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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 208 164
Rank change year-on-year -103 -44 +29
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 459 602 1,446
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.59% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.58% 9.07% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 346 454 1,048
10th Percentile £40,625 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,403 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 6,974 6,638 14,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.77% 17.55% 17.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,302 4,707 11,374
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £96,250
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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -97 187 £88,750 +1.43% 129
North of England -32 100 £67,500 - 38
South East -77 82 £57,500 -16.36% 73
Yorkshire -34 46 £52,130 -12.93% 7
North West -37 42 £73,401 +8.54% 20
South West -45 35 £62,500 -3.85% 18
East of England -41 20 £47,500 -17.39% 10
Midlands -46 20 £55,200 -15.08% 19
North East -35 12 £52,130 -24.87% 11
West Midlands -30 11 £47,500 -26.92% 9
East Midlands -44 9 £60,100 -14.14% 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 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.49%) Apache
4 15 (3.27%) Apache Spark
5 13 (2.83%) Confluence
5 13 (2.83%) OpenStack
6 10 (2.18%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.44%) Camunda
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.22%) JBoss
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.22%) WildFly
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 276 (60.13%) AWS
2 184 (40.09%) Azure
3 110 (23.97%) GCP
4 64 (13.94%) Serverless
5 49 (10.68%) GitHub
6 43 (9.37%) SaaS
7 36 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
8 35 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (7.41%) Power Platform
10 32 (6.97%) Amazon S3
11 30 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (5.23%) Azure Service Bus
14 23 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (5.01%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (5.01%) Azure AKS
15 20 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (4.14%) OpenShift
17 18 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.49%) DNS
2 15 (3.27%) DHCP
3 13 (2.83%) Firewall
4 12 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.96%) VPN
6 7 (1.53%) Broadband
6 7 (1.53%) Internet
6 7 (1.53%) iSCSI
6 7 (1.53%) Network Security
6 7 (1.53%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (1.53%) SAN
6 7 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.65%) VLAN
8 2 (0.44%) HTTP
8 2 (0.44%) LAN
8 2 (0.44%) PBX
8 2 (0.44%) SSL
8 2 (0.44%) WAN
9 1 (0.22%) LTE
9 1 (0.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (24.62%) SQL Server
2 109 (23.75%) MongoDB
3 107 (23.31%) MySQL
4 90 (19.61%) NoSQL
5 89 (19.39%) Relational Database
6 32 (6.97%) DynamoDB
7 30 (6.54%) Power BI
8 27 (5.88%) Redis
9 25 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (3.27%) DB2
12 15 (3.27%) RDBMS
13 13 (2.83%) BigQuery
14 11 (2.40%) Pinecone
15 10 (2.18%) Oracle Database
16 9 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.96%) MariaDB
17 8 (1.74%) Big Data
17 8 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 113 (24.62%) Git
2 47 (10.24%) Jenkins
3 42 (9.15%) GitLab
4 24 (5.23%) JIRA
5 21 (4.58%) JUnit
6 20 (4.36%) Bitbucket
6 20 (4.36%) Selenium
7 18 (3.92%) Cucumber
7 18 (3.92%) TeamCity
8 11 (2.40%) Mockito
9 9 (1.96%) Vite
10 6 (1.31%) Maven
11 4 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.87%) JMeter
12 3 (0.65%) Gradle
13 2 (0.44%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.44%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.44%) MSTest
13 2 (0.44%) Subversion
13 2 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 122 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 78 (16.99%) Finance
3 47 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.54%) Banking
6 27 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (5.88%) Retail
7 26 (5.66%) Law
8 18 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.70%) Front Office
10 13 (2.83%) Advertising
11 10 (2.18%) Games
11 10 (2.18%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.53%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.65%) Automotive
15 3 (0.65%) Back Office
15 3 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 136 (29.63%) Developer
2 92 (20.04%) Senior
3 80 (17.43%) Software Engineer
4 69 (15.03%) Lead
5 47 (10.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 39 (8.50%) Java Developer
6 39 (8.50%) Python Engineer
7 35 (7.63%) Data Engineer
8 32 (6.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 31 (6.75%) Java Engineer
