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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 136 177
Rank change year-on-year -119 +41 +11
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 502 1,162 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 2.17% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.71% 12.19% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 360 548 848
10th Percentile £41,925 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,938 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,001 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 6,507 9,532 11,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.85% 17.81% 20.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,164 5,324 8,909
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,375 £47,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,775 £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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -119 440 £75,000 -3.23% 719
London -63 250 £90,000 +2.86% 168
Work from Home -99 221 £71,250 +1.79% 396
UK excluding London -149 214 £62,500 -3.85% 639
North of England -3 79 £73,801 +6.48% 111
South East -123 45 £60,000 -25.00% 203
Yorkshire +10 41 £70,000 +16.67% 47
Midlands -10 31 £60,100 -7.54% 70
South West -43 31 £54,000 -16.92% 94
North West -11 30 £85,000 +22.64% 49
West Midlands +5 21 £61,350 -5.62% 24
East of England -39 13 £42,500 -26.09% 98
Scotland -27 12 £73,801 +27.24% 27
East Midlands -23 10 £60,100 +0.17% 45
North East +9 8 £55,200 -20.35% 16
Wales -21 5 £73,801 +13.54% 35
Northern Ireland -15 3 £73,801 +11.98% 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 42 (8.37%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (4.38%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.78%) WebSphere
4 18 (3.59%) Confluence
5 17 (3.39%) Tomcat
6 16 (3.19%) WebSphere Application Server
7 13 (2.59%) OpenStack
8 8 (1.59%) nginx
9 6 (1.20%) Apache
9 6 (1.20%) ArcGIS
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%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.60%) WildFly
12 2 (0.40%) Camunda
12 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
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
1 361 (71.91%) AWS
2 175 (34.86%) Azure
3 132 (26.29%) GCP
4 96 (19.12%) Serverless
5 68 (13.55%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (12.15%) Amazon S3
7 58 (11.55%) GitHub
8 55 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (10.16%) dbt
10 45 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (8.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (8.17%) SaaS
13 39 (7.77%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (7.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 31 (6.18%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (5.38%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (4.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 21 (4.18%) AWS Step Functions
18 21 (4.18%) Power Platform
18 21 (4.18%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.98%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.78%) SSL
3 12 (2.39%) Firewall
4 9 (1.79%) VPN
5 8 (1.59%) DNS
6 7 (1.39%) Internet
6 7 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.20%) HTTP
8 4 (0.80%) FTP
8 4 (0.80%) IMAP
8 4 (0.80%) Network Security
8 4 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.80%) SMTP
8 4 (0.80%) SSH
8 4 (0.80%) VLAN
9 3 (0.60%) AMQP
9 3 (0.60%) iSCSI
9 3 (0.60%) MQTT
9 3 (0.60%) SAN
9 3 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (25.10%) SQL Server
2 98 (19.52%) MySQL
3 97 (19.32%) Relational Database
4 93 (18.53%) MongoDB
5 74 (14.74%) NoSQL
6 44 (8.76%) Redis
7 38 (7.57%) Amazon RDS
7 38 (7.57%) Data Warehouse
7 38 (7.57%) DB2
8 33 (6.57%) DynamoDB
9 31 (6.18%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (5.78%) RDBMS
11 27 (5.38%) Apache Iceberg
12 23 (4.58%) Amazon Athena
12 23 (4.58%) Apache Arrow
12 23 (4.58%) Dremio
13 20 (3.98%) Power BI
14 19 (3.78%) Apache Cassandra
15 15 (2.99%) Big Data
15 15 (2.99%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 107 (21.31%) Git
2 98 (19.52%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.77%) JIRA
4 32 (6.37%) GitLab
5 31 (6.18%) JUnit
6 29 (5.78%) Cucumber
7 26 (5.18%) Selenium
8 20 (3.98%) Bitbucket
9 18 (3.59%) JMeter
10 17 (3.39%) Mockito
11 16 (3.19%) Cypress.io
12 13 (2.59%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.59%) Vite
14 6 (1.20%) CircleCI
15 5 (1.00%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.80%) Gradle
16 4 (0.80%) Maven
16 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.80%) Subversion
16 4 (0.80%) Vagrant
General
1 134 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 106 (21.12%) Finance
3 43 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 36 (7.17%) Banking
6 24 (4.78%) Front Office
7 22 (4.38%) Law
8 17 (3.39%) Retail
9 16 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.99%) Marketing
11 12 (2.39%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.79%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.79%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Advertising
14 6 (1.20%) Electronics
14 6 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.00%) Legal
15 5 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 194 (38.65%) Developer
2 94 (18.73%) Senior
3 74 (14.74%) Software Engineer
4 64 (12.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 55 (10.96%) Java Developer
