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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 229 156
Rank change year-on-year -46 -73 +53
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 665 637 1,266
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 1.46% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.30% 9.55% 11.22%
Number of salaries quoted 485 460 765
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £58,438 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,001
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 8,008 6,671 11,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.32% 15.27% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,562 4,387 7,573
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 25 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 25 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 -86 288 £85,000 -19.05% 103
South East -18 126 £65,000 +10.64% 50
North of England -14 124 £65,000 -3.70% 27
North West -10 57 £65,000 -3.70% 18
South West -58 47 £62,500 +25.00% 32
North East -23 40 £65,000 +26.83% 3
Midlands -42 32 £75,000 +7.14% 25
East of England -24 29 £52,500 +69.35% 8
Yorkshire -41 27 £69,308 +2.68% 6
West Midlands -47 23 £83,774 +15.55% 13
East Midlands -24 9 £60,000 +9.09% 11
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 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.91%) Apache
3 21 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.16%) Confluence
4 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.05%) Camunda
7 6 (0.90%) WordPress
8 5 (0.75%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.45%) 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%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.65%) MS Visio
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
1 366 (55.04%) AWS
2 233 (35.04%) Azure
3 98 (14.74%) GitHub
4 85 (12.78%) GCP
5 62 (9.32%) Serverless
6 60 (9.02%) SaaS
7 51 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (6.92%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
12 32 (4.81%) GitHub Copilot
13 30 (4.51%) Power Platform
14 28 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
15 26 (3.91%) Azure AKS
16 25 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (2.41%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.66%) Broadband
2 13 (1.95%) Firewall
3 9 (1.35%) DNS
4 7 (1.05%) DHCP
5 6 (0.90%) iSCSI
5 6 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (0.90%) SAN
6 4 (0.60%) HTTP
7 3 (0.45%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.45%) VPN
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
8 2 (0.30%) VLAN
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.15%) Internet
9 1 (0.15%) Multicast
9 1 (0.15%) Network Security
9 1 (0.15%) SSL
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
9 1 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (25.26%) MongoDB
2 159 (23.91%) MySQL
3 129 (19.40%) Relational Database
4 119 (17.89%) SQL Server
5 88 (13.23%) NoSQL
6 68 (10.23%) Redis
7 41 (6.17%) DynamoDB
8 31 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (3.61%) Power BI
12 20 (3.01%) Metadata
13 19 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (2.86%) Big Data
14 16 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (1.95%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.80%) Data Lake
17 12 (1.80%) Db2
17 12 (1.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 146 (21.95%) Git
2 48 (7.22%) GitLab
3 40 (6.02%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.76%) JUnit
5 23 (3.46%) JIRA
6 19 (2.86%) Mockito
7 12 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.65%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.50%) JMeter
9 10 (1.50%) Vite
10 9 (1.35%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.05%) Storybook
12 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.90%) Maven
12 6 (0.90%) Selenium
13 5 (0.75%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.75%) Mocha
14 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
15 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
General
1 163 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 85 (12.78%) Finance
3 82 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 54 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (5.86%) Law
7 36 (5.41%) Games
8 21 (3.16%) Banking
8 21 (3.16%) Legal
9 19 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.71%) Retail
11 17 (2.56%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.95%) Advertising
12 13 (1.95%) Legal Technology
13 9 (1.35%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.20%) Aviation
15 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.05%) Tech for Good
15 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 212 (31.88%) Developer
2 178 (26.77%) Senior
3 142 (21.35%) Software Engineer
4 107 (16.09%) Lead
5 63 (9.47%) Full-Stack Developer
5 63 (9.47%) Python Engineer
6 54 (8.12%) Senior Software Engineer
