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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 135 181
Rank change year-on-year -83 +46 -57
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 612 1,287 979
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.90% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.81% 12.13% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 427 588 827
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 6,944 10,608 11,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 15.68% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,418 6,025 9,092
10th Percentile £32,925 £37,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,787
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -2.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 4 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 4 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 -79 565 £75,000 +3.45% 896
London -14 340 £105,000 +23.53% 547
UK excluding London -128 272 £65,000 +8.33% 616
Work from Home -115 246 £75,000 +7.14% 531
North of England -54 85 £67,500 +0.52% 119
South East -101 74 £67,500 +12.50% 343
North West -65 40 £70,000 +12.00% 79
Midlands +21 37 £70,000 +7.69% 38
South West -25 35 £55,750 -14.23% 31
West Midlands +39 30 £72,500 +11.54% 20
Yorkshire +6 30 £70,000 -1.75% 30
Scotland -22 23 £73,801 +34.18% 26
East of England -31 16 £32,500 -43.48% 20
North East +17 15 £51,875 -25.15% 10
East Midlands +8 7 £50,000 -9.09% 18
Wales -10 5 £73,801 +13.54% 10
Northern Ireland -6 3 £73,801 +13.54% 13

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 78 (12.75%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.25%) Confluence
3 22 (3.59%) Apache Spark
4 21 (3.43%) Tomcat
5 19 (3.10%) WebSphere
6 16 (2.61%) WebSphere Application Server
7 12 (1.96%) nginx
8 11 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (1.31%) Apache
10 6 (0.98%) IIS
10 6 (0.98%) JBoss
10 6 (0.98%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.82%) Red Hat Fuse
12 3 (0.49%) CMS
12 3 (0.49%) Luigi
12 3 (0.49%) SAS
12 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.33%) WildFly
14 1 (0.16%) MetaMask
Applications
1 8 (1.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Notion
4 1 (0.16%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.16%) Magento
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 455 (74.35%) AWS
2 202 (33.01%) Azure
3 185 (30.23%) GCP
4 96 (15.69%) dbt
5 94 (15.36%) Serverless
6 79 (12.91%) Amazon ECS
7 68 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
8 58 (9.48%) Amazon S3
9 57 (9.31%) GitHub
10 53 (8.66%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (5.88%) SaaS
13 30 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 28 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (4.41%) Amazon ECR
16 26 (4.25%) Amazon SQS
16 26 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (4.25%) Route 53
17 24 (3.92%) Power Platform
18 21 (3.43%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.76%) SSL
2 22 (3.59%) Firewall
2 22 (3.59%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.80%) iSCSI
3 11 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
3 11 (1.80%) SAN
4 10 (1.63%) DNS
4 10 (1.63%) VPN
5 9 (1.47%) FTP
5 9 (1.47%) HTTP
5 9 (1.47%) SSH
6 8 (1.31%) IMAP
6 8 (1.31%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (1.31%) SMTP
7 7 (1.14%) MQTT
8 5 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.65%) DMARC
10 3 (0.49%) Asterisk PBX
10 3 (0.49%) Multicast
10 3 (0.49%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (21.08%) Relational Database
2 126 (20.59%) MySQL
3 117 (19.12%) MongoDB
4 115 (18.79%) SQL Server
5 93 (15.20%) NoSQL
6 72 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
7 70 (11.44%) Apache Iceberg
8 65 (10.62%) Apache Arrow
8 65 (10.62%) Dremio
9 59 (9.64%) Amazon RDS
10 51 (8.33%) RDBMS
11 44 (7.19%) Redis
12 40 (6.54%) DB2
13 35 (5.72%) Amazon Aurora
13 35 (5.72%) DynamoDB
14 33 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
15 29 (4.74%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (3.76%) Big Data
17 22 (3.59%) Power BI
18 17 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 108 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 86 (14.05%) Git
3 47 (7.68%) JUnit
4 46 (7.52%) JIRA
5 38 (6.21%) Mockito
6 28 (4.58%) JMeter
7 24 (3.92%) GitLab
8 18 (2.94%) Cucumber
8 18 (2.94%) Selenium
9 17 (2.78%) Bitbucket
9 17 (2.78%) Maven
10 13 (2.12%) SonarQube
11 11 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (1.80%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.80%) jMock
12 8 (1.31%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.31%) Vagrant
13 7 (1.14%) IntelliJ
14 5 (0.82%) Subversion
14 5 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 195 (31.86%) Finance
2 121 (19.77%) Social Skills
3 92 (15.03%) Public Sector
4 80 (13.07%) Front Office
5 60 (9.80%) Banking
6 58 (9.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (7.68%) Law
8 41 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.88%) Marketing
10 21 (3.43%) Manufacturing
11 19 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.78%) Telecoms
13 16 (2.61%) Electronics
13 16 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (2.45%) Retail
15 14 (2.29%) Investment Banking
16 12 (1.96%) Financial Institution
17 11 (1.80%) Advertising
18 6 (0.98%) Games
18 6 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 260 (42.48%) Developer
2 141 (23.04%) Software Engineer
3 112 (18.30%) Senior
4 85 (13.89%) Lead
4 85 (13.89%) Python Developer
