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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 222 157
Rank change year-on-year -73 -65 +32
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 510 585 1,533
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.54% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.10% 9.30% 10.38%
Number of salaries quoted 382 426 1,092
10th Percentile £42,050 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -8.77%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £137,500 £115,000
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 7,182 6,287 14,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.66% 16.56% 17.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,629 4,189 11,406
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 27 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 27 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 -105 198 £85,000 -8.11% 143
North of England +3 118 £67,500 -1.47% 41
South East -5 105 £57,500 +9.52% 32
Yorkshire -10 49 £62,500 -3.85% 5
North West -23 45 £69,310 -0.11% 30
South West -48 37 £62,500 -3.85% 13
North East -22 24 £65,000 +4.00% 6
East of England -45 19 £47,500 +28.38% 9
Midlands -50 15 £72,155 +6.80% 18
West Midlands -50 11 £75,000 +11.11% 8
East Midlands -39 4 £65,000 -7.14% 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 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.73%) Apache
4 15 (2.94%) Confluence
5 14 (2.75%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.75%) OpenStack
6 11 (2.16%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.59%) WordPress
8 2 (0.39%) Camunda
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.20%) Moodle
9 1 (0.20%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (1.57%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 313 (61.37%) AWS
2 202 (39.61%) Azure
3 101 (19.80%) GCP
4 72 (14.12%) Serverless
5 55 (10.78%) GitHub
6 50 (9.80%) SaaS
7 41 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
8 40 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (7.06%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
11 32 (6.27%) Power Platform
12 31 (6.08%) Amazon S3
13 24 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (4.71%) Azure AKS
13 24 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
14 23 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (2.94%) Azure Functions
17 15 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.31%) Broadband
2 16 (3.14%) DNS
2 16 (3.14%) Firewall
3 15 (2.94%) DHCP
4 14 (2.75%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.76%) VPN
6 8 (1.57%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.57%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.57%) SAN
7 7 (1.37%) Internet
7 7 (1.37%) Network Security
7 7 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.59%) VLAN
9 2 (0.39%) HTTP
9 2 (0.39%) LAN
9 2 (0.39%) PBX
9 2 (0.39%) WAN
10 1 (0.20%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.20%) LTE
10 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (27.65%) MongoDB
2 125 (24.51%) MySQL
3 100 (19.61%) SQL Server
4 99 (19.41%) NoSQL
5 92 (18.04%) Relational Database
6 30 (5.88%) Redis
7 29 (5.69%) DynamoDB
8 27 (5.29%) Power BI
9 22 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (3.53%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (2.94%) RDBMS
13 14 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (2.16%) MariaDB
14 11 (2.16%) Oracle Database
15 10 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.76%) Big Data
16 9 (1.76%) BigQuery
16 9 (1.76%) Metadata
16 9 (1.76%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 116 (22.75%) Git
2 42 (8.24%) Jenkins
3 38 (7.45%) GitLab
4 24 (4.71%) JIRA
5 18 (3.53%) JUnit
6 16 (3.14%) TeamCity
7 15 (2.94%) Bitbucket
8 14 (2.75%) Mockito
9 10 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.96%) JMeter
10 9 (1.76%) Selenium
11 7 (1.37%) Vite
12 6 (1.18%) Maven
13 3 (0.59%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.59%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.39%) ESLint
14 2 (0.39%) Gatling
14 2 (0.39%) Storybook
14 2 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 137 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 77 (15.10%) Finance
3 63 (12.35%) Public Sector
4 50 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (6.27%) Retail
7 27 (5.29%) Banking
7 27 (5.29%) Law
8 25 (4.90%) Games
9 19 (3.73%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (3.33%) Front Office
11 15 (2.94%) Advertising
12 9 (1.76%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.57%) Legal
14 5 (0.98%) Automotive
14 5 (0.98%) Aviation
15 4 (0.78%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.59%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 166 (32.55%) Developer
2 103 (20.20%) Senior
3 100 (19.61%) Software Engineer
4 82 (16.08%) Lead
5 57 (11.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (9.41%) Python Engineer
7 43 (8.43%) Java Developer
8 35 (6.86%) Lead Developer
9 34 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