10 25 (5.45%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.23%) Lead Software Engineer
12 19 (4.14%) Analyst
12 19 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
12 19 (4.14%) Java Software Engineer
13 18 (3.92%) IT Support
13 18 (3.92%) Python Developer
13 18 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (30.72%) React
2 100 (21.79%) Node.js
3 76 (16.56%) RESTful
4 59 (12.85%) Spring
5 58 (12.64%) REST
6 56 (12.20%) Spring Boot
7 46 (10.02%) FastAPI
8 43 (9.37%) Kafka
9 39 (8.50%) Django
10 38 (8.28%) .NET
11 37 (8.06%) HTML
12 36 (7.84%) CSS
13 30 (6.54%) AngularJS
13 30 (6.54%) Elastic Stack
14 28 (6.10%) Flask
15 25 (5.45%) JSON
16 24 (5.23%) Vue
17 23 (5.01%) Next.js
17 23 (5.01%) Redux
18 21 (4.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 83 (18.08%) Cloud Native
2 38 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.49%) Derivative
6 16 (3.49%) Equities
6 16 (3.49%) Fixed Income
6 16 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.05%) Blog
8 13 (2.83%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.83%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.83%) Replication
9 9 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.74%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.53%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 63 (13.73%) Linux
2 35 (7.63%) Windows
3 18 (3.92%) Unix
3 18 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.31%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.09%) Android
6 5 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.87%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.65%) CentOS
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
10 1 (0.22%) Debian
10 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (45.97%) CI/CD
2 187 (40.74%) Agile
3 146 (31.81%) Software Engineering
4 143 (31.15%) Microservices
5 124 (27.02%) DevOps
6 118 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 98 (21.35%) Test Automation
8 94 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
9 92 (20.04%) Containerisation
10 90 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 86 (18.74%) Mentoring
12 85 (18.52%) AI
13 67 (14.60%) Scrum
14 64 (13.94%) Analytics
15 59 (12.85%) TDD
16 53 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (11.11%) Data Modelling
18 45 (9.80%) Fintech
19 44 (9.59%) Data Pipeline
19 44 (9.59%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 205 (44.66%) Python
2 162 (35.29%) SQL
3 161 (35.08%) Java
4 102 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 95 (20.70%) TypeScript
6 38 (8.28%) C#
7 36 (7.84%) Go
8 28 (6.10%) PowerShell
9 23 (5.01%) PHP
10 17 (3.70%) Bash
11 16 (3.49%) C
12 12 (2.61%) Delphi
13 11 (2.40%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.96%) C++
15 7 (1.53%) Scala
15 7 (1.53%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.31%) Korn
17 5 (1.09%) Ruby
18 4 (0.87%) Pascal
19 3 (0.65%) RPG
Qualifications
1 58 (12.64%) Degree
2 56 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 46 (10.02%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) RHCE
12 2 (0.44%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.44%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.71%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.58%) QA
3 15 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.05%) GDPR
5 9 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.87%) SLA
7 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.44%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 153 (33.33%) Docker
2 29 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Firmware
5 2 (0.44%) Samba
6 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 163 (35.51%) Kubernetes
2 108 (23.53%) Terraform
3 36 (7.84%) Grafana
4 28 (6.10%) Ansible
5 27 (5.88%) Argo
6 23 (5.01%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.31%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.31%) Puppet
8 5 (1.09%) Istio
8 5 (1.09%) Kibana
9 4 (0.87%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.87%) Nagios
9 4 (0.87%) Rancher
10 3 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.65%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.22%) Plesk
12 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 49 (10.68%) Oracle
2 46 (10.02%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.79%) Google
4 17 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 15 (3.27%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.74%) Informatica
7 7 (1.53%) Dell
7 7 (1.53%) Talend
8 6 (1.31%) Confluent
8 6 (1.31%) Databricks
8 6 (1.31%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.87%) IBM
10 4 (0.87%) Pega
10 4 (0.87%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.87%) Splunk
10 4 (0.87%) VMware
11 3 (0.65%) Revolut
12 2 (0.44%) Mapbox