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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 182 170
Rank change year-on-year -116 -12 +25
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 462 677 1,388
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.82% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.70% 10.10% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 343 460 1,029
10th Percentile £39,000 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,875 £61,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £92,750 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £110,000
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 6,899 6,701 14,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.96% 18.03% 17.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,240 4,756 11,455
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -99 197 £86,750 -0.86% 144
North of England -32 102 £66,250 -1.85% 38
South East -101 79 £56,500 -19.29% 51
Yorkshire -40 46 £52,130 -12.73% 13
North West -28 43 £77,500 +14.81% 20
South West -44 34 £61,250 -5.77% 22
Midlands -43 21 £51,350 -21.00% 17
East of England -59 21 £45,000 -21.74% 8
North East -24 13 £53,565 -22.80% 5
West Midlands -31 12 £46,250 -28.85% 8
East Midlands -48 9 £60,100 -14.14% 9
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 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.46%) Apache
3 16 (3.46%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.81%) Confluence
4 13 (2.81%) OpenStack
5 10 (2.16%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) Camunda
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.22%) WildFly
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.95%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 279 (60.39%) AWS
2 180 (38.96%) Azure
3 117 (25.32%) GCP
4 67 (14.50%) Serverless
5 53 (11.47%) GitHub
6 45 (9.74%) SaaS
7 38 (8.23%) Amazon EKS
8 34 (7.36%) Amazon S3
9 33 (7.14%) Power Platform
10 31 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
12 28 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
16 23 (4.98%) dbt
17 19 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (3.68%) OpenShift
19 16 (3.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.68%) TCP/IP
2 15 (3.25%) DHCP
2 15 (3.25%) DNS
3 11 (2.38%) Firewall
4 10 (2.16%) VPN
5 8 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.52%) Broadband
6 7 (1.52%) Internet
6 7 (1.52%) Network Security
7 6 (1.30%) iSCSI
7 6 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (1.30%) SAN
8 3 (0.65%) VLAN
9 2 (0.43%) HTTP
9 2 (0.43%) LAN
9 2 (0.43%) PBX
9 2 (0.43%) SSL
9 2 (0.43%) WAN
10 1 (0.22%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (24.03%) SQL Server
2 104 (22.51%) MySQL
3 98 (21.21%) MongoDB
4 94 (20.35%) NoSQL
5 93 (20.13%) Relational Database
6 34 (7.36%) Redis
7 33 (7.14%) DynamoDB
8 30 (6.49%) Power BI
9 28 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (3.46%) Apache Cassandra
11 16 (3.46%) DB2
11 16 (3.46%) RDBMS
12 13 (2.81%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (2.16%) Pinecone
15 9 (1.95%) Big Data
15 9 (1.95%) MariaDB
16 8 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 115 (24.89%) Git
2 51 (11.04%) Jenkins
3 32 (6.93%) GitLab
4 26 (5.63%) JIRA
5 20 (4.33%) Bitbucket
5 20 (4.33%) Cucumber
5 20 (4.33%) JUnit
5 20 (4.33%) Selenium
6 18 (3.90%) TeamCity
7 10 (2.16%) Mockito
8 9 (1.95%) Vite
9 6 (1.30%) Maven
10 5 (1.08%) JMeter
11 4 (0.87%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.65%) Gradle
13 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.43%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.43%) MSTest
13 2 (0.43%) Storybook
13 2 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 129 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 83 (17.97%) Finance
3 47 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.93%) Banking
6 29 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (6.06%) Law
8 27 (5.84%) Retail
9 17 (3.68%) Front Office
9 17 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.81%) Advertising
11 11 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.16%) Games
13 8 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.52%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.08%) Back Office
15 5 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.65%) Automotive
16 3 (0.65%) Electronics
16 3 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 141 (30.52%) Developer
2 89 (19.26%) Senior
3 84 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 69 (14.94%) Lead
5 48 (10.39%) Full-Stack Developer
6 42 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 39 (8.44%) Python Engineer
8 38 (8.23%) Data Engineer
9 31 (6.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 31 (6.71%) Java Engineer
