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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 130 196
Rank change year-on-year -157 +66 -1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 446 972 1,067
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 2.36% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.20% 12.60% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 320 480 872
10th Percentile £38,625 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £62,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,901 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +19.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £122,500 £105,000
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 6,191 7,715 13,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.71% 18.73% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,927 4,620 10,674
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 6 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 6 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 -83 232 £92,500 +5.71% 169
North of England -38 91 £67,500 -2.61% 72
South East -137 59 £57,500 -28.13% 86
Yorkshire -20 42 £56,065 -2.27% 23
North West -33 38 £77,500 +11.82% 38
Midlands -32 26 £55,200 -15.08% 34
South West -47 23 £65,000 - 35
West Midlands -12 17 £50,100 -22.92% 29
East of England -54 17 £42,500 -26.09% 41
North East -11 11 £55,000 -20.69% 12
East Midlands -37 9 £65,000 +8.33% 5
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 25 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.59%) Apache Spark
4 14 (3.14%) Confluence
5 13 (2.91%) OpenStack
6 11 (2.47%) Apache
7 10 (2.24%) Tomcat
7 10 (2.24%) WebSphere
8 9 (2.02%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.90%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.45%) Camunda
10 2 (0.45%) CMS
10 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.45%) nginx
10 2 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.24%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Endur
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 297 (66.59%) AWS
2 170 (38.12%) Azure
3 121 (27.13%) GCP
4 72 (16.14%) Serverless
5 49 (10.99%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (10.99%) GitHub
6 42 (9.42%) Amazon ECS
7 40 (8.97%) Amazon S3
8 35 (7.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (7.17%) dbt
9 32 (7.17%) SaaS
10 29 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (6.05%) Power Platform
12 24 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (4.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (4.04%) Amazon ECR
17 17 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.38%) TCP/IP
2 14 (3.14%) VPN
3 12 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (2.24%) SSL
5 9 (2.02%) DHCP
5 9 (2.02%) DNS
5 9 (2.02%) Firewall
6 7 (1.57%) Internet
6 7 (1.57%) Network Security
7 5 (1.12%) VLAN
8 3 (0.67%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.67%) SAN
8 3 (0.67%) WAN
9 2 (0.45%) BGP
9 2 (0.45%) HTTP
9 2 (0.45%) OSPF
9 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.45%) RTMP
9 2 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (22.87%) SQL Server
2 93 (20.85%) Relational Database
3 89 (19.96%) MySQL
4 84 (18.83%) MongoDB
5 78 (17.49%) NoSQL
6 40 (8.97%) Redis
7 31 (6.95%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (6.95%) DynamoDB
8 28 (6.28%) DB2
8 28 (6.28%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (5.83%) Power BI
10 20 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (4.04%) RDBMS
12 16 (3.59%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (2.69%) Big Data
13 12 (2.69%) BigQuery
13 12 (2.69%) Oracle Database
14 10 (2.24%) Hadoop
14 10 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (2.02%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 99 (22.20%) Git
2 75 (16.82%) Jenkins
3 30 (6.73%) GitLab
3 30 (6.73%) JIRA
4 26 (5.83%) Cucumber
5 24 (5.38%) Selenium
6 22 (4.93%) JUnit
7 20 (4.48%) Bitbucket
7 20 (4.48%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.69%) JMeter
9 10 (2.24%) Mockito
10 7 (1.57%) Vite
11 6 (1.35%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.12%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.12%) Subversion
13 4 (0.90%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.90%) Jaeger
13 4 (0.90%) Maven
13 4 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.67%) Gradle
General
1 121 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 93 (20.85%) Finance
3 49 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.19%) Banking
5 39 (8.74%) Public Sector
6 33 (7.40%) Law
7 26 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (5.16%) Retail
9 22 (4.93%) Front Office
10 10 (2.24%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.24%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.57%) Advertising
11 7 (1.57%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.90%) Back Office
13 4 (0.90%) Marketing
14 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 149 (33.41%) Developer
2 86 (19.28%) Software Engineer
3 82 (18.39%) Senior
4 58 (13.00%) Lead
5 51 (11.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (10.54%) Java Developer
7 33 (7.40%) Java Engineer
8 29 (6.50%) Data Engineer
