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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 143 188
Rank change year-on-year -88 +45 -35
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 584 1,273 942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.89% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.44% 11.65% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 420 590 796
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,401 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £85,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

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 6,921 10,924 10,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.90% 16.26% 21.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,518 6,281 8,645
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -87 530 £75,000 - 407
London -39 312 £100,000 +17.65% 168
UK excluding London -116 259 £62,500 - 333
Work from Home -78 253 £75,000 +7.91% 188
North of England -7 80 £67,500 +3.85% 65
South East -98 66 £65,000 +4.00% 142
Midlands +21 39 £55,000 -15.38% 37
South West -29 36 £54,000 -16.92% 30
North West -20 34 £70,000 +16.67% 43
Yorkshire +16 33 £68,750 -3.51% 18
West Midlands +42 26 £67,500 +3.85% 23
Scotland -14 20 £73,801 +27.24% 20
North East +23 13 £52,500 -24.25% 4
East Midlands +14 13 £50,000 -9.09% 13
East of England -39 13 £42,500 -26.09% 30
Wales -12 6 £69,401 +6.77% 8
Northern Ireland -1 3 £73,801 +13.54% 5

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 69 (11.82%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.25%) WebSphere
4 17 (2.91%) Confluence
4 17 (2.91%) Tomcat
5 16 (2.74%) WebSphere Application Server
6 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.71%) nginx
7 6 (1.03%) Apache
7 6 (1.03%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.51%) CMS
8 3 (0.51%) JBoss
8 3 (0.51%) Luigi
8 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (1.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 6 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 422 (72.26%) AWS
2 198 (33.90%) Azure
3 177 (30.31%) GCP
4 92 (15.75%) Serverless
5 82 (14.04%) dbt
6 70 (11.99%) Amazon ECS
7 57 (9.76%) GitHub
8 49 (8.39%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (8.22%) Amazon S3
10 47 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
11 35 (5.99%) SaaS
12 34 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (4.62%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (4.62%) Power Platform
15 21 (3.60%) Pulumi
16 20 (3.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.77%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.25%) Firewall
2 19 (3.25%) SSL
3 10 (1.71%) iSCSI
3 10 (1.71%) Remote Desktop
3 10 (1.71%) SAN
4 8 (1.37%) DNS
4 8 (1.37%) HTTP
5 7 (1.20%) FTP
5 7 (1.20%) VPN
6 6 (1.03%) IMAP
6 6 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (1.03%) SMTP
6 6 (1.03%) SSH
7 5 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.51%) AMQP
8 3 (0.51%) MQTT
9 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.34%) Multicast
9 2 (0.34%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (22.26%) SQL Server
2 127 (21.75%) Relational Database
3 118 (20.21%) MySQL
4 93 (15.92%) MongoDB
5 80 (13.70%) NoSQL
6 55 (9.42%) Amazon Athena
6 55 (9.42%) Apache Iceberg
7 50 (8.56%) Apache Arrow
7 50 (8.56%) Dremio
8 47 (8.05%) RDBMS
9 46 (7.88%) Redis
10 43 (7.36%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (5.99%) DB2
13 30 (5.14%) DynamoDB
14 29 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
15 25 (4.28%) Power BI
16 22 (3.77%) Big Data
17 19 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 102 (17.47%) Jenkins
2 93 (15.92%) Git
3 41 (7.02%) JUnit
4 37 (6.34%) JIRA
5 27 (4.62%) GitLab
5 27 (4.62%) Mockito
6 26 (4.45%) JMeter
7 23 (3.94%) Cucumber
7 23 (3.94%) Selenium
8 18 (3.08%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.37%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.20%) Maven
12 6 (1.03%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.03%) REST Assured
12 6 (1.03%) Vagrant
13 5 (0.86%) Subversion
14 4 (0.68%) Gradle
14 4 (0.68%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 163 (27.91%) Finance
2 131 (22.43%) Social Skills
3 61 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.27%) Front Office
5 52 (8.90%) Banking
6 38 (6.51%) Law
7 37 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
9 32 (5.48%) Marketing
10 19 (3.25%) Manufacturing
11 18 (3.08%) Telecoms
12 15 (2.57%) Electronics
13 14 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (2.40%) Retail
14 13 (2.23%) Investment Banking
15 12 (2.05%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.54%) Advertising
18 7 (1.20%) Legal
19 5 (0.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 245 (41.95%) Developer
2 117 (20.03%) Software Engineer
3 112 (19.18%) Senior
4 78 (13.36%) Lead
5 74 (12.67%) Python Developer
6 67 (11.47%) Python Engineer
7 66 (11.30%) Java Developer
8 64 (10.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 59 (10.10%) AWS Engineer
9 59 (10.10%) Python Software Engineer
10 56 (9.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 55 (9.42%) AWS Developer
12 51 (8.73%) AWS Software Engineer
13 37 (6.34%) Software Developer
14 33 (5.65%) Data Engineer
