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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 220 165
Rank change year-on-year -60 -55 +43
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 624 649 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 1.50% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.96% 9.57% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 480 480 923
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 £93,750
90th Percentile £103,875 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £68,403 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.80% +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 7,843 6,779 13,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.91% 15.68% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5,373 4,502 10,083
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,064 £46,250 £43,750
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,875 £59,000
% change year-on-year -1.44% +3.18% -5.60%

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 18 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 18 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 -71 263 £85,000 -17.87% 118
South East -13 121 £59,750 +8.64% 42
North of England -31 121 £65,000 -3.70% 35
North West -11 52 £65,000 -3.70% 20
South West -43 46 £62,500 +4.17% 16
North East -28 36 £60,000 +14.29% 6
Yorkshire -28 33 £65,000 -3.70% 9
East of England -17 27 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Midlands -50 23 £75,000 +11.11% 17
West Midlands -33 19 £80,000 +18.41% 8
East Midlands -21 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 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.37%) Confluence
4 20 (3.21%) Apache
5 14 (2.24%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.76%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.96%) WordPress
8 5 (0.80%) Camunda
8 5 (0.80%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Documentum
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) Moodle
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (2.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 359 (57.53%) AWS
2 245 (39.26%) Azure
3 107 (17.15%) GCP
4 66 (10.58%) GitHub
5 61 (9.78%) Serverless
6 57 (9.13%) SaaS
7 46 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (6.41%) Amazon S3
9 38 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (5.77%) Power Platform
11 33 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
13 27 (4.33%) Azure Service Bus
14 25 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (3.85%) Azure AKS
16 22 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
18 17 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
19 15 (2.40%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.97%) Broadband
2 15 (2.40%) Firewall
3 13 (2.08%) DNS
4 12 (1.92%) DHCP
5 10 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.28%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.28%) SAN
6 8 (1.28%) VPN
7 4 (0.64%) Network Security
7 4 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.32%) HTTP
8 2 (0.32%) PBX
8 2 (0.32%) VLAN
9 1 (0.16%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.16%) LAN
9 1 (0.16%) LTE
9 1 (0.16%) SMS
9 1 (0.16%) SSL
9 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (27.08%) MongoDB
2 158 (25.32%) MySQL
3 105 (16.83%) SQL Server
4 101 (16.19%) Relational Database
5 99 (15.87%) NoSQL
6 62 (9.94%) Redis
7 31 (4.97%) Power BI
8 30 (4.81%) DynamoDB
9 26 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (3.21%) Metadata
13 17 (2.72%) Big Data
14 15 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (2.08%) RDBMS
15 13 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (1.92%) Data Lake
17 11 (1.76%) Db2
Development Applications
1 116 (18.59%) Git
2 42 (6.73%) GitLab
3 33 (5.29%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.85%) JIRA
5 21 (3.37%) JUnit
6 17 (2.72%) Mockito
7 14 (2.24%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.92%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.60%) JMeter
9 10 (1.60%) Vite
10 8 (1.28%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.96%) Maven
11 6 (0.96%) Selenium
12 4 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.64%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.48%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.48%) Gatling
13 3 (0.48%) Storybook
14 2 (0.32%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 137 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 84 (13.46%) Finance
3 79 (12.66%) Public Sector
4 50 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.45%) Games
7 28 (4.49%) Law
8 26 (4.17%) Retail
9 22 (3.53%) Banking
10 19 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.88%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.56%) Front Office
12 16 (2.56%) Legal
13 15 (2.40%) Advertising
14 11 (1.76%) Legal Technology
15 7 (1.12%) Aviation
16 6 (0.96%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.96%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.96%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.80%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 193 (30.93%) Developer
