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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 145 187
Rank change year-on-year -129 +42 -6
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 548 905 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 2.19% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.63% 11.81% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 383 538 1,091
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £40,750
25th Percentile £52,400 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,938 £86,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 7,186 7,664 16,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.36% 18.53% 18.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,269 5,111 12,367
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -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 24 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 24 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 -140 456 £73,801 -1.60% 275
UK excluding London -161 260 £60,000 -7.69% 167
Work from Home -97 249 £65,000 -6.32% 195
London -90 220 £90,000 +2.86% 145
North of England -18 95 £62,500 -9.82% 55
South East -138 65 £57,500 -23.33% 43
Yorkshire -21 43 £52,130 -12.73% 17
North West -23 40 £77,500 +11.82% 33
South West -36 30 £62,500 -3.85% 18
Midlands -37 25 £55,200 -15.08% 19
Scotland -32 20 £67,500 +12.03% 12
East of England -68 19 £45,000 -21.74% 16
West Midlands -13 16 £45,000 -30.77% 9
North East -18 12 £53,565 -22.76% 6
East Midlands -39 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -40 7 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -34 4 £73,801 +18.74%

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 25 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.74%) OpenStack
5 14 (2.55%) Confluence
6 13 (2.37%) Apache
7 9 (1.64%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.46%) ArcGIS
8 8 (1.46%) Tomcat
8 8 (1.46%) WebSphere
9 7 (1.28%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.73%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.73%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.36%) Camunda
11 2 (0.36%) CMS
11 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.18%) IIS
12 1 (0.18%) JBoss
12 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 352 (64.23%) AWS
2 210 (38.32%) Azure
3 147 (26.82%) GCP
4 96 (17.52%) Serverless
5 69 (12.59%) Amazon ECS
6 63 (11.50%) Amazon S3
7 59 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (10.04%) GitHub
9 47 (8.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 45 (8.21%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (8.21%) SaaS
11 44 (8.03%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (6.93%) dbt
13 35 (6.39%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (6.02%) Power Platform
15 27 (4.93%) Amazon ECR
15 27 (4.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 25 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
16 25 (4.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.20%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.19%) DHCP
2 12 (2.19%) DNS
2 12 (2.19%) VPN
3 10 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.46%) SSL
5 7 (1.28%) Broadband
5 7 (1.28%) Firewall
5 7 (1.28%) Internet
5 7 (1.28%) Network Security
6 3 (0.55%) HTTP
6 3 (0.55%) iSCSI
6 3 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.55%) SAN
6 3 (0.55%) VLAN
7 2 (0.36%) LAN
7 2 (0.36%) PBX
7 2 (0.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) AMQP
8 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (22.08%) SQL Server
2 110 (20.07%) MongoDB
3 107 (19.53%) MySQL
4 105 (19.16%) Relational Database
5 88 (16.06%) NoSQL
6 53 (9.67%) Redis
7 42 (7.66%) Elasticsearch
8 36 (6.57%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (5.66%) DynamoDB
10 29 (5.29%) Power BI
11 25 (4.56%) DB2
12 19 (3.47%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (3.10%) BigQuery
13 17 (3.10%) RDBMS
14 16 (2.92%) Oracle Database
15 13 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (2.19%) Big Data
16 12 (2.19%) GIS
17 9 (1.64%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 121 (22.08%) Git
2 72 (13.14%) Jenkins
3 30 (5.47%) GitLab
4 29 (5.29%) JIRA
5 26 (4.74%) JUnit
6 24 (4.38%) Cucumber
7 22 (4.01%) Cypress.io
8 21 (3.83%) Selenium
9 20 (3.65%) Bitbucket
10 19 (3.47%) TeamCity
11 14 (2.55%) Mockito
12 8 (1.46%) Maven
13 7 (1.28%) Vite
14 6 (1.09%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.09%) JMeter
15 5 (0.91%) Gradle
16 4 (0.73%) Subversion
17 3 (0.55%) REST Assured
17 3 (0.55%) Storybook
18 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
General
1 143 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 107 (19.53%) Finance
3 59 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.94%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (7.12%) Banking
7 34 (6.20%) Law
8 26 (4.74%) Retail
9 17 (3.10%) Front Office
10 10 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.82%) Games
10 10 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.64%) Advertising
12 7 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.09%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.91%) Back Office
