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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 138 179
Rank change year-on-year -144 +41 +13
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 452 812 1,277
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 2.24% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.00% 11.78% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 327 465 983
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £51,825 £61,250 £51,483
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +14.57% -12.71%
75th Percentile £95,625 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 6,458 6,892 14,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.39% 18.98% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,024 4,676 11,258
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,250
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 £87,063 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +10.87% -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 27 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 27 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 -89 217 £90,000 +2.86% 152
North of England -23 95 £65,000 -5.06% 57
South East -138 64 £58,250 -22.33% 48
Yorkshire -34 43 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -22 41 £76,250 +10.02% 33
South West -46 30 £62,500 -3.85% 20
Midlands -38 25 £55,200 -15.08% 18
East of England -73 19 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -17 16 £45,000 -30.77% 8
North East -26 11 £53,565 -22.76% 6
East Midlands -47 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
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 20 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
1 20 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.32%) OpenStack
3 14 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.88%) Confluence
5 12 (2.65%) Apache
6 7 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.55%) Tomcat
6 7 (1.55%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.33%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.44%) Camunda
8 2 (0.44%) CMS
8 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (1.99%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 287 (63.50%) AWS
2 174 (38.50%) Azure
3 124 (27.43%) GCP
4 69 (15.27%) Serverless
5 47 (10.40%) GitHub
6 45 (9.96%) Amazon EKS
7 39 (8.63%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (8.63%) SaaS
8 37 (8.19%) Amazon S3
9 34 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 33 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (6.64%) Power Platform
12 28 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (5.75%) dbt
14 25 (5.53%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (4.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
19 16 (3.54%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.09%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.65%) DHCP
2 12 (2.65%) DNS
2 12 (2.65%) VPN
3 10 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.55%) Broadband
4 7 (1.55%) Internet
4 7 (1.55%) Network Security
4 7 (1.55%) SSL
5 6 (1.33%) Firewall
6 3 (0.66%) iSCSI
6 3 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.66%) SAN
6 3 (0.66%) VLAN
7 2 (0.44%) LAN
7 2 (0.44%) PBX
7 2 (0.44%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) HTTP
8 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (23.23%) SQL Server
2 102 (22.57%) MySQL
3 99 (21.90%) Relational Database
4 88 (19.47%) MongoDB
5 84 (18.58%) NoSQL
6 39 (8.63%) Redis
7 29 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
7 29 (6.42%) DynamoDB
8 28 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (6.19%) Power BI
9 22 (4.87%) DB2
10 20 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (3.54%) RDBMS
12 15 (3.32%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (3.10%) BigQuery
14 11 (2.43%) Oracle Database
15 10 (2.21%) Big Data
16 8 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.77%) Hadoop
16 8 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 111 (24.56%) Git
2 62 (13.72%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.75%) GitLab
3 26 (5.75%) JIRA
4 22 (4.87%) Cucumber
4 22 (4.87%) JUnit
5 20 (4.42%) Selenium
6 19 (4.20%) Bitbucket
6 19 (4.20%) TeamCity
7 12 (2.65%) Mockito
8 7 (1.55%) Vite
9 6 (1.33%) JMeter
10 4 (0.88%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.88%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.88%) Maven
11 3 (0.66%) Gradle
12 2 (0.44%) Appium
12 2 (0.44%) ESLint
12 2 (0.44%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.44%) REST Assured
General
1 127 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.25%) Finance
3 50 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 37 (8.19%) Banking
6 31 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (6.86%) Law
7 26 (5.75%) Retail
8 17 (3.76%) Front Office
9 10 (2.21%) Games
9 10 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.99%) Advertising
10 9 (1.99%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.11%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.11%) Back Office
11 5 (1.11%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.88%) Electronics
12 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 152 (33.63%) Developer
