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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 181 171
Rank change year-on-year -121 -10 +19
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 463 665 1,402
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.78% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.63% 9.87% 9.68%
Number of salaries quoted 347 462 1,033
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,125 £61,250 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,000 £110,000
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 6,982 6,741 14,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.97% 18.04% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,278 4,762 11,389
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,377 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -110 196 £86,000 -1.71% 143
North of England -39 100 £67,500 - 36
South East -95 81 £57,500 -17.86% 49
Yorkshire -32 46 £52,130 -12.73% 8
North West -41 41 £77,500 +14.71% 20
South West -52 34 £61,250 -5.77% 21
East of England -57 22 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Midlands -40 21 £51,350 -21.00% 20
North East -31 13 £53,565 -22.80% 8
West Midlands -34 12 £46,250 -28.85% 8
East Midlands -56 9 £60,100 -14.14% 12
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 (6.05%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.46%) Apache
3 16 (3.46%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.81%) Confluence
4 13 (2.81%) OpenStack
5 10 (2.16%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) Camunda
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.22%) WildFly
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 282 (60.91%) AWS
2 181 (39.09%) Azure
3 114 (24.62%) GCP
4 66 (14.25%) Serverless
5 52 (11.23%) GitHub
6 45 (9.72%) SaaS
7 37 (7.99%) Amazon EKS
8 34 (7.34%) Amazon S3
8 34 (7.34%) Power Platform
9 30 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
10 29 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (5.40%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (4.97%) dbt
15 19 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (3.89%) OpenShift
17 16 (3.46%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.67%) TCP/IP
2 15 (3.24%) DHCP
2 15 (3.24%) DNS
3 12 (2.59%) Firewall
4 10 (2.16%) VPN
5 8 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.51%) Broadband
6 7 (1.51%) Internet
6 7 (1.51%) iSCSI
6 7 (1.51%) Network Security
6 7 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (1.51%) SAN
7 3 (0.65%) VLAN
8 2 (0.43%) HTTP
8 2 (0.43%) LAN
8 2 (0.43%) PBX
8 2 (0.43%) WAN
9 1 (0.22%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.22%) LTE
9 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (24.41%) SQL Server
2 107 (23.11%) MySQL
3 99 (21.38%) MongoDB
4 92 (19.87%) NoSQL
4 92 (19.87%) Relational Database
5 33 (7.13%) DynamoDB
5 33 (7.13%) Redis
6 30 (6.48%) Power BI
7 28 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (5.40%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (3.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 15 (3.24%) DB2
10 15 (3.24%) RDBMS
11 13 (2.81%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (2.16%) Pinecone
14 9 (1.94%) Big Data
14 9 (1.94%) MariaDB
15 8 (1.73%) Metadata
15 8 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 114 (24.62%) Git
2 49 (10.58%) Jenkins
3 33 (7.13%) GitLab
4 25 (5.40%) JIRA
5 20 (4.32%) Bitbucket
5 20 (4.32%) JUnit
5 20 (4.32%) Selenium
6 19 (4.10%) Cucumber
7 18 (3.89%) TeamCity
8 10 (2.16%) Mockito
9 9 (1.94%) Vite
10 6 (1.30%) Maven
11 4 (0.86%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.86%) JMeter
12 3 (0.65%) Gradle
13 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.43%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.43%) MSTest
13 2 (0.43%) Subversion
13 2 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 130 (28.08%) Social Skills
2 80 (17.28%) Finance
3 47 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.48%) Banking
6 29 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (5.83%) Law
7 27 (5.83%) Retail
8 18 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.67%) Front Office
10 13 (2.81%) Advertising
11 10 (2.16%) Games
11 10 (2.16%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.51%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.86%) Back Office
13 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.65%) Automotive
14 3 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 139 (30.02%) Developer
2 91 (19.65%) Senior
3 86 (18.57%) Software Engineer
4 68 (14.69%) Lead
5 48 (10.37%) Full-Stack Developer
6 41 (8.86%) Java Developer
7 40 (8.64%) Python Engineer
8 38 (8.21%) Data Engineer
9 32 (6.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 30 (6.48%) Java Engineer
