PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PostgreSQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 190 73
Rank change year-on-year +50 -117 +44
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 2,048 1,941 7,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.05% 1.96% 4.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.22% 9.11% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 1,184 2,127
10th Percentile £42,375 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,813 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +19.05%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

PostgreSQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,256 21,304 44,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.29% 21.47% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,530 13,291 21,022
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £103,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +55 1,751 £65,000 -10.34% 361
UK excluding London +76 1,309 £55,000 -4.35% 181
Work from Home +10 915 £65,000 -7.14% 236
London +36 651 £80,000 -5.88% 196
North of England +112 395 £55,000 - 44
South East +102 320 £52,500 -19.23% 46
North West +109 273 £53,750 -17.31% 26
Midlands +93 212 £50,000 -0.99% 21
East Midlands +75 140 £50,000 +5.26% 8
Scotland -39 112 £50,000 -13.04% 12
South West -28 103 £60,000 +1.37% 32
Yorkshire +65 81 £52,500 +16.67% 17
East of England -31 72 £60,000 -11.11% 20
West Midlands +28 68 £50,000 -0.99% 13
Wales +28 56 £51,051 -21.46% 2
North East +1 43 £65,465 +63.66% 1
Northern Ireland +17 39 £85,000 +70.00% 7

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
1 345 (16.85%) ArcGIS
2 332 (16.21%) GeoServer
3 159 (7.76%) Apache
4 133 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
5 44 (2.15%) Confluence
6 43 (2.10%) OpenStack
7 36 (1.76%) nginx
8 22 (1.07%) Apache Spark
9 18 (0.88%) SharePoint
10 11 (0.54%) JBoss
11 10 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
12 4 (0.20%) CMS
12 4 (0.20%) Luigi
13 3 (0.15%) IIS
14 2 (0.098%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.098%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.098%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.049%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.049%) Drupal
Applications
1 22 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.098%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.049%) Notion
5 1 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.07%) NEC Housing
2 9 (0.44%) Sage X3
2 9 (0.44%) SAP Business One
3 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.24%) Odoo
4 5 (0.24%) Shopify
5 2 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.098%) iTrent
5 2 (0.098%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,165 (56.88%) AWS
2 1,018 (49.71%) Azure
3 241 (11.77%) Serverless
4 238 (11.62%) IBM Cloud
5 175 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
6 174 (8.50%) GCP
7 132 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 129 (6.30%) Azure API Management
8 129 (6.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 126 (6.15%) Azure Functions
10 83 (4.05%) GitHub
11 80 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
12 72 (3.52%) SaaS
13 70 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
14 62 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (2.05%) Amazon S3
16 36 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
17 35 (1.71%) Power Platform
18 31 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
19 30 (1.46%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.81%) Firewall
2 18 (0.88%) Internet
3 16 (0.78%) HTTP
4 15 (0.73%) DNS
4 15 (0.73%) LAN
4 15 (0.73%) PBX
5 9 (0.44%) MQTT
5 9 (0.44%) WAN
6 7 (0.34%) VPN
6 7 (0.34%) Wireless
7 6 (0.29%) FTP
7 6 (0.29%) MPLS
7 6 (0.29%) SAN
7 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.24%) SSH
9 4 (0.20%) BGP
9 4 (0.20%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.20%) Network Security
9 4 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (22.80%) MongoDB
2 412 (20.12%) NoSQL
3 371 (18.12%) GIS
4 332 (16.21%) QGIS
5 325 (15.87%) MySQL
6 288 (14.06%) Relational Database
7 270 (13.18%) SQL Server
8 238 (11.62%) DB2
9 122 (5.96%) Oracle Database
10 120 (5.86%) Redis
11 95 (4.64%) Apache Ignite
12 93 (4.54%) Oracle Database 11g
13 51 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
14 47 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
15 43 (2.10%) DynamoDB
16 38 (1.86%) Hadoop
16 38 (1.86%) RDBMS
17 35 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
17 35 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
18 34 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 269 (13.13%) Git
2 147 (7.18%) Jenkins
3 86 (4.20%) JIRA
4 72 (3.52%) GitLab
5 65 (3.17%) Cypress.io
6 44 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.46%) Subversion
8 26 (1.27%) JUnit
9 20 (0.98%) Selenium
10 17 (0.83%) Maven
10 17 (0.83%) PHPUnit
11 16 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
13 10 (0.49%) GNU Toolchain
14 9 (0.44%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.44%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (0.34%) Gatling
15 7 (0.34%) Postman
15 7 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 355 (17.33%) Finance
1 355 (17.33%) Public Sector
2 337 (16.46%) Social Skills
3 149 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 126 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (5.57%) Banking
6 103 (5.03%) Front Office
7 68 (3.32%) Games
8 46 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 44 (2.15%) Retail
10 41 (2.00%) Marketing
11 36 (1.76%) Local Government
12 32 (1.56%) Electronics
13 31 (1.51%) Law
14 30 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 29 (1.42%) Legal
16 23 (1.12%) Police
17 22 (1.07%) Back Office
18 20 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 848 (41.41%) Developer
2 657 (32.08%) Software Engineer
3 587 (28.66%) Senior
4 288 (14.06%) Senior Software Engineer
5 273 (13.33%) Full Stack Developer
