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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 217 156
Rank change year-on-year -52 -61 +53
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 674 634 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 1.45% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.35% 9.48% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 493 458 766
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £57,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +19.05% -10.00%

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 8,076 6,686 11,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.46% 15.31% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,574 4,382 7,629
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -71 296 £85,000 -19.05% 350
South East -11 126 £63,750 +8.51% 67
North of England -12 125 £65,000 -3.70% 52
North West -4 58 £65,000 -3.70% 31
South West -59 47 £62,500 +19.05% 38
North East -20 40 £65,000 +26.83% 8
Midlands -50 32 £75,000 +7.14% 31
East of England -28 29 £52,500 +66.67% 18
Yorkshire -34 27 £69,308 +2.68% 13
West Midlands -37 23 £83,774 +15.55% 15
East Midlands -23 9 £60,000 +9.09% 15
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 32 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.15%) Apache
3 21 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.12%) Confluence
4 15 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.04%) Camunda
7 6 (0.89%) WordPress
8 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.45%) CMS
10 2 (0.30%) Luigi
10 2 (0.30%) Tornado
11 1 (0.15%) Documentum
11 1 (0.15%) IIS
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Finacle
2 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 375 (55.64%) AWS
2 240 (35.61%) Azure
3 99 (14.69%) GitHub
4 89 (13.20%) GCP
5 65 (9.64%) Serverless
6 60 (8.90%) SaaS
7 51 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (6.97%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
9 39 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
10 34 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
11 32 (4.75%) GitHub Copilot
12 30 (4.45%) Power Platform
13 28 (4.15%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (3.86%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.60%) Broadband
2 14 (2.08%) Firewall
3 10 (1.48%) DNS
4 8 (1.19%) DHCP
5 7 (1.04%) iSCSI
5 7 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (1.04%) SAN
6 5 (0.74%) VPN
7 4 (0.59%) HTTP
7 4 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.30%) Network Security
8 2 (0.30%) PBX
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
8 2 (0.30%) VLAN
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.15%) Internet
9 1 (0.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.15%) SSL
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (25.37%) MongoDB
2 162 (24.04%) MySQL
3 130 (19.29%) Relational Database
4 119 (17.66%) SQL Server
5 90 (13.35%) NoSQL
6 68 (10.09%) Redis
7 42 (6.23%) DynamoDB
8 31 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (3.56%) Power BI
12 21 (3.12%) Metadata
13 20 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (2.82%) Big Data
15 17 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
17 13 (1.93%) Pinecone
17 13 (1.93%) RDBMS
18 12 (1.78%) Db2
18 12 (1.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 149 (22.11%) Git
2 49 (7.27%) GitLab
3 41 (6.08%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.71%) JUnit
5 23 (3.41%) JIRA
6 19 (2.82%) Mockito
7 12 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.63%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.63%) Vite
9 10 (1.48%) JMeter
10 9 (1.34%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.04%) Storybook
12 6 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.89%) Maven
12 6 (0.89%) Selenium
13 5 (0.74%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.74%) Mocha
14 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
15 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
General
1 166 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 88 (13.06%) Finance
3 84 (12.46%) Public Sector
4 55 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (5.79%) Law
7 36 (5.34%) Games
8 21 (3.12%) Legal
9 20 (2.97%) Banking
9 20 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.52%) Retail
11 13 (1.93%) Advertising
11 13 (1.93%) Legal Technology
12 9 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.19%) Aviation
13 8 (1.19%) Front Office
14 7 (1.04%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.04%) Tech for Good
14 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 216 (32.05%) Developer
2 182 (27.00%) Senior
3 145 (21.51%) Software Engineer
4 111 (16.47%) Lead
5 67 (9.94%) Python Engineer
6 63 (9.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (8.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 54 (8.01%) Senior Software Engineer
