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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 132 192
Rank change year-on-year -144 +60 -8
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 522 1,096 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 2.31% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.56% 12.54% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 364 539 973
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £119,250 £118,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,367 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.59% +15.42% +1.81%

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 6,908 8,740 14,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 18.44% 19.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,164 5,070 11,461
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -141 443 £75,000 -6.25% 293
Work from Home -102 241 £67,500 -6.24% 174
London -87 237 £95,000 +8.57% 135
UK excluding London -166 231 £60,000 -9.59% 211
North of England -35 90 £68,750 -0.80% 63
South East -136 58 £56,250 -29.69% 51
Yorkshire -9 42 £60,000 +4.59% 15
North West -30 37 £77,500 +11.70% 36
Midlands -36 25 £55,200 -15.08% 29
South West -53 23 £65,000 - 29
West Midlands -3 16 £45,000 -30.77% 24
Scotland -46 15 £73,801 +18.08% 20
East of England -51 15 £42,500 -26.09% 14
North East -10 11 £52,500 -24.25% 13
East Midlands -45 9 £65,000 +8.33% 5
Wales -33 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -30 4 £73,801 +34.18% 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 34 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.87%) Confluence
3 15 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (2.49%) OpenStack
5 12 (2.30%) Tomcat
5 12 (2.30%) WebSphere
6 11 (2.11%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (1.72%) Apache
8 8 (1.53%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.77%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.77%) Oracle Spatial
9 4 (0.77%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.57%) nginx
11 2 (0.38%) Camunda
11 2 (0.38%) CMS
11 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Endur
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 354 (67.82%) AWS
2 196 (37.55%) Azure
3 142 (27.20%) GCP
4 93 (17.82%) Serverless
5 70 (13.41%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (11.69%) Amazon S3
7 57 (10.92%) GitHub
8 55 (10.54%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (9.77%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (9.58%) dbt
11 48 (9.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 38 (7.28%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (7.28%) SaaS
13 36 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 30 (5.75%) Amazon ECR
16 28 (5.36%) Power Platform
17 27 (5.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 26 (4.98%) Pulumi
19 21 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.70%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.49%) VPN
3 12 (2.30%) SSL
3 12 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.53%) DHCP
4 8 (1.53%) DNS
4 8 (1.53%) Firewall
5 7 (1.34%) Internet
6 6 (1.15%) Network Security
7 5 (0.96%) VLAN
8 3 (0.57%) HTTP
8 3 (0.57%) MQTT
8 3 (0.57%) WAN
9 2 (0.38%) BGP
9 2 (0.38%) OSPF
9 2 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.38%) RTMP
9 2 (0.38%) SAN
9 2 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (22.03%) SQL Server
2 100 (19.16%) Relational Database
3 98 (18.77%) MongoDB
4 92 (17.62%) MySQL
5 78 (14.94%) NoSQL
6 53 (10.15%) Redis
7 41 (7.85%) Elasticsearch
8 36 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (6.13%) DB2
10 31 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (5.94%) DynamoDB
11 25 (4.79%) Power BI
12 20 (3.83%) RDBMS
13 17 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (2.87%) Apache Iceberg
14 15 (2.87%) Oracle Database
15 13 (2.49%) Big Data
16 12 (2.30%) Apache Arrow
16 12 (2.30%) BigQuery
17 11 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 108 (20.69%) Git
2 85 (16.28%) Jenkins
3 31 (5.94%) JIRA
4 30 (5.75%) GitLab
5 28 (5.36%) Cucumber
5 28 (5.36%) JUnit
6 26 (4.98%) Selenium
7 22 (4.21%) Bitbucket
8 21 (4.02%) TeamCity
9 20 (3.83%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.68%) JMeter
10 14 (2.68%) Mockito
11 7 (1.34%) Maven
11 7 (1.34%) Vite
12 6 (1.15%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.15%) Subversion
13 5 (0.96%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.77%) Gradle
14 4 (0.77%) Jaeger
14 4 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 136 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 114 (21.84%) Finance
3 52 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 43 (8.24%) Banking
6 35 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (6.51%) Law
8 24 (4.60%) Front Office
9 23 (4.41%) Retail
10 11 (2.11%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.11%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.53%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.15%) Advertising
13 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.96%) Marketing
14 5 (0.96%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.77%) Back Office
15 4 (0.77%) Legal
16 3 (0.57%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 183 (35.06%) Developer
