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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 239 143
Rank change year-on-year -19 -96 +64
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 724 579 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.34% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.24% 9.22% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 518 406 630
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 £87,500 £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 7,839 6,283 10,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.54% 14.54% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,502 4,049 6,119
10th Percentile £36,513 £33,750 £38,226
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 £117,500
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 3 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 3 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 -56 332 £82,500 -21.43% 815
South East -7 130 £67,500 +1.89% 275
North of England -10 125 £65,000 -3.70% 310
North West -16 57 £62,500 -7.41% 137
South West -60 50 £65,000 +20.37% 169
Midlands -42 42 £75,000 +7.14% 192
North East -31 41 £65,000 +26.83% 76
West Midlands -37 32 £84,387 +16.40% 105
East of England -34 30 £52,500 +72.13% 130
Yorkshire -34 27 £65,000 -7.14% 104
East Midlands -35 10 £60,000 +20.00% 87
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 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.31%) Apache
3 20 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.76%) Confluence
4 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.97%) Camunda
5 7 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.83%) WordPress
7 4 (0.55%) nginx
8 3 (0.41%) CMS
8 3 (0.41%) 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 (1.52%) 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
1 403 (55.66%) AWS
2 240 (33.15%) Azure
3 125 (17.27%) GitHub
4 90 (12.43%) GCP
5 70 (9.67%) Serverless
6 66 (9.12%) SaaS
7 56 (7.73%) Amazon EKS
8 52 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (6.49%) Amazon S3
11 43 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (5.66%) GitHub Copilot
13 30 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (3.87%) Azure AKS
15 27 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 26 (3.59%) Power Platform
17 22 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (2.62%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.31%) Broadband
2 14 (1.93%) Firewall
3 11 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.38%) DNS
5 9 (1.24%) VPN
6 7 (0.97%) HTTP
7 6 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.69%) BGP
8 5 (0.69%) DHCP
8 5 (0.69%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.69%) SAN
8 5 (0.69%) VLAN
9 3 (0.41%) 4G
9 3 (0.41%) 5G
9 3 (0.41%) Network Security
9 3 (0.41%) SSH
10 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.28%) SMS
11 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (23.34%) MongoDB
2 153 (21.13%) MySQL
3 131 (18.09%) Relational Database
4 126 (17.40%) SQL Server
5 89 (12.29%) Redis
6 84 (11.60%) NoSQL
7 47 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (5.52%) DynamoDB
9 37 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (3.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 25 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.90%) Power BI
13 20 (2.76%) Metadata
14 19 (2.62%) Big Data
15 18 (2.49%) Pinecone
16 17 (2.35%) Data Lake
17 16 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
18 13 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
18 13 (1.80%) Chroma
18 13 (1.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 162 (22.38%) Git
2 65 (8.98%) Jenkins
3 63 (8.70%) GitLab
4 23 (3.18%) JUnit
4 23 (3.18%) TeamCity
5 19 (2.62%) JIRA
6 16 (2.21%) Mockito
7 13 (1.80%) JMeter
8 12 (1.66%) Vite
9 11 (1.52%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.24%) Selenium
12 7 (0.97%) Storybook
13 6 (0.83%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.83%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.83%) Maven
14 5 (0.69%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.69%) Mocha
15 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 168 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 89 (12.29%) Finance
3 87 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 72 (9.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (6.91%) Law
7 36 (4.97%) Banking
8 30 (4.14%) Retail
9 27 (3.73%) Games
10 22 (3.04%) Legal
11 17 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.80%) Legal Technology
13 12 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.52%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.52%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.24%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.97%) Aviation
16 7 (0.97%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.83%) Automotive
18 5 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 219 (30.25%) Developer
2 205 (28.31%) Senior
3 160 (22.10%) Software Engineer
4 100 (13.81%) Lead
