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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 137 173
Rank change year-on-year -91 +36 +3
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 473 1,088 803
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.92% 2.13% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.92% 11.90% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 343 490 678
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £104,375 £100,000 £89,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £118,875 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -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 5,973 9,142 9,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.64% 17.92% 21.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,929 5,272 7,287
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% -2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £96,723
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -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 December 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 December 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 -44 274 £95,000 +8.57% 125
North of England +7 81 £70,000 +1.00% 49
South East -110 58 £62,500 -19.35% 46
Yorkshire +15 43 £70,000 -3.45% 17
Midlands -13 31 £60,100 -7.54% 13
North West -14 29 £73,801 +20.49% 29
South West -35 29 £50,000 -23.08% 24
West Midlands +19 21 £61,350 -5.62% 8
East of England -39 13 £42,500 -26.09% 15
East Midlands -23 10 £60,100 +0.17% 5
North East +4 9 £53,850 -22.30% 4
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 51 (10.78%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.29%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.02%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.59%) Tomcat
5 16 (3.38%) Confluence
5 16 (3.38%) WebSphere Application Server
6 13 (2.75%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.48%) nginx
8 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.85%) Apache
10 3 (0.63%) CMS
10 3 (0.63%) Luigi
11 2 (0.42%) Camunda
11 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.21%) IIS
12 1 (0.21%) JBoss
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Endur
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 335 (70.82%) AWS
2 157 (33.19%) Azure
3 129 (27.27%) GCP
4 81 (17.12%) Serverless
5 55 (11.63%) dbt
6 54 (11.42%) GitHub
7 52 (10.99%) Amazon ECS
8 49 (10.36%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (9.73%) Amazon S3
10 38 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (7.82%) SaaS
12 34 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
16 21 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
17 20 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (4.23%) Power Platform
18 18 (3.81%) Amazon ECR
19 16 (3.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.02%) SSL
2 13 (2.75%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.54%) Firewall
4 6 (1.27%) DNS
4 6 (1.27%) HTTP
5 5 (1.06%) iSCSI
5 5 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (1.06%) SAN
5 5 (1.06%) VPN
5 5 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.85%) FTP
6 4 (0.85%) IMAP
6 4 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.85%) SMTP
6 4 (0.85%) SSH
7 3 (0.63%) MQTT
8 2 (0.42%) Internet
8 2 (0.42%) Multicast
8 2 (0.42%) RTMP
8 2 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (25.58%) SQL Server
2 106 (22.41%) Relational Database
3 98 (20.72%) MySQL
4 82 (17.34%) MongoDB
5 80 (16.91%) NoSQL
6 40 (8.46%) Apache Iceberg
7 37 (7.82%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (7.82%) DB2
7 37 (7.82%) RDBMS
8 35 (7.40%) Amazon Athena
8 35 (7.40%) Apache Arrow
8 35 (7.40%) Dremio
9 34 (7.19%) Redis
10 33 (6.98%) DynamoDB
11 25 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (4.02%) Power BI
13 18 (3.81%) Apache Cassandra
13 18 (3.81%) Big Data
14 16 (3.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 97 (20.51%) Jenkins
2 89 (18.82%) Git
3 32 (6.77%) JUnit
4 30 (6.34%) JIRA
5 27 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 27 (5.71%) GitLab
6 24 (5.07%) Selenium
7 22 (4.65%) JMeter
8 20 (4.23%) Bitbucket
8 20 (4.23%) Mockito
9 12 (2.54%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.48%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.27%) Vite
12 5 (1.06%) REST Assured
13 4 (0.85%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.85%) Gradle
13 4 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.85%) Subversion
13 4 (0.85%) Vagrant
14 3 (0.63%) Maven
General
1 121 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 110 (23.26%) Finance
3 42 (8.88%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.61%) Front Office
6 35 (7.40%) Banking
7 21 (4.44%) Law
8 18 (3.81%) Marketing
9 16 (3.38%) Retail
10 12 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.54%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.69%) Advertising
13 8 (1.69%) Electronics
13 8 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.27%) Legal
15 3 (0.63%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 197 (41.65%) Developer
2 79 (16.70%) Software Engineer
3 78 (16.49%) Senior
4 58 (12.26%) Python Developer
5 55 (11.63%) Java Developer
6 52 (10.99%) Lead
