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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 215 170
Rank change year-on-year -74 -45 +55
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 562 640 1,572
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.60% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.51% 9.67% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 427 471 1,061
10th Percentile £41,700 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,500 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £63,195
% change year-on-year -10.00% +18.68% -9.72%

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 7,482 6,616 15,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.85% 16.50% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,063 4,419 11,504
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £35,293
25th Percentile £45,438 £46,726 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £114,400 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -86 226 £85,000 -10.53% 71
North of England -15 119 £65,000 -3.70% 33
South East -13 117 £59,500 +13.33% 45
North West -15 54 £67,500 -0.19% 20
South West -55 41 £62,500 +2.04% 9
Yorkshire -30 36 £52,130 -22.77% 7
North East -24 29 £65,000 +23.81% 6
East of England -29 23 £47,500 +50.79% 10
Midlands -50 15 £75,000 +11.11% 19
West Midlands -33 11 £80,000 +18.52% 10
East Midlands -34 4 £65,000 +18.18% 9
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 28 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.56%) Apache
4 16 (2.85%) Confluence
5 13 (2.31%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.96%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.25%) OpenStack
8 6 (1.07%) WordPress
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) Moodle
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (1.78%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 334 (59.43%) AWS
2 216 (38.43%) Azure
3 101 (17.97%) GCP
4 64 (11.39%) Serverless
5 58 (10.32%) GitHub
6 53 (9.43%) SaaS
7 37 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (6.41%) Power Platform
9 34 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (5.52%) Amazon S3
11 27 (4.80%) Azure Service Bus
12 25 (4.45%) Azure AKS
13 21 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.02%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (2.67%) Azure Functions
16 15 (2.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.52%) Broadband
2 18 (3.20%) Firewall
3 16 (2.85%) DNS
4 15 (2.67%) DHCP
5 14 (2.49%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.96%) VPN
7 8 (1.42%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.42%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (1.42%) SAN
8 7 (1.25%) Network Security
8 7 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.89%) VLAN
10 4 (0.71%) Internet
11 2 (0.36%) HTTP
11 2 (0.36%) LAN
11 2 (0.36%) PBX
11 2 (0.36%) WAN
12 1 (0.18%) LTE
12 1 (0.18%) SMS
12 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (29.00%) MongoDB
2 136 (24.20%) MySQL
3 96 (17.08%) SQL Server
4 92 (16.37%) NoSQL
5 91 (16.19%) Relational Database
6 47 (8.36%) Redis
7 31 (5.52%) Power BI
8 24 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.91%) DynamoDB
10 21 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.67%) Metadata
12 14 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (2.31%) Pinecone
13 13 (2.31%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.96%) MariaDB
14 11 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (1.78%) Oracle Database
16 9 (1.60%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (19.57%) Git
2 41 (7.30%) GitLab
3 35 (6.23%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.91%) JIRA
5 17 (3.02%) JUnit
6 14 (2.49%) TeamCity
7 13 (2.31%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.31%) Mockito
8 10 (1.78%) JMeter
9 9 (1.60%) Vite
10 8 (1.42%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.07%) Maven
11 6 (1.07%) Selenium
12 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.71%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.53%) DBeaver
13 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.53%) Gatling
13 3 (0.53%) Storybook
14 2 (0.36%) ESLint
General
1 136 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 80 (14.23%) Finance
3 67 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.05%) Games
7 30 (5.34%) Retail
8 26 (4.63%) Law
9 23 (4.09%) Banking
10 21 (3.74%) Manufacturing
11 19 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.85%) Front Office
13 15 (2.67%) Advertising
13 15 (2.67%) Legal
14 10 (1.78%) Legal Technology
15 9 (1.60%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.25%) Aviation
17 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.89%) Automotive
18 5 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 171 (30.43%) Developer
2 118 (21.00%) Senior
3 112 (19.93%) Software Engineer
4 96 (17.08%) Lead
5 53 (9.43%) Full-Stack Developer
5 53 (9.43%) Python Engineer
6 43 (7.65%) Lead Developer
