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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 239 147
Rank change year-on-year -28 -92 +48
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 812 637 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.30% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.12% 8.95% 11.45%
Number of salaries quoted 588 442 696
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,438 £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,403 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
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 8,908 7,115 11,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.63% 14.53% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,063 4,475 6,875
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,366
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,424
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -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 September 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 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 -49 686 £70,000 -12.50% 1,153
UK excluding London -55 389 £65,000 +4.00% 482
Work from Home +17 385 £67,500 -25.00% 527
London -70 306 £82,500 -21.43% 771
South East -16 126 £65,000 -5.45% 107
North of England -13 123 £65,000 -3.70% 140
North West -16 58 £65,000 -3.70% 80
South West -63 47 £65,000 +25.00% 61
North East -39 39 £65,000 +26.83% 20
Midlands -54 38 £75,000 +5.26% 59
West Midlands -40 29 £83,774 +15.55% 42
East of England -37 28 £50,000 +63.93% 36
Yorkshire -35 26 £69,310 -0.99% 41
Wales -54 24 £65,000 +8.33% 16
Scotland -4 13 £65,000 -3.70% 47
East Midlands -30 9 £60,000 +33.33% 17
Northern Ireland -87 1 - - 19

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 27 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.08%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.08%) Confluence
3 24 (2.96%) Apache
4 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.86%) Camunda
5 7 (0.86%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.74%) WordPress
7 4 (0.49%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.49%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle Spatial
7 4 (0.49%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) nginx
9 2 (0.25%) Luigi
9 2 (0.25%) Tornado
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Finacle
2 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 480 (59.11%) AWS
2 284 (34.98%) Azure
3 147 (18.10%) GitHub
4 117 (14.41%) GCP
5 105 (12.93%) Serverless
6 80 (9.85%) SaaS
7 76 (9.36%) Amazon ECS
8 72 (8.87%) Amazon S3
9 67 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (6.53%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (5.79%) GitHub Copilot
15 44 (5.42%) Amazon SQS
16 33 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (3.94%) Power Platform
18 31 (3.82%) Azure AKS
19 29 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
20 22 (2.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.45%) Broadband
2 13 (1.60%) Firewall
3 12 (1.48%) SMS
3 12 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.35%) AMQP
4 11 (1.35%) DNS
5 7 (0.86%) HTTP
5 7 (0.86%) VPN
6 6 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.62%) DHCP
7 5 (0.62%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.62%) SAN
7 5 (0.62%) VLAN
8 3 (0.37%) 4G
8 3 (0.37%) 5G
8 3 (0.37%) BGP
8 3 (0.37%) SSH
9 2 (0.25%) MQTT
10 1 (0.12%) Multicast
10 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (25.25%) MongoDB
2 180 (22.17%) MySQL
3 139 (17.12%) Relational Database
4 137 (16.87%) SQL Server
5 103 (12.68%) Redis
6 99 (12.19%) NoSQL
7 52 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
8 45 (5.54%) DynamoDB
9 42 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (2.96%) Power BI
12 20 (2.46%) Big Data
12 20 (2.46%) Metadata
13 16 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.97%) Data Lake
13 16 (1.97%) GIS
13 16 (1.97%) Pinecone
14 15 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (1.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (24.01%) Git
2 77 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 62 (7.64%) GitLab
4 32 (3.94%) JIRA
5 28 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 28 (3.45%) JUnit
6 21 (2.59%) Mockito
7 20 (2.46%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.60%) Claude Code
8 13 (1.60%) JMeter
9 12 (1.48%) Vite
10 11 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.35%) Selenium
11 8 (0.99%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.99%) Maven
12 7 (0.86%) Mocha
12 7 (0.86%) RSpec
13 6 (0.74%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.74%) Storybook
14 5 (0.62%) Appium
General
1 197 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 109 (13.42%) Public Sector
3 100 (12.32%) Finance
4 78 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (6.28%) Banking
7 49 (6.03%) Law
8 29 (3.57%) Retail
9 27 (3.33%) Games
10 25 (3.08%) Legal
11 20 (2.46%) Tech for Good
12 18 (2.22%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.85%) Health Technology
13 15 (1.85%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.60%) Legal Technology
14 13 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.48%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.11%) Aviation
16 9 (1.11%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.99%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 280 (34.48%) Developer
2 230 (28.33%) Senior
