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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 216 172
Rank change year-on-year -65 -44 +40
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 623 709 1,682
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.60% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.83% 9.61% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 461 516 1,172
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £63,359
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +18.37% -9.49%
75th Percentile £85,000 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -4.35%

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 7,956 7,377 17,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 16.67% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,043 4,738 12,552
10th Percentile £35,036 £36,246 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £97,500
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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -74 534 £69,305 -7.59% 242
Work from Home +29 328 £67,500 -6.24% 212
UK excluding London -82 322 £62,500 -3.85% 135
London -101 212 £84,625 -10.92% 125
North of England -16 118 £67,500 - 49
South East -10 108 £57,500 +9.52% 37
North West -13 48 £69,310 -0.11% 32
Yorkshire -20 43 £60,000 -9.43% 10
South West -37 40 £62,500 +2.04% 14
North East -26 27 £65,000 +13.04% 7
East of England -21 22 £47,500 +36.69% 9
Scotland -10 18 £67,500 +12.50% 4
Midlands -48 13 £75,000 +10.90% 21
West Midlands -39 10 £77,500 +14.71% 10
Wales -55 4 £69,401 -4.36% 3
East Midlands -32 3 £67,500 -3.57% 11
Northern Ireland -43 1 £73,801 +34.18% 2

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 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.53%) Apache
4 17 (2.73%) Apache Spark
5 15 (2.41%) Confluence
6 12 (1.93%) SharePoint
7 11 (1.77%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.96%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.64%) WordPress
10 3 (0.48%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.48%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.48%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.16%) nginx
12 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 380 (61.00%) AWS
2 227 (36.44%) Azure
3 109 (17.50%) GCP
4 105 (16.85%) Serverless
5 66 (10.59%) GitHub
6 60 (9.63%) Amazon ECS
7 58 (9.31%) Amazon S3
8 57 (9.15%) SaaS
9 54 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (7.06%) Amazon SQS
11 41 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (6.26%) Power Platform
13 35 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
14 27 (4.33%) Azure AKS
15 26 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
16 24 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (3.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 20 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.49%) Broadband
2 17 (2.73%) Firewall
3 16 (2.57%) DNS
3 16 (2.57%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.41%) DHCP
5 10 (1.61%) VPN
6 8 (1.28%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.28%) SAN
7 7 (1.12%) Internet
7 7 (1.12%) Network Security
7 7 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.64%) VLAN
9 3 (0.48%) HTTP
10 2 (0.32%) LAN
10 2 (0.32%) MQTT
10 2 (0.32%) PBX
10 2 (0.32%) WAN
11 1 (0.16%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (29.37%) MongoDB
2 138 (22.15%) MySQL
3 109 (17.50%) SQL Server
4 100 (16.05%) NoSQL
5 97 (15.57%) Relational Database
6 45 (7.22%) Redis
7 31 (4.98%) Power BI
8 26 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (3.37%) DynamoDB
12 18 (2.89%) GIS
12 18 (2.89%) Oracle Database
13 17 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (2.09%) Metadata
15 13 (2.09%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.93%) BigQuery
16 12 (1.93%) Pinecone
17 11 (1.77%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 125 (20.06%) Git
2 49 (7.87%) Jenkins
3 39 (6.26%) GitLab
4 26 (4.17%) JIRA
5 24 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 20 (3.21%) JUnit
7 17 (2.73%) Mockito
8 14 (2.25%) Bitbucket
9 13 (2.09%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.61%) JMeter
11 8 (1.28%) Maven
11 8 (1.28%) Selenium
12 7 (1.12%) Vite
13 6 (0.96%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.96%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.64%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.64%) Liquibase
15 3 (0.48%) DBeaver
15 3 (0.48%) Mocha
15 3 (0.48%) Storybook
General
1 148 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 91 (14.61%) Finance
3 80 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 57 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (4.98%) Games
6 31 (4.98%) Retail
7 29 (4.65%) Law
8 25 (4.01%) Banking
9 19 (3.05%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (2.57%) Front Office
11 15 (2.41%) Advertising
12 14 (2.25%) Legal
13 11 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.12%) Automotive
15 7 (1.12%) Aviation
16 5 (0.80%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 214 (34.35%) Developer
