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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 222 174
Rank change year-on-year -54 -48 +29
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 697 724 1,625
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.50% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.13% 9.57% 9.59%
Number of salaries quoted 532 527 1,086
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £86,281 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +23.81% -11.30%

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 8,571 7,565 16,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.79% 15.72% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,701 4,887 12,017
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,195
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 8 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 8 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 -69 596 £69,310 -7.59% 275
Work from Home +26 363 £69,305 -7.59% 235
UK excluding London -66 351 £65,000 - 195
London -81 248 £85,000 -15.00% 141
South East -18 118 £59,500 +8.18% 56
North of England -25 118 £65,000 -3.70% 43
North West -22 53 £67,500 - 22
South West -41 45 £62,500 +4.17% 20
Yorkshire -20 33 £65,000 -3.70% 12
North East -23 32 £65,000 +25.30% 9
East of England -32 24 £52,500 +66.67% 16
Midlands -47 20 £75,000 +11.11% 24
Scotland -7 18 £65,000 -1.89% 20
West Midlands -31 16 £75,000 +11.11% 11
Wales -62 9 £70,000 -9.68% 7
East Midlands -32 4 £65,000 +18.18% 13
Northern Ireland -65 1 £73,801 +34.18% 12

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 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.30%) Apache
4 21 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 21 (3.01%) Confluence
5 12 (1.72%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.86%) WordPress
7 5 (0.72%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.57%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.57%) Camunda
9 3 (0.43%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Documentum
11 1 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 13 (1.87%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 410 (58.82%) AWS
2 265 (38.02%) Azure
3 123 (17.65%) GCP
4 96 (13.77%) Serverless
5 81 (11.62%) GitHub
6 67 (9.61%) Amazon S3
7 65 (9.33%) SaaS
8 60 (8.61%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
10 46 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (6.17%) Power Platform
12 40 (5.74%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
14 29 (4.16%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (4.02%) Azure AKS
16 27 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
17 20 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (2.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.02%) Broadband
2 16 (2.30%) Firewall
3 14 (2.01%) DNS
4 13 (1.87%) DHCP
4 13 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.29%) VPN
6 8 (1.15%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.15%) SAN
7 5 (0.72%) Network Security
7 5 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.43%) HTTP
8 3 (0.43%) VLAN
9 2 (0.29%) MQTT
9 2 (0.29%) PBX
10 1 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.14%) Internet
10 1 (0.14%) LTE
10 1 (0.14%) Multicast
10 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (28.26%) MongoDB
2 165 (23.67%) MySQL
3 112 (16.07%) SQL Server
4 106 (15.21%) Relational Database
5 102 (14.63%) NoSQL
6 65 (9.33%) Redis
7 34 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (4.73%) Power BI
9 29 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (3.87%) DynamoDB
11 19 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (2.73%) Metadata
12 18 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (2.44%) Big Data
13 17 (2.44%) Oracle Database
14 16 (2.30%) GIS
15 14 (2.01%) DTS
15 14 (2.01%) Pinecone
16 13 (1.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 132 (18.94%) Git
2 50 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 46 (6.60%) GitLab
4 30 (4.30%) JIRA
5 24 (3.44%) JUnit
6 23 (3.30%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.87%) Mockito
8 14 (2.01%) Bitbucket
8 14 (2.01%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.43%) JMeter
10 9 (1.29%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.29%) Maven
10 9 (1.29%) Vite
11 6 (0.86%) Selenium
12 5 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.72%) Gatling
13 4 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.57%) Storybook
14 3 (0.43%) DBeaver
14 3 (0.43%) Eclipse
General
1 152 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 98 (14.06%) Finance
3 93 (13.34%) Public Sector
4 62 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (4.88%) Games
7 29 (4.16%) Retail
8 28 (4.02%) Law
9 27 (3.87%) Banking
10 19 (2.73%) Manufacturing
10 19 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.58%) Legal
12 16 (2.30%) Front Office
13 15 (2.15%) Advertising
14 11 (1.58%) Legal Technology
15 10 (1.43%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.29%) Aerospace
17 8 (1.15%) Aviation
18 7 (1.00%) Automotive
19 5 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 232 (33.29%) Developer
2 150 (21.52%) Senior
