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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 240 135
Rank change year-on-year -17 -105 +59
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 874 609 1,335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.24% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.05% 8.79% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 610 420 634
10th Percentile £44,476 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £68,404
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +9.64% -2.28%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%

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 8,697 6,928 11,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.35% 14.12% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,909 4,312 6,359
10th Percentile £36,750 £33,025 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -32 742 £71,996 -10.01% 963
Work from Home +32 410 £67,500 -20.59% 449
UK excluding London -48 399 £65,000 - 366
London -50 356 £82,500 -21.43% 649
South East +11 133 £70,000 +5.66% 84
North of England -21 120 £65,000 -3.70% 97
North West -17 55 £61,250 -12.50% 56
South West -58 50 £82,500 +52.78% 34
Midlands -49 42 £75,000 +5.26% 37
North East -40 40 £65,000 +25.30% 15
West Midlands -41 31 £85,000 +17.24% 26
Wales -47 28 £64,000 -1.54% 13
East of England -30 27 £52,500 +72.13% 41
Yorkshire -34 25 £65,000 -7.14% 31
East Midlands -28 11 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Scotland -11 10 £65,000 -11.93% 35
Northern Ireland -77 2 - - 26

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 27 (3.09%) Confluence
2 25 (2.86%) Apache
2 25 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.80%) Camunda
4 7 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.69%) nginx
6 5 (0.57%) WordPress
7 4 (0.46%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.46%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.34%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.23%) Luigi
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) Tornado
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) Finacle
2 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 513 (58.70%) AWS
2 289 (33.07%) Azure
3 166 (18.99%) GitHub
4 136 (15.56%) GCP
5 97 (11.10%) SaaS
5 97 (11.10%) Serverless
6 77 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
7 75 (8.58%) Amazon EKS
8 74 (8.47%) Amazon S3
9 71 (8.12%) Amazon ECS
10 54 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
12 46 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
13 43 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (3.55%) Power Platform
16 28 (3.20%) Azure AKS
16 28 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.20%) Broadband
2 27 (3.09%) TCP/IP
3 24 (2.75%) VPN
4 17 (1.95%) BGP
5 15 (1.72%) Firewall
6 14 (1.60%) AMQP
6 14 (1.60%) SMS
7 12 (1.37%) VLAN
8 11 (1.26%) DNS
9 8 (0.92%) Network Security
10 6 (0.69%) HTTP
11 4 (0.46%) DHCP
12 3 (0.34%) 4G
12 3 (0.34%) 5G
12 3 (0.34%) OpenVPN
12 3 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.34%) SSH
13 2 (0.23%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.23%) tcpdump
13 2 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (24.37%) MongoDB
2 192 (21.97%) MySQL
3 142 (16.25%) Relational Database
4 137 (15.68%) SQL Server
5 116 (13.27%) Redis
6 101 (11.56%) NoSQL
7 71 (8.12%) Amazon RDS
8 46 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
9 44 (5.03%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
11 31 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (2.63%) Power BI
13 21 (2.40%) Big Data
13 21 (2.40%) Metadata
14 19 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (2.17%) Oracle Database
14 19 (2.17%) Pinecone
15 15 (1.72%) Chroma
15 15 (1.72%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 213 (24.37%) Git
2 85 (9.73%) Jenkins
3 69 (7.89%) GitLab
4 37 (4.23%) TeamCity
5 29 (3.32%) JIRA
6 27 (3.09%) Cypress.io
6 27 (3.09%) JUnit
7 20 (2.29%) Mockito
8 14 (1.60%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.37%) JMeter
10 11 (1.26%) Vite
11 9 (1.03%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.92%) Mocha
12 8 (0.92%) Selenium
13 7 (0.80%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.80%) Maven
13 7 (0.80%) RSpec
13 7 (0.80%) Storybook
14 5 (0.57%) Appium
14 5 (0.57%) Eclipse
General
1 212 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 122 (13.96%) Finance
3 114 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 89 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (10.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 64 (7.32%) Banking
7 62 (7.09%) Law
8 40 (4.58%) Retail
9 28 (3.20%) Games
10 23 (2.63%) Financial Institution
10 23 (2.63%) Legal
11 22 (2.52%) Tech for Good
12 17 (1.95%) Back Office
13 16 (1.83%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.72%) Health Technology
14 15 (1.72%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.49%) Legal Technology
16 11 (1.26%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.92%) Marketing
18 7 (0.80%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 295 (33.75%) Developer
2 264 (30.21%) Senior
3 178 (20.37%) Software Engineer
4 119 (13.62%) Lead
5 83 (9.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 76 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 72 (8.24%) Senior Software Engineer
8 62 (7.09%) Python Engineer
9 53 (6.06%) Data Engineer
10 52 (5.95%) Java Developer
10 52 (5.95%) Python Developer
