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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 237 143
Rank change year-on-year -16 -94 +53
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 851 620 1,344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.25% 1.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.87% 8.83% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 608 425 658
10th Percentile £44,160 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +13.21% -5.36%
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 8,618 7,022 11,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.32% 14.14% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,890 4,359 6,563
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 8 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 8 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 -29 724 £70,000 -12.50% 1,089
UK excluding London -26 398 £65,000 - 382
Work from Home +36 395 £67,500 -20.59% 465
London -51 337 £82,500 -21.43% 765
South East -6 130 £68,750 +5.77% 80
North of England -13 122 £65,000 -3.70% 107
North West -4 56 £61,250 -9.26% 66
South West -54 51 £82,500 +52.78% 32
Midlands -36 41 £75,000 +7.14% 36
North East -30 40 £65,000 +26.83% 15
West Midlands -38 31 £85,000 +17.24% 26
East of England -25 29 £52,500 +72.13% 47
Yorkshire -29 26 £67,155 -4.06% 30
Wales -51 26 £64,000 +2.40% 18
Scotland -16 11 £65,000 -3.70% 40
East Midlands -28 10 £60,000 +20.00% 10
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 25

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 26 (3.06%) Apache Spark
1 26 (3.06%) Confluence
2 25 (2.94%) Apache
3 24 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.82%) Camunda
4 7 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.71%) WordPress
6 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.47%) nginx
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.35%) CMS
8 3 (0.35%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.24%) Luigi
9 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.24%) Tornado
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Finacle
2 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 503 (59.11%) AWS
2 290 (34.08%) Azure
3 162 (19.04%) GitHub
4 128 (15.04%) GCP
5 100 (11.75%) Serverless
6 90 (10.58%) SaaS
7 74 (8.70%) Amazon S3
8 72 (8.46%) Amazon ECS
8 72 (8.46%) GitHub Actions
9 66 (7.76%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
11 55 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
13 48 (5.64%) GitHub Copilot
14 43 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (3.76%) Azure AKS
17 30 (3.53%) Power Platform
18 27 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
19 23 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.29%) Broadband
2 19 (2.23%) TCP/IP
3 15 (1.76%) VPN
4 14 (1.65%) SMS
5 13 (1.53%) AMQP
5 13 (1.53%) Firewall
6 10 (1.18%) BGP
6 10 (1.18%) DNS
7 8 (0.94%) VLAN
8 6 (0.71%) HTTP
9 5 (0.59%) Network Security
10 4 (0.47%) DHCP
10 4 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.35%) 4G
11 3 (0.35%) 5G
11 3 (0.35%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.35%) SAN
11 3 (0.35%) SSH
12 2 (0.24%) OpenVPN
13 1 (0.12%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (25.15%) MongoDB
2 187 (21.97%) MySQL
3 142 (16.69%) Relational Database
4 135 (15.86%) SQL Server
5 111 (13.04%) Redis
6 101 (11.87%) NoSQL
7 61 (7.17%) Amazon RDS
8 46 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (5.29%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
12 22 (2.59%) Big Data
12 22 (2.59%) Power BI
13 21 (2.47%) Metadata
14 20 (2.35%) Pinecone
15 18 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (2.12%) Oracle Database
16 16 (1.88%) Data Lake
17 15 (1.76%) Chroma
18 14 (1.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 207 (24.32%) Git
2 82 (9.64%) Jenkins
3 72 (8.46%) GitLab
4 29 (3.41%) JIRA
5 28 (3.29%) TeamCity
6 27 (3.17%) Cypress.io
6 27 (3.17%) JUnit
7 20 (2.35%) Mockito
8 13 (1.53%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.41%) JMeter
9 12 (1.41%) Vite
10 10 (1.18%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.94%) Selenium
12 7 (0.82%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.82%) Maven
12 7 (0.82%) Mocha
12 7 (0.82%) RSpec
12 7 (0.82%) Storybook
13 5 (0.59%) Appium
13 5 (0.59%) Eclipse
General
1 205 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 115 (13.51%) Finance
3 114 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 86 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (9.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (6.82%) Banking
7 54 (6.35%) Law
8 35 (4.11%) Retail
9 27 (3.17%) Games
10 23 (2.70%) Legal
11 22 (2.59%) Tech for Good
12 16 (1.88%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.76%) Health Technology
13 15 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.53%) Legal Technology
15 10 (1.18%) Back Office
16 9 (1.06%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.94%) Marketing
17 8 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 287 (33.73%) Developer
2 254 (29.85%) Senior
3 174 (20.45%) Software Engineer
4 116 (13.63%) Lead
5 83 (9.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 72 (8.46%) Senior Developer
7 68 (7.99%) Senior Software Engineer
8 62 (7.29%) Python Engineer
9 56 (6.58%) Data Engineer
