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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 136 204
Rank change year-on-year -135 +68 -17
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 527 1,057 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 2.31% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.54% 12.43% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 371 544 984
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £98,125 £98,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,367 £58,500
% change year-on-year -9.59% +13.45% +3.58%

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 6,987 8,501 15,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 18.60% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,220 5,045 11,662
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,259 £47,500 £43,500
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 £86,250 £75,000
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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -148 447 £74,151 -4.32% 397
Work from Home -103 241 £67,500 -2.88% 256
UK excluding London -158 236 £60,000 -9.59% 271
London -80 233 £95,000 +8.57% 172
North of England -33 91 £67,500 -2.61% 83
South East -144 60 £56,250 -29.69% 70
Yorkshire -18 42 £56,065 -2.27% 28
North West -35 38 £77,500 +11.76% 43
Midlands -23 26 £55,200 -15.08% 37
South West -48 23 £65,000 - 33
West Midlands -10 17 £50,100 -22.92% 29
East of England -50 16 £42,500 -26.09% 25
Scotland -33 15 £73,801 +18.08% 17
North East -15 11 £55,000 -20.69% 13
East Midlands -32 9 £65,000 +8.33% 7
Wales -36 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -33 4 £73,801 +34.18% 3

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 31 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.04%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.85%) Confluence
5 13 (2.47%) OpenStack
6 11 (2.09%) Apache
6 11 (2.09%) Tomcat
6 11 (2.09%) WebSphere
7 10 (1.90%) WebSphere Application Server
8 8 (1.52%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.95%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.76%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.76%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.57%) nginx
12 2 (0.38%) Camunda
12 2 (0.38%) CMS
12 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.19%) IIS
13 1 (0.19%) JBoss
Applications
1 11 (2.09%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Endur
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 355 (67.36%) AWS
2 201 (38.14%) Azure
3 141 (26.76%) GCP
4 95 (18.03%) Serverless
5 69 (13.09%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (11.76%) Amazon S3
7 58 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
8 54 (10.25%) GitHub
9 49 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (8.73%) dbt
11 40 (7.59%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (7.21%) SaaS
13 37 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 30 (5.69%) Amazon ECR
16 29 (5.50%) Power Platform
17 27 (5.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 26 (4.93%) Pulumi
19 22 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.64%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.66%) VPN
3 12 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (2.09%) SSL
5 9 (1.71%) DHCP
5 9 (1.71%) DNS
5 9 (1.71%) Firewall
6 7 (1.33%) Internet
6 7 (1.33%) Network Security
7 5 (0.95%) VLAN
8 3 (0.57%) HTTP
8 3 (0.57%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.57%) SAN
8 3 (0.57%) WAN
9 2 (0.38%) AMQP
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.38%) MQTT
9 2 (0.38%) PBX
9 2 (0.38%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (22.01%) SQL Server
2 98 (18.60%) MongoDB
3 97 (18.41%) Relational Database
4 93 (17.65%) MySQL
5 79 (14.99%) NoSQL
6 54 (10.25%) Redis
7 41 (7.78%) Elasticsearch
8 37 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (5.88%) DB2
9 31 (5.88%) DynamoDB
10 26 (4.93%) Power BI
11 18 (3.42%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (3.23%) RDBMS
13 15 (2.85%) Oracle Database
14 14 (2.66%) BigQuery
15 12 (2.28%) Big Data
16 11 (2.09%) Apache Iceberg
16 11 (2.09%) GIS
17 10 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 109 (20.68%) Git
2 83 (15.75%) Jenkins
3 32 (6.07%) JIRA
4 30 (5.69%) GitLab
5 28 (5.31%) Cucumber
6 26 (4.93%) JUnit
6 26 (4.93%) Selenium
7 21 (3.98%) Bitbucket
7 21 (3.98%) Cypress.io
7 21 (3.98%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.28%) JMeter
8 12 (2.28%) Mockito
9 7 (1.33%) Maven
9 7 (1.33%) Vite
10 6 (1.14%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.14%) Subversion
11 5 (0.95%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.76%) Gradle
12 4 (0.76%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 138 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 114 (21.63%) Finance
3 54 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.97%) Banking
4 42 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.45%) Law
7 24 (4.55%) Front Office
8 23 (4.36%) Retail
9 11 (2.09%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.33%) Advertising
11 7 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.33%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.76%) Back Office
13 4 (0.76%) Legal
13 4 (0.76%) Marketing
14 3 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 183 (34.72%) Developer
2 105 (19.92%) Senior
