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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 233 134
Rank change year-on-year -29 -99 +68
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 724 570 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.32% 1.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.38% 9.12% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 512 399 610
10th Percentile £43,768 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £117,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -7.59% +13.21% -5.36%

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 7,718 6,252 10,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.45% 14.44% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,421 4,012 6,001
10th Percentile £36,875 £33,775 £38,130
25th Percentile £45,500 £44,988 £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 £81,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 8 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 8 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 -51 337 £82,500 -21.43% 795
South East -6 130 £68,750 +5.77% 79
North of England -13 122 £65,000 -3.70% 109
North West -4 56 £61,250 -9.26% 66
South West -54 51 £82,500 +52.78% 38
Midlands -36 41 £75,000 +7.14% 40
North East -30 40 £65,000 +26.83% 16
West Midlands -38 31 £85,000 +17.24% 28
East of England -25 29 £52,500 +72.13% 48
Yorkshire -29 26 £67,155 -4.06% 31
East Midlands -28 10 £60,000 +20.00% 12
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 24 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.18%) Apache
3 21 (2.90%) Confluence
4 20 (2.76%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.97%) Camunda
5 7 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.83%) WordPress
7 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.55%) nginx
9 3 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.41%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Luigi
10 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.28%) Tornado
11 1 (0.14%) Documentum
11 1 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.52%) MS Visio
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
1 402 (55.52%) AWS
2 237 (32.73%) Azure
3 127 (17.54%) GitHub
4 92 (12.71%) GCP
5 68 (9.39%) Serverless
6 66 (9.12%) SaaS
7 57 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
8 54 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (6.77%) Amazon S3
11 42 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
12 40 (5.52%) GitHub Copilot
13 30 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (3.87%) Azure AKS
15 26 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 25 (3.45%) Power Platform
17 21 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (2.62%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.31%) Broadband
2 13 (1.80%) Firewall
2 13 (1.80%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.52%) VPN
4 9 (1.24%) DNS
5 7 (0.97%) BGP
6 6 (0.83%) HTTP
7 5 (0.69%) Network Security
7 5 (0.69%) VLAN
8 4 (0.55%) DHCP
8 4 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.41%) 4G
9 3 (0.41%) 5G
9 3 (0.41%) iSCSI
9 3 (0.41%) SAN
9 3 (0.41%) SSH
10 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.28%) SMS
11 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (23.48%) MongoDB
2 150 (20.72%) MySQL
3 127 (17.54%) Relational Database
4 121 (16.71%) SQL Server
5 90 (12.43%) Redis
6 83 (11.46%) NoSQL
7 50 (6.91%) Amazon RDS
8 39 (5.39%) DynamoDB
9 37 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (4.14%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.90%) Metadata
13 20 (2.76%) Big Data
13 20 (2.76%) Power BI
14 18 (2.49%) Pinecone
15 16 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (2.21%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.93%) Oracle Database
17 13 (1.80%) Chroma
18 12 (1.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 164 (22.65%) Git
2 64 (8.84%) GitLab
2 64 (8.84%) Jenkins
3 25 (3.45%) TeamCity
4 22 (3.04%) JUnit
5 19 (2.62%) JIRA
6 15 (2.07%) Mockito
7 12 (1.66%) JMeter
7 12 (1.66%) Vite
8 11 (1.52%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.10%) Selenium
11 7 (0.97%) Storybook
12 6 (0.83%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.69%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.69%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.69%) Maven
13 5 (0.69%) Mocha
14 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 169 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 93 (12.85%) Finance
3 86 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 71 (9.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (6.91%) Law
7 36 (4.97%) Banking
8 31 (4.28%) Retail
9 27 (3.73%) Games
10 22 (3.04%) Legal
11 16 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.80%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.80%) Legal Technology
13 11 (1.52%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.10%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.97%) Back Office
15 7 (0.97%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.83%) Automotive
16 6 (0.83%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 217 (29.97%) Developer
2 206 (28.45%) Senior
