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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 223 153
Rank change year-on-year -41 -70 +58
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 675 646 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 1.48% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.32% 9.57% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 495 472 782
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,250 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £64,250
% change year-on-year -7.59% +16.73% -8.21%

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 8,115 6,748 11,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.62% 15.42% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,568 4,402 7,781
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,966 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -2.45% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £85,000
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 14 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 14 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 -69 296 £85,000 -19.05% 357
South East -11 129 £62,500 +8.70% 66
North of England -9 127 £65,000 -3.70% 42
North West -1 59 £65,000 -3.70% 27
South West -49 47 £62,500 +8.70% 23
North East -31 39 £65,000 +25.30% 5
East of England -22 29 £52,500 +66.67% 8
Yorkshire -33 29 £67,153 -0.51% 10
Midlands -45 28 £75,000 +11.01% 27
West Midlands -41 21 £83,774 +21.74% 12
East Midlands -29 7 £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 33 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.15%) Apache
3 22 (3.26%) Apache Spark
4 21 (3.11%) Confluence
5 18 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.48%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.04%) Camunda
8 6 (0.89%) WordPress
9 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.30%) 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%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (1.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
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
1 376 (55.70%) AWS
2 239 (35.41%) Azure
3 93 (13.78%) GitHub
4 92 (13.63%) GCP
5 63 (9.33%) Serverless
6 58 (8.59%) SaaS
7 51 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (6.67%) Amazon S3
9 38 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
11 33 (4.89%) Power Platform
12 31 (4.59%) GitHub Copilot
13 28 (4.15%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.85%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
18 18 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.59%) Broadband
2 15 (2.22%) Firewall
3 12 (1.78%) DNS
4 10 (1.48%) DHCP
5 8 (1.19%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.19%) SAN
6 6 (0.89%) VPN
7 5 (0.74%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.59%) HTTP
9 2 (0.30%) Network Security
9 2 (0.30%) PBX
9 2 (0.30%) SMS
9 2 (0.30%) VLAN
9 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.15%) AMQP
10 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.15%) LAN
10 1 (0.15%) LTE
10 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (25.33%) MongoDB
2 161 (23.85%) MySQL
3 130 (19.26%) Relational Database
4 120 (17.78%) SQL Server
5 93 (13.78%) NoSQL
6 70 (10.37%) Redis
7 41 (6.07%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (4.00%) Power BI
11 24 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (3.11%) Metadata
13 20 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (2.96%) Big Data
14 16 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (2.37%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.93%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.93%) Tableau
16 12 (1.78%) Data Lake
16 12 (1.78%) Db2
Development Applications
1 143 (21.19%) Git
2 46 (6.81%) GitLab
3 39 (5.78%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.70%) JUnit
5 24 (3.56%) JIRA
6 19 (2.81%) Mockito
7 12 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.63%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.63%) Vite
9 10 (1.48%) JMeter
10 9 (1.33%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.89%) Selenium
12 5 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.74%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.74%) Maven
12 5 (0.74%) Mocha
12 5 (0.74%) Storybook
13 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
General
1 166 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 87 (12.89%) Finance
3 83 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 57 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (5.63%) Law
7 36 (5.33%) Games
8 22 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (3.11%) Legal
10 19 (2.81%) Banking
11 17 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.52%) Retail
12 14 (2.07%) Advertising
13 13 (1.93%) Legal Technology
14 9 (1.33%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.19%) Aviation
15 8 (1.19%) Front Office
16 7 (1.04%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.04%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 212 (31.41%) Developer
2 181 (26.81%) Senior
3 143 (21.19%) Software Engineer
4 113 (16.74%) Lead
5 67 (9.93%) Python Engineer
