PostgreSQL Job Trends

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 134 183
Rank change year-on-year -126 +49 +7
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 499 1,152 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 2.19% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.62% 12.28% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 336 537 976
10th Percentile £41,925 £49,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £66,934 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.62% +11.56% +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 6,551 9,380 13,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.45% 17.82% 20.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,087 5,182 10,683
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,223
25th Percentile £43,078 £47,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -134 427 £75,000 -6.17% 595
London -81 247 £90,000 +2.86% 167
Work from Home -103 225 £70,000 - 406
UK excluding London -180 206 £62,500 -6.62% 527
North of England -7 76 £73,801 +6.48% 89
South East -130 43 £60,000 -25.00% 183
Yorkshire +6 36 £62,500 +4.62% 26
North West -6 32 £85,000 +19.73% 49
Midlands -13 31 £55,200 -15.08% 46
South West -58 25 £57,000 -12.31% 62
West Midlands +14 21 £55,200 -15.08% 22
Scotland -30 15 £73,801 +27.24% 39
East of England -46 13 £42,500 -26.09% 82
East Midlands -28 10 £60,100 +0.17% 23
North East -2 8 £55,200 -20.35% 15
Wales -22 5 £73,801 +13.54% 27
Northern Ireland -18 3 £73,801 +11.98% 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 36 (7.21%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.81%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.41%) Confluence
4 17 (3.41%) Tomcat
5 16 (3.21%) WebSphere Application Server
6 13 (2.61%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.60%) ArcGIS
8 7 (1.40%) nginx
9 6 (1.20%) Apache
10 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.80%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.60%) CMS
11 3 (0.60%) Luigi
11 3 (0.60%) WildFly
12 2 (0.40%) Camunda
12 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 352 (70.54%) AWS
2 163 (32.67%) Azure
3 128 (25.65%) GCP
4 93 (18.64%) Serverless
5 68 (13.63%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (12.42%) Amazon S3
7 58 (11.62%) GitHub
8 55 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (10.02%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (9.62%) dbt
11 45 (9.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (8.02%) SaaS
13 39 (7.82%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (7.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (6.81%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (5.41%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (4.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 21 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (4.21%) Power Platform
18 21 (4.21%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.21%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.81%) SSL
3 11 (2.20%) Firewall
4 10 (2.00%) VPN
5 8 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.40%) DNS
6 7 (1.40%) Internet
7 6 (1.20%) Network Security
8 5 (1.00%) HTTP
8 5 (1.00%) VLAN
9 3 (0.60%) DHCP
9 3 (0.60%) FTP
9 3 (0.60%) IMAP
9 3 (0.60%) MQTT
9 3 (0.60%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.60%) SMTP
9 3 (0.60%) SSH
9 3 (0.60%) WAN
10 2 (0.40%) PBX
10 2 (0.40%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (24.45%) SQL Server
2 100 (20.04%) Relational Database
3 87 (17.43%) MySQL
4 86 (17.23%) MongoDB
5 70 (14.03%) NoSQL
6 44 (8.82%) Redis
7 37 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
7 37 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (7.41%) DB2
8 32 (6.41%) DynamoDB
8 32 (6.41%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (5.41%) RDBMS
10 21 (4.21%) Apache Iceberg
11 20 (4.01%) Power BI
12 19 (3.81%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (3.41%) Apache Arrow
13 17 (3.41%) Dremio
14 15 (3.01%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 108 (21.64%) Git
2 91 (18.24%) Jenkins
3 33 (6.61%) GitLab
3 33 (6.61%) JIRA
4 31 (6.21%) JUnit
5 28 (5.61%) Cucumber
6 26 (5.21%) Selenium
7 21 (4.21%) Bitbucket
8 18 (3.61%) Cypress.io
8 18 (3.61%) TeamCity
9 17 (3.41%) JMeter
9 17 (3.41%) Mockito
10 8 (1.60%) Vite
11 6 (1.20%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.00%) Maven
12 5 (1.00%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.00%) Subversion
13 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.60%) Gradle
14 3 (0.60%) TestRail
General
1 137 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 111 (22.24%) Finance
3 45 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (9.02%) Banking
4 34 (6.81%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.41%) Law
6 28 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.81%) Retail
8 18 (3.61%) Front Office
9 11 (2.20%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.20%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.40%) Marketing
13 6 (1.20%) Tech for Good
14 5 (1.00%) Electronics
14 5 (1.00%) Legal
14 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.80%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 180 (36.07%) Developer
2 95 (19.04%) Senior
3 78 (15.63%) Software Engineer
4 65 (13.03%) Full-Stack Developer
5 58 (11.62%) Java Developer
6 46 (9.22%) Lead