2 82 (18.14%) Senior
2 82 (18.14%) Software Engineer
3 66 (14.60%) Lead
4 54 (11.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 48 (10.62%) Java Developer
6 32 (7.08%) Data Engineer
6 32 (7.08%) Python Engineer
7 27 (5.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 27 (5.97%) Java Engineer
8 26 (5.75%) Lead Developer
9 24 (5.31%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (4.65%) Python Developer
11 19 (4.20%) Analyst
11 19 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 18 (3.98%) IT Support
12 18 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (3.76%) Java Software Engineer
14 15 (3.32%) Architect
14 15 (3.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (31.86%) React
2 88 (19.47%) Node.js
3 82 (18.14%) RESTful
4 73 (16.15%) Spring
5 69 (15.27%) Spring Boot
6 64 (14.16%) REST
7 57 (12.61%) Django
8 51 (11.28%) FastAPI
9 46 (10.18%) HTML
10 43 (9.51%) CSS
11 42 (9.29%) Kafka
12 39 (8.63%) .NET
13 34 (7.52%) AngularJS
14 33 (7.30%) Elastic Stack
15 31 (6.86%) Flask
16 28 (6.19%) Vue
17 24 (5.31%) .NET Core
17 24 (5.31%) Next.js
17 24 (5.31%) Web Services
18 22 (4.87%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 80 (17.70%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
5 17 (3.76%) Derivative
5 17 (3.76%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.54%) Equities
6 16 (3.54%) Fixed Income
6 16 (3.54%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.32%) Blog
7 15 (3.32%) Replication
8 14 (3.10%) Algorithms
8 14 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.88%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.55%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.55%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 61 (13.50%) Linux
2 27 (5.97%) Windows
3 24 (5.31%) Unix
4 14 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.11%) Android
7 5 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.66%) CentOS
8 3 (0.66%) Debian
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (42.92%) CI/CD
2 176 (38.94%) Agile
3 152 (33.63%) Software Engineering
4 143 (31.64%) Microservices
5 126 (27.88%) DevOps
6 120 (26.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 110 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (21.02%) Containerisation
9 89 (19.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 87 (19.25%) Test Automation
11 83 (18.36%) Mentoring
12 80 (17.70%) AI
13 59 (13.05%) Fintech
14 57 (12.61%) TDD
15 55 (12.17%) Scrum
16 53 (11.73%) Analytics
17 52 (11.50%) Data Modelling
18 51 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
19 47 (10.40%) Clean Code
20 46 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 214 (47.35%) Python
2 157 (34.73%) Java
3 152 (33.63%) SQL
4 119 (26.33%) JavaScript
5 98 (21.68%) TypeScript
6 37 (8.19%) Go
7 36 (7.96%) C#
8 26 (5.75%) PowerShell
9 19 (4.20%) PHP
10 15 (3.32%) C
11 12 (2.65%) Delphi
12 11 (2.43%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.77%) C++
14 7 (1.55%) Bash
14 7 (1.55%) Rust
14 7 (1.55%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.88%) Pascal
15 4 (0.88%) Ruby
16 3 (0.66%) RPG
17 2 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 69 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 61 (13.50%) Degree
3 54 (11.95%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.20%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.98%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.65%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.66%) RHCE
12 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.44%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.44%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.65%) QA
3 14 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.88%) GDPR
5 8 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.77%) SLA
6 3 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.44%) PSD2
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 157 (34.73%) Docker
2 22 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.44%) Samba
5 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 153 (33.85%) Kubernetes
2 100 (22.12%) Terraform
3 29 (6.42%) Grafana
4 26 (5.75%) Ansible
5 17 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.21%) Kibana
7 9 (1.99%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (1.77%) Argo
9 5 (1.11%) Nagios
10 4 (0.88%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.66%) Puppet
11 3 (0.66%) Rancher
12 2 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.22%) Ambari
13 1 (0.22%) Istio
13 1 (0.22%) Podman
13 1 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
13 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 52 (11.50%) Oracle
2 37 (8.19%) Google
3 34 (7.52%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.32%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.65%) Atlassian
6 11 (2.43%) OpenAI
7 10 (2.21%) IBM
8 8 (1.77%) Informatica
8 8 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.55%) Pega
9 7 (1.55%) Talend
10 6 (1.33%) Splunk
11 5 (1.11%) Confluent
11 5 (1.11%) Databricks
11 5 (1.11%) Dell
11 5 (1.11%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.11%) WSO2
12 4 (0.88%) VMware
13 3 (0.66%) SAP