10 52 (6.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 51 (5.99%) Java Developer
11 51 (5.99%) Python Developer
12 50 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
13 46 (5.41%) Software Developer
14 42 (4.94%) DBA
15 40 (4.70%) Architect
16 34 (4.00%) Database Engineer
16 34 (4.00%) Lead Developer
17 32 (3.76%) Ruby Developer
18 31 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (25.50%) React
2 213 (25.03%) Terraform
3 180 (21.15%) Node.js
4 154 (18.10%) RESTful
5 131 (15.39%) REST
6 118 (13.87%) Kafka
7 117 (13.75%) Spring
8 112 (13.16%) Spring Boot
9 82 (9.64%) .NET
10 73 (8.58%) CSS
11 69 (8.11%) Next.js
12 62 (7.29%) FastAPI
13 61 (7.17%) Ruby on Rails
14 59 (6.93%) HTML
15 55 (6.46%) RabbitMQ
16 51 (5.99%) Jest
17 46 (5.41%) AngularJS
18 44 (5.17%) JSON
19 42 (4.94%) JPA
20 40 (4.70%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 180 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 136 (15.98%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (4.82%) Blog
4 40 (4.70%) Product Ownership
5 36 (4.23%) AI Agents
6 30 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (3.53%) Low-Code
7 28 (3.29%) Replication
8 25 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
9 24 (2.82%) Onboarding
9 24 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (2.59%) Virtual Team
12 18 (2.12%) Data Structures
13 17 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.88%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.76%) Public Cloud
16 14 (1.65%) Management Information System
17 13 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
17 13 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 123 (14.45%) Linux
2 40 (4.70%) Windows
3 20 (2.35%) Unix
4 15 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.71%) Android
5 6 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (49.94%) CI/CD
2 317 (37.25%) Software Engineering
3 302 (35.49%) Agile
4 252 (29.61%) AI
5 249 (29.26%) Microservices
6 231 (27.14%) DevOps
7 224 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 205 (24.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 197 (23.15%) Observability
10 170 (19.98%) Mentoring
11 165 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
12 154 (18.10%) Test Automation
13 152 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 148 (17.39%) Containerisation
15 117 (13.75%) Clean Code
16 116 (13.63%) Event-Driven
17 97 (11.40%) Scrum
18 94 (11.05%) API Design
19 90 (10.58%) Decision-Making
20 89 (10.46%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 346 (40.66%) Python
2 249 (29.26%) SQL
3 224 (26.32%) Java
4 182 (21.39%) JavaScript
5 168 (19.74%) TypeScript
6 82 (9.64%) C#
7 72 (8.46%) Go
8 63 (7.40%) Ruby
9 50 (5.88%) Bash
10 28 (3.29%) PHP
11 24 (2.82%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.35%) Scala
13 16 (1.88%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.53%) C++
15 12 (1.41%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.29%) Groovy
17 10 (1.18%) RPG
18 5 (0.59%) Perl
18 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.47%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 137 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 110 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.81%) Degree
4 31 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 23 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.06%) PhD
10 7 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.82%) CISSP
11 6 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.59%) CCSP
12 5 (0.59%) CISM
13 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.87%) QA
2 53 (6.23%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.29%) GDPR
4 22 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.65%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.59%) NIST
8 5 (0.59%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 280 (32.90%) Docker
2 9 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Ceph
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Lustre
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.12%) Samba
6 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 245 (28.79%) Kubernetes
2 98 (11.52%) Grafana
3 65 (7.64%) Ansible
4 63 (7.40%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.35%) Argo
6 13 (1.53%) Kibana
7 12 (1.41%) Rancher
8 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.82%) Istio
10 6 (0.71%) logstash
10 6 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.71%) Puppet
11 5 (0.59%) Cilium
11 5 (0.59%) Packer
11 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.47%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.35%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.24%) Bugsnag
14 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 83 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.93%) Oracle
3 42 (4.94%) Google
4 34 (4.00%) OpenAI
5 31 (3.64%) Databricks
6 28 (3.29%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.94%) Splunk
8 16 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.76%) Mistral
9 15 (1.76%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.65%) IBM
11 8 (0.94%) Informatica
12 5 (0.59%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.59%) VMware
13 4 (0.47%) Netezza
13 4 (0.47%) Remedy
13 4 (0.47%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.47%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.35%) Dell
14 3 (0.35%) ESRI