6 209 (10.21%) Senior Developer
7 186 (9.08%) Full Stack Engineer
8 148 (7.23%) Python Engineer
9 142 (6.93%) Python Developer
10 139 (6.79%) Java Developer
11 134 (6.54%) Azure Engineer
12 126 (6.15%) Azure Developer
13 120 (5.86%) React Developer
14 107 (5.22%) Python Software Engineer
15 104 (5.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 96 (4.69%) Database Developer
17 91 (4.44%) PostgreSQL Developer
18 80 (3.91%) Senior Database Developer
19 77 (3.76%) Java Engineer
20 71 (3.47%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 963 (47.02%) React
2 699 (34.13%) CSS
3 687 (33.54%) .NET
4 464 (22.66%) REST
5 405 (19.78%) HTML
6 384 (18.75%) AngularJS
6 384 (18.75%) Web Services
7 341 (16.65%) PostGIS
8 338 (16.50%) OpenLayers
9 336 (16.41%) Leaflet
10 327 (15.97%) Node.js
11 320 (15.63%) Vue
12 319 (15.58%) .NET Core
13 268 (13.09%) ASP.NET
13 268 (13.09%) jQuery
14 260 (12.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 243 (11.87%) ASP.NET Core
16 241 (11.77%) Ember.js
17 238 (11.62%) Backbone.js
18 175 (8.54%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 265 (12.94%) Algorithms
2 259 (12.65%) Data Structures
3 243 (11.87%) Blockchain
4 242 (11.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (5.57%) e-Learning
6 108 (5.27%) Hedge funds
7 95 (4.64%) Fixed Income
8 71 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
9 48 (2.34%) Equities
9 48 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
10 41 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (1.66%) Product Ownership
12 27 (1.32%) Client/Server
12 27 (1.32%) Driving Licence
13 23 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
14 22 (1.07%) Private Cloud
15 20 (0.98%) Data Centre
15 20 (0.98%) IoT
16 19 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
17 18 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 509 (24.85%) Linux
2 326 (15.92%) Windows
3 243 (11.87%) Android
4 239 (11.67%) Apple iOS
5 58 (2.83%) Unix
6 53 (2.59%) Ubuntu
7 22 (1.07%) AIX
8 18 (0.88%) Windows Server
9 16 (0.78%) CentOS
10 15 (0.73%) Debian
10 15 (0.73%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (0.39%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.34%) SUSE
13 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.20%) VMS
15 1 (0.049%) Alpine Linux
15 1 (0.049%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (44.29%) Agile
2 801 (39.11%) Software Engineering
3 729 (35.60%) DevOps
4 634 (30.96%) Web Development
5 566 (27.64%) Full Stack Development
6 499 (24.37%) Artificial Intelligence
7 424 (20.70%) Actionable Insight
8 315 (15.38%) OO
9 312 (15.23%) User Experience
10 311 (15.19%) Design Patterns
11 273 (13.33%) Microservices
12 267 (13.04%) Mentoring
13 266 (12.99%) MVC
13 266 (12.99%) OOP
14 259 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
15 254 (12.40%) SOLID
16 251 (12.26%) CI/CD
17 250 (12.21%) MVVM
18 240 (11.72%) Responsive Web Design
19 238 (11.62%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1,032 (50.39%) Python
2 915 (44.68%) JavaScript
3 841 (41.06%) SQL
4 612 (29.88%) C#
5 555 (27.10%) Java
6 264 (12.89%) TypeScript
7 147 (7.18%) Go
8 107 (5.22%) Kotlin
9 106 (5.18%) PL/SQL
10 82 (4.00%) PHP
11 77 (3.76%) Bash
12 67 (3.27%) C++
13 65 (3.17%) Scala
14 60 (2.93%) C
15 51 (2.49%) PowerShell
16 45 (2.20%) Ruby
17 28 (1.37%) T-SQL
18 26 (1.27%) Shell Script
19 25 (1.22%) VB
20 21 (1.03%) R
Qualifications
1 463 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 425 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 191 (9.33%) Degree
4 85 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
7 21 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 20 (0.98%) CCNA
8 20 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.44%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.24%) MCSE
12 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.20%) PhD
14 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.098%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.098%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.098%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (2.25%) Accessibility
1 46 (2.25%) QA
2 29 (1.42%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 6 (0.29%) GMP
4 5 (0.24%) SLA
5 4 (0.20%) MiFID
6 1 (0.049%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.049%) GDPR
6 1 (0.049%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.049%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 365 (17.82%) Docker
2 48 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.71%) Hyper-V
4 16 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.20%) vSphere
8 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.15%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.098%) Firmware
9 2 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.049%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.049%) etcd
10 1 (0.049%) iptables
10 1 (0.049%) Postfix
10 1 (0.049%) vCloud
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 299 (14.60%) Kubernetes
2 171 (8.35%) Terraform
3 138 (6.74%) Ansible
4 48 (2.34%) Grafana
5 20 (0.98%) Puppet
6 16 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.59%) Kibana
9 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.34%) Data Guard
9 7 (0.34%) Foglight
9 7 (0.34%) Packer
10 6 (0.29%) Consul
10 6 (0.29%) logstash
10 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 5 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.20%) Podman
13 3 (0.15%) Argo
13 3 (0.15%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 340 (16.60%) ESRI
2 274 (13.38%) Oracle
3 245 (11.96%) Red Hat
4 239 (11.67%) IBM
5 170 (8.30%) Google
6 122 (5.96%) Microsoft
7 39 (1.90%) SAP
8 37 (1.81%) VMware
8 37 (1.81%) WSO2
9 25 (1.22%) Atlassian
10 22 (1.07%) NEC
11 18 (0.88%) Apple
12 17 (0.83%) Databricks
13 15 (0.73%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.73%) Splunk
14 9 (0.44%) Sage
15 8 (0.39%) Cisco
15 8 (0.39%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.39%) New Relic
16 7 (0.34%) SaltStack