5 62 (8.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 60 (8.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 60 (8.29%) Python Engineer
7 53 (7.32%) Senior Developer
8 52 (7.18%) Data Engineer
9 50 (6.91%) Python Developer
10 48 (6.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 46 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (4.97%) Architect
12 36 (4.97%) DBA
13 35 (4.83%) Software Developer
14 32 (4.42%) Lead Developer
15 31 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
15 31 (4.28%) Database Engineer
16 29 (4.01%) Ruby Developer
17 28 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (24.03%) React
2 157 (21.69%) Terraform
3 142 (19.61%) Node.js
4 120 (16.57%) REST
5 117 (16.16%) RESTful
6 95 (13.12%) Kafka
7 80 (11.05%) Spring
8 75 (10.36%) Spring Boot
9 72 (9.94%) .NET
10 69 (9.53%) CSS
11 65 (8.98%) Next.js
12 58 (8.01%) FastAPI
13 56 (7.73%) HTML
14 41 (5.66%) JSON
15 40 (5.52%) AngularJS
16 34 (4.70%) Ruby on Rails
17 30 (4.14%) JWT
18 28 (3.87%) Vue
19 26 (3.59%) Django
19 26 (3.59%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 149 (20.58%) Cloud Native
2 104 (14.36%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (3.87%) AI Agents
3 28 (3.87%) Blog
3 28 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (3.87%) Low-Code
4 25 (3.45%) Replication
4 25 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 22 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (2.21%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.07%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
10 13 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.66%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (1.52%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.52%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.38%) EPoS
13 10 (1.38%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 98 (13.54%) Linux
2 38 (5.25%) Windows
3 18 (2.49%) Unix
4 14 (1.93%) 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 (49.03%) CI/CD
2 267 (36.88%) Software Engineering
3 245 (33.84%) Agile
4 223 (30.80%) AI
5 192 (26.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 187 (25.83%) Microservices
7 178 (24.59%) DevOps
8 167 (23.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 156 (21.55%) Observability
10 144 (19.89%) Test Automation
11 131 (18.09%) Mentoring
12 129 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
13 120 (16.57%) Containerisation
14 88 (12.15%) Clean Code
15 86 (11.88%) Event-Driven
16 83 (11.46%) Analytics
17 81 (11.19%) Machine Learning
18 77 (10.64%) Data Modelling
19 75 (10.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 305 (42.13%) Python
2 210 (29.01%) SQL
3 175 (24.17%) Java
4 145 (20.03%) TypeScript
5 133 (18.37%) JavaScript
6 78 (10.77%) C#
7 64 (8.84%) Go
8 44 (6.08%) Bash
9 34 (4.70%) Ruby
10 23 (3.18%) PHP
11 21 (2.90%) PowerShell
12 16 (2.21%) Scala
12 16 (2.21%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.80%) C++
14 11 (1.52%) Groovy
15 10 (1.38%) RPG
16 8 (1.10%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.69%) Korn
18 4 (0.55%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 98 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 85 (11.74%) Degree
4 30 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 24 (3.31%) Master's Degree
7 23 (3.18%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.24%) PhD
10 8 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.69%) CISSP
12 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.41%) CCSP
13 3 (0.41%) CISM
14 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.01%) QA
3 25 (3.45%) GDPR
4 20 (2.76%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.24%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.55%) SLA
9 3 (0.41%) NIST
9 3 (0.41%) WCAG
10 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 215 (29.70%) Docker
2 12 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.55%) 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
1 194 (26.80%) Kubernetes
2 71 (9.81%) Grafana
3 43 (5.94%) Prometheus
4 40 (5.52%) Ansible
5 36 (4.97%) Argo
6 13 (1.80%) Kibana
7 12 (1.66%) Rancher
8 7 (0.97%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.83%) Istio
9 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.83%) Puppet
10 3 (0.41%) Cilium
10 3 (0.41%) Plesk
10 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.28%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.28%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 74 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 63 (8.70%) Oracle
3 30 (4.14%) OpenAI
4 27 (3.73%) Google
5 25 (3.45%) Databricks
5 25 (3.45%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.93%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.80%) Mistral
7 13 (1.80%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.38%) IBM
8 10 (1.38%) Splunk
9 5 (0.69%) Dell
10 4 (0.55%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.55%) Netezza
10 4 (0.55%) Remedy
10 4 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.55%) VMware
11 3 (0.41%) SAP
12 2 (0.28%) Adobe
12 2 (0.28%) Informatica