8 50 (7.42%) Data Engineer
9 48 (7.12%) Python Developer
10 42 (6.23%) Senior Developer
11 40 (5.93%) Lead Developer
12 36 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
13 34 (5.04%) Architect
13 34 (5.04%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.45%) Ruby Developer
15 26 (3.86%) Database Engineer
15 26 (3.86%) Java Developer
16 25 (3.71%) Software Developer
17 24 (3.56%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (23.59%) React
2 148 (21.96%) Node.js
3 131 (19.44%) Terraform
4 117 (17.36%) RESTful
5 111 (16.47%) REST
6 80 (11.87%) Spring
7 78 (11.57%) Kafka
8 76 (11.28%) Spring Boot
9 71 (10.53%) CSS
10 63 (9.35%) Next.js
11 59 (8.75%) .NET
12 58 (8.61%) HTML
13 52 (7.72%) FastAPI
14 43 (6.38%) AngularJS
15 42 (6.23%) JSON
16 35 (5.19%) JWT
16 35 (5.19%) Ruby on Rails
17 30 (4.45%) Django
18 27 (4.01%) Flask
19 26 (3.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 134 (19.88%) Cloud Native
2 88 (13.06%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.19%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.75%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (4.15%) Product Ownership
6 25 (3.71%) AI Agents
6 25 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (3.41%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.97%) Algorithms
9 18 (2.67%) Replication
10 13 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
11 12 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.48%) EPoS
13 10 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.48%) IoT
13 10 (1.48%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 91 (13.50%) Linux
2 38 (5.64%) Windows
3 16 (2.37%) Unix
3 16 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.45%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (46.44%) CI/CD
2 247 (36.65%) Software Engineering
3 238 (35.31%) Agile
4 197 (29.23%) AI
4 197 (29.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 180 (26.71%) Microservices
6 163 (24.18%) DevOps
7 153 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 130 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 128 (18.99%) Mentoring
10 124 (18.40%) Observability
11 122 (18.10%) Containerisation
11 122 (18.10%) Test Automation
12 119 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
13 89 (13.20%) API Design
14 82 (12.17%) Analytics
15 80 (11.87%) Clean Code
15 80 (11.87%) Data Modelling
16 77 (11.42%) Scrum
17 76 (11.28%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 289 (42.88%) Python
2 189 (28.04%) SQL
3 163 (24.18%) Java
4 140 (20.77%) TypeScript
5 134 (19.88%) JavaScript
6 67 (9.94%) C#
7 59 (8.75%) Go
8 35 (5.19%) Ruby
9 31 (4.60%) Bash
10 26 (3.86%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.67%) PHP
12 17 (2.52%) Scala
13 14 (2.08%) C++
14 11 (1.63%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.48%) RPG
16 7 (1.04%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.74%) Korn
18 4 (0.59%) C
18 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
19 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 94 (13.95%) Degree
3 75 (11.13%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.56%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.67%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.04%) PhD
11 6 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.45%) RHCE
13 2 (0.30%) CISSP
13 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.30%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.31%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.90%) QA
3 26 (3.86%) GDPR
4 17 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.89%) SLA
7 4 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.45%) WCAG
9 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 191 (28.34%) Docker
2 18 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 169 (25.07%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.93%) Ansible
3 35 (5.19%) Grafana
4 31 (4.60%) Argo
5 21 (3.12%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.48%) Kibana
7 6 (0.89%) Istio
7 6 (0.89%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.89%) Puppet
8 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.45%) Plesk
8 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.30%) Nagios
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.30%) Rancher
10 1 (0.15%) Consul
Vendors
1 72 (10.68%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.20%) Oracle
3 26 (3.86%) Google
4 23 (3.41%) OpenAI
5 21 (3.12%) Databricks
6 14 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.93%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.48%) IBM
9 9 (1.34%) Splunk
10 7 (1.04%) Dell
11 6 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.59%) Netezza
12 4 (0.59%) Pega
12 4 (0.59%) Remedy
13 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.45%) VMware
14 2 (0.30%) D-Link
14 2 (0.30%) UiPath
14 2 (0.30%) WSO2