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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 136 178
Rank change year-on-year -122 +42 +7
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 505 1,151 1,152
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 2.20% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.66% 12.28% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 340 538 982
10th Percentile £41,858 £49,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,313 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,901 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +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 £60,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.59% +10.61% +6.23%

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 6,595 9,371 13,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.42% 17.87% 20.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4,119 5,201 10,732
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,623 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
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 29 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 29 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 -130 433 £75,000 -6.17% 485
London -78 247 £90,000 +2.86% 162
Work from Home -106 229 £70,000 - 329
UK excluding London -164 210 £60,000 -9.59% 405
North of England -8 76 £73,801 +6.48% 77
South East -131 45 £60,000 -25.00% 131
Yorkshire +1 36 £62,500 +23.90% 18
North West -10 32 £85,000 +19.73% 49
Midlands -24 31 £55,200 -15.08% 35
South West -48 26 £57,000 -12.31% 53
West Midlands +15 21 £55,200 -15.08% 18
Scotland -30 15 £73,801 +27.24% 30
East of England -37 14 £42,500 -26.09% 60
East Midlands -28 10 £60,100 +0.17% 17
North East -4 8 £55,200 -20.35% 11
Wales -23 5 £73,801 +13.54% 20
Northern Ireland -16 3 £73,801 +11.98% 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 36 (7.13%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.16%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.76%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.37%) Confluence
4 17 (3.37%) Tomcat
5 16 (3.17%) WebSphere Application Server
6 13 (2.57%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.58%) ArcGIS
8 7 (1.39%) Apache
9 6 (1.19%) nginx
10 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.79%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.59%) CMS
12 3 (0.59%) Luigi
12 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.59%) WildFly
13 2 (0.40%) Camunda
13 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.78%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 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
1 352 (69.70%) AWS
2 168 (33.27%) Azure
3 129 (25.54%) GCP
4 95 (18.81%) Serverless
5 68 (13.47%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (12.28%) Amazon S3
7 60 (11.88%) GitHub
8 55 (10.89%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (9.50%) dbt
11 45 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (8.32%) SaaS
13 39 (7.72%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (7.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (6.73%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (5.35%) Amazon ECR
17 23 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (4.55%) Power Platform
18 22 (4.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 21 (4.16%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.15%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.76%) SSL
3 11 (2.18%) Firewall
4 10 (1.98%) VPN
5 8 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.39%) DNS
6 7 (1.39%) Internet
7 6 (1.19%) Network Security
8 5 (0.99%) HTTP
8 5 (0.99%) VLAN
9 3 (0.59%) DHCP
9 3 (0.59%) FTP
9 3 (0.59%) IMAP
9 3 (0.59%) MQTT
9 3 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.59%) SMTP
9 3 (0.59%) SSH
9 3 (0.59%) WAN
10 2 (0.40%) PBX
10 2 (0.40%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (24.55%) SQL Server
2 102 (20.20%) Relational Database
3 88 (17.43%) MySQL
4 86 (17.03%) MongoDB
5 70 (13.86%) NoSQL
6 44 (8.71%) Redis
7 37 (7.33%) Amazon RDS
7 37 (7.33%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (7.33%) DB2
8 32 (6.34%) DynamoDB
8 32 (6.34%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (5.35%) RDBMS
10 21 (4.16%) Apache Iceberg
10 21 (4.16%) Power BI
11 19 (3.76%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (3.56%) Apache Arrow
13 17 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (3.37%) Dremio
14 15 (2.97%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.77%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 109 (21.58%) Git
2 91 (18.02%) Jenkins
3 33 (6.53%) GitLab
3 33 (6.53%) JIRA
4 31 (6.14%) JUnit
5 28 (5.54%) Cucumber
6 26 (5.15%) Selenium
7 21 (4.16%) Bitbucket
8 18 (3.56%) Cypress.io
8 18 (3.56%) TeamCity
9 17 (3.37%) JMeter
9 17 (3.37%) Mockito
10 7 (1.39%) Vite
11 6 (1.19%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.99%) Maven
12 5 (0.99%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.99%) Subversion
13 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.59%) Gradle
14 3 (0.59%) MLflow
General
1 139 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 111 (21.98%) Finance
3 49 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.91%) Banking
5 34 (6.73%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.34%) Law
7 28 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.76%) Retail
9 18 (3.56%) Front Office
10 11 (2.18%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.18%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.39%) Marketing
13 6 (1.19%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.99%) Electronics
14 5 (0.99%) Legal
