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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 203 165
Rank change year-on-year -97 -38 +28
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 461 597 1,448
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.58% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.63% 9.04% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 349 450 1,048
10th Percentile £41,000 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £110,000
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 6,954 6,607 14,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.72% 17.44% 17.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,294 4,677 11,377
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +12.17% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £96,250
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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -102 186 £90,000 +2.86% 122
North of England -27 102 £67,500 - 26
South East -64 82 £57,500 -17.86% 54
Yorkshire -34 46 £52,130 -12.93% 5
North West -41 43 £72,500 +7.21% 12
South West -39 35 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Midlands -43 20 £55,200 -15.08% 15
East of England -35 19 £47,500 -17.39% 10
North East -31 13 £53,565 -22.80% 9
West Midlands -40 11 £47,500 -26.92% 7
East Midlands -49 9 £60,100 -14.14% 8
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 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (6.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.47%) Apache
3 15 (3.25%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.82%) Confluence
4 13 (2.82%) OpenStack
5 10 (2.17%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) Camunda
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.22%) WildFly
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.95%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 277 (60.09%) AWS
2 186 (40.35%) Azure
3 110 (23.86%) GCP
4 63 (13.67%) Serverless
5 50 (10.85%) GitHub
6 43 (9.33%) SaaS
7 37 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
9 34 (7.38%) Power Platform
10 32 (6.94%) Amazon S3
11 31 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
12 26 (5.64%) Azure Service Bus
13 25 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (5.42%) Azure AKS
14 23 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (4.99%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (4.34%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (4.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.47%) DNS
2 15 (3.25%) DHCP
3 14 (3.04%) Firewall
4 12 (2.60%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.95%) VPN
6 8 (1.74%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.74%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.74%) SAN
7 7 (1.52%) Broadband
7 7 (1.52%) Internet
7 7 (1.52%) Network Security
7 7 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.65%) VLAN
9 2 (0.43%) HTTP
9 2 (0.43%) LAN
9 2 (0.43%) PBX
9 2 (0.43%) WAN
10 1 (0.22%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.22%) LTE
10 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (24.73%) SQL Server
2 111 (24.08%) MongoDB
3 107 (23.21%) MySQL
4 90 (19.52%) NoSQL
5 87 (18.87%) Relational Database
6 32 (6.94%) DynamoDB
7 30 (6.51%) Power BI
8 28 (6.07%) Redis
9 24 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (4.56%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (3.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (3.04%) DB2
12 14 (3.04%) RDBMS
13 13 (2.82%) BigQuery
14 11 (2.39%) Pinecone
15 10 (2.17%) Oracle Database
16 9 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.95%) MariaDB
17 8 (1.74%) Big Data
17 8 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 113 (24.51%) Git
2 47 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 44 (9.54%) GitLab
4 24 (5.21%) JIRA
5 20 (4.34%) Bitbucket
5 20 (4.34%) JUnit
5 20 (4.34%) Selenium
6 18 (3.90%) Cucumber
6 18 (3.90%) TeamCity
7 10 (2.17%) Mockito
8 9 (1.95%) Vite
9 7 (1.52%) Maven
10 4 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.65%) Gradle
11 3 (0.65%) JMeter
12 2 (0.43%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.43%) Gatling
12 2 (0.43%) MSTest
12 2 (0.43%) Subversion
12 2 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 123 (26.68%) Social Skills
2 79 (17.14%) Finance
3 47 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.29%) Banking
6 27 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (5.86%) Retail
7 26 (5.64%) Law
8 19 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.69%) Front Office
10 13 (2.82%) Advertising
11 10 (2.17%) Games
11 10 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.52%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.08%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.65%) Automotive
15 3 (0.65%) Back Office
15 3 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 135 (29.28%) Developer
2 95 (20.61%) Senior
3 81 (17.57%) Software Engineer
4 68 (14.75%) Lead
5 45 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 39 (8.46%) Java Developer
