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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 136 177
Rank change year-on-year -123 +41 +6
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 504 1,157 970
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 2.13% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.68% 11.95% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 360 546 822
10th Percentile £41,925 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £121,000 £116,875 £109,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.59% +10.61% -

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 6,566 9,679 10,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.98% 17.83% 20.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,182 5,431 8,500
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,647 £53,500
% change year-on-year -3.93% +2.14% -2.73%

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 January 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 January 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 -115 445 £75,000 -3.23% 838
London -53 255 £92,500 +5.71% 172
Work from Home -89 221 £71,250 +2.15% 391
UK excluding London -152 214 £60,000 -9.59% 762
North of England +3 79 £73,801 +6.48% 148
South East -121 47 £60,000 -25.00% 234
Yorkshire +10 42 £70,000 - 65
Midlands -16 31 £60,100 -7.54% 92
North West -5 28 £85,000 +30.77% 61
South West -49 28 £47,500 -26.92% 105
West Midlands +6 21 £61,350 -5.62% 28
East of England -39 15 £42,500 -26.09% 117
Scotland -35 11 £73,801 +27.24% 28
East Midlands -12 10 £60,100 +0.17% 61
North East +2 9 £53,850 -22.30% 22
Wales -18 5 £73,801 +13.54% 37
Northern Ireland -8 3 £73,801 +9.33% 20

