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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 237 153
Rank change year-on-year -31 -84 +47
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 778 654 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.32% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.83% 9.05% 11.07%
Number of salaries quoted 569 455 724
10th Percentile £43,930 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 8,809 7,228 12,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.76% 14.58% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,956 4,543 7,282
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -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 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK

PostgreSQL
Top 16 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 13 September 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 -58 657 £70,000 -12.50% 779
Work from Home +11 374 £67,500 -25.00% 2,028
UK excluding London -50 373 £65,000 +4.00% 297
London -75 293 £85,000 -19.05% 541
South East -16 121 £65,000 - 76
North of England -18 119 £65,000 -3.70% 73
North West -2 56 £65,000 -3.70% 38
South West -55 46 £65,000 +30.00% 49
North East -31 38 £65,000 +26.83% 8
Midlands -57 34 £75,000 +5.26% 31
East of England -31 27 £52,500 +72.13% 28
West Midlands -43 25 £83,774 +15.55% 25
Yorkshire -44 25 £69,310 -0.99% 27
Wales -54 22 £67,500 -1.82% 9
Scotland -5 14 £65,000 -3.70% 21
East Midlands -30 9 £60,000 +33.33% 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 29 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 26 (3.34%) Apache
4 25 (3.21%) Confluence
5 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.90%) Camunda
6 7 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.77%) WordPress
8 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.51%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.39%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.39%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Luigi
10 2 (0.26%) Tornado
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Moodle
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Finacle
2 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 455 (58.48%) AWS
2 263 (33.80%) Azure
3 133 (17.10%) GitHub
4 103 (13.24%) GCP
5 100 (12.85%) Serverless
6 76 (9.77%) SaaS
7 71 (9.13%) Amazon S3
8 70 (9.00%) Amazon ECS
9 57 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
11 54 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
13 48 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
14 44 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
15 41 (5.27%) GitHub Copilot
16 33 (4.24%) Power Platform
17 30 (3.86%) Azure AKS
18 29 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
19 28 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
20 21 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.37%) Broadband
2 12 (1.54%) Firewall
3 11 (1.41%) SMS
4 10 (1.29%) AMQP
4 10 (1.29%) DNS
5 8 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.90%) HTTP
7 5 (0.64%) DHCP
7 5 (0.64%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.64%) SAN
8 3 (0.39%) 4G
8 3 (0.39%) 5G
8 3 (0.39%) SSH
8 3 (0.39%) VLAN
9 2 (0.26%) MQTT
9 2 (0.26%) VPN
10 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.13%) SNMP
10 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (25.84%) MongoDB
2 175 (22.49%) MySQL
3 135 (17.35%) Relational Database
4 128 (16.45%) SQL Server
5 96 (12.34%) NoSQL
6 94 (12.08%) Redis
7 44 (5.66%) DynamoDB
8 40 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
9 39 (5.01%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (3.21%) Power BI
12 22 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
13 20 (2.57%) Big Data
14 19 (2.44%) Metadata
15 15 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (1.93%) GIS
15 15 (1.93%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.93%) Pinecone
16 14 (1.80%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 181 (23.26%) Git
2 68 (8.74%) Jenkins
3 58 (7.46%) GitLab
4 30 (3.86%) JIRA
5 28 (3.60%) Cypress.io
6 27 (3.47%) JUnit
7 21 (2.70%) Mockito
8 15 (1.93%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.54%) JMeter
10 11 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.41%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.41%) Vite
11 10 (1.29%) Selenium
12 8 (1.03%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.03%) Maven
13 7 (0.90%) Mocha
13 7 (0.90%) RSpec
14 6 (0.77%) Storybook
15 5 (0.64%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.64%) Gatling
General
1 184 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 106 (13.62%) Public Sector
3 94 (12.08%) Finance
4 72 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (8.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (5.53%) Law
7 42 (5.40%) Banking
8 33 (4.24%) Games
9 24 (3.08%) Legal
9 24 (3.08%) Retail
10 18 (2.31%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.31%) Tech for Good
11 15 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.80%) Health Technology
13 13 (1.67%) Legal Technology
14 12 (1.54%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.29%) Advertising
16 9 (1.16%) Aviation
