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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 220 160
Rank change year-on-year -43 -60 +52
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 654 649 1,314
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.49% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.12% 9.52% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 502 481 815
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,125 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%

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 8,055 6,814 12,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.93% 15.69% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,497 4,520 8,634
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £84,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -71 281 £85,000 -19.05% 177
North of England -9 127 £65,000 -3.70% 38
South East +7 124 £60,000 +4.35% 47
North West -2 55 £65,000 -3.70% 23
South West -44 47 £62,500 +4.17% 19
North East -18 39 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Yorkshire -34 33 £65,000 -7.14% 11
East of England -20 28 £52,500 +64.06% 9
Midlands -51 26 £75,000 +10.90% 16
West Midlands -28 19 £80,000 +16.26% 9
East Midlands -26 7 £60,000 +9.09% 7
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 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (3.36%) Confluence
4 21 (3.21%) Apache
5 18 (2.75%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.68%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.92%) Camunda
7 6 (0.92%) WordPress
8 5 (0.76%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Documentum
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) Moodle
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.99%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 371 (56.73%) AWS
2 252 (38.53%) Azure
3 101 (15.44%) GCP
4 77 (11.77%) GitHub
5 64 (9.79%) Serverless
6 58 (8.87%) SaaS
7 50 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (6.42%) Amazon S3
9 37 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (5.35%) Power Platform
12 30 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (4.43%) Azure Service Bus
14 28 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
15 25 (3.82%) Azure AKS
16 23 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
18 20 (3.06%) GitHub Copilot
19 18 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
20 17 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.74%) Broadband
2 15 (2.29%) Firewall
3 14 (2.14%) DNS
4 12 (1.83%) DHCP
5 10 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.22%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.22%) SAN
6 8 (1.22%) VPN
7 4 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.46%) HTTP
8 3 (0.46%) Network Security
9 2 (0.31%) PBX
9 2 (0.31%) SMS
9 2 (0.31%) VLAN
10 1 (0.15%) AMQP
10 1 (0.15%) LAN
10 1 (0.15%) LTE
10 1 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (26.45%) MongoDB
2 164 (25.08%) MySQL
3 109 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 108 (16.51%) SQL Server
5 101 (15.44%) NoSQL
6 67 (10.24%) Redis
7 35 (5.35%) DynamoDB
8 29 (4.43%) Power BI
9 27 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (3.21%) Metadata
12 20 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (2.91%) Big Data
14 17 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
15 16 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
16 13 (1.99%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.83%) Data Lake
18 11 (1.68%) Db2
18 11 (1.68%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 131 (20.03%) Git
2 43 (6.57%) GitLab
3 36 (5.50%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.82%) JIRA
5 23 (3.52%) JUnit
6 18 (2.75%) Mockito
7 13 (1.99%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.83%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.68%) Vite
10 10 (1.53%) JMeter
11 8 (1.22%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.92%) Maven
12 6 (0.92%) Selenium
13 5 (0.76%) Storybook
14 4 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.61%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.61%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.46%) Gatling
15 3 (0.46%) webpack
16 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 144 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 87 (13.30%) Finance
3 84 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (5.35%) Games
7 26 (3.98%) Law
8 21 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (2.75%) Retail
10 17 (2.60%) Banking
10 17 (2.60%) Legal
11 16 (2.45%) Front Office
11 16 (2.45%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.29%) Advertising
13 11 (1.68%) Legal Technology
14 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.07%) Aviation
14 7 (1.07%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.92%) Automotive
15 6 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 205 (31.35%) Developer
2 157 (24.01%) Senior
3 141 (21.56%) Software Engineer
4 115 (17.58%) Lead
5 65 (9.94%) Python Engineer
6 59 (9.02%) Full-Stack Developer
