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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 221 169
Rank change year-on-year -52 -52 +51
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 616 657 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.51% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.84% 9.60% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 471 480 953
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,250 £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 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 7,860 6,847 14,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.97% 15.77% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,348 4,546 10,524
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,529
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £43,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.93% +6.40% -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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -83 260 £85,000 -15.00% 239
North of England -5 122 £65,000 -3.70% 51
South East -18 119 £59,500 +3.48% 50
North West -26 53 £65,000 -3.70% 29
South West -47 45 £62,500 +4.17% 45
North East -27 35 £65,000 +23.81% 11
Yorkshire -26 34 £65,000 -3.70% 11
East of England -25 26 £52,500 +66.67% 12
Midlands -52 22 £75,000 +11.11% 18
West Midlands -35 18 £77,500 +14.81% 9
East Midlands -36 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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.25%) Apache
3 20 (3.25%) Confluence
4 14 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.97%) WordPress
7 5 (0.81%) Camunda
7 5 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Documentum
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.16%) Moodle
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 357 (57.95%) AWS
2 241 (39.12%) Azure
3 108 (17.53%) GCP
4 65 (10.55%) GitHub
5 61 (9.90%) Serverless
6 57 (9.25%) SaaS
7 45 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (6.33%) Amazon S3
9 35 (5.68%) Power Platform
10 33 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
12 27 (4.38%) Azure Service Bus
13 25 (4.06%) Azure AKS
13 25 (4.06%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
18 15 (2.44%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.03%) Broadband
2 16 (2.60%) Firewall
3 14 (2.27%) DNS
4 13 (2.11%) DHCP
5 11 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.46%) VPN
7 8 (1.30%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (1.30%) SAN
8 5 (0.81%) Network Security
8 5 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.49%) VLAN
10 2 (0.32%) HTTP
10 2 (0.32%) PBX
11 1 (0.16%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.16%) LAN
11 1 (0.16%) LTE
11 1 (0.16%) SMS
11 1 (0.16%) SSL
11 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (27.11%) MongoDB
2 157 (25.49%) MySQL
3 103 (16.72%) SQL Server
4 100 (16.23%) Relational Database
5 98 (15.91%) NoSQL
6 59 (9.58%) Redis
7 30 (4.87%) DynamoDB
7 30 (4.87%) Power BI
8 26 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (3.25%) Metadata
12 17 (2.76%) Big Data
13 15 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (2.11%) RDBMS
15 12 (1.95%) Data Lake
15 12 (1.95%) Pinecone
15 12 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 116 (18.83%) Git
2 42 (6.82%) GitLab
3 33 (5.36%) Jenkins
4 23 (3.73%) JIRA
5 21 (3.41%) JUnit
6 17 (2.76%) Mockito
7 15 (2.44%) TeamCity
8 13 (2.11%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.62%) JMeter
9 10 (1.62%) Vite
10 8 (1.30%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.97%) Maven
11 6 (0.97%) Selenium
12 4 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.65%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.49%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.49%) Gatling
13 3 (0.49%) Storybook
14 2 (0.32%) ESLint
14 2 (0.32%) Jaeger
General
1 136 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 83 (13.47%) Finance
3 78 (12.66%) Public Sector
4 49 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.52%) Games
7 30 (4.87%) Law
8 29 (4.71%) Retail
9 24 (3.90%) Banking
10 19 (3.08%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.60%) Front Office
11 16 (2.60%) Legal
12 15 (2.44%) Advertising
13 11 (1.79%) Legal Technology
14 7 (1.14%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.14%) Aviation
15 6 (0.97%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.97%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 188 (30.52%) Developer
2 136 (22.08%) Senior
3 130 (21.10%) Software Engineer
4 113 (18.34%) Lead
5 58 (9.42%) Python Engineer
6 55 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
7 46 (7.47%) Lead Developer
8 45 (7.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 45 (7.31%) Python Developer
