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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 130 194
Rank change year-on-year -139 +64 -6
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 556 1,008 1,300
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 2.30% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.88% 12.32% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 389 567 1,065
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -

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 7,057 8,185 16,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.49% 18.67% 18.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,261 5,199 12,182
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -145 466 £73,801 -1.60% 301
UK excluding London -150 258 £60,000 -7.69% 187
Work from Home -85 253 £65,000 -6.32% 204
London -91 232 £90,000 +2.86% 156
North of England -34 95 £65,000 -5.06% 63
South East -122 65 £57,500 -17.86% 45
Yorkshire -20 43 £52,130 -12.73% 25
North West -19 40 £77,500 +11.82% 29
South West -42 29 £62,500 -3.85% 23
Midlands -34 26 £55,200 -15.08% 21
Scotland -32 19 £67,500 +8.00% 17
East of England -57 18 £45,000 -21.74% 15
West Midlands -8 17 £50,100 -22.92% 13
North East -10 12 £53,565 -22.76% 10
East Midlands -43 9 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Wales -37 7 £73,801 +13.54% 6
Northern Ireland -30 4 £73,801 +18.74% 2

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 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.70%) Confluence
5 14 (2.52%) OpenStack
6 13 (2.34%) Apache
7 9 (1.62%) Tomcat
7 9 (1.62%) WebSphere
8 8 (1.44%) ArcGIS
8 8 (1.44%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (1.26%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.72%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.36%) Camunda
11 2 (0.36%) CMS
11 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.36%) nginx
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.18%) IIS
12 1 (0.18%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 369 (66.37%) AWS
2 213 (38.31%) Azure
3 148 (26.62%) GCP
4 97 (17.45%) Serverless
5 70 (12.59%) Amazon ECS
6 64 (11.51%) Amazon S3
7 59 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (10.25%) GitHub
9 48 (8.63%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (8.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (7.73%) Amazon SQS
11 42 (7.55%) SaaS
12 41 (7.37%) dbt
13 35 (6.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (5.76%) Power Platform
15 28 (5.04%) Amazon ECR
15 28 (5.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 25 (4.50%) Pulumi
17 23 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.12%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.34%) VPN
3 11 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (1.80%) DHCP
4 10 (1.80%) DNS
5 9 (1.62%) SSL
6 8 (1.44%) Firewall
7 7 (1.26%) Internet
7 7 (1.26%) Network Security
8 6 (1.08%) Broadband
9 4 (0.72%) VLAN
10 3 (0.54%) HTTP
10 3 (0.54%) iSCSI
10 3 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.54%) SAN
11 2 (0.36%) AMQP
11 2 (0.36%) PBX
11 2 (0.36%) WAN
12 1 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (21.76%) SQL Server
2 111 (19.96%) MongoDB
3 107 (19.24%) MySQL
4 104 (18.71%) Relational Database
5 89 (16.01%) NoSQL
6 55 (9.89%) Redis
7 41 (7.37%) Elasticsearch
8 37 (6.65%) Amazon RDS
9 33 (5.94%) DynamoDB
10 32 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
11 28 (5.04%) Power BI
12 27 (4.86%) DB2
13 20 (3.60%) Apache Cassandra
14 18 (3.24%) RDBMS
15 17 (3.06%) BigQuery
16 15 (2.70%) Oracle Database
17 13 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
18 12 (2.16%) Big Data
18 12 (2.16%) GIS
19 9 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 121 (21.76%) Git
2 80 (14.39%) Jenkins
3 31 (5.58%) GitLab
3 31 (5.58%) JIRA
4 29 (5.22%) JUnit
5 27 (4.86%) Cucumber
6 22 (3.96%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.96%) Selenium
7 21 (3.78%) Bitbucket
8 20 (3.60%) TeamCity
9 15 (2.70%) Mockito
10 9 (1.62%) JMeter
11 8 (1.44%) Maven
12 7 (1.26%) Vite
13 6 (1.08%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.90%) Gradle
15 4 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.72%) Subversion
16 3 (0.54%) REST Assured
16 3 (0.54%) Storybook
General
1 144 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 114 (20.50%) Finance
3 59 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (7.19%) Banking
7 34 (6.12%) Law
8 24 (4.32%) Retail
9 19 (3.42%) Front Office
10 10 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.62%) Games
12 7 (1.26%) Advertising
12 7 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.26%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.72%) Back Office
14 4 (0.72%) Legal
14 4 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 188 (33.81%) Developer
2 114 (20.50%) Senior
3 101 (18.17%) Software Engineer
4 75 (13.49%) Full-Stack Developer
5 69 (12.41%) Lead
6 57 (10.25%) Java Developer
7 32 (5.76%) Data Engineer
7 32 (5.76%) Java Engineer
8 30 (5.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 29 (5.22%) Python Engineer
10 27 (4.86%) Lead Developer
