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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 238 136
Rank change year-on-year -18 -102 +59
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 877 612 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.24% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.03% 8.79% 11.93%
Number of salaries quoted 612 422 630
10th Percentile £44,283 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £68,404
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +9.64% -2.28%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%

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 8,740 6,961 11,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.36% 14.15% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,941 4,334 6,345
10th Percentile £36,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -18 746 £71,991 -10.01% 966
Work from Home +45 412 £67,500 -20.59% 453
UK excluding London -43 401 £65,000 - 364
London -45 358 £83,750 -20.24% 652
South East +15 134 £70,000 +5.66% 83
North of England -16 121 £65,000 -3.70% 94
North West -12 56 £60,000 -14.29% 55
South West -51 50 £82,500 +52.78% 36
Midlands -47 42 £75,000 +5.26% 37
North East -42 40 £65,000 +25.30% 15
West Midlands -36 31 £85,000 +17.24% 28
Wales -46 28 £64,000 -1.54% 11
East of England -24 27 £52,500 +72.13% 44
Yorkshire -34 25 £65,000 -7.14% 29
East Midlands -34 11 £60,000 +20.00% 9
Scotland -5 10 £65,000 -11.93% 33
Northern Ireland -79 2 - - 27

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 27 (3.08%) Confluence
2 25 (2.85%) Apache
2 25 (2.85%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.80%) Camunda
4 7 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.68%) nginx
6 5 (0.57%) WordPress
7 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.46%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.46%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.34%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.23%) Luigi
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.23%) Tornado
10 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.23%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.11%) Finacle
3 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 515 (58.72%) AWS
2 290 (33.07%) Azure
3 167 (19.04%) GitHub
4 136 (15.51%) GCP
5 97 (11.06%) SaaS
5 97 (11.06%) Serverless
6 77 (8.78%) GitHub Actions
7 75 (8.55%) Amazon EKS
8 74 (8.44%) Amazon S3
9 70 (7.98%) Amazon ECS
10 54 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
10 54 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (5.36%) GitHub Copilot
13 42 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (3.53%) Power Platform
16 28 (3.19%) Azure AKS
16 28 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.19%) Broadband
2 27 (3.08%) TCP/IP
3 24 (2.74%) VPN
4 17 (1.94%) BGP
5 15 (1.71%) Firewall
6 14 (1.60%) AMQP
6 14 (1.60%) SMS
7 12 (1.37%) VLAN
8 11 (1.25%) DNS
9 8 (0.91%) Network Security
10 6 (0.68%) HTTP
11 4 (0.46%) DHCP
12 3 (0.34%) 4G
12 3 (0.34%) 5G
12 3 (0.34%) OpenVPN
12 3 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.34%) SSH
13 2 (0.23%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.23%) tcpdump
13 2 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (24.17%) MongoDB
2 192 (21.89%) MySQL
3 145 (16.53%) Relational Database
4 137 (15.62%) SQL Server
5 116 (13.23%) Redis
6 101 (11.52%) NoSQL
7 71 (8.10%) Amazon RDS
8 46 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
9 44 (5.02%) DynamoDB
10 34 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
11 31 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (2.62%) Power BI
13 21 (2.39%) Big Data
13 21 (2.39%) Metadata
14 19 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (2.17%) Oracle Database
14 19 (2.17%) Pinecone
15 15 (1.71%) Chroma
15 15 (1.71%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 214 (24.40%) Git
2 85 (9.69%) Jenkins
3 69 (7.87%) GitLab
4 37 (4.22%) TeamCity
5 29 (3.31%) JIRA
6 27 (3.08%) JUnit
7 26 (2.96%) Cypress.io
8 20 (2.28%) Mockito
9 14 (1.60%) Claude Code
10 12 (1.37%) JMeter
11 11 (1.25%) Vite
12 9 (1.03%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.91%) Mocha
13 8 (0.91%) Selenium
14 7 (0.80%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.80%) Maven
14 7 (0.80%) RSpec
14 7 (0.80%) Storybook
15 5 (0.57%) Appium
15 5 (0.57%) Eclipse
General
1 215 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 124 (14.14%) Finance
3 114 (13.00%) Public Sector
4 89 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (10.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 65 (7.41%) Banking
7 62 (7.07%) Law
8 40 (4.56%) Retail
9 28 (3.19%) Games
10 23 (2.62%) Financial Institution
10 23 (2.62%) Legal
11 22 (2.51%) Tech for Good
12 17 (1.94%) Back Office
13 16 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.71%) Health Technology
14 15 (1.71%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.48%) Legal Technology
16 11 (1.25%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.91%) Marketing
18 7 (0.80%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 296 (33.75%) Developer
2 265 (30.22%) Senior
3 180 (20.52%) Software Engineer
4 119 (13.57%) Lead
5 84 (9.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 77 (8.78%) Senior Developer
7 72 (8.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 62 (7.07%) Python Engineer
