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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 143 183
Rank change year-on-year -82 +40 -42
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 601 1,265 990
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.88% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.81% 11.88% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 425 573 834
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £107,500 £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 6,825 10,645 11,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.03% 15.82% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,455 6,033 8,980
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,794
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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,750 £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 17 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 17 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 -83 547 £75,000 +3.45% 814
London -21 320 £98,750 +16.18% 546
UK excluding London -96 272 £62,500 - 327
Work from Home -75 255 £75,000 +7.14% 503
North of England -18 86 £67,500 -2.61% 123
South East -107 67 £65,000 +8.33% 91
Midlands +40 40 £55,200 -15.08% 39
North West -18 40 £70,000 +12.00% 92
South West -34 37 £54,000 -16.92% 28
Yorkshire +8 31 £70,000 -3.45% 25
West Midlands +42 29 £70,000 +7.69% 24
Scotland -19 22 £73,801 +31.27% 18
North East +17 15 £52,500 -24.25% 6
East of England -43 15 £42,500 -26.09% 18
East Midlands +4 11 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Wales -10 6 £69,401 +6.77% 5
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 (12.15%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.99%) Confluence
3 23 (3.83%) Apache Spark
4 19 (3.16%) WebSphere
5 18 (3.00%) Tomcat
6 16 (2.66%) WebSphere Application Server
7 11 (1.83%) nginx
8 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.00%) Apache
9 6 (1.00%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.67%) JBoss
11 3 (0.50%) CMS
11 3 (0.50%) IIS
11 3 (0.50%) Luigi
11 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
11 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.33%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.33%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Notion
3 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 440 (73.21%) AWS
2 199 (33.11%) Azure
3 180 (29.95%) GCP
4 91 (15.14%) Serverless
5 87 (14.48%) dbt
6 73 (12.15%) Amazon ECS
7 66 (10.98%) GitHub
8 56 (9.32%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (8.32%) Amazon S3
11 44 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (5.82%) SaaS
13 32 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
16 25 (4.16%) Power Platform
17 21 (3.49%) Pulumi
18 20 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 20 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
18 20 (3.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.66%) TCP/IP
2 20 (3.33%) Firewall
2 20 (3.33%) SSL
3 10 (1.66%) iSCSI
3 10 (1.66%) Remote Desktop
3 10 (1.66%) SAN
4 9 (1.50%) DNS
4 9 (1.50%) HTTP
5 8 (1.33%) FTP
5 8 (1.33%) SSH
5 8 (1.33%) VPN
6 7 (1.16%) IMAP
6 7 (1.16%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (1.16%) SMTP
7 5 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.67%) MQTT
9 3 (0.50%) AMQP
9 3 (0.50%) Asterisk PBX
9 3 (0.50%) Multicast
10 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (22.30%) Relational Database
2 126 (20.97%) SQL Server
3 123 (20.47%) MySQL
4 104 (17.30%) MongoDB
5 84 (13.98%) NoSQL
6 61 (10.15%) Amazon Athena
7 60 (9.98%) Apache Iceberg
8 55 (9.15%) Apache Arrow
8 55 (9.15%) Dremio
9 50 (8.32%) RDBMS
10 49 (8.15%) Amazon RDS
11 47 (7.82%) Redis
12 35 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (5.16%) DynamoDB
14 30 (4.99%) DB2
15 29 (4.83%) Elasticsearch
16 26 (4.33%) Amazon Aurora
17 23 (3.83%) Power BI
18 22 (3.66%) Big Data
19 17 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 108 (17.97%) Jenkins
2 95 (15.81%) Git
3 46 (7.65%) JUnit
4 45 (7.49%) JIRA
5 32 (5.32%) GitLab
6 31 (5.16%) Mockito
7 28 (4.66%) Selenium
8 27 (4.49%) Cucumber
8 27 (4.49%) JMeter
9 19 (3.16%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.83%) Maven
11 9 (1.50%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.16%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.16%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.16%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.16%) Vagrant
13 6 (1.00%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.00%) DbUnit
13 6 (1.00%) jMock
13 6 (1.00%) REST Assured
General
1 183 (30.45%) Finance
2 135 (22.46%) Social Skills
3 68 (11.31%) Front Office
3 68 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.98%) Banking
5 49 (8.15%) Law
6 48 (7.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (5.99%) Marketing
9 21 (3.49%) Manufacturing
10 18 (3.00%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.66%) Electronics
12 15 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (2.33%) Investment Banking
13 14 (2.33%) Retail
14 13 (2.16%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.66%) Advertising
16 7 (1.16%) Legal
17 5 (0.83%) Games
Job Titles
1 253 (42.10%) Developer
2 135 (22.46%) Software Engineer
3 112 (18.64%) Senior
4 82 (13.64%) Lead
5 79 (13.14%) Python Developer
6 74 (12.31%) Java Developer
7 72 (11.98%) Python Engineer
8 66 (10.98%) AWS Engineer
9 64 (10.65%) Python Software Engineer