15 32 (5.48%) Java Engineer
15 32 (5.48%) Lead Developer
16 30 (5.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 28 (4.79%) Senior Developer
18 25 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (29.97%) React
2 133 (22.77%) Node.js
3 98 (16.78%) Spring
4 91 (15.58%) AngularJS
4 91 (15.58%) Spring Boot
5 85 (14.55%) RESTful
6 83 (14.21%) REST
7 73 (12.50%) Vue
8 72 (12.33%) FastAPI
9 68 (11.64%) Django
10 67 (11.47%) HTML
11 60 (10.27%) Kafka
12 52 (8.90%) NumPy
12 52 (8.90%) Pandas
13 51 (8.73%) CSS
14 50 (8.56%) SciPy
15 46 (7.88%) .NET
16 43 (7.36%) Flask
17 38 (6.51%) Web Services
18 32 (5.48%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 65 (11.13%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (9.08%) Equities
3 53 (9.08%) Fixed Income
3 53 (9.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 32 (5.48%) Linux Command Line
5 31 (5.31%) Management Information System
6 24 (4.11%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.74%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.57%) Replication
10 12 (2.05%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.54%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.37%) Derivative
13 8 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
14 7 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (18.66%) Linux
2 48 (8.22%) Unix
3 46 (7.88%) Windows
4 28 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.71%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.37%) VMS
6 8 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.20%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.86%) Android
9 5 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.86%) Debian
10 3 (0.51%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.34%) CentOS
12 1 (0.17%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (42.47%) Agile
2 224 (38.36%) CI/CD
3 189 (32.36%) Software Engineering
4 157 (26.88%) Microservices
4 157 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
5 140 (23.97%) DevOps
6 121 (20.72%) Full-Stack Development
7 104 (17.81%) Containerisation
7 104 (17.81%) Fintech
8 92 (15.75%) AI
9 82 (14.04%) Mentoring
10 77 (13.18%) Clean Code
11 71 (12.16%) Test Automation
12 69 (11.82%) TDD
13 62 (10.62%) ETL
14 61 (10.45%) Data Engineering
15 59 (10.10%) Infrastructure as Code
16 58 (9.93%) Analytics
17 57 (9.76%) Asset Management
18 56 (9.59%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 310 (53.08%) Python
2 178 (30.48%) JavaScript
3 174 (29.79%) Java
4 164 (28.08%) SQL
5 141 (24.14%) TypeScript
6 49 (8.39%) C#
7 26 (4.45%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.77%) PHP
9 20 (3.42%) Bash
10 18 (3.08%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.91%) Go
12 12 (2.05%) Rust
13 10 (1.71%) Ruby
14 9 (1.54%) Delphi
15 8 (1.37%) Groovy
15 8 (1.37%) Korn
15 8 (1.37%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.37%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.03%) C
17 4 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 76 (13.01%) Degree
3 70 (11.99%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.16%) AWS Certification
5 28 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.88%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.68%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.34%) CCNA
11 2 (0.34%) CCNP
11 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.34%) HNC
11 2 (0.34%) HND
11 2 (0.34%) MCSA
11 2 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.68%) QA
2 25 (4.28%) SLA
3 20 (3.42%) GDPR
4 17 (2.91%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.40%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.86%) NIST
7 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.51%) SEPA
8 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) PSD2
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 222 (38.01%) Docker
2 10 (1.71%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.71%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 6 (1.03%) DFS Replication
3 6 (1.03%) Dovecot
3 6 (1.03%) Postfix
3 6 (1.03%) Squid
4 4 (0.68%) zsh
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.34%) HDFS
5 2 (0.34%) NFS
5 2 (0.34%) pfSense
5 2 (0.34%) Samba
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 176 (30.14%) Kubernetes
2 90 (15.41%) Terraform
3 31 (5.31%) Kibana
4 30 (5.14%) Grafana
5 24 (4.11%) Ansible
6 21 (3.60%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.05%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (1.20%) Argo
9 6 (1.03%) Nessus
9 6 (1.03%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.68%) logstash
10 4 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.51%) Puppet
11 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.34%) Nagios
12 2 (0.34%) Oozie
13 1 (0.17%) Ambari
13 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (14.73%) Oracle
2 42 (7.19%) Google
3 36 (6.16%) Microsoft
4 35 (5.99%) Splunk
5 32 (5.48%) Red Hat
6 24 (4.11%) Dynatrace
7 21 (3.60%) ServiceNow
8 20 (3.42%) IBM
9 19 (3.25%) SAP
10 18 (3.08%) Informatica
11 16 (2.74%) Atlassian
12 14 (2.40%) Talend
13 12 (2.05%) Databricks
13 12 (2.05%) Dell
14 11 (1.88%) OpenAI
15 8 (1.37%) Salesforce
16 6 (1.03%) Jaspersoft
17 5 (0.86%) RedGate
18 4 (0.68%) Pega
18 4 (0.68%) WSO2