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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 227 144
Rank change year-on-year -51 -83 +65
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 668 607 1,243
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 1.40% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.34% 9.40% 11.65%
Number of salaries quoted 490 430 657
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £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 8,012 6,458 10,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.07% 14.88% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,592 4,190 6,633
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,966 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -6.21% +0.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 9 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 9 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 -83 292 £85,000 -19.05% 588
South East -5 123 £65,000 - 80
North of England -20 121 £65,000 -3.70% 75
North West -2 57 £65,000 -3.70% 46
South West -52 51 £65,000 +30.00% 58
North East -34 39 £65,000 +26.83% 9
Midlands -55 33 £75,000 +7.14% 34
East of England -35 29 £52,500 +72.13% 24
Yorkshire -45 25 £69,310 -0.99% 21
West Midlands -40 24 £83,774 +15.55% 25
East Midlands -33 9 £60,000 +9.09% 8
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 30 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.59%) Apache
3 21 (3.14%) Confluence
4 20 (2.99%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.20%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.05%) Camunda
7 7 (1.05%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.90%) WordPress
9 3 (0.45%) CMS
10 2 (0.30%) Luigi
10 2 (0.30%) Tornado
11 1 (0.15%) Documentum
11 1 (0.15%) IIS
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
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 (1.65%) 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
1 363 (54.34%) AWS
2 228 (34.13%) Azure
3 103 (15.42%) GitHub
4 77 (11.53%) GCP
5 63 (9.43%) Serverless
6 62 (9.28%) SaaS
7 51 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (6.59%) Amazon S3
9 40 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
10 39 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (5.09%) GitHub Copilot
13 29 (4.34%) Power Platform
14 28 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
15 27 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
16 26 (3.89%) Azure AKS
17 24 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
19 18 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
20 17 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.49%) Broadband
2 12 (1.80%) Firewall
3 10 (1.50%) DNS
4 7 (1.05%) HTTP
5 6 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.75%) DHCP
6 5 (0.75%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.75%) SAN
7 3 (0.45%) 4G
7 3 (0.45%) 5G
7 3 (0.45%) SSH
7 3 (0.45%) VLAN
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
8 2 (0.30%) VPN
9 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.15%) Internet
9 1 (0.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.15%) SNMP
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (24.70%) MongoDB
2 155 (23.20%) MySQL
3 125 (18.71%) Relational Database
4 119 (17.81%) SQL Server
5 86 (12.87%) NoSQL
6 73 (10.93%) Redis
7 39 (5.84%) DynamoDB
8 33 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
10 26 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (3.44%) Power BI
12 19 (2.84%) Metadata
13 18 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
13 18 (2.69%) Big Data
14 14 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.95%) Pinecone
16 12 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (1.80%) Data Lake
16 12 (1.80%) Db2
16 12 (1.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 152 (22.75%) Git
2 52 (7.78%) GitLab
3 48 (7.19%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.59%) JUnit
5 21 (3.14%) JIRA
6 18 (2.69%) Mockito
7 12 (1.80%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.80%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.65%) Vite
9 10 (1.50%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.50%) JMeter
10 9 (1.35%) Selenium
11 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.90%) Maven
11 6 (0.90%) Storybook
12 5 (0.75%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.75%) Mocha
13 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
General
1 161 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 82 (12.28%) Public Sector
3 76 (11.38%) Finance
4 53 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (5.69%) Law
7 34 (5.09%) Games
8 22 (3.29%) Banking
9 21 (3.14%) Legal
10 19 (2.84%) Retail
11 18 (2.69%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.95%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.65%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.50%) Advertising
15 10 (1.50%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.20%) Aviation
