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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 190 73
Rank change year-on-year +46 -117 +46
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 2,031 2,045 7,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.06% 1.97% 4.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.18% 9.23% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,189 1,237 2,166
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +15.74%

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 18,159 22,148 43,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.41% 21.34% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,577 13,812 21,421
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 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.78%

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 3 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 3 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 +50 1,719 £65,000 -13.33% 329
UK excluding London +79 1,311 £55,000 -4.35% 175
Work from Home +18 929 £65,000 -7.14% 226
London +23 627 £80,000 -5.88% 162
North of England +119 392 £55,000 - 36
South East +92 317 £57,500 -11.54% 42
North West +114 264 £52,500 -19.23% 21
Midlands +103 214 £50,000 -4.76% 21
East Midlands +86 145 £50,000 - 9
Scotland -42 117 £50,000 -13.04% 14
South West -36 102 £60,000 +1.37% 34
Yorkshire +73 87 £55,000 +22.22% 13
East of England -27 75 £65,000 -10.34% 23
West Midlands +25 68 £50,000 -4.76% 12
Wales +26 57 £51,051 -19.79% 1
North East +2 43 £65,465 +63.66% 2
Northern Ireland +26 42 £75,000 +50.00% 8

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 (16.99%) ArcGIS
2 332 (16.35%) GeoServer
3 142 (6.99%) Apache
4 113 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
5 53 (2.61%) Confluence
6 44 (2.17%) OpenStack
7 37 (1.82%) nginx
8 24 (1.18%) Apache Spark
9 19 (0.94%) SharePoint
10 12 (0.59%) JBoss
11 11 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
12 5 (0.25%) CMS
13 3 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.098%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.098%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.098%) Drupal
14 2 (0.098%) Luigi
14 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.098%) WebLogic
Applications
1 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (0.98%) 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 13 (0.64%) NEC Housing
2 9 (0.44%) Sage X3
2 9 (0.44%) SAP Business One
3 6 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.25%) Odoo
4 5 (0.25%) Shopify
5 3 (0.15%) iTrent
6 2 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.098%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,152 (56.72%) AWS
2 1,000 (49.24%) Azure
3 245 (12.06%) Serverless
4 238 (11.72%) IBM Cloud
5 177 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
6 166 (8.17%) GCP
7 132 (6.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 129 (6.35%) Azure API Management
8 129 (6.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 126 (6.20%) Azure Functions
10 86 (4.23%) GitHub
11 78 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
12 76 (3.74%) SaaS
13 74 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
14 65 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
15 43 (2.12%) Amazon S3
16 40 (1.97%) Power Platform
17 38 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
18 35 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
19 30 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.92%) Firewall
2 18 (0.89%) Internet
3 17 (0.84%) PBX
4 16 (0.79%) HTTP
5 15 (0.74%) LAN
6 12 (0.59%) DNS
7 9 (0.44%) MQTT
7 9 (0.44%) WAN
8 7 (0.34%) VPN
8 7 (0.34%) Wireless
9 6 (0.30%) MPLS
9 6 (0.30%) SAN
9 6 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.25%) FTP
10 5 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.20%) BGP
11 4 (0.20%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.20%) Network Security
11 4 (0.20%) SSH
11 4 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 465 (22.90%) MongoDB
2 410 (20.19%) NoSQL
3 371 (18.27%) GIS
4 337 (16.59%) MySQL
5 332 (16.35%) QGIS
6 284 (13.98%) Relational Database
7 261 (12.85%) SQL Server
8 239 (11.77%) DB2
9 129 (6.35%) Oracle Database
10 108 (5.32%) Redis
11 107 (5.27%) Oracle Database 11g
12 80 (3.94%) Apache Ignite
13 55 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
14 43 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
15 38 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
15 38 (1.87%) DynamoDB
15 38 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
16 37 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
17 34 (1.67%) RDBMS
18 33 (1.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 275 (13.54%) Git
2 164 (8.07%) Jenkins
3 98 (4.83%) JIRA
4 74 (3.64%) GitLab
5 54 (2.66%) Cypress.io
6 48 (2.36%) Bitbucket
7 33 (1.62%) Subversion
8 30 (1.48%) JUnit
9 22 (1.08%) Selenium
10 19 (0.94%) Maven
11 17 (0.84%) Cucumber
11 17 (0.84%) PHPUnit
12 12 (0.59%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.49%) GNU Toolchain
13 10 (0.49%) Postman
14 9 (0.44%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.44%) JMeter
14 9 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.34%) Mockito
General
1 347 (17.09%) Public Sector
2 327 (16.10%) Finance
3 320 (15.76%) Social Skills
4 139 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 123 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 105 (5.17%) Banking
7 89 (4.38%) Front Office
8 71 (3.50%) Games
9 48 (2.36%) Retail
10 47 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 40 (1.97%) Marketing
12 30 (1.48%) Legal
12 30 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.33%) Law
13 27 (1.33%) Local Government
14 25 (1.23%) Electronics
15 21 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.79%) Health Technology
16 16 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 855 (42.10%) Developer
