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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 214 168
Rank change year-on-year -67 -46 +43
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 603 657 1,476
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 1.52% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.70% 9.64% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 460 480 961
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,875 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.59% +20.00% -10.71%

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 7,834 6,816 14,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.02% 15.77% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,325 4,534 10,713
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,475
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £43,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 July 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 July 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 -81 253 £85,000 -14.57% 172
North of England -22 119 £65,000 -3.70% 42
South East -34 118 £59,500 +8.18% 46
North West -16 53 £67,500 - 24
South West -42 45 £62,500 +4.17% 48
Yorkshire -24 33 £65,000 -3.70% 10
North East -24 33 £65,000 +23.81% 8
East of England -21 24 £52,500 +64.06% 12
Midlands -51 22 £75,000 +11.11% 19
West Midlands -28 18 £77,500 +14.81% 10
East Midlands -29 4 £65,000 +18.18% 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 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.32%) Apache
3 20 (3.32%) Confluence
4 14 (2.32%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.00%) WordPress
7 5 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.66%) Camunda
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Documentum
10 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.17%) Moodle
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (2.16%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 352 (58.37%) AWS
2 234 (38.81%) Azure
3 107 (17.74%) GCP
4 63 (10.45%) GitHub
4 63 (10.45%) Serverless
5 56 (9.29%) SaaS
6 43 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
7 38 (6.30%) Amazon S3
8 37 (6.14%) Power Platform
9 34 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
10 32 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
11 27 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
12 25 (4.15%) Azure AKS
13 24 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (2.49%) Azure Functions
16 15 (2.49%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.14%) Broadband
2 16 (2.65%) Firewall
3 14 (2.32%) DNS
4 13 (2.16%) DHCP
5 11 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.49%) VPN
7 8 (1.33%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (1.33%) SAN
8 5 (0.83%) Network Security
8 5 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.50%) VLAN
10 2 (0.33%) HTTP
10 2 (0.33%) PBX
11 1 (0.17%) Internet
11 1 (0.17%) LAN
11 1 (0.17%) LTE
11 1 (0.17%) SMS
11 1 (0.17%) SSL
11 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (27.69%) MongoDB
2 150 (24.88%) MySQL
3 99 (16.42%) SQL Server
4 97 (16.09%) Relational Database
5 96 (15.92%) NoSQL
6 56 (9.29%) Redis
7 32 (5.31%) Power BI
8 28 (4.64%) DynamoDB
9 27 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (3.15%) Metadata
13 16 (2.65%) Big Data
14 15 (2.49%) Apache Cassandra
15 14 (2.32%) Amazon Aurora
16 13 (2.16%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.99%) Pinecone
17 12 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 11 (1.82%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 113 (18.74%) Git
2 42 (6.97%) GitLab
3 33 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 23 (3.81%) JIRA
5 20 (3.32%) JUnit
6 16 (2.65%) Mockito
7 15 (2.49%) TeamCity
8 13 (2.16%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.66%) JMeter
9 10 (1.66%) Vite
10 8 (1.33%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.00%) Maven
11 6 (1.00%) Selenium
12 4 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.50%) DBeaver
13 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.50%) Gatling
13 3 (0.50%) Storybook
14 2 (0.33%) ESLint
General
1 135 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 83 (13.76%) Finance
3 76 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.64%) Games
7 29 (4.81%) Retail
8 27 (4.48%) Law
9 24 (3.98%) Banking
10 19 (3.15%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.65%) Front Office
11 16 (2.65%) Legal
12 15 (2.49%) Advertising
13 11 (1.82%) Legal Technology
14 7 (1.16%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.16%) Aviation
15 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.83%) Automotive
16 5 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 182 (30.18%) Developer
2 133 (22.06%) Senior
3 128 (21.23%) Software Engineer
4 111 (18.41%) Lead
5 57 (9.45%) Python Engineer
6 54 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 46 (7.63%) Lead Developer
8 44 (7.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 42 (6.97%) Data Engineer
9 42 (6.97%) Python Developer
