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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 212 166
Rank change year-on-year -79 -46 +60
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 539 639 1,575
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 1.61% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.40% 9.65% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 410 469 1,069
10th Percentile £41,925 £43,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £103,875 £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 7,287 6,624 15,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.74% 16.70% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,884 4,417 11,621
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,350 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -9.98%

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 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 18 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 -100 216 £85,000 -10.53% 170
South East -2 114 £59,500 +13.33% 54
North of England -24 113 £66,250 -1.85% 34
North West -10 48 £67,500 -1.47% 25
South West -55 38 £62,500 +2.04% 13
Yorkshire -22 36 £52,130 -22.77% 4
North East -29 29 £65,000 +23.81% 5
East of England -28 23 £47,500 +46.15% 12
Midlands -57 13 £75,000 +11.11% 20
West Midlands -41 9 £80,000 +18.52% 10
East Midlands -32 4 £65,000 +13.04% 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 28 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.71%) Apache
4 16 (2.97%) Confluence
5 12 (2.23%) Apache Spark
6 11 (2.04%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.30%) OpenStack
8 6 (1.11%) WordPress
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.19%) Moodle
10 1 (0.19%) nginx
10 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 323 (59.93%) AWS
2 207 (38.40%) Azure
3 95 (17.63%) GCP
4 62 (11.50%) Serverless
5 55 (10.20%) GitHub
6 49 (9.09%) SaaS
7 36 (6.68%) Power Platform
8 35 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (6.31%) Amazon EKS
9 34 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (5.01%) Azure Service Bus
12 24 (4.45%) Amazon S3
12 24 (4.45%) Azure AKS
13 18 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (2.78%) Azure Functions
15 15 (2.78%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.75%) Broadband
2 18 (3.34%) Firewall
3 16 (2.97%) DNS
4 15 (2.78%) DHCP
5 14 (2.60%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.04%) VPN
7 8 (1.48%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (1.48%) SAN
8 7 (1.30%) Network Security
8 7 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.93%) Internet
9 5 (0.93%) VLAN
10 2 (0.37%) HTTP
10 2 (0.37%) LAN
10 2 (0.37%) PBX
10 2 (0.37%) WAN
11 1 (0.19%) LTE
11 1 (0.19%) SMS
11 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (29.50%) MongoDB
2 132 (24.49%) MySQL
3 92 (17.07%) SQL Server
4 91 (16.88%) NoSQL
5 90 (16.70%) Relational Database
6 43 (7.98%) Redis
7 31 (5.75%) Power BI
8 22 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (3.71%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (3.15%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (2.41%) Pinecone
13 13 (2.41%) RDBMS
14 12 (2.23%) Metadata
15 11 (2.04%) MariaDB
15 11 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 10 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.86%) Oracle Database
17 9 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 105 (19.48%) Git
2 40 (7.42%) GitLab
3 36 (6.68%) Jenkins
4 23 (4.27%) JIRA
5 17 (3.15%) JUnit
6 14 (2.60%) TeamCity
7 13 (2.41%) Mockito
8 11 (2.04%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.86%) JMeter
10 9 (1.67%) Vite
11 7 (1.30%) Selenium
12 6 (1.11%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.11%) Maven
13 5 (0.93%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.56%) DBeaver
14 3 (0.56%) Gatling
14 3 (0.56%) Storybook
15 2 (0.37%) ESLint
15 2 (0.37%) Jaeger
15 2 (0.37%) Mocha
General
1 129 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 77 (14.29%) Finance
3 67 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 46 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.31%) Games
7 29 (5.38%) Retail
8 25 (4.64%) Law
9 23 (4.27%) Banking
10 20 (3.71%) Manufacturing
11 19 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.97%) Front Office
13 15 (2.78%) Advertising
13 15 (2.78%) Legal
14 10 (1.86%) Legal Technology
15 9 (1.67%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.30%) Aviation
17 5 (0.93%) Automotive
17 5 (0.93%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 167 (30.98%) Developer
2 110 (20.41%) Senior
3 104 (19.29%) Software Engineer
4 91 (16.88%) Lead
5 52 (9.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (9.28%) Python Engineer
7 42 (7.79%) Lead Developer
8 39 (7.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 35 (6.49%) Python Developer
10 34 (6.31%) Java Developer
11 33 (6.12%) Java Engineer
