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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 216 170
Rank change year-on-year -66 -46 +41
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 625 713 1,698
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.60% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.80% 9.66% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 469 521 1,171
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,250 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +15.91% -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 8,010 7,383 17,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 16.56% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,195 4,765 12,639
10th Percentile £35,750 £35,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,250 £98,750
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 16 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 16 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 -83 537 £69,305 -7.59% 305
Work from Home +28 329 £67,500 -6.24% 162
UK excluding London -64 322 £62,500 -1.96% 173
London -99 216 £85,000 -10.53% 178
North of England -18 114 £65,000 -3.70% 45
South East -8 113 £59,500 +13.33% 51
North West -13 48 £67,500 -1.47% 33
Yorkshire -20 38 £56,065 -16.94% 6
South West -51 38 £62,500 - 20
North East -28 28 £65,000 +23.81% 6
East of England -29 23 £47,500 +46.15% 13
Scotland -16 18 £67,500 +8.00% 11
Midlands -42 12 £75,000 +11.11% 18
West Midlands -43 9 £80,000 +18.52% 10
Wales -58 5 £70,000 -9.68% 4
East Midlands -30 3 £67,500 +12.50% 8
Northern Ireland -38 1 £73,801 +34.18% 15

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 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.68%) Apache
4 18 (2.88%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.24%) Confluence
6 12 (1.92%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.12%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.80%) WordPress
9 4 (0.64%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.48%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.32%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.16%) nginx
12 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 379 (60.64%) AWS
2 226 (36.16%) Azure
3 109 (17.44%) GCP
4 100 (16.00%) Serverless
5 68 (10.88%) GitHub
6 58 (9.28%) SaaS
7 57 (9.12%) Amazon ECS
7 57 (9.12%) Amazon S3
8 53 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (6.40%) Amazon SQS
11 39 (6.24%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (6.24%) Power Platform
12 36 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
14 27 (4.32%) Azure AKS
14 27 (4.32%) Azure Service Bus
15 22 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (3.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.28%) Broadband
2 17 (2.72%) Firewall
3 16 (2.56%) DNS
3 16 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.40%) DHCP
5 10 (1.60%) VPN
6 8 (1.28%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.28%) SAN
7 7 (1.12%) Network Security
7 7 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.80%) Internet
9 4 (0.64%) VLAN
10 3 (0.48%) HTTP
11 2 (0.32%) LAN
11 2 (0.32%) MQTT
11 2 (0.32%) PBX
11 2 (0.32%) WAN
12 1 (0.16%) LTE
12 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (30.08%) MongoDB
2 142 (22.72%) MySQL
3 106 (16.96%) SQL Server
4 97 (15.52%) NoSQL
4 97 (15.52%) Relational Database
5 54 (8.64%) Redis
6 31 (4.96%) Power BI
7 27 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (2.88%) DynamoDB
10 17 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
10 17 (2.72%) Oracle Database
11 15 (2.40%) GIS
11 15 (2.40%) Pinecone
12 14 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (2.08%) Metadata
13 13 (2.08%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.76%) MariaDB
14 11 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 122 (19.52%) Git
2 46 (7.36%) Jenkins
3 43 (6.88%) GitLab
4 27 (4.32%) JIRA
5 24 (3.84%) Cypress.io
6 20 (3.20%) JUnit
7 16 (2.56%) Mockito
8 13 (2.08%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.92%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.60%) JMeter
11 9 (1.44%) Vite
12 7 (1.12%) Maven
12 7 (1.12%) Selenium
13 6 (0.96%) Claude Code
14 5 (0.80%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.64%) Storybook
16 3 (0.48%) DBeaver
16 3 (0.48%) Liquibase
16 3 (0.48%) Mocha
17 2 (0.32%) Gatling
General
1 145 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 90 (14.40%) Finance
3 82 (13.12%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.44%) Games
7 30 (4.80%) Retail
8 27 (4.32%) Law
9 25 (4.00%) Banking
10 19 (3.04%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.56%) Front Office
11 16 (2.56%) Legal
12 15 (2.40%) Advertising
13 11 (1.76%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.44%) Legal Technology
15 8 (1.28%) Aviation
16 7 (1.12%) Automotive
16 7 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 210 (33.60%) Developer
2 126 (20.16%) Senior
3 112 (17.92%) Software Engineer
4 97 (15.52%) Lead
5 80 (12.80%) Full-Stack Developer
