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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 233 147
Rank change year-on-year -28 -86 +61
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 726 577 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.33% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.23% 9.15% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 521 403 636
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £69,654
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.85% -0.49%
75th Percentile £87,500 £118,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 7,866 6,307 10,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.57% 14.59% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,521 4,068 6,180
10th Percentile £36,800 £33,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,950
% change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.92%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -59 332 £82,500 -21.43% 801
South East -11 130 £67,500 +1.89% 116
North of England -12 125 £65,000 -3.70% 127
North West -16 57 £62,500 -7.41% 73
South West -53 51 £65,000 +25.00% 56
Midlands -44 42 £75,000 +7.14% 55
North East -31 41 £65,000 +26.83% 20
West Midlands -40 32 £84,387 +16.40% 39
East of England -34 30 £52,500 +72.13% 42
Yorkshire -26 27 £65,000 -7.14% 39
East Midlands -36 10 £60,000 +20.00% 16
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 27 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.31%) Apache
3 20 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.75%) Confluence
4 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.96%) Camunda
5 7 (0.96%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.83%) WordPress
7 4 (0.55%) nginx
8 3 (0.41%) CMS
8 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.28%) Luigi
9 2 (0.28%) Tornado
10 1 (0.14%) Documentum
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.28%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Finacle
2 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 404 (55.65%) AWS
2 242 (33.33%) Azure
3 125 (17.22%) GitHub
4 93 (12.81%) GCP
5 70 (9.64%) Serverless
6 66 (9.09%) SaaS
7 57 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
8 53 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (6.47%) Amazon S3
11 43 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (5.65%) GitHub Copilot
13 30 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (3.86%) Azure AKS
15 27 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
16 26 (3.58%) Power Platform
17 22 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
19 18 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.31%) Broadband
2 14 (1.93%) Firewall
3 11 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.38%) DNS
5 9 (1.24%) VPN
6 7 (0.96%) HTTP
7 6 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.69%) BGP
8 5 (0.69%) DHCP
8 5 (0.69%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.69%) SAN
8 5 (0.69%) VLAN
9 3 (0.41%) 4G
9 3 (0.41%) 5G
9 3 (0.41%) Network Security
9 3 (0.41%) SSH
10 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.28%) SMS
11 1 (0.14%) AMQP
11 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (23.14%) MongoDB
2 153 (21.07%) MySQL
3 133 (18.32%) Relational Database
4 126 (17.36%) SQL Server
5 89 (12.26%) Redis
6 85 (11.71%) NoSQL
7 46 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (5.51%) DynamoDB
9 37 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (3.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 25 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.89%) Power BI
13 20 (2.75%) Metadata
14 19 (2.62%) Big Data
15 18 (2.48%) Pinecone
16 17 (2.34%) Data Lake
17 16 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
18 13 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
18 13 (1.79%) Chroma
18 13 (1.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 164 (22.59%) Git
2 66 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 63 (8.68%) GitLab
4 24 (3.31%) TeamCity
5 23 (3.17%) JUnit
6 19 (2.62%) JIRA
7 16 (2.20%) Mockito
8 13 (1.79%) JMeter
9 12 (1.65%) Vite
10 11 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.52%) Claude Code
11 10 (1.38%) Selenium
12 7 (0.96%) Maven
12 7 (0.96%) Storybook
13 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.83%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.83%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.69%) Mocha
15 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 169 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 92 (12.67%) Finance
3 87 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 73 (10.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (7.02%) Law
7 38 (5.23%) Banking
8 31 (4.27%) Retail
9 27 (3.72%) Games
10 22 (3.03%) Legal
11 17 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.79%) Legal Technology
13 12 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.52%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.52%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.24%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.96%) Aviation
16 7 (0.96%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.83%) Automotive
