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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 207 170
Rank change year-on-year -83 -37 +16
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 564 678 1,621
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.58% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.26% 9.20% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 402 521 1,186
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £58,750 £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 £86,844 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -4.35%

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 7,770 7,369 17,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.60% 17.15% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,582 5,104 12,523
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £95,000
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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -76 469 £67,500 -10.00% 275
UK excluding London -82 280 £60,000 -7.69% 141
Work from Home -16 270 £65,000 -7.14% 169
London -88 190 £90,000 +2.86% 152
North of England -37 100 £67,500 - 36
South East -57 86 £57,500 -8.00% 57
Yorkshire -31 45 £52,130 -12.93% 9
North West -35 43 £70,905 +4.85% 15
South West -42 36 £62,500 -3.85% 18
Scotland -34 20 £66,250 -0.18% 6
Midlands -46 20 £55,200 -15.08% 17
East of England -34 19 £47,500 -13.64% 8
North East -30 12 £55,000 -20.73% 12
West Midlands -24 11 £47,500 -26.92% 7
East Midlands -44 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -54 3 £55,200 -15.08% 1
Northern Ireland -43 1 £73,801 +34.18%

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 34 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (3.55%) Apache Spark
4 19 (3.37%) Apache
5 14 (2.48%) Confluence
6 13 (2.30%) OpenStack
7 11 (1.95%) SharePoint
8 9 (1.60%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.89%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.89%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.53%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.35%) Camunda
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.35%) WildFly
11 2 (0.35%) WordPress
12 1 (0.18%) CMS
12 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.18%) nginx
12 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (1.42%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 344 (60.99%) AWS
2 211 (37.41%) Azure
3 122 (21.63%) GCP
4 102 (18.09%) Serverless
5 64 (11.35%) Amazon S3
6 60 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (10.46%) GitHub
8 51 (9.04%) SaaS
9 50 (8.87%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (8.69%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (6.56%) Power Platform
13 36 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
16 28 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 27 (4.79%) Azure AKS
18 25 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (4.43%) Azure Service Bus
19 21 (3.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.84%) DNS
2 15 (2.66%) DHCP
2 15 (2.66%) Firewall
3 14 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.30%) Broadband
5 9 (1.60%) VPN
6 8 (1.42%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.42%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.42%) SAN
7 7 (1.24%) Internet
7 7 (1.24%) Network Security
7 7 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.53%) HTTP
8 3 (0.53%) VLAN
9 2 (0.35%) LAN
9 2 (0.35%) MQTT
9 2 (0.35%) PBX
9 2 (0.35%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) LTE
10 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (25.18%) MongoDB
2 131 (23.23%) SQL Server
3 112 (19.86%) MySQL
4 94 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 93 (16.49%) NoSQL
6 36 (6.38%) Redis
7 34 (6.03%) DynamoDB
8 30 (5.32%) Power BI
9 29 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (3.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (3.01%) GIS
13 17 (3.01%) Oracle Database
14 16 (2.84%) BigQuery
15 14 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (2.48%) RDBMS
16 13 (2.30%) DB2
16 13 (2.30%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.77%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 133 (23.58%) Git
2 59 (10.46%) Jenkins
3 46 (8.16%) GitLab
4 27 (4.79%) JIRA
5 26 (4.61%) JUnit
6 24 (4.26%) Cypress.io
7 20 (3.55%) Bitbucket
7 20 (3.55%) Selenium
8 18 (3.19%) Cucumber
9 17 (3.01%) TeamCity
10 14 (2.48%) Mockito
11 11 (1.95%) Maven
12 9 (1.60%) Vite
13 6 (1.06%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.89%) Gradle
15 4 (0.71%) Liquibase
16 3 (0.53%) JMeter
16 3 (0.53%) Storybook
16 3 (0.53%) Subversion
17 2 (0.35%) Jaeger
General
1 142 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 97 (17.20%) Finance
3 56 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.75%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (5.14%) Banking
7 28 (4.96%) Law
7 28 (4.96%) Retail
8 19 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.01%) Front Office
10 16 (2.84%) Games
11 13 (2.30%) Advertising
12 10 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.60%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.89%) Automotive