6 61 (9.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 53 (7.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 52 (7.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 51 (7.56%) Data Engineer
10 48 (7.11%) Python Developer
11 41 (6.07%) Senior Developer
12 40 (5.93%) Lead Developer
13 36 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
14 35 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
15 34 (5.04%) Architect
16 30 (4.44%) Ruby Developer
17 26 (3.85%) Java Developer
18 25 (3.70%) Database Engineer
19 24 (3.56%) DBA
19 24 (3.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (23.11%) React
2 146 (21.63%) Node.js
3 114 (16.89%) RESTful
4 105 (15.56%) REST
5 78 (11.56%) Spring
6 76 (11.26%) Kafka
7 74 (10.96%) Spring Boot
8 66 (9.78%) CSS
9 62 (9.19%) Next.js
10 57 (8.44%) .NET
10 57 (8.44%) HTML
11 54 (8.00%) FastAPI
12 42 (6.22%) JSON
13 41 (6.07%) AngularJS
14 35 (5.19%) Ruby on Rails
15 33 (4.89%) JWT
16 31 (4.59%) Django
17 28 (4.15%) Flask
18 26 (3.85%) Vue
19 25 (3.70%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 135 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 87 (12.89%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.19%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.74%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.30%) Product Ownership
6 25 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.41%) AI Agents
8 21 (3.11%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.52%) Replication
10 13 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
10 13 (1.93%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
12 10 (1.48%) EPoS
12 10 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.48%) IoT
12 10 (1.48%) iSeries
13 9 (1.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 93 (13.78%) Linux
2 40 (5.93%) Windows
3 17 (2.52%) Unix
3 17 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.33%) 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 (0.44%) CentOS
7 2 (0.30%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (45.78%) CI/CD
2 244 (36.15%) Software Engineering
3 235 (34.81%) Agile
4 198 (29.33%) AI
5 193 (28.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 176 (26.07%) Microservices
7 160 (23.70%) DevOps
8 150 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 132 (19.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 128 (18.96%) Mentoring
11 123 (18.22%) Containerisation
11 123 (18.22%) Observability
12 122 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
13 117 (17.33%) Test Automation
14 89 (13.19%) API Design
15 86 (12.74%) Analytics
16 81 (12.00%) Clean Code
17 77 (11.41%) Scrum
18 76 (11.26%) Machine Learning
19 75 (11.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 292 (43.26%) Python
2 190 (28.15%) SQL
3 160 (23.70%) Java
4 135 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 133 (19.70%) JavaScript
6 66 (9.78%) C#
7 59 (8.74%) Go
8 35 (5.19%) Ruby
9 32 (4.74%) Bash
10 28 (4.15%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.96%) PHP
12 16 (2.37%) Scala
13 15 (2.22%) C++
14 12 (1.78%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.48%) RPG
16 6 (0.89%) Korn
16 6 (0.89%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.59%) C
17 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (14.22%) Degree
1 96 (14.22%) Security Cleared
2 73 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (3.56%) DV Cleared
4 24 (3.56%) Master's Degree
5 17 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.04%) PhD
9 6 (0.89%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.44%) RHCE
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
12 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.30%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.44%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.44%) QA
3 26 (3.85%) GDPR
4 15 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.74%) SLA
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.44%) WCAG
8 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 192 (28.44%) Docker
2 21 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.44%) Firmware
4 3 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 172 (25.48%) Kubernetes
2 126 (18.67%) Terraform
3 39 (5.78%) Ansible
4 32 (4.74%) Grafana
5 31 (4.59%) Argo
6 21 (3.11%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.48%) Kibana
8 6 (0.89%) Istio
8 6 (0.89%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.89%) Puppet
9 3 (0.44%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.44%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.44%) Plesk
9 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.30%) Nagios
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 73 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 63 (9.33%) Oracle
3 27 (4.00%) Google
4 21 (3.11%) Databricks
4 21 (3.11%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 13 (1.93%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.48%) IBM
8 9 (1.33%) Splunk
9 8 (1.19%) Dell
10 7 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.59%) Netezza
11 4 (0.59%) Pega
11 4 (0.59%) Remedy
12 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.44%) VMware
13 2 (0.30%) Confluent
13 2 (0.30%) D-Link
13 2 (0.30%) WSO2