5 84 (13.73%) Java Developer
6 79 (12.91%) AWS Engineer
7 77 (12.58%) Python Engineer
8 75 (12.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 70 (11.44%) Python Software Engineer
10 69 (11.27%) AWS Developer
11 68 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
12 59 (9.64%) Full-Stack Developer
13 46 (7.52%) Java Engineer
14 42 (6.86%) Lead Developer
15 33 (5.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 32 (5.23%) Data Engineer
17 31 (5.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 31 (5.07%) Software Developer
18 30 (4.90%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (30.56%) React
2 146 (23.86%) Node.js
3 125 (20.42%) AngularJS
4 114 (18.63%) Spring
5 108 (17.65%) Spring Boot
6 98 (16.01%) REST
7 96 (15.69%) RESTful
8 84 (13.73%) Vue
9 70 (11.44%) Kafka
10 68 (11.11%) FastAPI
10 68 (11.11%) Pandas
11 67 (10.95%) NumPy
12 65 (10.62%) SciPy
13 61 (9.97%) HTML
14 55 (8.99%) Django
15 52 (8.50%) Web Services
16 43 (7.03%) CSS
17 42 (6.86%) jQuery
18 40 (6.54%) Hibernate
19 39 (6.37%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.58%) Cloud Native
2 71 (11.60%) Equities
2 71 (11.60%) Fixed Income
2 71 (11.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 67 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 32 (5.23%) Management Information System
6 28 (4.58%) Algorithms
7 23 (3.76%) Data Structures
7 23 (3.76%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.94%) Replication
10 13 (2.12%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.80%) e-Learning
11 11 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.80%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.63%) Derivative
13 9 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
13 9 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 141 (23.04%) Linux
2 65 (10.62%) Windows
3 54 (8.82%) Unix
4 29 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.29%) Android
5 14 (2.29%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.96%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.63%) VMS
8 9 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (1.31%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.98%) Debian
10 6 (0.98%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.49%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.33%) CentOS
13 1 (0.16%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (47.71%) Agile
2 219 (35.78%) CI/CD
3 207 (33.82%) Software Engineering
4 160 (26.14%) Microservices
5 156 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (22.22%) DevOps
7 127 (20.75%) Full-Stack Development
8 120 (19.61%) Fintech
9 103 (16.83%) Containerisation
10 101 (16.50%) AI
11 87 (14.22%) Mentoring
12 85 (13.89%) TDD
13 77 (12.58%) Clean Code
14 76 (12.42%) Asset Management
15 75 (12.25%) Investment Management
15 75 (12.25%) Test Automation
16 71 (11.60%) Risk Management
17 65 (10.62%) Order Management
17 65 (10.62%) Performance Attribution
18 63 (10.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 321 (52.45%) Python
2 200 (32.68%) Java
3 192 (31.37%) JavaScript
4 185 (30.23%) SQL
5 155 (25.33%) TypeScript
6 42 (6.86%) C#
7 28 (4.58%) Shell Script
8 27 (4.41%) Bash
9 26 (4.25%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.94%) PHP
11 14 (2.29%) Rust
12 13 (2.12%) Go
13 10 (1.63%) Groovy
13 10 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.63%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.47%) Korn
15 6 (0.98%) Ruby
16 5 (0.82%) R
17 4 (0.65%) C++
17 4 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 106 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 75 (12.25%) Degree
4 38 (6.21%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.12%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
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 40 (6.54%) QA
2 28 (4.58%) SLA
3 17 (2.78%) GDPR
4 14 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.82%) NIST
8 3 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.49%) SEPA
9 2 (0.33%) PSD2
10 1 (0.16%) GAAP
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 233 (38.07%) Docker
2 15 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 11 (1.80%) Postfix
4 8 (1.31%) DFS Replication
4 8 (1.31%) Dovecot
4 8 (1.31%) Squid
5 5 (0.82%) zsh
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Flume
6 3 (0.49%) HDFS
7 2 (0.33%) KVM
7 2 (0.33%) NFS
7 2 (0.33%) pfSense
7 2 (0.33%) Samba
7 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.33%) Xen
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 175 (28.59%) Kubernetes
2 89 (14.54%) Terraform
3 34 (5.56%) Kibana
4 24 (3.92%) Ansible
5 23 (3.76%) Grafana
6 21 (3.43%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.96%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (1.31%) Nessus
8 8 (1.31%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.98%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.82%) logstash
10 5 (0.82%) Puppet
11 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.49%) Argo
12 3 (0.49%) Oozie
13 2 (0.33%) CFEngine
13 2 (0.33%) Nagios
14 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 90 (14.71%) Oracle
2 44 (7.19%) Google
3 42 (6.86%) Red Hat
4 40 (6.54%) Microsoft
5 39 (6.37%) Splunk
6 32 (5.23%) IBM
7 26 (4.25%) Dynatrace
8 23 (3.76%) ServiceNow
9 21 (3.43%) Atlassian
9 21 (3.43%) SAP
10 20 (3.27%) Informatica
11 17 (2.78%) Databricks
12 15 (2.45%) Talend
13 13 (2.12%) Dell
13 13 (2.12%) Jaspersoft
14 10 (1.63%) OpenAI
15 9 (1.47%) Salesforce
16 7 (1.14%) RedGate
17 5 (0.82%) WSO2
18 4 (0.65%) Vertica