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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 240 144
Rank change year-on-year -23 -96 +55
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 850 621 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.25% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.87% 8.86% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 606 428 660
10th Percentile £44,380 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%

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 8,609 7,011 11,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.30% 14.09% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,865 4,354 6,510
10th Percentile £36,436 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -24 722 £70,000 -12.50% 1,179
Work from Home +43 397 £67,500 -25.00% 502
UK excluding London -37 394 £65,000 - 389
London -47 340 £82,500 -21.43% 842
South East -6 128 £70,000 +5.66% 85
North of England -25 120 £65,000 -3.70% 107
North West -8 55 £62,500 -10.71% 64
South West -60 51 £82,500 +52.78% 35
Midlands -41 41 £75,000 +5.26% 37
North East -37 39 £65,000 +25.30% 16
West Midlands -40 31 £85,000 +17.24% 27
East of England -35 28 £52,500 +72.13% 45
Wales -51 27 £64,500 -0.77% 17
Yorkshire -30 26 £67,155 -4.06% 31
Scotland -4 11 £65,000 -11.93% 41
East Midlands -31 10 £60,000 +20.00% 10
Northern Ireland -83 1 - - 24

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 26 (3.06%) Apache Spark
1 26 (3.06%) Confluence
2 25 (2.94%) Apache
3 24 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.82%) Camunda
4 7 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.71%) WordPress
6 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.47%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.47%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.47%) nginx
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.35%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.24%) Luigi
9 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.24%) Tornado
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Finacle
2 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 503 (59.18%) AWS
2 288 (33.88%) Azure
3 162 (19.06%) GitHub
4 130 (15.29%) GCP
5 98 (11.53%) Serverless
6 90 (10.59%) SaaS
7 73 (8.59%) Amazon S3
7 73 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
8 72 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
9 70 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (5.41%) GitHub Copilot
13 43 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (3.65%) Azure AKS
16 30 (3.53%) Power Platform
17 26 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
18 23 (2.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.29%) Broadband
2 21 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 17 (2.00%) VPN
4 14 (1.65%) Firewall
4 14 (1.65%) SMS
5 13 (1.53%) AMQP
6 12 (1.41%) BGP
7 10 (1.18%) DNS
8 9 (1.06%) VLAN
9 6 (0.71%) HTTP
9 6 (0.71%) Network Security
10 4 (0.47%) DHCP
10 4 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.35%) 4G
11 3 (0.35%) 5G
11 3 (0.35%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.35%) SAN
11 3 (0.35%) SSH
12 2 (0.24%) OpenVPN
13 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (24.94%) MongoDB
2 188 (22.12%) MySQL
3 142 (16.71%) Relational Database
4 136 (16.00%) SQL Server
5 112 (13.18%) Redis
6 100 (11.76%) NoSQL
7 64 (7.53%) Amazon RDS
8 46 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
9 44 (5.18%) DynamoDB
10 31 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 31 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (2.59%) Power BI
12 21 (2.47%) Big Data
12 21 (2.47%) Metadata
13 20 (2.35%) Pinecone
14 18 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (2.00%) Oracle Database
16 16 (1.88%) Data Lake
17 15 (1.76%) Chroma
18 14 (1.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 206 (24.24%) Git
2 82 (9.65%) Jenkins
3 70 (8.24%) GitLab
4 31 (3.65%) TeamCity
5 28 (3.29%) JIRA
6 27 (3.18%) Cypress.io
6 27 (3.18%) JUnit
7 20 (2.35%) Mockito
8 13 (1.53%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.41%) JMeter
9 12 (1.41%) Vite
10 10 (1.18%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.94%) Selenium
12 7 (0.82%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.82%) Maven
12 7 (0.82%) Mocha
12 7 (0.82%) RSpec
12 7 (0.82%) Storybook
13 5 (0.59%) Appium
13 5 (0.59%) Eclipse
General
1 206 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 114 (13.41%) Finance
2 114 (13.41%) Public Sector
3 86 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (9.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (7.06%) Banking
6 56 (6.59%) Law
7 37 (4.35%) Retail
8 27 (3.18%) Games
9 23 (2.71%) Legal
10 22 (2.59%) Tech for Good
11 18 (2.12%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.76%) Health Technology
13 15 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.53%) Legal Technology
15 12 (1.41%) Back Office
16 9 (1.06%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.94%) Marketing
17 8 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 287 (33.76%) Developer
2 255 (30.00%) Senior
3 173 (20.35%) Software Engineer
4 117 (13.76%) Lead
5 83 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 72 (8.47%) Senior Developer
7 69 (8.12%) Senior Software Engineer