14 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.79%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 182 (36.04%) Developer
2 96 (19.01%) Senior
3 79 (15.64%) Software Engineer
4 66 (13.07%) Full-Stack Developer
5 58 (11.49%) Java Developer
6 48 (9.50%) Lead
7 31 (6.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 30 (5.94%) Python Developer
9 27 (5.35%) Python Engineer
10 26 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (5.15%) Data Engineer
11 25 (4.95%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (4.36%) Architect
12 22 (4.36%) AWS Developer
12 22 (4.36%) Python Software Engineer
12 22 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
13 21 (4.16%) Java Engineer
14 20 (3.96%) Linux Support
15 19 (3.76%) Applications Support
16 18 (3.56%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (32.28%) React
2 105 (20.79%) Node.js
3 83 (16.44%) Spring
4 78 (15.45%) Spring Boot
5 71 (14.06%) REST
6 68 (13.47%) RESTful
7 67 (13.27%) Django
8 55 (10.89%) FastAPI
9 54 (10.69%) HTML
10 53 (10.50%) AngularJS
11 51 (10.10%) Kafka
12 47 (9.31%) .NET
13 45 (8.91%) CSS
14 41 (8.12%) Vue
15 37 (7.33%) Elastic Stack
16 31 (6.14%) Flask
17 29 (5.74%) Web Services
18 27 (5.35%) Next.js
19 25 (4.95%) .NET Core
20 23 (4.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.28%) Distributed Systems
2 60 (11.88%) Cloud Native
3 28 (5.54%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 23 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.37%) Equities
5 17 (3.37%) Fixed Income
5 17 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.38%) Blog
7 12 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.38%) Replication
8 11 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.78%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 102 (20.20%) Linux
2 46 (9.11%) Unix
3 38 (7.52%) Windows
4 22 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.57%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.78%) Android
6 9 (1.78%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.39%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.99%) VMS
9 3 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.59%) Debian
9 3 (0.59%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.40%) CentOS
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (43.96%) CI/CD
2 186 (36.83%) Agile
3 155 (30.69%) Microservices
4 152 (30.10%) Software Engineering
5 142 (28.12%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (27.72%) DevOps
7 121 (23.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 92 (18.22%) Containerisation
9 81 (16.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 75 (14.85%) AI
10 75 (14.85%) Test Automation
11 71 (14.06%) Fintech
12 61 (12.08%) Scrum
13 57 (11.29%) TDD
14 55 (10.89%) Clean Code
14 55 (10.89%) Mentoring
14 55 (10.89%) Technical Leadership
15 53 (10.50%) Data Modelling
16 52 (10.30%) ETL
17 46 (9.11%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 245 (48.51%) Python
2 166 (32.87%) Java
3 156 (30.89%) SQL
4 143 (28.32%) JavaScript
5 108 (21.39%) TypeScript
6 45 (8.91%) C#
7 30 (5.94%) Go
8 20 (3.96%) PowerShell
9 17 (3.37%) PHP
9 17 (3.37%) Ruby
9 17 (3.37%) Shell Script
10 16 (3.17%) C
11 9 (1.78%) Delphi
11 9 (1.78%) Rust
11 9 (1.78%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.19%) C++
13 5 (0.99%) Bash
14 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.59%) Perl
15 3 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 73 (14.46%) Degree
3 60 (11.88%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.53%) AWS Certification
5 32 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.56%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.39%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.99%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.40%) CCNA
13 2 (0.40%) CCNP
13 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.40%) HNC
13 2 (0.40%) HND
13 2 (0.40%) MCSA
13 2 (0.40%) MCSE
13 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.36%) SLA
2 19 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.56%) QA
4 14 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.57%) GDPR
6 8 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.59%) SEPA
8 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.40%) PSD2
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) GAAP
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 191 (37.82%) Docker
2 8 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.59%) DFS Replication
3 3 (0.59%) Dovecot
3 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.59%) Postfix
3 3 (0.59%) Squid
3 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.40%) NFS
4 2 (0.40%) pfSense
4 2 (0.40%) Samba
Systems Management
1 171 (33.86%) Kubernetes
2 106 (20.99%) Terraform
3 41 (8.12%) Ansible
4 32 (6.34%) Grafana
5 18 (3.56%) Kibana
6 16 (3.17%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.38%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (2.18%) Argo
9 6 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.99%) Puppet
11 4 (0.79%) Control-M
11 4 (0.79%) Nagios
12 3 (0.59%) Nessus
12 3 (0.59%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.59%) Rancher
13 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.20%) Ambari
14 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (15.25%) Oracle
2 35 (6.93%) Google
3 28 (5.54%) Red Hat
4 25 (4.95%) Microsoft
5 23 (4.55%) IBM
6 19 (3.76%) Informatica
7 16 (3.17%) Atlassian
8 15 (2.97%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.97%) Splunk
9 13 (2.57%) OpenAI
9 13 (2.57%) Talend
10 12 (2.38%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.58%) ESRI
12 7 (1.39%) SAP
13 5 (0.99%) VMware
14 4 (0.79%) Dell
14 4 (0.79%) Pega
14 4 (0.79%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.79%) WSO2
15 3 (0.59%) RedGate