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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 143 188
Rank change year-on-year -132 +45 0
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 550 869 1,437
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 2.13% 1.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.42% 11.58% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 389 531 1,110
10th Percentile £38,700 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,250 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -

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 7,413 7,507 16,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.34% 18.37% 18.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,400 5,115 12,395
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +12.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -144 455 £72,500 -3.33% 288
UK excluding London -142 268 £60,000 -7.69% 175
Work from Home -92 252 £65,000 -6.32% 201
London -106 213 £90,000 +2.86% 152
North of England -28 100 £65,000 -3.88% 57
South East -131 65 £58,000 -17.14% 48
Yorkshire -26 45 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -23 44 £76,250 +11.37% 33
South West -41 32 £62,500 -3.85% 20
Midlands -37 24 £50,100 -22.92% 18
Scotland -25 23 £67,500 +8.00% 12
East of England -71 19 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -21 15 £43,875 -32.50% 8
North East -23 11 £53,565 -22.76% 6
East Midlands -42 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -50 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -36 4 £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 25 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.91%) OpenStack
4 14 (2.55%) Apache Spark
5 13 (2.36%) Apache
5 13 (2.36%) Confluence
6 9 (1.64%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.27%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.91%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.91%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.55%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.55%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.36%) Camunda
10 2 (0.36%) CMS
10 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.18%) IIS
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 345 (62.73%) AWS
2 210 (38.18%) Azure
3 148 (26.91%) GCP
4 95 (17.27%) Serverless
5 71 (12.91%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (11.27%) Amazon S3
7 56 (10.18%) AWS Lambda
8 54 (9.82%) GitHub
9 47 (8.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (8.36%) SaaS
11 45 (8.18%) Amazon SQS
12 44 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (6.91%) dbt
14 34 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (6.00%) Power Platform
16 27 (4.91%) Amazon ECR
16 27 (4.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 25 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
17 25 (4.55%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.18%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.36%) DHCP
2 13 (2.36%) DNS
3 12 (2.18%) VPN
4 10 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.27%) Broadband
5 7 (1.27%) Firewall
5 7 (1.27%) Internet
5 7 (1.27%) Network Security
6 5 (0.91%) SSL
7 3 (0.55%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.55%) SAN
7 3 (0.55%) VLAN
8 2 (0.36%) HTTP
8 2 (0.36%) LAN
8 2 (0.36%) PBX
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) AMQP
9 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (22.00%) SQL Server
2 110 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 109 (19.82%) MySQL
4 104 (18.91%) Relational Database
5 89 (16.18%) NoSQL
6 53 (9.64%) Redis
7 41 (7.45%) Elasticsearch
8 36 (6.55%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (5.45%) DynamoDB
10 29 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (5.27%) Power BI
11 20 (3.64%) DB2
12 17 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (3.09%) BigQuery
12 17 (3.09%) Oracle Database
13 15 (2.73%) RDBMS
14 13 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (2.18%) GIS
16 10 (1.82%) Big Data
17 9 (1.64%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 127 (23.09%) Git
2 70 (12.73%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.27%) JIRA
4 27 (4.91%) GitLab
5 25 (4.55%) JUnit
6 23 (4.18%) Cucumber
6 23 (4.18%) Cypress.io
7 22 (4.00%) Selenium
8 20 (3.64%) Bitbucket
9 19 (3.45%) TeamCity
10 13 (2.36%) Mockito
11 8 (1.45%) Maven
12 7 (1.27%) Vite
13 6 (1.09%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.91%) Gradle
14 5 (0.91%) JMeter
15 3 (0.55%) Storybook
15 3 (0.55%) Subversion
16 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
16 2 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 142 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 106 (19.27%) Finance
3 57 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.55%) Banking
7 33 (6.00%) Law
8 26 (4.73%) Retail
9 17 (3.09%) Front Office
10 11 (2.00%) Advertising
10 11 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.82%) Games
12 9 (1.64%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.27%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.09%) Legal
15 5 (0.91%) Back Office
