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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 228 158
Rank change year-on-year -30 -70 +42
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 794 707 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.42% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.82% 9.33% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 595 512 866
10th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,487
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -8.33%

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 9,003 7,575 13,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.48% 15.22% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,014 4,838 8,600
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.99%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -41 678 £69,310 -7.59% 522
UK excluding London -51 395 £62,500 - 207
Work from Home +22 390 £67,500 -15.63% 235
London -69 295 £85,000 -19.05% 372
North of England -6 134 £65,000 -3.70% 45
South East -20 128 £61,250 - 62
North West -8 60 £65,000 -3.70% 28
South West -60 46 £62,500 +8.70% 25
North East -25 42 £55,000 +6.02% 5
Yorkshire -27 32 £65,000 -3.70% 12
East of England -32 29 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Midlands -68 27 £75,000 +11.01% 26
West Midlands -53 20 £81,887 +19.00% 12
Wales -51 19 £70,000 -9.68% 10
Scotland -6 17 £65,000 -1.89% 26
East Midlands -27 7 £60,000 +9.09% 14
Northern Ireland -75 1 £73,801 +34.18% 4

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 35 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (3.78%) Apache
3 28 (3.53%) Apache Spark
4 27 (3.40%) Confluence
5 19 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.88%) Camunda
8 6 (0.76%) WordPress
9 5 (0.63%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.25%) Luigi
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.25%) Tornado
12 1 (0.13%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Documentum
12 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 466 (58.69%) AWS
2 290 (36.52%) Azure
3 130 (16.37%) GCP
4 120 (15.11%) GitHub
5 99 (12.47%) Serverless
6 72 (9.07%) Amazon ECS
6 72 (9.07%) Amazon S3
7 70 (8.82%) SaaS
8 56 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
11 47 (5.92%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (5.67%) Amazon SQS
13 40 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (5.04%) Power Platform
14 36 (4.53%) GitHub Copilot
15 29 (3.65%) Azure AKS
16 28 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
17 23 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.41%) Broadband
2 15 (1.89%) Firewall
3 12 (1.51%) DNS
4 11 (1.39%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.26%) DHCP
6 8 (1.01%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.01%) SAN
7 6 (0.76%) SMS
7 6 (0.76%) VPN
8 5 (0.63%) AMQP
8 5 (0.63%) HTTP
9 2 (0.25%) MQTT
9 2 (0.25%) Network Security
9 2 (0.25%) PBX
9 2 (0.25%) VLAN
9 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.13%) LAN
10 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (26.83%) MongoDB
2 195 (24.56%) MySQL
3 139 (17.51%) Relational Database
4 129 (16.25%) SQL Server
5 110 (13.85%) NoSQL
6 96 (12.09%) Redis
7 44 (5.54%) DynamoDB
8 37 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
9 36 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (3.65%) Power BI
11 22 (2.77%) Metadata
12 21 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (2.64%) Big Data
13 19 (2.39%) Apache Cassandra
14 17 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (1.89%) Oracle Database
16 14 (1.76%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.76%) GIS
16 14 (1.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 169 (21.28%) Git
2 55 (6.93%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.42%) GitLab
4 35 (4.41%) JIRA
5 28 (3.53%) JUnit
6 24 (3.02%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.77%) Mockito
8 14 (1.76%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.39%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.39%) Vite
10 10 (1.26%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.26%) JMeter
11 7 (0.88%) Maven
11 7 (0.88%) RSpec
12 6 (0.76%) Selenium
13 5 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.63%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.63%) Gatling
14 4 (0.50%) minitest
14 4 (0.50%) Storybook
General
1 182 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 111 (13.98%) Public Sector
3 108 (13.60%) Finance
4 74 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.66%) Law
7 35 (4.41%) Games
8 27 (3.40%) Banking
9 23 (2.90%) Legal
10 22 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.27%) Retail
12 17 (2.14%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.76%) Advertising
14 13 (1.64%) Legal Technology
14 13 (1.64%) Tech for Good
15 12 (1.51%) Front Office
16 10 (1.26%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.13%) Aviation
17 9 (1.13%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 271 (34.13%) Developer
2 212 (26.70%) Senior
3 160 (20.15%) Software Engineer
