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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 134 189
Rank change year-on-year -137 +55 +1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 439 1,029 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 2.30% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.27% 12.63% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 312 467 882
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,475 £63,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £132,250 £123,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 6,037 8,150 12,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.21% 18.22% 19.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,886 4,657 10,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 14 February 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 February 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 -73 244 £92,500 +5.71% 87
North of England -17 85 £68,750 -0.80% 61
South East -130 49 £55,000 -31.25% 52
Yorkshire -9 40 £60,000 +8.91% 19
North West -25 34 £77,500 +11.82% 31
South West -61 26 £62,500 -5.66% 25
Midlands -23 25 £55,200 -15.08% 29
West Midlands +4 16 £45,000 -30.77% 20
East of England -39 15 £42,500 -26.09% 16
North East -7 11 £52,500 -24.25% 12
East Midlands -33 9 £65,000 +8.33% 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 31 (7.06%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.42%) Confluence
4 13 (2.96%) OpenStack
4 13 (2.96%) Tomcat
4 13 (2.96%) WebSphere
5 12 (2.73%) WebSphere Application Server
6 10 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.37%) Apache
8 3 (0.68%) CMS
8 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.46%) Camunda
9 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.46%) nginx
9 2 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.28%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 295 (67.20%) AWS
2 158 (35.99%) Azure
3 117 (26.65%) GCP
4 74 (16.86%) Serverless
5 51 (11.62%) GitHub
6 50 (11.39%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (9.79%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (9.34%) Amazon S3
8 41 (9.34%) dbt
9 37 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (8.43%) SaaS
10 36 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (6.15%) Power Platform
13 24 (5.47%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (5.01%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (4.33%) Amazon ECR
16 19 (4.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.01%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.96%) SSL
3 10 (2.28%) VPN
3 10 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.59%) Internet
5 6 (1.37%) Firewall
6 5 (1.14%) DHCP
6 5 (1.14%) DNS
6 5 (1.14%) Network Security
6 5 (1.14%) VLAN
7 3 (0.68%) MQTT
7 3 (0.68%) WAN
8 2 (0.46%) BGP
8 2 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.46%) HTTP
8 2 (0.46%) OSPF
8 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.46%) RTMP
8 2 (0.46%) Wireless
9 1 (0.23%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (24.15%) SQL Server
2 92 (20.96%) Relational Database
3 89 (20.27%) MySQL
4 81 (18.45%) MongoDB
5 74 (16.86%) NoSQL
6 40 (9.11%) Redis
7 33 (7.52%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (7.52%) DB2
8 30 (6.83%) DynamoDB
9 27 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (5.69%) Power BI
11 23 (5.24%) RDBMS
12 21 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (4.10%) Apache Iceberg
14 15 (3.42%) Apache Arrow
14 15 (3.42%) Apache Cassandra
15 14 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (3.19%) Dremio
16 13 (2.96%) Big Data
17 12 (2.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 93 (21.18%) Git
2 78 (17.77%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.61%) GitLab
3 29 (6.61%) JIRA
4 27 (6.15%) Cucumber
5 25 (5.69%) Selenium
6 23 (5.24%) JUnit
7 22 (5.01%) Bitbucket
8 21 (4.78%) TeamCity
9 14 (3.19%) JMeter
10 11 (2.51%) Mockito
11 6 (1.37%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.37%) Vite
12 5 (1.14%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.14%) Subversion
13 4 (0.91%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.91%) Maven
13 4 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.68%) MLflow
14 3 (0.68%) TestRail
General
1 120 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 100 (22.78%) Finance
3 47 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.25%) Banking
5 40 (9.11%) Public Sector
6 33 (7.52%) Law
7 25 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (5.24%) Front Office
9 22 (5.01%) Retail
10 11 (2.51%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.28%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.05%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.59%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.37%) Marketing
15 5 (1.14%) Advertising
16 4 (0.91%) Back Office
16 4 (0.91%) Electronics
17 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 156 (35.54%) Developer
2 83 (18.91%) Software Engineer
3 75 (17.08%) Senior
4 55 (12.53%) Lead
5 49 (11.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 49 (11.16%) Java Developer
6 33 (7.52%) Java Engineer
7 31 (7.06%) Python Developer