11 51 (5.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 49 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
13 48 (5.49%) DBA
13 48 (5.49%) Software Developer
14 41 (4.69%) Architect
15 37 (4.23%) Lead Developer
16 34 (3.89%) Database Engineer
17 33 (3.78%) Java Engineer
18 32 (3.66%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (25.86%) Terraform
2 215 (24.60%) React
3 177 (20.25%) Node.js
4 161 (18.42%) RESTful
5 139 (15.90%) REST
6 121 (13.84%) Spring
7 118 (13.50%) Kafka
8 116 (13.27%) Spring Boot
9 87 (9.95%) .NET
10 75 (8.58%) CSS
11 68 (7.78%) Next.js
12 62 (7.09%) HTML
13 61 (6.98%) Ruby on Rails
14 60 (6.86%) FastAPI
15 56 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
16 53 (6.06%) Jest
17 46 (5.26%) AngularJS
18 43 (4.92%) JPA
18 43 (4.92%) JSON
19 41 (4.69%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 192 (21.97%) Cloud Native
2 145 (16.59%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.84%) Blog
4 41 (4.69%) Product Ownership
5 36 (4.12%) AI Agents
6 30 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (3.43%) Low-Code
6 30 (3.43%) Replication
7 25 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
8 24 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.75%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (2.63%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.95%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.83%) Management Information System
12 13 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (1.49%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 127 (14.53%) Linux
2 38 (4.35%) Windows
3 18 (2.06%) Unix
4 16 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.69%) Android
6 6 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) macOS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (50.11%) CI/CD
2 325 (37.19%) Software Engineering
3 306 (35.01%) Agile
4 254 (29.06%) AI
4 254 (29.06%) Microservices
5 235 (26.89%) DevOps
6 224 (25.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 215 (24.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 208 (23.80%) Observability
9 175 (20.02%) Mentoring
10 168 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
11 155 (17.73%) Test Automation
12 152 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 148 (16.93%) Containerisation
14 123 (14.07%) Event-Driven
15 122 (13.96%) Clean Code
16 96 (10.98%) Scrum
17 95 (10.87%) API Design
18 90 (10.30%) Decision-Making
19 89 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 353 (40.39%) Python
2 260 (29.75%) SQL
3 234 (26.77%) Java
4 186 (21.28%) JavaScript
5 169 (19.34%) TypeScript
6 86 (9.84%) C#
7 79 (9.04%) Go
8 63 (7.21%) Ruby
9 54 (6.18%) Bash
10 29 (3.32%) PHP
11 23 (2.63%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.29%) Scala
13 17 (1.95%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.60%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.49%) C++
16 11 (1.26%) Groovy
17 10 (1.14%) RPG
18 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.46%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 145 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 119 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.53%) Degree
4 31 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.97%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 23 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.14%) CISSP
8 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.03%) PhD
10 8 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.92%) CCSP
10 8 (0.92%) CISM
11 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.12%) QA
2 51 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.43%) GDPR
4 27 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (2.97%) Accessibility
6 21 (2.40%) SOC 2
7 19 (2.17%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.92%) NIST
9 5 (0.57%) SLA
10 4 (0.46%) WCAG
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
12 1 (0.11%) SOC 1
System Software
1 287 (32.84%) Docker
2 9 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.11%) Ceph
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Lustre
6 1 (0.11%) NFS
6 1 (0.11%) Samba
6 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 261 (29.86%) Kubernetes
2 114 (13.04%) Grafana
3 71 (8.12%) Prometheus
4 67 (7.67%) Ansible
5 36 (4.12%) Argo
6 15 (1.72%) Kibana
7 11 (1.26%) Rancher
8 10 (1.14%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.03%) Istio
9 9 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.92%) Cilium
11 6 (0.69%) logstash
11 6 (0.69%) Packer
11 6 (0.69%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.69%) Puppet
12 4 (0.46%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.34%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.34%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 81 (9.27%) Microsoft
2 79 (9.04%) Oracle
3 50 (5.72%) Google
4 34 (3.89%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.66%) Databricks
6 28 (3.20%) Splunk
7 27 (3.09%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.95%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.60%) IBM
9 14 (1.60%) Mistral
9 14 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.92%) Informatica
11 6 (0.69%) VMware
12 5 (0.57%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.46%) ESRI
13 4 (0.46%) Netezza
13 4 (0.46%) Remedy
13 4 (0.46%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.46%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.34%) Adobe