7 51 (10.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 44 (9.30%) Python Engineer
9 43 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
10 41 (8.67%) AWS Developer
11 39 (8.25%) Python Software Engineer
12 36 (7.61%) AWS Software Engineer
13 35 (7.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 31 (6.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 28 (5.92%) Software Developer
16 25 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
17 24 (5.07%) Data Engineer
18 23 (4.86%) Lead Developer
19 22 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 21 (4.44%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (30.44%) React
2 106 (22.41%) Node.js
3 81 (17.12%) Spring
4 74 (15.64%) REST
4 74 (15.64%) RESTful
5 73 (15.43%) Spring Boot
6 67 (14.16%) AngularJS
7 58 (12.26%) FastAPI
8 57 (12.05%) HTML
9 56 (11.84%) Django
10 55 (11.63%) Vue
11 49 (10.36%) Kafka
12 44 (9.30%) .NET
13 43 (9.09%) CSS
14 36 (7.61%) Flask
14 36 (7.61%) NumPy
14 36 (7.61%) Pandas
15 35 (7.40%) SciPy
16 34 (7.19%) Elastic Stack
16 34 (7.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
2 60 (12.68%) Cloud Native
3 35 (7.40%) Equities
3 35 (7.40%) Fixed Income
3 35 (7.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 27 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.86%) Linux Command Line
5 23 (4.86%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.96%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.75%) Replication
9 12 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (2.33%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.27%) Clustering
14 4 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 76 (16.07%) Linux
2 38 (8.03%) Windows
3 34 (7.19%) Unix
4 24 (5.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.90%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.48%) Android
6 7 (1.48%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.27%) VMS
8 5 (1.06%) Debian
8 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.21%) Fedora
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (43.97%) CI/CD
2 197 (41.65%) Agile
3 153 (32.35%) Microservices
4 144 (30.44%) Software Engineering
5 129 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (26.22%) DevOps
7 108 (22.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 94 (19.87%) Containerisation
9 82 (17.34%) Fintech
10 80 (16.91%) AI
11 62 (13.11%) Test Automation
12 61 (12.90%) Mentoring
13 57 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
14 56 (11.84%) TDD
15 53 (11.21%) ETL
16 51 (10.78%) Clean Code
16 51 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
17 48 (10.15%) Scrum
18 46 (9.73%) Analytics
18 46 (9.73%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 252 (53.28%) Python
2 145 (30.66%) SQL
3 142 (30.02%) JavaScript
4 141 (29.81%) Java
5 105 (22.20%) TypeScript
6 40 (8.46%) C#
7 21 (4.44%) Go
8 19 (4.02%) Shell Script
9 14 (2.96%) PHP
10 13 (2.75%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.90%) Rust
12 8 (1.69%) Bash
12 8 (1.69%) Delphi
13 7 (1.48%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.27%) C
14 6 (1.27%) Ruby
15 5 (1.06%) Korn
16 4 (0.85%) Groovy
17 3 (0.63%) RPG
17 3 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 62 (13.11%) Degree
3 46 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.19%) AWS Certification
5 24 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.81%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (2.54%) AWS Certified Developer
7 12 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.42%) HNC
10 2 (0.42%) HND
10 2 (0.42%) MCSA
10 2 (0.42%) MCSE
10 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.21%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.07%) QA
2 21 (4.44%) SLA
3 12 (2.54%) GDPR
4 10 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.63%) SEPA
7 2 (0.42%) PSD2
8 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 188 (39.75%) Docker
2 5 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.06%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (0.85%) DFS Replication
3 4 (0.85%) Dovecot
3 4 (0.85%) Postfix
3 4 (0.85%) Squid
4 2 (0.42%) NFS
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) zsh
Systems Management
1 149 (31.50%) Kubernetes
2 83 (17.55%) Terraform
3 24 (5.07%) Ansible
4 23 (4.86%) Grafana
4 23 (4.86%) Kibana
5 16 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.90%) Argo
7 6 (1.27%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.85%) Nessus
9 4 (0.85%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.85%) Puppet
10 3 (0.63%) Nagios
11 2 (0.42%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.42%) Rancher
12 1 (0.21%) Ambari
12 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (14.16%) Oracle
2 28 (5.92%) Red Hat
3 25 (5.29%) Google
4 23 (4.86%) Splunk
5 22 (4.65%) IBM
5 22 (4.65%) Microsoft
6 18 (3.81%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.59%) Dynatrace
7 17 (3.59%) Informatica
8 15 (3.17%) Atlassian
8 15 (3.17%) Talend
9 9 (1.90%) SAP
10 8 (1.69%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.48%) Dell
12 4 (0.85%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (0.85%) Pega
12 4 (0.85%) RedGate
12 4 (0.85%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.85%) WSO2
13 3 (0.63%) CA Agile Central