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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 138 190
Rank change year-on-year -86 +52 -22
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 546 1,179 836
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.19% 1.96% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.89% 12.19% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 394 520 692
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £89,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £112,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.43% +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 6,143 9,670 10,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.43% 16.12% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,128 5,493 7,926
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% -0.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £97,290
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 18 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 18 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 -25 321 £100,000 +17.65% 525
North of England -11 84 £67,500 -2.61% 109
South East -102 67 £65,000 +8.33% 92
Midlands +22 40 £55,200 -15.08% 37
North West -28 38 £70,000 +12.00% 78
South West -22 37 £54,000 -16.92% 31
Yorkshire +15 31 £70,000 -3.45% 23
West Midlands +42 29 £70,000 +7.69% 24
North East +14 15 £52,500 -24.25% 8
East of England -48 15 £42,500 -26.09% 19
East Midlands +10 11 £50,000 -9.09% 13
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 72 (13.19%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.03%) Confluence
4 19 (3.48%) WebSphere
5 18 (3.30%) Tomcat
6 16 (2.93%) WebSphere Application Server
7 10 (1.83%) nginx
8 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.10%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.73%) Apache
10 4 (0.73%) JBoss
11 3 (0.55%) CMS
11 3 (0.55%) IIS
11 3 (0.55%) Luigi
11 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
11 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.37%) SAS
13 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (1.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Notion
3 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 399 (73.08%) AWS
2 178 (32.60%) Azure
3 162 (29.67%) GCP
4 86 (15.75%) Serverless
5 77 (14.10%) dbt
6 63 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
7 56 (10.26%) GitHub
8 55 (10.07%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (9.34%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (8.42%) Amazon S3
11 40 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (6.41%) SaaS
13 31 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (4.58%) Power Platform
15 22 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (3.66%) Route 53
17 19 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (3.30%) Amazon ECR
19 17 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
20 16 (2.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.66%) SSL
2 18 (3.30%) Firewall
3 13 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.65%) DNS
4 9 (1.65%) HTTP
5 8 (1.47%) FTP
5 8 (1.47%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.47%) SAN
5 8 (1.47%) SSH
6 7 (1.28%) IMAP
6 7 (1.28%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (1.28%) SMTP
7 6 (1.10%) VPN
8 5 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.73%) MQTT
10 3 (0.55%) Asterisk PBX
10 3 (0.55%) Multicast
11 2 (0.37%) AMQP
11 2 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (22.89%) Relational Database
2 119 (21.79%) SQL Server
3 114 (20.88%) MySQL
4 97 (17.77%) MongoDB
5 78 (14.29%) NoSQL
6 60 (10.99%) Apache Iceberg
7 57 (10.44%) Amazon Athena
8 55 (10.07%) Apache Arrow
8 55 (10.07%) Dremio
9 50 (9.16%) RDBMS
10 40 (7.33%) Amazon RDS
11 37 (6.78%) Redis
12 34 (6.23%) Data Warehouse
13 30 (5.49%) DynamoDB
14 28 (5.13%) DB2
15 26 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (4.21%) Power BI
17 21 (3.85%) Big Data
18 20 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
19 15 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 102 (18.68%) Jenkins
2 87 (15.93%) Git
3 45 (8.24%) JUnit
4 40 (7.33%) JIRA
5 31 (5.68%) Mockito
6 29 (5.31%) GitLab
7 27 (4.95%) JMeter
8 25 (4.58%) Selenium
9 24 (4.40%) Cucumber
10 18 (3.30%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.83%) Maven
12 8 (1.47%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.28%) CircleCI
13 7 (1.28%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.28%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.28%) Vagrant
14 6 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (1.10%) DbUnit
14 6 (1.10%) jMock
14 6 (1.10%) REST Assured
General
1 164 (30.04%) Finance
2 120 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 66 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 64 (11.72%) Front Office
5 51 (9.34%) Banking
6 39 (7.14%) Law
7 36 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (6.41%) Marketing
9 21 (3.85%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.48%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.93%) Electronics
12 14 (2.56%) Investment Banking
13 13 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (2.38%) Retail
14 11 (2.01%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.83%) Advertising
16 6 (1.10%) Legal
17 5 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 235 (43.04%) Developer
2 119 (21.79%) Software Engineer
3 91 (16.67%) Senior
4 79 (14.47%) Python Developer
5 70 (12.82%) Lead
6 68 (12.45%) Python Engineer
7 66 (12.09%) AWS Engineer
8 65 (11.90%) Java Developer
9 60 (10.99%) AWS Developer
9 60 (10.99%) Python Software Engineer
10 59 (10.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 57 (10.44%) AWS Software Engineer
12 51 (9.34%) Full-Stack Developer
13 37 (6.78%) Java Engineer
14 32 (5.86%) Software Developer
15 31 (5.68%) Lead Developer
16 30 (5.49%) Data Engineer
17 25 (4.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 25 (4.58%) Linux Engineer
17 25 (4.58%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (30.40%) React
2 130 (23.81%) Node.js
3 102 (18.68%) Spring
4 98 (17.95%) AngularJS
5 93 (17.03%) Spring Boot
6 85 (15.57%) REST
7 83 (15.20%) RESTful
8 76 (13.92%) Vue
9 73 (13.37%) FastAPI
10 64 (11.72%) HTML
11 60 (10.99%) Kafka
12 57 (10.44%) NumPy
12 57 (10.44%) Pandas
13 55 (10.07%) Django
13 55 (10.07%) SciPy
14 45 (8.24%) CSS
15 43 (7.88%) Web Services
16 42 (7.69%) Flask
17 36 (6.59%) .NET
18 35 (6.41%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (10.81%) Equities
3 59 (10.81%) Fixed Income
3 59 (10.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 27 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
6 21 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.93%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.93%) Replication
9 12 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 11 (2.01%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.83%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (1.28%) Clustering
13 7 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.10%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 97 (17.77%) Linux
2 43 (7.88%) Windows
3 38 (6.96%) Unix
4 26 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.65%) VMS
7 8 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.28%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (1.10%) Debian
9 6 (1.10%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.73%) Android
10 4 (0.73%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.55%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.18%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (45.42%) Agile
2 210 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 187 (34.25%) Software Engineering
4 153 (28.02%) Microservices
5 137 (25.09%) Problem-Solving
6 126 (23.08%) DevOps
7 107 (19.60%) Fintech
7 107 (19.60%) Full-Stack Development
8 105 (19.23%) Containerisation
9 90 (16.48%) AI
10 80 (14.65%) Mentoring
11 72 (13.19%) Test Automation
12 71 (13.00%) TDD
13 64 (11.72%) Clean Code
14 60 (10.99%) Asset Management
14 60 (10.99%) ETL
15 59 (10.81%) Investment Management
16 57 (10.44%) Risk Management
17 55 (10.07%) Order Management
17 55 (10.07%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 296 (54.21%) Python
2 178 (32.60%) JavaScript
3 175 (32.05%) Java
4 156 (28.57%) SQL
5 135 (24.73%) TypeScript
6 40 (7.33%) C#
7 27 (4.95%) Shell Script
8 20 (3.66%) Bash
9 18 (3.30%) Go
9 18 (3.30%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.93%) PHP
11 14 (2.56%) Rust
12 10 (1.83%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.83%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.65%) Groovy
14 8 (1.47%) Korn
15 7 (1.28%) Delphi
15 7 (1.28%) Ruby
16 4 (0.73%) Scala
17 3 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 94 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 72 (13.19%) Degree
3 66 (12.09%) SC Cleared
4 38 (6.96%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (2.75%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.20%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.10%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.37%) HNC
12 2 (0.37%) HND
12 2 (0.37%) MCSA
12 2 (0.37%) MCSE
12 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.96%) QA
2 24 (4.40%) SLA
3 18 (3.30%) GDPR
4 17 (3.11%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.55%) NIST
6 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.55%) SEPA
7 2 (0.37%) PSD2
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) GAAP
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 209 (38.28%) Docker
2 9 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 8 (1.47%) Postfix
4 7 (1.28%) DFS Replication
4 7 (1.28%) Dovecot
4 7 (1.28%) Squid
5 5 (0.92%) zsh
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.37%) HDFS
6 2 (0.37%) NFS
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 167 (30.59%) Kubernetes
2 78 (14.29%) Terraform
3 32 (5.86%) Kibana
4 29 (5.31%) Grafana
5 21 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.48%) Ansible
7 7 (1.28%) Argo
7 7 (1.28%) Nessus
7 7 (1.28%) Proxmox
8 6 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.73%) logstash
10 4 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.55%) Puppet
12 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 2 (0.37%) Oozie
13 1 (0.18%) Ambari
13 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (15.02%) Oracle
2 34 (6.23%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.23%) Splunk
3 33 (6.04%) Google
4 30 (5.49%) Red Hat
5 25 (4.58%) Dynatrace
6 22 (4.03%) ServiceNow
7 20 (3.66%) IBM
7 20 (3.66%) SAP
8 18 (3.30%) Atlassian
8 18 (3.30%) Informatica
9 15 (2.75%) Databricks
9 15 (2.75%) Talend
10 10 (1.83%) Dell
10 10 (1.83%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.47%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.47%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.28%) RedGate
13 4 (0.73%) Pega
13 4 (0.73%) Vertica