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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 139 183
Rank change year-on-year -82 +44 -41
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 592 1,285 970
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.88% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.58% 11.75% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 422 598 818
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £107,188 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

All Database and 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 6,899 10,936 11,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.94% 15.96% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,521 6,294 8,851
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -89 539 £75,000 +0.67% 732
London -24 316 £100,000 +17.65% 489
UK excluding London -111 266 £62,500 - 300
Work from Home -71 256 £75,000 +7.14% 455
North of England -16 84 £67,500 +3.85% 96
South East -98 68 £65,000 +6.12% 105
Midlands +39 40 £55,000 -15.38% 34
North West -20 38 £70,000 +16.67% 68
South West -26 36 £54,000 -16.92% 24
Yorkshire +14 33 £68,750 -3.51% 23
West Midlands +42 27 £67,500 +3.85% 22
Scotland -13 20 £73,801 +27.24% 15
North East +23 13 £52,500 -24.25% 5
East Midlands +16 13 £50,000 -9.09% 12
East of England -44 13 £42,500 -26.09% 18
Wales -12 6 £69,401 +6.77% 4
Northern Ireland 0 3 £73,801 +13.54% 9

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 73 (12.33%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.55%) Confluence
4 19 (3.21%) WebSphere
5 17 (2.87%) Tomcat
6 16 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
7 11 (1.86%) nginx
8 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.01%) Apache
9 6 (1.01%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.68%) JBoss
11 3 (0.51%) CMS
11 3 (0.51%) Luigi
11 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
11 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.34%) SAS
12 2 (0.34%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (1.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Notion
3 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 434 (73.31%) AWS
2 196 (33.11%) Azure
3 181 (30.57%) GCP
4 93 (15.71%) Serverless
5 89 (15.03%) dbt
6 74 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
7 61 (10.30%) GitHub
8 52 (8.78%) Amazon EC2
9 50 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (8.45%) Amazon S3
10 46 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (6.08%) SaaS
12 33 (5.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (4.56%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (4.56%) Power Platform
15 21 (3.55%) Pulumi
16 20 (3.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.72%) TCP/IP
2 20 (3.38%) Firewall
3 19 (3.21%) SSL
4 10 (1.69%) iSCSI
4 10 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
4 10 (1.69%) SAN
5 9 (1.52%) DNS
5 9 (1.52%) HTTP
6 8 (1.35%) FTP
6 8 (1.35%) SSH
6 8 (1.35%) VPN
7 7 (1.18%) IMAP
7 7 (1.18%) OpenLDAP
7 7 (1.18%) SMTP
8 5 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.68%) MQTT
10 3 (0.51%) AMQP
11 2 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.34%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (21.62%) Relational Database
1 128 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 118 (19.93%) MySQL
3 96 (16.22%) MongoDB
4 81 (13.68%) NoSQL
5 60 (10.14%) Amazon Athena
5 60 (10.14%) Apache Iceberg
6 55 (9.29%) Apache Arrow
6 55 (9.29%) Dremio
7 46 (7.77%) RDBMS
7 46 (7.77%) Redis
8 45 (7.60%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (5.74%) DB2
11 29 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
12 28 (4.73%) DynamoDB
13 25 (4.22%) Power BI
14 21 (3.55%) Amazon Aurora
14 21 (3.55%) Big Data
15 15 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 105 (17.74%) Jenkins
2 95 (16.05%) Git
3 43 (7.26%) JUnit
4 42 (7.09%) JIRA
5 30 (5.07%) GitLab
6 28 (4.73%) Mockito
7 27 (4.56%) JMeter
8 26 (4.39%) Cucumber
8 26 (4.39%) Selenium
9 18 (3.04%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.35%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.18%) Maven
12 7 (1.18%) Vagrant
13 6 (1.01%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.01%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.84%) Subversion
15 4 (0.68%) Gradle
15 4 (0.68%) IntelliJ
15 4 (0.68%) Vite
General
1 170 (28.72%) Finance
2 134 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.15%) Front Office
4 64 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 54 (9.12%) Banking
6 38 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (6.42%) Law
7 35 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
8 33 (5.57%) Marketing
9 20 (3.38%) Manufacturing
10 18 (3.04%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.53%) Electronics
12 14 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.36%) Retail
13 13 (2.20%) Financial Institution
13 13 (2.20%) Investment Banking
14 12 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.52%) Advertising
16 7 (1.18%) Legal
17 5 (0.84%) Games
Job Titles
1 253 (42.74%) Developer
2 125 (21.11%) Software Engineer
3 111 (18.75%) Senior
4 77 (13.01%) Lead
4 77 (13.01%) Python Developer
5 70 (11.82%) Java Developer
5 70 (11.82%) Python Engineer
6 66 (11.15%) AWS Engineer
7 64 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (10.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 62 (10.47%) Python Software Engineer
9 60 (10.14%) AWS Developer
