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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 73 98
Rank change year-on-year -8 +25 +16
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 13 33 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.60% 2.42% 2.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.67% 13.04% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 11 17 29
10th Percentile - £51,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £66,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +20.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £66,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,500 £84,245
South West median annual salary £54,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.92% +8.33% +11.63%

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 150 253 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 6.96% 18.59% 21.36%
Number of salaries quoted 109 145 352
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,290 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +25.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £85,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%

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 22 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 2 (15.38%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (7.69%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) SaaS
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) MySQL
2 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (23.08%) Power BI
3 2 (15.38%) DB2
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (15.38%) Star Schema
4 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) OLAP
4 1 (7.69%) OLAP Cube
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) DBeaver
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Support Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Technical Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Technical Support
1 5 (38.46%) Technical Support Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Team Leader
3 1 (7.69%) SQL BI Developer
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Team Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
1 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
2 3 (23.08%) React
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) EJB
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
4 1 (7.69%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
1 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Customer Service
3 5 (38.46%) Fintech
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Dimensional Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) ETL
5 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (15.38%) Complex ETL
6 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (15.38%) Data Reconciliation
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
2 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) SAP