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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 224 167
Rank change year-on-year -39 -57 +35
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 744 717 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.46% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.59% 9.43% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 575 527 991
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -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 8,661 7,600 15,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.65% 15.46% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,806 4,895 10,375
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -51 641 £69,310 -7.59% 311
Work from Home +38 382 £67,500 -15.63% 172
UK excluding London -60 373 £62,500 -3.85% 166
London -73 273 £85,000 -18.47% 190
South East -13 124 £59,500 +8.18% 50
North of England -13 120 £65,000 -3.70% 46
North West -18 50 £65,000 -3.70% 27
South West -47 49 £62,500 +4.17% 20
North East -25 37 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Yorkshire -35 33 £65,000 -3.70% 13
East of England -10 29 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Midlands -39 24 £75,000 +11.01% 17
West Midlands -25 20 £80,000 +18.30% 9
Scotland -3 16 £65,000 -3.70% 15
Wales -56 15 £70,000 -9.68% 2
East Midlands -31 4 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Northern Ireland -71 1 £73,801 +34.18% 8

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 28 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (3.23%) Confluence
4 23 (3.09%) Apache
4 23 (3.09%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.81%) Camunda
6 6 (0.81%) WordPress
7 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Documentum
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 432 (58.06%) AWS
2 285 (38.31%) Azure
3 132 (17.74%) GCP
4 94 (12.63%) Serverless
5 92 (12.37%) GitHub
6 70 (9.41%) Amazon S3
7 68 (9.14%) SaaS
8 61 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (6.05%) Amazon SQS
13 44 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (5.78%) Power Platform
15 36 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
17 27 (3.63%) Azure AKS
17 27 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (2.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.70%) Broadband
2 15 (2.02%) Firewall
3 13 (1.75%) DNS
4 12 (1.61%) DHCP
4 12 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.08%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.08%) SAN
5 8 (1.08%) VPN
6 4 (0.54%) Network Security
6 4 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.40%) HTTP
7 3 (0.40%) SMS
8 2 (0.27%) AMQP
8 2 (0.27%) MQTT
8 2 (0.27%) PBX
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
9 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.13%) LTE
9 1 (0.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (27.02%) MongoDB
2 184 (24.73%) MySQL
3 116 (15.59%) Relational Database
3 116 (15.59%) SQL Server
4 107 (14.38%) NoSQL
5 84 (11.29%) Redis
6 34 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (4.44%) Power BI
8 32 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (4.03%) DynamoDB
10 22 (2.96%) Metadata
11 21 (2.82%) Big Data
12 20 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (2.02%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.88%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.88%) DTS
15 14 (1.88%) GIS
Development Applications
1 143 (19.22%) Git
2 52 (6.99%) Jenkins
3 48 (6.45%) GitLab
4 33 (4.44%) JIRA
5 25 (3.36%) JUnit
6 23 (3.09%) Cypress.io
7 21 (2.82%) Mockito
8 14 (1.88%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.75%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.34%) JMeter
10 10 (1.34%) Vite
11 9 (1.21%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.08%) Maven
13 6 (0.81%) Selenium
14 5 (0.67%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.67%) Gatling
14 5 (0.67%) RSpec
15 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.54%) minitest
16 3 (0.40%) Eclipse
General
1 159 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 102 (13.71%) Finance
3 101 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 69 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (4.57%) Games
7 29 (3.90%) Law
8 27 (3.63%) Banking
8 27 (3.63%) Retail
9 19 (2.55%) Legal
9 19 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.15%) Front Office
12 15 (2.02%) Advertising
13 11 (1.48%) Legal Technology
14 10 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.21%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.21%) Tech for Good
16 8 (1.08%) Automotive
16 8 (1.08%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 250 (33.60%) Developer
2 175 (23.52%) Senior
3 147 (19.76%) Software Engineer
4 128 (17.20%) Lead
5 83 (11.16%) Full-Stack Developer
6 65 (8.74%) Python Engineer
7 52 (6.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 50 (6.72%) Lead Developer