2 106 (20.31%) Senior
3 97 (18.58%) Software Engineer
4 70 (13.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 59 (11.30%) Lead
6 56 (10.73%) Java Developer
7 33 (6.32%) Java Engineer
8 31 (5.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 30 (5.75%) Data Engineer
9 30 (5.75%) Python Engineer
10 29 (5.56%) Python Developer
11 23 (4.41%) Lead Developer
11 23 (4.41%) Principal Engineer
12 21 (4.02%) Architect
12 21 (4.02%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (3.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 20 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (3.64%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (33.91%) React
2 112 (21.46%) Node.js
3 85 (16.28%) Spring
4 79 (15.13%) Spring Boot
5 78 (14.94%) RESTful
6 72 (13.79%) Django
7 61 (11.69%) REST
8 54 (10.34%) Kafka
9 53 (10.15%) FastAPI
10 50 (9.58%) HTML
11 48 (9.20%) AngularJS
12 45 (8.62%) .NET
12 45 (8.62%) CSS
13 38 (7.28%) Vue
14 36 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
15 30 (5.75%) Flask
16 28 (5.36%) Next.js
16 28 (5.36%) Web Services
17 26 (4.98%) JSON
18 24 (4.60%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.37%) Cloud Native
2 57 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (4.41%) Equities
4 23 (4.41%) Fixed Income
5 22 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 16 (3.07%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.87%) Blog
8 15 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.87%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.49%) Derivative
10 11 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.72%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.72%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.72%) Replication
13 8 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.34%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 93 (17.82%) Linux
2 45 (8.62%) Unix
3 30 (5.75%) Windows
4 17 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.34%) Android
6 7 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.34%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.57%) Debian
9 2 (0.38%) VMS
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.19%) CentOS
10 1 (0.19%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (42.34%) CI/CD
2 200 (38.31%) Agile
3 167 (31.99%) Microservices
4 164 (31.42%) Software Engineering
5 143 (27.39%) DevOps
6 129 (24.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 129 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (18.77%) Containerisation
8 92 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 88 (16.86%) Test Automation
10 82 (15.71%) AI
10 82 (15.71%) Mentoring
11 73 (13.98%) Fintech
12 69 (13.22%) TDD
13 62 (11.88%) Scrum
14 59 (11.30%) Clean Code
15 55 (10.54%) Data Modelling
15 55 (10.54%) Technical Leadership
16 53 (10.15%) BDD
16 53 (10.15%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 249 (47.70%) Python
2 182 (34.87%) Java
3 167 (31.99%) SQL
4 151 (28.93%) JavaScript
5 114 (21.84%) TypeScript
6 43 (8.24%) C#
7 31 (5.94%) Go
8 27 (5.17%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.64%) PHP
9 19 (3.64%) Ruby
10 15 (2.87%) C
10 15 (2.87%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.49%) Delphi
12 11 (2.11%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.72%) Rust
14 8 (1.53%) C++
15 7 (1.34%) Bash
16 4 (0.77%) Pascal
16 4 (0.77%) Perl
17 3 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (18.77%) Security Cleared
2 67 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 66 (12.64%) Degree
4 31 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.79%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.30%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.38%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.19%) RHCE
12 1 (0.19%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.87%) QA
3 13 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.30%) GDPR
4 12 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.30%) SLA
5 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.57%) SEPA
6 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.38%) PSD2
7 1 (0.19%) GAAP
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 198 (37.93%) Docker
2 15 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.38%) NFS
5 1 (0.19%) Samba
Systems Management
1 172 (32.95%) Kubernetes
2 113 (21.65%) Terraform
3 40 (7.66%) Ansible
4 33 (6.32%) Grafana
5 17 (3.26%) AWS Copilot
5 17 (3.26%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.07%) Kibana
7 11 (2.11%) Argo
8 4 (0.77%) Control-M
8 4 (0.77%) Nagios
8 4 (0.77%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.57%) Puppet
9 3 (0.57%) Rancher
10 2 (0.38%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Ambari
11 1 (0.19%) Podman
11 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (13.22%) Oracle
2 41 (7.85%) Google
3 32 (6.13%) Microsoft
4 23 (4.41%) Red Hat
5 16 (3.07%) IBM
5 16 (3.07%) Informatica
6 15 (2.87%) OpenAI
7 14 (2.68%) Atlassian
8 11 (2.11%) Dynatrace
8 11 (2.11%) Talend
9 10 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.92%) Splunk
10 8 (1.53%) ESRI
11 5 (0.96%) Confluent
11 5 (0.96%) Databricks
11 5 (0.96%) VMware
12 4 (0.77%) Dell
12 4 (0.77%) Pega
12 4 (0.77%) SAP
12 4 (0.77%) WSO2