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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 227 157
Rank change year-on-year -66 -70 +31
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 501 587 1,515
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.49% 1.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.05% 8.99% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 367 439 1,083
10th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £88,148 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £137,500 £115,000
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 7,108 6,530 14,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.65% 16.63% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,504 4,469 11,393
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,125 £115,000 £98,750
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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -97 195 £85,000 -5.56% 150
North of England -3 116 £67,500 -0.09% 38
South East -20 104 £57,500 +9.52% 37
Yorkshire -10 50 £60,000 - 6
North West -6 43 £69,310 -0.11% 26
South West -44 37 £62,500 -3.85% 13
North East -25 23 £65,000 +4.00% 6
East of England -31 18 £55,000 +48.65% 9
Midlands -47 13 £68,405 +1.25% 15
West Midlands -54 10 £74,655 +10.60% 6
East Midlands -28 3 £65,000 -7.14% 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 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.79%) Apache
4 15 (2.99%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.79%) Confluence
5 14 (2.79%) OpenStack
6 10 (2.00%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.40%) Camunda
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.40%) WordPress
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (1.40%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 311 (62.08%) AWS
2 198 (39.52%) Azure
3 102 (20.36%) GCP
4 73 (14.57%) Serverless
5 52 (10.38%) GitHub
6 50 (9.98%) SaaS
7 42 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
8 38 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (6.19%) Amazon S3
11 31 (6.19%) Power Platform
12 26 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (4.59%) Azure AKS
14 23 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
15 22 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 14 (2.79%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.39%) Broadband
2 16 (3.19%) DNS
2 16 (3.19%) Firewall
3 15 (2.99%) DHCP
4 14 (2.79%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.80%) VPN
6 8 (1.60%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.60%) SAN
7 7 (1.40%) Internet
7 7 (1.40%) Network Security
7 7 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.60%) VLAN
9 2 (0.40%) HTTP
9 2 (0.40%) LAN
9 2 (0.40%) PBX
9 2 (0.40%) WAN
10 1 (0.20%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.20%) LTE
10 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (27.94%) MongoDB
2 122 (24.35%) MySQL
3 100 (19.96%) NoSQL
4 99 (19.76%) SQL Server
5 91 (18.16%) Relational Database
6 32 (6.39%) DynamoDB
7 28 (5.59%) Redis
8 27 (5.39%) Power BI
9 23 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (3.59%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (3.19%) RDBMS
13 13 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (2.20%) MariaDB
15 10 (2.00%) Big Data
16 9 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.80%) BigQuery
16 9 (1.80%) DB2
16 9 (1.80%) Oracle Database
16 9 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 116 (23.15%) Git
2 42 (8.38%) Jenkins
3 38 (7.58%) GitLab
4 23 (4.59%) JIRA
5 17 (3.39%) JUnit
6 16 (3.19%) Bitbucket
6 16 (3.19%) TeamCity
7 14 (2.79%) Mockito
8 9 (1.80%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.80%) JMeter
8 9 (1.80%) Selenium
9 7 (1.40%) Vite
10 6 (1.20%) Maven
11 3 (0.60%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.40%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.40%) ESLint
12 2 (0.40%) Gatling
12 2 (0.40%) Storybook
12 2 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 132 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 78 (15.57%) Finance
3 62 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 50 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (6.19%) Retail
7 28 (5.59%) Law
8 27 (5.39%) Banking
9 25 (4.99%) Games
10 19 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (3.59%) Manufacturing
12 17 (3.39%) Front Office
13 14 (2.79%) Advertising
14 8 (1.60%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.40%) Legal
16 4 (0.80%) Automotive
16 4 (0.80%) Aviation
16 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 163 (32.53%) Developer
2 99 (19.76%) Senior
3 96 (19.16%) Software Engineer
4 80 (15.97%) Lead
5 57 (11.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (9.38%) Python Engineer
7 43 (8.58%) Java Developer
8 34 (6.79%) Lead Developer
9 33 (6.59%) Lead Software Engineer
10 32 (6.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (5.99%) Data Engineer
