PostgreSQL Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 222 68
Rank change year-on-year +78 -154 +42
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 2,072 1,597 8,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.91% 1.72% 5.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.20% 8.04% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,172 1,133 2,082
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,359 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.49% - +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 18,500 19,872 48,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.06% 21.35% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,560 12,779 21,031
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 £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +82 1,783 £65,000 -7.14% 328
UK excluding London +107 1,343 £55,000 -4.35% 186
Work from Home +43 914 £65,000 -7.14% 204
London +31 643 £80,000 -5.88% 176
North of England +129 418 £55,000 -6.07% 49
South East +121 328 £52,500 -14.29% 44
North West +120 294 £52,500 -19.23% 37
Midlands +86 212 £50,000 - 17
East Midlands +71 138 £50,000 - 7
Scotland -27 113 £50,000 -13.04% 20
South West +4 108 £60,000 +1.37% 34
Yorkshire +70 83 £52,500 +16.67% 11
East of England -14 71 £57,500 -11.54% 8
West Midlands +13 70 £50,000 -0.99% 10
Wales +33 55 £51,051 -21.46% 5
North East +9 43 £65,465 +63.66% 1
Northern Ireland +15 38 £85,000 +70.00% 11

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
1 334 (16.12%) ArcGIS
2 320 (15.44%) GeoServer
3 171 (8.25%) Apache
4 137 (6.61%) Apache Airflow
5 40 (1.93%) Confluence
6 36 (1.74%) OpenStack
7 35 (1.69%) nginx
8 24 (1.16%) Apache Spark
9 15 (0.72%) SharePoint
10 12 (0.58%) JBoss
11 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
12 6 (0.29%) Luigi
13 4 (0.19%) CMS
13 4 (0.19%) IIS
14 3 (0.14%) Drupal
14 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
15 2 (0.097%) Moodle
15 2 (0.097%) Totara
15 2 (0.097%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.097%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.097%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.048%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.048%) Notion
4 1 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.06%) NEC Housing
2 9 (0.43%) Sage X3
2 9 (0.43%) SAP Business One
3 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.24%) Odoo
4 5 (0.24%) Shopify
5 3 (0.14%) iTrent
6 2 (0.097%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.048%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.048%) Ripple
7 1 (0.048%) Ripple XRP
Cloud Services
1 1,191 (57.48%) AWS
2 1,001 (48.31%) Azure
3 238 (11.49%) IBM Cloud
4 225 (10.86%) Serverless
5 181 (8.74%) GCP
6 179 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (6.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 126 (6.08%) Azure API Management
8 126 (6.08%) Azure Functions
8 126 (6.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 81 (3.91%) GitHub
10 80 (3.86%) SaaS
11 76 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
12 64 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
13 54 (2.61%) Amazon Kinesis
13 54 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (1.88%) Amazon S3
15 33 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (1.45%) dbt
16 30 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.64%) Firewall
2 19 (0.92%) DNS
3 18 (0.87%) HTTP
4 16 (0.77%) LAN
5 14 (0.68%) Internet
6 11 (0.53%) VPN
7 10 (0.48%) WAN
8 9 (0.43%) FTP
8 9 (0.43%) MQTT
8 9 (0.43%) PBX
9 7 (0.34%) SAN
9 7 (0.34%) Wireless
10 6 (0.29%) MPLS
10 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.24%) BGP
11 5 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.24%) SSH
12 4 (0.19%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.19%) Network Security
13 3 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 478 (23.07%) MongoDB
2 427 (20.61%) NoSQL
3 361 (17.42%) GIS
4 322 (15.54%) MySQL
5 321 (15.49%) QGIS
6 294 (14.19%) Relational Database
7 274 (13.22%) SQL Server
8 238 (11.49%) DB2
9 128 (6.18%) Redis
10 122 (5.89%) Oracle Database
11 99 (4.78%) Apache Ignite
12 93 (4.49%) Oracle Database 11g
13 72 (3.47%) DynamoDB
14 71 (3.43%) Amazon Aurora
15 51 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
15 51 (2.46%) Hadoop
16 45 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
17 42 (2.03%) RDBMS
18 32 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
19 31 (1.50%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 266 (12.84%) Git
2 131 (6.32%) Jenkins
3 79 (3.81%) JIRA
4 74 (3.57%) GitLab
5 69 (3.33%) Cypress.io
6 38 (1.83%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.40%) JUnit
8 26 (1.25%) Subversion
9 24 (1.16%) Gatling
10 17 (0.82%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.82%) Maven
10 17 (0.82%) Selenium
11 16 (0.77%) PHPUnit
12 11 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.43%) GNU Toolchain
13 9 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
14 8 (0.39%) JMeter
14 8 (0.39%) Mockito
15 7 (0.34%) CircleCI
General
1 354 (17.08%) Public Sector
1 354 (17.08%) Social Skills
2 346 (16.70%) Finance
3 156 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 121 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
5 118 (5.69%) Banking
6 108 (5.21%) Front Office
7 68 (3.28%) Games
8 49 (2.36%) Electronics
9 46 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 45 (2.17%) Retail
11 40 (1.93%) Marketing
12 36 (1.74%) Local Government
13 32 (1.54%) Law
14 31 (1.50%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.30%) Legal
16 24 (1.16%) Billing
17 23 (1.11%) Police
18 22 (1.06%) Back Office
19 20 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 855 (41.26%) Developer
2 677 (32.67%) Software Engineer
3 584 (28.19%) Senior
4 281 (13.56%) Full Stack Developer
5 280 (13.51%) Senior Software Engineer
6 211 (10.18%) Senior Developer
7 189 (9.12%) Full Stack Engineer
