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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 207 171
Rank change year-on-year -83 -36 +17
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 580 684 1,628
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.57% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.37% 9.12% 9.38%
Number of salaries quoted 411 519 1,191
10th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £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 £86,688 £100,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £137,500 £112,500
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 7,872 7,496 17,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 17.23% 18.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,727 5,072 12,519
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £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 9 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 9 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 -63 487 £67,500 -10.00% 268
UK excluding London -71 287 £60,000 -7.69% 138
Work from Home -1 284 £65,000 -7.14% 156
London -93 199 £90,000 +2.86% 149
North of England -32 106 £67,500 -0.19% 42
South East -36 93 £57,500 -8.00% 52
North West -25 45 £70,905 +2.19% 18
Yorkshire -26 45 £52,130 -12.93% 12
South West -39 37 £62,500 -3.85% 17
Scotland -24 20 £66,250 -0.18% 3
East of England -25 19 £47,500 -5.00% 7
North East -35 16 £55,000 -20.73% 12
Midlands -54 14 £65,000 -1.89% 18
East Midlands -26 7 £65,000 -7.14% 10
West Midlands -48 7 £67,500 +3.85% 8
Wales -52 2 £59,401 -8.61% 1
Northern Ireland -39 1 £73,801 +34.18%

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 (5.86%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 19 (3.28%) Apache
5 15 (2.59%) Confluence
6 13 (2.24%) OpenStack
7 11 (1.90%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.38%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.69%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.52%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.34%) Camunda
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.34%) WildFly
11 2 (0.34%) 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 9 (1.55%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 356 (61.38%) AWS
2 213 (36.72%) Azure
3 121 (20.86%) GCP
4 106 (18.28%) Serverless
5 64 (11.03%) Amazon S3
6 60 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (9.83%) GitHub
8 55 (9.48%) Amazon ECS
8 55 (9.48%) SaaS
9 49 (8.45%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (6.38%) Power Platform
13 34 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
14 27 (4.66%) Azure AKS
15 24 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
16 21 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (3.45%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.79%) Broadband
2 16 (2.76%) DNS
3 15 (2.59%) DHCP
3 15 (2.59%) Firewall
3 15 (2.59%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.55%) VPN
5 8 (1.38%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.38%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.38%) SAN
6 7 (1.21%) Internet
6 7 (1.21%) Network Security
6 7 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.52%) VLAN
8 2 (0.34%) HTTP
8 2 (0.34%) LAN
8 2 (0.34%) MQTT
8 2 (0.34%) PBX
8 2 (0.34%) WAN
9 1 (0.17%) LTE
9 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (27.07%) MongoDB
2 121 (20.86%) SQL Server
3 115 (19.83%) MySQL
4 94 (16.21%) NoSQL
4 94 (16.21%) Relational Database
5 35 (6.03%) Redis
6 33 (5.69%) DynamoDB
7 30 (5.17%) Power BI
8 28 (4.83%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (3.10%) GIS
13 17 (2.93%) Oracle Database
14 16 (2.76%) BigQuery
15 15 (2.59%) RDBMS
16 14 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (2.41%) DB2
17 13 (2.24%) Pinecone
18 11 (1.90%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 130 (22.41%) Git
2 54 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 39 (6.72%) GitLab
4 27 (4.66%) JIRA
5 25 (4.31%) Cypress.io
6 20 (3.45%) Bitbucket
7 18 (3.10%) JUnit
8 17 (2.93%) TeamCity
9 15 (2.59%) Mockito
10 11 (1.90%) Selenium
11 10 (1.72%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.72%) Maven
12 9 (1.55%) Vite
13 6 (1.03%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.69%) Gradle
14 4 (0.69%) JMeter
14 4 (0.69%) Liquibase
15 3 (0.52%) Storybook
16 2 (0.34%) DBeaver
16 2 (0.34%) Jaeger
General
1 141 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 97 (16.72%) Finance
3 58 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 57 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (5.17%) Retail
7 29 (5.00%) Banking
8 28 (4.83%) Law
9 25 (4.31%) Games
10 19 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.93%) Front Office
12 14 (2.41%) Manufacturing
13 13 (2.24%) Advertising
14 9 (1.55%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.03%) Legal
16 5 (0.86%) Automotive
17 4 (0.69%) Financial Institution
18 3 (0.52%) Aviation
18 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 193 (33.28%) Developer
2 119 (20.52%) Senior
3 90 (15.52%) Software Engineer
4 82 (14.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 80 (13.79%) Lead
6 47 (8.10%) Java Developer
7 44 (7.59%) Python Engineer
8 37 (6.38%) Data Engineer