17 8 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 268 (34.45%) Developer
2 218 (28.02%) Senior
3 149 (19.15%) Software Engineer
4 116 (14.91%) Lead
5 85 (10.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 63 (8.10%) Python Engineer
7 60 (7.71%) Senior Software Engineer
8 57 (7.33%) Senior Developer
9 56 (7.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 55 (7.07%) Data Engineer
11 49 (6.30%) Python Developer
12 46 (5.91%) Architect
12 46 (5.91%) Java Developer
13 45 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
14 38 (4.88%) Software Developer
15 35 (4.50%) Lead Developer
16 34 (4.37%) Ruby Developer
17 32 (4.11%) Database Engineer
18 27 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
18 27 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (25.32%) React
2 181 (23.26%) Terraform
3 171 (21.98%) Node.js
4 142 (18.25%) RESTful
5 122 (15.68%) REST
6 107 (13.75%) Kafka
7 105 (13.50%) Spring
8 101 (12.98%) Spring Boot
9 74 (9.51%) .NET
10 73 (9.38%) CSS
11 66 (8.48%) Ruby on Rails
12 65 (8.35%) Next.js
13 61 (7.84%) HTML
14 54 (6.94%) FastAPI
15 48 (6.17%) Jest
16 47 (6.04%) AngularJS
16 47 (6.04%) RabbitMQ
17 44 (5.66%) JSON
18 36 (4.63%) JPA
19 35 (4.50%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 164 (21.08%) Cloud Native
2 114 (14.65%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.63%) Low-Code
5 31 (3.98%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.98%) Video\Live Streaming
6 28 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.96%) Blog
7 23 (2.96%) Replication
8 22 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.57%) Algorithms
10 20 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (2.19%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.93%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.67%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 115 (14.78%) Linux
2 35 (4.50%) Windows
3 18 (2.31%) Unix
4 13 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.77%) Android
6 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) CentOS
7 1 (0.13%) Debian
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (48.20%) CI/CD
2 281 (36.12%) Agile
3 276 (35.48%) Software Engineering
4 228 (29.31%) AI
5 223 (28.66%) Microservices
6 222 (28.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 208 (26.74%) DevOps
8 186 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 162 (20.82%) Observability
10 148 (19.02%) Mentoring
11 147 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 144 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
13 138 (17.74%) Containerisation
14 137 (17.61%) Test Automation
15 106 (13.62%) Clean Code
16 101 (12.98%) Event-Driven
17 99 (12.72%) API Design
18 97 (12.47%) Scrum
19 90 (11.57%) Data Modelling
20 83 (10.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 324 (41.65%) Python
2 218 (28.02%) SQL
3 194 (24.94%) Java
4 176 (22.62%) JavaScript
5 150 (19.28%) TypeScript
6 74 (9.51%) C#
7 68 (8.74%) Ruby
8 62 (7.97%) Go
9 41 (5.27%) Bash
10 25 (3.21%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.57%) Scala
12 17 (2.19%) PHP
13 16 (2.06%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.67%) C++
15 10 (1.29%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.29%) RPG
16 6 (0.77%) Groovy
16 6 (0.77%) Perl
17 5 (0.64%) Korn
18 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 92 (11.83%) Degree
3 91 (11.70%) SC Cleared
4 29 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.03%) PhD
10 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.26%) CISSP
12 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.26%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.13%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.23%) QA
2 57 (7.33%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.47%) GDPR
4 22 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.64%) WCAG
7 4 (0.51%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 246 (31.62%) Docker
2 12 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 213 (27.38%) Kubernetes
2 66 (8.48%) Grafana
3 63 (8.10%) Ansible
4 45 (5.78%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.24%) Argo
6 11 (1.41%) Kibana
7 8 (1.03%) Rancher
8 7 (0.90%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.77%) Istio
9 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.77%) Puppet
10 5 (0.64%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.64%) Packer
11 3 (0.39%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.39%) logstash
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.39%) Plesk
11 3 (0.39%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.39%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 79 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.25%) Oracle
3 28 (3.60%) Google
4 25 (3.21%) Databricks
4 25 (3.21%) OpenAI
5 24 (3.08%) Dynatrace
6 21 (2.70%) Splunk
7 18 (2.31%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.80%) IBM
9 11 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.03%) Mistral
11 7 (0.90%) Informatica
12 5 (0.64%) Dell
12 5 (0.64%) Meraki
13 4 (0.51%) ESRI
13 4 (0.51%) Netezza
13 4 (0.51%) Remedy
13 4 (0.51%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.39%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.39%) VMware