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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 141 187
Rank change year-on-year -92 +46 -22
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 580 1,263 952
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.91% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.51% 11.62% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 414 590 809
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

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 6,814 10,870 10,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.59% 16.41% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,425 6,261 8,677
10th Percentile £34,250 £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 £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 29 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 29 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 -78 527 £75,000 - 303
London -16 309 £100,000 +17.65% 158
UK excluding London -122 258 £62,500 -3.85% 247
Work from Home -76 251 £75,000 +7.14% 150
North of England +1 82 £68,750 +5.77% 42
South East -92 68 £63,750 -3.77% 128
Midlands +31 38 £55,100 -15.23% 22
Yorkshire +8 37 £70,000 -1.75% 11
South West -30 36 £52,000 -20.00% 27
North West -10 33 £70,000 +16.67% 28
West Midlands +43 25 £61,350 -5.62% 14
Scotland -23 18 £73,801 +22.49% 12
East Midlands +15 13 £55,000 - 8
East of England -34 13 £42,500 -26.09% 14
North East +19 12 £52,500 -24.25% 3
Wales -14 6 £69,401 +6.77% 2
Northern Ireland -4 3 £73,801 +13.54% 2

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 69 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.28%) WebSphere
4 17 (2.93%) Tomcat
5 16 (2.76%) Confluence
5 16 (2.76%) WebSphere Application Server
6 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.72%) nginx
7 8 (1.38%) OpenStack
8 6 (1.03%) Apache
9 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.52%) CMS
9 3 (0.52%) JBoss
9 3 (0.52%) Luigi
10 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.34%) SAS
10 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.34%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (1.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 6 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 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
1 422 (72.76%) AWS
2 196 (33.79%) Azure
3 177 (30.52%) GCP
4 93 (16.03%) Serverless
5 82 (14.14%) dbt
6 74 (12.76%) Amazon ECS
7 57 (9.83%) GitHub
8 52 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (8.79%) Amazon S3
10 48 (8.28%) Amazon EC2
11 46 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
12 37 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 35 (6.03%) SaaS
14 30 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (4.66%) Amazon ECR
16 25 (4.31%) Power Platform
17 21 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
17 21 (3.62%) Pulumi
18 20 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 18 (3.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.79%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.28%) Firewall
2 19 (3.28%) SSL
3 10 (1.72%) iSCSI
3 10 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
3 10 (1.72%) SAN
4 8 (1.38%) DNS
4 8 (1.38%) HTTP
5 7 (1.21%) FTP
5 7 (1.21%) VPN
6 6 (1.03%) IMAP
6 6 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (1.03%) SMTP
6 6 (1.03%) SSH
7 5 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.52%) AMQP
8 3 (0.52%) MQTT
9 2 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.34%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (22.24%) SQL Server
2 127 (21.90%) Relational Database
3 117 (20.17%) MySQL
4 88 (15.17%) MongoDB
5 80 (13.79%) NoSQL
6 55 (9.48%) Amazon Athena
6 55 (9.48%) Apache Iceberg
7 50 (8.62%) Apache Arrow
7 50 (8.62%) Dremio
8 47 (8.10%) Redis
9 44 (7.59%) RDBMS
10 41 (7.07%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (6.03%) DB2
13 32 (5.52%) DynamoDB
14 30 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (4.14%) Power BI
16 22 (3.79%) Big Data
17 17 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 104 (17.93%) Jenkins
2 96 (16.55%) Git
3 41 (7.07%) JUnit
4 36 (6.21%) JIRA
5 27 (4.66%) GitLab
6 26 (4.48%) JMeter
6 26 (4.48%) Mockito
7 25 (4.31%) Cucumber
8 24 (4.14%) Selenium
9 18 (3.10%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.90%) Cypress.io
11 9 (1.55%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.03%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.03%) Maven
12 6 (1.03%) REST Assured
12 6 (1.03%) Vagrant
13 5 (0.86%) Gradle
13 5 (0.86%) Subversion
14 4 (0.69%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 158 (27.24%) Finance
2 132 (22.76%) Social Skills
3 61 (10.52%) Front Office
4 54 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 53 (9.14%) Banking
6 38 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (6.55%) Law
7 36 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
8 27 (4.66%) Marketing
9 14 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.41%) Retail
10 13 (2.24%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.24%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.24%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.72%) Electronics
13 8 (1.38%) Advertising
14 7 (1.21%) Legal
15 5 (0.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 245 (42.24%) Developer
2 116 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 114 (19.66%) Senior
4 75 (12.93%) Lead
5 74 (12.76%) Python Developer
6 67 (11.55%) Java Developer
7 66 (11.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (10.69%) Python Engineer
