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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 132 186
Rank change year-on-year -120 +54 +3
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 500 1,155 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.81% 2.18% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.58% 12.22% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 346 536 908
10th Percentile £42,213 £48,934 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £60,000 £52,076
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.71% +10.61% +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 6,597 9,450 12,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.72% 17.84% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,154 5,240 10,013
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,375 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £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 21 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 21 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 -126 430 £75,000 -3.23% 609
London -68 248 £90,000 +2.86% 167
Work from Home -109 218 £73,801 +5.43% 367
UK excluding London -162 209 £61,250 -7.71% 528
North of England 0 77 £73,801 +6.48% 94
South East -131 43 £60,000 -25.00% 178
Yorkshire +5 38 £65,000 +8.81% 32
Midlands -6 32 £55,200 -15.08% 55
North West -10 31 £85,000 +22.64% 50
South West -48 27 £54,000 -16.92% 70
West Midlands +11 22 £55,200 -15.08% 23
Scotland -32 15 £73,801 +27.24% 34
East of England -48 12 £42,500 -26.09% 73
East Midlands -23 10 £60,100 +0.17% 31
North East +5 8 £55,200 -20.35% 13
Wales -23 5 £73,801 +13.54% 25
Northern Ireland -12 3 £73,801 +11.98% 11

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 39 (7.80%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.80%) WebSphere
4 18 (3.60%) Confluence
5 17 (3.40%) Tomcat
6 16 (3.20%) WebSphere Application Server
7 13 (2.60%) OpenStack
8 8 (1.60%) nginx
9 7 (1.40%) ArcGIS
10 6 (1.20%) Apache
11 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.80%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.60%) CMS
12 3 (0.60%) Luigi
12 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.60%) WildFly
13 2 (0.40%) Camunda
13 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (0.60%) 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
1 354 (70.80%) AWS
2 169 (33.80%) Azure
3 127 (25.40%) GCP
4 93 (18.60%) Serverless
5 69 (13.80%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (12.20%) Amazon S3
7 59 (11.80%) GitHub
8 53 (10.60%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (9.80%) dbt
10 47 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (9.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (7.40%) SaaS
14 35 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (6.40%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (5.40%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (4.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 21 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (4.20%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.20%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.80%) SSL
3 13 (2.60%) Firewall
4 10 (2.00%) VPN
5 9 (1.80%) DNS
6 8 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.40%) Internet
8 6 (1.20%) HTTP
9 5 (1.00%) Network Security
9 5 (1.00%) VLAN
10 4 (0.80%) FTP
10 4 (0.80%) IMAP
10 4 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (0.80%) SMTP
10 4 (0.80%) SSH
11 3 (0.60%) DHCP
11 3 (0.60%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.60%) MQTT
11 3 (0.60%) SAN
11 3 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (25.20%) SQL Server
2 100 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 93 (18.60%) MySQL
4 89 (17.80%) MongoDB
5 74 (14.80%) NoSQL
6 43 (8.60%) Redis
7 38 (7.60%) Amazon RDS
8 37 (7.40%) Data Warehouse
8 37 (7.40%) DB2
9 32 (6.40%) DynamoDB
9 32 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (5.80%) RDBMS
11 24 (4.80%) Apache Iceberg
12 20 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (4.00%) Apache Arrow
12 20 (4.00%) Dremio
13 19 (3.80%) Apache Cassandra
13 19 (3.80%) Power BI
14 15 (3.00%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.80%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (22.00%) Git
2 95 (19.00%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.80%) JIRA
4 33 (6.60%) GitLab
5 32 (6.40%) JUnit
6 28 (5.60%) Cucumber
7 26 (5.20%) Selenium
8 21 (4.20%) Bitbucket
9 18 (3.60%) JMeter
9 18 (3.60%) Mockito
10 17 (3.40%) Cypress.io
11 14 (2.80%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.60%) Vite
13 6 (1.20%) CircleCI
14 5 (1.00%) Maven
14 5 (1.00%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.00%) Subversion
15 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.80%) Vagrant
16 3 (0.60%) Gradle
General
1 137 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 108 (21.60%) Finance
3 44 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.60%) Banking
5 37 (7.40%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.80%) Law
7 21 (4.20%) Front Office
8 19 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.00%) Retail
10 12 (2.40%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.20%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.00%) Marketing
13 9 (1.80%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.20%) Electronics
15 6 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.00%) Advertising
