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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 226 162
Rank change year-on-year -47 -64 +44
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 645 646 1,356
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 1.49% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.13% 9.49% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 495 478 856
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,750 £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 £102,000 £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 7,937 6,806 12,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.91% 15.73% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 5,420 4,511 9,077
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,438 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -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 24 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 24 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 -68 276 £85,000 -18.47% 203
South East -1 124 £59,500 +3.48% 53
North of England -17 122 £65,000 -3.70% 61
North West -16 51 £65,000 -3.70% 39
South West -43 48 £62,500 +4.17% 21
North East -20 38 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Yorkshire -28 33 £65,000 -3.70% 16
East of England -17 28 £52,500 +66.67% 8
Midlands -49 25 £75,000 +11.01% 17
West Midlands -44 19 £80,000 +18.30% 9
East Midlands -30 6 £60,000 +9.09% 8
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 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.26%) Confluence
4 20 (3.10%) Apache
5 17 (2.64%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.71%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.93%) Camunda
7 6 (0.93%) WordPress
8 5 (0.78%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Documentum
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) Moodle
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (2.02%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 365 (56.59%) AWS
2 249 (38.60%) Azure
3 102 (15.81%) GCP
4 72 (11.16%) GitHub
5 64 (9.92%) Serverless
6 59 (9.15%) SaaS
7 47 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (6.51%) Amazon S3
9 37 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (5.58%) Power Platform
11 30 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
12 29 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
14 24 (3.72%) Azure AKS
15 23 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.64%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (2.48%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.81%) Broadband
2 15 (2.33%) Firewall
3 14 (2.17%) DNS
4 12 (1.86%) DHCP
5 10 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.24%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.24%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.24%) SAN
6 8 (1.24%) VPN
7 4 (0.62%) Network Security
7 4 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.31%) HTTP
8 2 (0.31%) PBX
8 2 (0.31%) SMS
8 2 (0.31%) VLAN
9 1 (0.16%) AMQP
9 1 (0.16%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.16%) LTE
9 1 (0.16%) SSL
9 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (26.51%) MongoDB
2 163 (25.27%) MySQL
3 107 (16.59%) Relational Database
4 106 (16.43%) SQL Server
5 101 (15.66%) NoSQL
6 67 (10.39%) Redis
7 33 (5.12%) DynamoDB
8 31 (4.81%) Power BI
9 27 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (3.26%) Metadata
13 20 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (2.95%) Big Data
15 16 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
15 16 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (2.02%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.86%) Data Lake
17 12 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 11 (1.71%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 127 (19.69%) Git
2 43 (6.67%) GitLab
3 35 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.72%) JIRA
5 23 (3.57%) JUnit
6 18 (2.79%) Mockito
7 13 (2.02%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.86%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.55%) JMeter
9 10 (1.55%) Vite
10 8 (1.24%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.93%) Maven
11 6 (0.93%) Selenium
12 5 (0.78%) Storybook
13 4 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.62%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.62%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.47%) Gatling
15 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
15 2 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 141 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 86 (13.33%) Finance
3 83 (12.87%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (5.43%) Games
7 26 (4.03%) Law
8 20 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (3.10%) Retail
9 17 (2.64%) Banking
9 17 (2.64%) Legal
9 17 (2.64%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.48%) Front Office
11 15 (2.33%) Advertising
12 11 (1.71%) Legal Technology
13 7 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.09%) Aviation
13 7 (1.09%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.93%) Automotive
14 6 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 202 (31.32%) Developer
