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 5 460 open positions listing PostgreSQL, 5 144 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 SQL. 45% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured PostgreSQL demand: trend, countries, seniority and the adjacent stack.
The PostgreSQL market currently has 5,460 open roles, 5,144 of them freshly observed. Median salary $6,125/mo. Observed candidate pool — 3,140.
45% of PostgreSQL postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 329 of 5460 jobs; remote share from 4465 with a stated format; 5144 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 5,460 |
| Observed supply | 3,140 |
⚠ 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 $14,100. Half the market falls between $4,875 and $8,931. Sample: 329.
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 | 1,125 |
| US | 753 |
| RU | 689 |
| DE | 238 |
| IN | 209 |
| GB | 199 |
| SG | 106 |
| CA | 101 |
| KZ | 89 |
| HK | 71 |
The top country for PostgreSQL demand is Poland (1 125 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
PostgreSQL most often appears next to Python, AWS and SQL. The database is almost always required together with a backend language and a container environment.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| Backend | 1,566 |
| Fullstack | 1,214 |
| DevOps | 666 |
| Data | 444 |
| Architect | 267 |
| Frontend | 132 |
| Platform Engineer | 126 |
| QA | 124 |
| AI Engineer | 96 |
| ML/AI | 62 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 2,027 |
| middle | 626 |
| principal | 263 |
| junior | 220 |
| lead | 192 |
Senior-and-above is about 75% of 3 328 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 2,465 employers. The largest accounts for 3.7%, the top ten for 11.7%; the remaining 88.3% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 3.7% |
| top-3 | 7.3% |
| top-10 | 11.7% |
| long tail | 88.3% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 235 sources; the largest accounts for 14.8% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
PostgreSQL postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Senior Data engineer · TH
- System Analyst (Golang) · TH
- Starszy Programista Fullstack/Lider Techniczny · PL
- Sailpoint Developer (K/M) · PL
- Аналитик данных (направление Enterprise продаж) · RU
- Data Engineer / Разработчик ETL и хранилищ данных (DWH, BI) · RU
- Analityk Systemowy (Integracja Danych) · PL
- Python-разработчик · 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 2026-10-21
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 5 460 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?
45% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work — database work translates well to distributed teams.