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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 216 175
Rank change year-on-year -53 -41 +34
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 661 707 1,669
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.55% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.96% 9.54% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 499 516 1,132
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,250 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -8.70%

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 8,300 7,409 17,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 16.27% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,479 4,791 12,405
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £35,000
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% -9.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -79 566 £69,305 -7.59% 221
Work from Home +38 346 £67,500 -9.84% 122
UK excluding London -69 336 £62,500 -3.85% 151
London -90 231 £85,000 -10.53% 112
North of England -12 117 £65,000 -3.70% 37
South East -19 117 £59,500 +13.33% 49
North West -10 53 £67,500 - 22
South West -45 41 £62,500 - 16
Yorkshire -23 35 £52,130 -22.77% 8
North East -22 29 £65,000 +25.30% 7
East of England -27 22 £47,500 +50.79% 13
Scotland -6 18 £66,250 - 8
Midlands -58 16 £75,000 +11.11% 21
West Midlands -36 12 £77,500 +14.81% 12
Wales -62 6 £70,000 -9.68% 4
East Midlands -31 4 £65,000 +18.18% 9
Northern Ireland -38 1 £73,801 +34.18% 7

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 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.48%) Apache
4 20 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.57%) Confluence
6 12 (1.82%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.91%) WordPress
8 4 (0.61%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) Documentum
11 1 (0.15%) IIS
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.51%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 393 (59.46%) AWS
2 244 (36.91%) Azure
3 118 (17.85%) GCP
4 98 (14.83%) Serverless
5 77 (11.65%) GitHub
6 64 (9.68%) SaaS
7 63 (9.53%) Amazon S3
8 60 (9.08%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (6.35%) Power Platform
12 41 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
13 40 (6.05%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (4.24%) Azure AKS
16 27 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
16 27 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (2.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.30%) Broadband
2 18 (2.72%) Firewall
3 16 (2.42%) DNS
3 16 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.27%) DHCP
5 11 (1.66%) VPN
6 8 (1.21%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.21%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.21%) SAN
7 7 (1.06%) Network Security
7 7 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.76%) VLAN
9 3 (0.45%) HTTP
9 3 (0.45%) Internet
10 2 (0.30%) LAN
10 2 (0.30%) MQTT
10 2 (0.30%) PBX
10 2 (0.30%) WAN
11 1 (0.15%) LTE
11 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (29.05%) MongoDB
2 153 (23.15%) MySQL
3 110 (16.64%) SQL Server
4 100 (15.13%) Relational Database
5 99 (14.98%) NoSQL
6 59 (8.93%) Redis
7 33 (4.99%) Power BI
8 32 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (3.48%) DynamoDB
11 18 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (2.57%) Oracle Database
13 16 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (2.42%) GIS
13 16 (2.42%) Metadata
14 15 (2.27%) Pinecone
15 13 (1.97%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 11 (1.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 128 (19.36%) Git
2 50 (7.56%) Jenkins
3 46 (6.96%) GitLab
4 29 (4.39%) JIRA
5 24 (3.63%) Cypress.io
6 21 (3.18%) JUnit
7 17 (2.57%) Mockito
8 14 (2.12%) Bitbucket
8 14 (2.12%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.51%) JMeter
10 9 (1.36%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.36%) Maven
10 9 (1.36%) Vite
11 6 (0.91%) Selenium
12 5 (0.76%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.61%) Gatling
13 4 (0.61%) Storybook
14 3 (0.45%) DBeaver
14 3 (0.45%) Liquibase
General
1 152 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 96 (14.52%) Finance
3 84 (12.71%) Public Sector
4 61 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.14%) Games
7 31 (4.69%) Retail
8 28 (4.24%) Law
9 26 (3.93%) Banking
10 21 (3.18%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.57%) Legal
13 16 (2.42%) Front Office
14 15 (2.27%) Advertising
15 11 (1.66%) Aerospace
16 10 (1.51%) Legal Technology
16 10 (1.51%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.21%) Aviation
18 7 (1.06%) Automotive
18 7 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (33.59%) Developer
2 138 (20.88%) Senior
3 123 (18.61%) Software Engineer
4 108 (16.34%) Lead
5 83 (12.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 53 (8.02%) Python Engineer
7 48 (7.26%) Lead Developer
8 45 (6.81%) Architect
9 44 (6.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 42 (6.35%) Data Engineer
11 40 (6.05%) Java Developer
