PostgreSQL Job Trends in Durham

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 27 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +9
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 4 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.72% 1.58% 4.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.39% 16.67% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £57,324 - -
25th Percentile £64,709 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +62.50%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
North East median annual salary £53,850 £69,308 £62,500
% change year-on-year -22.30% +10.89% +25.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 23 18 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 9.87% 9.47% 17.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 18
10th Percentile - - £39,925
25th Percentile £32,500 £47,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,250 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.28% -3.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile £58,000 £74,144 £68,600
90th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
North East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -5.00%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Durham

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Durham over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Durham

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Durham region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Darlington +3 3 £73,801 +6.48%
PostgreSQL
North East

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) dbt
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Sentry
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) SEO
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Delphi
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle