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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 144 190
Rank change year-on-year -80 +46 -8
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 529 1,180 813
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.13% 1.97% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.64% 11.84% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 386 530 678
10th Percentile £42,213 £44,925 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £89,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%

All Database and 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 6,124 9,966 9,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.05% 16.65% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,114 5,745 7,677
10th Percentile £34,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 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
London -27 312 £100,000 +17.65% 176
North of England -22 79 £68,750 +5.77% 44
South East -102 66 £63,750 -1.92% 125
Midlands +37 38 £55,100 -15.23% 21
South West -38 37 £54,000 -16.92% 28
Yorkshire +19 34 £70,000 -1.75% 11
North West -15 33 £70,000 +16.67% 30
West Midlands +43 25 £61,350 -5.62% 14
East Midlands +11 13 £55,000 - 7
East of England -35 13 £42,500 -26.09% 13
North East +17 12 £52,500 -24.25% 3
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 69 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.54%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.59%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.21%) Tomcat
5 16 (3.02%) Confluence
5 16 (3.02%) WebSphere Application Server
6 9 (1.70%) nginx
7 8 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.13%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.76%) Apache
10 3 (0.57%) CMS
10 3 (0.57%) JBoss
10 3 (0.57%) Luigi
10 3 (0.57%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.38%) IIS
11 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.38%) SAS
12 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (1.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 6 (1.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.19%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 381 (72.02%) AWS
2 178 (33.65%) Azure
3 161 (30.43%) GCP
4 83 (15.69%) Serverless
5 72 (13.61%) dbt
6 59 (11.15%) Amazon ECS
7 50 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
7 50 (9.45%) GitHub
8 45 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (7.75%) Amazon S3
10 38 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
11 35 (6.62%) SaaS
12 28 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (4.91%) Power Platform
14 18 (3.40%) Amazon ECR
15 15 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (2.65%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.59%) SSL
2 17 (3.21%) Firewall
3 13 (2.46%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.51%) DNS
4 8 (1.51%) HTTP
4 8 (1.51%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.51%) SAN
5 7 (1.32%) FTP
6 6 (1.13%) IMAP
6 6 (1.13%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (1.13%) SMTP
6 6 (1.13%) SSH
7 5 (0.95%) VPN
7 5 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.57%) MQTT
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.38%) Multicast
9 2 (0.38%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.38%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (23.44%) SQL Server
2 119 (22.50%) Relational Database
3 111 (20.98%) MySQL
4 82 (15.50%) MongoDB
5 77 (14.56%) NoSQL
6 55 (10.40%) Apache Iceberg
7 52 (9.83%) Amazon Athena
8 50 (9.45%) Apache Arrow
8 50 (9.45%) Dremio
9 45 (8.51%) RDBMS
10 37 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (6.99%) Redis
11 34 (6.43%) DB2
12 32 (6.05%) Amazon RDS
13 30 (5.67%) DynamoDB
14 24 (4.54%) Power BI
15 21 (3.97%) Big Data
16 20 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
18 15 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 97 (18.34%) Jenkins
2 87 (16.45%) Git
3 39 (7.37%) JUnit
4 33 (6.24%) JIRA
5 26 (4.91%) GitLab
5 26 (4.91%) JMeter
5 26 (4.91%) Mockito
6 24 (4.54%) Cucumber
7 23 (4.35%) Selenium
8 18 (3.40%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.70%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.51%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.13%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.13%) REST Assured
11 6 (1.13%) Vagrant
12 5 (0.95%) Maven
12 5 (0.95%) Subversion
13 4 (0.76%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.76%) Vite
General
1 146 (27.60%) Finance
2 119 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 58 (10.96%) Front Office
4 53 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.70%) Banking
6 35 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (5.86%) Law
8 28 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (5.10%) Marketing
10 15 (2.84%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.65%) Retail
11 14 (2.65%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.46%) Investment Banking
13 12 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (2.08%) Electronics
14 11 (2.08%) Financial Institution
14 11 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.51%) Advertising
16 6 (1.13%) Legal
17 5 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 227 (42.91%) Developer
2 103 (19.47%) Software Engineer
3 93 (17.58%) Senior
4 75 (14.18%) Python Developer
5 66 (12.48%) Lead
6 60 (11.34%) Python Engineer
7 59 (11.15%) AWS Engineer
8 58 (10.96%) Java Developer
9 55 (10.40%) AWS Developer
