Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

postgresql

2,095 live US technical postings name postgresql in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 2,095 postings naming postgresql that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer60.4%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer12.3%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.1%
  4. 4Data Engineer6.5%
  5. 5Backend Engineer6.2%
  6. 6AI Engineer1.3%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.2%
  8. 8Frontend Engineer1.1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where postgresql is named
n = 1,198
10th
$132k
25th
$158k
Median
$188k
75th
$213k
90th
$243k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA16.4%
  2. 2Remote14.4%
  3. 3New York, NY12.1%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.7%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.7%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.1%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.7%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.8%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.