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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 227 163
Rank change year-on-year -39 -64 +42
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 757 723 1,437
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.47% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.57% 9.48% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 585 532 921
10th Percentile £42,200 £42,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%

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 8,833 7,626 14,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.74% 15.47% 15.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,892 4,930 9,694
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £110,000
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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -49 650 £69,310 -7.59% 284
Work from Home +16 381 £67,500 -15.63% 150
UK excluding London -57 380 £62,500 -3.85% 151
London -74 278 £85,000 -19.05% 176
South East -10 126 £60,000 +4.35% 48
North of England -12 124 £65,000 -3.70% 40
North West -7 53 £65,000 -3.70% 25
South West -50 48 £62,500 +4.17% 16
North East -22 38 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Yorkshire -34 33 £65,000 -5.45% 11
East of England -23 27 £52,500 +64.06% 8
Midlands -52 25 £75,000 +10.90% 16
West Midlands -33 19 £80,000 +16.26% 9
Scotland +2 17 £65,000 -3.70% 17
Wales -53 17 £70,000 -9.68% 2
East Midlands -36 6 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Northern Ireland -72 1 £73,801 +34.18% 4

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 28 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (3.30%) Apache Spark
4 24 (3.17%) Apache
4 24 (3.17%) Confluence
5 12 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.79%) Camunda
6 6 (0.79%) WordPress
7 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Documentum
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.72%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 438 (57.86%) AWS
2 291 (38.44%) Azure
3 130 (17.17%) GCP
4 102 (13.47%) GitHub
5 97 (12.81%) Serverless
6 69 (9.11%) Amazon S3
6 69 (9.11%) SaaS
7 65 (8.59%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
11 44 (5.81%) Amazon SQS
12 42 (5.55%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (5.55%) Power Platform
13 41 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
15 29 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 28 (3.70%) Azure AKS
17 25 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
18 23 (3.04%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.62%) Broadband
2 15 (1.98%) Firewall
3 14 (1.85%) DNS
4 12 (1.59%) DHCP
4 12 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.06%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.06%) SAN
5 8 (1.06%) VPN
6 4 (0.53%) HTTP
6 4 (0.53%) SMS
6 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.40%) AMQP
7 3 (0.40%) Network Security
8 2 (0.26%) MQTT
8 2 (0.26%) PBX
8 2 (0.26%) VLAN
9 1 (0.13%) LAN
9 1 (0.13%) SSL
9 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (26.95%) MongoDB
2 190 (25.10%) MySQL
3 123 (16.25%) SQL Server
4 122 (16.12%) Relational Database
5 110 (14.53%) NoSQL
6 87 (11.49%) Redis
7 36 (4.76%) DynamoDB
8 35 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
10 32 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
11 31 (4.10%) Power BI
12 22 (2.91%) Metadata
13 21 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (2.77%) Big Data
14 19 (2.51%) Apache Cassandra
15 17 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (1.98%) Oracle Database
17 14 (1.85%) Data Lake
17 14 (1.85%) DTS
17 14 (1.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 155 (20.48%) Git
2 54 (7.13%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.74%) GitLab
4 33 (4.36%) JIRA
5 26 (3.43%) JUnit
6 22 (2.91%) Cypress.io
7 21 (2.77%) Mockito
8 13 (1.72%) Bitbucket
9 12 (1.59%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.45%) Vite
11 10 (1.32%) JMeter
12 9 (1.19%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.06%) Maven
14 6 (0.79%) RSpec
14 6 (0.79%) Selenium
15 5 (0.66%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.66%) Gatling
15 5 (0.66%) Storybook
16 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.53%) minitest
General
1 159 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 105 (13.87%) Public Sector
3 100 (13.21%) Finance
4 71 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.62%) Games
7 26 (3.43%) Law
8 22 (2.91%) Banking
9 20 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (2.51%) Legal
10 19 (2.51%) Retail
11 17 (2.25%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.11%) Front Office
13 15 (1.98%) Advertising
14 11 (1.45%) Legal Technology
15 10 (1.32%) Tech for Good
15 10 (1.32%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.19%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.19%) Aviation
17 8 (1.06%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 258 (34.08%) Developer
2 186 (24.57%) Senior
3 148 (19.55%) Software Engineer
4 131 (17.31%) Lead
5 85 (11.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 66 (8.72%) Python Engineer