4 132 (16.62%) Lead
5 88 (11.08%) Full-Stack Developer
6 68 (8.56%) Python Engineer
7 57 (7.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 56 (7.05%) Senior Software Engineer
9 54 (6.80%) Data Engineer
10 51 (6.42%) Python Developer
11 49 (6.17%) Lead Developer
12 46 (5.79%) Senior Developer
13 45 (5.67%) Architect
14 41 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
15 40 (5.04%) Java Developer
16 39 (4.91%) Lead Software Engineer
16 39 (4.91%) Software Developer
17 34 (4.28%) Ruby Developer
18 27 (3.40%) Java Engineer
19 26 (3.27%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (25.82%) React
2 184 (23.17%) Node.js
3 149 (18.77%) RESTful
4 110 (13.85%) REST
5 98 (12.34%) Spring
6 93 (11.71%) Spring Boot
7 86 (10.83%) Kafka
8 70 (8.82%) CSS
9 65 (8.19%) .NET
9 65 (8.19%) Ruby on Rails
10 64 (8.06%) Next.js
11 61 (7.68%) HTML
12 58 (7.30%) FastAPI
13 50 (6.30%) JSON
14 48 (6.05%) AngularJS
15 43 (5.42%) Jest
16 40 (5.04%) Django
17 34 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
18 33 (4.16%) JWT
19 32 (4.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 164 (20.65%) Cloud Native
2 104 (13.10%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.91%) Low-Code
3 39 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.03%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (3.65%) AI Agents
6 26 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.64%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.52%) Replication
9 17 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (2.02%) Blog
10 16 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.89%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.51%) Derivative
12 12 (1.51%) Equities
12 12 (1.51%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.51%) IoT
12 12 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 116 (14.61%) Linux
2 42 (5.29%) Windows
3 22 (2.77%) Unix
4 17 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.76%) Android
6 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.38%) CentOS
7 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (45.97%) CI/CD
2 296 (37.28%) Agile
3 280 (35.26%) Software Engineering
4 232 (29.22%) Microservices
5 231 (29.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 219 (27.58%) AI
7 206 (25.94%) DevOps
8 177 (22.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 166 (20.91%) Mentoring
10 149 (18.77%) Observability
11 146 (18.39%) Containerisation
12 145 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 141 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
14 131 (16.50%) Test Automation
15 104 (13.10%) API Design
16 101 (12.72%) Clean Code
17 93 (11.71%) Analytics
18 89 (11.21%) Event-Driven
18 89 (11.21%) Scrum
19 86 (10.83%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 338 (42.57%) Python
2 222 (27.96%) SQL
3 200 (25.19%) Java
4 187 (23.55%) JavaScript
5 155 (19.52%) TypeScript
6 69 (8.69%) C#
7 68 (8.56%) Ruby
8 62 (7.81%) Go
9 35 (4.41%) Bash
10 32 (4.03%) PowerShell
11 25 (3.15%) PHP
12 18 (2.27%) Scala
13 14 (1.76%) C++
14 12 (1.51%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.26%) RPG
16 8 (1.01%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.88%) Perl
18 6 (0.76%) Korn
19 5 (0.63%) T-SQL
20 4 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 111 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 99 (12.47%) Degree
3 81 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.76%) PhD
11 4 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.38%) RHCE
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.25%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.30%) QA
3 29 (3.65%) GDPR
4 18 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.50%) SLA
6 4 (0.50%) WCAG
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.25%) NCSC
8 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 242 (30.48%) Docker
2 22 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Samba
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 206 (25.94%) Kubernetes
2 163 (20.53%) Terraform
3 51 (6.42%) Ansible
4 42 (5.29%) Grafana
5 31 (3.90%) Argo
6 28 (3.53%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.39%) Kibana
8 6 (0.76%) Istio
8 6 (0.76%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.76%) Puppet
9 5 (0.63%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.63%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.63%) Packer
10 4 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.38%) Plesk
11 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 86 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.07%) Oracle
3 47 (5.92%) Google
4 24 (3.02%) Databricks
5 21 (2.64%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.39%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.89%) Splunk
9 14 (1.76%) IBM
10 8 (1.01%) Dell
10 8 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.88%) Pega
11 7 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.76%) Informatica
13 5 (0.63%) Meraki
14 4 (0.50%) Netezza
14 4 (0.50%) Remedy
14 4 (0.50%) TIBCO
15 3 (0.38%) Atlassian
15 3 (0.38%) VMware