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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 226 131
Rank change year-on-year -29 -95 +75
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 756 565 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 1.33% 2.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.62% 9.14% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 516 396 605
10th Percentile £43,930 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,996 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year -7.59% +8.21% -0.99%

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 7,858 6,185 10,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.50% 14.53% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,500 3,979 5,807
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £43,750 £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 £116,250
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 16 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 16 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 -47 366 £85,000 -19.05% 84
South East -5 134 £70,000 +5.66% 30
North of England -21 122 £65,000 -3.70% 37
North West -13 57 £61,250 -10.91% 20
South West -53 50 £82,500 +52.78% 21
Midlands -39 44 £75,000 +7.14% 14
North East -41 41 £65,000 +25.30% 8
West Midlands -42 32 £85,000 +17.24% 11
East of England -41 28 £52,500 +72.13% 6
Yorkshire -36 24 £65,000 -7.14% 14
East Midlands -32 12 £60,000 +20.00% 3
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 24 (3.17%) Confluence
2 23 (3.04%) Apache
3 22 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.51%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.93%) Camunda
5 7 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.79%) nginx
7 5 (0.66%) WordPress
8 4 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.40%) CMS
9 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) Luigi
10 2 (0.26%) Tornado
11 1 (0.13%) Documentum
11 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.26%) Shopify
3 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.13%) Finacle
3 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 417 (55.16%) AWS
2 236 (31.22%) Azure
3 133 (17.59%) GitHub
4 99 (13.10%) GCP
5 73 (9.66%) SaaS
6 67 (8.86%) Serverless
7 63 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 61 (8.07%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (6.88%) Amazon S3
10 48 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (5.16%) GitHub Copilot
13 32 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (3.44%) Power Platform
16 24 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
17 23 (3.04%) Azure AKS
18 22 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
19 21 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 19 (2.51%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.17%) Broadband
2 18 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 17 (2.25%) VPN
4 15 (1.98%) Firewall
5 12 (1.59%) BGP
6 8 (1.06%) DNS
6 8 (1.06%) Network Security
7 7 (0.93%) VLAN
8 6 (0.79%) HTTP
9 4 (0.53%) SSH
10 3 (0.40%) 4G
10 3 (0.40%) 5G
10 3 (0.40%) DHCP
10 3 (0.40%) OpenVPN
10 3 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.26%) AMQP
11 2 (0.26%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.26%) SAN
11 2 (0.26%) SMS
11 2 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (21.83%) MongoDB
2 158 (20.90%) MySQL
3 136 (17.99%) Relational Database
4 122 (16.14%) SQL Server
5 99 (13.10%) Redis
6 82 (10.85%) NoSQL
7 58 (7.67%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (5.29%) DynamoDB
8 40 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
9 34 (4.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (2.78%) Metadata
11 21 (2.78%) Power BI
12 20 (2.65%) Big Data
13 17 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (2.25%) Pinecone
14 15 (1.98%) Data Lake
14 15 (1.98%) Oracle Database
15 13 (1.72%) Tableau
16 12 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 175 (23.15%) Git
2 68 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 63 (8.33%) GitLab
4 32 (4.23%) TeamCity
5 22 (2.91%) JUnit
6 21 (2.78%) JIRA
7 15 (1.98%) Mockito
8 12 (1.59%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.59%) JMeter
9 10 (1.32%) Vite
10 9 (1.19%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.06%) Selenium
12 7 (0.93%) Storybook
13 6 (0.79%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.79%) Mocha
14 5 (0.66%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.66%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.66%) Maven
14 5 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 183 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 102 (13.49%) Finance
3 86 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 77 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (7.54%) Law
7 41 (5.42%) Banking
8 36 (4.76%) Retail
9 29 (3.84%) Games
10 23 (3.04%) Legal
11 18 (2.38%) Financial Institution
12 16 (2.12%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.85%) Legal Technology
14 12 (1.59%) Back Office
15 11 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.32%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.93%) Automotive
17 7 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.93%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.79%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 228 (30.16%) Developer
2 220 (29.10%) Senior
3 173 (22.88%) Software Engineer
4 104 (13.76%) Lead
5 67 (8.86%) Senior Software Engineer
