PostgreSQL Job Trends in England

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 212 168
Rank change year-on-year -79 -44 +54
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 529 631 1,557
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 1.61% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.35% 9.56% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 398 460 1,067
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,344 £110,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £63,206
% change year-on-year -10.00% +18.66% -9.71%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,193 6,601 15,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.80% 16.81% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,719 4,381 11,506
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in England

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in England

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the England region over the 6 months to 10 June 2026. 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
London -92 212 £84,625 -10.92% 137
North of England -16 115 £67,500 - 53
South East -7 108 £57,500 +9.52% 42
North West -11 49 £69,310 -0.11% 34
Yorkshire -28 38 £56,065 -16.94% 12
South West -48 38 £62,500 - 18
North East -23 28 £65,000 +23.81% 7
East of England -26 22 £47,500 +36.69% 11
Midlands -43 13 £75,000 +11.01% 19
West Midlands -39 10 £77,500 +14.71% 10
East Midlands -30 3 £67,500 +3.85% 9
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 28 (5.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.59%) Apache
4 14 (2.65%) Confluence
5 11 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.08%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.51%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.76%) WordPress
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.19%) Moodle
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 317 (59.92%) AWS
2 199 (37.62%) Azure
3 95 (17.96%) GCP
4 63 (11.91%) Serverless
5 50 (9.45%) GitHub
6 48 (9.07%) SaaS
7 36 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (6.81%) Power Platform
8 35 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (5.10%) Azure Service Bus
12 24 (4.54%) Azure AKS
13 23 (4.35%) Amazon S3
14 17 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (3.02%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (2.84%) Azure Functions
17 14 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.86%) Broadband
2 17 (3.21%) Firewall
3 16 (3.02%) DNS
4 15 (2.84%) DHCP
5 14 (2.65%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.89%) VPN
7 8 (1.51%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (1.51%) SAN
8 7 (1.32%) Internet
8 7 (1.32%) Network Security
8 7 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.76%) VLAN
10 2 (0.38%) HTTP
10 2 (0.38%) LAN
10 2 (0.38%) PBX
10 2 (0.38%) WAN
11 1 (0.19%) LTE
11 1 (0.19%) SMS
11 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (29.49%) MongoDB
2 130 (24.57%) MySQL
3 91 (17.20%) Relational Database
3 91 (17.20%) SQL Server
4 90 (17.01%) NoSQL
5 36 (6.81%) Redis
6 31 (5.86%) Power BI
7 21 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (3.59%) DynamoDB
10 16 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (2.46%) RDBMS
13 12 (2.27%) Metadata
14 11 (2.08%) MariaDB
14 11 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.70%) Oracle Database
16 9 (1.70%) Pinecone
16 9 (1.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 105 (19.85%) Git
2 37 (6.99%) GitLab
3 32 (6.05%) Jenkins
4 23 (4.35%) JIRA
5 16 (3.02%) JUnit
6 13 (2.46%) Mockito
6 13 (2.46%) TeamCity
7 12 (2.27%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.89%) JMeter
9 7 (1.32%) Selenium
10 6 (1.13%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.13%) Vite
11 5 (0.95%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.95%) Maven
12 3 (0.57%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.38%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.38%) ESLint
13 2 (0.38%) Gatling
13 2 (0.38%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 133 (25.14%) Social Skills
2 73 (13.80%) Finance
3 66 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.43%) Games
7 30 (5.67%) Retail
8 25 (4.73%) Law
9 23 (4.35%) Banking
10 19 (3.59%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (3.02%) Front Office
12 15 (2.84%) Advertising
13 12 (2.27%) Legal
14 9 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.13%) Aviation
16 5 (0.95%) Automotive
16 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.76%) Tech for Good
18 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 166 (31.38%) Developer
2 109 (20.60%) Senior
3 98 (18.53%) Software Engineer
4 83 (15.69%) Lead
5 51 (9.64%) Python Engineer
6 49 (9.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 38 (7.18%) Lead Developer
8 35 (6.62%) Java Developer