7 52 (7.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 49 (7.49%) Python Developer
9 46 (7.03%) Lead Developer
10 45 (6.88%) Data Engineer
11 42 (6.42%) Lead Software Engineer
12 37 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
13 36 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (5.20%) Architect
15 33 (5.05%) Senior Developer
16 30 (4.59%) Java Developer
17 27 (4.13%) Java Engineer
18 26 (3.98%) Ruby Developer
19 22 (3.36%) DBA
20 21 (3.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (23.24%) React
2 147 (22.48%) Node.js
3 121 (18.50%) RESTful
4 102 (15.60%) REST
5 79 (12.08%) Spring
6 74 (11.31%) Spring Boot
7 69 (10.55%) Kafka
8 61 (9.33%) CSS
9 57 (8.72%) Next.js
10 56 (8.56%) FastAPI
11 53 (8.10%) HTML
12 46 (7.03%) .NET
13 45 (6.88%) JSON
14 36 (5.50%) AngularJS
15 30 (4.59%) Django
15 30 (4.59%) Ruby on Rails
16 29 (4.43%) JWT
17 28 (4.28%) Flask
18 26 (3.98%) Vue
19 24 (3.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 140 (21.41%) Cloud Native
2 82 (12.54%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.35%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.89%) Video\Live Streaming
5 31 (4.74%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.67%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.21%) Algorithms
9 19 (2.91%) AI Agents
10 17 (2.60%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.45%) Derivative
11 16 (2.45%) Equities
11 16 (2.45%) Fixed Income
11 16 (2.45%) Replication
12 13 (1.99%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (1.53%) EPoS
15 10 (1.53%) iSeries
16 9 (1.38%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 89 (13.61%) Linux
2 41 (6.27%) Windows
3 19 (2.91%) Unix
4 16 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.46%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (45.11%) CI/CD
2 238 (36.39%) Software Engineering
3 235 (35.93%) Agile
4 187 (28.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 181 (27.68%) Microservices
6 177 (27.06%) AI
7 156 (23.85%) DevOps
8 143 (21.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 141 (21.56%) Mentoring
10 126 (19.27%) Test Automation
11 118 (18.04%) Containerisation
12 117 (17.89%) Observability
13 116 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
15 88 (13.46%) Analytics
16 84 (12.84%) API Design
17 74 (11.31%) Data Modelling
18 72 (11.01%) Clean Code
19 69 (10.55%) Scrum
19 69 (10.55%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 284 (43.43%) Python
2 198 (30.28%) SQL
3 171 (26.15%) Java
4 134 (20.49%) JavaScript
5 132 (20.18%) TypeScript
6 57 (8.72%) C#
7 53 (8.10%) Go
8 36 (5.50%) PowerShell
9 33 (5.05%) Bash
10 30 (4.59%) Ruby
11 23 (3.52%) PHP
12 15 (2.29%) C++
12 15 (2.29%) Scala
13 11 (1.68%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.53%) RPG
15 9 (1.38%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.92%) Korn
17 5 (0.76%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.61%) C
18 4 (0.61%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 90 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 79 (12.08%) Degree
3 67 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.52%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.45%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.92%) PhD
10 5 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.46%) RHCE
13 2 (0.31%) CISSP
13 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.31%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.31%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.41%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.13%) QA
3 23 (3.52%) GDPR
4 16 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.31%) WCAG
8 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.15%) MiFID
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 182 (27.83%) Docker
2 25 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Firmware
5 2 (0.31%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 164 (25.08%) Kubernetes
2 122 (18.65%) Terraform
3 31 (4.74%) Ansible
3 31 (4.74%) Grafana
4 29 (4.43%) Argo
5 20 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.68%) Kibana
7 6 (0.92%) Istio
7 6 (0.92%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.92%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.92%) Puppet
8 3 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.46%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.46%) Plesk
8 3 (0.46%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.31%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 72 (11.01%) Microsoft
2 58 (8.87%) Oracle
3 32 (4.89%) Google
4 22 (3.36%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.29%) Databricks
5 15 (2.29%) Red Hat
6 13 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.53%) IBM
8 9 (1.38%) Splunk
9 8 (1.22%) Dell
10 7 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.92%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.61%) Confluent
12 4 (0.61%) Netezza
12 4 (0.61%) Pega
12 4 (0.61%) Remedy
13 3 (0.46%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.46%) VMware
14 2 (0.31%) Revolut
14 2 (0.31%) TikTok