16 5 (1.00%) Legal
16 5 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 186 (37.20%) Developer
2 98 (19.60%) Senior
3 75 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 65 (13.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 59 (11.80%) Java Developer
6 46 (9.20%) Lead
7 35 (7.00%) Python Developer
8 32 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (6.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 30 (6.00%) Python Engineer
10 25 (5.00%) AWS Developer
10 25 (5.00%) Data Engineer
10 25 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
10 25 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
11 22 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
12 21 (4.20%) Architect
12 21 (4.20%) AWS Software Engineer
12 21 (4.20%) Linux Support
13 20 (4.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 19 (3.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (31.60%) React
2 103 (20.60%) Node.js
3 82 (16.40%) Spring
4 77 (15.40%) Spring Boot
5 72 (14.40%) REST
6 70 (14.00%) Django
7 67 (13.40%) RESTful
8 57 (11.40%) AngularJS
8 57 (11.40%) FastAPI
9 54 (10.80%) HTML
10 49 (9.80%) Kafka
11 47 (9.40%) .NET
12 45 (9.00%) CSS
13 44 (8.80%) Vue
14 37 (7.40%) Elastic Stack
15 33 (6.60%) Flask
16 31 (6.20%) Web Services
17 26 (5.20%) Next.js
18 24 (4.80%) .NET Core
19 22 (4.40%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.40%) Distributed Systems
2 56 (11.20%) Cloud Native
3 28 (5.60%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (4.80%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.60%) Product Ownership
6 20 (4.00%) Equities
6 20 (4.00%) Fixed Income
6 20 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 16 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.80%) Replication
9 13 (2.60%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.80%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.20%) Clustering
13 6 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 105 (21.00%) Linux
2 47 (9.40%) Unix
3 42 (8.40%) Windows
4 23 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.80%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.80%) Android
6 9 (1.80%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.60%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.60%) Debian
10 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.40%) CentOS
11 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.20%) Fedora
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 193 (38.60%) Agile
3 155 (31.00%) Microservices
4 144 (28.80%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (28.40%) Software Engineering
6 141 (28.20%) DevOps
7 118 (23.60%) Full-Stack Development
8 93 (18.60%) Containerisation
9 78 (15.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 77 (15.40%) AI
11 69 (13.80%) Fintech
11 69 (13.80%) Test Automation
12 59 (11.80%) Scrum
13 58 (11.60%) TDD
14 55 (11.00%) Clean Code
15 54 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
16 53 (10.60%) Mentoring
17 52 (10.40%) ETL
18 47 (9.40%) BDD
18 47 (9.40%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 247 (49.40%) Python
2 155 (31.00%) Java
3 154 (30.80%) SQL
4 143 (28.60%) JavaScript
5 106 (21.20%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.80%) C#
7 29 (5.80%) Go
8 19 (3.80%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.60%) PowerShell
10 17 (3.40%) PHP
11 16 (3.20%) Ruby
12 15 (3.00%) C
13 9 (1.80%) Delphi
13 9 (1.80%) Rust
14 6 (1.20%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.00%) Bash
16 4 (0.80%) C++
16 4 (0.80%) Groovy
16 4 (0.80%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 72 (14.40%) Degree
3 60 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.80%) AWS Certification
5 30 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.60%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.40%) 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%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.60%) SLA
2 17 (3.40%) QA
3 16 (3.20%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.80%) GDPR
5 4 (0.80%) 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
1 196 (39.20%) Docker
2 6 (1.20%) 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
4 3 (0.60%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.40%) NFS
5 2 (0.40%) pfSense
5 2 (0.40%) Samba
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 168 (33.60%) Kubernetes
2 102 (20.40%) Terraform
3 41 (8.20%) Ansible
4 28 (5.60%) Grafana
5 19 (3.80%) Kibana
6 16 (3.20%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.40%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (2.20%) Argo
9 6 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.00%) Puppet
11 4 (0.80%) Control-M
11 4 (0.80%) Nessus
11 4 (0.80%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.60%) Nagios
12 3 (0.60%) Rancher
13 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.20%) Ambari
14 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (15.40%) Oracle
2 34 (6.80%) Google
3 29 (5.80%) Red Hat
4 25 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 23 (4.60%) IBM
6 19 (3.80%) Informatica
7 18 (3.60%) ServiceNow
8 17 (3.40%) Splunk
9 16 (3.20%) Atlassian
10 13 (2.60%) Dynatrace
10 13 (2.60%) OpenAI
10 13 (2.60%) Talend
11 8 (1.60%) SAP
12 7 (1.40%) ESRI
13 5 (1.00%) Dell
13 5 (1.00%) VMware
14 4 (0.80%) Jaspersoft
14 4 (0.80%) Pega
14 4 (0.80%) WSO2
15 3 (0.60%) CA Agile Central