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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 224 163
Rank change year-on-year -77 -61 +28
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 476 588 1,475
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.51% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.82% 8.69% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 354 447 1,067
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,490 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.01% +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 6,980 6,769 14,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.59% 17.40% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,315 4,672 11,394
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -104 190 £90,000 +2.86% 150
North of England -26 103 £67,500 - 43
South East -45 89 £57,500 -8.00% 65
North West -30 45 £70,905 +4.85% 18
Yorkshire -25 44 £52,130 -12.93% 9
South West -42 37 £62,500 -3.85% 22
East of England -30 19 £47,500 -13.64% 19
Midlands -47 19 £55,200 -15.08% 20
North East -21 14 £55,000 -20.73% 16
West Midlands -33 10 £51,350 -21.00% 8
East Midlands -41 9 £60,100 -14.14% 12
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 29 (6.09%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.78%) Apache
4 16 (3.36%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.94%) Confluence
6 13 (2.73%) OpenStack
7 10 (2.10%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.42%) Camunda
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.42%) WordPress
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) JBoss
9 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.21%) nginx
9 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (1.68%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 290 (60.92%) AWS
2 186 (39.08%) Azure
3 108 (22.69%) GCP
4 67 (14.08%) Serverless
5 52 (10.92%) GitHub
6 45 (9.45%) SaaS
7 37 (7.77%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 33 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (6.51%) Amazon S3
11 26 (5.46%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (5.25%) Azure AKS
12 25 (5.25%) Azure Service Bus
13 23 (4.83%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (3.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.36%) DNS
2 15 (3.15%) DHCP
2 15 (3.15%) Firewall
3 13 (2.73%) Broadband
3 13 (2.73%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.89%) VPN
5 8 (1.68%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.68%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.68%) SAN
6 7 (1.47%) Internet
6 7 (1.47%) Network Security
6 7 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.63%) VLAN
8 2 (0.42%) HTTP
8 2 (0.42%) LAN
8 2 (0.42%) PBX
8 2 (0.42%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.21%) LTE
9 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (25.21%) MongoDB
2 113 (23.74%) SQL Server
3 107 (22.48%) MySQL
4 91 (19.12%) Relational Database
5 90 (18.91%) NoSQL
6 32 (6.72%) DynamoDB
7 30 (6.30%) Power BI
8 28 (5.88%) Redis
9 23 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (3.15%) RDBMS
13 13 (2.73%) BigQuery
13 13 (2.73%) DB2
14 11 (2.31%) Pinecone
15 10 (2.10%) MariaDB
16 9 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.89%) Oracle Database
17 8 (1.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 119 (25.00%) Git
2 49 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 45 (9.45%) GitLab
4 26 (5.46%) JIRA
5 21 (4.41%) JUnit
6 19 (3.99%) Bitbucket
6 19 (3.99%) Selenium
7 17 (3.57%) Cucumber
7 17 (3.57%) TeamCity
8 11 (2.31%) Mockito
9 9 (1.89%) Vite
10 6 (1.26%) Maven
11 4 (0.84%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.84%) JMeter
12 2 (0.42%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.42%) Gradle
12 2 (0.42%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.42%) MSTest
12 2 (0.42%) Storybook
12 2 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 130 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 77 (16.18%) Finance
3 49 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.88%) Banking
5 28 (5.88%) Retail
6 27 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.46%) Law
8 19 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.57%) Front Office
10 16 (3.36%) Games
11 13 (2.73%) Advertising
12 11 (2.31%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.47%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.63%) Automotive
15 3 (0.63%) Aviation
15 3 (0.63%) Back Office
15 3 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (30.46%) Developer
2 100 (21.01%) Senior
3 83 (17.44%) Software Engineer
4 71 (14.92%) Lead
5 52 (10.92%) Full-Stack Developer
6 41 (8.61%) Python Engineer
7 38 (7.98%) Java Developer
8 33 (6.93%) Data Engineer
8 33 (6.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 31 (6.51%) Java Engineer
10 28 (5.88%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.04%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (4.62%) Python Developer