9 53 (6.04%) Data Engineer
10 52 (5.93%) Java Developer
10 52 (5.93%) Python Developer
11 51 (5.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 49 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
13 48 (5.47%) Software Developer
14 47 (5.36%) DBA
15 41 (4.68%) Architect
16 37 (4.22%) Lead Developer
17 34 (3.88%) Database Engineer
18 33 (3.76%) Java Engineer
19 32 (3.65%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (25.77%) Terraform
2 216 (24.63%) React
3 180 (20.52%) Node.js
4 163 (18.59%) RESTful
5 139 (15.85%) REST
6 122 (13.91%) Spring
7 118 (13.45%) Kafka
8 117 (13.34%) Spring Boot
9 87 (9.92%) .NET
10 76 (8.67%) CSS
11 70 (7.98%) Next.js
12 63 (7.18%) HTML
13 60 (6.84%) FastAPI
13 60 (6.84%) Ruby on Rails
14 56 (6.39%) RabbitMQ
15 52 (5.93%) Jest
16 47 (5.36%) AngularJS
17 43 (4.90%) JPA
17 43 (4.90%) JSON
18 41 (4.68%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 193 (22.01%) Cloud Native
2 145 (16.53%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.82%) Blog
4 42 (4.79%) Product Ownership
5 36 (4.10%) AI Agents
6 30 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (3.42%) Low-Code
6 30 (3.42%) Replication
7 25 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (2.85%) Video\Live Streaming
8 24 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (2.62%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.82%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.82%) Management Information System
12 13 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 128 (14.60%) Linux
2 38 (4.33%) Windows
3 18 (2.05%) Unix
4 16 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.68%) Android
6 6 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) macOS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (50.29%) CI/CD
2 328 (37.40%) Software Engineering
3 307 (35.01%) Agile
4 255 (29.08%) AI
5 253 (28.85%) Microservices
6 237 (27.02%) DevOps
7 226 (25.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 215 (24.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 209 (23.83%) Observability
10 176 (20.07%) Mentoring
11 169 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
12 157 (17.90%) Test Automation
13 153 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 149 (16.99%) Containerisation
15 123 (14.03%) Event-Driven
16 122 (13.91%) Clean Code
17 96 (10.95%) Scrum
18 95 (10.83%) API Design
19 90 (10.26%) Decision-Making
20 89 (10.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 353 (40.25%) Python
2 260 (29.65%) SQL
3 235 (26.80%) Java
4 186 (21.21%) JavaScript
5 171 (19.50%) TypeScript
6 86 (9.81%) C#
7 79 (9.01%) Go
8 62 (7.07%) Ruby
9 54 (6.16%) Bash
10 29 (3.31%) PHP
11 23 (2.62%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.28%) Scala
13 17 (1.94%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.60%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.48%) C++
16 11 (1.25%) Groovy
17 10 (1.14%) RPG
18 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.46%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 144 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 119 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.49%) Degree
4 31 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 22 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.14%) CISSP
8 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.03%) PhD
10 8 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.91%) CCSP
10 8 (0.91%) CISM
11 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.10%) QA
2 51 (5.82%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.42%) GDPR
4 27 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 27 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.39%) SOC 2
6 19 (2.17%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.91%) NIST
8 6 (0.68%) SLA
9 4 (0.46%) WCAG
10 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
11 1 (0.11%) SOC 1
System Software
1 289 (32.95%) Docker
2 9 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.11%) Ceph
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Lustre
6 1 (0.11%) NFS
6 1 (0.11%) Samba
6 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 262 (29.87%) Kubernetes
2 114 (13.00%) Grafana
3 71 (8.10%) Prometheus
4 67 (7.64%) Ansible
5 36 (4.10%) Argo
6 15 (1.71%) Kibana
7 11 (1.25%) Rancher
8 10 (1.14%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.03%) Istio
9 9 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.91%) Cilium
11 6 (0.68%) logstash
11 6 (0.68%) Packer
11 6 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.68%) Puppet
12 4 (0.46%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.34%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.34%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.23%) Bugsnag
14 2 (0.23%) Plesk
Vendors
1 81 (9.24%) Microsoft
2 79 (9.01%) Oracle
3 50 (5.70%) Google
4 34 (3.88%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.65%) Databricks
6 28 (3.19%) Splunk
7 27 (3.08%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.94%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.60%) IBM
9 14 (1.60%) Mistral
9 14 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.91%) Informatica
11 6 (0.68%) VMware
12 5 (0.57%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.46%) Adobe
13 4 (0.46%) ESRI
13 4 (0.46%) Netezza
13 4 (0.46%) Remedy
13 4 (0.46%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.46%) TIBCO