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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 128 191
Rank change year-on-year -151 +63 +1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 441 1,019 1,038
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 2.38% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.26% 12.82% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 317 489 848
10th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £51,716
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 £132,500 £120,500 £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 6,076 7,951 12,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.88% 18.57% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,865 4,653 10,342
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,750 £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 £76,250
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 26 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 26 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 -82 234 £95,000 +8.57% 137
North of England -32 90 £68,750 -0.80% 68
South East -140 57 £56,250 -29.69% 54
Yorkshire -25 42 £60,000 +4.59% 16
North West -37 37 £77,500 +11.76% 38
Midlands -22 26 £55,200 -15.08% 30
South West -50 23 £65,000 -1.89% 28
West Midlands +2 17 £50,100 -22.92% 25
East of England -51 15 £42,500 -26.09% 15
North East -4 11 £52,500 -24.29% 15
East Midlands -35 9 £65,000 +8.33% 5
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 30 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.63%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.40%) Confluence
3 15 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (2.95%) OpenStack
5 12 (2.72%) Tomcat
5 12 (2.72%) WebSphere
6 11 (2.49%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (2.04%) Apache
8 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.45%) Camunda
9 2 (0.45%) CMS
9 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.45%) nginx
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.49%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 297 (67.35%) AWS
2 164 (37.19%) Azure
3 120 (27.21%) GCP
4 74 (16.78%) Serverless
5 50 (11.34%) Amazon EKS
5 50 (11.34%) GitHub
6 43 (9.75%) Amazon ECS
7 41 (9.30%) Amazon S3
8 38 (8.62%) dbt
9 36 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 36 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (7.26%) SaaS
11 29 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 26 (5.90%) Power Platform
13 24 (5.44%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (4.54%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (4.31%) Amazon ECR
15 19 (4.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 19 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.44%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.95%) VPN
3 12 (2.72%) SSL
3 12 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.81%) DHCP
4 8 (1.81%) DNS
4 8 (1.81%) Firewall
5 7 (1.59%) Internet
6 6 (1.36%) Network Security
7 5 (1.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.68%) MQTT
8 3 (0.68%) WAN
9 2 (0.45%) BGP
9 2 (0.45%) HTTP
9 2 (0.45%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.45%) OSPF
9 2 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.45%) RTMP
9 2 (0.45%) SAN
9 2 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (23.13%) SQL Server
2 92 (20.86%) Relational Database
3 86 (19.50%) MySQL
4 82 (18.59%) MongoDB
5 75 (17.01%) NoSQL
6 41 (9.30%) Redis
7 32 (7.26%) DB2
8 30 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (6.80%) DynamoDB
9 28 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (5.67%) Power BI
11 21 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (4.08%) RDBMS
13 15 (3.40%) Apache Iceberg
14 14 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (2.72%) Apache Arrow
15 12 (2.72%) Big Data
15 12 (2.72%) Oracle Database
16 11 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
16 11 (2.49%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 96 (21.77%) Git
2 77 (17.46%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.58%) GitLab
3 29 (6.58%) JIRA
4 27 (6.12%) Cucumber
5 25 (5.67%) Selenium
6 23 (5.22%) JUnit
7 22 (4.99%) Bitbucket
8 21 (4.76%) TeamCity
9 13 (2.95%) JMeter
10 11 (2.49%) Mockito
11 7 (1.59%) Vite
12 6 (1.36%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.13%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.13%) Subversion
14 4 (0.91%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.91%) Jaeger
14 4 (0.91%) Maven
14 4 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.68%) Gradle
General
1 121 (27.44%) Social Skills
2 95 (21.54%) Finance
3 46 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (9.75%) Banking
5 39 (8.84%) Public Sector
6 32 (7.26%) Law
7 26 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (5.44%) Front Office
9 23 (5.22%) Retail
10 10 (2.27%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.81%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.36%) Advertising
13 5 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.91%) Back Office
14 4 (0.91%) Marketing
15 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.68%) Legal
15 3 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 151 (34.24%) Developer
2 86 (19.50%) Software Engineer
3 81 (18.37%) Senior
4 55 (12.47%) Lead
5 49 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (10.88%) Java Developer