10 41 (6.80%) Lead Software Engineer
11 36 (5.97%) Architect
12 35 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 31 (5.14%) Java Developer
13 31 (5.14%) Java Engineer
14 27 (4.48%) Senior Developer
14 27 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (3.98%) Ruby Developer
16 21 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (23.55%) React
2 141 (23.38%) Node.js
3 115 (19.07%) RESTful
4 85 (14.10%) REST
5 72 (11.94%) Spring
6 69 (11.44%) Spring Boot
7 64 (10.61%) Kafka
8 55 (9.12%) FastAPI
9 49 (8.13%) CSS
10 44 (7.30%) Next.js
11 43 (7.13%) HTML
12 41 (6.80%) JSON
13 39 (6.47%) .NET
14 31 (5.14%) AngularJS
15 28 (4.64%) Ruby on Rails
16 27 (4.48%) Django
17 26 (4.31%) Flask
17 26 (4.31%) Vue
18 24 (3.98%) JWT
18 24 (3.98%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 137 (22.72%) Cloud Native
2 68 (11.28%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.47%) Low-Code
4 32 (5.31%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (4.98%) Onboarding
6 25 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (3.81%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.48%) Algorithms
9 19 (3.15%) Blog
10 18 (2.99%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.65%) AI Agents
11 16 (2.65%) Derivative
11 16 (2.65%) Equities
11 16 (2.65%) Fixed Income
12 14 (2.32%) Replication
13 13 (2.16%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.66%) EPoS
14 10 (1.66%) iSeries
14 10 (1.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 86 (14.26%) Linux
2 41 (6.80%) Windows
3 19 (3.15%) Unix
4 17 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.50%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Debian
9 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (44.61%) CI/CD
2 222 (36.82%) Software Engineering
3 212 (35.16%) Agile
4 169 (28.03%) Microservices
5 166 (27.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 147 (24.38%) AI
7 141 (23.38%) DevOps
8 137 (22.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 126 (20.90%) Mentoring
10 125 (20.73%) Test Automation
11 114 (18.91%) Containerisation
12 104 (17.25%) Observability
13 102 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 99 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
15 82 (13.60%) Analytics
16 76 (12.60%) API Design
17 71 (11.77%) Data Modelling
18 70 (11.61%) TDD
19 66 (10.95%) Scrum
20 65 (10.78%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 260 (43.12%) Python
2 188 (31.18%) SQL
3 177 (29.35%) Java
4 122 (20.23%) TypeScript
5 120 (19.90%) JavaScript
6 51 (8.46%) Go
7 46 (7.63%) C#
8 39 (6.47%) PowerShell
9 32 (5.31%) Bash
10 28 (4.64%) Ruby
11 23 (3.81%) PHP
12 14 (2.32%) C++
12 14 (2.32%) Scala
13 12 (1.99%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.66%) RPG
14 10 (1.66%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.00%) C
15 6 (1.00%) Korn
16 4 (0.66%) Delphi
16 4 (0.66%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 81 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.44%) Degree
3 59 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.83%) PhD
11 4 (0.66%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.50%) RHCE
13 2 (0.33%) CISSP
13 2 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.33%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.33%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.12%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.15%) QA
3 22 (3.65%) GDPR
4 16 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.50%) SLA
7 2 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.33%) WCAG
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.17%) MiFID
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 163 (27.03%) Docker
2 28 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) Firmware
5 2 (0.33%) Samba
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 163 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 119 (19.73%) Terraform
3 35 (5.80%) Grafana
4 29 (4.81%) Ansible
4 29 (4.81%) Argo
5 21 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.66%) Kibana
7 7 (1.16%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.16%) Puppet
8 6 (1.00%) Istio
8 6 (1.00%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.50%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.50%) Plesk
9 3 (0.50%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.50%) Rancher
9 3 (0.50%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.33%) Nagios
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 66 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.95%) Oracle
3 30 (4.98%) Google
4 21 (3.48%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.49%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.66%) Databricks
7 10 (1.66%) IBM
8 9 (1.49%) Splunk
9 8 (1.33%) Dell
10 7 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.83%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.66%) Confluent
12 4 (0.66%) Netezza
12 4 (0.66%) Pega
12 4 (0.66%) Remedy
12 4 (0.66%) VMware
13 3 (0.50%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.50%) Revolut
14 2 (0.33%) WSO2