6 39 (8.46%) Python Engineer
7 34 (7.38%) Data Engineer
8 32 (6.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 31 (6.72%) Java Engineer
10 25 (5.42%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
12 21 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
13 20 (4.34%) Senior DevOps
14 19 (4.12%) Analyst
14 19 (4.12%) Java Software Engineer
14 19 (4.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.90%) IT Support
15 18 (3.90%) Python Developer
15 18 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (30.37%) React
2 102 (22.13%) Node.js
3 76 (16.49%) RESTful
4 58 (12.58%) Spring
5 57 (12.36%) REST
6 55 (11.93%) Spring Boot
7 46 (9.98%) FastAPI
8 43 (9.33%) Kafka
9 39 (8.46%) Django
10 37 (8.03%) .NET
11 36 (7.81%) CSS
11 36 (7.81%) HTML
12 30 (6.51%) AngularJS
12 30 (6.51%) Elastic Stack
13 28 (6.07%) Flask
14 24 (5.21%) JSON
15 23 (4.99%) Next.js
15 23 (4.99%) Redux
15 23 (4.99%) Vue
16 20 (4.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 84 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 39 (8.46%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.64%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.47%) Derivative
6 16 (3.47%) Equities
6 16 (3.47%) Fixed Income
6 16 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.04%) Blog
8 13 (2.82%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.82%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.82%) Replication
9 10 (2.17%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.52%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.52%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 65 (14.10%) Linux
2 36 (7.81%) Windows
3 19 (4.12%) Unix
4 18 (3.90%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.08%) Android
7 5 (1.08%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.87%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.65%) CentOS
10 2 (0.43%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) Debian
11 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (46.20%) CI/CD
2 188 (40.78%) Agile
3 147 (31.89%) Software Engineering
4 144 (31.24%) Microservices
5 127 (27.55%) DevOps
6 116 (25.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 100 (21.69%) Test Automation
8 94 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
9 93 (20.17%) Containerisation
10 91 (19.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 88 (19.09%) Mentoring
12 84 (18.22%) AI
13 69 (14.97%) Scrum
14 64 (13.88%) Analytics
15 58 (12.58%) TDD
16 54 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 50 (10.85%) Data Modelling
18 46 (9.98%) Data Pipeline
19 45 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
20 44 (9.54%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 203 (44.03%) Python
2 163 (35.36%) Java
3 161 (34.92%) SQL
4 101 (21.91%) JavaScript
5 97 (21.04%) TypeScript
6 37 (8.03%) C#
7 36 (7.81%) Go
8 29 (6.29%) PowerShell
9 23 (4.99%) PHP
10 18 (3.90%) Bash
11 16 (3.47%) C
12 12 (2.60%) Delphi
13 11 (2.39%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.95%) C++
15 8 (1.74%) Scala
16 7 (1.52%) Korn
17 6 (1.30%) Shell Script
18 5 (1.08%) Ruby
19 4 (0.87%) Pascal
20 3 (0.65%) RPG
Qualifications
1 58 (12.58%) Degree
2 56 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 46 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.65%) RHCE
11 2 (0.43%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.43%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.68%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.56%) QA
3 15 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.04%) GDPR
5 8 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.65%) SLA
7 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.43%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 154 (33.41%) Docker
2 30 (6.51%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.95%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.43%) Samba
6 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 164 (35.57%) Kubernetes
2 111 (24.08%) Terraform
3 36 (7.81%) Grafana
4 29 (6.29%) Argo
5 28 (6.07%) Ansible
6 23 (4.99%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.30%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.30%) Puppet
8 5 (1.08%) Istio
9 4 (0.87%) Kibana
9 4 (0.87%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.87%) Nagios
9 4 (0.87%) Rancher
10 3 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.65%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.43%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.22%) Plesk
12 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 49 (10.63%) Oracle
2 48 (10.41%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.77%) Google
4 17 (3.69%) Red Hat
5 15 (3.25%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.74%) Dell
6 8 (1.74%) Informatica
7 7 (1.52%) Talend
8 6 (1.30%) Confluent
8 6 (1.30%) Databricks
9 5 (1.08%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.87%) Pega
10 4 (0.87%) VMware
11 3 (0.65%) IBM
11 3 (0.65%) Revolut
11 3 (0.65%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.65%) Splunk
12 2 (0.43%) D-Link