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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 236 143
Rank change year-on-year -26 -93 +69
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 719 578 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 1.34% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.13% 9.18% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 514 405 634
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,188 £117,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 7,875 6,299 10,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.59% 14.60% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,547 4,071 6,138
10th Percentile £36,750 £33,750 £38,059
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £117,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -65 324 £82,500 -21.43% 783
South East -21 130 £67,500 - 110
North of England -20 127 £65,000 -3.70% 130
North West -13 58 £62,500 -7.41% 76
South West -59 51 £65,000 +25.00% 65
North East -35 41 £65,000 +26.83% 20
Midlands -40 41 £75,000 +5.26% 52
West Midlands -43 32 £84,387 +16.40% 37
East of England -23 30 £52,500 +72.13% 41
Yorkshire -27 28 £67,155 -4.06% 39
East Midlands -32 9 £60,000 +20.00% 15
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 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.34%) Apache
3 20 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.78%) Confluence
4 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.11%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.97%) Camunda
6 6 (0.83%) WordPress
7 4 (0.56%) nginx
8 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.28%) Luigi
9 2 (0.28%) Tornado
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.14%) Documentum
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.28%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Finacle
2 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 401 (55.77%) AWS
2 241 (33.52%) Azure
3 120 (16.69%) GitHub
4 94 (13.07%) GCP
5 74 (10.29%) Serverless
6 65 (9.04%) SaaS
7 57 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
8 53 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (6.40%) Amazon S3
11 45 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (5.70%) GitHub Copilot
13 30 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (3.89%) Azure AKS
14 28 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
15 26 (3.62%) Power Platform
16 22 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.34%) Broadband
2 14 (1.95%) Firewall
3 10 (1.39%) DNS
3 10 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.11%) VPN
5 7 (0.97%) HTTP
6 6 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.70%) DHCP
7 5 (0.70%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.70%) SAN
7 5 (0.70%) VLAN
8 4 (0.56%) BGP
9 3 (0.42%) 4G
9 3 (0.42%) 5G
9 3 (0.42%) SSH
10 2 (0.28%) Network Security
10 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.28%) SMS
11 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (23.09%) MongoDB
2 150 (20.86%) MySQL
3 133 (18.50%) Relational Database
4 126 (17.52%) SQL Server
5 86 (11.96%) NoSQL
5 86 (11.96%) Redis
6 45 (6.26%) Amazon RDS
7 40 (5.56%) DynamoDB
8 36 (5.01%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (3.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 25 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (2.92%) Power BI
12 20 (2.78%) Metadata
13 18 (2.50%) Big Data
14 17 (2.36%) Data Lake
15 16 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (1.95%) Pinecone
17 12 (1.67%) Db2
17 12 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 160 (22.25%) Git
2 63 (8.76%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.07%) GitLab
4 23 (3.20%) JUnit
4 23 (3.20%) TeamCity
5 20 (2.78%) JIRA
6 16 (2.23%) Mockito
7 13 (1.81%) JMeter
8 12 (1.67%) Vite
9 11 (1.53%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.53%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.39%) Selenium
11 7 (0.97%) Maven
11 7 (0.97%) Storybook
12 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.83%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.83%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.70%) Mocha
14 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 169 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 89 (12.38%) Finance
3 88 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 73 (10.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (7.09%) Law
7 38 (5.29%) Banking
8 31 (4.31%) Retail
9 27 (3.76%) Games
10 22 (3.06%) Legal
11 18 (2.50%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.81%) Legal Technology
13 12 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.39%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.11%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.97%) Aviation
17 7 (0.97%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.83%) Automotive
19 5 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 217 (30.18%) Developer
2 200 (27.82%) Senior
3 160 (22.25%) Software Engineer
4 99 (13.77%) Lead