3 135 (19.37%) Software Engineer
4 122 (17.50%) Lead
5 82 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 55 (7.89%) Python Engineer
7 50 (7.17%) Lead Developer
8 47 (6.74%) Architect
8 47 (6.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 44 (6.31%) Data Engineer
9 44 (6.31%) Python Developer
10 41 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
11 40 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 39 (5.60%) Java Developer
13 35 (5.02%) Java Engineer
14 31 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
15 30 (4.30%) Senior Developer
15 30 (4.30%) Software Developer
16 24 (3.44%) Ruby Developer
17 22 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (26.26%) React
2 171 (24.53%) Node.js
3 133 (19.08%) RESTful
4 90 (12.91%) REST
5 86 (12.34%) Spring
6 83 (11.91%) Spring Boot
7 72 (10.33%) Kafka
8 55 (7.89%) FastAPI
9 54 (7.75%) CSS
10 52 (7.46%) Ruby on Rails
11 50 (7.17%) JSON
12 48 (6.89%) .NET
12 48 (6.89%) HTML
13 46 (6.60%) Next.js
14 38 (5.45%) AngularJS
15 33 (4.73%) Django
15 33 (4.73%) Jest
16 29 (4.16%) Vue
17 26 (3.73%) Flask
18 25 (3.59%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 149 (21.38%) Cloud Native
2 80 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (5.31%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.59%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 25 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (3.44%) Data Structures
9 23 (3.30%) Blog
10 21 (3.01%) Algorithms
11 17 (2.44%) AI Agents
11 17 (2.44%) Replication
12 16 (2.30%) Derivative
12 16 (2.30%) Equities
12 16 (2.30%) Fixed Income
12 16 (2.30%) Management Information System
13 14 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.72%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.58%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 100 (14.35%) Linux
2 43 (6.17%) Windows
3 22 (3.16%) Unix
4 17 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.43%) CentOS
8 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) AIX
10 1 (0.14%) Debian
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (43.33%) CI/CD
2 252 (36.15%) Agile
3 238 (34.15%) Software Engineering
4 213 (30.56%) Microservices
5 202 (28.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 175 (25.11%) DevOps
7 161 (23.10%) AI
8 156 (22.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 146 (20.95%) Mentoring
10 131 (18.79%) Containerisation
11 129 (18.51%) Test Automation
12 114 (16.36%) Observability
13 113 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
15 87 (12.48%) Data Modelling
16 84 (12.05%) API Design
17 83 (11.91%) Analytics
18 77 (11.05%) Clean Code
18 77 (11.05%) Scrum
18 77 (11.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 301 (43.19%) Python
2 203 (29.12%) Java
2 203 (29.12%) SQL
3 164 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 134 (19.23%) TypeScript
5 55 (7.89%) Ruby
6 54 (7.75%) C#
6 54 (7.75%) Go
7 43 (6.17%) PowerShell
8 35 (5.02%) Bash
9 26 (3.73%) PHP
10 17 (2.44%) Scala
11 15 (2.15%) C++
12 12 (1.72%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.58%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.43%) Perl
14 10 (1.43%) RPG
15 7 (1.00%) C
16 6 (0.86%) Korn
16 6 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 79 (11.33%) Degree
3 68 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.72%) PhD
11 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.43%) RHCE
13 2 (0.29%) CISSP
13 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.29%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.29%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.32%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.73%) QA
3 23 (3.30%) GDPR
4 16 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.57%) WCAG
7 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.43%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.29%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 199 (28.55%) Docker
2 28 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.29%) Samba
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 193 (27.69%) Kubernetes
2 146 (20.95%) Terraform
3 39 (5.60%) Ansible
4 38 (5.45%) Grafana
5 31 (4.45%) Argo
6 23 (3.30%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.43%) Kibana
8 7 (1.00%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.00%) Puppet
9 6 (0.86%) Istio
9 6 (0.86%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.57%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.43%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.43%) Packer
12 3 (0.43%) Plesk
12 3 (0.43%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.43%) Rancher
12 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 74 (10.62%) Oracle
3 38 (5.45%) Google
4 22 (3.16%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.58%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 16 (2.30%) Databricks
8 13 (1.87%) IBM
9 12 (1.72%) Splunk
10 8 (1.15%) Dell
10 8 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.00%) Pega
12 6 (0.86%) Informatica
13 5 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.57%) Confluent
14 4 (0.57%) ESRI
14 4 (0.57%) Meraki
14 4 (0.57%) Netezza
14 4 (0.57%) Remedy
14 4 (0.57%) VMware