10 26 (5.63%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (4.11%) Analyst
13 19 (4.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 19 (4.11%) IT Support
13 19 (4.11%) Java Software Engineer
13 19 (4.11%) Python Developer
14 15 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (3.25%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (31.17%) React
2 88 (19.05%) Node.js
3 83 (17.97%) RESTful
4 62 (13.42%) Spring
5 61 (13.20%) REST
6 59 (12.77%) Spring Boot
7 50 (10.82%) FastAPI
8 47 (10.17%) Django
9 45 (9.74%) Kafka
10 42 (9.09%) .NET
11 38 (8.23%) HTML
12 36 (7.79%) CSS
13 31 (6.71%) AngularJS
14 30 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
14 30 (6.49%) Flask
15 27 (5.84%) Vue
16 26 (5.63%) Next.js
17 24 (5.19%) JSON
18 21 (4.55%) Redux
18 21 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 82 (17.75%) Cloud Native
2 42 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.46%) Blog
6 16 (3.46%) Derivative
6 16 (3.46%) Equities
6 16 (3.46%) Fixed Income
7 15 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.25%) Replication
8 13 (2.81%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.81%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.52%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.52%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.52%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 58 (12.55%) Linux
2 27 (5.84%) Windows
3 17 (3.68%) Unix
4 15 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.08%) Android
6 5 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.08%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.65%) CentOS
8 2 (0.43%) Debian
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (44.37%) CI/CD
2 172 (37.23%) Agile
3 152 (32.90%) Software Engineering
4 142 (30.74%) Microservices
5 127 (27.49%) DevOps
6 120 (25.97%) Full-Stack Development
7 102 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (20.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 94 (20.35%) Test Automation
9 93 (20.13%) Containerisation
10 90 (19.48%) AI
11 80 (17.32%) Mentoring
12 62 (13.42%) Analytics
13 58 (12.55%) TDD
14 57 (12.34%) Scrum
15 52 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (11.04%) Data Modelling
16 51 (11.04%) Fintech
17 47 (10.17%) Observability
18 45 (9.74%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 212 (45.89%) Python
2 167 (36.15%) SQL
3 155 (33.55%) Java
4 106 (22.94%) JavaScript
5 95 (20.56%) TypeScript
6 39 (8.44%) C#
7 38 (8.23%) Go
8 28 (6.06%) PowerShell
9 22 (4.76%) PHP
10 15 (3.25%) C
11 13 (2.81%) Bash
12 12 (2.60%) Delphi
13 11 (2.38%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.73%) C++
15 6 (1.30%) Shell Script
16 5 (1.08%) Korn
16 5 (1.08%) Scala
17 4 (0.87%) Pascal
17 4 (0.87%) Ruby
17 4 (0.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (12.99%) Degree
2 58 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 47 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.03%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.87%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) RHCE
12 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.43%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.43%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.23%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.76%) QA
3 15 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.81%) GDPR
5 10 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.08%) SLA
7 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.43%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 160 (34.63%) Docker
2 28 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.43%) Samba
6 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 161 (34.85%) Kubernetes
2 106 (22.94%) Terraform
3 35 (7.58%) Grafana
4 24 (5.19%) Ansible
5 21 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.25%) Argo
7 7 (1.52%) Kibana
8 5 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (1.08%) Nagios
9 4 (0.87%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.87%) Rancher
10 3 (0.65%) Istio
11 2 (0.43%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.43%) Puppet
12 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.22%) Plesk
12 1 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 47 (10.17%) Oracle
2 45 (9.74%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.06%) Google
4 15 (3.25%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.81%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.73%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.73%) Informatica
7 7 (1.52%) Talend
8 6 (1.30%) Confluent
8 6 (1.30%) Databricks
8 6 (1.30%) Dell
9 5 (1.08%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.08%) IBM
9 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.08%) Splunk
10 4 (0.87%) Pega
10 4 (0.87%) VMware
11 3 (0.65%) Revolut
12 2 (0.43%) Mapbox