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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 174 180
Rank change year-on-year -120 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 557 750 1,561
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.79% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.18% 10.13% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 401 535 1,163
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £58,750 £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 £88,750 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -6.93%

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 7,757 7,406 17,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.89% 17.71% 18.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,566 5,192 12,583
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 20 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 20 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 -119 463 £69,310 -7.59% 260
UK excluding London -126 284 £60,000 -7.69% 154
Work from Home -53 260 £65,000 -7.14% 180
London -96 196 £87,500 - 142
North of England -31 101 £67,500 - 39
South East -92 81 £57,500 -17.86% 49
Yorkshire -34 45 £52,130 -12.73% 9
North West -32 43 £77,500 +14.71% 22
South West -43 34 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Scotland -30 23 £67,500 +8.00% 11
East of England -56 22 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Midlands -43 21 £51,350 -21.00% 19
North East -31 13 £53,565 -22.80% 8
West Midlands -39 12 £46,250 -28.85% 8
East Midlands -52 9 £60,100 -14.14% 11
Wales -51 5 £73,801 +13.54% 6
Northern Ireland -44 2 £73,801 +34.18% 1

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 33 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 17 (3.05%) Apache
5 13 (2.33%) Confluence
5 13 (2.33%) OpenStack
6 11 (1.97%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.44%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.72%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.36%) Camunda
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.36%) WildFly
10 1 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.62%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 344 (61.76%) AWS
2 208 (37.34%) Azure
3 136 (24.42%) GCP
4 97 (17.41%) Serverless
5 62 (11.13%) Amazon S3
6 61 (10.95%) Amazon ECS
7 60 (10.77%) GitHub
8 57 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (9.52%) SaaS
10 48 (8.62%) Amazon SQS
11 38 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (6.46%) Power Platform
14 34 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (5.75%) dbt
16 31 (5.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 31 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
17 28 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
18 22 (3.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 20 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.49%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.69%) DHCP
2 15 (2.69%) DNS
3 12 (2.15%) Firewall
4 10 (1.80%) VPN
5 8 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.26%) Broadband
6 7 (1.26%) Internet
6 7 (1.26%) iSCSI
6 7 (1.26%) Network Security
6 7 (1.26%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (1.26%) SAN
7 3 (0.54%) HTTP
7 3 (0.54%) VLAN
8 2 (0.36%) LAN
8 2 (0.36%) MQTT
8 2 (0.36%) PBX
8 2 (0.36%) SSL
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (22.98%) SQL Server
2 122 (21.90%) MongoDB
3 110 (19.75%) MySQL
4 96 (17.24%) NoSQL
4 96 (17.24%) Relational Database
5 47 (8.44%) Redis
6 36 (6.46%) Elasticsearch
7 34 (6.10%) DynamoDB
8 30 (5.39%) Power BI
9 29 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (3.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (2.87%) BigQuery
12 16 (2.87%) DB2
13 15 (2.69%) Oracle Database
13 15 (2.69%) RDBMS
14 14 (2.51%) GIS
15 13 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (2.15%) Pinecone
17 10 (1.80%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 127 (22.80%) Git
2 62 (11.13%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.10%) GitLab
4 27 (4.85%) JIRA
5 24 (4.31%) JUnit
6 23 (4.13%) Cypress.io
7 21 (3.77%) Bitbucket
7 21 (3.77%) Cucumber
7 21 (3.77%) Selenium
8 18 (3.23%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.15%) Mockito
10 10 (1.80%) Maven
11 9 (1.62%) Vite
12 6 (1.08%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.90%) Gradle
13 5 (0.90%) JMeter
14 3 (0.54%) Storybook
14 3 (0.54%) Subversion
15 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
15 2 (0.36%) Liquibase
General
1 145 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 102 (18.31%) Finance
3 54 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (5.92%) Banking
7 30 (5.39%) Law
8 29 (5.21%) Retail
9 18 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (3.05%) Front Office
11 13 (2.33%) Advertising
12 10 (1.80%) Games
12 10 (1.80%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.62%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.62%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.08%) Legal
16 5 (0.90%) Automotive
16 5 (0.90%) Back Office
17 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (32.14%) Developer
