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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 139 191
Rank change year-on-year -91 +52 -46
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 601 1,274 963
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.89% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.63% 11.89% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 423 588 811
10th Percentile £42,040 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £107,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

All Database and 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 6,965 10,719 11,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.05% 15.90% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,528 6,096 8,806
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% -0.38% -

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 -90 545 £75,000 +0.67% 773
London -25 324 £100,000 +17.65% 523
UK excluding London -114 267 £62,500 - 320
Work from Home -70 256 £75,000 +7.14% 430
North of England -18 82 £67,500 -2.61% 99
South East -96 66 £65,000 +4.00% 119
Midlands +32 40 £55,000 -15.38% 34
North West -24 38 £70,000 +12.00% 71
South West -28 37 £54,000 -16.92% 24
Yorkshire +13 31 £70,000 -3.45% 23
West Midlands +35 27 £67,500 +3.85% 23
Scotland -10 23 £73,801 +27.86% 15
East of England -42 14 £42,500 -26.09% 20
East Midlands +16 13 £50,000 -9.09% 11
North East +15 13 £52,500 -24.25% 5
Wales -11 6 £69,401 +6.77% 3
Northern Ireland +1 3 £73,801 +13.54% 11

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 74 (12.31%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.49%) Confluence
4 19 (3.16%) WebSphere
5 17 (2.83%) Tomcat
6 16 (2.66%) WebSphere Application Server
7 11 (1.83%) nginx
8 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.00%) Apache
9 6 (1.00%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.67%) JBoss
11 3 (0.50%) CMS
11 3 (0.50%) Luigi
11 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
11 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.33%) SAS
12 2 (0.33%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Notion
3 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 441 (73.38%) AWS
2 198 (32.95%) Azure
3 182 (30.28%) GCP
4 93 (15.47%) Serverless
5 88 (14.64%) dbt
6 75 (12.48%) Amazon ECS
7 62 (10.32%) GitHub
8 53 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
10 49 (8.15%) Amazon S3
11 46 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (5.82%) SaaS
13 32 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
16 26 (4.33%) Power Platform
17 21 (3.49%) Pulumi
18 20 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 18 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
19 18 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.66%) TCP/IP
2 20 (3.33%) Firewall
3 19 (3.16%) SSL
4 10 (1.66%) iSCSI
4 10 (1.66%) Remote Desktop
4 10 (1.66%) SAN
5 9 (1.50%) DNS
5 9 (1.50%) HTTP
6 8 (1.33%) FTP
6 8 (1.33%) SSH
6 8 (1.33%) VPN
7 7 (1.16%) IMAP
7 7 (1.16%) OpenLDAP
7 7 (1.16%) SMTP
8 5 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.67%) MQTT
10 3 (0.50%) AMQP
11 2 (0.33%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (21.96%) Relational Database
2 126 (20.97%) SQL Server
3 122 (20.30%) MySQL
4 99 (16.47%) MongoDB
5 81 (13.48%) NoSQL
6 61 (10.15%) Amazon Athena
7 60 (9.98%) Apache Iceberg
8 55 (9.15%) Apache Arrow
8 55 (9.15%) Dremio
9 49 (8.15%) Redis
10 47 (7.82%) RDBMS
11 46 (7.65%) Amazon RDS
12 35 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
13 34 (5.66%) DB2
14 30 (4.99%) Elasticsearch
15 29 (4.83%) DynamoDB
16 24 (3.99%) Power BI
17 23 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
18 22 (3.66%) Big Data
19 17 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 106 (17.64%) Jenkins
2 93 (15.47%) Git
3 43 (7.15%) JUnit
4 42 (6.99%) JIRA
5 30 (4.99%) GitLab
6 28 (4.66%) Mockito
7 27 (4.49%) JMeter
7 27 (4.49%) Selenium
8 26 (4.33%) Cucumber
9 18 (3.00%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.66%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.33%) Maven
11 8 (1.33%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.16%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.16%) Vagrant
13 6 (1.00%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.00%) Subversion
14 5 (0.83%) Gradle
15 4 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.67%) Vite
General
1 180 (29.95%) Finance
2 132 (21.96%) Social Skills
3 68 (11.31%) Front Office
4 64 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 61 (10.15%) Banking
6 48 (7.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (7.99%) Law
7 35 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
7 35 (5.82%) Marketing
8 20 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 18 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.50%) Electronics
11 14 (2.33%) Investment Banking
11 14 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (2.33%) Retail
12 13 (2.16%) Financial Institution
13 12 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.50%) Advertising
15 8 (1.33%) Legal
16 5 (0.83%) Games
Job Titles
1 251 (41.76%) Developer
2 135 (22.46%) Software Engineer
3 114 (18.97%) Senior
4 83 (13.81%) Lead
5 77 (12.81%) Python Developer
6 72 (11.98%) Java Developer
