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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 240 148
Rank change year-on-year -30 -92 +43
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 799 643 1,353
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.30% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.93% 8.96% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 580 447 724
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
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 8,943 7,177 11,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.70% 14.56% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,039 4,521 7,125
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,900
Median % change year-on-year - -4.61% +0.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -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 20 September 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 20 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 -70 675 £69,310 -13.36% 1,147
UK excluding London -52 385 £65,000 +4.00% 458
Work from Home +14 376 £67,500 -25.00% 546
London -78 299 £82,500 -21.43% 799
South East -16 124 £65,000 -3.70% 111
North of England -25 123 £65,000 -3.70% 116
North West -11 57 £63,750 -5.56% 64
South West -58 47 £65,000 +25.00% 56
North East -31 39 £65,000 +26.83% 17
Midlands -45 38 £75,000 +5.26% 48
West Midlands -47 29 £83,774 +15.55% 38
Yorkshire -33 27 £67,155 -4.06% 36
East of England -35 27 £50,000 +63.93% 36
Wales -45 24 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Scotland -3 12 £65,000 -3.70% 49
East Midlands -32 9 £60,000 +33.33% 10
Northern Ireland -85 1 - - 31

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 27 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.13%) Confluence
3 24 (3.00%) Apache
4 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.88%) Camunda
5 7 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.75%) WordPress
7 5 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.50%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) nginx
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Tornado
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Finacle
2 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 471 (58.95%) AWS
2 278 (34.79%) Azure
3 142 (17.77%) GitHub
4 111 (13.89%) GCP
5 104 (13.02%) Serverless
6 77 (9.64%) SaaS
7 74 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
8 72 (9.01%) Amazon S3
9 64 (8.01%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
11 55 (6.88%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
15 44 (5.51%) Amazon SQS
16 32 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (4.01%) Power Platform
17 31 (3.88%) Azure AKS
18 28 (3.50%) Azure Service Bus
19 21 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.50%) Broadband
2 12 (1.50%) Firewall
2 12 (1.50%) SMS
3 11 (1.38%) AMQP
3 11 (1.38%) DNS
4 9 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.88%) HTTP
6 5 (0.63%) DHCP
6 5 (0.63%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.63%) SAN
7 4 (0.50%) VPN
8 3 (0.38%) 4G
8 3 (0.38%) 5G
8 3 (0.38%) SSH
8 3 (0.38%) VLAN
9 2 (0.25%) MQTT
10 1 (0.13%) Multicast
10 1 (0.13%) OpenVPN
10 1 (0.13%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (25.28%) MongoDB
2 179 (22.40%) MySQL
3 138 (17.27%) Relational Database
4 135 (16.90%) SQL Server
5 100 (12.52%) Redis
6 98 (12.27%) NoSQL
7 47 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
8 44 (5.51%) DynamoDB
9 41 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (3.00%) Power BI
12 20 (2.50%) Big Data
13 19 (2.38%) Metadata
14 16 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (2.00%) Data Lake
14 16 (2.00%) GIS
14 16 (2.00%) Pinecone
15 14 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
15 14 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 194 (24.28%) Git
2 76 (9.51%) Jenkins
3 62 (7.76%) GitLab
4 31 (3.88%) JIRA
5 28 (3.50%) Cypress.io
5 28 (3.50%) JUnit
6 21 (2.63%) Mockito
7 17 (2.13%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.63%) JMeter
9 12 (1.50%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.50%) Vite
10 11 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.38%) Selenium
11 8 (1.00%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.00%) Maven
12 7 (0.88%) Mocha
12 7 (0.88%) RSpec
13 6 (0.75%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.75%) Storybook
14 5 (0.63%) Gatling
General
1 190 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 107 (13.39%) Public Sector
3 97 (12.14%) Finance
4 77 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 49 (6.13%) Banking
7 46 (5.76%) Law
8 27 (3.38%) Games
8 27 (3.38%) Retail
9 25 (3.13%) Legal
10 19 (2.38%) Tech for Good
11 18 (2.25%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.88%) Health Technology
12 15 (1.88%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.63%) Legal Technology
13 13 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.50%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.13%) Advertising
15 9 (1.13%) Aviation
16 8 (1.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 277 (34.67%) Developer
2 224 (28.04%) Senior