11 30 (5.99%) Java Engineer
12 28 (5.59%) Python Developer
13 22 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (4.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 21 (4.19%) Senior Developer
15 20 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
15 20 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
16 19 (3.79%) Java Software Engineer
16 19 (3.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (28.74%) React
2 125 (24.95%) Node.js
3 102 (20.36%) RESTful
4 75 (14.97%) REST
5 63 (12.57%) Spring
6 60 (11.98%) Spring Boot
7 48 (9.58%) .NET
8 44 (8.78%) Kafka
9 42 (8.38%) FastAPI
10 41 (8.18%) CSS
10 41 (8.18%) HTML
11 34 (6.79%) JSON
12 32 (6.39%) AngularJS
13 29 (5.79%) Django
14 26 (5.19%) Next.js
15 24 (4.79%) Redux
15 24 (4.79%) Vue
16 23 (4.59%) Flask
17 22 (4.39%) Web Services
18 21 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 107 (21.36%) Cloud Native
2 53 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.59%) Video\Live Streaming
5 22 (4.39%) Low-Code
6 18 (3.59%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.39%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.19%) Algorithms
8 16 (3.19%) Blog
8 16 (3.19%) Derivative
8 16 (3.19%) Equities
8 16 (3.19%) Fixed Income
9 15 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.79%) Replication
11 13 (2.59%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
13 8 (1.60%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 68 (13.57%) Linux
2 37 (7.39%) Windows
3 19 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.59%) Unix
5 10 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.20%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.80%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.60%) Android
8 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.60%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Debian
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (45.71%) CI/CD
2 198 (39.52%) Agile
3 173 (34.53%) Software Engineering
4 149 (29.74%) Microservices
5 148 (29.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 116 (23.15%) DevOps
7 109 (21.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 109 (21.76%) Test Automation
8 98 (19.56%) AI
9 97 (19.36%) Mentoring
10 93 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
11 88 (17.56%) Containerisation
12 78 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 72 (14.37%) Scrum
14 66 (13.17%) Analytics
15 65 (12.97%) TDD
16 57 (11.38%) Observability
17 53 (10.58%) API Design
18 52 (10.38%) Data Modelling
19 49 (9.78%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 221 (44.11%) Python
2 167 (33.33%) Java
3 163 (32.53%) SQL
4 119 (23.75%) JavaScript
5 106 (21.16%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.78%) Go
7 43 (8.58%) C#
8 30 (5.99%) PowerShell
9 23 (4.59%) PHP
10 20 (3.99%) Bash
11 13 (2.59%) C
12 11 (2.20%) Ruby
13 10 (2.00%) C++
13 10 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 10 (2.00%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.80%) Scala
15 7 (1.40%) Korn
16 5 (1.00%) Delphi
17 4 (0.80%) Pascal
17 4 (0.80%) RPG
Qualifications
1 65 (12.97%) Degree
2 56 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 44 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.60%) RHCE
10 2 (0.40%) PhD
10 2 (0.40%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.79%) QA
3 17 (3.39%) GDPR
4 15 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.60%) SLA
7 2 (0.40%) WCAG
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 151 (30.14%) Docker
2 30 (5.99%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.40%) Firmware
5 2 (0.40%) Samba
6 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 155 (30.94%) Kubernetes
2 108 (21.56%) Terraform
3 27 (5.39%) Ansible
3 27 (5.39%) Grafana
4 25 (4.99%) Argo
5 17 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.80%) Kibana
7 6 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.20%) Puppet
8 5 (1.00%) Istio
9 4 (0.80%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.80%) Nagios
9 4 (0.80%) Rancher
10 3 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.60%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.60%) Plesk
11 2 (0.40%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 58 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.38%) Oracle
3 23 (4.59%) Google
4 15 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.59%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.20%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.60%) Dell
7 8 (1.60%) Splunk
8 6 (1.20%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.20%) Databricks
8 6 (1.20%) Informatica
8 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.00%) Confluent
9 5 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.00%) Talend
10 4 (0.80%) IBM
10 4 (0.80%) Pega
10 4 (0.80%) VMware
11 3 (0.60%) Netezza
11 3 (0.60%) Remedy