PostgreSQL Jobs

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 145 214
Rank change year-on-year -115 +69 -140
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 720 1,971 1,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 1.83% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.13% 10.90% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 525 1,115 1,129
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% -8.00%

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 7,888 18,081 19,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.40% 16.76% 21.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,918 12,356 12,576
10th Percentile £35,425 £35,195 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £57,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -8.73% +5.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL.

Salary trend for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 -102 647 £75,000 +15.38% 2,852
London +11 366 £99,000 +20.00% 1,634
UK excluding London -113 366 £65,000 +23.81% 1,347
Work from Home -90 294 £75,000 +15.38% 1,652
South East -66 110 £53,750 +7.50% 350
North of England -132 101 £67,500 +22.73% 394
North West -143 66 £67,500 +22.73% 260
Midlands -64 43 £67,500 +35.00% 152
Scotland +33 37 £66,250 +32.50% 99
East of England +5 33 £31,500 -42.73% 143
West Midlands +38 32 £67,500 +22.73% 77
South West +56 31 £61,250 +2.08% 150
Yorkshire +2 25 £67,500 +25.58% 109
Wales +10 19 £77,500 +51.81% 32
East Midlands -64 11 £55,000 +10.00% 74
North East +16 10 £51,875 -20.76% 25
Northern Ireland +19 7 £55,000 -35.29% 33

