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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 163 170
Rank change year-on-year -138 +7 +26
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 460 712 1,341
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 1.94% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.78% 10.60% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 337 467 1,017
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +14.57% -12.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,500 £132,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £69,308 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 6,787 6,714 14,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.14% 18.33% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,227 4,749 11,398
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £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% -10.20%

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 11 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 11 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 -97 206 £86,750 -0.86% 152
North of England -40 100 £66,250 -1.94% 57
South East -122 71 £55,750 -20.36% 48
Yorkshire -31 44 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -35 44 £77,500 +13.19% 33
South West -51 34 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Midlands -54 22 £47,500 -26.92% 18
East of England -61 22 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -24 13 £45,000 -30.77% 8
North East -22 12 £55,000 -20.73% 6
East Midlands -50 9 £60,100 -14.14% 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 25 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.04%) Apache
2 14 (3.04%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.04%) Confluence
3 12 (2.61%) OpenStack
4 9 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.87%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.87%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.43%) Camunda
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) WildFly
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 281 (61.09%) AWS
2 177 (38.48%) Azure
3 122 (26.52%) GCP
4 64 (13.91%) Serverless
5 51 (11.09%) GitHub
6 44 (9.57%) SaaS
7 39 (8.48%) Amazon EKS
8 35 (7.61%) Amazon S3
9 32 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (6.74%) Power Platform
11 30 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
13 27 (5.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (5.43%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (5.22%) dbt
16 19 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (3.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (3.48%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.13%) TCP/IP
2 14 (3.04%) DHCP
2 14 (3.04%) DNS
3 11 (2.39%) Firewall
3 11 (2.39%) VPN
4 9 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.52%) Broadband
5 7 (1.52%) Internet
5 7 (1.52%) Network Security
6 6 (1.30%) iSCSI
6 6 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (1.30%) SAN
7 4 (0.87%) SSL
8 3 (0.65%) VLAN
9 2 (0.43%) HTTP
9 2 (0.43%) LAN
9 2 (0.43%) PBX
9 2 (0.43%) WAN
10 1 (0.22%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (24.13%) SQL Server
2 107 (23.26%) MySQL
3 94 (20.43%) Relational Database
4 92 (20.00%) MongoDB
5 91 (19.78%) NoSQL
6 36 (7.83%) Redis
7 33 (7.17%) DynamoDB
8 29 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (6.30%) Power BI
9 26 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (4.13%) DB2
11 16 (3.48%) RDBMS
12 15 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (3.04%) BigQuery
14 10 (2.17%) Oracle Database
15 9 (1.96%) Big Data
15 9 (1.96%) MariaDB
16 8 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 109 (23.70%) Git
2 50 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.09%) JIRA
4 27 (5.87%) GitLab
5 21 (4.57%) Bitbucket
5 21 (4.57%) Cucumber
5 21 (4.57%) Selenium
6 19 (4.13%) JUnit
6 19 (4.13%) TeamCity
7 10 (2.17%) Mockito
8 7 (1.52%) Vite
9 6 (1.30%) Maven
10 5 (1.09%) JMeter
11 4 (0.87%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.65%) Gradle
13 2 (0.43%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.43%) MSTest
13 2 (0.43%) Subversion
13 2 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 131 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 85 (18.48%) Finance
3 47 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.61%) Banking
6 31 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (6.30%) Law
8 26 (5.65%) Retail
9 17 (3.70%) Front Office
10 16 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.61%) Advertising
12 11 (2.39%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.17%) Games
14 8 (1.74%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.52%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.09%) Back Office
17 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.65%) Automotive
18 3 (0.65%) Electronics
18 3 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 141 (30.65%) Developer
2 88 (19.13%) Senior
3 85 (18.48%) Software Engineer
4 69 (15.00%) Lead
5 48 (10.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 43 (9.35%) Java Developer
7 39 (8.48%) Data Engineer
