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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 221 172
Rank change year-on-year -57 -49 +36
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 651 713 1,703
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.58% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.92% 9.63% 9.59%
Number of salaries quoted 489 521 1,170
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,847
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +19.34% -10.22%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,250 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -8.70%

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 8,217 7,406 17,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.67% 16.40% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,401 4,789 12,644
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,450 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -67 558 £69,305 -7.59% 205
Work from Home +33 342 £67,500 -9.84% 114
UK excluding London -75 335 £62,500 -3.85% 140
London -90 224 £85,000 -10.53% 109
North of England -12 119 £65,000 -3.70% 34
South East -15 116 £59,500 +13.33% 50
North West -2 54 £67,500 -0.19% 21
South West -50 40 £62,500 +2.04% 9
Yorkshire -18 36 £52,130 -22.77% 7
North East -33 29 £65,000 +23.81% 6
East of England -27 23 £47,500 +50.79% 12
Scotland -4 18 £67,500 +3.85% 7
Midlands -65 15 £75,000 +11.11% 19
West Midlands -43 11 £80,000 +18.52% 10
Wales -56 6 £70,000 -9.68% 3
East Midlands -30 4 £65,000 +18.18% 9
Northern Ireland -42 1 £73,801 +34.18% 10

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 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.69%) Apache
3 20 (3.07%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.61%) Confluence
5 12 (1.84%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.08%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.92%) WordPress
8 4 (0.61%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.31%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (1.38%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 389 (59.75%) AWS
2 238 (36.56%) Azure
3 116 (17.82%) GCP
4 99 (15.21%) Serverless
5 73 (11.21%) GitHub
6 62 (9.52%) SaaS
7 61 (9.37%) Amazon S3
8 59 (9.06%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
10 43 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
11 41 (6.30%) Power Platform
12 40 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (6.14%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (4.30%) Azure AKS
16 27 (4.15%) Azure Service Bus
17 24 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
18 19 (2.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 18 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.38%) Broadband
2 18 (2.76%) Firewall
3 16 (2.46%) DNS
3 16 (2.46%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.30%) DHCP
5 11 (1.69%) VPN
6 8 (1.23%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.23%) SAN
7 7 (1.08%) Network Security
7 7 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.77%) VLAN
9 4 (0.61%) Internet
10 3 (0.46%) HTTP
11 2 (0.31%) LAN
11 2 (0.31%) MQTT
11 2 (0.31%) PBX
11 2 (0.31%) WAN
12 1 (0.15%) Multicast
12 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (29.49%) MongoDB
2 150 (23.04%) MySQL
3 109 (16.74%) SQL Server
4 98 (15.05%) NoSQL
5 97 (14.90%) Relational Database
6 57 (8.76%) Redis
7 32 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (4.92%) Power BI
8 29 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.23%) DynamoDB
10 18 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (2.61%) Oracle Database
12 16 (2.46%) Metadata
13 15 (2.30%) GIS
13 15 (2.30%) Pinecone
14 13 (2.00%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.69%) MariaDB
15 11 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 127 (19.51%) Git
2 49 (7.53%) Jenkins
3 45 (6.91%) GitLab
4 30 (4.61%) JIRA
5 24 (3.69%) Cypress.io
6 21 (3.23%) JUnit
7 17 (2.61%) Mockito
8 14 (2.15%) Bitbucket
8 14 (2.15%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.54%) JMeter
10 9 (1.38%) Maven
10 9 (1.38%) Vite
11 8 (1.23%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.92%) Selenium
13 5 (0.77%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.61%) Gatling
14 4 (0.61%) Storybook
15 3 (0.46%) DBeaver
15 3 (0.46%) Liquibase
General
1 152 (23.35%) Social Skills
2 96 (14.75%) Finance
3 83 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 62 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.22%) Games
7 31 (4.76%) Retail
8 28 (4.30%) Law
9 26 (3.99%) Banking
10 20 (3.07%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.61%) Legal
13 16 (2.46%) Front Office
14 15 (2.30%) Advertising
15 11 (1.69%) Aerospace
16 10 (1.54%) Legal Technology
16 10 (1.54%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.23%) Aviation
17 8 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 214 (32.87%) Developer
2 135 (20.74%) Senior
3 121 (18.59%) Software Engineer
4 104 (15.98%) Lead
5 80 (12.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 53 (8.14%) Python Engineer
7 47 (7.22%) Lead Developer
8 44 (6.76%) Architect
9 41 (6.30%) Data Engineer
9 41 (6.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 40 (6.14%) Java Developer