3 98 (18.60%) Software Engineer
4 72 (13.66%) Full-Stack Developer
5 62 (11.76%) Lead
6 55 (10.44%) Java Developer
7 33 (6.26%) Java Engineer
8 31 (5.88%) Data Engineer
9 30 (5.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 29 (5.50%) Python Engineer
11 26 (4.93%) Lead Developer
11 26 (4.93%) Python Developer
12 24 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 22 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
14 21 (3.98%) Architect
15 20 (3.80%) Analyst
15 20 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
15 20 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (3.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (34.35%) React
2 114 (21.63%) Node.js
3 84 (15.94%) Spring
4 82 (15.56%) RESTful
5 78 (14.80%) Spring Boot
6 73 (13.85%) Django
7 60 (11.39%) REST
8 54 (10.25%) FastAPI
9 53 (10.06%) Kafka
10 50 (9.49%) HTML
11 47 (8.92%) CSS
12 45 (8.54%) .NET
12 45 (8.54%) AngularJS
13 36 (6.83%) Elastic Stack
13 36 (6.83%) Vue
14 29 (5.50%) Flask
14 29 (5.50%) Next.js
15 25 (4.74%) Web Services
16 24 (4.55%) .NET Core
16 24 (4.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 76 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 54 (10.25%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.50%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (4.36%) Equities
4 23 (4.36%) Fixed Income
5 19 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.42%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.23%) Derivative
8 16 (3.04%) Data Structures
8 16 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (3.04%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.85%) Blog
9 15 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.09%) Replication
11 10 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.71%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.33%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (17.65%) Linux
2 44 (8.35%) Unix
3 30 (5.69%) Windows
4 17 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.33%) Android
6 7 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.57%) Debian
9 2 (0.38%) CentOS
9 2 (0.38%) VMS
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.19%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (41.56%) CI/CD
2 198 (37.57%) Agile
3 169 (32.07%) Microservices
4 166 (31.50%) Software Engineering
5 145 (27.51%) DevOps
6 135 (25.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 128 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (18.79%) Containerisation
9 94 (17.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 89 (16.89%) Test Automation
11 86 (16.32%) AI
12 85 (16.13%) Mentoring
13 72 (13.66%) Fintech
14 64 (12.14%) TDD
15 61 (11.57%) Scrum
16 58 (11.01%) Clean Code
17 57 (10.82%) Data Modelling
18 55 (10.44%) Technical Leadership
19 53 (10.06%) Observability
20 51 (9.68%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 251 (47.63%) Python
2 182 (34.54%) Java
3 169 (32.07%) SQL
4 153 (29.03%) JavaScript
5 116 (22.01%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.35%) C#
7 32 (6.07%) Go
8 28 (5.31%) PowerShell
9 20 (3.80%) Ruby
10 19 (3.61%) PHP
11 17 (3.23%) C
12 13 (2.47%) Delphi
12 13 (2.47%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.90%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.71%) Rust
15 8 (1.52%) Bash
15 8 (1.52%) C++
16 4 (0.76%) Pascal
16 4 (0.76%) Perl
17 3 (0.57%) RPG
Qualifications
1 98 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 69 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 68 (12.90%) Degree
4 30 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.36%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 10 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.38%) RHCE
12 2 (0.38%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.19%) HNC
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.04%) QA
3 12 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.28%) SLA
4 11 (2.09%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.09%) GDPR
5 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.57%) SEPA
6 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.38%) PSD2
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 198 (37.57%) Docker
2 18 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) NFS
4 2 (0.38%) Samba
Systems Management
1 168 (31.88%) Kubernetes
2 112 (21.25%) Terraform
3 40 (7.59%) Ansible
4 33 (6.26%) Grafana
5 18 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.23%) AWS Copilot
7 14 (2.66%) Kibana
8 11 (2.09%) Argo
9 5 (0.95%) Nagios
10 4 (0.76%) Control-M
10 4 (0.76%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.57%) Puppet
11 3 (0.57%) Rancher
12 2 (0.38%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.19%) Ambari
13 1 (0.19%) Podman
13 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (13.09%) Oracle
2 43 (8.16%) Google
3 34 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 23 (4.36%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.85%) IBM
5 15 (2.85%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.66%) Atlassian
6 14 (2.66%) Informatica
7 10 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.71%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.71%) Talend
9 8 (1.52%) ESRI
9 8 (1.52%) Splunk
10 5 (0.95%) Confluent
10 5 (0.95%) Databricks
10 5 (0.95%) Dell
10 5 (0.95%) VMware
11 4 (0.76%) Pega
11 4 (0.76%) WSO2
12 3 (0.57%) CA Agile Central