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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 222 163
Rank change year-on-year -78 -59 +26
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 479 592 1,485
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.52% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.84% 8.76% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 348 444 1,079
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +14.57% -12.71%
75th Percentile £90,625 £106,250 £90,625
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%

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 6,998 6,756 14,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.67% 17.35% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,339 4,646 11,411
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -87 198 £90,000 +2.86% 157
North of England -28 104 £67,500 -0.09% 41
South East -52 90 £57,500 -8.00% 49
North West -28 45 £70,905 +3.50% 17
Yorkshire -25 44 £52,130 -12.93% 12
South West -43 36 £62,500 -3.85% 15
East of England -32 18 £47,500 -5.00% 6
North East -25 15 £55,000 -20.73% 12
Midlands -42 14 £65,000 -1.89% 23
East Midlands -31 7 £65,000 -7.14% 12
West Midlands -39 7 £67,500 +3.85% 11
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 29 (6.05%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.76%) Apache
4 16 (3.34%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.92%) Confluence
6 13 (2.71%) OpenStack
7 10 (2.09%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.42%) Camunda
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.42%) WordPress
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) JBoss
9 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.21%) nginx
9 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Endur
1 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 293 (61.17%) AWS
2 186 (38.83%) Azure
3 107 (22.34%) GCP
4 68 (14.20%) Serverless
5 46 (9.60%) GitHub
5 46 (9.60%) SaaS
6 37 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
6 37 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (7.10%) Power Platform
8 33 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (6.47%) Amazon S3
10 27 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (5.22%) Azure AKS
12 24 (5.01%) Azure Service Bus
13 23 (4.80%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.55%) dbt
17 15 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.59%) Broadband
2 16 (3.34%) DNS
3 15 (3.13%) DHCP
3 15 (3.13%) Firewall
4 13 (2.71%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.88%) VPN
6 8 (1.67%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.67%) SAN
7 7 (1.46%) Internet
7 7 (1.46%) Network Security
7 7 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.63%) VLAN
9 2 (0.42%) LAN
9 2 (0.42%) PBX
9 2 (0.42%) WAN
10 1 (0.21%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.21%) HTTP
10 1 (0.21%) LTE
10 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (27.14%) MongoDB
2 108 (22.55%) MySQL
3 105 (21.92%) SQL Server
4 91 (19.00%) NoSQL
5 88 (18.37%) Relational Database
6 32 (6.68%) DynamoDB
7 30 (6.26%) Power BI
8 26 (5.43%) Redis
9 24 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (3.34%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (3.13%) RDBMS
13 13 (2.71%) BigQuery
13 13 (2.71%) DB2
14 11 (2.30%) Pinecone
15 10 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (2.09%) MariaDB
16 9 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.88%) Metadata
16 9 (1.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 113 (23.59%) Git
2 42 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 38 (7.93%) GitLab
4 25 (5.22%) JIRA
5 19 (3.97%) Bitbucket
6 17 (3.55%) TeamCity
7 13 (2.71%) JUnit
8 11 (2.30%) Mockito
8 11 (2.30%) Selenium
9 10 (2.09%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.88%) Vite
11 6 (1.25%) Maven
12 4 (0.84%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.84%) JMeter
13 2 (0.42%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.42%) ESLint
13 2 (0.42%) Gatling
13 2 (0.42%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.42%) Storybook
13 2 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 124 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 77 (16.08%) Finance
3 49 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.81%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.85%) Banking
5 28 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (5.85%) Retail
6 26 (5.43%) Law
7 25 (5.22%) Games
8 19 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.55%) Front Office
10 13 (2.71%) Advertising
11 12 (2.51%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.46%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.63%) Automotive
14 3 (0.63%) Back Office
14 3 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.63%) Legal
14 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 147 (30.69%) Developer
2 101 (21.09%) Senior
3 80 (16.70%) Software Engineer
4 72 (15.03%) Lead
5 51 (10.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 43 (8.98%) Python Engineer
7 38 (7.93%) Java Developer