7 41 (7.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 36 (6.41%) Data Engineer
8 36 (6.41%) Python Developer
9 35 (6.23%) DevOps Engineer
9 35 (6.23%) Lead Software Engineer
10 34 (6.05%) Architect
10 34 (6.05%) Java Developer
11 33 (5.87%) Java Engineer
12 27 (4.80%) Senior Developer
13 21 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (3.74%) Ruby Developer
13 21 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
14 20 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (24.91%) React
2 130 (23.13%) Node.js
3 106 (18.86%) RESTful
4 79 (14.06%) REST
5 66 (11.74%) Spring
6 63 (11.21%) Spring Boot
7 56 (9.96%) Kafka
8 49 (8.72%) FastAPI
9 46 (8.19%) CSS
10 41 (7.30%) HTML
11 40 (7.12%) Next.js
12 39 (6.94%) .NET
13 38 (6.76%) JSON
14 32 (5.69%) AngularJS
15 27 (4.80%) Django
15 27 (4.80%) Vue
16 25 (4.45%) Ruby on Rails
17 24 (4.27%) Flask
17 24 (4.27%) Redux
18 18 (3.20%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 131 (23.31%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.85%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.69%) Video\Live Streaming
4 31 (5.52%) Low-Code
5 23 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 22 (3.91%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (3.56%) Algorithms
9 18 (3.20%) Blog
9 18 (3.20%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.85%) Derivative
10 16 (2.85%) Equities
10 16 (2.85%) Fixed Income
11 15 (2.67%) Replication
12 14 (2.49%) Management Information System
13 13 (2.31%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.42%) Public Cloud
16 7 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 88 (15.66%) Linux
2 44 (7.83%) Windows
3 20 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.38%) Unix
5 9 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.71%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.18%) Debian
9 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (44.66%) CI/CD
2 200 (35.59%) Agile
3 199 (35.41%) Software Engineering
4 161 (28.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 149 (26.51%) Microservices
6 134 (23.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 132 (23.49%) AI
8 131 (23.31%) DevOps
9 115 (20.46%) Test Automation
10 113 (20.11%) Mentoring
11 108 (19.22%) Containerisation
12 98 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (16.37%) Observability
14 74 (13.17%) Analytics
15 68 (12.10%) API Design
16 66 (11.74%) Data Modelling
16 66 (11.74%) Scrum
17 61 (10.85%) TDD
18 60 (10.68%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 244 (43.42%) Python
2 174 (30.96%) SQL
3 166 (29.54%) Java
4 120 (21.35%) TypeScript
5 114 (20.28%) JavaScript
6 52 (9.25%) Go
7 46 (8.19%) C#
8 41 (7.30%) PowerShell
9 33 (5.87%) Bash
10 25 (4.45%) Ruby
11 24 (4.27%) PHP
12 13 (2.31%) C++
13 12 (2.14%) T-SQL
14 11 (1.96%) Scala
14 11 (1.96%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.60%) C
16 7 (1.25%) Korn
16 7 (1.25%) RPG
17 4 (0.71%) Delphi
17 4 (0.71%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 71 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.46%) Degree
3 56 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.71%) PhD
11 3 (0.53%) RHCE
11 3 (0.53%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.36%) CISSP
12 2 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.90%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.27%) QA
3 23 (4.09%) GDPR
4 18 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.53%) SLA
7 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.36%) WCAG
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 156 (27.76%) Docker
2 30 (5.34%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (1.07%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 163 (29.00%) Kubernetes
2 114 (20.28%) Terraform
3 34 (6.05%) Grafana
4 30 (5.34%) Ansible
5 29 (5.16%) Argo
6 20 (3.56%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.78%) Kibana
8 7 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.25%) Puppet
9 6 (1.07%) Istio
9 6 (1.07%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.53%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.53%) Plesk
10 3 (0.53%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.53%) Rancher
10 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.36%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.36%) Nagios
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 68 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.79%) Oracle
3 25 (4.45%) Google
4 17 (3.02%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.85%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.96%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.60%) Splunk
8 8 (1.42%) Databricks
8 8 (1.42%) Dell
9 7 (1.25%) IBM
9 7 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.07%) VMware
11 5 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.71%) Confluent
12 4 (0.71%) Netezza
12 4 (0.71%) Pega
12 4 (0.71%) Remedy
13 3 (0.53%) Revolut
14 2 (0.36%) TikTok
14 2 (0.36%) WSO2