18 5 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 219 (30.17%) Developer
2 205 (28.24%) Senior
3 161 (22.18%) Software Engineer
4 100 (13.77%) Lead
5 62 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 61 (8.40%) Python Engineer
7 59 (8.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 53 (7.30%) Data Engineer
8 53 (7.30%) Senior Developer
9 50 (6.89%) Python Developer
10 49 (6.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 46 (6.34%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (4.96%) Architect
13 35 (4.82%) Software Developer
14 34 (4.68%) DBA
15 32 (4.41%) Lead Developer
16 31 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
16 31 (4.27%) Database Engineer
17 29 (3.99%) Ruby Developer
18 28 (3.86%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (23.83%) React
2 160 (22.04%) Terraform
3 142 (19.56%) Node.js
4 121 (16.67%) REST
5 117 (16.12%) RESTful
6 95 (13.09%) Kafka
7 80 (11.02%) Spring
8 75 (10.33%) Spring Boot
9 71 (9.78%) .NET
10 70 (9.64%) CSS
11 65 (8.95%) Next.js
12 60 (8.26%) FastAPI
13 57 (7.85%) HTML
14 41 (5.65%) JSON
15 40 (5.51%) AngularJS
16 34 (4.68%) Ruby on Rails
17 30 (4.13%) JWT
18 28 (3.86%) Vue
19 27 (3.72%) Django
19 27 (3.72%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 152 (20.94%) Cloud Native
2 104 (14.33%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (3.99%) Blog
3 29 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (3.86%) AI Agents
4 28 (3.86%) Low-Code
5 25 (3.44%) Replication
5 25 (3.44%) Video\Live Streaming
6 22 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.20%) Algorithms
10 15 (2.07%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (1.52%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 10 (1.38%) EPoS
14 10 (1.38%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 98 (13.50%) Linux
2 38 (5.23%) Windows
3 18 (2.48%) Unix
4 14 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Debian
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (49.31%) CI/CD
2 269 (37.05%) Software Engineering
3 247 (34.02%) Agile
4 223 (30.72%) AI
5 191 (26.31%) Full-Stack Development
6 188 (25.90%) Microservices
7 178 (24.52%) DevOps
8 169 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 156 (21.49%) Observability
10 146 (20.11%) Test Automation
11 130 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 130 (17.91%) Mentoring
12 129 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
13 121 (16.67%) Containerisation
14 91 (12.53%) Clean Code
15 86 (11.85%) Analytics
15 86 (11.85%) Event-Driven
16 81 (11.16%) Machine Learning
17 78 (10.74%) Data Modelling
18 77 (10.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 309 (42.56%) Python
2 212 (29.20%) SQL
3 179 (24.66%) Java
4 143 (19.70%) TypeScript
5 132 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 77 (10.61%) C#
7 64 (8.82%) Go
8 44 (6.06%) Bash
9 34 (4.68%) Ruby
10 23 (3.17%) PHP
11 21 (2.89%) PowerShell
12 18 (2.48%) Scala
13 16 (2.20%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.79%) C++
15 11 (1.52%) Groovy
16 10 (1.38%) RPG
17 8 (1.10%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.69%) Korn
19 4 (0.55%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 86 (11.85%) Degree
4 31 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.44%) Master's Degree
7 23 (3.17%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.24%) PhD
10 8 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.69%) CISSP
12 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.41%) CCSP
13 3 (0.41%) CISM
14 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.13%) QA
3 25 (3.44%) GDPR
4 20 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.24%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.55%) SLA
9 3 (0.41%) NIST
9 3 (0.41%) WCAG
10 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 217 (29.89%) Docker
2 12 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) NFS
6 1 (0.14%) Samba
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 198 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 72 (9.92%) Grafana
3 43 (5.92%) Prometheus
4 40 (5.51%) Ansible
5 36 (4.96%) Argo
6 13 (1.79%) Kibana
7 12 (1.65%) Rancher
8 7 (0.96%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.83%) Istio
9 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.83%) Puppet
10 3 (0.41%) Cilium
10 3 (0.41%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.41%) Plesk
10 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.28%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) Nagios
12 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 74 (10.19%) Microsoft
2 63 (8.68%) Oracle
3 29 (3.99%) OpenAI
4 27 (3.72%) Google
5 25 (3.44%) Databricks
5 25 (3.44%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.93%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.79%) Mistral
7 13 (1.79%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.38%) IBM
8 10 (1.38%) Splunk
9 5 (0.69%) Dell
10 4 (0.55%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.55%) Netezza
10 4 (0.55%) Remedy
10 4 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.55%) VMware
11 3 (0.41%) SAP
12 2 (0.28%) Adobe
12 2 (0.28%) Informatica