSH
8 1 (0.13%) SSL
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
8 1 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (26.34%) MongoDB
2 185 (23.54%) MySQL
3 142 (18.07%) Relational Database
4 133 (16.92%) SQL Server
5 101 (12.85%) NoSQL
6 88 (11.20%) Redis
7 47 (5.98%) DynamoDB
8 37 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (3.18%) Power BI
11 21 (2.67%) Metadata
12 20 (2.54%) Amazon Aurora
12 20 (2.54%) Big Data
13 19 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (1.91%) GIS
14 15 (1.91%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.91%) Pinecone
15 14 (1.78%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 181 (23.03%) Git
2 63 (8.02%) Jenkins
3 58 (7.38%) GitLab
4 31 (3.94%) JIRA
5 29 (3.69%) JUnit
6 27 (3.44%) Cypress.io
7 23 (2.93%) Mockito
8 13 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 12 (1.53%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.40%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.40%) Vite
11 10 (1.27%) JMeter
12 8 (1.02%) Maven
13 7 (0.89%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.89%) Mocha
13 7 (0.89%) RSpec
13 7 (0.89%) Selenium
13 7 (0.89%) Storybook
14 5 (0.64%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.64%) Gatling
General
1 188 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 106 (13.49%) Public Sector
3 97 (12.34%) Finance
4 74 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (5.22%) Law
7 36 (4.58%) Banking
8 35 (4.45%) Games
9 24 (3.05%) Legal
10 20 (2.54%) Retail
11 18 (2.29%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (2.04%) Tech for Good
14 13 (1.65%) Legal Technology
15 12 (1.53%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.53%) Health Technology
15 12 (1.53%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.40%) Advertising
17 9 (1.15%) Aviation
18 8 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 269 (34.22%) Developer
2 217 (27.61%) Senior
3 152 (19.34%) Software Engineer
4 119 (15.14%) Lead
5 87 (11.07%) Full-Stack Developer
6 64 (8.14%) Python Engineer
7 62 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
8 58 (7.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 54 (6.87%) Data Engineer
9 54 (6.87%) Senior Developer
10 48 (6.11%) Architect
11 45 (5.73%) Java Developer
11 45 (5.73%) Python Developer
12 44 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
13 36 (4.58%) Software Developer
14 35 (4.45%) Lead Developer
15 34 (4.33%) Ruby Developer
16 29 (3.69%) Database Engineer
17 28 (3.56%) Lead Software Engineer
18 26 (3.31%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (25.57%) React
2 178 (22.65%) Terraform
3 176 (22.39%) Node.js
4 146 (18.58%) RESTful
5 123 (15.65%) REST
6 106 (13.49%) Spring
7 102 (12.98%) Spring Boot
8 100 (12.72%) Kafka
9 76 (9.67%) CSS
10 75 (9.54%) .NET
11 67 (8.52%) Next.js
12 65 (8.27%) Ruby on Rails
13 63 (8.02%) HTML
14 55 (7.00%) FastAPI
15 49 (6.23%) AngularJS
16 48 (6.11%) JSON
17 47 (5.98%) Jest
18 43 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
19 37 (4.71%) JPA
20 36 (4.58%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 163 (20.74%) Cloud Native
2 110 (13.99%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.34%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.71%) Low-Code
5 32 (4.07%) Video\Live Streaming
6 31 (3.94%) AI Agents
7 27 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.93%) Replication
9 21 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.54%) Algorithms
11 19 (2.42%) Blog
11 19 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (2.16%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.91%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.53%) IoT
15 12 (1.53%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 110 (13.99%) Linux
2 37 (4.71%) Windows
3 17 (2.16%) Unix
4 15 (1.91%) 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%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Debian
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (47.58%) CI/CD
2 285 (36.26%) Agile
3 281 (35.75%) Software Engineering
4 234 (29.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 230 (29.26%) Microservices
6 225 (28.63%) AI
7 213 (27.10%) DevOps
8 186 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 157 (19.97%) Observability
10 152 (19.34%) Mentoring
11 146 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 142 (18.07%) Containerisation
13 140 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
14 136 (17.30%) Test Automation
15 104 (13.23%) API Design
16 100 (12.72%) Clean Code
17 98 (12.47%) Event-Driven
18 95 (12.09%) Scrum
19 94 (11.96%) Data Modelling
20 87 (11.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 322 (40.97%) Python
2 217 (27.61%) SQL
3 197 (25.06%) Java
4 176 (22.39%) JavaScript
5 153 (19.47%) TypeScript
6 78 (9.92%) C#
7 67 (8.52%) Ruby
8 62 (7.89%) Go
9 36 (4.58%) Bash
10 26 (3.31%) PowerShell
11 21 (2.67%) PHP
12 19 (2.42%) Scala
13 14 (1.78%) C++
14 13 (1.65%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.27%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.27%) RPG
16 7 (0.89%) Perl
17 5 (0.64%) Korn
18 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 116 (14.76%) Security Cleared
2 99 (12.60%) Degree
3 86 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.18%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.02%) PhD
11 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.13%) RHCE
14 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 59 (7.51%) QA
3 30 (3.82%) GDPR
4 22 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.64%) WCAG
7 4 (0.51%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 243 (30.92%) Docker
2 14 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 213 (27.10%) Kubernetes
2 59 (7.51%) Ansible
3 55 (7.00%) Grafana
4 36 (4.58%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.07%) Argo
6 10 (1.27%) Kibana
7 7 (0.89%) Istio
7 7 (0.89%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.76%) Puppet
9 5 (0.64%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.64%) Packer
9 5 (0.64%) Rancher
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.38%) Plesk
11 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 81 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.54%) Oracle
3 37 (4.71%) Google
4 26 (3.31%) Databricks
5 25 (3.18%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.54%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.29%) Splunk
8 17 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.78%) IBM
10 9 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.02%) Mistral
12 7 (0.89%) Pega
13 6 (0.76%) Informatica
13 6 (0.76%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.64%) Dell
14 5 (0.64%) Meraki
15 4 (0.51%) Netezza
15 4 (0.51%) Remedy
15 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
16 3 (0.38%) Atlassian