3 162 (22.38%) Software Engineer
4 100 (13.81%) Lead
5 62 (8.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 60 (8.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 59 (8.15%) Python Engineer
8 55 (7.60%) Senior Developer
9 52 (7.18%) Data Engineer
10 50 (6.91%) Python Developer
11 47 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 46 (6.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 38 (5.25%) DBA
14 36 (4.97%) Architect
15 35 (4.83%) Software Developer
16 31 (4.28%) Database Engineer
16 31 (4.28%) Lead Developer
17 30 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
18 29 (4.01%) Lead Software Engineer
19 28 (3.87%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (23.76%) React
2 159 (21.96%) Terraform
3 143 (19.75%) Node.js
4 120 (16.57%) REST
5 115 (15.88%) RESTful
6 95 (13.12%) Kafka
7 80 (11.05%) Spring
8 75 (10.36%) Spring Boot
9 71 (9.81%) .NET
10 68 (9.39%) CSS
11 66 (9.12%) Next.js
12 58 (8.01%) FastAPI
13 54 (7.46%) HTML
14 39 (5.39%) AngularJS
14 39 (5.39%) JSON
15 33 (4.56%) Ruby on Rails
16 29 (4.01%) JWT
17 27 (3.73%) Vue
18 26 (3.59%) Django
18 26 (3.59%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 150 (20.72%) Cloud Native
2 106 (14.64%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.14%) Blog
4 28 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (3.87%) Low-Code
5 27 (3.73%) AI Agents
6 25 (3.45%) Replication
6 25 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
7 23 (3.18%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.76%) Product Ownership
9 17 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.21%) Algorithms
10 16 (2.21%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.66%) 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 (13.54%) Linux
2 38 (5.25%) Windows
3 18 (2.49%) Unix
4 14 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Debian
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (49.45%) CI/CD
2 271 (37.43%) Software Engineering
3 243 (33.56%) Agile
4 222 (30.66%) AI
5 190 (26.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 188 (25.97%) Microservices
7 180 (24.86%) DevOps
8 170 (23.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 158 (21.82%) Observability
10 145 (20.03%) Test Automation
11 133 (18.37%) Mentoring
12 131 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
13 129 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 119 (16.44%) Containerisation
15 88 (12.15%) Clean Code
16 86 (11.88%) Event-Driven
17 83 (11.46%) Analytics
18 81 (11.19%) Machine Learning
19 78 (10.77%) Data Modelling
20 73 (10.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 305 (42.13%) Python
2 210 (29.01%) SQL
3 178 (24.59%) Java
4 145 (20.03%) TypeScript
5 131 (18.09%) JavaScript
6 77 (10.64%) C#
7 66 (9.12%) Go
8 43 (5.94%) Bash
9 33 (4.56%) Ruby
10 24 (3.31%) PHP
11 19 (2.62%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.35%) Scala
13 15 (2.07%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.80%) C++
15 11 (1.52%) Groovy
16 10 (1.38%) RPG
17 9 (1.24%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.69%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.55%) Apex Code
20 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 121 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.46%) Degree
4 30 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 24 (3.31%) Master's Degree
7 23 (3.18%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.24%) PhD
10 7 (0.97%) CISSP
11 6 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.69%) CCSP
12 5 (0.69%) CISM
13 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.01%) QA
3 24 (3.31%) GDPR
4 18 (2.49%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.52%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.69%) NIST
8 5 (0.69%) SLA
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 210 (29.01%) Docker
2 9 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
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
1 197 (27.21%) Kubernetes
2 74 (10.22%) Grafana
3 44 (6.08%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.66%) Ansible
5 37 (5.11%) Argo
6 12 (1.66%) Kibana
6 12 (1.66%) Rancher
7 8 (1.10%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.97%) Istio
9 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.83%) Puppet
10 5 (0.69%) Cilium
11 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.28%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.28%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.28%) Plesk
12 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.14%) logstash
13 1 (0.14%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 69 (9.53%) Microsoft
2 63 (8.70%) Oracle
3 30 (4.14%) OpenAI
4 29 (4.01%) Google
5 25 (3.45%) Databricks
6 24 (3.31%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.93%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.80%) Mistral
9 12 (1.66%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.38%) IBM
11 9 (1.24%) Splunk
12 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.55%) Netezza
13 4 (0.55%) Remedy
13 4 (0.55%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.55%) VMware
14 3 (0.41%) Adobe
14 3 (0.41%) Dell
14 3 (0.41%) SAP
15 2 (0.28%) Informatica