9 27 (6.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 27 (6.05%) Python Engineer
10 25 (5.61%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.38%) Python Developer
12 23 (5.16%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
14 21 (4.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (4.26%) Analyst
15 19 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
15 19 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
16 17 (3.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 15 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (32.51%) React
2 90 (20.18%) Node.js
3 77 (17.26%) Spring
4 75 (16.82%) RESTful
5 70 (15.70%) Spring Boot
6 57 (12.78%) REST
7 55 (12.33%) Django
8 53 (11.88%) FastAPI
9 47 (10.54%) Kafka
10 46 (10.31%) HTML
11 42 (9.42%) CSS
12 40 (8.97%) .NET
13 37 (8.30%) AngularJS
14 33 (7.40%) Elastic Stack
15 31 (6.95%) Vue
16 27 (6.05%) Flask
17 26 (5.83%) Next.js
18 24 (5.38%) .NET Core
18 24 (5.38%) Web Services
19 23 (5.16%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 72 (16.14%) Cloud Native
2 52 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.71%) Equities
3 21 (4.71%) Fixed Income
3 21 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
5 19 (4.26%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.81%) Derivative
7 15 (3.36%) Blog
7 15 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.36%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.91%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.24%) Replication
10 10 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.02%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.57%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.57%) Mobile App
14 5 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 66 (14.80%) Linux
2 27 (6.05%) Unix
2 27 (6.05%) Windows
3 16 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.12%) Android
6 5 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.67%) Debian
8 2 (0.45%) CentOS
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 (0.22%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (43.72%) CI/CD
2 178 (39.91%) Agile
3 150 (33.63%) Software Engineering
4 145 (32.51%) Microservices
5 122 (27.35%) DevOps
6 112 (25.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 108 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (20.40%) Containerisation
9 80 (17.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 80 (17.94%) Test Automation
10 77 (17.26%) Mentoring
11 76 (17.04%) AI
12 70 (15.70%) Fintech
13 56 (12.56%) TDD
14 55 (12.33%) Scrum
15 50 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
16 49 (10.99%) Data Modelling
17 44 (9.87%) BDD
17 44 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
18 43 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 216 (48.43%) Python
2 164 (36.77%) Java
3 154 (34.53%) SQL
4 121 (27.13%) JavaScript
5 102 (22.87%) TypeScript
6 36 (8.07%) C#
7 30 (6.73%) Go
8 25 (5.61%) PowerShell
9 16 (3.59%) PHP
10 15 (3.36%) C
11 12 (2.69%) Delphi
12 10 (2.24%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.02%) Rust
13 9 (2.02%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.57%) Bash
15 6 (1.35%) C++
16 4 (0.90%) Pascal
17 3 (0.67%) RPG
17 3 (0.67%) Ruby
18 2 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 69 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.11%) Degree
3 53 (11.88%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.93%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.45%) RHCE
11 2 (0.45%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.45%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.22%) HNC
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.36%) QA
3 12 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.47%) GDPR
4 11 (2.47%) SLA
5 10 (2.24%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.67%) SEPA
7 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.45%) PSD2
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 166 (37.22%) Docker
2 18 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.45%) NFS
4 2 (0.45%) Samba
Systems Management
1 149 (33.41%) Kubernetes
2 95 (21.30%) Terraform
3 29 (6.50%) Grafana
4 28 (6.28%) Ansible
5 17 (3.81%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.14%) Kibana
7 10 (2.24%) Argo
8 9 (2.02%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (1.12%) Nagios
10 4 (0.90%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.67%) Puppet
11 3 (0.67%) Rancher
12 2 (0.45%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.22%) Ambari
13 1 (0.22%) Istio
13 1 (0.22%) Podman
13 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (12.33%) Oracle
2 33 (7.40%) Microsoft
3 32 (7.17%) Google
4 18 (4.04%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.91%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.91%) IBM
5 13 (2.91%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.24%) Informatica
6 10 (2.24%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.02%) Talend
8 8 (1.79%) Splunk
9 7 (1.57%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.12%) Confluent
10 5 (1.12%) Dell
10 5 (1.12%) VMware
11 4 (0.90%) Databricks
11 4 (0.90%) Pega
11 4 (0.90%) WSO2
12 3 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.67%) SAP