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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 216 170
Rank change year-on-year -77 -46 +19
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 572 675 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.55% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.28% 8.99% 9.38%
Number of salaries quoted 407 516 1,199
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,365 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -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 7,854 7,508 17,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 17.19% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,662 5,102 12,587
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -76 478 £69,305 -7.59% 311
UK excluding London -77 283 £60,000 -7.69% 166
Work from Home -4 279 £65,000 -7.14% 194
London -89 194 £90,000 +2.86% 169
North of England -23 104 £67,500 - 43
South East -37 90 £57,500 -8.00% 59
North West -22 45 £70,905 +4.85% 18
Yorkshire -29 44 £52,130 -12.93% 12
South West -45 37 £62,500 -3.85% 18
Scotland -26 20 £66,250 -0.18% 6
East of England -31 19 £47,500 -9.52% 12
North East -18 15 £55,000 -20.73% 13
Midlands -42 15 £65,000 - 23
West Midlands -38 8 £57,500 -11.54% 12
East Midlands -34 7 £65,000 -7.14% 11
Wales -51 2 £59,401 -8.61% 4
Northern Ireland -42 1 £73,801 +34.18% 2

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 34 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 19 (3.32%) Apache
5 14 (2.45%) Confluence
6 13 (2.27%) OpenStack
7 11 (1.92%) SharePoint
8 9 (1.57%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.87%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.87%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.52%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.35%) Camunda
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.35%) WildFly
11 2 (0.35%) WordPress
12 1 (0.17%) CMS
12 1 (0.17%) IIS
12 1 (0.17%) JBoss
12 1 (0.17%) nginx
12 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.40%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Endur
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 354 (61.89%) AWS
2 213 (37.24%) Azure
3 122 (21.33%) GCP
4 105 (18.36%) Serverless
5 64 (11.19%) Amazon S3
6 60 (10.49%) AWS Lambda
7 55 (9.62%) GitHub
8 54 (9.44%) Amazon ECS
9 53 (9.27%) SaaS
10 49 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
11 39 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (6.47%) Power Platform
14 34 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (4.72%) Azure AKS
16 25 (4.37%) Azure Service Bus
17 24 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 20 (3.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.15%) Broadband
2 16 (2.80%) DNS
3 15 (2.62%) DHCP
3 15 (2.62%) Firewall
3 15 (2.62%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.57%) VPN
5 8 (1.40%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.40%) SAN
6 7 (1.22%) Internet
6 7 (1.22%) Network Security
6 7 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.52%) VLAN
8 2 (0.35%) HTTP
8 2 (0.35%) LAN
8 2 (0.35%) MQTT
8 2 (0.35%) PBX
8 2 (0.35%) WAN
9 1 (0.17%) LTE
9 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (26.75%) MongoDB
2 124 (21.68%) SQL Server
3 113 (19.76%) MySQL
4 96 (16.78%) Relational Database
5 94 (16.43%) NoSQL
6 37 (6.47%) Redis
7 33 (5.77%) DynamoDB
8 30 (5.24%) Power BI
9 28 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (3.32%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (3.15%) GIS
13 17 (2.97%) Oracle Database
14 16 (2.80%) BigQuery
15 15 (2.62%) RDBMS
16 14 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (2.27%) DB2
17 13 (2.27%) Pinecone
18 10 (1.75%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 128 (22.38%) Git
2 56 (9.79%) Jenkins
3 41 (7.17%) GitLab
4 27 (4.72%) JIRA
5 25 (4.37%) Cypress.io
6 20 (3.50%) Bitbucket
6 20 (3.50%) JUnit
7 17 (2.97%) TeamCity
8 15 (2.62%) Mockito
9 13 (2.27%) Selenium
10 12 (2.10%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.75%) Maven
12 9 (1.57%) Vite
13 6 (1.05%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.70%) Gradle
14 4 (0.70%) JMeter
14 4 (0.70%) Liquibase
15 3 (0.52%) Storybook
16 2 (0.35%) DBeaver
16 2 (0.35%) Jaeger
General
1 141 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 98 (17.13%) Finance
3 57 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 56 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (5.07%) Banking
6 29 (5.07%) Retail
7 28 (4.90%) Law
8 21 (3.67%) Games
9 19 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.97%) Front Office
11 13 (2.27%) Advertising
12 12 (2.10%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.57%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.22%) Legal
15 5 (0.87%) Automotive
15 5 (0.87%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.70%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 188 (32.87%) Developer
2 116 (20.28%) Senior
3 90 (15.73%) Software Engineer
4 83 (14.51%) Full-Stack Developer
5 80 (13.99%) Lead
6 47 (8.22%) Java Developer
7 43 (7.52%) Python Engineer
8 37 (6.47%) Data Engineer
