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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 219 77
Rank change year-on-year +76 -142 +13
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 1,651 1,365 8,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 1.69% 4.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.22% 8.08% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 910 1,065 2,026
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.88% +21.43%

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 14,713 16,902 48,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 20.95% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,555 11,871 21,175
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,942 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 26 July 2024.

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 July 2024. 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 +79 1,447 £65,000 -7.14% 143
UK excluding London +109 1,078 £55,000 -8.33% 111
Work from Home +3 596 £60,000 -14.29% 112
London +5 497 £85,000 - 66
North of England +109 344 £60,000 -2.04% 13
South East +114 300 £50,000 -16.67% 33
North West +90 258 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Midlands +67 165 £55,000 +6.80% 19
East Midlands +61 117 £48,750 -2.50% 4
South West +12 88 £60,000 +2.84% 18
Scotland -20 78 £47,500 -17.39% 5
Yorkshire +76 67 £60,000 - 3
East of England -26 46 £52,500 -12.50% 6
West Midlands 0 44 £58,750 +11.90% 15
Wales +31 34 £50,000 -23.08% 2
Northern Ireland +14 23 £67,500 +35.00% 17
North East -6 19 £65,465 +21.60% 1

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
1 225 (13.63%) ArcGIS
2 214 (12.96%) GeoServer
3 172 (10.42%) Apache
4 126 (7.63%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.88%) Confluence
6 24 (1.45%) nginx
7 22 (1.33%) Apache Spark
8 17 (1.03%) OpenStack
9 13 (0.79%) SharePoint
10 10 (0.61%) Moodle
10 10 (0.61%) Totara
11 9 (0.55%) Drupal
12 8 (0.48%) JBoss
13 7 (0.42%) Luigi
14 6 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
15 4 (0.24%) IIS
16 3 (0.18%) CMS
17 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
17 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
17 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.061%) Notion
Business Applications
1 22 (1.33%) NEC Housing
2 7 (0.42%) Odoo
2 7 (0.42%) Sage X3
2 7 (0.42%) SAP Business One
3 6 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.18%) iTrent
5 2 (0.12%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.061%) Ripple
6 1 (0.061%) Ripple XRP
6 1 (0.061%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 913 (55.30%) AWS
2 834 (50.51%) Azure
3 241 (14.60%) IBM Cloud
4 191 (11.57%) Serverless
5 172 (10.42%) GCP
6 161 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (7.81%) Azure Service Bus
8 127 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 126 (7.63%) Azure API Management
10 125 (7.57%) Azure Functions
11 69 (4.18%) Amazon Kinesis
12 65 (3.94%) SaaS
13 63 (3.82%) GitHub
14 53 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
15 45 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
16 38 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
17 32 (1.94%) Amazon S3
18 29 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
19 27 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
20 18 (1.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.15%) DNS
2 16 (0.97%) Firewall
3 15 (0.91%) VPN
4 13 (0.79%) HTTP
4 13 (0.79%) LAN
4 13 (0.79%) WAN
5 12 (0.73%) FTP
6 10 (0.61%) MQTT
7 7 (0.42%) SAN
8 6 (0.36%) Internet
9 5 (0.30%) BGP
9 5 (0.30%) DHCP
9 5 (0.30%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.30%) IP Telephony
9 5 (0.30%) PABX
9 5 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.30%) VLAN
10 4 (0.24%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.12%) NAS
11 2 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 446 (27.01%) MongoDB
2 423 (25.62%) NoSQL
3 271 (16.41%) Relational Database
4 246 (14.90%) GIS
5 241 (14.60%) DB2
6 233 (14.11%) MySQL
7 224 (13.57%) SQL Server
8 216 (13.08%) QGIS
9 110 (6.66%) Redis
10 99 (6.00%) Apache Ignite
11 97 (5.88%) DynamoDB
12 87 (5.27%) Amazon Aurora
13 61 (3.69%) Hadoop
14 56 (3.39%) Oracle Database
15 47 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
16 42 (2.54%) RDBMS
17 40 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
18 33 (2.00%) Big Data
19 27 (1.64%) SQLite
20 26 (1.57%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 203 (12.30%) Git
2 83 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 64 (3.88%) Cypress.io
4 58 (3.51%) JIRA
5 43 (2.60%) Gatling
6 42 (2.54%) GitLab
7 26 (1.57%) JUnit
8 19 (1.15%) Bitbucket
8 19 (1.15%) Maven
9 16 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.79%) Selenium
12 12 (0.73%) Subversion
13 11 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.55%) JMeter
14 9 (0.55%) Mockito
14 9 (0.55%) TeamCity
15 8 (0.48%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.48%) PHPUnit
16 7 (0.42%) Gradle
General
1 338 (20.47%) Public Sector
2 307 (18.59%) Social Skills
3 299 (18.11%) Finance
4 154 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (6.97%) Banking
6 111 (6.72%) Front Office
7 109 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (2.97%) Electronics
9 43 (2.60%) Games
10 30 (1.82%) Billing
10 30 (1.82%) Local Government
11 28 (1.70%) Marketing
11 28 (1.70%) Retail
12 27 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.57%) Back Office
14 25 (1.51%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.39%) Police
16 19 (1.15%) Legal
17 15 (0.91%) Law
18 12 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 648 (39.25%) Developer
2 570 (34.52%) Software Engineer
3 362 (21.93%) Senior
4 241 (14.60%) Full Stack Developer
