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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 176 176
Rank change year-on-year -113 0 +13
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 560 754 1,573
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.80% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.16% 10.17% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 407 538 1,157
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £57,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,375 £97,188 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 7,823 7,414 17,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.91% 17.68% 18.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,594 5,199 12,542
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £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 £75,000
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 22 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 22 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 -116 464 £69,305 -7.59% 274
UK excluding London -118 283 £60,000 -7.69% 169
Work from Home -54 266 £65,000 -7.14% 186
London -103 193 £86,000 -1.71% 148
North of England -26 102 £67,500 - 37
South East -98 80 £57,500 -17.86% 50
Yorkshire -33 47 £52,130 -12.73% 9
North West -35 42 £75,901 +12.34% 19
South West -51 34 £62,500 -3.85% 26
Scotland -25 23 £67,500 +8.00% 15
East of England -54 21 £46,250 -19.57% 10
Midlands -56 21 £51,350 -21.00% 20
North East -35 13 £53,565 -22.80% 9
West Midlands -34 12 £46,250 -28.85% 8
East Midlands -47 9 £60,100 -14.14% 12
Wales -43 5 £73,801 +13.54% 5
Northern Ireland -43 2 £73,801 +34.18% 6

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 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (3.04%) Apache
3 17 (3.04%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.32%) Confluence
4 13 (2.32%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.96%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.61%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.89%) GeoServer
7 5 (0.89%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.36%) Camunda
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.36%) WildFly
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 344 (61.43%) AWS
2 212 (37.86%) Azure
3 134 (23.93%) GCP
4 95 (16.96%) Serverless
5 63 (11.25%) Amazon S3
6 60 (10.71%) GitHub
7 59 (10.54%) Amazon ECS
8 58 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (9.29%) SaaS
10 49 (8.75%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (6.61%) Power Platform
12 36 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
14 31 (5.54%) dbt
14 31 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (3.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 21 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.46%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.86%) DNS
3 15 (2.68%) DHCP
4 13 (2.32%) Firewall
5 10 (1.79%) VPN
6 8 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.25%) Broadband
7 7 (1.25%) Internet
7 7 (1.25%) iSCSI
7 7 (1.25%) Network Security
7 7 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (1.25%) SAN
8 3 (0.54%) HTTP
8 3 (0.54%) VLAN
9 2 (0.36%) LAN
9 2 (0.36%) MQTT
9 2 (0.36%) PBX
9 2 (0.36%) SSL
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (23.04%) SQL Server
2 127 (22.68%) MongoDB
3 113 (20.18%) MySQL
4 95 (16.96%) NoSQL
4 95 (16.96%) Relational Database
5 45 (8.04%) Redis
6 36 (6.43%) Elasticsearch
7 34 (6.07%) DynamoDB
8 30 (5.36%) Power BI
9 29 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (3.04%) Oracle Database
13 16 (2.86%) BigQuery
13 16 (2.86%) GIS
14 15 (2.68%) DB2
15 14 (2.50%) RDBMS
16 13 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (2.14%) Pinecone
18 10 (1.79%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 126 (22.50%) Git
2 59 (10.54%) Jenkins
3 38 (6.79%) GitLab
4 27 (4.82%) JIRA
5 24 (4.29%) Cypress.io
6 23 (4.11%) JUnit
7 21 (3.75%) Bitbucket
7 21 (3.75%) Selenium
8 20 (3.57%) Cucumber
9 18 (3.21%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.96%) Mockito
11 10 (1.79%) Maven
12 9 (1.61%) Vite
13 6 (1.07%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.89%) Gradle
15 3 (0.54%) JMeter
15 3 (0.54%) Storybook
15 3 (0.54%) Subversion
16 2 (0.36%) ESLint
16 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
General
1 145 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 100 (17.86%) Finance
3 54 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.54%) Banking
7 29 (5.18%) Law
8 28 (5.00%) Retail
9 18 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (3.04%) Front Office
11 13 (2.32%) Advertising
12 10 (1.79%) Games
12 10 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.61%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.07%) Legal
17 5 (0.89%) Automotive
18 4 (0.71%) Back Office
18 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 176 (31.43%) Developer
2 118 (21.07%) Senior
3 94 (16.79%) Software Engineer
