PostgreSQL: market
PostgreSQL is the default relational database for new products: open, extensible (JSONB, PostGIS, pgvector) and mature enough for fintech and high load. We track 5 641 open positions listing PostgreSQL, 5 355 of them fresh. Demand comes from two sides: developers need confident schema, index and query work, infrastructure roles — replication, backups and tuning. Most of the demand comes from Backend, Fullstack and DevOps roles. It most often appears next to Python, AWS and Java. 44% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured PostgreSQL demand: trend, countries, seniority and the adjacent stack.
The PostgreSQL market currently has 5,641 open roles, 5,355 of them freshly observed. Median salary $6,200/mo. Observed candidate pool — 3,160.
44% of PostgreSQL postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 383 of 5641 jobs; remote share from 4696 with a stated format; 5355 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many PostgreSQL postings appeared each week since 10 Aug, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 350
New sources connected: 17 Aug +44 · 24 Aug +37 · 31 Aug +27 · 7 Sept +29 · 14 Sept +22 · 21 Sept +38 · 28 Sept +18 · 5 Oct +13 · 12 Oct +25
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median PostgreSQL salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of PostgreSQL postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of PostgreSQL postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 5,641 |
| Observed supply | 3,160 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $2,649, one in ten over $14,000. Half the market falls between $4,812 and $8,931. Sample: 383.
The range histogram for PostgreSQL postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 1,170 |
| US | 765 |
| RU | 733 |
| DE | 248 |
| GB | 224 |
| IN | 216 |
| CA | 105 |
| SG | 104 |
| KZ | 96 |
| HK | 73 |
The top country for PostgreSQL demand is Poland (1 170 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
PostgreSQL most often appears next to Python, AWS and Java. The database is almost always required together with a backend language and a container environment.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| Backend | 1,636 |
| Fullstack | 1,260 |
| DevOps | 687 |
| Data | 459 |
| Architect | 262 |
| Frontend | 137 |
| Platform Engineer | 132 |
| QA | 131 |
| AI Engineer | 103 |
| ML/AI | 63 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 2,117 |
| middle | 667 |
| principal | 271 |
| junior | 236 |
| lead | 198 |
Senior-and-above is about 74% of 3 489 graded PostgreSQL postings. Basic SQL and PostgreSQL, however, are expected from junior developers too.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 2,562 employers. The largest accounts for 3.5%, the top ten for 11.5%; the remaining 88.5% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 3.5% |
| top-3 | 7.0% |
| top-10 | 11.5% |
| long tail | 88.5% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 239 sources; the largest accounts for 14.1% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
PostgreSQL postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Sr. Manager Database Engineering · US
- Platform Engineer II
- Fullstack Software Engineer (m/f/n) · PL · $7,350
- Senior Infrastructure Engineer · PL · $5,588
- Java разработчик/Java Developer (стажер) · RU
- Инженер по нагрузочному тестированию · RU
- Инженер по автоматизированному тестированию / QA Auto Java (Middle+) · RU
- Бэкенд -разработчик Java · RU
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-22
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the PostgreSQL market — short answers from the same data slice.
What level of PostgreSQL is expected from a backend developer?
Schema and migration design, indexes (B-tree, GIN for JSONB), reading EXPLAIN ANALYZE, transactions and isolation levels, lock handling. Administration (replication, PITR, pgbouncer) usually belongs to DBA or DevOps.
PostgreSQL or MySQL — which appears more in requirements?
In new products — PostgreSQL: the slice tracks 5 641 open positions listing it. MySQL holds the web and legacy projects. Switching is easy, but PostgreSQL specifics (JSONB, window functions, extensions) are valued on their own.
Are there dedicated PostgreSQL DBA openings?
Yes, but few compared with development: PostgreSQL is more often part of the backend, DevOps or data-engineer profile. Pure DBA roles appear in banking, telecom and at managed-database cloud providers.
How remote-friendly are PostgreSQL jobs?
44% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work — database work translates well to distributed teams.