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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 143 193
Rank change year-on-year -89 +50 -18
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 497 1,145 788
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.05% 2.01% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.30% 11.77% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 361 518 660
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,100 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -10.34%

All Database and 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 5,990 9,724 9,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.62% 17.10% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,995 5,639 7,556
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 -33 295 £100,000 +17.65% 148
North of England -18 78 £70,000 +7.69% 61
South East -94 64 £65,000 -5.45% 118
Midlands +29 37 £55,200 -15.08% 19
Yorkshire +10 37 £70,000 -1.75% 16
North West -21 29 £70,000 +16.67% 41
South West -40 29 £50,000 -23.08% 26
West Midlands +30 25 £67,500 +3.85% 12
North East +18 12 £52,500 -24.25% 4
East Midlands +6 12 £55,000 - 7
East of England -27 12 £42,500 -26.09% 13
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 64 (12.88%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (5.23%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.82%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.42%) Tomcat
5 16 (3.22%) Confluence
5 16 (3.22%) WebSphere Application Server
6 8 (1.61%) nginx
6 8 (1.61%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.80%) Apache
9 3 (0.60%) CMS
9 3 (0.60%) Luigi
10 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.40%) JBoss
10 2 (0.40%) SAS
10 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.20%) IIS
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (1.41%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 357 (71.83%) AWS
2 166 (33.40%) Azure
3 151 (30.38%) GCP
4 80 (16.10%) Serverless
5 66 (13.28%) dbt
6 56 (11.27%) Amazon ECS
7 50 (10.06%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (9.86%) GitHub
9 41 (8.25%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (8.05%) Amazon S3
11 35 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (6.84%) SaaS
13 28 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (4.63%) Power Platform
16 18 (3.62%) Amazon ECR
17 16 (3.22%) Amazon SQS
18 15 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
19 14 (2.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 14 (2.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.82%) SSL
2 15 (3.02%) Firewall
3 13 (2.62%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.41%) DNS
4 7 (1.41%) HTTP
4 7 (1.41%) iSCSI
4 7 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (1.41%) SAN
5 5 (1.01%) FTP
5 5 (1.01%) IMAP
5 5 (1.01%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (1.01%) SMTP
5 5 (1.01%) SSH
5 5 (1.01%) VPN
5 5 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.60%) MQTT
7 2 (0.40%) Multicast
7 2 (0.40%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.40%) RTMP
7 2 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 117 (23.54%) Relational Database
3 103 (20.72%) MySQL
4 80 (16.10%) MongoDB
5 75 (15.09%) NoSQL
6 50 (10.06%) Apache Iceberg
7 47 (9.46%) Amazon Athena
8 45 (9.05%) Apache Arrow
8 45 (9.05%) Dremio
8 45 (9.05%) RDBMS
9 39 (7.85%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (7.04%) DB2
11 34 (6.84%) Redis
12 31 (6.24%) DynamoDB
13 29 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (4.43%) Big Data
14 22 (4.43%) Power BI
15 18 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (3.42%) Apache Cassandra
16 17 (3.42%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 96 (19.32%) Jenkins
2 82 (16.50%) Git
3 38 (7.65%) JUnit
4 31 (6.24%) JIRA
5 26 (5.23%) JMeter
6 25 (5.03%) Cucumber
6 25 (5.03%) GitLab
6 25 (5.03%) Mockito
7 23 (4.63%) Selenium
8 18 (3.62%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.01%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.41%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.01%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.01%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.01%) Vagrant
12 4 (0.80%) Gradle
12 4 (0.80%) Maven
12 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.80%) Subversion
12 4 (0.80%) Vite
General
1 133 (26.76%) Finance
2 115 (23.14%) Social Skills
3 52 (10.46%) Public Sector
4 50 (10.06%) Front Office
5 41 (8.25%) Banking
6 36 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (5.63%) Law
8 24 (4.83%) Marketing
9 22 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.82%) Retail
11 13 (2.62%) Investment Banking
11 13 (2.62%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.41%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (2.01%) Electronics
14 10 (2.01%) Financial Institution
14 10 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.61%) Advertising
16 6 (1.21%) Legal
17 4 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 209 (42.05%) Developer
2 94 (18.91%) Software Engineer
3 86 (17.30%) Senior
4 68 (13.68%) Python Developer
5 62 (12.47%) Lead
6 58 (11.67%) Java Developer