8 153 (7.38%) Python Developer
9 151 (7.29%) Python Engineer
10 135 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
11 127 (6.13%) Java Developer
12 126 (6.08%) Azure Developer
13 120 (5.79%) React Developer
14 111 (5.36%) Python Software Engineer
15 109 (5.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 94 (4.54%) Database Developer
16 94 (4.54%) PostgreSQL Developer
17 82 (3.96%) Java Engineer
17 82 (3.96%) Lead
18 80 (3.86%) Senior Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 962 (46.43%) React
2 710 (34.27%) CSS
3 687 (33.16%) .NET
4 477 (23.02%) REST
5 422 (20.37%) HTML
6 403 (19.45%) Web Services
7 376 (18.15%) AngularJS
8 330 (15.93%) PostGIS
9 327 (15.78%) Node.js
10 326 (15.73%) OpenLayers
11 325 (15.69%) .NET Core
12 324 (15.64%) Leaflet
13 322 (15.54%) Vue
14 270 (13.03%) jQuery
15 268 (12.93%) ASP.NET
16 260 (12.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 244 (11.78%) ASP.NET Core
18 241 (11.63%) Ember.js
19 238 (11.49%) Backbone.js
20 190 (9.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 268 (12.93%) Algorithms
2 258 (12.45%) Data Structures
3 244 (11.78%) Blockchain
4 241 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 117 (5.65%) e-Learning
6 115 (5.55%) Hedge funds
7 99 (4.78%) Fixed Income
8 83 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
9 55 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
10 52 (2.51%) Equities
11 42 (2.03%) Blog
12 41 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
13 36 (1.74%) Media Streaming
14 33 (1.59%) Product Ownership
15 27 (1.30%) Client/Server
15 27 (1.30%) Driving Licence
16 22 (1.06%) IoT
16 22 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
17 18 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
17 18 (0.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 498 (24.03%) Linux
2 325 (15.69%) Windows
3 243 (11.73%) Android
4 239 (11.53%) Apple iOS
5 56 (2.70%) Unix
6 47 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 22 (1.06%) AIX
7 22 (1.06%) Windows Server
8 18 (0.87%) CentOS
8 18 (0.87%) Debian
9 10 (0.48%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.34%) SUSE
12 7 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.19%) VMS
15 2 (0.097%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (44.31%) Agile
2 827 (39.91%) Software Engineering
3 748 (36.10%) DevOps
4 623 (30.07%) Web Development
5 584 (28.19%) Full Stack Development
6 496 (23.94%) Artificial Intelligence
7 412 (19.88%) Actionable Insight
8 323 (15.59%) OO
9 312 (15.06%) User Experience
10 308 (14.86%) Design Patterns
11 273 (13.18%) Mentoring
11 273 (13.18%) Microservices
12 271 (13.08%) OOP
13 265 (12.79%) MVC
14 262 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
15 253 (12.21%) SOLID
16 251 (12.11%) MVVM
17 245 (11.82%) CI/CD
18 240 (11.58%) Responsive Web Design
19 238 (11.49%) Co-Creation
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (49.90%) Python
2 910 (43.92%) JavaScript
3 845 (40.78%) SQL
4 616 (29.73%) C#
5 575 (27.75%) Java
6 266 (12.84%) TypeScript
7 141 (6.81%) Go
8 109 (5.26%) Kotlin
9 104 (5.02%) PL/SQL
10 92 (4.44%) PHP
11 91 (4.39%) Scala
12 68 (3.28%) Bash
13 62 (2.99%) C++
14 61 (2.94%) C
15 48 (2.32%) PowerShell
16 46 (2.22%) Ruby
17 28 (1.35%) T-SQL
18 24 (1.16%) R
18 24 (1.16%) VB
19 23 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 457 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 418 (20.17%) SC Cleared
3 215 (10.38%) Degree
4 111 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
7 15 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 13 (0.63%) CCNA
8 13 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.19%) MCSE
11 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.19%) PhD
12 3 (0.14%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.097%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.097%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.097%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (2.46%) QA
2 46 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.34%) MiFID
5 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (0.29%) GMP
6 5 (0.24%) SLA
7 2 (0.097%) GDPR
8 1 (0.048%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.048%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.048%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 344 (16.60%) Docker
2 48 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.40%) Hyper-V
4 16 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (0.19%) VMware Server
8 4 (0.19%) vSphere
9 3 (0.14%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.097%) KVM
10 2 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.048%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.048%) etcd
11 1 (0.048%) Firmware
11 1 (0.048%) iptables
11 1 (0.048%) Postfix
11 1 (0.048%) vCloud
11 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 267 (12.89%) Kubernetes
2 175 (8.45%) Terraform
3 133 (6.42%) Ansible
4 41 (1.98%) Grafana
5 22 (1.06%) Puppet
6 16 (0.77%) Progress Chef
6 16 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.68%) Kibana
8 8 (0.39%) Packer
9 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.34%) Data Guard
9 7 (0.34%) Foglight
10 6 (0.29%) logstash
10 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 5 (0.24%) Consul
11 5 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.19%) SCOrch
12 4 (0.19%) vMotion
12 4 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 328 (15.83%) ESRI
2 260 (12.55%) Oracle
3 249 (12.02%) Red Hat
4 239 (11.53%) IBM
5 171 (8.25%) Google
6 112 (5.41%) Microsoft
7 39 (1.88%) SAP
8 34 (1.64%) VMware
9 31 (1.50%) WSO2
10 22 (1.06%) NEC
11 21 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 18 (0.87%) Apple
12 18 (0.87%) Databricks
12 18 (0.87%) Splunk
13 10 (0.48%) Cisco
14 9 (0.43%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.43%) Palo Alto
14 9 (0.43%) Sage
15 8 (0.39%) New Relic
16 7 (0.34%) SaltStack