8 50 (6.72%) Python Developer
9 48 (6.45%) Data Engineer
10 46 (6.18%) Architect
11 42 (5.65%) Lead Software Engineer
12 40 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
12 40 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
13 38 (5.11%) Java Developer
14 35 (4.70%) Software Developer
15 34 (4.57%) Senior Developer
16 32 (4.30%) Java Engineer
17 30 (4.03%) Ruby Developer
18 22 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (25.54%) React
2 175 (23.52%) Node.js
3 143 (19.22%) RESTful
4 100 (13.44%) REST
5 91 (12.23%) Spring
6 88 (11.83%) Spring Boot
7 79 (10.62%) Kafka
8 60 (8.06%) CSS
8 60 (8.06%) FastAPI
9 58 (7.80%) Ruby on Rails
10 55 (7.39%) Next.js
11 54 (7.26%) HTML
12 53 (7.12%) JSON
13 48 (6.45%) .NET
14 37 (4.97%) AngularJS
15 36 (4.84%) Jest
16 35 (4.70%) Django
17 33 (4.44%) Vue
18 28 (3.76%) Hibernate
18 28 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 155 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 92 (12.37%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.24%) Low-Code
4 34 (4.57%) Product Ownership
5 33 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 32 (4.30%) Video\Live Streaming
7 27 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (3.09%) Blog
8 23 (3.09%) Data Structures
9 21 (2.82%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.82%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.42%) Replication
11 16 (2.15%) Derivative
11 16 (2.15%) Equities
11 16 (2.15%) Fixed Income
12 15 (2.02%) Management Information System
12 15 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (14.65%) Linux
2 41 (5.51%) Windows
3 21 (2.82%) Unix
4 15 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.40%) CentOS
8 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Android
9 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (44.89%) CI/CD
2 268 (36.02%) Agile
3 258 (34.68%) Software Engineering
4 221 (29.70%) Microservices
5 214 (28.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 192 (25.81%) DevOps
7 185 (24.87%) AI
8 163 (21.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 158 (21.24%) Mentoring
10 139 (18.68%) Containerisation
11 132 (17.74%) Test Automation
12 128 (17.20%) Observability
13 123 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 122 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
15 95 (12.77%) API Design
16 90 (12.10%) Analytics
17 88 (11.83%) Clean Code
17 88 (11.83%) Data Modelling
18 79 (10.62%) Scrum
19 77 (10.35%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 328 (44.09%) Python
2 216 (29.03%) SQL
3 202 (27.15%) Java
4 172 (23.12%) JavaScript
5 138 (18.55%) TypeScript
6 61 (8.20%) Ruby
7 57 (7.66%) C#
8 56 (7.53%) Go
9 42 (5.65%) PowerShell
10 36 (4.84%) Bash
11 26 (3.49%) PHP
12 18 (2.42%) Scala
13 17 (2.28%) C++
14 12 (1.61%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.61%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.34%) RPG
16 8 (1.08%) Perl
17 6 (0.81%) Korn
17 6 (0.81%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 79 (10.62%) Degree
3 71 (9.54%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.81%) PhD
11 4 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.40%) RHCE
13 2 (0.27%) CISSP
13 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.27%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.27%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.65%) QA
3 24 (3.23%) GDPR
4 16 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.54%) WCAG
7 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.40%) SLA
8 2 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.27%) NCSC
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 216 (29.03%) Docker
2 27 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 2 (0.27%) Samba
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 199 (26.75%) Kubernetes
2 156 (20.97%) Terraform
3 41 (5.51%) Ansible
4 40 (5.38%) Grafana
5 29 (3.90%) Argo
6 26 (3.49%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.34%) Kibana
8 6 (0.81%) Istio
8 6 (0.81%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.81%) Puppet
9 5 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.54%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.40%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.40%) Packer
11 3 (0.40%) Plesk
11 3 (0.40%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 79 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.54%) Oracle
3 47 (6.32%) Google
4 23 (3.09%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.55%) Databricks
6 18 (2.42%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.28%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.75%) IBM
8 13 (1.75%) Splunk
9 8 (1.08%) Dell
9 8 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.94%) Pega
11 6 (0.81%) Informatica
11 6 (0.81%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.67%) Meraki
13 4 (0.54%) Confluent
13 4 (0.54%) Netezza
13 4 (0.54%) Remedy
14 3 (0.40%) ESRI
14 3 (0.40%) TIBCO