7 52 (7.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 49 (7.37%) Data Engineer
9 46 (6.92%) Python Developer
10 42 (6.32%) Senior Developer
11 36 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (5.41%) Lead Developer
12 34 (5.11%) Architect
13 31 (4.66%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.51%) Ruby Developer
15 27 (4.06%) Database Engineer
16 26 (3.91%) Java Developer
17 25 (3.76%) Software Developer
18 24 (3.61%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (23.31%) React
2 142 (21.35%) Node.js
3 129 (19.40%) Terraform
4 116 (17.44%) RESTful
5 111 (16.69%) REST
6 79 (11.88%) Spring
7 78 (11.73%) Kafka
8 75 (11.28%) Spring Boot
9 70 (10.53%) CSS
10 62 (9.32%) Next.js
11 61 (9.17%) .NET
12 57 (8.57%) HTML
13 50 (7.52%) FastAPI
14 43 (6.47%) AngularJS
15 42 (6.32%) JSON
16 35 (5.26%) JWT
16 35 (5.26%) Ruby on Rails
17 28 (4.21%) Django
18 26 (3.91%) Flask
18 26 (3.91%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 133 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 89 (13.38%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.26%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.81%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 25 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.61%) AI Agents
8 22 (3.31%) Onboarding
9 20 (3.01%) Algorithms
10 19 (2.86%) Replication
11 13 (1.95%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.65%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.50%) Blog
14 10 (1.50%) EPoS
14 10 (1.50%) IoT
14 10 (1.50%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 90 (13.53%) Linux
2 37 (5.56%) Windows
3 16 (2.41%) Unix
3 16 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.30%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (46.47%) CI/CD
2 243 (36.54%) Software Engineering
3 231 (34.74%) Agile
4 197 (29.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 195 (29.32%) AI
6 177 (26.62%) Microservices
7 160 (24.06%) DevOps
8 149 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 129 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 124 (18.65%) Mentoring
10 124 (18.65%) Observability
11 121 (18.20%) Test Automation
12 120 (18.05%) Containerisation
13 117 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
14 89 (13.38%) API Design
15 82 (12.33%) Analytics
16 80 (12.03%) Clean Code
17 79 (11.88%) Data Modelling
18 77 (11.58%) Scrum
19 76 (11.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 281 (42.26%) Python
2 184 (27.67%) SQL
3 163 (24.51%) Java
4 134 (20.15%) TypeScript
5 128 (19.25%) JavaScript
6 68 (10.23%) C#
7 59 (8.87%) Go
8 35 (5.26%) Ruby
9 30 (4.51%) Bash
10 24 (3.61%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.56%) PHP
11 17 (2.56%) Scala
12 14 (2.11%) C++
13 11 (1.65%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.50%) RPG
15 6 (0.90%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.75%) Korn
17 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
18 3 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 93 (13.98%) Degree
1 93 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.68%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (3.61%) Master's Degree
5 22 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.71%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.05%) PhD
10 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
12 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.30%) RHCE
12 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.15%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.27%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.96%) QA
3 26 (3.91%) GDPR
4 17 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.75%) SLA
7 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.45%) WCAG
9 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 187 (28.12%) Docker
2 17 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.05%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Samba
5 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 167 (25.11%) Kubernetes
2 40 (6.02%) Ansible
3 36 (5.41%) Grafana
4 31 (4.66%) Argo
5 22 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.50%) Kibana
7 6 (0.90%) Istio
7 6 (0.90%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.90%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.90%) Puppet
8 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.45%) Plesk
8 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.30%) Nagios
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.30%) Rancher
10 1 (0.15%) Consul
Vendors
1 69 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.32%) Oracle
3 26 (3.91%) Google
4 22 (3.31%) OpenAI
5 20 (3.01%) Databricks
6 13 (1.95%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.50%) IBM
8 9 (1.35%) Splunk
9 6 (0.90%) Dell
9 6 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.60%) Netezza
10 4 (0.60%) Pega
10 4 (0.60%) Remedy
11 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.45%) VMware
12 2 (0.30%) TikTok
12 2 (0.30%) UiPath
12 2 (0.30%) WSO2