8 34 (7.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 33 (6.89%) Data Engineer
10 30 (6.26%) Java Engineer
11 29 (6.05%) Lead Developer
12 27 (5.64%) Python Developer
13 24 (5.01%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
15 20 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
16 19 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 18 (3.76%) Analyst
17 18 (3.76%) IT Support
17 18 (3.76%) Java Software Engineer
17 18 (3.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (29.85%) React
2 109 (22.76%) Node.js
3 91 (19.00%) RESTful
4 63 (13.15%) REST
5 52 (10.86%) Spring
6 49 (10.23%) Spring Boot
7 46 (9.60%) FastAPI
8 44 (9.19%) .NET
9 42 (8.77%) Kafka
10 40 (8.35%) CSS
10 40 (8.35%) HTML
11 31 (6.47%) AngularJS
11 31 (6.47%) Django
12 27 (5.64%) JSON
13 26 (5.43%) Next.js
14 24 (5.01%) Redux
14 24 (5.01%) Vue
15 23 (4.80%) Flask
16 22 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (4.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 101 (21.09%) Cloud Native
2 54 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.59%) Low-Code
4 22 (4.59%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.76%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.34%) Derivative
7 16 (3.34%) Equities
7 16 (3.34%) Fixed Income
8 15 (3.13%) Algorithms
8 15 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.92%) Blog
10 13 (2.71%) Data Structures
11 12 (2.51%) Replication
12 11 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (2.09%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.46%) Driving Licence
15 7 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.78%) Linux
2 37 (7.72%) Windows
3 19 (3.97%) Unix
3 19 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.25%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.04%) Android
6 5 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.84%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.63%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Debian
9 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (47.18%) CI/CD
2 189 (39.46%) Agile
3 159 (33.19%) Software Engineering
4 141 (29.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 137 (28.60%) Microservices
6 120 (25.05%) DevOps
7 110 (22.96%) Test Automation
8 109 (22.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 98 (20.46%) AI
10 89 (18.58%) Containerisation
10 89 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
11 86 (17.95%) Mentoring
12 74 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 70 (14.61%) Scrum
14 65 (13.57%) Analytics
15 60 (12.53%) Observability
16 52 (10.86%) TDD
17 50 (10.44%) API Design
17 50 (10.44%) Data Modelling
18 46 (9.60%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 217 (45.30%) Python
2 154 (32.15%) SQL
3 153 (31.94%) Java
4 107 (22.34%) JavaScript
5 105 (21.92%) TypeScript
6 49 (10.23%) Go
7 42 (8.77%) C#
8 28 (5.85%) PowerShell
9 24 (5.01%) PHP
10 19 (3.97%) Bash
11 15 (3.13%) C
12 9 (1.88%) C++
12 9 (1.88%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.67%) Scala
14 7 (1.46%) Korn
14 7 (1.46%) Ruby
14 7 (1.46%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.04%) Delphi
16 4 (0.84%) Pascal
17 3 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 59 (12.32%) Degree
2 57 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 46 (9.60%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.63%) RHCE
12 2 (0.42%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.42%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.38%) QA
3 15 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.92%) GDPR
5 8 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.42%) WCAG
8 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 151 (31.52%) Docker
2 30 (6.26%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) Firmware
5 2 (0.42%) Samba
6 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 159 (33.19%) Kubernetes
2 111 (23.17%) Terraform
3 29 (6.05%) Ansible
3 29 (6.05%) Argo
4 28 (5.85%) Grafana
5 21 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.25%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.25%) Puppet
7 5 (1.04%) Istio
7 5 (1.04%) Kibana
8 4 (0.84%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.84%) Nagios
8 4 (0.84%) Rancher
9 3 (0.63%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.63%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.42%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.42%) Plesk
11 1 (0.21%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 51 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 46 (9.60%) Oracle
3 22 (4.59%) Google
4 17 (3.55%) Red Hat
5 15 (3.13%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.67%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.67%) Dell
7 7 (1.46%) Databricks
8 6 (1.25%) Confluent
8 6 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.25%) Informatica
9 5 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.04%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.04%) Talend
10 4 (0.84%) Pega
10 4 (0.84%) Splunk
10 4 (0.84%) VMware
11 3 (0.63%) Revolut
12 2 (0.42%) Netezza
12 2 (0.42%) Remedy