7 39 (8.48%) Python Engineer
8 29 (6.30%) Java Engineer
9 28 (6.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 26 (5.65%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.22%) Lead Software Engineer
12 21 (4.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 20 (4.35%) Python Developer
13 20 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (4.13%) Analyst
14 19 (4.13%) IT Support
14 19 (4.13%) Java Software Engineer
15 15 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
15 15 (3.26%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (31.30%) React
2 87 (18.91%) RESTful
3 84 (18.26%) Node.js
4 62 (13.48%) Spring
5 59 (12.83%) REST
5 59 (12.83%) Spring Boot
6 53 (11.52%) Django
7 50 (10.87%) FastAPI
8 43 (9.35%) Kafka
9 41 (8.91%) HTML
10 40 (8.70%) .NET
10 40 (8.70%) CSS
11 32 (6.96%) Flask
12 30 (6.52%) AngularJS
12 30 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
13 29 (6.30%) Vue
14 25 (5.43%) Next.js
15 23 (5.00%) JSON
16 21 (4.57%) .NET Core
16 21 (4.57%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 81 (17.61%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.87%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.48%) Blog
6 16 (3.48%) Derivative
6 16 (3.48%) Equities
6 16 (3.48%) Fixed Income
6 16 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.26%) Replication
8 14 (3.04%) Algorithms
8 14 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.83%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.52%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.52%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.52%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 61 (13.26%) Linux
2 28 (6.09%) Windows
3 20 (4.35%) Unix
4 15 (3.26%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.09%) Android
7 5 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.65%) CentOS
8 3 (0.65%) Debian
9 2 (0.43%) VMS
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (42.83%) CI/CD
2 170 (36.96%) Agile
3 152 (33.04%) Software Engineering
4 139 (30.22%) Microservices
5 126 (27.39%) DevOps
6 119 (25.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 101 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (20.22%) Containerisation
9 92 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 90 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 89 (19.35%) AI
12 80 (17.39%) Mentoring
13 58 (12.61%) Analytics
13 58 (12.61%) TDD
14 57 (12.39%) Fintech
15 54 (11.74%) Scrum
16 51 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (11.09%) Data Modelling
17 46 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
18 45 (9.78%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 212 (46.09%) Python
2 165 (35.87%) SQL
3 151 (32.83%) Java
4 106 (23.04%) JavaScript
5 92 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 38 (8.26%) Go
7 36 (7.83%) C#
8 29 (6.30%) PowerShell
9 22 (4.78%) PHP
10 15 (3.26%) C
11 12 (2.61%) Delphi
12 11 (2.39%) Bash
12 11 (2.39%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.74%) C++
14 6 (1.30%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.09%) Korn
15 5 (1.09%) Rust
16 4 (0.87%) Pascal
16 4 (0.87%) Ruby
17 3 (0.65%) RPG
Qualifications
1 62 (13.48%) Degree
2 58 (12.61%) Security Cleared
3 47 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.48%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) RHCE
12 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.43%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.43%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.57%) QA
3 15 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.83%) GDPR
5 10 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.30%) SLA
7 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
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%) PSD2
System Software
1 160 (34.78%) Docker
2 27 (5.87%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.43%) Samba
6 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 157 (34.13%) Kubernetes
2 101 (21.96%) Terraform
3 34 (7.39%) Grafana
4 22 (4.78%) Ansible
5 19 (4.13%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.17%) Argo
7 8 (1.74%) Kibana
8 5 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (1.09%) Nagios
9 4 (0.87%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.87%) Rancher
10 3 (0.65%) Puppet
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.22%) Ambari
12 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.22%) Plesk
12 1 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
12 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 46 (10.00%) Oracle
2 43 (9.35%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.74%) Google
4 15 (3.26%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.39%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.74%) Informatica
7 7 (1.52%) IBM
7 7 (1.52%) Talend
8 6 (1.30%) Dell
8 6 (1.30%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.09%) Confluent
9 5 (1.09%) Databricks
9 5 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.09%) Splunk
10 4 (0.87%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.87%) Pega
10 4 (0.87%) VMware
11 3 (0.65%) Revolut
12 2 (0.43%) D-Link