3 155 (19.40%) Software Engineer
4 112 (14.02%) Lead
5 86 (10.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 63 (7.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 62 (7.76%) Senior Developer
8 60 (7.51%) Python Engineer
9 56 (7.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 55 (6.88%) Data Engineer
11 49 (6.13%) Java Developer
12 48 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
13 46 (5.76%) Python Developer
14 44 (5.51%) Architect
15 43 (5.38%) Software Developer
16 34 (4.26%) Lead Developer
17 33 (4.13%) Database Engineer
17 33 (4.13%) Ruby Developer
18 29 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
19 27 (3.38%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (25.41%) React
2 190 (23.78%) Terraform
3 174 (21.78%) Node.js
4 146 (18.27%) RESTful
5 125 (15.64%) REST
6 112 (14.02%) Kafka
7 111 (13.89%) Spring
8 107 (13.39%) Spring Boot
9 80 (10.01%) .NET
10 74 (9.26%) CSS
11 65 (8.14%) Ruby on Rails
12 64 (8.01%) Next.js
13 62 (7.76%) HTML
14 53 (6.63%) FastAPI
15 50 (6.26%) RabbitMQ
16 49 (6.13%) Jest
17 47 (5.88%) AngularJS
18 45 (5.63%) JSON
19 39 (4.88%) JPA
20 37 (4.63%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 167 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 122 (15.27%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.88%) AI Agents
5 30 (3.75%) Low-Code
6 28 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.50%) Replication
7 27 (3.38%) Blog
8 25 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
9 22 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (2.75%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.38%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.88%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.75%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.75%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 118 (14.77%) Linux
2 38 (4.76%) Windows
3 19 (2.38%) Unix
4 15 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.75%) Android
6 6 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Debian
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (49.06%) CI/CD
2 291 (36.42%) Agile
3 284 (35.54%) Software Engineering
4 235 (29.41%) AI
5 233 (29.16%) Microservices
6 222 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 218 (27.28%) DevOps
8 190 (23.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 169 (21.15%) Observability
10 153 (19.15%) Mentoring
11 152 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
12 146 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 145 (18.15%) Containerisation
14 142 (17.77%) Test Automation
15 111 (13.89%) Clean Code
16 107 (13.39%) Event-Driven
17 100 (12.52%) Scrum
18 95 (11.89%) API Design
19 85 (10.64%) Data Modelling
20 83 (10.39%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 326 (40.80%) Python
2 230 (28.79%) SQL
3 204 (25.53%) Java
4 183 (22.90%) JavaScript
5 152 (19.02%) TypeScript
6 81 (10.14%) C#
7 67 (8.39%) Ruby
8 59 (7.38%) Go
9 46 (5.76%) Bash
10 27 (3.38%) PowerShell
11 22 (2.75%) PHP
12 20 (2.50%) Scala
13 16 (2.00%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.63%) C++
15 10 (1.25%) Groovy
15 10 (1.25%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.25%) RPG
16 6 (0.75%) Perl
17 5 (0.63%) Korn
18 4 (0.50%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 126 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 97 (12.14%) SC Cleared
3 94 (11.76%) Degree
4 31 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.00%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.75%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.00%) PhD
10 6 (0.75%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.25%) CISSP
12 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.76%) QA
2 55 (6.88%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.63%) GDPR
4 22 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.63%) WCAG
7 4 (0.50%) SLA
7 4 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 264 (33.04%) Docker
2 12 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 222 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 75 (9.39%) Grafana
3 64 (8.01%) Ansible
4 52 (6.51%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.38%) Argo
6 13 (1.63%) Kibana
7 12 (1.50%) Rancher
8 7 (0.88%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.75%) Istio
9 6 (0.75%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.75%) Puppet
10 5 (0.63%) logstash
10 5 (0.63%) Packer
11 4 (0.50%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.38%) Plesk
12 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 84 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.01%) Oracle
3 27 (3.38%) Dynatrace
3 27 (3.38%) Google
4 26 (3.25%) Databricks
4 26 (3.25%) OpenAI
5 24 (3.00%) Splunk
6 17 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.75%) IBM
7 14 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.13%) Mistral
9 8 (1.00%) Informatica
10 5 (0.63%) Dell
10 5 (0.63%) Meraki
11 4 (0.50%) ESRI
11 4 (0.50%) Netezza
11 4 (0.50%) Remedy
11 4 (0.50%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.50%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.50%) VMware