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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 202 169
Rank change year-on-year -80 -33 +14
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 564 681 1,609
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.61% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.24% 9.35% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 404 522 1,188
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £58,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,531 £98,681 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -4.35%

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 7,786 7,281 17,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.65% 17.22% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,596 5,109 12,568
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -93 469 £69,305 -7.59% 273
UK excluding London -87 280 £60,000 -7.69% 140
Work from Home -25 269 £65,000 -7.14% 169
London -105 190 £90,000 +2.86% 152
North of England -37 101 £67,500 - 33
South East -47 85 £57,500 -11.54% 57
Yorkshire -35 46 £52,130 -12.93% 9
North West -29 43 £70,905 +4.85% 13
South West -45 36 £62,500 -3.85% 17
Scotland -41 20 £66,250 -0.18% 7
Midlands -43 20 £55,200 -15.08% 18
East of England -35 19 £47,500 -13.64% 9
North East -32 12 £55,000 -20.73% 11
West Midlands -32 11 £47,500 -26.92% 8
East Midlands -42 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -51 3 £55,200 -15.08% 1
Northern Ireland -45 1 £73,801 +34.18%

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 34 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (3.55%) Apache Spark
4 19 (3.37%) Apache
5 13 (2.30%) Confluence
5 13 (2.30%) OpenStack
6 11 (1.95%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.60%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.89%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.89%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.53%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.35%) Camunda
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.35%) WildFly
10 2 (0.35%) WordPress
11 1 (0.18%) CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (1.42%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 343 (60.82%) AWS
2 211 (37.41%) Azure
3 122 (21.63%) GCP
4 101 (17.91%) Serverless
5 64 (11.35%) Amazon S3
6 59 (10.46%) AWS Lambda
7 58 (10.28%) GitHub
8 51 (9.04%) SaaS
9 50 (8.87%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (8.51%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (6.56%) Power Platform
13 36 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
16 28 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 27 (4.79%) Azure AKS
18 25 (4.43%) Azure Service Bus
19 24 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
20 21 (3.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.84%) DNS
2 15 (2.66%) DHCP
2 15 (2.66%) Firewall
3 14 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.13%) Broadband
5 9 (1.60%) VPN
6 8 (1.42%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.42%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.42%) SAN
7 7 (1.24%) Internet
7 7 (1.24%) Network Security
7 7 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.53%) HTTP
8 3 (0.53%) VLAN
9 2 (0.35%) LAN
9 2 (0.35%) MQTT
9 2 (0.35%) PBX
9 2 (0.35%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) LTE
10 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (24.82%) MongoDB
2 130 (23.05%) SQL Server
3 113 (20.04%) MySQL
4 94 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 93 (16.49%) NoSQL
6 36 (6.38%) Redis
7 33 (5.85%) DynamoDB
8 30 (5.32%) Power BI
9 29 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (3.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (3.01%) GIS
12 17 (3.01%) Oracle Database
13 16 (2.84%) BigQuery
14 14 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.48%) RDBMS
15 13 (2.30%) DB2
15 13 (2.30%) Pinecone
16 10 (1.77%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 132 (23.40%) Git
2 59 (10.46%) Jenkins
3 46 (8.16%) GitLab
4 26 (4.61%) JIRA
4 26 (4.61%) JUnit
5 24 (4.26%) Cypress.io
6 20 (3.55%) Selenium
7 19 (3.37%) Bitbucket
8 18 (3.19%) Cucumber
9 17 (3.01%) TeamCity
10 14 (2.48%) Mockito
11 11 (1.95%) Maven
12 9 (1.60%) Vite
13 6 (1.06%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.89%) Gradle
15 4 (0.71%) Liquibase
16 3 (0.53%) JMeter
16 3 (0.53%) Storybook
16 3 (0.53%) Subversion
17 2 (0.35%) Jaeger
General
1 141 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 99 (17.55%) Finance
3 55 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (9.75%) Public Sector
4 41 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (5.14%) Banking
6 28 (4.96%) Law
6 28 (4.96%) Retail
7 19 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (3.01%) Front Office
9 15 (2.66%) Games
10 13 (2.30%) Advertising
11 10 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.60%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.89%) Automotive
14 5 (0.89%) Legal
