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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 221 175
Rank change year-on-year -50 -46 +31
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 717 718 1,589
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.46% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.32% 9.42% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 554 526 1,057
10th Percentile £42,150 £43,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,875 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -7.08%

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 8,622 7,619 16,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 15.51% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5,734 4,926 11,540
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +5.64% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 July 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 July 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 -67 618 £69,310 -7.59% 221
Work from Home +30 372 £67,500 -10.00% 114
UK excluding London -74 362 £62,500 -3.85% 151
London -85 261 £85,000 -18.47% 119
North of England -12 121 £65,000 -3.70% 38
South East -3 119 £59,500 +10.70% 45
North West -16 52 £65,000 -3.70% 21
South West -40 46 £62,500 +4.17% 16
North East -29 36 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Yorkshire -26 33 £65,000 -3.70% 10
East of England -20 26 £52,500 +66.67% 10
Midlands -38 22 £75,000 +11.11% 18
Scotland -4 18 £66,250 - 9
West Midlands -42 18 £80,000 +18.41% 9
Wales -55 13 £70,000 -9.68% 7
East Midlands -41 4 £65,000 +18.18% 9
Northern Ireland -64 1 £73,801 +34.18% 10

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 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.21%) Apache
3 23 (3.21%) Confluence
4 21 (2.93%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.67%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.84%) WordPress
7 5 (0.70%) Camunda
7 5 (0.70%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 418 (58.30%) AWS
2 277 (38.63%) Azure
3 127 (17.71%) GCP
4 92 (12.83%) Serverless
5 86 (11.99%) GitHub
6 67 (9.34%) Amazon S3
7 65 (9.07%) SaaS
8 60 (8.37%) Amazon ECS
9 49 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
12 43 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
13 42 (5.86%) Power Platform
14 41 (5.72%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
16 27 (3.77%) Azure AKS
16 27 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
17 22 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (2.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.88%) Broadband
2 15 (2.09%) Firewall
3 13 (1.81%) DNS
4 12 (1.67%) DHCP
4 12 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.12%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.12%) SAN
5 8 (1.12%) VPN
6 4 (0.56%) Network Security
6 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.42%) HTTP
8 2 (0.28%) MQTT
8 2 (0.28%) PBX
8 2 (0.28%) SMS
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) LAN
9 1 (0.14%) LTE
9 1 (0.14%) SSL
9 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (27.75%) MongoDB
2 178 (24.83%) MySQL
3 118 (16.46%) SQL Server
4 113 (15.76%) Relational Database
5 106 (14.78%) NoSQL
6 77 (10.74%) Redis
7 34 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (4.46%) Power BI
9 31 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (4.04%) DynamoDB
12 21 (2.93%) Metadata
13 20 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (2.65%) Big Data
15 18 (2.51%) Apache Cassandra
16 16 (2.23%) Oracle Database
17 15 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.95%) Data Lake
18 14 (1.95%) DTS
18 14 (1.95%) GIS
Development Applications
1 137 (19.11%) Git
2 50 (6.97%) Jenkins
3 48 (6.69%) GitLab
4 32 (4.46%) JIRA
5 24 (3.35%) JUnit
6 22 (3.07%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.79%) Mockito
8 14 (1.95%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.81%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.39%) JMeter
11 9 (1.26%) Claude Code
11 9 (1.26%) Vite
12 8 (1.12%) Maven
13 6 (0.84%) Selenium
14 5 (0.70%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.70%) Gatling
15 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 3 (0.42%) Eclipse
16 3 (0.42%) REST Assured
16 3 (0.42%) RSpec
General
1 154 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 99 (13.81%) Public Sector
3 95 (13.25%) Finance
4 65 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (4.74%) Games
7 28 (3.91%) Law
8 27 (3.77%) Banking
8 27 (3.77%) Retail
9 19 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.51%) Legal
10 18 (2.51%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.23%) Front Office
12 15 (2.09%) Advertising
13 11 (1.53%) Legal Technology
14 10 (1.39%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.12%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.12%) Aviation
16 7 (0.98%) Automotive
16 7 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 240 (33.47%) Developer
2 161 (22.45%) Senior
3 139 (19.39%) Software Engineer
4 126 (17.57%) Lead
5 82 (11.44%) Full-Stack Developer
6 61 (8.51%) Python Engineer