17 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 7 (1.05%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.90%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 210 (31.44%) Developer
2 182 (27.25%) Senior
3 141 (21.11%) Software Engineer
4 104 (15.57%) Lead
5 63 (9.43%) Python Engineer
6 60 (8.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 55 (8.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 51 (7.63%) Data Engineer
8 51 (7.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 47 (7.04%) Python Developer
10 45 (6.74%) Senior Developer
11 38 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (5.39%) Architect
13 32 (4.79%) Lead Developer
14 30 (4.49%) Ruby Developer
15 28 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
16 27 (4.04%) Database Engineer
17 26 (3.89%) Software Developer
18 25 (3.74%) DBA
18 25 (3.74%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (23.35%) React
2 138 (20.66%) Node.js
3 136 (20.36%) Terraform
4 117 (17.51%) RESTful
5 116 (17.37%) REST
6 88 (13.17%) Kafka
7 79 (11.83%) Spring
8 75 (11.23%) Spring Boot
9 72 (10.78%) CSS
10 64 (9.58%) .NET
11 61 (9.13%) Next.js
12 59 (8.83%) HTML
13 53 (7.93%) FastAPI
14 42 (6.29%) JSON
15 41 (6.14%) AngularJS
16 35 (5.24%) Ruby on Rails
17 34 (5.09%) JWT
18 29 (4.34%) Django
18 29 (4.34%) Flask
19 25 (3.74%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 142 (21.26%) Cloud Native
2 88 (13.17%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.09%) Low-Code
4 31 (4.64%) Video\Live Streaming
5 26 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.74%) Product Ownership
7 24 (3.59%) AI Agents
8 22 (3.29%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.84%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.69%) Replication
11 13 (1.95%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (1.65%) Blog
13 11 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.65%) IoT
14 10 (1.50%) EPoS
14 10 (1.50%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 92 (13.77%) Linux
2 36 (5.39%) Windows
3 16 (2.40%) Unix
4 15 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (47.90%) CI/CD
2 244 (36.53%) Software Engineering
3 231 (34.58%) Agile
4 200 (29.94%) AI
5 192 (28.74%) Full-Stack Development
6 174 (26.05%) Microservices
7 168 (25.15%) DevOps
8 160 (23.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 133 (19.91%) Observability
10 126 (18.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 126 (18.86%) Test Automation
11 123 (18.41%) Mentoring
12 119 (17.81%) Containerisation
13 117 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (13.02%) API Design
15 81 (12.13%) Analytics
16 80 (11.98%) Clean Code
16 80 (11.98%) Data Modelling
17 78 (11.68%) Event-Driven
17 78 (11.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 283 (42.37%) Python
2 191 (28.59%) SQL
3 161 (24.10%) Java
4 134 (20.06%) TypeScript
5 127 (19.01%) JavaScript
6 72 (10.78%) C#
7 60 (8.98%) Go
8 35 (5.24%) Bash
8 35 (5.24%) Ruby
9 23 (3.44%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.69%) PHP
11 17 (2.54%) Scala
12 14 (2.10%) C++
12 14 (2.10%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.50%) RPG
14 7 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.75%) Korn
16 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.45%) Groovy
17 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (14.82%) Security Cleared
2 88 (13.17%) Degree
3 77 (11.53%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 23 (3.44%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.14%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.20%) PhD
10 7 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.30%) CISSP
13 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.08%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.24%) QA
3 26 (3.89%) GDPR
4 18 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) SLA
6 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.45%) WCAG
8 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 192 (28.74%) Docker
2 13 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 172 (25.75%) Kubernetes
2 45 (6.74%) Grafana
3 40 (5.99%) Ansible
4 32 (4.79%) Argo
5 29 (4.34%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.50%) Kibana
7 7 (1.05%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.90%) Istio
8 6 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.90%) Puppet
9 5 (0.75%) Rancher
10 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.45%) Plesk
10 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.15%) Consul
12 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 65 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.98%) Oracle
3 23 (3.44%) OpenAI
4 20 (2.99%) Databricks
4 20 (2.99%) Google
5 16 (2.40%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.50%) IBM
8 9 (1.35%) Splunk
9 8 (1.20%) Mistral
9 8 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.75%) Dell
10 5 (0.75%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.60%) Netezza
11 4 (0.60%) Pega
11 4 (0.60%) Remedy
12 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.45%) VMware
13 2 (0.30%) TikTok
13 2 (0.30%) WSO2