8 61 (7.18%) Python Engineer
9 54 (6.35%) Data Engineer
10 51 (6.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 51 (6.00%) Java Developer
10 51 (6.00%) Python Developer
11 49 (5.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 47 (5.53%) Software Developer
13 43 (5.06%) DBA
14 41 (4.82%) Architect
15 35 (4.12%) Lead Developer
16 34 (4.00%) Database Engineer
17 32 (3.76%) Ruby Developer
18 30 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (25.41%) Terraform
2 213 (25.06%) React
3 177 (20.82%) Node.js
4 153 (18.00%) RESTful
5 130 (15.29%) REST
6 118 (13.88%) Kafka
6 118 (13.88%) Spring
7 113 (13.29%) Spring Boot
8 83 (9.76%) .NET
9 72 (8.47%) CSS
10 68 (8.00%) Next.js
11 61 (7.18%) FastAPI
11 61 (7.18%) Ruby on Rails
12 59 (6.94%) HTML
13 55 (6.47%) RabbitMQ
14 51 (6.00%) Jest
15 46 (5.41%) AngularJS
16 42 (4.94%) JPA
17 41 (4.82%) JSON
18 40 (4.71%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 183 (21.53%) Cloud Native
2 138 (16.24%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.29%) Blog
4 40 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 35 (4.12%) AI Agents
6 30 (3.53%) Low-Code
7 29 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (3.29%) Replication
9 25 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
10 24 (2.82%) Onboarding
10 24 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (2.59%) Virtual Team
13 17 (2.00%) Data Structures
13 17 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (1.76%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.76%) Management Information System
15 14 (1.65%) Public Cloud
16 13 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
17 12 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 124 (14.59%) Linux
2 39 (4.59%) Windows
3 19 (2.24%) Unix
4 15 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.71%) Android
5 6 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.71%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (49.76%) CI/CD
2 317 (37.29%) Software Engineering
3 301 (35.41%) Agile
4 249 (29.29%) AI
4 249 (29.29%) Microservices
5 227 (26.71%) DevOps
6 223 (26.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 206 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 200 (23.53%) Observability
9 169 (19.88%) Mentoring
10 163 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
11 154 (18.12%) Test Automation
12 151 (17.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 146 (17.18%) Containerisation
14 118 (13.88%) Clean Code
15 117 (13.76%) Event-Driven
16 97 (11.41%) Scrum
17 94 (11.06%) API Design
18 89 (10.47%) Analytics
19 88 (10.35%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 345 (40.59%) Python
2 248 (29.18%) SQL
3 227 (26.71%) Java
4 181 (21.29%) JavaScript
5 166 (19.53%) TypeScript
6 82 (9.65%) C#
7 74 (8.71%) Go
8 63 (7.41%) Ruby
9 51 (6.00%) Bash
10 27 (3.18%) PHP
11 24 (2.82%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.35%) Scala
13 16 (1.88%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.53%) C++
15 12 (1.41%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.29%) Groovy
17 10 (1.18%) RPG
18 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.47%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 138 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 91 (10.71%) Degree
4 29 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 23 (2.71%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.06%) PhD
10 8 (0.94%) CISSP
11 7 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.71%) CCSP
12 6 (0.71%) CISM
13 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.88%) QA
2 53 (6.24%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.29%) GDPR
4 23 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.88%) SOC 2
7 13 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.71%) NIST
9 5 (0.59%) SLA
10 4 (0.47%) WCAG
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 280 (32.94%) Docker
2 9 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
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 Machines
Systems Management
1 248 (29.18%) Kubernetes
2 103 (12.12%) Grafana
3 66 (7.76%) Ansible
4 64 (7.53%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.24%) Argo
6 13 (1.53%) Kibana
7 12 (1.41%) Rancher
8 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.82%) Istio
10 6 (0.71%) Cilium
10 6 (0.71%) logstash
10 6 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.71%) Puppet
10 6 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.59%) Packer
12 4 (0.47%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.35%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.24%) Bugsnag
14 2 (0.24%) Plesk
Vendors
1 83 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.94%) Oracle
3 44 (5.18%) Google
4 34 (4.00%) OpenAI
5 31 (3.65%) Databricks
6 28 (3.29%) Dynatrace
7 26 (3.06%) Splunk
8 17 (2.00%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.76%) Mistral
9 15 (1.76%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.65%) IBM
11 8 (0.94%) Informatica
12 5 (0.59%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.59%) VMware
13 4 (0.47%) ESRI
13 4 (0.47%) Netezza
13 4 (0.47%) Remedy
13 4 (0.47%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.47%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.35%) Dell