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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 129 196
Rank change year-on-year -152 +67 -3
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 441 977 1,065
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 2.38% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.28% 12.78% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 318 478 870
10th Percentile £38,375 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £63,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,651 £77,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +18.38% -11.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £120,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 6,057 7,643 13,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.71% 18.65% 18.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,872 4,560 10,660
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -90 232 £95,000 +8.57% 166
North of England -37 89 £67,500 -2.61% 89
South East -139 59 £56,250 -29.69% 105
Yorkshire -18 42 £56,065 -2.27% 28
North West -18 37 £77,500 +11.70% 45
Midlands -37 26 £55,200 -15.08% 45
South West -52 23 £65,000 - 46
West Midlands +5 17 £50,100 -22.92% 30
East of England -52 16 £42,500 -26.09% 43
North East -17 10 £53,665 -22.61% 17
East Midlands -36 9 £65,000 +8.33% 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 26 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (3.40%) Confluence
4 13 (2.95%) OpenStack
5 11 (2.49%) Tomcat
5 11 (2.49%) WebSphere
6 10 (2.27%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (2.04%) Apache
8 4 (0.91%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.45%) Camunda
9 2 (0.45%) CMS
9 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.45%) nginx
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.49%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 297 (67.35%) AWS
2 168 (38.10%) Azure
3 122 (27.66%) GCP
4 74 (16.78%) Serverless
5 50 (11.34%) Amazon EKS
6 49 (11.11%) GitHub
7 43 (9.75%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (9.07%) Amazon S3
9 36 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 36 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (7.71%) dbt
11 32 (7.26%) SaaS
12 29 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (6.12%) Power Platform
14 24 (5.44%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (4.54%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (4.31%) Amazon ECR
16 19 (4.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.44%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.95%) VPN
3 12 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (2.49%) SSL
5 9 (2.04%) DHCP
5 9 (2.04%) DNS
6 8 (1.81%) Firewall
7 7 (1.59%) Internet
8 6 (1.36%) Network Security
9 5 (1.13%) VLAN
10 3 (0.68%) WAN
11 2 (0.45%) BGP
11 2 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.45%) HTTP
11 2 (0.45%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.45%) MQTT
11 2 (0.45%) OSPF
11 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.45%) SAN
11 2 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (23.13%) SQL Server
2 92 (20.86%) Relational Database
3 86 (19.50%) MySQL
4 81 (18.37%) MongoDB
5 76 (17.23%) NoSQL
6 40 (9.07%) Redis
7 31 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (7.03%) DB2
8 30 (6.80%) DynamoDB
9 28 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (5.90%) Power BI
11 21 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (4.08%) RDBMS
13 15 (3.40%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (2.72%) Big Data
14 12 (2.72%) Oracle Database
15 11 (2.49%) Apache Iceberg
15 11 (2.49%) BigQuery
16 10 (2.27%) Hadoop
16 10 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 96 (21.77%) Git
2 77 (17.46%) Jenkins
3 30 (6.80%) JIRA
4 29 (6.58%) GitLab
5 27 (6.12%) Cucumber
6 25 (5.67%) Selenium
7 23 (5.22%) JUnit
8 21 (4.76%) Bitbucket
8 21 (4.76%) TeamCity
9 13 (2.95%) JMeter
10 11 (2.49%) Mockito
11 7 (1.59%) Vite
12 6 (1.36%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.13%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.13%) Subversion
14 4 (0.91%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.91%) Jaeger
14 4 (0.91%) Maven
14 4 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.68%) Gradle
General
1 121 (27.44%) Social Skills
2 96 (21.77%) Finance
3 48 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.52%) Banking
5 39 (8.84%) Public Sector
6 32 (7.26%) Law
7 26 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (5.44%) Front Office
9 23 (5.22%) Retail
10 10 (2.27%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.36%) Advertising
13 5 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.91%) Back Office
14 4 (0.91%) Marketing
14 4 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 150 (34.01%) Developer
2 85 (19.27%) Software Engineer
3 79 (17.91%) Senior
4 58 (13.15%) Lead
5 50 (11.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (10.88%) Java Developer
7 33 (7.48%) Java Engineer
8 29 (6.58%) Data Engineer
9 28 (6.35%) Python Engineer
10 27 (6.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 25 (5.67%) Lead Developer