7 50 (6.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 50 (6.97%) Lead Developer
8 46 (6.42%) Architect
8 46 (6.42%) Data Engineer
8 46 (6.42%) Python Developer
9 41 (5.72%) Lead Software Engineer
10 40 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
11 39 (5.44%) Java Developer
12 35 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (4.60%) Java Engineer
14 32 (4.46%) Senior Developer
14 32 (4.46%) Software Developer
15 27 (3.77%) Ruby Developer
16 21 (2.93%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (25.52%) React
2 172 (23.99%) Node.js
3 139 (19.39%) RESTful
4 95 (13.25%) REST
5 89 (12.41%) Spring
6 86 (11.99%) Spring Boot
7 75 (10.46%) Kafka
8 58 (8.09%) FastAPI
9 57 (7.95%) CSS
10 54 (7.53%) Ruby on Rails
11 51 (7.11%) HTML
11 51 (7.11%) JSON
11 51 (7.11%) Next.js
12 48 (6.69%) .NET
13 37 (5.16%) AngularJS
14 34 (4.74%) Django
15 33 (4.60%) Jest
16 31 (4.32%) Vue
17 27 (3.77%) Flask
17 27 (3.77%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 151 (21.06%) Cloud Native
2 87 (12.13%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.30%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 32 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.46%) Video\Live Streaming
5 27 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.21%) Data Structures
7 22 (3.07%) Blog
8 21 (2.93%) Algorithms
9 20 (2.79%) AI Agents
10 17 (2.37%) Replication
11 16 (2.23%) Derivative
11 16 (2.23%) Equities
11 16 (2.23%) Fixed Income
12 15 (2.09%) Management Information System
12 15 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.53%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 102 (14.23%) Linux
2 42 (5.86%) Windows
3 21 (2.93%) Unix
4 16 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.42%) CentOS
8 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) AIX
9 1 (0.14%) Debian
9 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (44.07%) CI/CD
2 261 (36.40%) Agile
3 246 (34.31%) Software Engineering
4 214 (29.85%) Microservices
5 205 (28.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 183 (25.52%) DevOps
7 175 (24.41%) AI
8 159 (22.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 154 (21.48%) Mentoring
10 133 (18.55%) Containerisation
11 127 (17.71%) Test Automation
12 121 (16.88%) Observability
13 117 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 115 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
15 91 (12.69%) API Design
16 88 (12.27%) Data Modelling
17 87 (12.13%) Analytics
18 81 (11.30%) Clean Code
19 78 (10.88%) Scrum
20 77 (10.74%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 310 (43.24%) Python
2 211 (29.43%) SQL
3 202 (28.17%) Java
4 163 (22.73%) JavaScript
5 132 (18.41%) TypeScript
6 57 (7.95%) Ruby
7 55 (7.67%) C#
8 53 (7.39%) Go
9 42 (5.86%) PowerShell
10 36 (5.02%) Bash
11 25 (3.49%) PHP
12 17 (2.37%) Scala
13 16 (2.23%) C++
14 12 (1.67%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.39%) RPG
15 10 (1.39%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.26%) Perl
17 6 (0.84%) C
17 6 (0.84%) Korn
18 5 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (14.23%) Security Cleared
2 77 (10.74%) Degree
3 69 (9.62%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.70%) PhD
11 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.42%) RHCE
13 2 (0.28%) CISSP
13 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.28%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.28%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.23%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.30%) QA
3 23 (3.21%) GDPR
4 15 (2.09%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.56%) WCAG
6 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.42%) SLA
7 2 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.14%) HL7
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.14%) MiFID
8 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 204 (28.45%) Docker
2 27 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.28%) Samba
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 190 (26.50%) Kubernetes
2 149 (20.78%) Terraform
3 38 (5.30%) Ansible
3 38 (5.30%) Grafana
4 29 (4.04%) Argo
5 25 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.39%) Kibana
7 7 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.98%) Puppet
8 6 (0.84%) Istio
8 6 (0.84%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.56%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.42%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.42%) Packer
11 3 (0.42%) Plesk
11 3 (0.42%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 77 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 73 (10.18%) Oracle
3 43 (6.00%) Google
4 23 (3.21%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.51%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.37%) Databricks
6 17 (2.37%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.95%) IBM
8 13 (1.81%) Splunk
9 8 (1.12%) Dell
9 8 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.98%) Pega
11 6 (0.84%) Informatica
12 5 (0.70%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.56%) Confluent
13 4 (0.56%) Meraki
13 4 (0.56%) Netezza
13 4 (0.56%) Remedy
14 3 (0.42%) Revolut
14 3 (0.42%) UiPath