10 53 (10.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 53 (10.02%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (9.83%) Python Software Engineer
12 51 (9.64%) AWS Software Engineer
13 32 (6.05%) Software Developer
14 30 (5.67%) Data Engineer
15 27 (5.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 26 (4.91%) Lead Developer
17 25 (4.73%) Java Engineer
18 24 (4.54%) Linux Support
19 23 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (31.00%) React
2 121 (22.87%) Node.js
3 89 (16.82%) AngularJS
4 87 (16.45%) Spring
5 83 (15.69%) REST
6 79 (14.93%) RESTful
6 79 (14.93%) Spring Boot
7 73 (13.80%) Vue
8 67 (12.67%) FastAPI
9 65 (12.29%) HTML
10 56 (10.59%) Django
11 53 (10.02%) Kafka
12 52 (9.83%) NumPy
12 52 (9.83%) Pandas
13 50 (9.45%) SciPy
14 47 (8.88%) CSS
15 42 (7.94%) .NET
16 41 (7.75%) Flask
17 36 (6.81%) Web Services
18 28 (5.29%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.48%) Cloud Native
2 62 (11.72%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (10.02%) Equities
3 53 (10.02%) Fixed Income
3 53 (10.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (5.48%) Management Information System
5 26 (4.91%) Linux Command Line
6 23 (4.35%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.84%) Replication
9 14 (2.65%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.89%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.70%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.51%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (1.51%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 5 (0.95%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 88 (16.64%) Linux
2 42 (7.94%) Windows
3 37 (6.99%) Unix
4 26 (4.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.51%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.51%) VMS
5 8 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.13%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.95%) Android
8 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.95%) Debian
9 3 (0.57%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.19%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (43.29%) Agile
2 209 (39.51%) CI/CD
3 174 (32.89%) Software Engineering
4 150 (28.36%) Microservices
5 137 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
6 128 (24.20%) DevOps
7 106 (20.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 103 (19.47%) Fintech
9 96 (18.15%) Containerisation
10 88 (16.64%) AI
11 77 (14.56%) Mentoring
12 69 (13.04%) Test Automation
13 62 (11.72%) Clean Code
13 62 (11.72%) TDD
14 59 (11.15%) ETL
15 54 (10.21%) Analytics
15 54 (10.21%) Asset Management
15 54 (10.21%) Investment Management
16 53 (10.02%) Data Engineering
17 52 (9.83%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 287 (54.25%) Python
2 167 (31.57%) JavaScript
3 158 (29.87%) Java
4 153 (28.92%) SQL
5 125 (23.63%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.32%) C#
7 26 (4.91%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.40%) Go
8 18 (3.40%) PHP
9 17 (3.21%) Bash
10 16 (3.02%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.27%) Rust
12 8 (1.51%) Delphi
12 8 (1.51%) Groovy
12 8 (1.51%) Korn
13 7 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.32%) Ruby
13 7 (1.32%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.76%) R
14 4 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.23%) Degree
3 56 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.99%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.40%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.89%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.51%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.38%) HNC
13 2 (0.38%) HND
13 2 (0.38%) MCSA
13 2 (0.38%) MCSE
13 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.19%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.99%) QA
2 23 (4.35%) SLA
3 18 (3.40%) GDPR
4 16 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.57%) NIST
6 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.57%) SEPA
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) PSD2
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) GAAP
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 199 (37.62%) Docker
2 8 (1.51%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 6 (1.13%) DFS Replication
3 6 (1.13%) Dovecot
3 6 (1.13%) Postfix
3 6 (1.13%) Squid
4 4 (0.76%) zsh
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.38%) HDFS
5 2 (0.38%) NFS
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 162 (30.62%) Kubernetes
2 78 (14.74%) Terraform
3 31 (5.86%) Kibana
4 28 (5.29%) Grafana
5 20 (3.78%) Ansible
5 20 (3.78%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.32%) Argo
7 6 (1.13%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (1.13%) Nessus
7 6 (1.13%) Proxmox
8 4 (0.76%) logstash
8 4 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.57%) Puppet
9 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.38%) Nagios
10 2 (0.38%) Oozie
11 1 (0.19%) Ambari
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Rancher
11 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (13.99%) Oracle
2 33 (6.24%) Splunk
3 32 (6.05%) Microsoft
4 31 (5.86%) Google
4 31 (5.86%) Red Hat
5 24 (4.54%) Dynatrace
6 21 (3.97%) IBM
6 21 (3.97%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.21%) Informatica
8 15 (2.84%) SAP
9 14 (2.65%) Atlassian
10 13 (2.46%) Talend
11 12 (2.27%) Databricks
12 10 (1.89%) Dell
13 9 (1.70%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.32%) Salesforce
15 6 (1.13%) Jaspersoft
16 4 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
16 4 (0.76%) RedGate
16 4 (0.76%) WSO2