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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 141 185
Rank change year-on-year -141 +44 +1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 459 863 1,199
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 2.28% 1.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.34% 12.09% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 328 474 956
10th Percentile £38,200 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £61,563 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +14.57% -12.71%
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £116,625 £117,625 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 6,257 7,138 13,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.38% 18.83% 18.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,929 4,666 11,107
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,500
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 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -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 20 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 20 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 -97 223 £90,000 +2.86% 152
North of England -24 94 £65,000 -6.22% 54
South East -128 66 £58,750 -21.67% 43
Yorkshire -21 42 £52,130 -12.73% 20
North West -26 40 £77,500 +11.82% 29
South West -43 30 £62,500 -3.85% 20
Midlands -36 26 £55,200 -15.08% 20
East of England -66 19 £45,000 -21.74% 17
West Midlands -4 16 £45,000 -30.77% 10
North East -21 12 £53,565 -22.76% 6
East Midlands -51 10 £65,000 -7.14% 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 21 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.49%) Apache Spark
4 15 (3.27%) Confluence
4 15 (3.27%) OpenStack
5 13 (2.83%) Apache
6 8 (1.74%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.74%) WebSphere
7 7 (1.53%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.53%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.44%) Camunda
8 2 (0.44%) CMS
8 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.18%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 296 (64.49%) AWS
2 177 (38.56%) Azure
3 123 (26.80%) GCP
4 72 (15.69%) Serverless
5 49 (10.68%) GitHub
6 47 (10.24%) Amazon EKS
7 40 (8.71%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (8.50%) Amazon S3
9 37 (8.06%) SaaS
10 34 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (6.54%) Power Platform
12 29 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (5.88%) dbt
14 25 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (4.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 20 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (3.49%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.01%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.61%) VPN
3 11 (2.40%) DHCP
3 11 (2.40%) DNS
4 10 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.74%) SSL
6 7 (1.53%) Broadband
6 7 (1.53%) Firewall
6 7 (1.53%) Internet
6 7 (1.53%) Network Security
7 3 (0.65%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.65%) SAN
7 3 (0.65%) VLAN
8 2 (0.44%) HTTP
8 2 (0.44%) LAN
8 2 (0.44%) PBX
8 2 (0.44%) WAN
9 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 100 (21.79%) MySQL
2 100 (21.79%) Relational Database
3 89 (19.39%) MongoDB
4 84 (18.30%) NoSQL
5 40 (8.71%) Redis
6 30 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (6.54%) DynamoDB
7 29 (6.32%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (6.10%) Power BI
9 26 (5.66%) DB2
10 20 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (3.92%) RDBMS
12 17 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (3.05%) BigQuery
14 11 (2.40%) Big Data
14 11 (2.40%) Oracle Database
15 9 (1.96%) Hadoop
16 8 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 109 (23.75%) Git
2 67 (14.60%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.10%) GitLab
3 28 (6.10%) JIRA
4 25 (5.45%) Cucumber
5 24 (5.23%) JUnit
6 21 (4.58%) Selenium
7 20 (4.36%) Bitbucket
7 20 (4.36%) TeamCity
8 13 (2.83%) Mockito
9 8 (1.74%) JMeter
10 7 (1.53%) Vite
11 5 (1.09%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.87%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.87%) Maven
13 3 (0.65%) Gradle
13 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.65%) Subversion
14 2 (0.44%) ESLint
14 2 (0.44%) Storybook
General
1 128 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 88 (19.17%) Finance
3 52 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 39 (8.50%) Banking
6 32 (6.97%) Law
7 31 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (5.45%) Retail
9 17 (3.70%) Front Office
10 10 (2.18%) Games
10 10 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.74%) Advertising
12 8 (1.74%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.31%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.09%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.87%) Back Office
15 4 (0.87%) Electronics
15 4 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 151 (32.90%) Developer
2 84 (18.30%) Software Engineer
3 82 (17.86%) Senior
4 66 (14.38%) Lead