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 83 (11.53%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (5.42%) Confluence
3 18 (2.50%) Tomcat
4 16 (2.22%) nginx
5 13 (1.81%) CMS
5 13 (1.81%) JBoss
6 12 (1.67%) Red Hat Fuse
7 11 (1.53%) IIS
8 8 (1.11%) Apache Spark
8 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.97%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.97%) WordPress
10 6 (0.83%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.69%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.56%) Apache
13 3 (0.42%) SAS
14 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.14%) Joomla!
14 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Notion
4 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.14%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 476 (66.11%) AWS
2 221 (30.69%) Azure
3 200 (27.78%) GCP
4 92 (12.78%) dbt
5 88 (12.22%) Serverless
6 80 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
7 67 (9.31%) Amazon ECS
8 61 (8.47%) GitHub
9 56 (7.78%) Amazon S3
10 51 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
11 38 (5.28%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (4.31%) Power Platform
14 30 (4.17%) SaaS
15 24 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (2.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 19 (2.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 19 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
18 18 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.64%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.08%) Network Security
3 14 (1.94%) Firewall
4 13 (1.81%) DNS
4 13 (1.81%) SSL
5 11 (1.53%) SAN
6 10 (1.39%) MQTT
7 9 (1.25%) DMARC
8 7 (0.97%) Internet
9 6 (0.83%) iSCSI
9 6 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (0.83%) SSH
10 5 (0.69%) DHCP
10 5 (0.69%) FTP
10 5 (0.69%) HTTP
10 5 (0.69%) Modbus
10 5 (0.69%) NAS
10 5 (0.69%) VPN
10 5 (0.69%) VSAN
11 4 (0.56%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (19.72%) MongoDB
2 140 (19.44%) Relational Database
3 127 (17.64%) MySQL
3 127 (17.64%) SQL Server
4 106 (14.72%) NoSQL
5 86 (11.94%) Amazon Athena
6 76 (10.56%) Apache Arrow
6 76 (10.56%) Apache Iceberg
6 76 (10.56%) Dremio
7 59 (8.19%) Amazon RDS
8 58 (8.06%) RDBMS
9 45 (6.25%) Redis
10 40 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 35 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
12 27 (3.75%) DynamoDB
13 26 (3.61%) Power BI
14 17 (2.36%) DB2
15 13 (1.81%) Big Data
16 10 (1.39%) Tableau
17 9 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 131 (18.19%) Git
2 107 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.17%) JUnit
4 55 (7.64%) JIRA
5 48 (6.67%) Mockito
6 40 (5.56%) GitLab
7 36 (5.00%) Maven
8 33 (4.58%) SonarQube
9 25 (3.47%) Bitbucket
10 24 (3.33%) JMeter
10 24 (3.33%) Selenium
11 21 (2.92%) IntelliJ
12 19 (2.64%) Postman
13 14 (1.94%) Cucumber
14 12 (1.67%) DbUnit
14 12 (1.67%) jMock
15 11 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
16 9 (1.25%) Visual Studio
17 8 (1.11%) Subversion
17 8 (1.11%) TestNG
General
1 231 (32.08%) Finance
2 180 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 111 (15.42%) Front Office
4 106 (14.72%) Public Sector
5 72 (10.00%) Banking
6 68 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (6.94%) Law
9 35 (4.86%) Marketing
10 33 (4.58%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (2.64%) Telecoms
13 18 (2.50%) Electronics
13 18 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.67%) Games
14 12 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.53%) Retail
16 10 (1.39%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.25%) Czech Language
17 9 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 340 (47.22%) Developer
2 191 (26.53%) Software Engineer
3 145 (20.14%) Senior
4 105 (14.58%) Lead
5 103 (14.31%) Java Developer
6 102 (14.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 92 (12.78%) AWS Engineer
8 90 (12.50%) Python Developer
9 83 (11.53%) AWS Developer
10 80 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
11 79 (10.97%) Java Engineer
12 73 (10.14%) Python Engineer
13 66 (9.17%) Python Software Engineer
14 61 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
15 56 (7.78%) Senior Developer
16 46 (6.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 40 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
18 38 (5.28%) Lead Developer
19 34 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
20 30 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (38.75%) React
2 195 (27.08%) Node.js
3 156 (21.67%) AngularJS
4 154 (21.39%) REST
5 126 (17.50%) Spring
6 120 (16.67%) Spring Boot
7 118 (16.39%) RESTful
8 103 (14.31%) Vue
9 80 (11.11%) Pandas
10 79 (10.97%) Kafka
11 78 (10.83%) NumPy
12 76 (10.56%) SciPy
13 71 (9.86%) HTML
14 68 (9.44%) .NET
15 63 (8.75%) Web Services
16 54 (7.50%) CSS
17 52 (7.22%) Django
18 48 (6.67%) FastAPI
18 48 (6.67%) Hibernate
19 41 (5.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 96 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 79 (10.97%) Equities
2 79 (10.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 62 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
4 60 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.06%) Algorithms
5 22 (3.06%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.92%) IoT
6 21 (2.92%) Mobile App
6 21 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.81%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.67%) e-Learning
10 11 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
12 9 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 143 (19.86%) Linux
2 65 (9.03%) Windows
3 58 (8.06%) Unix
4 15 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.67%) Android
6 10 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.69%) VMS
9 4 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.42%) Debian
11 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (54.86%) Agile
2 266 (36.94%) Software Engineering
3 246 (34.17%) CI/CD
4 221 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
5 184 (25.56%) Microservices
6 164 (22.78%) DevOps
7 157 (21.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 130 (18.06%) Fintech
9 128 (17.78%) Mentoring
10 127 (17.64%) Containerisation
11 101 (14.03%) Asset Management
12 100 (13.89%) Investment Management
12 100 (13.89%) TDD
13 94 (13.06%) Test Automation
14 90 (12.50%) Risk Management
15 85 (11.81%) Scrum
16 83 (11.53%) User Experience
17 77 (10.69%) Artificial Intelligence
18 76 (10.56%) Order Management
18 76 (10.56%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 312 (43.33%) Python
2 279 (38.75%) JavaScript
3 256 (35.56%) Java
4 248 (34.44%) SQL
5 224 (31.11%) TypeScript
6 65 (9.03%) C#
7 34 (4.72%) PHP
8 30 (4.17%) Shell Script
9 28 (3.89%) Bash
10 25 (3.47%) PowerShell
11 21 (2.92%) Go
12 19 (2.64%) C++
13 15 (2.08%) Rust
14 11 (1.53%) Groovy
15 10 (1.39%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.25%) Ruby
16 9 (1.25%) VBA
17 8 (1.11%) C
17 8 (1.11%) PL/SQL
17 8 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 88 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.89%) Degree
4 21 (2.92%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.39%) PhD
8 9 (1.25%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.42%) OCP
12 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.28%) CISSP
13 2 (0.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.75%) QA
2 15 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.08%) ISO 9001
3 14 (1.94%) GDPR
4 13 (1.81%) SLA
5 12 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.83%) CDISC
7 6 (0.83%) NIST
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) GMP
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 271 (37.64%) Docker
2 22 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.11%) Postfix
4 6 (0.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (0.69%) Firmware
5 5 (0.69%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.56%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.56%) Dovecot
6 4 (0.56%) Squid
6 4 (0.56%) zsh
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.42%) HDFS
7 3 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.28%) KVM
8 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.28%) Xen
9 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 217 (30.14%) Kubernetes
2 81 (11.25%) Terraform
3 36 (5.00%) Ansible
4 27 (3.75%) Grafana
4 27 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 26 (3.61%) Kibana
6 16 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.67%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.53%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (1.25%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.25%) Packer
10 6 (0.83%) Argo
10 6 (0.83%) logstash
11 5 (0.69%) Puppet
12 4 (0.56%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.56%) Nessus
12 4 (0.56%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.42%) Istio
13 3 (0.42%) Oozie
Vendors
1 85 (11.81%) Oracle
2 76 (10.56%) Microsoft
3 55 (7.64%) Google
4 35 (4.86%) Splunk
5 29 (4.03%) Dynatrace
6 28 (3.89%) Red Hat
7 23 (3.19%) Databricks
7 23 (3.19%) SAP
8 19 (2.64%) Atlassian
9 16 (2.22%) IBM
10 10 (1.39%) Cisco
10 10 (1.39%) Informatica
11 9 (1.25%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.25%) VMware
12 7 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
13 6 (0.83%) Dell
13 6 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.69%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.69%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.56%) WSO2