14 5 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.89%) Legal
15 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.53%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 184 (32.62%) Developer
2 116 (20.57%) Senior
3 89 (15.78%) Software Engineer
4 80 (14.18%) Lead
5 79 (14.01%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 41 (7.27%) Python Engineer
8 38 (6.74%) Data Engineer
9 33 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 32 (5.67%) Java Engineer
10 32 (5.67%) Lead Developer
11 28 (4.96%) Architect
12 24 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
13 23 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 23 (4.08%) Senior Developer
14 22 (3.90%) Python Developer
15 21 (3.72%) Software Developer
16 20 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
17 19 (3.37%) Java Software Engineer
17 19 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (32.45%) React
2 133 (23.58%) Node.js
3 93 (16.49%) RESTful
4 69 (12.23%) Spring
5 65 (11.52%) Spring Boot
6 63 (11.17%) REST
7 50 (8.87%) Kafka
8 48 (8.51%) .NET
9 47 (8.33%) Django
9 47 (8.33%) FastAPI
10 41 (7.27%) CSS
10 41 (7.27%) HTML
11 36 (6.38%) AngularJS
12 34 (6.03%) JSON
13 31 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
14 30 (5.32%) Flask
14 30 (5.32%) Next.js
15 27 (4.79%) Jest
16 26 (4.61%) Ruby on Rails
16 26 (4.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 102 (18.09%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.69%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.55%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.84%) Derivative
6 16 (2.84%) Equities
6 16 (2.84%) Fixed Income
6 16 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.66%) Low-Code
7 15 (2.66%) Replication
8 14 (2.48%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.48%) Blog
9 13 (2.30%) Video\Live Streaming
10 10 (1.77%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.77%) SCADA
11 9 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 82 (14.54%) Linux
2 39 (6.91%) Windows
3 25 (4.43%) Unix
4 19 (3.37%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.24%) Android
6 7 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.53%) CentOS
10 1 (0.18%) AIX
10 1 (0.18%) Debian
10 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (43.79%) CI/CD
2 216 (38.30%) Agile
3 177 (31.38%) Microservices
4 166 (29.43%) Software Engineering
5 160 (28.37%) Full-Stack Development
6 150 (26.60%) DevOps
7 113 (20.04%) Test Automation
8 109 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 107 (18.97%) Mentoring
10 105 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
11 102 (18.09%) AI
11 102 (18.09%) Containerisation
12 77 (13.65%) Scrum
13 70 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 70 (12.41%) Data Modelling
14 66 (11.70%) Analytics
15 65 (11.52%) TDD
16 59 (10.46%) Observability
17 55 (9.75%) Data Pipeline
18 51 (9.04%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 250 (44.33%) Python
2 182 (32.27%) Java
3 175 (31.03%) SQL
4 142 (25.18%) JavaScript
5 111 (19.68%) TypeScript
6 48 (8.51%) C#
7 44 (7.80%) Go
8 30 (5.32%) PowerShell
9 29 (5.14%) Ruby
10 27 (4.79%) PHP
11 20 (3.55%) Bash
12 18 (3.19%) C
13 13 (2.30%) Delphi
14 10 (1.77%) C++
14 10 (1.77%) Scala
14 10 (1.77%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.60%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.42%) Perl
17 7 (1.24%) Korn
17 7 (1.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.59%) Degree
3 57 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.53%) RHCE
12 2 (0.35%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.35%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.61%) QA
3 15 (2.66%) GDPR
3 15 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.53%) NCSC
5 3 (0.53%) SLA
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.35%) WCAG
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 178 (31.56%) Docker
2 30 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Firmware
5 2 (0.35%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 186 (32.98%) Kubernetes
2 131 (23.23%) Terraform
3 43 (7.62%) Ansible
4 40 (7.09%) Grafana
5 31 (5.50%) Argo
6 23 (4.08%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.06%) Puppet
8 5 (0.89%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.89%) Data Guard
8 5 (0.89%) Istio
9 4 (0.71%) Control-M
9 4 (0.71%) Kibana
9 4 (0.71%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.71%) Nagios
9 4 (0.71%) Rancher
10 3 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.53%) Packer
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.35%) Plesk
Vendors
1 72 (12.77%) Oracle
2 57 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.50%) Google
4 23 (4.08%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.84%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.95%) Informatica
7 9 (1.60%) ESRI
8 8 (1.42%) Databricks
8 8 (1.42%) Dell
8 8 (1.42%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.24%) Pega
10 6 (1.06%) Confluent
10 6 (1.06%) Talend
11 5 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.71%) VMware
13 3 (0.53%) IBM
13 3 (0.53%) Revolut
13 3 (0.53%) Splunk