PostgreSQL salary and hiring trends, August 2026
Reviewed by Mark Dickie · Last updated
PostgreSQL salary and hiring demand is the market picture for the open-source relational database, covering what employers pay for it and how often they ask for it by name. Pay for PostgreSQL work depends on what the job asks you to do with it, from schema design and query tuning to replication and failover. The tables below give the salary band and the hiring-demand trend as of August 2026, so you can place an offer against the market instead of against one employer's posting.
| Figure | What it measures for PostgreSQL | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| 25th percentile salary | The lower end of pay across postings and offers that name PostgreSQL | Your floor when the role mostly runs application queries and ORM work |
| Median salary | The midpoint of the PostgreSQL pay data | Compare your current or offered pay to this, not to a single company's band |
| 75th percentile salary | The upper end of the same pool | Read it as the market ceiling; roles that own production clusters, backups, and major version upgrades tend to sit nearer here |
| Hiring-demand trend | Movement in the number of postings that name PostgreSQL over time | Watch the direction across several months; one busy month can come from a single large hiring round |
How to use these figures:
- Start with the median, then check whether your target postings name PostgreSQL in the title or only in a skills list. A required skill and a nice-to-have are different signals.
- Match the band to the work. A job that asks for EXPLAIN ANALYZE tuning, autovacuum settings, or PgBouncer connection pooling is a different job from one that needs basic joins and an ORM.
- Run one check before you negotiate: take a slow query, run EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) on it, add an index, and run it again. Be ready to say which plan node changed and why.
- Read the demand trend over several months rather than reacting to a single month's change.
- Recheck this page when a new major PostgreSQL version ships, because version-specific features such as logical replication changes shift which skills employers name.
Postgresql salary & hiring demand
From live job postings, the median Postgresql salary is A$130,000, across 112 postings in August 2026. These figures are technology-wide across all seniority levels, as of August 2026.
| 25th percentile | A$97,500 |
|---|---|
| Median (50th percentile) | A$130,000 |
| 75th percentile | A$150,000 |
Hiring demand over time
We need 3 complete months of tracking before we publish a month-by-month series. Months we only partly covered are left out rather than shown as low demand.
Vacancy and salary data includes Adzuna.