2 114 (20.47%) Senior
3 92 (16.52%) Software Engineer
4 77 (13.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 75 (13.46%) Lead
6 49 (8.80%) Java Developer
7 40 (7.18%) Data Engineer
8 39 (7.00%) Python Engineer
9 33 (5.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (5.57%) Java Engineer
11 29 (5.21%) Lead Developer
12 27 (4.85%) Architect
13 24 (4.31%) Lead Software Engineer
14 22 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
15 21 (3.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 19 (3.41%) Analyst
16 19 (3.41%) IT Support
16 19 (3.41%) Java Software Engineer
16 19 (3.41%) Python Developer
16 19 (3.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (33.21%) React
2 117 (21.01%) Node.js
3 91 (16.34%) RESTful
4 72 (12.93%) Spring
5 68 (12.21%) Spring Boot
6 65 (11.67%) REST
7 62 (11.13%) Django
8 52 (9.34%) FastAPI
9 50 (8.98%) Kafka
10 47 (8.44%) .NET
11 41 (7.36%) HTML
12 39 (7.00%) CSS
13 36 (6.46%) AngularJS
14 32 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
14 32 (5.75%) JSON
15 31 (5.57%) Flask
16 30 (5.39%) Next.js
16 30 (5.39%) Vue
17 23 (4.13%) Jest
17 23 (4.13%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 91 (16.34%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.80%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.41%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.23%) Replication
6 17 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.87%) Blog
7 16 (2.87%) Derivative
7 16 (2.87%) Equities
7 16 (2.87%) Fixed Income
7 16 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (2.33%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.62%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.62%) SCADA
12 8 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 81 (14.54%) Linux
2 29 (5.21%) Unix
2 29 (5.21%) Windows
3 15 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.26%) Android
5 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.54%) CentOS
8 2 (0.36%) 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%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (41.65%) CI/CD
2 195 (35.01%) Agile
3 173 (31.06%) Microservices
4 164 (29.44%) Software Engineering
5 154 (27.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 152 (27.29%) DevOps
7 112 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
8 109 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (18.67%) AI
10 101 (18.13%) Test Automation
11 100 (17.95%) Containerisation
12 93 (16.70%) Mentoring
13 68 (12.21%) Data Modelling
14 65 (11.67%) Analytics
15 64 (11.49%) Scrum
15 64 (11.49%) TDD
16 59 (10.59%) Observability
17 58 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
18 53 (9.52%) Clean Code
19 52 (9.34%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 253 (45.42%) Python
2 183 (32.85%) SQL
3 172 (30.88%) Java
4 140 (25.13%) JavaScript
5 108 (19.39%) TypeScript
6 46 (8.26%) C#
7 41 (7.36%) Go
8 31 (5.57%) PowerShell
9 26 (4.67%) Ruby
10 24 (4.31%) PHP
11 17 (3.05%) C
12 15 (2.69%) Bash
13 13 (2.33%) Delphi
14 11 (1.97%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.80%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.62%) C++
17 7 (1.26%) Perl
17 7 (1.26%) Scala
18 6 (1.08%) Korn
18 6 (1.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 87 (15.62%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.75%) Degree
3 61 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.51%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.15%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.54%) RHCE
12 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.36%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.90%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.31%) QA
3 15 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.51%) GDPR
5 11 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.90%) 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 (33.93%) Docker
2 29 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.72%) 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
1 182 (32.68%) Kubernetes
2 128 (22.98%) Terraform
3 39 (7.00%) Grafana
4 37 (6.64%) Ansible
5 22 (3.95%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.05%) Argo
7 10 (1.80%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (1.26%) Kibana
9 6 (1.08%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.90%) Nagios
11 4 (0.72%) Control-M
11 4 (0.72%) Rancher
12 3 (0.54%) Istio
12 3 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.36%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.36%) Puppet
14 1 (0.18%) Podman
14 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 67 (12.03%) Oracle
2 51 (9.16%) Microsoft
3 42 (7.54%) Google
4 21 (3.77%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.51%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.33%) Informatica
7 8 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.44%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.44%) ESRI
7 8 (1.44%) Talend
8 7 (1.26%) Databricks
8 7 (1.26%) Dell
8 7 (1.26%) Pega
9 6 (1.08%) Confluent
9 6 (1.08%) IBM
9 6 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.90%) Splunk
11 4 (0.72%) VMware
12 3 (0.54%) Revolut