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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 192 73
Rank change year-on-year +51 -119 +46
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 2,033 1,976 7,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.05% 1.96% 4.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.18% 9.18% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,196 1,201 2,141
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,589 £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 £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% +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 18,181 21,530 43,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.31% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 13,451 21,070
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 £79,500
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% +8.25%

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 10 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 10 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 +58 1,732 £65,000 -13.33% 340
UK excluding London +76 1,297 £55,000 -4.35% 173
Work from Home +14 917 £65,000 -7.14% 241
London +27 646 £80,000 -5.88% 176
North of England +117 387 £55,000 - 40
South East +102 317 £53,750 -17.31% 41
North West +110 264 £53,750 -17.31% 25
Midlands +87 211 £50,000 -0.99% 20
East Midlands +72 141 £50,000 +2.56% 7
Scotland -38 114 £50,000 -13.04% 11
South West -32 102 £60,000 +1.37% 35
Yorkshire +81 82 £55,000 +22.22% 15
East of England -24 72 £60,000 -14.29% 19
West Midlands +10 67 £50,000 -4.76% 13
Wales +25 56 £51,051 -19.79% 2
North East 0 43 £65,465 +63.66%
Northern Ireland +17 39 £85,000 +70.00% 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 (16.97%) ArcGIS
2 332 (16.33%) GeoServer
3 155 (7.62%) Apache
4 130 (6.39%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (2.26%) Confluence
6 44 (2.16%) OpenStack
7 36 (1.77%) nginx
8 20 (0.98%) Apache Spark
9 19 (0.93%) SharePoint
10 12 (0.59%) JBoss
11 11 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
12 5 (0.25%) CMS
13 4 (0.20%) Luigi
14 3 (0.15%) IIS
15 2 (0.098%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.098%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.098%) Drupal
15 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
15 2 (0.098%) Tomcat
15 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 19 (0.93%) 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 1,151 (56.62%) AWS
2 1,013 (49.83%) Azure
3 242 (11.90%) Serverless
4 238 (11.71%) IBM Cloud
5 176 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
6 170 (8.36%) GCP
7 132 (6.49%) Azure Service Bus
8 129 (6.35%) Azure API Management
8 129 (6.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 126 (6.20%) Azure Functions
10 83 (4.08%) GitHub
11 80 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
12 74 (3.64%) SaaS
13 72 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
14 62 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (2.07%) Amazon S3
16 38 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
17 37 (1.82%) Power Platform
18 30 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
19 29 (1.43%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.87%) Firewall
2 18 (0.89%) Internet
3 16 (0.79%) HTTP
3 16 (0.79%) PBX
4 15 (0.74%) LAN
5 14 (0.69%) DNS
6 9 (0.44%) MQTT
6 9 (0.44%) WAN
7 7 (0.34%) VPN
7 7 (0.34%) Wireless
8 6 (0.30%) FTP
8 6 (0.30%) MPLS
8 6 (0.30%) SAN
8 6 (0.30%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.20%) BGP
10 4 (0.20%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.20%) Network Security
10 4 (0.20%) SSH
10 4 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (22.97%) MongoDB
2 403 (19.82%) NoSQL
3 371 (18.25%) GIS
4 332 (16.33%) QGIS
5 327 (16.08%) MySQL
6 284 (13.97%) Relational Database
7 265 (13.03%) SQL Server
8 238 (11.71%) DB2
9 120 (5.90%) Oracle Database
10 112 (5.51%) Redis
11 93 (4.57%) Oracle Database 11g
12 91 (4.48%) Apache Ignite
13 53 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
14 41 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
15 38 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
15 38 (1.87%) RDBMS
16 37 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
17 36 (1.77%) DynamoDB
18 35 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (1.62%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 270 (13.28%) Git
2 150 (7.38%) Jenkins
3 89 (4.38%) JIRA
4 72 (3.54%) GitLab
5 61 (3.00%) Cypress.io
6 46 (2.26%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.48%) Subversion
8 28 (1.38%) JUnit
9 21 (1.03%) Selenium
10 18 (0.89%) Maven
11 17 (0.84%) PHPUnit
12 16 (0.79%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.49%) GNU Toolchain
13 10 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.44%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.44%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.39%) JMeter
16 7 (0.34%) Eclipse
16 7 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 352 (17.31%) Public Sector
2 348 (17.12%) Finance
3 331 (16.28%) Social Skills
4 147 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
6 109 (5.36%) Banking
7 99 (4.87%) Front Office
8 69 (3.39%) Games
9 46 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 43 (2.12%) Retail
11 40 (1.97%) Marketing
12 33 (1.62%) Local Government
13 31 (1.52%) Law
14 30 (1.48%) Telecoms
15 29 (1.43%) Legal
16 26 (1.28%) Electronics
17 21 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (0.98%) Police