2 122 (19.58%) Senior
3 105 (16.85%) Software Engineer
4 90 (14.45%) Lead
5 81 (13.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 51 (8.19%) Python Engineer
7 45 (7.22%) Java Developer
8 41 (6.58%) Lead Developer
9 37 (5.94%) Architect
9 37 (5.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 35 (5.62%) Java Engineer
11 34 (5.46%) Data Engineer
11 34 (5.46%) Python Developer
12 32 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
12 32 (5.14%) Lead Software Engineer
13 29 (4.65%) Senior Developer
14 25 (4.01%) Software Developer
15 23 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (28.25%) React
2 159 (25.52%) Node.js
3 115 (18.46%) RESTful
4 80 (12.84%) REST
5 75 (12.04%) Spring
6 71 (11.40%) Spring Boot
7 53 (8.51%) Kafka
8 50 (8.03%) FastAPI
9 48 (7.70%) CSS
10 46 (7.38%) HTML
10 46 (7.38%) JSON
11 45 (7.22%) .NET
12 42 (6.74%) Ruby on Rails
13 37 (5.94%) Django
14 34 (5.46%) AngularJS
15 33 (5.30%) Jest
16 31 (4.98%) Next.js
17 28 (4.49%) Vue
18 25 (4.01%) Flask
18 25 (4.01%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 131 (21.03%) Cloud Native
2 62 (9.95%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.82%) Low-Code
4 29 (4.65%) Video\Live Streaming
5 23 (3.69%) Data Structures
6 21 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.05%) Blog
7 19 (3.05%) Replication
8 18 (2.89%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (2.73%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.57%) Derivative
10 16 (2.57%) Equities
10 16 (2.57%) Fixed Income
10 16 (2.57%) Management Information System
11 13 (2.09%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.77%) SCADA
13 10 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 97 (15.57%) Linux
2 44 (7.06%) Windows
3 25 (4.01%) Unix
4 20 (3.21%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.64%) Android
7 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Debian
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (42.05%) CI/CD
2 227 (36.44%) Agile
3 189 (30.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 188 (30.18%) Software Engineering
5 182 (29.21%) Microservices
6 142 (22.79%) DevOps
7 136 (21.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 133 (21.35%) AI
9 115 (18.46%) Mentoring
9 115 (18.46%) Test Automation
10 109 (17.50%) Containerisation
10 109 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (13.16%) Observability
13 77 (12.36%) Scrum
14 74 (11.88%) Data Modelling
15 70 (11.24%) Analytics
15 70 (11.24%) TDD
16 64 (10.27%) API Design
17 60 (9.63%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 274 (43.98%) Python
2 182 (29.21%) Java
3 174 (27.93%) SQL
4 159 (25.52%) JavaScript
5 120 (19.26%) TypeScript
6 53 (8.51%) Go
7 47 (7.54%) C#
8 43 (6.90%) Ruby
9 39 (6.26%) PowerShell
10 30 (4.82%) Bash
11 26 (4.17%) PHP
12 15 (2.41%) Shell Script
13 13 (2.09%) C
13 13 (2.09%) C++
14 12 (1.93%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.77%) Perl
15 11 (1.77%) Scala
16 7 (1.12%) Korn
16 7 (1.12%) VB
17 4 (0.64%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 88 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.36%) Degree
3 60 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.64%) PhD
11 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.48%) RHCE
12 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.32%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.16%) CISSP
13 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.16%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.70%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.65%) QA
3 21 (3.37%) GDPR
4 17 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.48%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.32%) NCSC
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.16%) HL7
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 176 (28.25%) Docker
2 30 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 181 (29.05%) Kubernetes
2 131 (21.03%) Terraform
3 40 (6.42%) Ansible
4 32 (5.14%) Grafana
5 31 (4.98%) Argo
6 19 (3.05%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.61%) Kibana
8 7 (1.12%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.12%) Puppet
9 6 (0.96%) Istio
9 6 (0.96%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.80%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.80%) Data Guard
11 4 (0.64%) Control-M
12 3 (0.48%) Nagios
12 3 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.48%) Packer
12 3 (0.48%) Plesk
12 3 (0.48%) Rancher
13 2 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 73 (11.72%) Microsoft
1 73 (11.72%) Oracle
2 32 (5.14%) Google
3 20 (3.21%) Red Hat
4 15 (2.41%) OpenAI
5 14 (2.25%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.44%) Splunk
7 8 (1.28%) Dell
7 8 (1.28%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.12%) Databricks
8 7 (1.12%) Pega
9 6 (0.96%) ESRI
9 6 (0.96%) Informatica
10 5 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.80%) IBM
10 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.80%) VMware
11 4 (0.64%) Confluent
11 4 (0.64%) Netezza
11 4 (0.64%) Remedy