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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 217 148
Rank change year-on-year -70 -69 +52
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 675 593 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.38% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.41% 9.25% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 488 419 661
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £80,000 £65,001
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £120,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 8,022 6,411 10,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.83% 14.88% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,585 4,176 6,506
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,900
% change year-on-year - -4.61% +0.64%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -78 299 £82,500 -21.43% 800
South East -16 124 £65,000 -3.70% 113
North of England -25 123 £65,000 -3.70% 116
North West -11 57 £63,750 -5.56% 64
South West -58 47 £65,000 +25.00% 56
North East -31 39 £65,000 +26.83% 17
Midlands -45 38 £75,000 +5.26% 48
West Midlands -47 29 £83,774 +15.55% 38
Yorkshire -33 27 £67,155 -4.06% 36
East of England -35 27 £50,000 +63.93% 36
East Midlands -32 9 £60,000 +33.33% 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 27 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.26%) Apache
3 20 (2.96%) Confluence
4 18 (2.67%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.04%) Camunda
6 7 (1.04%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.89%) WordPress
8 5 (0.74%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.44%) CMS
9 3 (0.44%) nginx
10 2 (0.30%) Luigi
10 2 (0.30%) Tornado
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Finacle
2 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 372 (55.11%) AWS
2 229 (33.93%) Azure
3 110 (16.30%) GitHub
4 81 (12.00%) GCP
5 68 (10.07%) Serverless
6 58 (8.59%) SaaS
7 49 (7.26%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
9 43 (6.37%) Amazon S3
10 42 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.48%) GitHub Copilot
12 30 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (4.00%) Azure AKS
13 27 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (4.00%) Power Platform
14 19 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
15 17 (2.52%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.56%) Broadband
2 12 (1.78%) Firewall
3 10 (1.48%) DNS
4 7 (1.04%) HTTP
5 6 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.74%) DHCP
6 5 (0.74%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.74%) SAN
7 3 (0.44%) 4G
7 3 (0.44%) 5G
7 3 (0.44%) SSH
7 3 (0.44%) VLAN
7 3 (0.44%) VPN
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
9 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.15%) Internet
9 1 (0.15%) MPLS
9 1 (0.15%) SNMP
9 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (23.56%) MongoDB
2 146 (21.63%) MySQL
3 124 (18.37%) Relational Database
4 120 (17.78%) SQL Server
5 82 (12.15%) NoSQL
6 81 (12.00%) Redis
7 38 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
7 38 (5.63%) DynamoDB
8 34 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
10 23 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 22 (3.26%) Power BI
12 19 (2.81%) Metadata
13 18 (2.67%) Big Data
14 14 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.07%) Data Lake
14 14 (2.07%) Pinecone
15 13 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (1.78%) Db2
16 12 (1.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 157 (23.26%) Git
2 59 (8.74%) Jenkins
3 56 (8.30%) GitLab
4 23 (3.41%) JUnit
5 21 (3.11%) JIRA
6 17 (2.52%) TeamCity
7 16 (2.37%) Mockito
8 13 (1.93%) JMeter
9 12 (1.78%) Vite
10 11 (1.63%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.63%) Selenium
11 10 (1.48%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.89%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.89%) Maven
12 6 (0.89%) Storybook
13 5 (0.74%) Mocha
14 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 157 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 82 (12.15%) Public Sector
3 79 (11.70%) Finance
4 64 (9.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (6.67%) Law
7 32 (4.74%) Banking
8 27 (4.00%) Games
9 26 (3.85%) Retail
10 22 (3.26%) Legal
11 18 (2.67%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.93%) Legal Technology
12 13 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.63%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.33%) Advertising
14 9 (1.33%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.19%) Aviation
16 7 (1.04%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.04%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.89%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 209 (30.96%) Developer
2 182 (26.96%) Senior
3 144 (21.33%) Software Engineer
4 98 (14.52%) Lead