13 21 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
14 20 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
15 19 (3.99%) Analyst
15 19 (3.99%) Java Software Engineer
15 19 (3.99%) Senior Developer
15 19 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.78%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (29.83%) React
2 109 (22.90%) Node.js
3 82 (17.23%) RESTful
4 63 (13.24%) REST
5 59 (12.39%) Spring
6 56 (11.76%) Spring Boot
7 46 (9.66%) FastAPI
8 43 (9.03%) .NET
8 43 (9.03%) Kafka
9 39 (8.19%) CSS
9 39 (8.19%) HTML
10 38 (7.98%) Django
11 31 (6.51%) AngularJS
12 29 (6.09%) Elastic Stack
12 29 (6.09%) Flask
13 27 (5.67%) JSON
14 25 (5.25%) Next.js
14 25 (5.25%) Vue
15 24 (5.04%) Redux
16 20 (4.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 93 (19.54%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.46%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (3.78%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.36%) Derivative
6 16 (3.36%) Equities
6 16 (3.36%) Fixed Income
7 15 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.94%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.94%) Blog
9 13 (2.73%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.73%) Low-Code
9 13 (2.73%) Video\Live Streaming
10 12 (2.52%) Replication
11 10 (2.10%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.47%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.87%) Linux
2 37 (7.77%) Windows
3 19 (3.99%) Unix
3 19 (3.99%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.26%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.05%) Android
6 5 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.84%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.63%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Debian
9 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 190 (39.92%) Agile
3 157 (32.98%) Software Engineering
4 144 (30.25%) Microservices
5 132 (27.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 128 (26.89%) DevOps
7 106 (22.27%) Test Automation
8 100 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 96 (20.17%) Containerisation
10 93 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (19.12%) Mentoring
12 90 (18.91%) AI
13 70 (14.71%) Scrum
14 65 (13.66%) Analytics
14 65 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (12.39%) TDD
16 52 (10.92%) Observability
17 50 (10.50%) Data Modelling
18 47 (9.87%) Data Pipeline
19 44 (9.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 213 (44.75%) Python
2 162 (34.03%) Java
3 155 (32.56%) SQL
4 106 (22.27%) JavaScript
5 104 (21.85%) TypeScript
6 42 (8.82%) C#
7 41 (8.61%) Go
8 28 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 25 (5.25%) PHP
10 19 (3.99%) Bash
11 16 (3.36%) C
12 12 (2.52%) Delphi
13 9 (1.89%) C++
13 9 (1.89%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.68%) Scala
15 7 (1.47%) Korn
15 7 (1.47%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.26%) Ruby
17 4 (0.84%) Pascal
18 3 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 59 (12.39%) Degree
2 57 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 46 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.63%) RHCE
12 2 (0.42%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.42%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.41%) QA
3 15 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.94%) GDPR
5 8 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.42%) WCAG
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 157 (32.98%) Docker
2 30 (6.30%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) Firmware
5 2 (0.42%) Samba
6 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 165 (34.66%) Kubernetes
2 111 (23.32%) Terraform
3 36 (7.56%) Grafana
4 29 (6.09%) Ansible
4 29 (6.09%) Argo
5 22 (4.62%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.26%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.26%) Puppet
7 5 (1.05%) Istio
7 5 (1.05%) Kibana
8 4 (0.84%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.84%) Nagios
8 4 (0.84%) Rancher
9 3 (0.63%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.63%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.42%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.42%) Plesk
11 1 (0.21%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 51 (10.71%) Microsoft
1 51 (10.71%) Oracle
2 22 (4.62%) Google
3 17 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.15%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.68%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.68%) Dell
6 7 (1.47%) Databricks
7 6 (1.26%) Confluent
7 6 (1.26%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.26%) Informatica
8 5 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.05%) Talend
9 4 (0.84%) Pega
9 4 (0.84%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.84%) Splunk
9 4 (0.84%) VMware
10 3 (0.63%) Revolut
11 2 (0.42%) Mapbox
11 2 (0.42%) WSO2