19 19 (0.93%) Back Office
20 17 (0.84%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 847 (41.66%) Developer
2 642 (31.58%) Software Engineer
3 591 (29.07%) Senior
4 287 (14.12%) Senior Software Engineer
5 270 (13.28%) Full Stack Developer
6 214 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 184 (9.05%) Full Stack Engineer
8 143 (7.03%) Python Engineer
9 140 (6.89%) Java Developer
10 139 (6.84%) Python Developer
11 133 (6.54%) Azure Engineer
12 126 (6.20%) Azure Developer
13 116 (5.71%) React Developer
14 102 (5.02%) Python Software Engineer
15 99 (4.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 96 (4.72%) Database Developer
17 91 (4.48%) PostgreSQL Developer
18 80 (3.94%) Senior Database Developer
19 74 (3.64%) Java Engineer
20 71 (3.49%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 959 (47.17%) React
2 697 (34.28%) CSS
3 687 (33.79%) .NET
4 458 (22.53%) REST
5 402 (19.77%) HTML
6 386 (18.99%) AngularJS
7 379 (18.64%) Web Services
8 341 (16.77%) PostGIS
9 338 (16.63%) OpenLayers
10 336 (16.53%) Leaflet
11 325 (15.99%) Node.js
12 319 (15.69%) .NET Core
12 319 (15.69%) Vue
13 268 (13.18%) ASP.NET
13 268 (13.18%) jQuery
14 260 (12.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 243 (11.95%) ASP.NET Core
16 241 (11.85%) Ember.js
17 238 (11.71%) Backbone.js
18 174 (8.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 265 (13.03%) Algorithms
2 259 (12.74%) Data Structures
3 243 (11.95%) Blockchain
4 241 (11.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 113 (5.56%) e-Learning
6 104 (5.12%) Hedge funds
7 91 (4.48%) Fixed Income
8 69 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
9 44 (2.16%) Equities
10 43 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
11 41 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
12 35 (1.72%) Product Ownership
13 27 (1.33%) Client/Server
14 24 (1.18%) Driving Licence
15 23 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
16 21 (1.03%) Private Cloud
17 20 (0.98%) Data Centre
17 20 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
17 20 (0.98%) IoT
18 18 (0.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 509 (25.04%) Linux
2 326 (16.04%) Windows
3 243 (11.95%) Android
4 239 (11.76%) Apple iOS
5 56 (2.75%) Unix
6 53 (2.61%) Ubuntu
7 22 (1.08%) AIX
8 17 (0.84%) CentOS
9 16 (0.79%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.79%) Windows Server
10 15 (0.74%) Debian
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
1 894 (43.97%) Agile
2 787 (38.71%) Software Engineering
3 720 (35.42%) DevOps
4 636 (31.28%) Web Development
5 562 (27.64%) Full Stack Development
6 497 (24.45%) Artificial Intelligence
7 424 (20.86%) Actionable Insight
8 313 (15.40%) OO
9 312 (15.35%) Design Patterns
10 311 (15.30%) User Experience
11 269 (13.23%) Microservices
12 267 (13.13%) Mentoring
13 266 (13.08%) MVC
13 266 (13.08%) OOP
14 261 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
15 254 (12.49%) CI/CD
15 254 (12.49%) SOLID
16 250 (12.30%) MVVM
17 240 (11.81%) Responsive Web Design
18 238 (11.71%) Co-Creation
Programming Languages
1 1,029 (50.61%) Python
2 916 (45.06%) JavaScript
3 840 (41.32%) SQL
4 614 (30.20%) C#
5 546 (26.86%) Java
6 262 (12.89%) TypeScript
7 148 (7.28%) Go
8 107 (5.26%) Kotlin
8 107 (5.26%) PL/SQL
9 79 (3.89%) PHP
10 78 (3.84%) Bash
11 66 (3.25%) C++
12 60 (2.95%) C
13 59 (2.90%) Scala
14 52 (2.56%) PowerShell
15 45 (2.21%) Ruby
16 26 (1.28%) Shell Script
16 26 (1.28%) T-SQL
17 25 (1.23%) VB
18 21 (1.03%) R
Qualifications
1 456 (22.43%) Security Cleared
2 421 (20.71%) SC Cleared
3 187 (9.20%) Degree
4 79 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 21 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.03%) CCNA
6 21 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
8 17 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.39%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.25%) MCSE
11 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.20%) PhD
13 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
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 48 (2.36%) QA
2 43 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.38%) 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 4 (0.20%) 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
1 368 (18.10%) Docker
2 50 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 16 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (0.30%) 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
1 303 (14.90%) Kubernetes
2 170 (8.36%) Terraform
3 140 (6.89%) Ansible
4 48 (2.36%) Grafana
5 20 (0.98%) Puppet
6 16 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.69%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.59%) Kibana
9 7 (0.34%) Consul
9 7 (0.34%) Data Guard
9 7 (0.34%) Foglight
9 7 (0.34%) Packer
10 6 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.30%) logstash
10 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 5 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.20%) Podman
13 3 (0.15%) Argo
13 3 (0.15%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 340 (16.72%) ESRI
2 272 (13.38%) Oracle
3 246 (12.10%) Red Hat
4 239 (11.76%) IBM
5 167 (8.21%) Google
6 124 (6.10%) Microsoft
7 39 (1.92%) SAP
8 38 (1.87%) VMware
8 38 (1.87%) WSO2
9 26 (1.28%) Atlassian
10 19 (0.93%) NEC
11 18 (0.89%) Apple
11 18 (0.89%) Databricks
12 16 (0.79%) Palo Alto
12 16 (0.79%) Splunk
13 9 (0.44%) Sage
14 8 (0.39%) Cisco
14 8 (0.39%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.39%) New Relic
15 7 (0.34%) Mapbox