15 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.53%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 183 (32.45%) Developer
2 117 (20.74%) Senior
3 90 (15.96%) Software Engineer
4 79 (14.01%) Lead
5 78 (13.83%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 40 (7.09%) Python Engineer
8 39 (6.91%) Data Engineer
9 33 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 32 (5.67%) Java Engineer
11 31 (5.50%) Lead Developer
12 27 (4.79%) Architect
13 24 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
14 23 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
15 22 (3.90%) Python Developer
15 22 (3.90%) Senior Developer
16 21 (3.72%) Software Developer
17 20 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
18 19 (3.37%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (32.27%) React
2 132 (23.40%) Node.js
3 91 (16.13%) RESTful
4 70 (12.41%) Spring
5 66 (11.70%) Spring Boot
6 63 (11.17%) REST
7 50 (8.87%) Kafka
8 48 (8.51%) Django
8 48 (8.51%) FastAPI
9 47 (8.33%) .NET
10 41 (7.27%) CSS
10 41 (7.27%) HTML
11 36 (6.38%) AngularJS
12 34 (6.03%) JSON
13 31 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
14 30 (5.32%) Flask
15 29 (5.14%) Next.js
16 26 (4.61%) Jest
16 26 (4.61%) Ruby on Rails
16 26 (4.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 101 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.55%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.84%) Derivative
6 16 (2.84%) Equities
6 16 (2.84%) Fixed Income
6 16 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.66%) Replication
8 14 (2.48%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.48%) Blog
8 14 (2.48%) Low-Code
9 12 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
10 10 (1.77%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.77%) SCADA
11 9 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 82 (14.54%) Linux
2 39 (6.91%) Windows
3 25 (4.43%) Unix
4 19 (3.37%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.24%) Android
6 7 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.53%) CentOS
10 1 (0.18%) AIX
10 1 (0.18%) Debian
10 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (43.62%) CI/CD
2 216 (38.30%) Agile
3 177 (31.38%) Microservices
4 166 (29.43%) Software Engineering
5 158 (28.01%) Full-Stack Development
6 150 (26.60%) DevOps
7 112 (19.86%) Test Automation
8 107 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 107 (18.97%) Mentoring
9 105 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (18.09%) AI
10 102 (18.09%) Containerisation
11 77 (13.65%) Scrum
12 70 (12.41%) Data Modelling
13 69 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 66 (11.70%) Analytics
15 65 (11.52%) TDD
16 57 (10.11%) Observability
17 55 (9.75%) Data Pipeline
18 51 (9.04%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 250 (44.33%) Python
2 183 (32.45%) Java
3 175 (31.03%) SQL
4 141 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 110 (19.50%) TypeScript
6 47 (8.33%) C#
7 43 (7.62%) Go
8 30 (5.32%) PowerShell
9 29 (5.14%) Ruby
10 27 (4.79%) PHP
11 20 (3.55%) Bash
12 18 (3.19%) C
13 13 (2.30%) Delphi
14 10 (1.77%) C++
14 10 (1.77%) Scala
14 10 (1.77%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.60%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.42%) Perl
17 7 (1.24%) Korn
17 7 (1.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.59%) Degree
3 57 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.53%) RHCE
12 2 (0.35%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.35%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.61%) QA
3 15 (2.66%) GDPR
3 15 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.53%) NCSC
5 3 (0.53%) SLA
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.35%) WCAG
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 179 (31.74%) Docker
2 30 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Firmware
5 2 (0.35%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 187 (33.16%) Kubernetes
2 131 (23.23%) Terraform
3 43 (7.62%) Ansible
4 40 (7.09%) Grafana
5 31 (5.50%) Argo
6 23 (4.08%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.06%) Puppet
8 5 (0.89%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.89%) Data Guard
8 5 (0.89%) Istio
9 4 (0.71%) Control-M
9 4 (0.71%) Kibana
9 4 (0.71%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.71%) Nagios
9 4 (0.71%) Rancher
10 3 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.53%) Packer
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.35%) Plesk
Vendors
1 72 (12.77%) Oracle
2 57 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.50%) Google
4 23 (4.08%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.84%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.95%) Informatica
7 9 (1.60%) ESRI
8 8 (1.42%) Databricks
8 8 (1.42%) Dell
8 8 (1.42%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.24%) Pega
10 6 (1.06%) Confluent
10 6 (1.06%) Talend
11 5 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.71%) VMware
13 3 (0.53%) IBM
13 3 (0.53%) Revolut
13 3 (0.53%) Splunk