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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 182 166
Rank change year-on-year -116 -16 +26
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 464 668 1,419
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.78% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.65% 9.90% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 349 465 1,032
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £50,750
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 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £108,000 £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 6,975 6,746 14,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.94% 18.00% 17.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,286 4,770 11,390
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 22 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 22 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 -103 193 £86,000 -1.71% 142
North of England -26 102 £67,500 - 34
South East -98 80 £57,500 -17.86% 49
Yorkshire -33 47 £52,130 -12.73% 8
North West -35 42 £75,901 +12.34% 18
South West -51 34 £62,500 -3.85% 21
East of England -54 21 £46,250 -19.57% 10
Midlands -56 21 £51,350 -21.00% 20
North East -35 13 £53,565 -22.80% 8
West Midlands -34 12 £46,250 -28.85% 8
East Midlands -47 9 £60,100 -14.14% 12
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 27 (5.82%) Apache Airflow
1 27 (5.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.45%) Apache
3 15 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.80%) Confluence
4 13 (2.80%) OpenStack
5 10 (2.16%) 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%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.22%) WildFly
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 280 (60.34%) AWS
2 183 (39.44%) Azure
3 114 (24.57%) GCP
4 64 (13.79%) Serverless
5 52 (11.21%) GitHub
6 45 (9.70%) SaaS
7 36 (7.76%) Amazon EKS
8 34 (7.33%) Amazon S3
8 34 (7.33%) Power Platform
9 31 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
11 28 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (5.39%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (4.74%) dbt
16 20 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (4.09%) OpenShift
18 18 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.66%) TCP/IP
2 16 (3.45%) DNS
3 15 (3.23%) DHCP
4 13 (2.80%) Firewall
5 10 (2.16%) VPN
6 8 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.51%) Broadband
7 7 (1.51%) Internet
7 7 (1.51%) iSCSI
7 7 (1.51%) Network Security
7 7 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (1.51%) SAN
8 3 (0.65%) VLAN
9 2 (0.43%) HTTP
9 2 (0.43%) LAN
9 2 (0.43%) PBX
9 2 (0.43%) SSL
9 2 (0.43%) WAN
10 1 (0.22%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 108 (23.28%) MySQL
3 102 (21.98%) MongoDB
4 92 (19.83%) NoSQL
5 90 (19.40%) Relational Database
6 33 (7.11%) DynamoDB
7 32 (6.90%) Redis
8 30 (6.47%) Power BI
9 28 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (5.39%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (3.23%) DB2
13 14 (3.02%) RDBMS
14 13 (2.80%) BigQuery
15 12 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (2.16%) Pinecone
17 9 (1.94%) Big Data
17 9 (1.94%) MariaDB
17 9 (1.94%) Oracle Database
18 8 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 114 (24.57%) Git
2 48 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 36 (7.76%) GitLab
4 25 (5.39%) JIRA
5 20 (4.31%) Bitbucket
5 20 (4.31%) Selenium
6 19 (4.09%) Cucumber
6 19 (4.09%) JUnit
7 18 (3.88%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.94%) Mockito
8 9 (1.94%) Vite
9 6 (1.29%) Maven
10 4 (0.86%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.65%) Gradle
11 3 (0.65%) JMeter
12 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.43%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.43%) MSTest
12 2 (0.43%) Storybook
12 2 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 128 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 79 (17.03%) Finance
3 47 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.47%) Banking
6 29 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (5.82%) Law
7 27 (5.82%) Retail
8 18 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.66%) Front Office
10 13 (2.80%) Advertising
11 10 (2.16%) Games
11 10 (2.16%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.51%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.86%) Back Office
13 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.65%) Automotive
14 3 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 136 (29.31%) Developer
2 94 (20.26%) Senior
3 86 (18.53%) Software Engineer
4 68 (14.66%) Lead
5 46 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
6 40 (8.62%) Java Developer
6 40 (8.62%) Python Engineer
7 37 (7.97%) Data Engineer
8 32 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 30 (6.47%) Java Engineer