11 38 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
12 37 (5.68%) Python Developer
13 35 (5.38%) Java Engineer
13 35 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.61%) Senior Developer
15 26 (3.99%) Software Developer
16 23 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
18 21 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (27.19%) React
2 159 (24.42%) Node.js
3 120 (18.43%) RESTful
4 81 (12.44%) REST
5 76 (11.67%) Spring
6 73 (11.21%) Spring Boot
7 63 (9.68%) Kafka
8 51 (7.83%) CSS
8 51 (7.83%) FastAPI
9 49 (7.53%) Ruby on Rails
10 46 (7.07%) .NET
10 46 (7.07%) HTML
10 46 (7.07%) JSON
11 43 (6.61%) Next.js
12 35 (5.38%) AngularJS
13 34 (5.22%) Jest
14 32 (4.92%) Django
15 30 (4.61%) Vue
16 25 (3.84%) Redux
17 24 (3.69%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 145 (22.27%) Cloud Native
2 72 (11.06%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.22%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.92%) Video\Live Streaming
5 26 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 24 (3.69%) Data Structures
7 22 (3.38%) Blog
8 21 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (3.23%) Onboarding
9 20 (3.07%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.76%) Replication
11 16 (2.46%) Derivative
11 16 (2.46%) Equities
11 16 (2.46%) Fixed Income
11 16 (2.46%) Management Information System
12 13 (2.00%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.69%) SCADA
15 9 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 105 (16.13%) Linux
2 46 (7.07%) Windows
3 24 (3.69%) Unix
4 20 (3.07%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.46%) CentOS
8 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.31%) Android
9 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) AIX
10 1 (0.15%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (43.47%) CI/CD
2 235 (36.10%) Agile
3 214 (32.87%) Software Engineering
4 193 (29.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 187 (28.73%) Microservices
6 158 (24.27%) DevOps
7 148 (22.73%) AI
7 148 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 129 (19.82%) Mentoring
9 118 (18.13%) Test Automation
10 117 (17.97%) Containerisation
11 110 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
12 109 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 102 (15.67%) Observability
14 85 (13.06%) Data Modelling
15 78 (11.98%) Analytics
16 75 (11.52%) API Design
17 73 (11.21%) Scrum
18 69 (10.60%) TDD
19 68 (10.45%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 284 (43.63%) Python
2 192 (29.49%) SQL
3 184 (28.26%) Java
4 154 (23.66%) JavaScript
5 128 (19.66%) TypeScript
6 54 (8.29%) Go
7 53 (8.14%) C#
8 50 (7.68%) Ruby
9 45 (6.91%) PowerShell
10 35 (5.38%) Bash
11 26 (3.99%) PHP
12 14 (2.15%) C++
12 14 (2.15%) Scala
12 14 (2.15%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.84%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.54%) C
14 10 (1.54%) Perl
15 7 (1.08%) Korn
16 6 (0.92%) RPG
16 6 (0.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (14.59%) Security Cleared
2 78 (11.98%) Degree
3 66 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.84%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.61%) PhD
11 3 (0.46%) RHCE
11 3 (0.46%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.31%) CISSP
12 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.31%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.45%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.92%) QA
3 24 (3.69%) GDPR
4 18 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.46%) SLA
6 3 (0.46%) WCAG
7 2 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.31%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.15%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.15%) MiFID
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 180 (27.65%) Docker
2 30 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (0.92%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Firmware
5 2 (0.31%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 190 (29.19%) Kubernetes
2 137 (21.04%) Terraform
3 40 (6.14%) Ansible
4 36 (5.53%) Grafana
5 31 (4.76%) Argo
6 22 (3.38%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.54%) Kibana
8 7 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.08%) Puppet
9 6 (0.92%) Istio
9 6 (0.92%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.61%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.46%) Control-M
12 3 (0.46%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.46%) Plesk
12 3 (0.46%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.46%) Rancher
12 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.06%) Oracle
3 33 (5.07%) Google
4 19 (2.92%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.76%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.30%) Dynatrace
7 14 (2.15%) Databricks
8 11 (1.69%) Splunk
9 8 (1.23%) Dell
9 8 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.08%) IBM
10 7 (1.08%) Pega
11 6 (0.92%) Informatica
11 6 (0.92%) VMware
12 5 (0.77%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.61%) Confluent
13 4 (0.61%) ESRI
13 4 (0.61%) Netezza
13 4 (0.61%) Remedy
14 3 (0.46%) Talend