7 55 (11.07%) Python Engineer
8 53 (10.66%) AWS Engineer
9 51 (10.26%) Full-Stack Developer
10 50 (10.06%) AWS Developer
11 48 (9.66%) Python Software Engineer
12 47 (9.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 46 (9.26%) AWS Software Engineer
14 32 (6.44%) Software Developer
15 30 (6.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 28 (5.63%) Data Engineer
17 26 (5.23%) Lead Developer
18 24 (4.83%) Principal Engineer
19 23 (4.63%) Linux Support
20 21 (4.23%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (30.58%) React
2 114 (22.94%) Node.js
3 84 (16.90%) Spring
4 78 (15.69%) AngularJS
4 78 (15.69%) REST
5 76 (15.29%) Spring Boot
6 74 (14.89%) RESTful
7 64 (12.88%) Vue
8 61 (12.27%) FastAPI
8 61 (12.27%) HTML
9 56 (11.27%) Django
10 50 (10.06%) Kafka
11 46 (9.26%) NumPy
11 46 (9.26%) Pandas
12 45 (9.05%) SciPy
13 43 (8.65%) CSS
14 40 (8.05%) Flask
15 37 (7.44%) .NET
16 35 (7.04%) Web Services
17 28 (5.63%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.68%) Distributed Systems
2 60 (12.07%) Cloud Native
3 47 (9.46%) Equities
3 47 (9.46%) Fixed Income
3 47 (9.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 30 (6.04%) Management Information System
5 25 (5.03%) Linux Command Line
6 24 (4.83%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.62%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.62%) Replication
9 12 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (2.01%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (1.41%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (1.01%) Clustering
15 5 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.10%) Linux
2 39 (7.85%) Windows
3 36 (7.24%) Unix
4 25 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.41%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.41%) VMS
5 7 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.01%) Android
6 5 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.01%) Debian
7 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (43.46%) Agile
2 203 (40.85%) CI/CD
3 163 (32.80%) Software Engineering
4 147 (29.58%) Microservices
5 129 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
6 121 (24.35%) DevOps
7 102 (20.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 97 (19.52%) Fintech
9 93 (18.71%) Containerisation
10 81 (16.30%) AI
11 70 (14.08%) Mentoring
12 65 (13.08%) Test Automation
13 61 (12.27%) TDD
14 58 (11.67%) ETL
15 56 (11.27%) Clean Code
16 51 (10.26%) Data Engineering
17 49 (9.86%) BDD
17 49 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
17 49 (9.86%) Infrastructure as Code
18 48 (9.66%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 271 (54.53%) Python
2 154 (30.99%) Java
3 153 (30.78%) JavaScript
4 143 (28.77%) SQL
5 114 (22.94%) TypeScript
6 40 (8.05%) C#
7 24 (4.83%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.62%) Go
9 14 (2.82%) Bash
9 14 (2.82%) PHP
9 14 (2.82%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.21%) Rust
11 8 (1.61%) Delphi
12 7 (1.41%) Korn
12 7 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.21%) Ruby
14 5 (1.01%) Groovy
15 4 (0.80%) C
15 4 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.08%) Degree
3 54 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.04%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.62%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.01%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.40%) HNC
12 2 (0.40%) HND
12 2 (0.40%) MCSA
12 2 (0.40%) MCSE
12 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.84%) QA
2 22 (4.43%) SLA
3 15 (3.02%) GDPR
4 14 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.60%) SEPA
7 2 (0.40%) NIST
7 2 (0.40%) PSD2
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.20%) GAAP
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 189 (38.03%) Docker
2 7 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (1.01%) DFS Replication
3 5 (1.01%) Dovecot
3 5 (1.01%) Postfix
3 5 (1.01%) Squid
4 3 (0.60%) zsh
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.40%) HDFS
5 2 (0.40%) NFS
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (30.58%) Kubernetes
2 74 (14.89%) Terraform
3 30 (6.04%) Kibana
4 26 (5.23%) Grafana
5 19 (3.82%) Ansible
5 19 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.41%) Argo
7 6 (1.21%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (1.01%) Nessus
8 5 (1.01%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.60%) logstash
10 3 (0.60%) Nagios
10 3 (0.60%) Puppet
11 2 (0.40%) Oozie
11 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.20%) Ambari
12 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.20%) Rancher
12 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (14.08%) Oracle
2 30 (6.04%) Red Hat
2 30 (6.04%) Splunk
3 29 (5.84%) Google
3 29 (5.84%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.43%) Dynatrace
5 21 (4.23%) IBM
6 20 (4.02%) ServiceNow
7 19 (3.82%) Informatica
8 15 (3.02%) Atlassian
8 15 (3.02%) Talend
9 14 (2.82%) SAP
10 9 (1.81%) Dell
11 8 (1.61%) Databricks
11 8 (1.61%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.21%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
14 4 (0.80%) Pega
14 4 (0.80%) RedGate
14 4 (0.80%) WSO2