10 63 (10.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 63 (10.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 60 (9.98%) AWS Developer
12 57 (9.48%) AWS Software Engineer
13 43 (7.15%) Java Engineer
14 37 (6.16%) Software Developer
15 35 (5.82%) Lead Developer
16 33 (5.49%) Data Engineer
17 31 (5.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 30 (4.99%) Senior Developer
19 27 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (29.95%) React
2 136 (22.63%) Node.js
3 113 (18.80%) Spring
4 105 (17.47%) Spring Boot
5 101 (16.81%) AngularJS
6 91 (15.14%) RESTful
7 87 (14.48%) REST
8 78 (12.98%) Vue
9 74 (12.31%) FastAPI
10 70 (11.65%) Kafka
11 68 (11.31%) Django
11 68 (11.31%) HTML
12 57 (9.48%) NumPy
12 57 (9.48%) Pandas
13 55 (9.15%) SciPy
14 51 (8.49%) CSS
15 44 (7.32%) Flask
16 43 (7.15%) Web Services
17 42 (6.99%) .NET
18 37 (6.16%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 65 (10.82%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (9.82%) Equities
3 59 (9.82%) Fixed Income
3 59 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (5.49%) Linux Command Line
5 31 (5.16%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.99%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (3.16%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.66%) Replication
10 12 (2.00%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.00%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.83%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.66%) Derivative
12 10 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.50%) Distributed Applications
14 8 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
15 7 (1.16%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 116 (19.30%) Linux
2 49 (8.15%) Unix
3 47 (7.82%) Windows
4 28 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.00%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.50%) VMS
7 8 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (1.00%) Debian
9 6 (1.00%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.67%) Android
10 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.33%) CentOS
13 1 (0.17%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (44.76%) Agile
2 234 (38.94%) CI/CD
3 205 (34.11%) Software Engineering
4 165 (27.45%) Microservices
5 162 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
6 145 (24.13%) DevOps
7 126 (20.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 112 (18.64%) Containerisation
9 109 (18.14%) Fintech
10 94 (15.64%) AI
11 86 (14.31%) Mentoring
12 80 (13.31%) TDD
13 79 (13.14%) Clean Code
14 78 (12.98%) Test Automation
15 64 (10.65%) Asset Management
16 63 (10.48%) Data Engineering
16 63 (10.48%) Investment Management
17 62 (10.32%) ETL
18 59 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
19 58 (9.65%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 319 (53.08%) Python
2 193 (32.11%) Java
3 184 (30.62%) JavaScript
4 172 (28.62%) SQL
5 146 (24.29%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.65%) C#
7 27 (4.49%) Shell Script
8 23 (3.83%) Bash
9 20 (3.33%) PHP
9 20 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.00%) Go
11 14 (2.33%) Rust
12 11 (1.83%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.66%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.50%) Groovy
14 9 (1.50%) Ruby
15 8 (1.33%) Delphi
15 8 (1.33%) Korn
16 6 (1.00%) C
17 4 (0.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 107 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.98%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.65%) Degree
4 38 (6.32%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.00%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.33%) CCNA
13 2 (0.33%) CCNP
13 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.33%) HNC
13 2 (0.33%) HND
13 2 (0.33%) MCSA
13 2 (0.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.49%) QA
2 26 (4.33%) SLA
3 19 (3.16%) GDPR
4 17 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.83%) NIST
7 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.50%) SEPA
8 2 (0.33%) 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
1 235 (39.10%) Docker
2 11 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (1.33%) Postfix
5 7 (1.16%) DFS Replication
5 7 (1.16%) Dovecot
5 7 (1.16%) Squid
6 5 (0.83%) zsh
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Flume
7 2 (0.33%) HDFS
7 2 (0.33%) NFS
7 2 (0.33%) pfSense
7 2 (0.33%) Samba
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 186 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 93 (15.47%) Terraform
3 32 (5.32%) Kibana
4 31 (5.16%) Grafana
5 24 (3.99%) Ansible
6 21 (3.49%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.00%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (1.16%) Argo
8 7 (1.16%) Nessus
8 7 (1.16%) Proxmox
9 5 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.67%) logstash
10 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.50%) Puppet
12 2 (0.33%) Nagios
12 2 (0.33%) Oozie
13 1 (0.17%) Ambari
13 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 93 (15.47%) Oracle
2 44 (7.32%) Google
3 37 (6.16%) Microsoft
3 37 (6.16%) Splunk
4 32 (5.32%) Red Hat
5 25 (4.16%) Dynatrace
6 22 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 20 (3.33%) IBM
7 20 (3.33%) SAP
8 18 (3.00%) Atlassian
8 18 (3.00%) Informatica
9 15 (2.50%) Databricks
9 15 (2.50%) Talend
10 12 (2.00%) Dell
10 12 (2.00%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.50%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.33%) Jaspersoft
13 7 (1.16%) RedGate
14 4 (0.67%) Vertica
14 4 (0.67%) WSO2