15 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.73%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 192 (34.91%) Developer
2 109 (19.82%) Senior
3 91 (16.55%) Software Engineer
4 83 (15.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 73 (13.27%) Lead
6 56 (10.18%) Java Developer
7 34 (6.18%) Python Engineer
8 33 (6.00%) Data Engineer
9 30 (5.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 30 (5.45%) Lead Developer
10 28 (5.09%) Architect
11 27 (4.91%) Java Engineer
12 24 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 22 (4.00%) Python Developer
14 20 (3.64%) Analyst
14 20 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (3.45%) IT Support
15 19 (3.45%) Senior Developer
15 19 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (33.45%) React
2 112 (20.36%) Node.js
3 92 (16.73%) RESTful
4 82 (14.91%) Spring
5 78 (14.18%) Spring Boot
6 75 (13.64%) Django
7 70 (12.73%) REST
8 54 (9.82%) FastAPI
9 49 (8.91%) HTML
10 48 (8.73%) CSS
11 47 (8.55%) Kafka
12 45 (8.18%) .NET
13 43 (7.82%) AngularJS
14 36 (6.55%) Elastic Stack
15 34 (6.18%) Flask
16 32 (5.82%) Vue
17 30 (5.45%) Next.js
18 28 (5.09%) JSON
19 25 (4.55%) Web Services
20 24 (4.36%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 86 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 55 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
5 19 (3.45%) Replication
6 18 (3.27%) Data Structures
6 18 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.91%) Derivative
7 16 (2.91%) Equities
7 16 (2.91%) Fixed Income
7 16 (2.91%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.73%) Blog
9 14 (2.55%) Algorithms
9 14 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.45%) SCADA
13 7 (1.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 83 (15.09%) Linux
2 37 (6.73%) Unix
3 28 (5.09%) Windows
4 15 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.27%) Android
6 7 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.73%) Debian
7 4 (0.73%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.55%) CentOS
9 2 (0.36%) VMS
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (40.73%) CI/CD
2 201 (36.55%) Agile
3 175 (31.82%) Microservices
4 167 (30.36%) Software Engineering
5 157 (28.55%) DevOps
6 155 (28.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 128 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
8 109 (19.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 103 (18.73%) Containerisation
10 98 (17.82%) Test Automation
11 96 (17.45%) AI
12 94 (17.09%) Mentoring
13 66 (12.00%) Data Modelling
13 66 (12.00%) TDD
14 63 (11.45%) Clean Code
14 63 (11.45%) Scrum
15 59 (10.73%) Observability
16 58 (10.55%) Fintech
17 56 (10.18%) Analytics
17 56 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 252 (45.82%) Python
2 175 (31.82%) SQL
3 173 (31.45%) Java
4 152 (27.64%) JavaScript
5 110 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 46 (8.36%) C#
7 39 (7.09%) Go
8 29 (5.27%) PowerShell
9 25 (4.55%) Ruby
10 22 (4.00%) PHP
11 17 (3.09%) C
12 13 (2.36%) Delphi
13 11 (2.00%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.82%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.64%) C++
16 8 (1.45%) Bash
17 6 (1.09%) Perl
17 6 (1.09%) Rust
18 5 (0.91%) VB
19 4 (0.73%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 99 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 74 (13.45%) Degree
3 72 (13.09%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.55%) RHCE
12 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.36%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.18%) PhD
13 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.18%) QA
3 14 (2.55%) GDPR
3 14 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.27%) SLA
6 3 (0.55%) NCSC
6 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.36%) PSD2
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.18%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 191 (34.73%) Docker
2 23 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (0.73%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.36%) Samba
5 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 176 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 126 (22.91%) Terraform
3 37 (6.73%) Ansible
4 34 (6.18%) Grafana
5 18 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.09%) AWS Copilot
7 10 (1.82%) Argo
8 9 (1.64%) Kibana
9 5 (0.91%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.91%) Nagios
10 4 (0.73%) Control-M
11 3 (0.55%) Puppet
11 3 (0.55%) Rancher
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.18%) Ambari
13 1 (0.18%) Podman
13 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
13 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 68 (12.36%) Oracle
2 54 (9.82%) Google
3 39 (7.09%) Microsoft
4 17 (3.09%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.36%) Informatica
5 13 (2.36%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 11 (2.00%) Pega
7 9 (1.64%) IBM
8 8 (1.45%) Talend
9 7 (1.27%) ESRI
10 6 (1.09%) Databricks
10 6 (1.09%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.09%) WSO2
11 5 (0.91%) Confluent
11 5 (0.91%) Splunk
12 4 (0.73%) Dell
12 4 (0.73%) VMware