6 49 (9.76%) Lead
7 43 (8.57%) Python Developer
8 34 (6.77%) AWS Engineer
9 32 (6.37%) Python Engineer
10 31 (6.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 29 (5.78%) AWS Developer
12 27 (5.38%) Python Software Engineer
13 25 (4.98%) Principal Engineer
13 25 (4.98%) Software Developer
14 24 (4.78%) AWS Software Engineer
14 24 (4.78%) Data Engineer
15 23 (4.58%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 22 (4.38%) Architect
17 21 (4.18%) Applications Support
17 21 (4.18%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (31.47%) React
2 108 (21.51%) Node.js
3 81 (16.14%) Spring
4 74 (14.74%) Spring Boot
5 72 (14.34%) RESTful
6 71 (14.14%) REST
7 70 (13.94%) Django
8 61 (12.15%) AngularJS
9 58 (11.55%) FastAPI
10 56 (11.16%) HTML
11 49 (9.76%) Kafka
12 48 (9.56%) .NET
13 47 (9.36%) CSS
14 46 (9.16%) Vue
15 37 (7.37%) Elastic Stack
16 33 (6.57%) Flask
17 31 (6.18%) Web Services
18 26 (5.18%) Next.js
19 25 (4.98%) .NET Core
20 24 (4.78%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
2 56 (11.16%) Cloud Native
3 28 (5.58%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (4.78%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 23 (4.58%) Equities
5 23 (4.58%) Fixed Income
5 23 (4.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.59%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.59%) Replication
9 11 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.59%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 103 (20.52%) Linux
2 47 (9.36%) Unix
3 40 (7.97%) Windows
4 23 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.39%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.79%) Android
6 9 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.20%) VMS
8 4 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (0.80%) Debian
9 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.40%) CentOS
11 1 (0.20%) Fedora
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (42.83%) CI/CD
2 197 (39.24%) Agile
3 162 (32.27%) Microservices
4 149 (29.68%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (28.29%) DevOps
6 139 (27.69%) Software Engineering
7 118 (23.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 98 (19.52%) Containerisation
9 80 (15.94%) AI
10 77 (15.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 69 (13.75%) Fintech
12 67 (13.35%) Test Automation
13 60 (11.95%) Clean Code
13 60 (11.95%) Scrum
14 58 (11.55%) Mentoring
14 58 (11.55%) TDD
15 57 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
16 54 (10.76%) ETL
17 48 (9.56%) BDD
18 46 (9.16%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 255 (50.80%) Python
2 153 (30.48%) SQL
3 148 (29.48%) Java
4 146 (29.08%) JavaScript
5 109 (21.71%) TypeScript
6 45 (8.96%) C#
7 27 (5.38%) Go
8 19 (3.78%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.59%) PHP
10 17 (3.39%) PowerShell
11 15 (2.99%) Ruby
12 14 (2.79%) C
13 9 (1.79%) Delphi
13 9 (1.79%) Rust
14 6 (1.20%) Bash
14 6 (1.20%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.80%) Groovy
15 4 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.60%) Scala
16 3 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 87 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.94%) Degree
3 60 (11.95%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.77%) AWS Certification
5 28 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.59%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.39%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.40%) CCNA
12 2 (0.40%) CCNP
12 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.40%) HNC
12 2 (0.40%) HND
12 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.58%) SLA
2 17 (3.39%) QA
3 15 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.59%) GDPR
6 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.60%) SEPA
7 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.40%) PSD2
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) GAAP
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 200 (39.84%) Docker
2 5 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.80%) DFS Replication
3 4 (0.80%) Dovecot
3 4 (0.80%) Postfix
3 4 (0.80%) Squid
4 3 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.40%) NFS
5 2 (0.40%) pfSense
5 2 (0.40%) Samba
5 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 167 (33.27%) Kubernetes
2 101 (20.12%) Terraform
3 39 (7.77%) Ansible
4 27 (5.38%) Grafana
5 19 (3.78%) Kibana
6 18 (3.59%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.39%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (2.19%) Argo
9 5 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.80%) Control-M
10 4 (0.80%) Nessus
10 4 (0.80%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.80%) Puppet
11 3 (0.60%) Nagios
12 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.40%) Rancher
13 1 (0.20%) Ambari
13 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (14.94%) Oracle
2 34 (6.77%) Google
3 29 (5.78%) Red Hat
4 25 (4.98%) Microsoft
5 22 (4.38%) IBM
6 19 (3.78%) Informatica
7 18 (3.59%) ServiceNow
8 17 (3.39%) Atlassian
8 17 (3.39%) Splunk
9 13 (2.59%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.59%) Talend
10 12 (2.39%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.59%) SAP
12 6 (1.20%) ESRI
13 5 (1.00%) Dell
14 4 (0.80%) Jaspersoft
14 4 (0.80%) Pega
14 4 (0.80%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.80%) VMware
14 4 (0.80%) WSO2