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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 184 173
Rank change year-on-year -119 -11 +14
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 548 727 1,604
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.73% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.02% 9.90% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 395 526 1,170
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £58,875 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,250 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £109,000 £132,500 £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 7,811 7,342 17,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.78% 17.47% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,599 5,135 12,572
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,100 £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 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -114 456 £69,305 -7.59% 222
UK excluding London -122 274 £60,000 -7.69% 153
Work from Home -39 260 £65,000 -7.14% 342
London -110 187 £88,750 +1.43% 107
North of England -38 102 £67,500 - 30
South East -85 80 £57,500 -16.36% 56
Yorkshire -28 48 £56,065 -6.35% 6
North West -35 42 £73,401 +8.54% 14
South West -40 33 £62,500 -3.85% 18
Scotland -34 20 £66,250 +2.82% 11
Midlands -51 20 £55,200 -15.08% 19
East of England -56 20 £47,500 -17.39% 10
North East -38 12 £52,130 -24.87% 10
West Midlands -39 11 £47,500 -26.92% 8
East Midlands -57 9 £60,100 -14.14% 11
Wales -52 3 £55,200 -15.08% 5
Northern Ireland -44 1 £73,801 +34.18% 5

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 32 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 17 (3.10%) Apache
5 13 (2.37%) Confluence
5 13 (2.37%) OpenStack
6 11 (2.01%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.64%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.91%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.91%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.36%) Camunda
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.36%) WildFly
10 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 334 (60.95%) AWS
2 207 (37.77%) Azure
3 123 (22.45%) GCP
4 99 (18.07%) Serverless
5 64 (11.68%) Amazon S3
6 59 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (10.77%) GitHub
7 49 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
7 49 (8.94%) Amazon SQS
7 49 (8.94%) SaaS
8 37 (6.75%) Power Platform
9 36 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
9 36 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (6.39%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
12 30 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (4.01%) Azure AKS
14 22 (4.01%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.92%) DNS
2 15 (2.74%) DHCP
3 14 (2.55%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.37%) Firewall
5 9 (1.64%) VPN
6 7 (1.28%) Broadband
6 7 (1.28%) Internet
6 7 (1.28%) iSCSI
6 7 (1.28%) Network Security
6 7 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (1.28%) SAN
6 7 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.55%) HTTP
7 3 (0.55%) VLAN
8 2 (0.36%) LAN
8 2 (0.36%) MQTT
8 2 (0.36%) PBX
8 2 (0.36%) SSL
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (23.91%) MongoDB
2 130 (23.72%) SQL Server
3 110 (20.07%) MySQL
4 94 (17.15%) NoSQL
5 93 (16.97%) Relational Database
6 35 (6.39%) DynamoDB
7 34 (6.20%) Redis
8 30 (5.47%) Power BI
9 27 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (3.47%) Apache Cassandra
11 16 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (2.92%) BigQuery
11 16 (2.92%) GIS
11 16 (2.92%) Oracle Database
12 15 (2.74%) DB2
12 15 (2.74%) RDBMS
13 14 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.37%) Pinecone
15 9 (1.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 127 (23.18%) Git
2 59 (10.77%) Jenkins
3 42 (7.66%) GitLab
4 26 (4.74%) JIRA
4 26 (4.74%) JUnit
5 23 (4.20%) Cypress.io
6 21 (3.83%) Bitbucket
6 21 (3.83%) Selenium
7 19 (3.47%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.28%) TeamCity
9 14 (2.55%) Mockito
10 10 (1.82%) Maven
11 9 (1.64%) Vite
12 6 (1.09%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.91%) Gradle
14 4 (0.73%) JMeter
15 3 (0.55%) Liquibase
15 3 (0.55%) Storybook
15 3 (0.55%) Subversion
16 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
General
1 138 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 100 (18.25%) Finance
3 54 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.66%) Banking
7 28 (5.11%) Law
8 27 (4.93%) Retail
9 18 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (3.10%) Front Office
11 13 (2.37%) Advertising
12 10 (1.82%) Games
12 10 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.64%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.28%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.09%) Legal
17 5 (0.91%) Automotive
18 4 (0.73%) Telecoms
19 3 (0.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 177 (32.30%) Developer