3 157 (19.33%) Software Engineer
4 114 (14.04%) Lead
5 86 (10.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 64 (7.88%) Senior Developer
7 63 (7.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 62 (7.64%) Python Engineer
9 57 (7.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 55 (6.77%) Data Engineer
11 49 (6.03%) Java Developer
12 48 (5.91%) DevOps Engineer
13 46 (5.67%) Python Developer
14 45 (5.54%) Architect
15 44 (5.42%) Software Developer
16 34 (4.19%) Lead Developer
17 33 (4.06%) Database Engineer
17 33 (4.06%) Ruby Developer
18 29 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
19 27 (3.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (25.37%) React
2 197 (24.26%) Terraform
3 176 (21.67%) Node.js
4 149 (18.35%) RESTful
5 128 (15.76%) REST
6 113 (13.92%) Kafka
6 113 (13.92%) Spring
7 109 (13.42%) Spring Boot
8 80 (9.85%) .NET
9 75 (9.24%) CSS
10 65 (8.00%) Next.js
10 65 (8.00%) Ruby on Rails
11 63 (7.76%) HTML
12 56 (6.90%) FastAPI
13 50 (6.16%) Jest
13 50 (6.16%) RabbitMQ
14 47 (5.79%) AngularJS
15 46 (5.67%) JSON
16 39 (4.80%) Django
16 39 (4.80%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 172 (21.18%) Cloud Native
2 128 (15.76%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.94%) Blog
5 31 (3.82%) AI Agents
6 30 (3.69%) Low-Code
7 29 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (3.57%) Replication
8 25 (3.08%) Video\Live Streaming
9 22 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (2.71%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.34%) Virtual Team
11 17 (2.09%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.85%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.72%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 119 (14.66%) Linux
2 39 (4.80%) Windows
3 20 (2.46%) Unix
4 15 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.74%) Android
6 6 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.25%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) AIX
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (49.51%) CI/CD
2 294 (36.21%) Agile
3 289 (35.59%) Software Engineering
4 240 (29.56%) AI
5 237 (29.19%) Microservices
6 224 (27.59%) DevOps
7 223 (27.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 195 (24.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 173 (21.31%) Observability
10 155 (19.09%) Mentoring
11 153 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
12 149 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 147 (18.10%) Containerisation
14 144 (17.73%) Test Automation
15 114 (14.04%) Clean Code
16 112 (13.79%) Event-Driven
17 101 (12.44%) Scrum
18 95 (11.70%) API Design
19 86 (10.59%) Data Modelling
20 84 (10.34%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 336 (41.38%) Python
2 236 (29.06%) SQL
3 208 (25.62%) Java
4 184 (22.66%) JavaScript
5 155 (19.09%) TypeScript
6 81 (9.98%) C#
7 67 (8.25%) Ruby
8 62 (7.64%) Go
9 48 (5.91%) Bash
10 27 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 23 (2.83%) PHP
12 20 (2.46%) Scala
13 17 (2.09%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.60%) C++
15 10 (1.23%) Groovy
15 10 (1.23%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.23%) RPG
16 6 (0.74%) Perl
17 5 (0.62%) Korn
18 4 (0.49%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 128 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 99 (12.19%) SC Cleared
3 95 (11.70%) Degree
4 32 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 23 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.11%) PhD
10 8 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.37%) CISSP
12 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.76%) QA
2 56 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.57%) GDPR
4 24 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.86%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.62%) WCAG
8 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.49%) SLA
9 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
10 1 (0.12%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 269 (33.13%) Docker
2 12 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Ceph
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Lustre
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.12%) Samba
6 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 228 (28.08%) Kubernetes
2 80 (9.85%) Grafana
3 64 (7.88%) Ansible
4 55 (6.77%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.31%) Argo
6 13 (1.60%) Kibana
7 12 (1.48%) Rancher
8 7 (0.86%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.74%) Istio
9 6 (0.74%) logstash
9 6 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.74%) Puppet
10 5 (0.62%) Packer
11 4 (0.49%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.37%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.37%) Plesk
12 3 (0.37%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.25%) Bugsnag
13 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 73 (8.99%) Oracle
3 31 (3.82%) Google
4 28 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 27 (3.33%) Databricks
6 26 (3.20%) OpenAI
7 24 (2.96%) Splunk
8 18 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.72%) IBM
9 14 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.11%) Mistral
11 8 (0.99%) Informatica
12 5 (0.62%) Dell
12 5 (0.62%) Meraki
13 4 (0.49%) ESRI
13 4 (0.49%) Netezza
13 4 (0.49%) Remedy
13 4 (0.49%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.49%) TIBCO
13 4 (0.49%) VMware