4 75 (13.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 75 (13.39%) Lead
5 47 (8.39%) Java Developer
6 40 (7.14%) Python Engineer
7 39 (6.96%) Data Engineer
8 33 (5.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 30 (5.36%) Java Engineer
10 29 (5.18%) Lead Developer
11 27 (4.82%) Architect
12 24 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (3.39%) Analyst
14 19 (3.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 19 (3.39%) IT Support
14 19 (3.39%) Java Software Engineer
14 19 (3.39%) Python Developer
15 18 (3.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (33.21%) React
2 122 (21.79%) Node.js
3 89 (15.89%) RESTful
4 69 (12.32%) Spring
5 65 (11.61%) Spring Boot
6 63 (11.25%) REST
7 61 (10.89%) Django
8 51 (9.11%) Kafka
9 50 (8.93%) FastAPI
10 46 (8.21%) .NET
11 39 (6.96%) HTML
12 38 (6.79%) CSS
13 35 (6.25%) AngularJS
14 32 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
14 32 (5.71%) JSON
15 31 (5.54%) Flask
16 30 (5.36%) Next.js
17 29 (5.18%) Vue
18 24 (4.29%) Jest
18 24 (4.29%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.21%) Replication
6 17 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.86%) Derivative
7 16 (2.86%) Equities
7 16 (2.86%) Fixed Income
8 15 (2.68%) Blog
8 15 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (2.32%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.79%) SCADA
12 9 (1.61%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 85 (15.18%) Linux
2 32 (5.71%) Windows
3 31 (5.54%) Unix
4 16 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.25%) Android
6 7 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.07%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.89%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.54%) CentOS
9 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.36%) Debian
10 2 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.18%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (42.50%) CI/CD
2 199 (35.54%) Agile
3 173 (30.89%) Microservices
4 164 (29.29%) Software Engineering
5 154 (27.50%) DevOps
6 152 (27.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 112 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 112 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (18.57%) Test Automation
9 103 (18.39%) AI
10 102 (18.21%) Containerisation
11 98 (17.50%) Mentoring
12 69 (12.32%) Data Modelling
13 68 (12.14%) Scrum
14 64 (11.43%) Analytics
14 64 (11.43%) TDD
15 60 (10.71%) Observability
16 58 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 53 (9.46%) Clean Code
18 51 (9.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 256 (45.71%) Python
2 183 (32.68%) SQL
3 173 (30.89%) Java
4 139 (24.82%) JavaScript
5 108 (19.29%) TypeScript
6 45 (8.04%) C#
7 41 (7.32%) Go
8 31 (5.54%) PowerShell
9 27 (4.82%) Ruby
10 26 (4.64%) PHP
11 18 (3.21%) Bash
12 17 (3.04%) C
13 13 (2.32%) Delphi
14 11 (1.96%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.79%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.61%) C++
17 8 (1.43%) Perl
17 8 (1.43%) Scala
18 7 (1.25%) VB
19 6 (1.07%) Korn
Qualifications
1 91 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.32%) Degree
3 65 (11.61%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.32%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.54%) 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 44 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.46%) QA
3 15 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.50%) GDPR
5 11 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.71%) SLA
7 3 (0.54%) NCSC
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.36%) WCAG
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 189 (33.75%) Docker
2 29 (5.18%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.71%) 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
1 184 (32.86%) Kubernetes
2 132 (23.57%) Terraform
3 40 (7.14%) Grafana
4 38 (6.79%) Ansible
5 24 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 23 (4.11%) Argo
7 10 (1.79%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.07%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.89%) Istio
9 5 (0.89%) Kibana
9 5 (0.89%) Nagios
10 4 (0.71%) Control-M
10 4 (0.71%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.71%) Rancher
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.54%) Puppet
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.18%) Plesk
Vendors
1 69 (12.32%) Oracle
2 51 (9.11%) Microsoft
3 42 (7.50%) Google
4 23 (4.11%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.68%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.32%) Informatica
7 9 (1.61%) ESRI
8 8 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.43%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.43%) Talend
9 7 (1.25%) Databricks
9 7 (1.25%) Dell
9 7 (1.25%) Pega
10 6 (1.07%) Confluent
11 5 (0.89%) IBM
11 5 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.71%) VMware
13 3 (0.54%) Revolut
13 3 (0.54%) Splunk