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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 78 95
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 +51
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 19 47 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.65% 2.19% 1.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.95% 17.09% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18 29 29
10th Percentile - £42,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +3.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
South West median annual salary £54,000 £65,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -16.92% +10.64% -6.00%

All Database and 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 159 275 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 13.78% 12.83% 26.82%
Number of salaries quoted 120 148 382
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,688 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +12.68%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,197
% change year-on-year -13.04% +0.53% +14.39%

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 16 October 2025.

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 (5.26%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 18 (94.74%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Serverless
3 7 (36.84%) Amazon S3
3 7 (36.84%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon SageMaker
4 6 (31.58%) Snowflake
5 5 (26.32%) SaaS
6 4 (21.05%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (21.05%) Azure
7 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.26%) GCP
8 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) MySQL
2 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.79%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (10.53%) Star Schema
4 1 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.26%) DB2
4 1 (5.26%) OLAP
4 1 (5.26%) OLAP Cube
4 1 (5.26%) Redis
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
1 5 (26.32%) Support Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Technical Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Technical Support
1 5 (26.32%) Technical Support Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Data Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Flutter Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SQL BI Developer
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
1 3 (15.79%) React
1 3 (15.79%) RESTful
1 3 (15.79%) Spring
1 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) Vue
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.26%) EJB
3 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.26%) Flutter
3 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.26%) Jest
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Replication
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
1 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Analytics
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
3 5 (26.32%) Data Security
3 5 (26.32%) Fintech
4 4 (21.05%) AI
4 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
4 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (21.05%) Data Encryption
4 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
4 4 (21.05%) Data Science
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Key Management
4 4 (21.05%) Technology Transformation
5 3 (15.79%) Dimensional Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.26%) Dart
6 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) SLA
2 4 (21.05%) GDPR
2 4 (21.05%) NIST
3 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) SAP