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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 220 172
Rank change year-on-year -64 -48 +12
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 608 658 1,659
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.54% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.54% 9.36% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 446 483 1,190
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £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 £85,000 £103,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,625 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 8,060 7,031 17,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.65% 16.46% 17.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,020 4,593 12,492
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,532
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 28 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 28 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 -80 514 £67,500 -10.00% 222
UK excluding London -59 315 £62,500 -3.85% 113
Work from Home +33 313 £67,490 -6.25% 112
London -111 199 £85,000 -8.11% 127
North of England -12 118 £67,500 -0.19% 32
South East -10 106 £57,500 +9.52% 34
Yorkshire -23 47 £60,000 -7.69% 3
North West -20 46 £69,310 -0.11% 25
South West -47 37 £62,500 -3.85% 14
North East -28 25 £65,000 +4.00% 4
East of England -42 22 £47,500 +36.69% 9
Scotland -9 19 £66,250 +10.42% 2
Midlands -55 14 £75,000 +11.01% 17
West Midlands -47 11 £75,000 +11.11% 8
East Midlands -34 3 £70,000 - 9
Wales -57 3 £65,000 -3.88% 3
Northern Ireland -39 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 28 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.62%) Apache
4 20 (3.29%) Apache Spark
5 15 (2.47%) Confluence
6 14 (2.30%) OpenStack
7 12 (1.97%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.32%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
9 4 (0.66%) WordPress
10 3 (0.49%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.33%) WildFly
12 1 (0.16%) Camunda
12 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.16%) nginx
12 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 371 (61.02%) AWS
2 226 (37.17%) Azure
3 112 (18.42%) GCP
4 107 (17.60%) Serverless
5 66 (10.86%) GitHub
6 62 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (10.20%) Amazon S3
7 57 (9.38%) SaaS
8 55 (9.05%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (5.92%) Power Platform
14 35 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
15 26 (4.28%) Azure AKS
16 25 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (3.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.62%) Broadband
2 16 (2.63%) DNS
2 16 (2.63%) Firewall
2 16 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.47%) DHCP
4 9 (1.48%) VPN
5 8 (1.32%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.32%) SAN
6 7 (1.15%) Internet
6 7 (1.15%) Network Security
6 7 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.49%) HTTP
7 3 (0.49%) VLAN
8 2 (0.33%) LAN
8 2 (0.33%) MQTT
8 2 (0.33%) PBX
8 2 (0.33%) WAN
9 1 (0.16%) LTE
9 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (28.13%) MongoDB
2 131 (21.55%) MySQL
3 115 (18.91%) SQL Server
4 101 (16.61%) NoSQL
5 96 (15.79%) Relational Database
6 42 (6.91%) Redis
7 28 (4.61%) Power BI
8 27 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (4.28%) DynamoDB
10 24 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
13 20 (3.29%) GIS
14 19 (3.13%) Oracle Database
15 15 (2.47%) RDBMS
16 14 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (1.97%) BigQuery
18 11 (1.81%) MariaDB
18 11 (1.81%) Metadata
18 11 (1.81%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 126 (20.72%) Git
2 52 (8.55%) Jenkins
3 38 (6.25%) GitLab
4 25 (4.11%) JIRA
5 24 (3.95%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.62%) JUnit
7 17 (2.80%) Mockito
8 16 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 15 (2.47%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.64%) JMeter
11 8 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.32%) Maven
11 8 (1.32%) Selenium
12 7 (1.15%) Vite
13 4 (0.66%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.66%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.66%) Liquibase
14 3 (0.49%) DBeaver
14 3 (0.49%) Storybook
15 2 (0.33%) Jaeger
General
1 151 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 95 (15.63%) Finance
3 77 (12.66%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.26%) Retail
7 29 (4.77%) Law
8 27 (4.44%) Banking
9 25 (4.11%) Games
10 19 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.63%) Front Office
12 15 (2.47%) Advertising
13 13 (2.14%) Legal
14 11 (1.81%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.15%) Automotive
17 6 (0.99%) Aviation
18 5 (0.82%) Telecoms
19 4 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 211 (34.70%) Developer
2 116 (19.08%) Senior
3 107 (17.60%) Software Engineer
4 89 (14.64%) Lead
5 85 (13.98%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (8.06%) Java Developer
7 48 (7.89%) Python Engineer
8 39 (6.41%) Lead Developer
9 34 (5.59%) Architect
9 34 (5.59%) Data Engineer