6 51 (8.16%) Python Engineer
7 44 (7.04%) Lead Developer
8 40 (6.40%) Architect
8 40 (6.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 39 (6.24%) Java Developer
10 36 (5.76%) Data Engineer
11 35 (5.60%) Java Engineer
11 35 (5.60%) Python Developer
12 34 (5.44%) DevOps Engineer
13 33 (5.28%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.80%) Senior Developer
15 24 (3.84%) Software Developer
16 22 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
17 21 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
18 20 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (27.84%) React
2 155 (24.80%) Node.js
3 116 (18.56%) RESTful
4 79 (12.64%) REST
5 72 (11.52%) Spring
6 69 (11.04%) Spring Boot
7 53 (8.48%) Kafka
8 51 (8.16%) FastAPI
9 50 (8.00%) CSS
10 46 (7.36%) HTML
10 46 (7.36%) Ruby on Rails
11 44 (7.04%) .NET
11 44 (7.04%) JSON
12 37 (5.92%) Next.js
13 34 (5.44%) AngularJS
13 34 (5.44%) Django
14 33 (5.28%) Jest
15 29 (4.64%) Vue
16 25 (4.00%) Flask
16 25 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 139 (22.24%) Cloud Native
2 67 (10.72%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.28%) Low-Code
4 32 (5.12%) Video\Live Streaming
5 22 (3.52%) Data Structures
5 22 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.20%) Algorithms
7 19 (3.04%) Blog
8 18 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.88%) Replication
9 16 (2.56%) Derivative
9 16 (2.56%) Equities
9 16 (2.56%) Fixed Income
9 16 (2.56%) Management Information System
10 13 (2.08%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.60%) SCADA
13 9 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 98 (15.68%) Linux
2 44 (7.04%) Windows
3 25 (4.00%) Unix
4 19 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.48%) CentOS
8 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.32%) Android
9 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Debian
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (42.72%) CI/CD
2 225 (36.00%) Agile
3 198 (31.68%) Software Engineering
4 190 (30.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 179 (28.64%) Microservices
6 145 (23.20%) DevOps
7 144 (23.04%) AI
8 141 (22.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 119 (19.04%) Mentoring
10 115 (18.40%) Test Automation
11 110 (17.60%) Containerisation
12 105 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
13 104 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 95 (15.20%) Observability
15 77 (12.32%) Data Modelling
16 73 (11.68%) Analytics
16 73 (11.68%) Scrum
17 71 (11.36%) API Design
18 68 (10.88%) TDD
19 63 (10.08%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 276 (44.16%) Python
2 180 (28.80%) SQL
3 178 (28.48%) Java
4 154 (24.64%) JavaScript
5 122 (19.52%) TypeScript
6 53 (8.48%) Go
7 49 (7.84%) C#
8 47 (7.52%) Ruby
9 40 (6.40%) PowerShell
10 31 (4.96%) Bash
11 26 (4.16%) PHP
12 15 (2.40%) Shell Script
13 14 (2.24%) C++
14 12 (1.92%) Scala
14 12 (1.92%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.76%) C
16 10 (1.60%) Perl
17 7 (1.12%) Korn
18 6 (0.96%) VB
19 4 (0.64%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 88 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.32%) Degree
3 64 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.64%) PhD
11 3 (0.48%) RHCE
11 3 (0.48%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.32%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.16%) CISSP
13 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.80%) QA
3 23 (3.68%) GDPR
4 17 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.48%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.32%) NCSC
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.16%) HL7
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 172 (27.52%) Docker
2 30 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 177 (28.32%) Kubernetes
2 129 (20.64%) Terraform
3 36 (5.76%) Ansible
4 33 (5.28%) Grafana
5 29 (4.64%) Argo
6 20 (3.20%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.60%) Kibana
8 7 (1.12%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.12%) Puppet
9 6 (0.96%) Istio
9 6 (0.96%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.80%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.64%) Control-M
11 4 (0.64%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.48%) Packer
12 3 (0.48%) Plesk
13 2 (0.32%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.32%) Rancher
13 2 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.52%) Oracle
3 33 (5.28%) Google
4 19 (3.04%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.88%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.24%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.60%) Splunk
8 9 (1.44%) Databricks
9 8 (1.28%) Dell
9 8 (1.28%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.12%) Pega
11 6 (0.96%) Informatica
12 5 (0.80%) IBM
12 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.80%) VMware
13 4 (0.64%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.64%) Confluent
13 4 (0.64%) ESRI
13 4 (0.64%) Netezza
13 4 (0.64%) Remedy