7 33 (7.48%) Java Engineer
8 30 (6.80%) Python Engineer
9 29 (6.58%) Data Engineer
10 27 (6.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 27 (6.12%) Python Developer
11 22 (4.99%) Lead Developer
11 22 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
12 20 (4.54%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (4.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 20 (4.54%) Lead Software Engineer
13 19 (4.31%) Java Software Engineer
13 19 (4.31%) Python Software Engineer
13 19 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (4.08%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (32.65%) React
2 91 (20.63%) Node.js
3 77 (17.46%) Spring
4 73 (16.55%) RESTful
5 70 (15.87%) Spring Boot
6 55 (12.47%) REST
7 54 (12.24%) Django
8 51 (11.56%) FastAPI
9 48 (10.88%) Kafka
10 46 (10.43%) HTML
11 42 (9.52%) AngularJS
12 41 (9.30%) CSS
13 39 (8.84%) .NET
14 36 (8.16%) Vue
15 34 (7.71%) Elastic Stack
16 27 (6.12%) Flask
17 26 (5.90%) Web Services
18 25 (5.67%) Next.js
19 24 (5.44%) .NET Core
20 19 (4.31%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 73 (16.55%) Cloud Native
2 53 (12.02%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.22%) Equities
3 23 (5.22%) Fixed Income
4 21 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (4.54%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 16 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (3.40%) Blog
9 14 (3.17%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.95%) Data Structures
10 13 (2.95%) Derivative
11 12 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.81%) Algorithms
14 8 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.81%) Replication
15 7 (1.59%) Driving Licence
15 7 (1.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 66 (14.97%) Linux
2 29 (6.58%) Unix
3 28 (6.35%) Windows
4 17 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.59%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.13%) Android
7 5 (1.13%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.68%) Debian
9 2 (0.45%) VMS
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.23%) CentOS
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (44.22%) CI/CD
2 180 (40.82%) Agile
3 148 (33.56%) Software Engineering
4 144 (32.65%) Microservices
5 122 (27.66%) DevOps
6 107 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (23.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 90 (20.41%) Containerisation
9 78 (17.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 78 (17.69%) Test Automation
10 75 (17.01%) Mentoring
11 72 (16.33%) Fintech
12 71 (16.10%) AI
13 58 (13.15%) TDD
14 55 (12.47%) Scrum
15 50 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
16 46 (10.43%) BDD
16 46 (10.43%) Data Modelling
17 43 (9.75%) Business Intelligence
18 42 (9.52%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 215 (48.75%) Python
2 164 (37.19%) Java
3 153 (34.69%) SQL
4 122 (27.66%) JavaScript
5 100 (22.68%) TypeScript
6 34 (7.71%) C#
7 29 (6.58%) Go
8 24 (5.44%) PowerShell
9 16 (3.63%) PHP
10 14 (3.17%) C
11 12 (2.72%) Delphi
12 11 (2.49%) T-SQL
13 10 (2.27%) Shell Script
14 9 (2.04%) Rust
15 7 (1.59%) C++
16 6 (1.36%) Bash
17 4 (0.91%) Pascal
18 3 (0.68%) RPG
18 3 (0.68%) Ruby
19 2 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 69 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 53 (12.02%) Degree
3 51 (11.56%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.67%) AWS Certification
5 24 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.72%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (2.49%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.45%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.23%) MCSE
12 1 (0.23%) RHCE
12 1 (0.23%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.90%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.95%) QA
3 12 (2.72%) GDPR
3 12 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.72%) SLA
4 10 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.68%) SEPA
6 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.45%) PSD2
7 1 (0.23%) GAAP
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 165 (37.41%) Docker
2 15 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.45%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) Samba
Systems Management
1 151 (34.24%) Kubernetes
2 93 (21.09%) Terraform
3 29 (6.58%) Grafana
4 28 (6.35%) Ansible
5 17 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.40%) Kibana
7 9 (2.04%) Argo
7 9 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (1.13%) Nagios
9 4 (0.91%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.68%) Puppet
10 3 (0.68%) Rancher
11 2 (0.45%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.23%) Ambari
12 1 (0.23%) Podman
12 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (12.24%) Oracle
2 30 (6.80%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.35%) Google
4 19 (4.31%) Red Hat
5 15 (3.40%) IBM
6 14 (3.17%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.95%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.49%) Informatica
9 10 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.27%) Talend
10 9 (2.04%) Splunk
11 8 (1.81%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.13%) Confluent
12 5 (1.13%) VMware
13 4 (0.91%) Databricks
13 4 (0.91%) Dell
13 4 (0.91%) Pega
13 4 (0.91%) WSO2
14 3 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
14 3 (0.68%) Revolut