2 152 (23.57%) Senior
3 138 (21.40%) Software Engineer
4 115 (17.83%) Lead
5 65 (10.08%) Python Engineer
6 58 (8.99%) Full-Stack Developer
7 50 (7.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 48 (7.44%) Python Developer
9 46 (7.13%) Lead Developer
10 44 (6.82%) Data Engineer
11 41 (6.36%) Lead Software Engineer
12 36 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 34 (5.27%) Architect
14 32 (4.96%) Senior Developer
15 30 (4.65%) Java Developer
16 28 (4.34%) Java Engineer
17 26 (4.03%) Ruby Developer
18 21 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
18 21 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (22.95%) React
2 144 (22.33%) Node.js
3 120 (18.60%) RESTful
4 98 (15.19%) REST
5 78 (12.09%) Spring
6 74 (11.47%) Spring Boot
7 68 (10.54%) Kafka
8 58 (8.99%) CSS
9 56 (8.68%) FastAPI
10 54 (8.37%) Next.js
11 50 (7.75%) HTML
12 46 (7.13%) JSON
13 41 (6.36%) .NET
14 34 (5.27%) AngularJS
15 30 (4.65%) Django
15 30 (4.65%) Ruby on Rails
16 29 (4.50%) JWT
17 27 (4.19%) Flask
18 26 (4.03%) Vue
19 24 (3.72%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 136 (21.09%) Cloud Native
2 79 (12.25%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.43%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.96%) Onboarding
4 32 (4.96%) Video\Live Streaming
5 25 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.26%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.95%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.79%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.48%) Derivative
10 16 (2.48%) Equities
10 16 (2.48%) Fixed Income
11 15 (2.33%) Replication
12 13 (2.02%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.71%) Blog
14 11 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (1.55%) EPoS
15 10 (1.55%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 89 (13.80%) Linux
2 40 (6.20%) Windows
3 19 (2.95%) Unix
4 16 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.47%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Debian
9 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (45.12%) CI/CD
2 235 (36.43%) Software Engineering
3 230 (35.66%) Agile
4 183 (28.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 174 (26.98%) Microservices
6 172 (26.67%) AI
7 151 (23.41%) DevOps
8 141 (21.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 136 (21.09%) Mentoring
10 127 (19.69%) Test Automation
11 120 (18.60%) Containerisation
12 116 (17.98%) Observability
13 114 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 106 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
15 86 (13.33%) Analytics
16 83 (12.87%) API Design
17 75 (11.63%) Data Modelling
18 72 (11.16%) Clean Code
19 69 (10.70%) Scrum
19 69 (10.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 283 (43.88%) Python
2 197 (30.54%) SQL
3 173 (26.82%) Java
4 131 (20.31%) TypeScript
5 129 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 53 (8.22%) C#
7 52 (8.06%) Go
8 38 (5.89%) PowerShell
9 34 (5.27%) Bash
10 30 (4.65%) Ruby
11 23 (3.57%) PHP
12 15 (2.33%) C++
12 15 (2.33%) Scala
13 11 (1.71%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.71%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.55%) RPG
15 6 (0.93%) Korn
16 5 (0.78%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.62%) Delphi
17 4 (0.62%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 87 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 73 (11.32%) Degree
3 64 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.93%) PhD
11 4 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.47%) 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 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.34%) QA
3 23 (3.57%) GDPR
4 17 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.47%) SLA
7 2 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.31%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 178 (27.60%) Docker
2 26 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Firmware
5 2 (0.31%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 162 (25.12%) Kubernetes
2 122 (18.91%) Terraform
3 33 (5.12%) Grafana
4 30 (4.65%) Ansible
5 29 (4.50%) Argo
6 21 (3.26%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.71%) Kibana
8 6 (0.93%) Istio
8 6 (0.93%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.93%) Puppet
9 3 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.47%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.47%) Plesk
9 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.47%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.31%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 67 (10.39%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.15%) Oracle
3 32 (4.96%) Google
4 22 (3.41%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.02%) Databricks
6 13 (2.02%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.55%) IBM
8 9 (1.40%) Splunk
9 8 (1.24%) Dell
10 7 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.93%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.62%) Confluent
12 4 (0.62%) Netezza
12 4 (0.62%) Pega
12 4 (0.62%) Remedy
13 3 (0.47%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.47%) VMware
14 2 (0.31%) UiPath
14 2 (0.31%) WSO2