10 57 (9.63%) AWS Software Engineer
11 37 (6.25%) Java Engineer
11 37 (6.25%) Software Developer
12 33 (5.57%) Data Engineer
13 32 (5.41%) Lead Developer
14 30 (5.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 28 (4.73%) Senior Developer
16 25 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (30.57%) React
2 138 (23.31%) Node.js
3 103 (17.40%) Spring
4 96 (16.22%) AngularJS
4 96 (16.22%) Spring Boot
5 87 (14.70%) RESTful
6 84 (14.19%) REST
7 78 (13.18%) Vue
8 72 (12.16%) FastAPI
9 68 (11.49%) Django
10 67 (11.32%) HTML
11 63 (10.64%) Kafka
12 57 (9.63%) NumPy
12 57 (9.63%) Pandas
13 55 (9.29%) SciPy
14 51 (8.61%) CSS
15 46 (7.77%) .NET
16 43 (7.26%) Flask
17 39 (6.59%) Web Services
18 33 (5.57%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 77 (13.01%) Cloud Native
2 65 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (9.97%) Equities
3 59 (9.97%) Fixed Income
3 59 (9.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 32 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
5 30 (5.07%) Management Information System
6 24 (4.05%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.70%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.70%) Replication
9 11 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.86%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.35%) Derivative
11 8 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
12 7 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 111 (18.75%) Linux
2 48 (8.11%) Unix
3 47 (7.94%) Windows
4 28 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.86%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.52%) VMS
7 8 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.18%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (1.18%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.84%) Debian
10 4 (0.68%) Android
10 4 (0.68%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.51%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.34%) CentOS
13 1 (0.17%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (43.58%) Agile
2 228 (38.51%) CI/CD
3 197 (33.28%) Software Engineering
4 161 (27.20%) Microservices
5 157 (26.52%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (24.66%) DevOps
7 122 (20.61%) Full-Stack Development
8 109 (18.41%) Fintech
9 106 (17.91%) Containerisation
10 91 (15.37%) AI
11 83 (14.02%) Mentoring
12 77 (13.01%) Clean Code
13 74 (12.50%) TDD
14 72 (12.16%) Test Automation
15 63 (10.64%) Asset Management
16 62 (10.47%) Investment Management
17 61 (10.30%) Data Engineering
18 60 (10.14%) ETL
19 59 (9.97%) Infrastructure as Code
20 57 (9.63%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 315 (53.21%) Python
2 184 (31.08%) JavaScript
3 180 (30.41%) Java
4 166 (28.04%) SQL
5 146 (24.66%) TypeScript
6 48 (8.11%) C#
7 27 (4.56%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.72%) PHP
9 20 (3.38%) Bash
10 19 (3.21%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.87%) Go
12 12 (2.03%) Rust
13 10 (1.69%) Ruby
14 9 (1.52%) Delphi
14 9 (1.52%) Groovy
15 8 (1.35%) Korn
15 8 (1.35%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.35%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.01%) C
17 4 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 76 (12.84%) Degree
3 73 (12.33%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.04%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.68%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.34%) CCNA
12 2 (0.34%) CCNP
12 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.34%) HNC
12 2 (0.34%) HND
12 2 (0.34%) MCSA
12 2 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.59%) QA
2 26 (4.39%) SLA
3 20 (3.38%) GDPR
4 17 (2.87%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.36%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.84%) NIST
7 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.51%) SEPA
8 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) PSD2
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 230 (38.85%) Docker
2 10 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 7 (1.18%) DFS Replication
3 7 (1.18%) Dovecot
3 7 (1.18%) Postfix
3 7 (1.18%) Squid
4 4 (0.68%) zsh
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.34%) HDFS
5 2 (0.34%) NFS
5 2 (0.34%) pfSense
5 2 (0.34%) Samba
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 180 (30.41%) Kubernetes
2 91 (15.37%) Terraform
3 32 (5.41%) Kibana
4 31 (5.24%) Grafana
5 24 (4.05%) Ansible
6 22 (3.72%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.03%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (1.18%) Argo
8 7 (1.18%) Nessus
8 7 (1.18%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.68%) logstash
9 4 (0.68%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.51%) Puppet
10 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.34%) Nagios
11 2 (0.34%) Oozie
12 1 (0.17%) Ambari
12 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (14.53%) Oracle
2 42 (7.09%) Google
3 36 (6.08%) Microsoft
3 36 (6.08%) Splunk
4 32 (5.41%) Red Hat
5 25 (4.22%) Dynatrace
6 22 (3.72%) ServiceNow
7 20 (3.38%) IBM
8 19 (3.21%) SAP
9 17 (2.87%) Informatica
10 16 (2.70%) Atlassian
11 13 (2.20%) Talend
12 12 (2.03%) Databricks
12 12 (2.03%) Dell
13 11 (1.86%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.35%) Salesforce
15 7 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
16 5 (0.84%) RedGate
17 4 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
17 4 (0.68%) WSO2