PostgreSQL Job Trends in Bristol

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 68 77
Rank change year-on-year -38 +9 +22
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 18 18 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.55% 1.60% 2.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.07% 11.25% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 18 17 33
10th Percentile £52,500 - £43,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £88,250 £95,000 £84,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £52,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +13.04%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Bristol

PostgreSQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 223 160 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 6.78% 14.21% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 163 122 168
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,425
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -11.02% -1.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,938 £79,063
90th Percentile £93,750 £94,750 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Bristol

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Run
4 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Relational Database
2 5 (27.78%) MySQL
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle Database
2 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
3 4 (22.22%) ClickHouse
4 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) Chroma
5 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
5 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Vite
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) DBA
2 5 (27.78%) MySQL DBA
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Python Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (11.11%) PHP Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Research Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) CUDA Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Gen AI Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) React
2 5 (27.78%) Vue
3 4 (22.22%) Laravel
3 4 (22.22%) REST
3 4 (22.22%) Symfony
3 4 (22.22%) Terraform
4 3 (16.67%) FastAPI
5 2 (11.11%) Django
5 2 (11.11%) Node.js
6 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.56%) Celery
6 1 (5.56%) D3.js
6 1 (5.56%) Flask
6 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
6 1 (5.56%) Kafka
6 1 (5.56%) Next.js
6 1 (5.56%) RESTful
6 1 (5.56%) Spring
6 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 4 (22.22%) PMI
2 2 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 2 (11.11%) CUDA
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
1 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
1 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2012
1 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (55.56%) AI
3 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (44.44%) Agile
4 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (33.33%) Analytics
5 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (22.22%) B2B
6 4 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 4 (22.22%) Functional Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Microservices
6 4 (22.22%) OO
6 4 (22.22%) OOD
6 4 (22.22%) SOLID
6 4 (22.22%) Workflow
7 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 3 (16.67%) Generative AI
7 3 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 2 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 4 (22.22%) PHP
2 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) PMI Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) PhD
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
1 5 (27.78%) Progress Chef
1 5 (27.78%) Puppet
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Mistral
3 1 (5.56%) OpenAI