11 25 (5.67%) Python Developer
12 23 (5.22%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (4.31%) Analyst
14 19 (4.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 19 (4.31%) Java Software Engineer
14 19 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 16 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (32.65%) React
2 91 (20.63%) Node.js
3 77 (17.46%) Spring
4 73 (16.55%) RESTful
5 70 (15.87%) Spring Boot
6 55 (12.47%) Django
6 55 (12.47%) REST
7 51 (11.56%) FastAPI
8 47 (10.66%) HTML
8 47 (10.66%) Kafka
9 42 (9.52%) CSS
10 38 (8.62%) .NET
11 37 (8.39%) AngularJS
12 34 (7.71%) Elastic Stack
13 32 (7.26%) Vue
14 27 (6.12%) Flask
15 25 (5.67%) Web Services
16 24 (5.44%) .NET Core
16 24 (5.44%) Next.js
17 23 (5.22%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 72 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 52 (11.79%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.22%) Equities
3 23 (5.22%) Fixed Income
4 21 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (4.54%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.85%) Derivative
6 17 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 16 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (3.40%) Blog
8 15 (3.40%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.95%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (2.04%) Replication
13 8 (1.81%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.59%) Driving Licence
14 7 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 66 (14.97%) Linux
2 28 (6.35%) Unix
2 28 (6.35%) Windows
3 16 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.13%) Android
6 5 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.68%) Debian
8 2 (0.45%) VMS
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.23%) CentOS
9 1 (0.23%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (43.99%) CI/CD
2 179 (40.59%) Agile
3 147 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 143 (32.43%) Microservices
5 121 (27.44%) DevOps
6 108 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 91 (20.63%) Containerisation
9 78 (17.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 78 (17.69%) Mentoring
9 78 (17.69%) Test Automation
10 73 (16.55%) AI
11 72 (16.33%) Fintech
12 57 (12.93%) TDD
13 55 (12.47%) Scrum
14 50 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
15 46 (10.43%) BDD
15 46 (10.43%) Data Modelling
16 44 (9.98%) Business Intelligence
17 42 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 216 (48.98%) Python
2 164 (37.19%) Java
3 152 (34.47%) SQL
4 123 (27.89%) JavaScript
5 100 (22.68%) TypeScript
6 33 (7.48%) C#
7 28 (6.35%) Go
8 24 (5.44%) PowerShell
9 16 (3.63%) PHP
10 14 (3.17%) C
11 12 (2.72%) Delphi
12 10 (2.27%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.27%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.04%) Rust
14 6 (1.36%) Bash
14 6 (1.36%) C++
15 4 (0.91%) Pascal
16 3 (0.68%) RPG
16 3 (0.68%) Ruby
17 2 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 70 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.24%) Degree
3 52 (11.79%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.44%) AWS Certification
4 24 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.63%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 10 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.45%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.23%) MCSA
11 1 (0.23%) MCSE
11 1 (0.23%) RHCE
11 1 (0.23%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.90%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.95%) QA
3 12 (2.72%) GDPR
3 12 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.49%) SLA
5 10 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.68%) SEPA
7 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.45%) PSD2
8 1 (0.23%) GAAP
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 166 (37.64%) Docker
2 17 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.45%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) Samba
Systems Management
1 149 (33.79%) Kubernetes
2 93 (21.09%) Terraform
3 29 (6.58%) Grafana
4 28 (6.35%) Ansible
5 17 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.40%) Kibana
7 9 (2.04%) Argo
7 9 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (1.13%) Nagios
9 4 (0.91%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.68%) Puppet
10 3 (0.68%) Rancher
11 2 (0.45%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.23%) Ambari
12 1 (0.23%) Podman
12 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (12.47%) Oracle
2 30 (6.80%) Google
2 30 (6.80%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.08%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.17%) Atlassian
4 14 (3.17%) IBM
5 13 (2.95%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.27%) Informatica
6 10 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.04%) Splunk
7 9 (2.04%) Talend
8 8 (1.81%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.13%) Confluent
9 5 (1.13%) VMware
10 4 (0.91%) Databricks
10 4 (0.91%) Dell
10 4 (0.91%) Pega
10 4 (0.91%) WSO2
11 3 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.68%) Revolut