9 41 (6.66%) Data Engineer
9 41 (6.66%) Lead Software Engineer
10 36 (5.84%) Architect
11 35 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
12 31 (5.03%) Java Developer
12 31 (5.03%) Java Engineer
13 29 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
14 28 (4.55%) Senior Developer
15 24 (3.90%) Ruby Developer
16 21 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (23.38%) React
2 141 (22.89%) Node.js
3 118 (19.16%) RESTful
4 88 (14.29%) REST
5 74 (12.01%) Spring
6 71 (11.53%) Spring Boot
7 65 (10.55%) Kafka
8 56 (9.09%) FastAPI
9 50 (8.12%) CSS
10 45 (7.31%) Next.js
11 44 (7.14%) HTML
12 42 (6.82%) JSON
13 39 (6.33%) .NET
14 31 (5.03%) AngularJS
15 28 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
16 27 (4.38%) Django
16 27 (4.38%) Flask
17 26 (4.22%) Vue
18 25 (4.06%) JWT
19 24 (3.90%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 137 (22.24%) Cloud Native
2 73 (11.85%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.52%) Low-Code
4 32 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 32 (5.19%) Video\Live Streaming
5 25 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.90%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.41%) Algorithms
8 19 (3.08%) Blog
9 18 (2.92%) Data Structures
10 17 (2.76%) AI Agents
11 16 (2.60%) Derivative
11 16 (2.60%) Equities
11 16 (2.60%) Fixed Income
12 14 (2.27%) Replication
13 13 (2.11%) Management Information System
14 11 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (1.62%) iSeries
15 10 (1.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (14.45%) Linux
2 41 (6.66%) Windows
3 19 (3.08%) Unix
4 17 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.49%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Debian
9 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (44.48%) CI/CD
2 225 (36.53%) Software Engineering
3 215 (34.90%) Agile
4 172 (27.92%) Microservices
5 170 (27.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 155 (25.16%) AI
7 144 (23.38%) DevOps
8 138 (22.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 128 (20.78%) Mentoring
10 124 (20.13%) Test Automation
11 116 (18.83%) Containerisation
12 105 (17.05%) Observability
13 104 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 101 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
15 82 (13.31%) Analytics
16 78 (12.66%) API Design
17 73 (11.85%) Data Modelling
18 69 (11.20%) TDD
19 66 (10.71%) Clean Code
20 64 (10.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 265 (43.02%) Python
2 189 (30.68%) SQL
3 179 (29.06%) Java
4 122 (19.81%) JavaScript
4 122 (19.81%) TypeScript
5 50 (8.12%) Go
6 47 (7.63%) C#
7 39 (6.33%) PowerShell
8 32 (5.19%) Bash
9 28 (4.55%) Ruby
10 23 (3.73%) PHP
11 15 (2.44%) C++
12 14 (2.27%) Scala
13 12 (1.95%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.62%) RPG
14 10 (1.62%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.97%) Korn
16 5 (0.81%) C
17 4 (0.65%) Delphi
17 4 (0.65%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 82 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.20%) Degree
3 59 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.81%) PhD
11 4 (0.65%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.49%) RHCE
13 2 (0.32%) CISSP
13 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.32%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.32%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.06%) QA
3 22 (3.57%) GDPR
4 16 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.49%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 167 (27.11%) Docker
2 28 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 163 (26.46%) Kubernetes
2 122 (19.81%) Terraform
3 35 (5.68%) Grafana
4 29 (4.71%) Ansible
4 29 (4.71%) Argo
5 21 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.62%) Kibana
7 7 (1.14%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.14%) Puppet
8 6 (0.97%) Istio
8 6 (0.97%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.49%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.49%) Plesk
9 3 (0.49%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.49%) Rancher
9 3 (0.49%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.32%) Nagios
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 66 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.58%) Oracle
3 32 (5.19%) Google
4 23 (3.73%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.95%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.62%) Databricks
7 10 (1.62%) IBM
8 9 (1.46%) Splunk
9 8 (1.30%) Dell
10 7 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.65%) Confluent
12 4 (0.65%) Netezza
12 4 (0.65%) Pega
12 4 (0.65%) Remedy
12 4 (0.65%) VMware
13 3 (0.49%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.49%) Revolut
14 2 (0.32%) WSO2