10 25 (5.39%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.17%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (4.09%) Analyst
13 19 (4.09%) IT Support
13 19 (4.09%) Java Software Engineer
14 18 (3.88%) Python Developer
15 17 (3.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 16 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
16 16 (3.45%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (31.25%) React
2 94 (20.26%) Node.js
3 81 (17.46%) RESTful
4 59 (12.72%) Spring
5 58 (12.50%) REST
6 56 (12.07%) Spring Boot
7 47 (10.13%) FastAPI
8 46 (9.91%) Kafka
9 45 (9.70%) Django
10 40 (8.62%) .NET
11 36 (7.76%) HTML
12 35 (7.54%) CSS
13 30 (6.47%) AngularJS
13 30 (6.47%) Elastic Stack
14 29 (6.25%) Flask
15 26 (5.60%) Vue
16 25 (5.39%) Next.js
17 23 (4.96%) JSON
18 22 (4.74%) Redux
19 20 (4.31%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 84 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.88%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.45%) Derivative
6 16 (3.45%) Equities
6 16 (3.45%) Fixed Income
6 16 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.23%) Blog
7 15 (3.23%) Replication
8 13 (2.80%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.80%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.51%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.51%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.51%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 63 (13.58%) Linux
2 30 (6.47%) Windows
3 19 (4.09%) Unix
4 16 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.08%) Android
6 5 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.08%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.65%) CentOS
7 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.43%) Debian
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
9 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (45.26%) CI/CD
2 176 (37.93%) Agile
3 151 (32.54%) Software Engineering
4 141 (30.39%) Microservices
5 129 (27.80%) DevOps
6 119 (25.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 100 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (20.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 96 (20.69%) Test Automation
10 94 (20.26%) Containerisation
11 89 (19.18%) AI
12 85 (18.32%) Mentoring
13 62 (13.36%) Analytics
14 60 (12.93%) Scrum
15 58 (12.50%) TDD
16 52 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (10.99%) Data Modelling
18 50 (10.78%) Fintech
19 48 (10.34%) Observability
20 45 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 212 (45.69%) Python
2 168 (36.21%) SQL
3 156 (33.62%) Java
4 103 (22.20%) JavaScript
5 96 (20.69%) TypeScript
6 38 (8.19%) C#
6 38 (8.19%) Go
7 29 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 24 (5.17%) PHP
9 17 (3.66%) Bash
10 15 (3.23%) C
11 12 (2.59%) Delphi
12 11 (2.37%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.72%) C++
14 6 (1.29%) Korn
14 6 (1.29%) Scala
14 6 (1.29%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.86%) Pascal
15 4 (0.86%) Ruby
16 3 (0.65%) RPG
Qualifications
1 60 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.50%) Degree
3 50 (10.78%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.59%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) RHCE
12 2 (0.43%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.43%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.19%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.74%) QA
3 15 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.80%) GDPR
5 10 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.86%) 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
1 160 (34.48%) Docker
2 29 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.43%) Samba
6 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 163 (35.13%) Kubernetes
2 109 (23.49%) Terraform
3 36 (7.76%) Grafana
4 25 (5.39%) Ansible
5 23 (4.96%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.53%) Argo
7 5 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (1.08%) Istio
7 5 (1.08%) Kibana
7 5 (1.08%) Nagios
8 4 (0.86%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.86%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.86%) Rancher
9 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.65%) Puppet
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.22%) Plesk
11 1 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 47 (10.13%) Oracle
2 46 (9.91%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.82%) Google
4 17 (3.66%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.02%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.72%) Informatica
7 7 (1.51%) Dell
7 7 (1.51%) Talend
8 6 (1.29%) Confluent
8 6 (1.29%) Databricks
9 5 (1.08%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.86%) IBM
10 4 (0.86%) Pega
10 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.86%) VMware
11 3 (0.65%) Revolut
11 3 (0.65%) Splunk
12 2 (0.43%) WSO2