9 35 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 33 (5.77%) Lead Developer
11 31 (5.42%) Java Engineer
12 30 (5.24%) Architect
13 25 (4.37%) Python Developer
14 24 (4.20%) Lead Software Engineer
15 23 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
16 20 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
17 19 (3.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 19 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 19 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
18 18 (3.15%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (32.69%) React
2 139 (24.30%) Node.js
3 97 (16.96%) RESTful
4 68 (11.89%) REST
5 65 (11.36%) Spring
6 61 (10.66%) Spring Boot
7 51 (8.92%) .NET
8 50 (8.74%) Kafka
9 49 (8.57%) FastAPI
10 43 (7.52%) CSS
10 43 (7.52%) HTML
11 42 (7.34%) Django
12 36 (6.29%) AngularJS
12 36 (6.29%) JSON
13 31 (5.42%) Next.js
14 29 (5.07%) Ruby on Rails
15 28 (4.90%) Jest
15 28 (4.90%) Vue
16 26 (4.55%) Flask
17 25 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 110 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 56 (9.79%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.50%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.50%) Low-Code
5 18 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.15%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (2.80%) Derivative
6 16 (2.80%) Equities
6 16 (2.80%) Fixed Income
6 16 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.62%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.62%) Replication
8 14 (2.45%) Blog
9 13 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.75%) SCADA
11 9 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 82 (14.34%) Linux
2 39 (6.82%) Windows
3 25 (4.37%) Unix
4 19 (3.32%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.22%) Android
6 7 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.70%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.52%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (43.53%) CI/CD
2 218 (38.11%) Agile
3 173 (30.24%) Full-Stack Development
3 173 (30.24%) Microservices
4 169 (29.55%) Software Engineering
5 145 (25.35%) DevOps
6 115 (20.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 113 (19.76%) Test Automation
8 109 (19.06%) AI
9 101 (17.66%) Mentoring
10 100 (17.48%) Containerisation
11 99 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 78 (13.64%) Scrum
14 70 (12.24%) Data Modelling
15 68 (11.89%) Analytics
16 65 (11.36%) Observability
17 61 (10.66%) TDD
18 54 (9.44%) Data Pipeline
19 51 (8.92%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 254 (44.41%) Python
2 175 (30.59%) Java
3 170 (29.72%) SQL
4 145 (25.35%) JavaScript
5 117 (20.45%) TypeScript
6 50 (8.74%) C#
7 49 (8.57%) Go
8 32 (5.59%) Ruby
9 30 (5.24%) PowerShell
10 26 (4.55%) PHP
11 20 (3.50%) Bash
12 17 (2.97%) C
13 11 (1.92%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.75%) C++
14 10 (1.75%) Scala
15 9 (1.57%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.40%) Perl
17 7 (1.22%) Delphi
17 7 (1.22%) Korn
17 7 (1.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.41%) Degree
3 57 (9.97%) SC Cleared
4 33 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.52%) RHCE
12 2 (0.35%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.35%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.39%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.55%) QA
3 16 (2.80%) GDPR
4 15 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.52%) NCSC
6 3 (0.52%) SLA
7 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.35%) WCAG
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.17%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.17%) HL7
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 177 (30.94%) Docker
2 30 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Firmware
5 2 (0.35%) Samba
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 183 (31.99%) Kubernetes
2 130 (22.73%) Terraform
3 44 (7.69%) Ansible
4 34 (5.94%) Grafana
5 31 (5.42%) Argo
6 23 (4.02%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.05%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.05%) Puppet
8 5 (0.87%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.87%) Data Guard
8 5 (0.87%) Istio
8 5 (0.87%) Kibana
9 4 (0.70%) Control-M
9 4 (0.70%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.70%) Nagios
9 4 (0.70%) Rancher
10 3 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.52%) Packer
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.35%) Plesk
Vendors
1 69 (12.06%) Oracle
2 58 (10.14%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.42%) Google
4 23 (4.02%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.80%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.92%) Informatica
7 9 (1.57%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.57%) ESRI
8 8 (1.40%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.40%) Databricks
8 8 (1.40%) Dell
9 7 (1.22%) Pega
10 6 (1.05%) Confluent
10 6 (1.05%) Talend
11 5 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.87%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.70%) Splunk
12 4 (0.70%) VMware
13 3 (0.52%) IBM
13 3 (0.52%) Revolut