8 35 (6.62%) Python Developer
9 34 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 34 (6.43%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.05%) Lead Software Engineer
11 30 (5.67%) Data Engineer
12 29 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (5.29%) Senior Developer
14 27 (5.10%) Architect
15 21 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (3.97%) Senior DevOps
16 20 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 19 (3.59%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (24.39%) React
2 123 (23.25%) Node.js
3 105 (19.85%) RESTful
4 75 (14.18%) REST
5 62 (11.72%) Spring
6 58 (10.96%) Spring Boot
7 47 (8.88%) FastAPI
7 47 (8.88%) Kafka
8 42 (7.94%) CSS
9 39 (7.37%) .NET
9 39 (7.37%) HTML
10 35 (6.62%) JSON
11 31 (5.86%) Django
12 29 (5.48%) AngularJS
13 28 (5.29%) Next.js
14 26 (4.91%) Vue
15 25 (4.73%) Flask
16 24 (4.54%) Redux
17 18 (3.40%) jQuery
17 18 (3.40%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 121 (22.87%) Cloud Native
2 58 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (6.05%) Video\Live Streaming
4 31 (5.86%) Low-Code
5 20 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.59%) Algorithms
7 17 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.21%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.02%) Blog
8 16 (3.02%) Data Structures
8 16 (3.02%) Derivative
8 16 (3.02%) Equities
8 16 (3.02%) Fixed Income
9 15 (2.84%) Replication
10 14 (2.65%) Management Information System
11 13 (2.46%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (1.32%) Driving Licence
14 7 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 81 (15.31%) Linux
2 41 (7.75%) Windows
3 19 (3.59%) Unix
3 19 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.76%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.57%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Debian
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (43.67%) CI/CD
2 195 (36.86%) Agile
3 178 (33.65%) Software Engineering
4 150 (28.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 136 (25.71%) Microservices
6 123 (23.25%) AI
7 122 (23.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 114 (21.55%) DevOps
9 110 (20.79%) Test Automation
10 102 (19.28%) Mentoring
11 96 (18.15%) Containerisation
11 96 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
13 78 (14.74%) Observability
14 67 (12.67%) API Design
14 67 (12.67%) Scrum
15 66 (12.48%) Analytics
16 60 (11.34%) TDD
17 57 (10.78%) Machine Learning
18 56 (10.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 237 (44.80%) Python
2 160 (30.25%) Java
3 155 (29.30%) SQL
4 111 (20.98%) JavaScript
5 109 (20.60%) TypeScript
6 54 (10.21%) Go
7 43 (8.13%) C#
8 36 (6.81%) PowerShell
9 28 (5.29%) Bash
10 24 (4.54%) PHP
11 18 (3.40%) Ruby
12 12 (2.27%) C
12 12 (2.27%) C++
12 12 (2.27%) T-SQL
13 11 (2.08%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.70%) Scala
15 7 (1.32%) Korn
16 4 (0.76%) Delphi
16 4 (0.76%) Pascal
16 4 (0.76%) RPG
Qualifications
1 70 (13.23%) Degree
2 60 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 48 (9.07%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.76%) PhD
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.57%) RHCE
11 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.38%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.19%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.54%) QA
3 20 (3.78%) GDPR
4 17 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.57%) SLA
7 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.38%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 146 (27.60%) Docker
2 30 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) Firmware
5 2 (0.38%) Samba
6 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 155 (29.30%) Kubernetes
2 105 (19.85%) Terraform
3 31 (5.86%) Grafana
4 28 (5.29%) Ansible
5 27 (5.10%) Argo
6 19 (3.59%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.89%) Kibana
8 7 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.32%) Puppet
9 6 (1.13%) Istio
9 6 (1.13%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.57%) Plesk
10 3 (0.57%) Rancher
11 2 (0.38%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.38%) Nagios
11 2 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 65 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 53 (10.02%) Oracle
3 24 (4.54%) Google
4 16 (3.02%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.46%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.70%) Splunk
8 8 (1.51%) Dell
9 7 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.13%) Databricks
11 5 (0.95%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.95%) VMware
12 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.76%) Confluent
12 4 (0.76%) IBM
12 4 (0.76%) Netezza
12 4 (0.76%) Pega
12 4 (0.76%) Remedy
13 3 (0.57%) Revolut
14 2 (0.38%) TikTok