11 26 (4.68%) Architect
12 25 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
13 23 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (4.14%) Python Developer
13 23 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (3.78%) Principal Engineer
15 20 (3.60%) Analyst
15 20 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
16 18 (3.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (33.27%) React
2 114 (20.50%) Node.js
3 91 (16.37%) RESTful
4 89 (16.01%) Spring
5 83 (14.93%) Spring Boot
6 72 (12.95%) Django
7 68 (12.23%) REST
8 55 (9.89%) FastAPI
9 54 (9.71%) Kafka
10 52 (9.35%) HTML
11 50 (8.99%) CSS
12 48 (8.63%) .NET
13 41 (7.37%) AngularJS
14 36 (6.47%) Elastic Stack
15 32 (5.76%) Vue
16 31 (5.58%) Next.js
17 29 (5.22%) Flask
17 29 (5.22%) JSON
18 27 (4.86%) Web Services
19 24 (4.32%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 84 (15.11%) Cloud Native
2 53 (9.53%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.04%) Linux Command Line
4 27 (4.86%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.24%) Data Structures
6 18 (3.24%) Equities
6 18 (3.24%) Fixed Income
7 17 (3.06%) Derivative
7 17 (3.06%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.70%) Blog
9 15 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.52%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.52%) Replication
11 11 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.44%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.44%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (16.37%) Linux
2 42 (7.55%) Unix
3 30 (5.40%) Windows
4 15 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.34%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.26%) Android
6 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.26%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.54%) Debian
9 2 (0.36%) CentOS
9 2 (0.36%) VMS
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.18%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (41.37%) CI/CD
2 207 (37.23%) Agile
3 177 (31.83%) Software Engineering
4 176 (31.65%) Microservices
5 159 (28.60%) DevOps
6 152 (27.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 128 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
8 107 (19.24%) Containerisation
9 105 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 98 (17.63%) Test Automation
11 96 (17.27%) Mentoring
12 92 (16.55%) AI
13 67 (12.05%) TDD
14 65 (11.69%) Data Modelling
14 65 (11.69%) Fintech
15 64 (11.51%) Scrum
16 60 (10.79%) Clean Code
16 60 (10.79%) Observability
17 58 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
18 52 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 258 (46.40%) Python
2 187 (33.63%) Java
3 176 (31.65%) SQL
4 152 (27.34%) JavaScript
5 117 (21.04%) TypeScript
6 45 (8.09%) C#
7 40 (7.19%) Go
8 30 (5.40%) PowerShell
9 23 (4.14%) PHP
10 22 (3.96%) Ruby
11 17 (3.06%) C
12 13 (2.34%) Delphi
13 12 (2.16%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.98%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.62%) C++
16 8 (1.44%) Bash
16 8 (1.44%) Rust
17 5 (0.90%) Perl
18 4 (0.72%) Pascal
18 4 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 100 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 73 (13.13%) Degree
3 71 (12.77%) SC Cleared
4 33 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.78%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.36%) RHCE
11 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.36%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.18%) HNC
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.14%) QA
3 14 (2.52%) GDPR
3 14 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.80%) SLA
5 9 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.36%) NCSC
7 2 (0.36%) PSD2
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.18%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 202 (36.33%) Docker
2 20 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (0.54%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.36%) Samba
5 1 (0.18%) NFS
Systems Management
1 178 (32.01%) Kubernetes
2 122 (21.94%) Terraform
3 41 (7.37%) Ansible
4 34 (6.12%) Grafana
5 19 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.06%) AWS Copilot
7 13 (2.34%) Kibana
8 11 (1.98%) Argo
9 5 (0.90%) Nagios
10 4 (0.72%) Control-M
10 4 (0.72%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.72%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.54%) Puppet
11 3 (0.54%) Rancher
12 1 (0.18%) Ambari
12 1 (0.18%) Istio
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
12 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (12.59%) Oracle
2 52 (9.35%) Google
3 40 (7.19%) Microsoft
4 21 (3.78%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.52%) Informatica
7 13 (2.34%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.34%) IBM
8 11 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.62%) Talend
10 8 (1.44%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.44%) ESRI
10 8 (1.44%) Pega
11 7 (1.26%) Splunk
12 6 (1.08%) Databricks
12 6 (1.08%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.90%) Confluent
13 5 (0.90%) Dell
13 5 (0.90%) VMware
13 5 (0.90%) WSO2