9 59 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
10 56 (9.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 55 (9.48%) AWS Developer
11 55 (9.48%) Python Software Engineer
12 51 (8.79%) AWS Software Engineer
13 36 (6.21%) Software Developer
14 34 (5.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 33 (5.69%) Data Engineer
16 29 (5.00%) Lead Developer
17 28 (4.83%) Java Engineer
18 27 (4.66%) Senior Developer
18 27 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (31.55%) React
2 131 (22.59%) Node.js
3 96 (16.55%) Spring
4 91 (15.69%) AngularJS
5 89 (15.34%) Spring Boot
6 84 (14.48%) RESTful
7 83 (14.31%) REST
8 72 (12.41%) Vue
9 69 (11.90%) Django
10 67 (11.55%) HTML
11 66 (11.38%) FastAPI
12 62 (10.69%) Kafka
13 52 (8.97%) NumPy
13 52 (8.97%) Pandas
14 50 (8.62%) CSS
14 50 (8.62%) SciPy
15 45 (7.76%) .NET
16 42 (7.24%) Flask
17 37 (6.38%) Web Services
18 30 (5.17%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.41%) Cloud Native
2 66 (11.38%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (9.14%) Equities
3 53 (9.14%) Fixed Income
3 53 (9.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 32 (5.52%) Linux Command Line
5 31 (5.34%) Management Information System
6 26 (4.48%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.76%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.59%) Replication
10 12 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (2.07%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.38%) Derivative
12 8 (1.38%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.38%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.21%) Distributed Applications
13 7 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 108 (18.62%) Linux
2 48 (8.28%) Unix
3 46 (7.93%) Windows
4 28 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.72%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.38%) VMS
6 8 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.21%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.86%) Android
9 5 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.86%) Debian
10 3 (0.52%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.34%) CentOS
12 1 (0.17%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (42.76%) Agile
2 229 (39.48%) CI/CD
3 187 (32.24%) Software Engineering
4 163 (28.10%) Microservices
5 160 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (24.83%) DevOps
7 122 (21.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 105 (18.10%) Fintech
9 99 (17.07%) Containerisation
10 93 (16.03%) AI
11 81 (13.97%) Mentoring
12 77 (13.28%) Clean Code
13 72 (12.41%) Test Automation
14 70 (12.07%) TDD
15 60 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
16 59 (10.17%) Data Engineering
16 59 (10.17%) ETL
17 57 (9.83%) Asset Management
17 57 (9.83%) Investment Management
18 56 (9.66%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 308 (53.10%) Python
2 176 (30.34%) JavaScript
3 173 (29.83%) Java
4 165 (28.45%) SQL
5 134 (23.10%) TypeScript
6 48 (8.28%) C#
7 26 (4.48%) Shell Script
8 20 (3.45%) Bash
9 19 (3.28%) Go
9 19 (3.28%) PHP
10 17 (2.93%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.07%) Rust
12 11 (1.90%) Ruby
13 9 (1.55%) Delphi
14 8 (1.38%) Groovy
14 8 (1.38%) Korn
14 8 (1.38%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.21%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.03%) C
17 4 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 76 (13.10%) Degree
3 68 (11.72%) SC Cleared
4 38 (6.55%) AWS Certification
5 28 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.10%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.34%) CCNP
12 2 (0.34%) HNC
12 2 (0.34%) HND
12 2 (0.34%) MCSA
12 2 (0.34%) MCSE
12 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.21%) QA
2 25 (4.31%) SLA
3 19 (3.28%) GDPR
4 16 (2.76%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.41%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.86%) NIST
7 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.52%) SEPA
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%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.17%) MiFID
9 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 223 (38.45%) Docker
2 10 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 6 (1.03%) DFS Replication
3 6 (1.03%) Dovecot
3 6 (1.03%) Postfix
3 6 (1.03%) Squid
4 4 (0.69%) 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
1 181 (31.21%) Kubernetes
2 92 (15.86%) Terraform
3 31 (5.34%) Kibana
4 30 (5.17%) Grafana
5 26 (4.48%) Ansible
6 21 (3.62%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.07%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (1.21%) Argo
9 6 (1.03%) Nessus
9 6 (1.03%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.69%) logstash
10 4 (0.69%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.52%) Puppet
11 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.34%) Nagios
12 2 (0.34%) Oozie
13 1 (0.17%) Ambari
13 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.17%) Rancher
13 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (14.14%) Oracle
2 41 (7.07%) Google
3 35 (6.03%) Splunk
4 33 (5.69%) Microsoft
4 33 (5.69%) Red Hat
5 24 (4.14%) Dynatrace
6 21 (3.62%) IBM
6 21 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.93%) Informatica
8 14 (2.41%) Atlassian
8 14 (2.41%) SAP
9 13 (2.24%) Talend
10 12 (2.07%) Databricks
10 12 (2.07%) Dell
11 11 (1.90%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.21%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.03%) Jaspersoft
14 4 (0.69%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (0.69%) RedGate
14 4 (0.69%) WSO2