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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 72 84
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +29
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 10 34 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.50% 2.36% 2.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.33% 13.65% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8 18 30
10th Percentile - £50,375 £47,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £64,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £72,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +13.73% -5.56%
75th Percentile £54,375 £81,250 £83,667
90th Percentile £73,500 £83,250 £85,000
South West median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +2.13%

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 158 249 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 7.91% 17.28% 24.40%
Number of salaries quoted 110 146 336
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £45,000 £46,292
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,700 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -7.69% +26.78%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,625 £85,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,148
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.27% +10.30%

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 1 January 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 (10.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) DB2
3 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) OLAP
3 1 (10.00%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL BI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
1 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) EJB
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) Jest
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (10.00%) Redux
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (50.00%) Fintech
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) Biotechnology
6 1 (10.00%) Business Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (10.00%) Coaching
6 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (10.00%) SFIA
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) SAP