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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 214 164
Rank change year-on-year -67 -50 +55
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 575 636 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 1.55% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.55% 9.59% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 439 467 1,025
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,250 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%

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 7,614 6,634 15,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.92% 16.21% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,179 4,430 11,325
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,624 £46,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £79,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.73%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -78 233 £85,000 -10.53% 117
North of England -33 121 £65,000 -3.70% 35
South East -20 118 £59,500 +13.33% 47
North West -12 54 £67,500 - 21
South West -60 41 £62,500 - 16
Yorkshire -16 36 £58,565 -13.24% 8
North East -28 31 £65,000 +25.30% 6
East of England -24 23 £47,500 +50.79% 12
Midlands -60 16 £75,000 +11.11% 22
West Midlands -39 12 £77,500 +14.81% 13
East Midlands -25 4 £65,000 +18.18% 9
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 (4.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.48%) Apache
4 16 (2.78%) Confluence
5 13 (2.26%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.91%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.04%) OpenStack
7 6 (1.04%) WordPress
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Documentum
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 342 (59.48%) AWS
2 223 (38.78%) Azure
3 103 (17.91%) GCP
4 63 (10.96%) Serverless
5 59 (10.26%) GitHub
6 54 (9.39%) SaaS
7 38 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (6.43%) Power Platform
9 36 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (5.74%) Amazon S3
12 27 (4.70%) Azure Service Bus
13 25 (4.35%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (2.61%) Azure Functions
17 15 (2.61%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.39%) Broadband
2 18 (3.13%) Firewall
3 16 (2.78%) DNS
4 15 (2.61%) DHCP
5 14 (2.43%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.91%) VPN
7 8 (1.39%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (1.39%) SAN
8 7 (1.22%) Network Security
8 7 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.87%) VLAN
10 3 (0.52%) Internet
11 2 (0.35%) HTTP
11 2 (0.35%) LAN
11 2 (0.35%) PBX
11 2 (0.35%) WAN
12 1 (0.17%) LTE
12 1 (0.17%) SMS
12 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (29.22%) MongoDB
2 144 (25.04%) MySQL
3 98 (17.04%) SQL Server
4 97 (16.87%) Relational Database
5 94 (16.35%) NoSQL
6 48 (8.35%) Redis
7 32 (5.57%) Power BI
8 25 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
9 24 (4.17%) DynamoDB
9 24 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (2.78%) Metadata
12 15 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (2.26%) Pinecone
13 13 (2.26%) RDBMS
14 12 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (1.91%) MariaDB
16 10 (1.74%) Big Data
16 10 (1.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 109 (18.96%) Git
2 41 (7.13%) GitLab
3 35 (6.09%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.83%) JIRA
5 17 (2.96%) JUnit
6 14 (2.43%) TeamCity
7 13 (2.26%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.26%) Mockito
8 10 (1.74%) JMeter
9 9 (1.57%) Vite
10 8 (1.39%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.04%) Maven
11 6 (1.04%) Selenium
12 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.70%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.52%) DBeaver
13 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.52%) Gatling
13 3 (0.52%) Storybook
14 2 (0.35%) ESLint
General
1 136 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 80 (13.91%) Finance
3 72 (12.52%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.91%) Games
7 30 (5.22%) Retail
8 26 (4.52%) Law
9 23 (4.00%) Banking
10 21 (3.65%) Manufacturing
11 19 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.78%) Front Office
13 15 (2.61%) Advertising
13 15 (2.61%) Legal
14 10 (1.74%) Legal Technology
15 9 (1.57%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.22%) Aviation
17 6 (1.04%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.87%) Automotive
18 5 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 176 (30.61%) Developer
2 121 (21.04%) Senior
3 119 (20.70%) Software Engineer
4 105 (18.26%) Lead
5 53 (9.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 53 (9.22%) Python Engineer
6 45 (7.83%) Lead Developer
7 42 (7.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 40 (6.96%) Lead Software Engineer
8 40 (6.96%) Python Developer