7 56 (7.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 50 (6.61%) Data Engineer
8 50 (6.61%) Lead Developer
9 49 (6.47%) Python Developer
10 45 (5.94%) Architect
11 42 (5.55%) Lead Software Engineer
11 42 (5.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 41 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
13 40 (5.28%) Java Developer
14 39 (5.15%) Senior Developer
15 36 (4.76%) Software Developer
16 30 (3.96%) Java Engineer
16 30 (3.96%) Ruby Developer
17 23 (3.04%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (26.02%) React
2 179 (23.65%) Node.js
3 144 (19.02%) RESTful
4 109 (14.40%) REST
5 94 (12.42%) Spring
6 90 (11.89%) Spring Boot
7 81 (10.70%) Kafka
8 66 (8.72%) CSS
9 62 (8.19%) Next.js
10 60 (7.93%) FastAPI
11 58 (7.66%) HTML
11 58 (7.66%) Ruby on Rails
12 55 (7.27%) .NET
13 53 (7.00%) JSON
14 43 (5.68%) AngularJS
15 37 (4.89%) Jest
16 36 (4.76%) Django
17 33 (4.36%) Vue
18 30 (3.96%) Hibernate
18 30 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 155 (20.48%) Cloud Native
2 96 (12.68%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.15%) Low-Code
4 33 (4.36%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.23%) Video\Live Streaming
6 27 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.17%) AI Agents
8 22 (2.91%) Data Structures
9 21 (2.77%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.38%) Replication
11 16 (2.11%) Derivative
11 16 (2.11%) Equities
11 16 (2.11%) Fixed Income
12 15 (1.98%) Blog
12 15 (1.98%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.59%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 108 (14.27%) Linux
2 42 (5.55%) Windows
3 21 (2.77%) Unix
4 16 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.40%) CentOS
8 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.26%) Android
9 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (45.18%) CI/CD
2 282 (37.25%) Agile
3 262 (34.61%) Software Engineering
4 224 (29.59%) Microservices
5 223 (29.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 197 (26.02%) AI
7 196 (25.89%) DevOps
8 168 (22.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 165 (21.80%) Mentoring
10 141 (18.63%) Containerisation
11 138 (18.23%) Observability
12 131 (17.31%) Test Automation
13 130 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 128 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
15 96 (12.68%) API Design
16 93 (12.29%) Analytics
17 89 (11.76%) Clean Code
18 87 (11.49%) Data Modelling
19 83 (10.96%) Scrum
20 77 (10.17%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 330 (43.59%) Python
2 221 (29.19%) SQL
3 197 (26.02%) Java
4 180 (23.78%) JavaScript
5 146 (19.29%) TypeScript
6 63 (8.32%) C#
7 61 (8.06%) Ruby
8 57 (7.53%) Go
9 41 (5.42%) PowerShell
10 36 (4.76%) Bash
11 26 (3.43%) PHP
12 18 (2.38%) Scala
13 15 (1.98%) C++
14 12 (1.59%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.32%) RPG
15 10 (1.32%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.06%) Perl
17 6 (0.79%) Korn
17 6 (0.79%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 108 (14.27%) Security Cleared
2 85 (11.23%) Degree
3 76 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.98%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.79%) PhD
9 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.40%) RHCE
11 2 (0.26%) CISSP
11 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.26%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.26%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.93%) Data Quality
2 46 (6.08%) QA
3 25 (3.30%) GDPR
4 17 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.53%) WCAG
6 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.40%) SLA
7 2 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.26%) NCSC
7 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.13%) HL7
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.13%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 226 (29.85%) Docker
2 26 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
5 2 (0.26%) Samba
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 197 (26.02%) Kubernetes
2 155 (20.48%) Terraform
3 43 (5.68%) Ansible
4 39 (5.15%) Grafana
5 29 (3.83%) Argo
6 27 (3.57%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.45%) Kibana
8 6 (0.79%) Istio
8 6 (0.79%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.79%) Puppet
9 5 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.53%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.53%) Packer
11 3 (0.40%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.40%) Plesk
11 3 (0.40%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 85 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.38%) Oracle
3 47 (6.21%) Google
4 23 (3.04%) OpenAI
5 20 (2.64%) Databricks
6 19 (2.51%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.85%) IBM
8 14 (1.85%) Splunk
9 8 (1.06%) Dell
9 8 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.92%) Informatica
10 7 (0.92%) Pega
11 6 (0.79%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.66%) Meraki
13 4 (0.53%) Confluent
13 4 (0.53%) Netezza
13 4 (0.53%) Remedy
13 4 (0.53%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.40%) UiPath