14 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.73%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 188 (34.31%) Developer
2 108 (19.71%) Senior
3 93 (16.97%) Software Engineer
4 78 (14.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 72 (13.14%) Lead
6 55 (10.04%) Java Developer
7 33 (6.02%) Data Engineer
8 30 (5.47%) Python Engineer
9 29 (5.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 29 (5.29%) Lead Developer
10 27 (4.93%) Architect
10 27 (4.93%) Java Engineer
11 25 (4.56%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (4.01%) Python Developer
13 20 (3.65%) Analyst
13 20 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 20 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
14 19 (3.47%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (33.03%) React
2 111 (20.26%) Node.js
3 88 (16.06%) RESTful
4 81 (14.78%) Spring
5 77 (14.05%) Spring Boot
6 74 (13.50%) Django
7 68 (12.41%) REST
8 53 (9.67%) FastAPI
9 48 (8.76%) HTML
9 48 (8.76%) Kafka
10 46 (8.39%) .NET
10 46 (8.39%) CSS
11 38 (6.93%) AngularJS
12 35 (6.39%) Elastic Stack
13 31 (5.66%) Flask
14 29 (5.29%) Next.js
14 29 (5.29%) Vue
15 28 (5.11%) JSON
16 25 (4.56%) Web Services
17 24 (4.38%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 85 (15.51%) Cloud Native
2 52 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.93%) Linux Command Line
5 19 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.10%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.10%) Derivative
6 17 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.92%) Equities
7 16 (2.92%) Fixed Income
7 16 (2.92%) Replication
8 15 (2.74%) Blog
8 15 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.55%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.28%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 89 (16.24%) Linux
2 41 (7.48%) Unix
3 30 (5.47%) Windows
4 14 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.28%) Android
5 7 (1.28%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.55%) CentOS
7 3 (0.55%) Debian
8 2 (0.36%) VMS
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.18%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (40.51%) CI/CD
2 203 (37.04%) Agile
3 172 (31.39%) Microservices
4 168 (30.66%) Software Engineering
5 156 (28.47%) DevOps
6 149 (27.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 129 (23.54%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (19.16%) Containerisation
8 105 (19.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 97 (17.70%) Test Automation
10 96 (17.52%) Mentoring
11 91 (16.61%) AI
12 65 (11.86%) Data Modelling
12 65 (11.86%) TDD
13 62 (11.31%) Fintech
13 62 (11.31%) Scrum
14 59 (10.77%) Observability
15 58 (10.58%) Clean Code
15 58 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
16 54 (9.85%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 253 (46.17%) Python
2 176 (32.12%) Java
3 170 (31.02%) SQL
4 149 (27.19%) JavaScript
5 112 (20.44%) TypeScript
6 46 (8.39%) C#
7 39 (7.12%) Go
8 29 (5.29%) PowerShell
9 24 (4.38%) Ruby
10 22 (4.01%) PHP
11 17 (3.10%) C
12 13 (2.37%) Delphi
13 11 (2.01%) Shell Script
13 11 (2.01%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.64%) C++
15 8 (1.46%) Rust
16 7 (1.28%) Bash
17 5 (0.91%) Perl
18 4 (0.73%) Pascal
18 4 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 73 (13.32%) Degree
3 71 (12.96%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.65%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.19%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.55%) RHCE
11 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.38%) QA
3 14 (2.55%) GDPR
3 14 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.64%) SLA
5 3 (0.55%) NCSC
5 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.36%) PSD2
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 191 (34.85%) Docker
2 22 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (0.73%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.36%) Samba
5 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 175 (31.93%) Kubernetes
2 122 (22.26%) Terraform
3 38 (6.93%) Ansible
4 33 (6.02%) Grafana
5 18 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.10%) AWS Copilot
7 10 (1.82%) Argo
7 10 (1.82%) Kibana
8 5 (0.91%) Data Guard
8 5 (0.91%) Nagios
9 4 (0.73%) Control-M
10 3 (0.55%) Puppet
10 3 (0.55%) Rancher
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.18%) Ambari
12 1 (0.18%) Istio
12 1 (0.18%) Podman
12 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 71 (12.96%) Oracle
2 55 (10.04%) Google
3 38 (6.93%) Microsoft
4 21 (3.83%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.55%) Informatica
6 13 (2.37%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.19%) Atlassian
7 12 (2.19%) IBM
8 10 (1.82%) Pega
8 10 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.64%) Talend
10 8 (1.46%) ESRI
11 7 (1.28%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.09%) Databricks
12 6 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.09%) Splunk
13 5 (0.91%) Confluent
13 5 (0.91%) Dell
13 5 (0.91%) WSO2
14 4 (0.73%) VMware