11 25 (5.40%) Lead Developer
12 24 (5.18%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (4.10%) Analyst
14 19 (4.10%) IT Support
14 19 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
15 18 (3.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 18 (3.89%) Python Developer
16 16 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
17 15 (3.24%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (31.53%) React
2 91 (19.65%) Node.js
3 82 (17.71%) RESTful
4 60 (12.96%) Spring
5 59 (12.74%) REST
6 57 (12.31%) Spring Boot
7 48 (10.37%) FastAPI
8 46 (9.94%) Django
8 46 (9.94%) Kafka
9 42 (9.07%) .NET
10 38 (8.21%) HTML
11 36 (7.78%) CSS
12 31 (6.70%) AngularJS
13 30 (6.48%) Elastic Stack
14 29 (6.26%) Flask
15 27 (5.83%) Vue
16 25 (5.40%) Next.js
17 24 (5.18%) JSON
18 22 (4.75%) Redux
19 21 (4.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 84 (18.14%) Cloud Native
2 41 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.46%) Derivative
6 16 (3.46%) Equities
6 16 (3.46%) Fixed Income
6 16 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.24%) Blog
7 15 (3.24%) Replication
8 13 (2.81%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.81%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.51%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.51%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.51%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 59 (12.74%) Linux
2 27 (5.83%) Windows
3 17 (3.67%) Unix
4 15 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.08%) Android
6 5 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.08%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.65%) CentOS
8 2 (0.43%) Debian
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (44.71%) CI/CD
2 173 (37.37%) Agile
3 152 (32.83%) Software Engineering
4 140 (30.24%) Microservices
5 126 (27.21%) DevOps
6 121 (26.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 100 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (20.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 95 (20.52%) Containerisation
9 95 (20.52%) Test Automation
10 90 (19.44%) AI
11 82 (17.71%) Mentoring
12 63 (13.61%) Analytics
13 59 (12.74%) TDD
14 58 (12.53%) Scrum
15 52 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (11.02%) Data Modelling
16 51 (11.02%) Fintech
17 48 (10.37%) Observability
18 45 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 213 (46.00%) Python
2 167 (36.07%) SQL
3 154 (33.26%) Java
4 105 (22.68%) JavaScript
5 97 (20.95%) TypeScript
6 40 (8.64%) C#
7 38 (8.21%) Go
8 29 (6.26%) PowerShell
9 23 (4.97%) PHP
10 15 (3.24%) Bash
10 15 (3.24%) C
11 12 (2.59%) Delphi
12 11 (2.38%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.73%) C++
14 6 (1.30%) Korn
14 6 (1.30%) Scala
14 6 (1.30%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.86%) Pascal
15 4 (0.86%) Ruby
15 4 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.53%) Degree
3 48 (10.37%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.81%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.59%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) RHCE
12 2 (0.43%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.43%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.75%) QA
3 15 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.81%) GDPR
5 10 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.86%) SLA
7 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.43%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 161 (34.77%) Docker
2 29 (6.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.43%) Samba
6 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 162 (34.99%) Kubernetes
2 107 (23.11%) Terraform
3 35 (7.56%) Grafana
4 24 (5.18%) Ansible
5 22 (4.75%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.67%) Argo
7 6 (1.30%) Kibana
8 5 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (1.08%) Nagios
9 4 (0.86%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.86%) Istio
9 4 (0.86%) Rancher
10 3 (0.65%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.43%) Puppet
12 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.22%) Plesk
12 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 47 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 46 (9.94%) Oracle
3 27 (5.83%) Google
4 16 (3.46%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.02%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.73%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.73%) Informatica
7 7 (1.51%) Dell
7 7 (1.51%) Talend
8 6 (1.30%) Confluent
8 6 (1.30%) Databricks
8 6 (1.30%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.86%) IBM
10 4 (0.86%) Pega
10 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.86%) Splunk
10 4 (0.86%) VMware
11 3 (0.65%) Revolut
12 2 (0.43%) RedGate