6 63 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 61 (8.07%) Python Engineer
7 61 (8.07%) Senior Developer
8 53 (7.01%) Python Developer
9 50 (6.61%) Data Engineer
10 46 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 45 (5.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 44 (5.82%) DBA
13 36 (4.76%) Architect
14 35 (4.63%) Software Developer
15 33 (4.37%) Lead Developer
16 32 (4.23%) Database Engineer
17 31 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
18 30 (3.97%) Java Engineer
19 29 (3.84%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (23.28%) React
2 171 (22.62%) Terraform
3 145 (19.18%) Node.js
4 130 (17.20%) REST
5 125 (16.53%) RESTful
6 93 (12.30%) Kafka
7 86 (11.38%) Spring
8 81 (10.71%) Spring Boot
9 75 (9.92%) .NET
10 73 (9.66%) CSS
11 66 (8.73%) Next.js
12 61 (8.07%) HTML
13 55 (7.28%) FastAPI
14 41 (5.42%) AngularJS
15 39 (5.16%) JSON
16 33 (4.37%) Ruby on Rails
17 30 (3.97%) JWT
18 28 (3.70%) Django
18 28 (3.70%) Vue
19 27 (3.57%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 162 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 113 (14.95%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.89%) Blog
4 29 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (3.70%) Low-Code
6 27 (3.57%) AI Agents
7 25 (3.31%) Onboarding
7 25 (3.31%) Video\Live Streaming
8 24 (3.17%) Replication
9 21 (2.78%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.25%) Algorithms
10 17 (2.25%) Data Structures
10 17 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
14 11 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (1.32%) EPoS
15 10 (1.32%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 106 (14.02%) Linux
2 36 (4.76%) Windows
3 15 (1.98%) Unix
4 14 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.26%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) macOS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (49.07%) CI/CD
2 287 (37.96%) Software Engineering
3 251 (33.20%) Agile
4 226 (29.89%) AI
5 196 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 194 (25.66%) Microservices
7 189 (25.00%) DevOps
8 179 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 165 (21.83%) Observability
10 150 (19.84%) Test Automation
11 136 (17.99%) Mentoring
11 136 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
12 130 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (15.74%) Containerisation
14 93 (12.30%) Clean Code
15 90 (11.90%) Event-Driven
16 86 (11.38%) Machine Learning
17 84 (11.11%) Analytics
18 80 (10.58%) Data Modelling
19 76 (10.05%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 311 (41.14%) Python
2 223 (29.50%) SQL
3 188 (24.87%) Java
4 151 (19.97%) TypeScript
5 142 (18.78%) JavaScript
6 83 (10.98%) C#
7 71 (9.39%) Go
8 44 (5.82%) Bash
9 33 (4.37%) Ruby
10 27 (3.57%) PHP
11 18 (2.38%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.25%) Scala
13 15 (1.98%) C++
13 15 (1.98%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.59%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.46%) Groovy
16 10 (1.32%) RPG
17 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.53%) Apex Code
19 3 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 125 (16.53%) Security Cleared
2 107 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.98%) Degree
4 30 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.44%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.31%) Master's Degree
7 22 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.32%) CISSP
8 10 (1.32%) PhD
9 9 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.06%) CCSP
10 8 (1.06%) CISM
11 5 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.53%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.26%) OCP
13 2 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 35 (4.63%) QA
3 24 (3.17%) GDPR
4 22 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.12%) SOC 2
6 12 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.06%) NIST
8 5 (0.66%) SLA
9 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.26%) WCAG
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 1
System Software
1 222 (29.37%) Docker
2 8 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.13%) Ceph
5 1 (0.13%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) Lustre
5 1 (0.13%) NFS
5 1 (0.13%) Samba
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 210 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 85 (11.24%) Grafana
3 48 (6.35%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.42%) Ansible
5 34 (4.50%) Argo
6 13 (1.72%) Kibana
7 11 (1.46%) Rancher
8 8 (1.06%) Cilium
8 8 (1.06%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.93%) Istio
10 6 (0.79%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.79%) Puppet
11 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.40%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.26%) Data Guard
13 2 (0.26%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.26%) Packer
13 2 (0.26%) Plesk
13 2 (0.26%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 69 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.73%) Oracle
3 36 (4.76%) Google
4 29 (3.84%) OpenAI
5 27 (3.57%) Databricks
6 24 (3.17%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.46%) Mistral
10 10 (1.32%) IBM
11 9 (1.19%) Splunk
12 5 (0.66%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.53%) Adobe
13 4 (0.53%) Netezza
13 4 (0.53%) Remedy
13 4 (0.53%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.53%) VMware
14 3 (0.40%) SAP
15 2 (0.26%) Dell
15 2 (0.26%) Informatica