11 33 (6.12%) Lead Software Engineer
12 32 (5.94%) Architect
12 32 (5.94%) Data Engineer
12 32 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (5.01%) Senior Developer
14 21 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
15 20 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
15 20 (3.71%) Ruby Developer
15 20 (3.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (25.05%) React
2 126 (23.38%) Node.js
3 103 (19.11%) RESTful
4 75 (13.91%) REST
5 64 (11.87%) Spring
6 61 (11.32%) Spring Boot
7 49 (9.09%) Kafka
8 48 (8.91%) FastAPI
9 44 (8.16%) CSS
10 40 (7.42%) HTML
11 38 (7.05%) .NET
12 36 (6.68%) JSON
13 35 (6.49%) Next.js
14 29 (5.38%) AngularJS
15 27 (5.01%) Django
16 26 (4.82%) Vue
17 24 (4.45%) Flask
17 24 (4.45%) Redux
17 24 (4.45%) Ruby on Rails
18 18 (3.34%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 125 (23.19%) Cloud Native
2 59 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.94%) Video\Live Streaming
4 31 (5.75%) Low-Code
5 21 (3.90%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.71%) Algorithms
7 19 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (3.34%) Onboarding
9 16 (2.97%) Blog
9 16 (2.97%) Derivative
9 16 (2.97%) Equities
9 16 (2.97%) Fixed Income
10 15 (2.78%) Data Structures
10 15 (2.78%) Replication
11 14 (2.60%) Management Information System
12 13 (2.41%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.30%) Driving Licence
15 7 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 84 (15.58%) Linux
2 43 (7.98%) Windows
3 20 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.53%) Unix
5 9 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.74%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.56%) CentOS
9 1 (0.19%) Debian
9 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (44.53%) CI/CD
2 193 (35.81%) Agile
3 186 (34.51%) Software Engineering
4 156 (28.94%) Full-Stack Development
5 139 (25.79%) Microservices
6 129 (23.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 128 (23.75%) AI
8 122 (22.63%) DevOps
9 110 (20.41%) Test Automation
10 104 (19.29%) Mentoring
11 100 (18.55%) Containerisation
12 97 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 92 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (16.14%) Observability
15 69 (12.80%) Analytics
16 67 (12.43%) API Design
16 67 (12.43%) Scrum
17 61 (11.32%) TDD
18 59 (10.95%) Data Modelling
18 59 (10.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 239 (44.34%) Python
2 163 (30.24%) SQL
3 161 (29.87%) Java
4 114 (21.15%) JavaScript
4 114 (21.15%) TypeScript
5 51 (9.46%) Go
6 44 (8.16%) C#
7 38 (7.05%) PowerShell
8 30 (5.57%) Bash
9 24 (4.45%) PHP
9 24 (4.45%) Ruby
10 13 (2.41%) C++
11 12 (2.23%) T-SQL
12 11 (2.04%) Scala
12 11 (2.04%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.86%) C
14 7 (1.30%) Korn
15 5 (0.93%) RPG
16 4 (0.74%) Delphi
16 4 (0.74%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 69 (12.80%) Degree
2 67 (12.43%) Security Cleared
3 54 (10.02%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.74%) PhD
10 3 (0.56%) RHCE
10 3 (0.56%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.37%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.35%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.45%) QA
3 22 (4.08%) GDPR
4 18 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.23%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.56%) SLA
7 2 (0.37%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.37%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 151 (28.01%) Docker
2 30 (5.57%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Firmware
5 2 (0.37%) Samba
6 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 155 (28.76%) Kubernetes
2 108 (20.04%) Terraform
3 32 (5.94%) Grafana
4 29 (5.38%) Ansible
5 27 (5.01%) Argo
6 20 (3.71%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.86%) Kibana
8 7 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.30%) Puppet
9 6 (1.11%) Istio
9 6 (1.11%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.56%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.56%) Plesk
10 3 (0.56%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.56%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.37%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
11 2 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 68 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 55 (10.20%) Oracle
3 25 (4.64%) Google
4 17 (3.15%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.97%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.04%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.67%) Splunk
8 8 (1.48%) Dell
9 7 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.11%) Databricks
10 6 (1.11%) VMware
11 5 (0.93%) IBM
11 5 (0.93%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.74%) Confluent
12 4 (0.74%) Netezza
12 4 (0.74%) Pega
12 4 (0.74%) Remedy
13 3 (0.56%) Revolut
14 2 (0.37%) TikTok