2 138 (22.12%) Senior
3 132 (21.15%) Software Engineer
4 115 (18.43%) Lead
5 61 (9.78%) Python Engineer
6 56 (8.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 48 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 47 (7.53%) Python Developer
9 46 (7.37%) Lead Developer
10 42 (6.73%) Lead Software Engineer
11 41 (6.57%) Data Engineer
12 36 (5.77%) Architect
13 35 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (4.81%) Java Developer
14 30 (4.81%) Java Engineer
14 30 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
15 28 (4.49%) Senior Developer
16 25 (4.01%) Ruby Developer
17 21 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
18 20 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (23.24%) React
2 143 (22.92%) Node.js
3 120 (19.23%) RESTful
4 90 (14.42%) REST
5 74 (11.86%) Spring
6 71 (11.38%) Spring Boot
7 65 (10.42%) Kafka
8 57 (9.13%) FastAPI
9 52 (8.33%) CSS
10 48 (7.69%) Next.js
11 46 (7.37%) HTML
12 43 (6.89%) JSON
13 40 (6.41%) .NET
14 31 (4.97%) AngularJS
15 29 (4.65%) Django
15 29 (4.65%) Ruby on Rails
16 27 (4.33%) Flask
17 26 (4.17%) JWT
17 26 (4.17%) Vue
18 24 (3.85%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 138 (22.12%) Cloud Native
2 76 (12.18%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.61%) Low-Code
4 33 (5.29%) Onboarding
5 32 (5.13%) Video\Live Streaming
6 26 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (4.01%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.37%) Algorithms
9 18 (2.88%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.88%) Data Structures
10 17 (2.72%) Blog
11 16 (2.56%) Derivative
11 16 (2.56%) Equities
11 16 (2.56%) Fixed Income
12 15 (2.40%) Replication
13 13 (2.08%) Management Information System
14 11 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.76%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (1.60%) EPoS
15 10 (1.60%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 88 (14.10%) Linux
2 40 (6.41%) Windows
3 19 (3.04%) Unix
4 16 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Debian
9 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (44.71%) CI/CD
2 229 (36.70%) Software Engineering
3 219 (35.10%) Agile
4 173 (27.72%) Microservices
5 172 (27.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 160 (25.64%) AI
7 147 (23.56%) DevOps
8 139 (22.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 132 (21.15%) Mentoring
10 123 (19.71%) Test Automation
11 116 (18.59%) Containerisation
12 108 (17.31%) Observability
13 105 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 102 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (13.30%) Analytics
16 80 (12.82%) API Design
17 74 (11.86%) Data Modelling
18 69 (11.06%) TDD
19 66 (10.58%) Clean Code
19 66 (10.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 271 (43.43%) Python
2 192 (30.77%) SQL
3 175 (28.04%) Java
4 123 (19.71%) TypeScript
5 122 (19.55%) JavaScript
6 50 (8.01%) Go
7 49 (7.85%) C#
8 38 (6.09%) PowerShell
9 33 (5.29%) Bash
10 29 (4.65%) Ruby
11 23 (3.69%) PHP
12 15 (2.40%) C++
13 14 (2.24%) Scala
14 12 (1.92%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.76%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.60%) RPG
17 6 (0.96%) Korn
18 5 (0.80%) C
18 5 (0.80%) Kotlin
19 4 (0.64%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 82 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 71 (11.38%) Degree
3 59 (9.46%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.80%) PhD
11 4 (0.64%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.48%) 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 (8.65%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.01%) QA
3 22 (3.53%) GDPR
4 16 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.48%) 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
1 169 (27.08%) Docker
2 27 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 161 (25.80%) Kubernetes
2 121 (19.39%) Terraform
3 34 (5.45%) Grafana
4 29 (4.65%) Ansible
4 29 (4.65%) Argo
5 21 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.60%) Kibana
7 7 (1.12%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.12%) Puppet
8 6 (0.96%) Istio
8 6 (0.96%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.48%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.48%) Plesk
9 3 (0.48%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.48%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.32%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.32%) Nagios
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 66 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 61 (9.78%) Oracle
3 33 (5.29%) Google
4 22 (3.53%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.40%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.76%) Databricks
8 10 (1.60%) IBM
9 9 (1.44%) Splunk
10 8 (1.28%) Dell
11 7 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.64%) Confluent
13 4 (0.64%) Netezza
13 4 (0.64%) Pega
13 4 (0.64%) Remedy
14 3 (0.48%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.48%) Revolut
14 3 (0.48%) VMware
15 2 (0.32%) TikTok