5 63 (8.76%) Python Engineer
6 62 (8.62%) Senior Software Engineer
7 61 (8.48%) Full-Stack Developer
8 53 (7.37%) Data Engineer
9 51 (7.09%) Senior Developer
10 50 (6.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 46 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 46 (6.40%) Python Developer
12 37 (5.15%) Architect
13 35 (4.87%) Software Developer
14 32 (4.45%) Lead Developer
15 31 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
15 31 (4.31%) Database Engineer
16 29 (4.03%) DBA
16 29 (4.03%) Ruby Developer
17 27 (3.76%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (23.64%) React
2 158 (21.97%) Terraform
3 143 (19.89%) Node.js
4 123 (17.11%) REST
5 119 (16.55%) RESTful
6 95 (13.21%) Kafka
7 82 (11.40%) Spring
8 77 (10.71%) Spring Boot
9 72 (10.01%) .NET
10 70 (9.74%) CSS
11 65 (9.04%) Next.js
12 57 (7.93%) FastAPI
12 57 (7.93%) HTML
13 43 (5.98%) AngularJS
14 41 (5.70%) JSON
15 34 (4.73%) Ruby on Rails
16 31 (4.31%) JWT
17 29 (4.03%) Django
17 29 (4.03%) Vue
18 28 (3.89%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 153 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 104 (14.46%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (3.89%) Blog
3 28 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (3.89%) Low-Code
4 25 (3.48%) Replication
4 25 (3.48%) Video\Live Streaming
5 24 (3.34%) AI Agents
6 22 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.23%) Algorithms
10 15 (2.09%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (1.39%) EPoS
13 10 (1.39%) iSeries
13 10 (1.39%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (13.35%) Linux
2 38 (5.29%) Windows
3 18 (2.50%) Unix
4 14 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Debian
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (49.37%) CI/CD
2 265 (36.86%) Software Engineering
3 245 (34.08%) Agile
4 221 (30.74%) AI
5 194 (26.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 185 (25.73%) Microservices
7 181 (25.17%) DevOps
8 167 (23.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 151 (21.00%) Observability
10 145 (20.17%) Test Automation
11 130 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
13 128 (17.80%) Mentoring
14 122 (16.97%) Containerisation
15 92 (12.80%) Clean Code
16 88 (12.24%) Event-Driven
17 85 (11.82%) Analytics
18 82 (11.40%) Machine Learning
19 80 (11.13%) Scrum
20 78 (10.85%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 306 (42.56%) Python
2 211 (29.35%) SQL
3 179 (24.90%) Java
4 140 (19.47%) TypeScript
5 134 (18.64%) JavaScript
6 78 (10.85%) C#
7 63 (8.76%) Go
8 44 (6.12%) Bash
9 34 (4.73%) Ruby
10 23 (3.20%) PHP
11 21 (2.92%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.36%) Scala
13 16 (2.23%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.81%) C++
15 11 (1.53%) Groovy
16 10 (1.39%) RPG
17 7 (0.97%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.70%) Korn
19 4 (0.56%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 95 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 85 (11.82%) Degree
4 31 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 22 (3.06%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.25%) PhD
10 8 (1.11%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.56%) CISSP
11 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.28%) CCSP
13 2 (0.28%) CISM
13 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.37%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.03%) QA
3 25 (3.48%) GDPR
4 20 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.11%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.56%) SLA
8 3 (0.42%) WCAG
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.28%) NIST
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 216 (30.04%) Docker
2 12 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) NFS
6 1 (0.14%) Samba
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 197 (27.40%) Kubernetes
2 70 (9.74%) Grafana
3 43 (5.98%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.70%) Ansible
5 36 (5.01%) Argo
6 13 (1.81%) Kibana
7 12 (1.67%) Rancher
8 7 (0.97%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.83%) Istio
9 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.83%) Puppet
10 3 (0.42%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.42%) Plesk
10 3 (0.42%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.28%) Cilium
11 2 (0.28%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) Nagios
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 75 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.34%) Oracle
3 26 (3.62%) Google
4 25 (3.48%) Databricks
4 25 (3.48%) Dynatrace
4 25 (3.48%) OpenAI
5 14 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.81%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.39%) IBM
7 10 (1.39%) Splunk
8 9 (1.25%) Mistral
9 5 (0.70%) Dell
10 4 (0.56%) Netezza
10 4 (0.56%) Remedy
10 4 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.56%) VMware
11 3 (0.42%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.42%) SAP
12 2 (0.28%) Adobe
12 2 (0.28%) Informatica