5 60 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 57 (8.44%) Python Engineer
6 57 (8.44%) Senior Software Engineer
7 50 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 50 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 47 (6.96%) Senior Developer
9 46 (6.81%) Python Developer
10 45 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (5.19%) Architect
12 33 (4.89%) Lead Developer
13 32 (4.74%) Software Developer
14 30 (4.44%) Database Engineer
15 29 (4.30%) Ruby Developer
16 28 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
17 26 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
18 25 (3.70%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (23.41%) React
2 145 (21.48%) Terraform
3 134 (19.85%) Node.js
4 114 (16.89%) REST
5 112 (16.59%) RESTful
6 91 (13.48%) Kafka
7 78 (11.56%) Spring
8 74 (10.96%) Spring Boot
9 70 (10.37%) CSS
10 68 (10.07%) .NET
11 61 (9.04%) Next.js
12 58 (8.59%) HTML
13 51 (7.56%) FastAPI
14 40 (5.93%) AngularJS
15 39 (5.78%) JSON
16 34 (5.04%) Ruby on Rails
17 31 (4.59%) JWT
18 28 (4.15%) Django
19 27 (4.00%) Flask
20 26 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 142 (21.04%) Cloud Native
2 94 (13.93%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.15%) Low-Code
4 27 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
6 24 (3.56%) AI Agents
6 24 (3.56%) Replication
7 21 (3.11%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.81%) Blog
9 18 (2.67%) Product Ownership
10 14 (2.07%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.78%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (1.48%) EPoS
13 10 (1.48%) iSeries
13 10 (1.48%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 94 (13.93%) Linux
2 36 (5.33%) Windows
3 17 (2.52%) Unix
4 14 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (49.19%) CI/CD
2 243 (36.00%) Software Engineering
3 237 (35.11%) Agile
4 206 (30.52%) AI
5 185 (27.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 174 (25.78%) Microservices
7 170 (25.19%) DevOps
8 160 (23.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 140 (20.74%) Observability
10 133 (19.70%) Test Automation
11 124 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
13 120 (17.78%) Mentoring
14 118 (17.48%) Containerisation
15 86 (12.74%) Clean Code
16 81 (12.00%) Event-Driven
17 77 (11.41%) Analytics
17 77 (11.41%) Scrum
18 74 (10.96%) Data Modelling
18 74 (10.96%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 284 (42.07%) Python
2 198 (29.33%) SQL
3 165 (24.44%) Java
4 132 (19.56%) TypeScript
5 130 (19.26%) JavaScript
6 76 (11.26%) C#
7 56 (8.30%) Go
8 42 (6.22%) Bash
9 34 (5.04%) Ruby
10 22 (3.26%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.67%) PHP
12 17 (2.52%) Scala
13 15 (2.22%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.93%) C++
15 10 (1.48%) Groovy
15 10 (1.48%) RPG
16 7 (1.04%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.74%) Korn
18 4 (0.59%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 107 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 86 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 84 (12.44%) Degree
4 30 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.56%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.26%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.19%) PhD
10 6 (0.89%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.30%) CISSP
13 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.15%) QA
3 25 (3.70%) GDPR
4 18 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.59%) SLA
6 4 (0.59%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.44%) WCAG
8 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 201 (29.78%) Docker
2 12 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 181 (26.81%) Kubernetes
2 58 (8.59%) Grafana
3 40 (5.93%) Ansible
4 38 (5.63%) Prometheus
5 35 (5.19%) Argo
6 12 (1.78%) Kibana
6 12 (1.78%) Rancher
7 7 (1.04%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.89%) Istio
8 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.89%) Puppet
9 3 (0.44%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.44%) Plesk
9 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.30%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.15%) Nagios
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.15%) SCOM
11 1 (0.15%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 70 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.44%) Oracle
3 24 (3.56%) OpenAI
4 23 (3.41%) Dynatrace
5 20 (2.96%) Databricks
6 18 (2.67%) Google
7 13 (1.93%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.78%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.48%) IBM
9 10 (1.48%) Splunk
10 9 (1.33%) Mistral
11 5 (0.74%) Dell
12 4 (0.59%) Netezza
12 4 (0.59%) Remedy
12 4 (0.59%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.44%) SAP
13 3 (0.44%) VMware
14 2 (0.30%) Informatica
14 2 (0.30%) RedGate