2 110 (20.07%) Senior
3 89 (16.24%) Software Engineer
4 77 (14.05%) Lead
5 75 (13.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (8.58%) Java Developer
7 39 (7.12%) Python Engineer
8 38 (6.93%) Data Engineer
9 33 (6.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (5.66%) Java Engineer
11 29 (5.29%) Lead Developer
12 26 (4.74%) Architect
13 24 (4.38%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (3.65%) Software Developer
16 19 (3.47%) Analyst
16 19 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.47%) Java Software Engineer
16 19 (3.47%) Python Developer
16 19 (3.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (33.39%) React
2 125 (22.81%) Node.js
3 86 (15.69%) RESTful
4 71 (12.96%) Spring
5 67 (12.23%) Spring Boot
6 63 (11.50%) REST
7 49 (8.94%) Django
7 49 (8.94%) FastAPI
7 49 (8.94%) Kafka
8 46 (8.39%) .NET
9 40 (7.30%) HTML
10 39 (7.12%) CSS
11 35 (6.39%) AngularJS
12 33 (6.02%) JSON
13 32 (5.84%) Elastic Stack
14 30 (5.47%) Flask
15 28 (5.11%) Next.js
16 27 (4.93%) Vue
17 24 (4.38%) Jest
17 24 (4.38%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 94 (17.15%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.65%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.92%) Derivative
7 16 (2.92%) Equities
7 16 (2.92%) Fixed Income
7 16 (2.92%) Replication
8 14 (2.55%) Blog
9 13 (2.37%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.82%) SCADA
10 10 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.46%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 76 (13.87%) Linux
2 34 (6.20%) Windows
3 23 (4.20%) Unix
4 16 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.28%) Android
6 7 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.09%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.55%) CentOS
10 2 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.18%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) Debian
11 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (42.52%) CI/CD
2 208 (37.96%) Agile
3 176 (32.12%) Microservices
4 160 (29.20%) Software Engineering
5 150 (27.37%) Full-Stack Development
6 146 (26.64%) DevOps
7 106 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (19.16%) Test Automation
9 102 (18.61%) Containerisation
10 101 (18.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 100 (18.25%) AI
11 100 (18.25%) Mentoring
12 72 (13.14%) Scrum
13 69 (12.59%) Data Modelling
14 66 (12.04%) TDD
15 64 (11.68%) Analytics
16 60 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (9.31%) Observability
18 50 (9.12%) Data Pipeline
18 50 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 244 (44.53%) Python
2 180 (32.85%) SQL
3 178 (32.48%) Java
4 138 (25.18%) JavaScript
5 106 (19.34%) TypeScript
6 45 (8.21%) C#
7 39 (7.12%) Go
8 30 (5.47%) PowerShell
9 27 (4.93%) Ruby
10 25 (4.56%) PHP
11 18 (3.28%) Bash
11 18 (3.28%) C
12 13 (2.37%) Delphi
13 11 (2.01%) Shell Script
13 11 (2.01%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.82%) C++
15 8 (1.46%) Perl
15 8 (1.46%) Scala
16 7 (1.28%) VB
17 6 (1.09%) Korn
Qualifications
1 81 (14.78%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.41%) Degree
3 55 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.37%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.19%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.91%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.55%) RHCE
12 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.36%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.56%) QA
3 15 (2.74%) GDPR
3 15 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.73%) SLA
6 3 (0.55%) NCSC
7 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.36%) WCAG
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.18%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 179 (32.66%) Docker
2 29 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 185 (33.76%) Kubernetes
2 126 (22.99%) Terraform
3 40 (7.30%) Ansible
3 40 (7.30%) Grafana
4 27 (4.93%) Argo
5 24 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (0.91%) Data Guard
6 5 (0.91%) Istio
6 5 (0.91%) Kibana
7 4 (0.73%) Control-M
7 4 (0.73%) Kustomize
7 4 (0.73%) Nagios
7 4 (0.73%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.73%) Puppet
7 4 (0.73%) Rancher
8 3 (0.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.18%) Podman
Vendors
1 69 (12.59%) Oracle
2 52 (9.49%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.66%) Google
4 23 (4.20%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.92%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.37%) Informatica
7 9 (1.64%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.64%) ESRI
8 8 (1.46%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.46%) Talend
9 7 (1.28%) Databricks
9 7 (1.28%) Dell
9 7 (1.28%) Pega
10 6 (1.09%) Confluent
11 5 (0.91%) IBM
11 5 (0.91%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.73%) Splunk
12 4 (0.73%) VMware
13 3 (0.55%) Revolut