10 33 (5.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 33 (5.43%) Lead Software Engineer
11 31 (5.10%) Java Engineer
12 30 (4.93%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (4.77%) Python Developer
14 27 (4.44%) Senior Developer
15 24 (3.95%) Software Developer
16 22 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
17 21 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
18 20 (3.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (30.10%) React
2 159 (26.15%) Node.js
3 112 (18.42%) RESTful
4 79 (12.99%) REST
5 72 (11.84%) Spring
6 69 (11.35%) Spring Boot
7 55 (9.05%) Kafka
8 50 (8.22%) .NET
9 47 (7.73%) CSS
10 46 (7.57%) FastAPI
11 45 (7.40%) HTML
11 45 (7.40%) JSON
12 39 (6.41%) Ruby on Rails
13 37 (6.09%) Django
14 34 (5.59%) AngularJS
15 32 (5.26%) Next.js
16 30 (4.93%) Jest
17 27 (4.44%) Vue
18 25 (4.11%) Redux
18 25 (4.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 123 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.54%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (3.95%) Low-Code
4 23 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.78%) Video\Live Streaming
5 22 (3.62%) Data Structures
6 19 (3.13%) Blog
6 19 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.96%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.96%) Replication
8 17 (2.80%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.63%) Derivative
9 16 (2.63%) Equities
9 16 (2.63%) Fixed Income
10 13 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.64%) SCADA
13 9 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 93 (15.30%) Linux
2 43 (7.07%) Windows
3 24 (3.95%) Unix
4 20 (3.29%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.66%) Android
8 4 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.66%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.49%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Debian
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (42.60%) CI/CD
2 231 (37.99%) Agile
3 188 (30.92%) Software Engineering
4 182 (29.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 182 (29.93%) Microservices
5 143 (23.52%) DevOps
6 125 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 121 (19.90%) AI
8 115 (18.91%) Mentoring
9 111 (18.26%) Test Automation
10 110 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
11 103 (16.94%) Containerisation
12 93 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 80 (13.16%) Scrum
14 73 (12.01%) Data Modelling
15 71 (11.68%) Analytics
15 71 (11.68%) TDD
16 70 (11.51%) Observability
17 61 (10.03%) Clean Code
18 56 (9.21%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 263 (43.26%) Python
2 182 (29.93%) Java
3 176 (28.95%) SQL
4 161 (26.48%) JavaScript
5 121 (19.90%) TypeScript
6 50 (8.22%) C#
7 47 (7.73%) Go
8 40 (6.58%) Ruby
9 37 (6.09%) PowerShell
10 26 (4.28%) Bash
10 26 (4.28%) PHP
11 14 (2.30%) C
11 14 (2.30%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.14%) C++
13 12 (1.97%) T-SQL
14 11 (1.81%) Perl
14 11 (1.81%) Scala
15 7 (1.15%) Korn
15 7 (1.15%) VB
16 5 (0.82%) RPG
Qualifications
1 85 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 76 (12.50%) Degree
3 56 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 33 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.49%) PhD
11 3 (0.49%) RHCE
12 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.33%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.16%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.57%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.77%) QA
3 21 (3.45%) GDPR
4 16 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.49%) SLA
7 2 (0.33%) NCSC
7 2 (0.33%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.16%) HL7
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 176 (28.95%) Docker
2 30 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) Firmware
5 2 (0.33%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 177 (29.11%) Kubernetes
2 131 (21.55%) Terraform
3 42 (6.91%) Ansible
4 31 (5.10%) Grafana
5 29 (4.77%) Argo
6 18 (2.96%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.64%) Kibana
8 8 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.32%) Puppet
9 5 (0.82%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.82%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.82%) Istio
10 4 (0.66%) Control-M
10 4 (0.66%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.66%) Nagios
11 3 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.49%) Packer
11 3 (0.49%) Plesk
11 3 (0.49%) Rancher
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 76 (12.50%) Oracle
2 70 (11.51%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.10%) Google
4 19 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.30%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.30%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.48%) Informatica
6 9 (1.48%) Splunk
7 8 (1.32%) Dell
7 8 (1.32%) ESRI
8 7 (1.15%) Databricks
8 7 (1.15%) Pega
8 7 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.99%) IBM
10 5 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.82%) Talend
11 4 (0.66%) Confluent
11 4 (0.66%) VMware
12 3 (0.49%) Revolut