6 72 (11.98%) Python Engineer
7 66 (10.98%) AWS Engineer
8 65 (10.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 64 (10.65%) Python Software Engineer
10 63 (10.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 59 (9.82%) AWS Developer
12 57 (9.48%) AWS Software Engineer
13 40 (6.66%) Java Engineer
14 37 (6.16%) Software Developer
15 33 (5.49%) Data Engineer
15 33 (5.49%) Lead Developer
16 31 (5.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 29 (4.83%) Senior Developer
18 28 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (30.28%) React
2 139 (23.13%) Node.js
3 108 (17.97%) Spring
4 100 (16.64%) Spring Boot
5 98 (16.31%) AngularJS
6 89 (14.81%) RESTful
7 84 (13.98%) REST
8 78 (12.98%) Vue
9 73 (12.15%) FastAPI
10 69 (11.48%) HTML
11 68 (11.31%) Django
11 68 (11.31%) Kafka
12 57 (9.48%) NumPy
12 57 (9.48%) Pandas
13 55 (9.15%) SciPy
14 53 (8.82%) CSS
15 43 (7.15%) .NET
15 43 (7.15%) Flask
16 40 (6.66%) Web Services
17 34 (5.66%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.48%) Cloud Native
2 65 (10.82%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (9.82%) Equities
3 59 (9.82%) Fixed Income
3 59 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 32 (5.32%) Linux Command Line
5 31 (5.16%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.99%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (3.16%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.66%) Replication
10 12 (2.00%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.00%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.83%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.66%) Derivative
13 9 (1.50%) Distributed Applications
14 8 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
15 6 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 111 (18.47%) Linux
2 48 (7.99%) Unix
3 46 (7.65%) Windows
4 28 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.50%) VMS
7 8 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (1.00%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.83%) Debian
11 4 (0.67%) Android
11 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.33%) CentOS
14 1 (0.17%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (44.43%) Agile
2 234 (38.94%) CI/CD
3 208 (34.61%) Software Engineering
4 164 (27.29%) Microservices
5 161 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (23.96%) DevOps
7 124 (20.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 110 (18.30%) Fintech
9 106 (17.64%) Containerisation
10 95 (15.81%) AI
11 84 (13.98%) Mentoring
12 78 (12.98%) Clean Code
13 75 (12.48%) TDD
14 74 (12.31%) Test Automation
15 64 (10.65%) Asset Management
15 64 (10.65%) Data Engineering
16 63 (10.48%) Investment Management
17 60 (9.98%) ETL
18 59 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
19 58 (9.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 320 (53.24%) Python
2 189 (31.45%) Java
3 186 (30.95%) JavaScript
4 169 (28.12%) SQL
5 147 (24.46%) TypeScript
6 47 (7.82%) C#
7 27 (4.49%) Shell Script
8 21 (3.49%) Bash
8 21 (3.49%) PHP
9 19 (3.16%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.00%) Go
11 14 (2.33%) Rust
12 10 (1.66%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.66%) Ruby
13 9 (1.50%) Groovy
14 8 (1.33%) Delphi
14 8 (1.33%) Korn
14 8 (1.33%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.16%) C
16 4 (0.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 103 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 76 (12.65%) Degree
3 74 (12.31%) SC Cleared
4 38 (6.32%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.33%) CCNA
13 2 (0.33%) CCNP
13 2 (0.33%) HNC
13 2 (0.33%) HND
13 2 (0.33%) MCSA
13 2 (0.33%) MCSE
13 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.49%) QA
2 26 (4.33%) SLA
3 20 (3.33%) GDPR
4 16 (2.66%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.83%) NIST
7 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.50%) SEPA
8 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.33%) PSD2
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 230 (38.27%) Docker
2 10 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 7 (1.16%) DFS Replication
3 7 (1.16%) Dovecot
3 7 (1.16%) Postfix
3 7 (1.16%) Squid
4 4 (0.67%) zsh
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.33%) HDFS
5 2 (0.33%) NFS
5 2 (0.33%) pfSense
5 2 (0.33%) Samba
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 184 (30.62%) Kubernetes
2 92 (15.31%) Terraform
3 32 (5.32%) Grafana
3 32 (5.32%) Kibana
4 24 (3.99%) Ansible
5 22 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.00%) AWS Copilot
7 7 (1.16%) Argo
7 7 (1.16%) Nessus
7 7 (1.16%) Proxmox
8 4 (0.67%) logstash
8 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.50%) Puppet
10 2 (0.33%) Nagios
10 2 (0.33%) Oozie
11 1 (0.17%) Ambari
11 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (15.31%) Oracle
2 43 (7.15%) Google
3 37 (6.16%) Splunk
4 36 (5.99%) Microsoft
5 32 (5.32%) Red Hat
6 25 (4.16%) Dynatrace
7 22 (3.66%) ServiceNow
8 20 (3.33%) IBM
9 19 (3.16%) SAP
10 16 (2.66%) Atlassian
10 16 (2.66%) Informatica
11 14 (2.33%) Databricks
12 13 (2.16%) Talend
13 12 (2.00%) Dell
13 12 (2.00%) OpenAI
14 9 (1.50%) Salesforce
15 7 (1.16%) Jaspersoft
16 5 (0.83%) RedGate
17 4 (0.67%) Vertica
17 4 (0.67%) WSO2