9 37 (6.43%) Data Engineer
10 35 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (5.91%) Architect
12 33 (5.74%) Java Developer
13 32 (5.57%) Java Engineer
14 26 (4.52%) Senior Developer
15 22 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.65%) Ruby Developer
16 21 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (24.35%) React
2 134 (23.30%) Node.js
3 108 (18.78%) RESTful
4 79 (13.74%) REST
5 66 (11.48%) Spring
6 63 (10.96%) Spring Boot
7 56 (9.74%) Kafka
8 52 (9.04%) FastAPI
9 47 (8.17%) CSS
10 42 (7.30%) HTML
11 40 (6.96%) Next.js
12 39 (6.78%) .NET
13 38 (6.61%) JSON
14 32 (5.57%) AngularJS
15 27 (4.70%) Django
16 26 (4.52%) Vue
17 25 (4.35%) Ruby on Rails
18 24 (4.17%) Flask
18 24 (4.17%) Redux
19 18 (3.13%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 132 (22.96%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.57%) Low-Code
3 32 (5.57%) Video\Live Streaming
4 24 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.65%) Algorithms
6 21 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (3.13%) Blog
7 18 (3.13%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.78%) Derivative
8 16 (2.78%) Equities
8 16 (2.78%) Fixed Income
9 15 (2.61%) Replication
10 14 (2.43%) AI Agents
10 14 (2.43%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.39%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 88 (15.30%) Linux
2 44 (7.65%) Windows
3 20 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.30%) Unix
5 9 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.52%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Debian
9 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (44.17%) CI/CD
2 208 (36.17%) Software Engineering
3 203 (35.30%) Agile
4 162 (28.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 158 (27.48%) Microservices
6 136 (23.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 135 (23.48%) AI
8 134 (23.30%) DevOps
9 120 (20.87%) Mentoring
10 118 (20.52%) Test Automation
11 108 (18.78%) Containerisation
12 99 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
13 98 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 95 (16.52%) Observability
15 75 (13.04%) Analytics
16 68 (11.83%) API Design
16 68 (11.83%) Data Modelling
17 66 (11.48%) TDD
18 65 (11.30%) Scrum
19 60 (10.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 247 (42.96%) Python
2 177 (30.78%) SQL
3 169 (29.39%) Java
4 122 (21.22%) TypeScript
5 118 (20.52%) JavaScript
6 51 (8.87%) Go
7 46 (8.00%) C#
8 41 (7.13%) PowerShell
9 33 (5.74%) Bash
10 25 (4.35%) Ruby
11 24 (4.17%) PHP
12 13 (2.26%) C++
13 12 (2.09%) T-SQL
14 11 (1.91%) Scala
14 11 (1.91%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.39%) C
16 7 (1.22%) Korn
16 7 (1.22%) RPG
17 4 (0.70%) Delphi
17 4 (0.70%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 74 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.17%) Degree
3 58 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.70%) PhD
11 3 (0.52%) RHCE
11 3 (0.52%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 2 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.35%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.04%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.17%) QA
3 23 (4.00%) GDPR
4 18 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.52%) SLA
7 2 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.35%) WCAG
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.17%) MiFID
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 159 (27.65%) Docker
2 30 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Firmware
5 2 (0.35%) Samba
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 163 (28.35%) Kubernetes
2 116 (20.17%) Terraform
3 34 (5.91%) Grafana
4 31 (5.39%) Ansible
5 29 (5.04%) Argo
6 20 (3.48%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.74%) Kibana
8 7 (1.22%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.22%) Puppet
9 6 (1.04%) Istio
9 6 (1.04%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.52%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.52%) Plesk
10 3 (0.52%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.52%) Rancher
10 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.35%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.35%) Nagios
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 68 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 57 (9.91%) Oracle
3 25 (4.35%) Google
4 17 (2.96%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 12 (2.09%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.57%) Databricks
7 9 (1.57%) Splunk
8 8 (1.39%) Dell
9 7 (1.22%) IBM
9 7 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.04%) VMware
11 5 (0.87%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.70%) Confluent
12 4 (0.70%) Netezza
12 4 (0.70%) Pega
12 4 (0.70%) Remedy
13 3 (0.52%) Revolut
14 2 (0.35%) TikTok
14 2 (0.35%) WSO2