2 623 (30.67%) Software Engineer
3 613 (30.18%) Senior
4 286 (14.08%) Senior Software Engineer
5 267 (13.15%) Full Stack Developer
6 233 (11.47%) Senior Developer
7 182 (8.96%) Full Stack Engineer
8 139 (6.84%) Java Developer
9 131 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
9 131 (6.45%) Python Engineer
10 127 (6.25%) Python Developer
11 126 (6.20%) Azure Developer
12 110 (5.42%) Database Developer
13 105 (5.17%) PostgreSQL Developer
13 105 (5.17%) React Developer
14 94 (4.63%) Senior Database Developer
15 91 (4.48%) Python Software Engineer
16 87 (4.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 71 (3.50%) Lead
18 69 (3.40%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 948 (46.68%) React
2 697 (34.32%) CSS
3 691 (34.02%) .NET
4 457 (22.50%) REST
5 399 (19.65%) HTML
6 384 (18.91%) AngularJS
7 376 (18.51%) Web Services
8 341 (16.79%) PostGIS
9 338 (16.64%) OpenLayers
10 336 (16.54%) Leaflet
11 324 (15.95%) Node.js
12 319 (15.71%) .NET Core
13 316 (15.56%) Vue
14 270 (13.29%) ASP.NET
15 268 (13.20%) jQuery
16 261 (12.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 243 (11.96%) ASP.NET Core
18 241 (11.87%) Ember.js
19 238 (11.72%) Backbone.js
20 174 (8.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 266 (13.10%) Algorithms
2 260 (12.80%) Data Structures
3 243 (11.96%) Blockchain
4 241 (11.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 113 (5.56%) e-Learning
6 92 (4.53%) Hedge funds
7 80 (3.94%) Fixed Income
8 70 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
9 40 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.87%) Product Ownership
11 37 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (1.77%) Equities
13 27 (1.33%) Client/Server
14 23 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
15 21 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
15 21 (1.03%) IoT
16 20 (0.98%) Data Centre
16 20 (0.98%) Private Cloud
17 18 (0.89%) Driving Licence
17 18 (0.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 510 (25.11%) Linux
2 325 (16.00%) Windows
3 243 (11.96%) Android
4 239 (11.77%) Apple iOS
5 53 (2.61%) Ubuntu
6 51 (2.51%) Unix
7 22 (1.08%) AIX
8 18 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.84%) CentOS
10 15 (0.74%) Debian
10 15 (0.74%) Windows Server
11 9 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 8 (0.39%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.34%) SUSE
14 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.20%) VMS
16 1 (0.049%) Rocky
16 1 (0.049%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (43.62%) Agile
2 770 (37.91%) Software Engineering
3 721 (35.50%) DevOps
4 638 (31.41%) Web Development
5 552 (27.18%) Full Stack Development
6 509 (25.06%) Artificial Intelligence
7 439 (21.61%) Actionable Insight
8 313 (15.41%) Design Patterns
9 311 (15.31%) OO
9 311 (15.31%) User Experience
10 268 (13.20%) MVC
11 266 (13.10%) OOP
12 264 (13.00%) Microservices
13 263 (12.95%) CI/CD
13 263 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
14 262 (12.90%) Mentoring
15 255 (12.56%) SOLID
16 250 (12.31%) MVVM
17 240 (11.82%) Responsive Web Design
18 238 (11.72%) Co-Creation
Programming Languages
1 1,012 (49.83%) Python
2 917 (45.15%) JavaScript
3 847 (41.70%) SQL
4 620 (30.53%) C#
5 532 (26.19%) Java
6 257 (12.65%) TypeScript
7 150 (7.39%) Go
8 122 (6.01%) PL/SQL
9 104 (5.12%) Kotlin
10 81 (3.99%) PHP
11 77 (3.79%) Bash
12 69 (3.40%) C++
13 61 (3.00%) C
14 57 (2.81%) Scala
15 50 (2.46%) PowerShell
16 45 (2.22%) Ruby
17 27 (1.33%) Shell Script
18 26 (1.28%) VB
19 24 (1.18%) T-SQL
20 17 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 447 (22.01%) Security Cleared
2 418 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 183 (9.01%) Degree
4 76 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (1.48%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.08%) CCNA
6 22 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 17 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.25%) MCSE
12 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.15%) PhD
14 2 (0.098%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.098%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.098%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (2.41%) QA
2 38 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 6 (0.30%) GMP
5 5 (0.25%) SLA
6 3 (0.15%) MiFID
7 1 (0.049%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.049%) GDPR
7 1 (0.049%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.049%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 375 (18.46%) Docker
2 48 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 16 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.20%) vSphere
7 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.15%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.098%) Firmware
8 2 (0.098%) iptables
9 1 (0.049%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.049%) etcd
9 1 (0.049%) Postfix
9 1 (0.049%) vCloud
9 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 314 (15.46%) Kubernetes
2 172 (8.47%) Terraform
3 138 (6.79%) Ansible
4 51 (2.51%) Grafana
5 20 (0.98%) Puppet
6 16 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.69%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.59%) Kibana
9 9 (0.44%) Consul
10 8 (0.39%) Packer
11 7 (0.34%) Data Guard
11 7 (0.34%) Foglight
12 6 (0.30%) logstash
12 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 5 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.20%) Podman
15 3 (0.15%) Argo
15 3 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 340 (16.74%) ESRI
2 278 (13.69%) Oracle
3 246 (12.11%) Red Hat
4 240 (11.82%) IBM
5 164 (8.07%) Google
6 126 (6.20%) Microsoft
7 39 (1.92%) SAP
7 39 (1.92%) VMware
8 38 (1.87%) WSO2
9 31 (1.53%) Atlassian
10 18 (0.89%) Apple
11 17 (0.84%) Palo Alto
12 16 (0.79%) Databricks
12 16 (0.79%) Splunk
13 13 (0.64%) NEC
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