12 39 (5.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 39 (5.90%) Python Developer
13 35 (5.30%) Lead Software Engineer
14 34 (5.14%) Java Engineer
15 29 (4.39%) Senior Developer
16 27 (4.08%) Software Developer
17 26 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
18 21 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
18 21 (3.18%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (27.38%) React
2 161 (24.36%) Node.js
3 124 (18.76%) RESTful
4 82 (12.41%) REST
5 79 (11.95%) Spring
6 76 (11.50%) Spring Boot
7 64 (9.68%) Kafka
8 53 (8.02%) CSS
8 53 (8.02%) FastAPI
9 50 (7.56%) Ruby on Rails
10 48 (7.26%) HTML
11 47 (7.11%) .NET
11 47 (7.11%) JSON
12 44 (6.66%) Next.js
13 36 (5.45%) AngularJS
14 34 (5.14%) Jest
15 32 (4.84%) Django
16 29 (4.39%) Vue
17 25 (3.78%) Redux
18 24 (3.63%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 146 (22.09%) Cloud Native
2 72 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.30%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.84%) Video\Live Streaming
5 26 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 24 (3.63%) Data Structures
7 23 (3.48%) Onboarding
8 22 (3.33%) Blog
8 22 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (3.03%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.72%) Replication
11 16 (2.42%) Derivative
11 16 (2.42%) Equities
11 16 (2.42%) Fixed Income
11 16 (2.42%) Management Information System
12 15 (2.27%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.66%) SCADA
15 10 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (1.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 103 (15.58%) Linux
2 46 (6.96%) Windows
3 23 (3.48%) Unix
4 20 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.45%) CentOS
8 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.30%) Android
9 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) AIX
10 1 (0.15%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (43.42%) CI/CD
2 238 (36.01%) Agile
3 219 (33.13%) Software Engineering
4 199 (30.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 194 (29.35%) Microservices
6 163 (24.66%) DevOps
7 153 (23.15%) AI
8 151 (22.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 130 (19.67%) Mentoring
10 123 (18.61%) Containerisation
10 123 (18.61%) Test Automation
11 110 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
12 108 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 106 (16.04%) Observability
14 84 (12.71%) Data Modelling
15 78 (11.80%) Analytics
16 77 (11.65%) API Design
17 74 (11.20%) Scrum
18 71 (10.74%) Clean Code
19 68 (10.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 287 (43.42%) Python
2 194 (29.35%) SQL
3 187 (28.29%) Java
4 156 (23.60%) JavaScript
5 132 (19.97%) TypeScript
6 54 (8.17%) C#
6 54 (8.17%) Go
7 52 (7.87%) Ruby
8 45 (6.81%) PowerShell
9 35 (5.30%) Bash
10 26 (3.93%) PHP
11 14 (2.12%) C++
11 14 (2.12%) Scala
12 13 (1.97%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.82%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.51%) Perl
15 9 (1.36%) C
16 7 (1.06%) Korn
16 7 (1.06%) RPG
17 6 (0.91%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 79 (11.95%) Degree
3 68 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.57%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.61%) PhD
11 3 (0.45%) RHCE
11 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
12 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.30%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.32%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.84%) QA
3 24 (3.63%) GDPR
4 18 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.45%) SLA
6 3 (0.45%) WCAG
7 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.30%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.15%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.15%) MiFID
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 187 (28.29%) Docker
2 30 (4.54%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Firmware
5 2 (0.30%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 190 (28.74%) Kubernetes
2 140 (21.18%) Terraform
3 40 (6.05%) Ansible
4 37 (5.60%) Grafana
5 31 (4.69%) Argo
6 22 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.51%) Kibana
8 7 (1.06%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.06%) Puppet
9 6 (0.91%) Istio
9 6 (0.91%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.61%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.45%) Packer
12 3 (0.45%) Plesk
12 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.45%) Rancher
12 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 71 (10.74%) Oracle
3 33 (4.99%) Google
4 19 (2.87%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.72%) OpenAI
6 16 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 14 (2.12%) Databricks
8 11 (1.66%) Splunk
9 8 (1.21%) Dell
9 8 (1.21%) IBM
9 8 (1.21%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.06%) Pega
11 6 (0.91%) VMware
12 5 (0.76%) Informatica
12 5 (0.76%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.61%) Confluent
13 4 (0.61%) ESRI
13 4 (0.61%) Netezza
13 4 (0.61%) Remedy
14 3 (0.45%) Revolut