8 28 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 28 (6.38%) Python Engineer
9 26 (5.92%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.24%) Principal Engineer
11 22 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (4.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 20 (4.56%) Lead Developer
12 20 (4.56%) Python Software Engineer
13 19 (4.33%) AWS Developer
13 19 (4.33%) Java Software Engineer
14 18 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
15 16 (3.64%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (31.66%) React
2 90 (20.50%) Node.js
3 78 (17.77%) Spring
4 71 (16.17%) RESTful
4 71 (16.17%) Spring Boot
5 63 (14.35%) REST
6 53 (12.07%) Django
7 51 (11.62%) FastAPI
8 48 (10.93%) AngularJS
9 46 (10.48%) HTML
9 46 (10.48%) Kafka
10 42 (9.57%) .NET
11 40 (9.11%) CSS
12 37 (8.43%) Vue
13 34 (7.74%) Elastic Stack
14 28 (6.38%) Flask
14 28 (6.38%) Web Services
15 25 (5.69%) .NET Core
16 23 (5.24%) Next.js
17 21 (4.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 71 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 55 (12.53%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.01%) Equities
3 22 (5.01%) Fixed Income
4 21 (4.78%) Linux Command Line
4 21 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.42%) Blog
8 14 (3.19%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.51%) Onboarding
11 10 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (2.05%) Derivative
13 8 (1.82%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.82%) Replication
14 7 (1.59%) Mobile App
15 6 (1.37%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 67 (15.26%) Linux
2 29 (6.61%) Unix
3 28 (6.38%) Windows
4 16 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.51%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.59%) Android
6 7 (1.59%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.14%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.68%) Debian
9 2 (0.46%) VMS
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (44.42%) CI/CD
2 184 (41.91%) Agile
3 151 (34.40%) Software Engineering
4 144 (32.80%) Microservices
5 118 (26.88%) DevOps
6 110 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (23.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 88 (20.05%) Containerisation
9 79 (18.00%) Test Automation
10 76 (17.31%) Fintech
11 73 (16.63%) Infrastructure as Code
12 71 (16.17%) Mentoring
13 64 (14.58%) AI
14 56 (12.76%) TDD
15 55 (12.53%) Scrum
16 51 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
17 50 (11.39%) Data Modelling
18 47 (10.71%) BDD
18 47 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
19 45 (10.25%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 214 (48.75%) Python
2 166 (37.81%) Java
3 150 (34.17%) SQL
4 124 (28.25%) JavaScript
5 97 (22.10%) TypeScript
6 35 (7.97%) C#
7 28 (6.38%) Go
8 21 (4.78%) PowerShell
9 16 (3.64%) PHP
10 12 (2.73%) C
10 12 (2.73%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.28%) Delphi
11 10 (2.28%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.05%) Rust
13 5 (1.14%) C++
14 4 (0.91%) Bash
14 4 (0.91%) Ruby
15 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.68%) RPG
16 2 (0.46%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 65 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 53 (12.07%) Degree
3 47 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.92%) AWS Certification
4 26 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.73%) AWS Certified Developer
6 12 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.46%) HNC
9 2 (0.46%) HND
9 2 (0.46%) MCSA
9 2 (0.46%) MCSE
9 2 (0.46%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.24%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.87%) QA
3 14 (3.19%) SLA
4 13 (2.96%) GDPR
4 13 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.28%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.68%) SEPA
7 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.46%) PSD2
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) GAAP
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 158 (35.99%) Docker
2 11 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.46%) NFS
Systems Management
1 150 (34.17%) Kubernetes
2 94 (21.41%) Terraform
3 30 (6.83%) Grafana
4 28 (6.38%) Ansible
5 16 (3.64%) Kibana
6 14 (3.19%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.05%) Argo
7 9 (2.05%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (0.91%) Nagios
8 4 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.68%) Puppet
9 3 (0.68%) Rancher
10 2 (0.46%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.23%) Ambari
11 1 (0.23%) Podman
11 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (13.44%) Oracle
2 28 (6.38%) Google
3 27 (6.15%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.10%) Red Hat
5 16 (3.64%) IBM
6 15 (3.42%) Atlassian
7 14 (3.19%) Informatica
8 12 (2.73%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.73%) Talend
9 10 (2.28%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.28%) Splunk
10 9 (2.05%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.37%) SAP
12 5 (1.14%) VMware
13 4 (0.91%) Confluent
13 4 (0.91%) Pega
13 4 (0.91%) WSO2
14 3 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
14 3 (0.68%) Databricks
14 3 (0.68%) Revolut