5 182 (11.02%) Full Stack Engineer
6 179 (10.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 139 (8.42%) Python Engineer
8 137 (8.30%) Python Developer
9 126 (7.63%) Azure Developer
10 123 (7.45%) Azure Engineer
11 111 (6.72%) Python Software Engineer
12 110 (6.66%) React Developer
13 108 (6.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 106 (6.42%) Senior Developer
15 97 (5.88%) Java Developer
16 77 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
17 75 (4.54%) Java Engineer
18 72 (4.36%) Lead
19 66 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
20 58 (3.51%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 783 (47.43%) React
2 598 (36.22%) CSS
3 597 (36.16%) .NET
4 460 (27.86%) REST
5 411 (24.89%) Web Services
6 397 (24.05%) HTML
7 346 (20.96%) AngularJS
8 298 (18.05%) Vue
9 279 (16.90%) Node.js
10 271 (16.41%) jQuery
11 261 (15.81%) .NET Core
11 261 (15.81%) ASP.NET
12 252 (15.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 247 (14.96%) ASP.NET Core
14 243 (14.72%) Ember.js
15 241 (14.60%) Backbone.js
16 224 (13.57%) PostGIS
17 222 (13.45%) OpenLayers
18 220 (13.33%) Leaflet
19 167 (10.12%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 271 (16.41%) Algorithms
2 260 (15.75%) Data Structures
3 247 (14.96%) Blockchain
4 243 (14.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 129 (7.81%) e-Learning
6 120 (7.27%) Hedge funds
7 100 (6.06%) Fixed Income
8 93 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
9 69 (4.18%) Blog
10 63 (3.82%) Media Streaming
11 58 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
12 53 (3.21%) Equities
13 39 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (1.64%) Driving Licence
15 25 (1.51%) Product Ownership
16 20 (1.21%) IoT
17 17 (1.03%) Cloud Native
17 17 (1.03%) Mobile App
18 15 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
19 12 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 412 (24.95%) Linux
2 304 (18.41%) Windows
3 244 (14.78%) Android
4 241 (14.60%) Apple iOS
5 48 (2.91%) Unix
6 22 (1.33%) AIX
7 19 (1.15%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.97%) CentOS
9 11 (0.67%) Debian
9 11 (0.67%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.55%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
15 2 (0.12%) Rocky
15 2 (0.12%) SUSE
15 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (48.09%) Agile
2 679 (41.13%) Software Engineering
3 608 (36.83%) DevOps
4 528 (31.98%) Full Stack Development
5 504 (30.53%) Web Development
6 413 (25.02%) Artificial Intelligence
7 326 (19.75%) OO
8 286 (17.32%) User Experience
9 281 (17.02%) Design Patterns
10 276 (16.72%) OOP
11 268 (16.23%) MVC
12 256 (15.51%) SOLID
13 249 (15.08%) MVVM
14 243 (14.72%) Mentoring
14 243 (14.72%) Responsive Web Design
15 242 (14.66%) Actionable Insight
16 241 (14.60%) Co-Creation
16 241 (14.60%) Design Thinking
17 227 (13.75%) Microservices
18 201 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 813 (49.24%) Python
2 718 (43.49%) JavaScript
3 692 (41.91%) SQL
4 567 (34.34%) C#
5 510 (30.89%) Java
6 218 (13.20%) TypeScript
7 104 (6.30%) Scala
8 97 (5.88%) Go
9 77 (4.66%) Kotlin
10 64 (3.88%) PHP
11 52 (3.15%) C++
12 38 (2.30%) C
13 34 (2.06%) PL/SQL
14 32 (1.94%) Bash
15 27 (1.64%) PowerShell
15 27 (1.64%) Ruby
16 24 (1.45%) R
17 23 (1.39%) VB
18 22 (1.33%) Shell Script
19 20 (1.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 333 (20.17%) Security Cleared
2 297 (17.99%) SC Cleared
3 195 (11.81%) Degree
4 106 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
7 15 (0.91%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.18%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.18%) PhD
9 2 (0.12%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.12%) CCNA
9 2 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.12%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.12%) PMP
9 2 (0.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.061%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.061%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.061%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (2.79%) Accessibility
2 45 (2.73%) QA
3 22 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.79%) MiFID
5 2 (0.12%) GDPR
5 2 (0.12%) GMP
6 1 (0.061%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.061%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.061%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.061%) SLA
System Software
1 237 (14.35%) Docker
2 34 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.24%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.061%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.061%) iptables
9 1 (0.061%) Postfix
9 1 (0.061%) vCloud
9 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.061%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 155 (9.39%) Kubernetes
2 140 (8.48%) Terraform
3 93 (5.63%) Ansible
4 20 (1.21%) Grafana
5 12 (0.73%) Kibana
6 11 (0.67%) Packer
7 10 (0.61%) Puppet
8 9 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.42%) Foglight
11 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 4 (0.24%) SCOM
12 4 (0.24%) SCOrch
12 4 (0.24%) vMotion
13 3 (0.18%) Argo
13 3 (0.18%) Consul
13 3 (0.18%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.18%) Podman
14 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 250 (15.14%) Red Hat
2 242 (14.66%) IBM
3 221 (13.39%) ESRI
4 169 (10.24%) Oracle
5 151 (9.15%) Google
6 88 (5.33%) Microsoft
7 32 (1.94%) SAP
8 24 (1.45%) Databricks
9 22 (1.33%) NEC
10 20 (1.21%) VMware
11 18 (1.09%) Splunk
12 13 (0.79%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.67%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.67%) WSO2
14 10 (0.61%) Cisco
15 9 (0.55%) Apple
15 9 (0.55%) Sybase
16 7 (0.42%) AppDynamics
16 7 (0.42%) Sage
16 7 (0.42%) Salesforce