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 45 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.56%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.77%) WebSphere
4 18 (3.57%) Confluence
5 17 (3.37%) Tomcat
6 16 (3.17%) WebSphere Application Server
7 13 (2.58%) OpenStack
8 8 (1.59%) nginx
9 7 (1.39%) Apache
10 6 (1.19%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.79%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.60%) CMS
12 3 (0.60%) Luigi
12 3 (0.60%) WildFly
13 2 (0.40%) Camunda
13 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 356 (70.63%) AWS
2 174 (34.52%) Azure
3 133 (26.39%) GCP
4 92 (18.25%) Serverless
5 67 (13.29%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (11.51%) Amazon S3
7 57 (11.31%) GitHub
8 56 (11.11%) dbt
9 51 (10.12%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (9.13%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (7.74%) SaaS
13 38 (7.54%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 30 (5.95%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (5.36%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (4.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 21 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (4.17%) Pulumi
19 20 (3.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.96%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.77%) SSL
3 13 (2.58%) Firewall
4 9 (1.79%) VPN
5 8 (1.59%) DNS
6 7 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.19%) HTTP
7 6 (1.19%) Internet
8 4 (0.79%) FTP
8 4 (0.79%) IMAP
8 4 (0.79%) iSCSI
8 4 (0.79%) Network Security
8 4 (0.79%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (0.79%) SAN
8 4 (0.79%) SMTP
8 4 (0.79%) SSH
8 4 (0.79%) VLAN
9 3 (0.60%) AMQP
9 3 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (25.79%) SQL Server
2 101 (20.04%) MySQL
3 100 (19.84%) Relational Database
4 90 (17.86%) MongoDB
5 73 (14.48%) NoSQL
6 45 (8.93%) Redis
7 38 (7.54%) DB2
8 37 (7.34%) Amazon RDS
8 37 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (6.55%) DynamoDB
10 32 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
10 32 (6.35%) RDBMS
11 31 (6.15%) Apache Iceberg
12 26 (5.16%) Amazon Athena
12 26 (5.16%) Apache Arrow
12 26 (5.16%) Dremio
13 19 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
13 19 (3.77%) Power BI
14 16 (3.17%) Big Data
15 15 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 104 (20.63%) Git
2 97 (19.25%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.75%) JIRA
4 32 (6.35%) JUnit
5 30 (5.95%) GitLab
6 29 (5.75%) Cucumber
7 26 (5.16%) Selenium
8 21 (4.17%) Bitbucket
9 19 (3.77%) JMeter
10 18 (3.57%) Mockito
11 15 (2.98%) Cypress.io
12 13 (2.58%) TeamCity
13 6 (1.19%) Vite
14 5 (0.99%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.79%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.79%) Gradle
15 4 (0.79%) Maven
15 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.79%) Subversion
15 4 (0.79%) Vagrant
General
1 135 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 111 (22.02%) Finance
3 44 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.74%) Public Sector
5 37 (7.34%) Banking
6 27 (5.36%) Front Office
7 20 (3.97%) Law
8 18 (3.57%) Retail
9 17 (3.37%) Marketing
10 16 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.38%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.98%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.59%) Advertising
15 7 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.39%) Electronics
16 6 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.99%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 199 (39.48%) Developer
2 94 (18.65%) Senior
3 77 (15.28%) Software Engineer
4 63 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 56 (11.11%) Java Developer
6 50 (9.92%) Lead
7 48 (9.52%) Python Developer
8 35 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
9 34 (6.75%) Python Engineer
10 32 (6.35%) AWS Developer
10 32 (6.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 30 (5.95%) Python Software Engineer
12 27 (5.36%) AWS Software Engineer
12 27 (5.36%) Software Developer
13 26 (5.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 26 (5.16%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (4.76%) Data Engineer
15 22 (4.37%) Architect
16 21 (4.17%) DBA
16 21 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (30.75%) React
2 110 (21.83%) Node.js
3 82 (16.27%) Spring
4 75 (14.88%) Spring Boot
5 72 (14.29%) REST
5 72 (14.29%) RESTful
6 68 (13.49%) Django
7 65 (12.90%) AngularJS
8 58 (11.51%) HTML
9 56 (11.11%) FastAPI
10 50 (9.92%) Kafka
11 49 (9.72%) .NET
11 49 (9.72%) Vue
12 48 (9.52%) CSS
13 37 (7.34%) Elastic Stack
14 34 (6.75%) Flask
15 32 (6.35%) Web Services
16 27 (5.36%) NumPy
16 27 (5.36%) Pandas
17 26 (5.16%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 56 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 29 (5.75%) Linux Command Line
4 26 (5.16%) Equities
4 26 (5.16%) Fixed Income
4 26 (5.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (4.96%) Management Information System
6 24 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.78%) Replication
10 13 (2.58%) Algorithms
11 11 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.59%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.59%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.39%) Clustering
13 7 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 104 (20.63%) Linux
2 47 (9.33%) Unix
3 41 (8.13%) Windows
4 24 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.38%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.39%) Android
7 7 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.19%) VMS
9 4 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.79%) Debian
10 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.40%) CentOS
11 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.20%) Fedora
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (42.06%) CI/CD
2 199 (39.48%) Agile
3 159 (31.55%) Microservices
4 152 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (28.17%) Software Engineering
6 141 (27.98%) DevOps
7 114 (22.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 97 (19.25%) Containerisation
9 79 (15.67%) AI
10 74 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 73 (14.48%) Fintech
12 66 (13.10%) Test Automation
13 62 (12.30%) Clean Code
14 59 (11.71%) Mentoring
15 58 (11.51%) TDD
16 57 (11.31%) Scrum
17 56 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
18 53 (10.52%) ETL
19 48 (9.52%) BDD
20 45 (8.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 258 (51.19%) Python
2 152 (30.16%) SQL
3 147 (29.17%) Java
4 144 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 106 (21.03%) TypeScript
6 46 (9.13%) C#
7 26 (5.16%) Go
8 20 (3.97%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.37%) PHP
9 17 (3.37%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.78%) Ruby
11 13 (2.58%) C
12 9 (1.79%) Delphi
12 9 (1.79%) Rust
13 8 (1.59%) Bash
14 7 (1.39%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.79%) Groovy
15 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.60%) RPG
16 3 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.09%) Degree
3 58 (11.51%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.75%) AWS Certification
5 28 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.40%) CCNP
12 2 (0.40%) HNC
12 2 (0.40%) HND
12 2 (0.40%) MCSA
12 2 (0.40%) MCSE
12 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.56%) SLA
2 19 (3.77%) QA
3 14 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.58%) GDPR
5 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.60%) SEPA
6 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.40%) PSD2
7 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.20%) GAAP
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 199 (39.48%) Docker
2 6 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (0.79%) DFS Replication
3 4 (0.79%) Dovecot
3 4 (0.79%) Postfix
3 4 (0.79%) Squid
4 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.40%) NFS
4 2 (0.40%) pfSense
4 2 (0.40%) Samba
4 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.20%) zsh
Systems Management
1 164 (32.54%) Kubernetes
2 99 (19.64%) Terraform
3 38 (7.54%) Ansible
4 27 (5.36%) Grafana
5 20 (3.97%) Kibana
6 18 (3.57%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.38%) AWS Copilot
8 9 (1.79%) Argo
9 5 (0.99%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.79%) Nessus
10 4 (0.79%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.79%) Puppet
11 3 (0.60%) Control-M
11 3 (0.60%) Nagios
12 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.40%) Rancher
13 1 (0.20%) Ambari
13 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (14.88%) Oracle
2 35 (6.94%) Google
3 30 (5.95%) Red Hat
4 25 (4.96%) Microsoft
5 22 (4.37%) IBM
6 19 (3.77%) Informatica
6 19 (3.77%) Splunk
7 18 (3.57%) ServiceNow
8 17 (3.37%) Atlassian
9 14 (2.78%) Dynatrace
9 14 (2.78%) Talend
10 10 (1.98%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.79%) SAP
12 6 (1.19%) Dell
12 6 (1.19%) ESRI
13 4 (0.79%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.79%) Pega
13 4 (0.79%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.79%) VMware
13 4 (0.79%) WSO2