8 37 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 33 (5.69%) Lead Developer
10 31 (5.34%) Architect
10 31 (5.34%) Java Engineer
11 28 (4.83%) Python Developer
12 24 (4.14%) Lead Software Engineer
13 23 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.62%) Senior Developer
15 20 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
15 20 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
16 19 (3.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (32.76%) React
2 143 (24.66%) Node.js
3 102 (17.59%) RESTful
4 69 (11.90%) REST
5 64 (11.03%) Spring
6 60 (10.34%) Spring Boot
7 51 (8.79%) .NET
8 50 (8.62%) Kafka
9 48 (8.28%) FastAPI
10 47 (8.10%) CSS
11 46 (7.93%) HTML
12 38 (6.55%) Django
13 37 (6.38%) AngularJS
14 36 (6.21%) JSON
15 31 (5.34%) Next.js
16 29 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
17 28 (4.83%) Jest
17 28 (4.83%) Vue
18 26 (4.48%) Redux
19 24 (4.14%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 113 (19.48%) Cloud Native
2 59 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.14%) Low-Code
5 22 (3.79%) Video\Live Streaming
6 20 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 18 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.10%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (2.76%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.76%) Derivative
9 16 (2.76%) Equities
9 16 (2.76%) Fixed Income
10 15 (2.59%) Blog
10 15 (2.59%) Replication
11 12 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.72%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.72%) SCADA
12 10 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 83 (14.31%) Linux
2 39 (6.72%) Windows
3 25 (4.31%) Unix
4 19 (3.28%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.21%) Android
6 7 (1.21%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.86%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.69%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.52%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) AIX
11 1 (0.17%) Debian
11 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (43.79%) CI/CD
2 217 (37.41%) Agile
3 179 (30.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 174 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 173 (29.83%) Microservices
6 142 (24.48%) DevOps
7 120 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 116 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 113 (19.48%) AI
10 102 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (17.41%) Mentoring
12 100 (17.24%) Containerisation
13 83 (14.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 77 (13.28%) Scrum
15 71 (12.24%) Data Modelling
16 68 (11.72%) Analytics
16 68 (11.72%) Observability
17 59 (10.17%) TDD
18 54 (9.31%) Data Pipeline
19 52 (8.97%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 257 (44.31%) Python
2 174 (30.00%) Java
3 172 (29.66%) SQL
4 147 (25.34%) JavaScript
5 120 (20.69%) TypeScript
6 52 (8.97%) Go
7 50 (8.62%) C#
8 32 (5.52%) Ruby
9 30 (5.17%) PowerShell
10 27 (4.66%) PHP
11 20 (3.45%) Bash
12 16 (2.76%) C
13 11 (1.90%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.72%) C++
14 10 (1.72%) Scala
15 9 (1.55%) Perl
15 9 (1.55%) T-SQL
16 7 (1.21%) Korn
16 7 (1.21%) VB
17 5 (0.86%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 83 (14.31%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.24%) Degree
3 56 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 33 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.52%) RHCE
12 2 (0.34%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.34%) 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 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.48%) QA
3 16 (2.76%) GDPR
4 15 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.52%) NCSC
6 3 (0.52%) SLA
7 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.34%) 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 (30.52%) Docker
2 30 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.34%) Samba
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 181 (31.21%) Kubernetes
2 130 (22.41%) Terraform
3 43 (7.41%) Ansible
4 31 (5.34%) Argo
4 31 (5.34%) Grafana
5 22 (3.79%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.03%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.03%) Puppet
7 5 (0.86%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (0.86%) Data Guard
7 5 (0.86%) Istio
7 5 (0.86%) Kibana
8 4 (0.69%) Control-M
8 4 (0.69%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.69%) Nagios
8 4 (0.69%) Rancher
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.52%) Packer
9 3 (0.52%) Plesk
10 2 (0.34%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 67 (11.55%) Oracle
2 59 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.34%) Google
4 22 (3.79%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.76%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.90%) Informatica
7 9 (1.55%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.38%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.38%) Databricks
8 8 (1.38%) Dell
8 8 (1.38%) ESRI
9 7 (1.21%) Pega
10 6 (1.03%) Confluent
10 6 (1.03%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.03%) Talend
11 5 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.69%) IBM
12 4 (0.69%) Splunk
12 4 (0.69%) VMware
13 3 (0.52%) Revolut