7 31 (6.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 30 (6.01%) Python Developer
9 27 (5.41%) Python Engineer
10 26 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (5.21%) Data Engineer
11 25 (5.01%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (4.41%) Architect
12 22 (4.41%) AWS Developer
12 22 (4.41%) Python Software Engineer
12 22 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
13 21 (4.21%) Linux Support
14 20 (4.01%) Java Engineer
15 19 (3.81%) Applications Support
16 18 (3.61%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (32.06%) React
2 103 (20.64%) Node.js
3 82 (16.43%) Spring
4 77 (15.43%) Spring Boot
5 70 (14.03%) REST
6 68 (13.63%) Django
7 66 (13.23%) RESTful
8 55 (11.02%) FastAPI
9 53 (10.62%) AngularJS
10 52 (10.42%) HTML
11 50 (10.02%) Kafka
12 45 (9.02%) .NET
13 44 (8.82%) CSS
14 41 (8.22%) Vue
15 37 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (6.01%) Flask
17 29 (5.81%) Web Services
18 26 (5.21%) Next.js
19 24 (4.81%) .NET Core
20 21 (4.21%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 61 (12.22%) Distributed Systems
2 59 (11.82%) Cloud Native
3 28 (5.61%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (4.61%) Management Information System
4 23 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.41%) Equities
5 17 (3.41%) Fixed Income
5 17 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.40%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.40%) Blog
8 12 (2.40%) Replication
9 11 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.80%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 103 (20.64%) Linux
2 46 (9.22%) Unix
3 38 (7.62%) Windows
4 22 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.61%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.80%) Android
6 9 (1.80%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.40%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.00%) VMS
9 3 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.60%) Debian
9 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.40%) CentOS
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (44.09%) CI/CD
2 184 (36.87%) Agile
3 154 (30.86%) Microservices
4 148 (29.66%) Software Engineering
5 141 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (28.06%) DevOps
7 118 (23.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 90 (18.04%) Containerisation
9 80 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 74 (14.83%) AI
11 73 (14.63%) Test Automation
12 71 (14.23%) Fintech
13 59 (11.82%) Scrum
14 57 (11.42%) TDD
15 56 (11.22%) Clean Code
16 54 (10.82%) Technical Leadership
17 52 (10.42%) Mentoring
18 51 (10.22%) ETL
19 48 (9.62%) Data Modelling
20 46 (9.22%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 243 (48.70%) Python
2 164 (32.87%) Java
3 153 (30.66%) SQL
4 140 (28.06%) JavaScript
5 105 (21.04%) TypeScript
6 42 (8.42%) C#
7 30 (6.01%) Go
8 18 (3.61%) PowerShell
9 17 (3.41%) PHP
9 17 (3.41%) Ruby
9 17 (3.41%) Shell Script
10 16 (3.21%) C
11 9 (1.80%) Delphi
11 9 (1.80%) Rust
12 8 (1.60%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.20%) C++
14 5 (1.00%) Bash
15 4 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.60%) RPG
16 3 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (17.84%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.23%) Degree
3 59 (11.82%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.61%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.61%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.61%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.40%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.40%) HNC
13 2 (0.40%) HND
13 2 (0.40%) MCSA
13 2 (0.40%) MCSE
13 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.41%) SLA
2 18 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.41%) QA
4 14 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.40%) GDPR
6 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.60%) SEPA
8 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.40%) PSD2
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) GAAP
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 191 (38.28%) Docker
2 7 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) DFS Replication
3 3 (0.60%) Dovecot
3 3 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.60%) Postfix
3 3 (0.60%) Squid
3 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.40%) NFS
4 2 (0.40%) pfSense
4 2 (0.40%) Samba
Systems Management
1 171 (34.27%) Kubernetes
2 107 (21.44%) Terraform
3 41 (8.22%) Ansible
4 31 (6.21%) Grafana
5 18 (3.61%) Kibana
6 16 (3.21%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.40%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (2.20%) Argo
9 6 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.00%) Puppet
11 4 (0.80%) Control-M
11 4 (0.80%) Nagios
12 3 (0.60%) Nessus
12 3 (0.60%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.60%) Rancher
13 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.20%) Ambari
14 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (15.03%) Oracle
2 34 (6.81%) Google
3 28 (5.61%) Red Hat
4 24 (4.81%) Microsoft
5 23 (4.61%) IBM
6 19 (3.81%) Informatica
7 16 (3.21%) Atlassian
8 15 (3.01%) ServiceNow
8 15 (3.01%) Splunk
9 13 (2.61%) OpenAI
9 13 (2.61%) Talend
10 12 (2.40%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.60%) ESRI
12 7 (1.40%) SAP
13 5 (1.00%) VMware
14 4 (0.80%) Dell
14 4 (0.80%) Pega
14 4 (0.80%) WSO2
15 3 (0.60%) RedGate
15 3 (0.60%) Salesforce