5 52 (11.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (10.68%) Java Developer
7 32 (6.97%) Data Engineer
8 29 (6.32%) Python Engineer
9 28 (6.10%) Java Engineer
10 27 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 25 (5.45%) Lead Developer
11 25 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
12 21 (4.58%) Python Developer
13 20 (4.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (4.14%) Analyst
15 18 (3.92%) Principal Engineer
15 18 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
16 17 (3.70%) IT Support
16 17 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
17 16 (3.49%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (31.37%) React
2 89 (19.39%) Node.js
3 82 (17.86%) RESTful
4 75 (16.34%) Spring
5 70 (15.25%) Spring Boot
6 64 (13.94%) REST
7 55 (11.98%) Django
8 50 (10.89%) FastAPI
9 47 (10.24%) HTML
10 45 (9.80%) Kafka
11 43 (9.37%) CSS
12 41 (8.93%) .NET
13 34 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
14 32 (6.97%) AngularJS
15 29 (6.32%) Flask
16 26 (5.66%) Vue
17 25 (5.45%) Web Services
18 24 (5.23%) .NET Core
18 24 (5.23%) Next.js
19 23 (5.01%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 78 (16.99%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.14%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (4.14%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.70%) Derivative
6 16 (3.49%) Equities
6 16 (3.49%) Fixed Income
6 16 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.27%) Blog
8 14 (3.05%) Algorithms
8 14 (3.05%) Replication
9 13 (2.83%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.53%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 63 (13.73%) Linux
2 28 (6.10%) Windows
3 25 (5.45%) Unix
4 14 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.09%) Android
6 5 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.65%) CentOS
7 3 (0.65%) Debian
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.22%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (42.92%) CI/CD
2 180 (39.22%) Agile
3 155 (33.77%) Software Engineering
4 147 (32.03%) Microservices
5 128 (27.89%) DevOps
6 120 (26.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 109 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (20.92%) Containerisation
9 90 (19.61%) Test Automation
10 88 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 85 (18.52%) Mentoring
12 80 (17.43%) AI
13 60 (13.07%) Fintech
14 59 (12.85%) TDD
15 56 (12.20%) Scrum
16 53 (11.55%) Data Modelling
17 52 (11.33%) Analytics
17 52 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
18 48 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
19 46 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 218 (47.49%) Python
2 162 (35.29%) Java
3 153 (33.33%) SQL
4 119 (25.93%) JavaScript
5 99 (21.57%) TypeScript
6 37 (8.06%) C#
6 37 (8.06%) Go
7 27 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.36%) PHP
9 15 (3.27%) C
10 12 (2.61%) Delphi
11 11 (2.40%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.74%) Rust
12 8 (1.74%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.53%) Bash
13 7 (1.53%) C++
14 4 (0.87%) Pascal
14 4 (0.87%) Ruby
15 3 (0.65%) RPG
16 2 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 71 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.85%) Degree
3 55 (11.98%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.36%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.65%) RHCE
10 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.44%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.44%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.79%) QA
3 14 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.83%) GDPR
5 9 (1.96%) SLA
6 8 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.44%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 162 (35.29%) Docker
2 21 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.44%) Samba
5 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 153 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 99 (21.57%) Terraform
3 29 (6.32%) Grafana
4 27 (5.88%) Ansible
5 17 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.61%) Kibana
7 9 (1.96%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (1.74%) Argo
9 5 (1.09%) Nagios
10 4 (0.87%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.65%) Puppet
11 3 (0.65%) Rancher
12 2 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.22%) Ambari
13 1 (0.22%) Istio
13 1 (0.22%) Podman
13 1 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
13 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (11.76%) Oracle
2 37 (8.06%) Google
3 36 (7.84%) Microsoft
4 17 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.83%) Atlassian
6 11 (2.40%) IBM
6 11 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 10 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.96%) Informatica
9 8 (1.74%) Talend
10 7 (1.53%) Pega
10 7 (1.53%) Splunk
11 6 (1.31%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.09%) Confluent
12 5 (1.09%) Databricks
12 5 (1.09%) Dell
12 5 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.09%) VMware
12 5 (1.09%) WSO2
13 3 (0.65%) SAP