10 33 (6.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (5.88%) Data Engineer
11 30 (5.88%) Java Engineer
12 28 (5.49%) Python Developer
13 24 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
13 24 (4.71%) Senior Developer
14 21 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (4.12%) Senior DevOps
15 20 (3.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 20 (3.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.73%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (28.24%) React
2 128 (25.10%) Node.js
3 105 (20.59%) RESTful
4 74 (14.51%) REST
5 64 (12.55%) Spring
6 61 (11.96%) Spring Boot
7 47 (9.22%) .NET
8 46 (9.02%) Kafka
9 44 (8.63%) CSS
9 44 (8.63%) FastAPI
10 42 (8.24%) HTML
11 35 (6.86%) JSON
12 30 (5.88%) AngularJS
12 30 (5.88%) Django
13 28 (5.49%) Next.js
14 26 (5.10%) Vue
15 24 (4.71%) Flask
15 24 (4.71%) Redux
16 21 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
16 21 (4.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 111 (21.76%) Cloud Native
2 53 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.51%) Video\Live Streaming
5 22 (4.31%) Low-Code
6 17 (3.33%) Algorithms
6 17 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.14%) Blog
7 16 (3.14%) Derivative
7 16 (3.14%) Equities
7 16 (3.14%) Fixed Income
7 16 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.94%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.94%) Replication
9 13 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.76%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.76%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 74 (14.51%) Linux
2 40 (7.84%) Windows
3 20 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.53%) Unix
5 10 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.57%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.78%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.59%) CentOS
9 2 (0.39%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.20%) Debian
10 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (46.08%) CI/CD
2 203 (39.80%) Agile
3 176 (34.51%) Software Engineering
4 151 (29.61%) Full-Stack Development
5 150 (29.41%) Microservices
6 121 (23.73%) DevOps
7 113 (22.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 110 (21.57%) Test Automation
9 104 (20.39%) AI
10 100 (19.61%) Mentoring
11 97 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
12 91 (17.84%) Containerisation
13 83 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 74 (14.51%) Scrum
15 66 (12.94%) Analytics
16 65 (12.75%) TDD
17 60 (11.76%) Observability
18 55 (10.78%) API Design
19 52 (10.20%) Data Modelling
20 50 (9.80%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 223 (43.73%) Python
2 167 (32.75%) Java
3 162 (31.76%) SQL
4 119 (23.33%) JavaScript
5 111 (21.76%) TypeScript
6 46 (9.02%) Go
7 44 (8.63%) C#
8 32 (6.27%) PowerShell
9 23 (4.51%) PHP
10 22 (4.31%) Bash
11 13 (2.55%) C
12 12 (2.35%) C++
12 12 (2.35%) Ruby
13 11 (2.16%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.96%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.76%) Scala
16 7 (1.37%) Korn
17 5 (0.98%) RPG
18 4 (0.78%) Delphi
18 4 (0.78%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 67 (13.14%) Degree
2 58 (11.37%) Security Cleared
3 46 (9.02%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.57%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.59%) PhD
12 3 (0.59%) RHCE
13 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.39%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.51%) QA
3 20 (3.92%) GDPR
4 16 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.59%) SLA
7 2 (0.39%) WCAG
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 156 (30.59%) Docker
2 30 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Firmware
5 2 (0.39%) Samba
6 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 157 (30.78%) Kubernetes
2 110 (21.57%) Terraform
3 29 (5.69%) Ansible
4 28 (5.49%) Grafana
5 25 (4.90%) Argo
6 17 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.96%) Kibana
8 8 (1.57%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.57%) Puppet
9 5 (0.98%) Istio
10 4 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.78%) Nagios
10 4 (0.78%) Rancher
11 3 (0.59%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (0.59%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.59%) Plesk
12 2 (0.39%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.20%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 61 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 55 (10.78%) Oracle
3 23 (4.51%) Google
4 15 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.55%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.16%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.76%) Splunk
8 8 (1.57%) Dell
9 6 (1.18%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.18%) Databricks
9 6 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.98%) IBM
10 5 (0.98%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.78%) Confluent
11 4 (0.78%) Informatica
11 4 (0.78%) Pega
11 4 (0.78%) Talend
11 4 (0.78%) VMware
12 3 (0.59%) Netezza
12 3 (0.59%) Revolut