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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 216 156
Rank change year-on-year -49 -60 +53
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 650 656 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.51% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.10% 9.59% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 500 486 825
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,375 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%

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 8,022 6,837 12,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.95% 15.74% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,474 4,541 8,776
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,438 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -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 26 July 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 July 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 -74 278 £85,000 -19.05% 176
South East -10 126 £60,000 +4.35% 47
North of England -12 124 £65,000 -3.70% 40
North West -7 53 £65,000 -3.70% 25
South West -50 48 £62,500 +4.17% 16
North East -22 38 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Yorkshire -34 33 £65,000 -5.45% 11
East of England -23 27 £52,500 +64.06% 8
Midlands -52 25 £75,000 +10.90% 16
West Midlands -33 19 £80,000 +16.26% 9
East Midlands -36 6 £60,000 +9.09% 7
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 27 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (3.23%) Apache
3 21 (3.23%) Confluence
4 18 (2.77%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.92%) Camunda
6 6 (0.92%) WordPress
7 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Documentum
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Moodle
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (2.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 368 (56.62%) AWS
2 252 (38.77%) Azure
3 102 (15.69%) GCP
4 77 (11.85%) GitHub
5 64 (9.85%) Serverless
6 59 (9.08%) SaaS
7 49 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (6.31%) Amazon S3
9 37 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (5.54%) Power Platform
11 31 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (4.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 29 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (3.85%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (2.77%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.77%) Broadband
2 15 (2.31%) Firewall
3 14 (2.15%) DNS
4 12 (1.85%) DHCP
5 10 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.23%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.23%) SAN
6 8 (1.23%) VPN
7 4 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.46%) HTTP
8 3 (0.46%) Network Security
9 2 (0.31%) PBX
9 2 (0.31%) SMS
9 2 (0.31%) VLAN
10 1 (0.15%) AMQP
10 1 (0.15%) LAN
10 1 (0.15%) LTE
10 1 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (26.46%) MongoDB
2 164 (25.23%) MySQL
3 109 (16.77%) SQL Server
4 108 (16.62%) Relational Database
5 101 (15.54%) NoSQL
6 67 (10.31%) Redis
7 34 (5.23%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.62%) Power BI
9 27 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (3.23%) Metadata
12 20 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (2.92%) Big Data
14 16 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (2.00%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.85%) Data Lake
17 11 (1.69%) Db2
17 11 (1.69%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 130 (20.00%) Git
2 44 (6.77%) GitLab
3 36 (5.54%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.69%) JIRA
5 23 (3.54%) JUnit
6 18 (2.77%) Mockito
7 12 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.69%) Vite
9 10 (1.54%) JMeter
10 8 (1.23%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.92%) Maven
11 6 (0.92%) Selenium
12 5 (0.77%) Storybook
13 4 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.62%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.62%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.46%) Gatling
14 3 (0.46%) webpack
15 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 141 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 85 (13.08%) Finance
3 84 (12.92%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (5.38%) Games
7 25 (3.85%) Law
8 20 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (2.77%) Retail
10 17 (2.62%) Legal
10 17 (2.62%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.46%) Front Office
12 15 (2.31%) Advertising
12 15 (2.31%) Banking
13 11 (1.69%) Legal Technology
14 8 (1.23%) Aviation
15 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.08%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.92%) Automotive
16 6 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 204 (31.38%) Developer
2 155 (23.85%) Senior
3 140 (21.54%) Software Engineer
4 116 (17.85%) Lead
5 65 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 59 (9.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 52 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 48 (7.38%) Python Developer
9 46 (7.08%) Lead Developer
10 45 (6.92%) Data Engineer
11 42 (6.46%) Lead Software Engineer
12 36 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 34 (5.23%) Architect
14 33 (5.08%) Senior Developer
15 30 (4.62%) Java Developer
16 28 (4.31%) Java Engineer
17 26 (4.00%) Ruby Developer
18 21 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
18 21 (3.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (23.54%) React
2 147 (22.62%) Node.js
3 120 (18.46%) RESTful
4 102 (15.69%) REST
5 78 (12.00%) Spring
6 74 (11.38%) Spring Boot
7 68 (10.46%) Kafka
8 60 (9.23%) CSS
9 57 (8.77%) Next.js
10 56 (8.62%) FastAPI
11 52 (8.00%) HTML
12 45 (6.92%) .NET
12 45 (6.92%) JSON
13 36 (5.54%) AngularJS
14 30 (4.62%) Django
14 30 (4.62%) Ruby on Rails
15 29 (4.46%) JWT
16 27 (4.15%) Flask
17 26 (4.00%) Vue
18 24 (3.69%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 138 (21.23%) Cloud Native
2 81 (12.46%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.38%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.92%) Onboarding
4 32 (4.92%) Video\Live Streaming
5 26 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.54%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.23%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.92%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.62%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.46%) Derivative
10 16 (2.46%) Equities
10 16 (2.46%) Fixed Income
11 15 (2.31%) Replication
12 13 (2.00%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (1.54%) EPoS
15 10 (1.54%) iSeries
16 9 (1.38%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 88 (13.54%) Linux
2 40 (6.15%) Windows
3 19 (2.92%) Unix
4 16 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.46%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (45.23%) CI/CD
2 238 (36.62%) Software Engineering
3 235 (36.15%) Agile
4 187 (28.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 178 (27.38%) Microservices
6 176 (27.08%) AI
7 154 (23.69%) DevOps
8 143 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 139 (21.38%) Mentoring
10 126 (19.38%) Test Automation
11 119 (18.31%) Containerisation
12 118 (18.15%) Observability
13 115 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 108 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
15 88 (13.54%) Analytics
16 83 (12.77%) API Design
17 74 (11.38%) Data Modelling
18 72 (11.08%) Clean Code
19 70 (10.77%) Scrum
20 69 (10.62%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 284 (43.69%) Python
2 198 (30.46%) SQL
3 171 (26.31%) Java
4 133 (20.46%) JavaScript
4 133 (20.46%) TypeScript
5 57 (8.77%) C#
6 53 (8.15%) Go
7 37 (5.69%) PowerShell
8 33 (5.08%) Bash
9 30 (4.62%) Ruby
10 23 (3.54%) PHP
11 15 (2.31%) C++
11 15 (2.31%) Scala
12 11 (1.69%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.54%) RPG
13 10 (1.54%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.92%) Korn
15 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.62%) C
16 4 (0.62%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 89 (13.69%) Security Cleared
2 77 (11.85%) Degree
3 66 (10.15%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.92%) PhD
10 4 (0.62%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.46%) RHCE
12 2 (0.31%) CISSP
12 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.31%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.31%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.46%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.31%) QA
3 23 (3.54%) GDPR
4 17 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.31%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.31%) WCAG
8 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.15%) MiFID
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 182 (28.00%) Docker
2 26 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Firmware
5 2 (0.31%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 162 (24.92%) Kubernetes
2 121 (18.62%) Terraform
3 32 (4.92%) Grafana
4 30 (4.62%) Ansible
5 29 (4.46%) Argo
6 21 (3.23%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.69%) Kibana
8 6 (0.92%) Istio
8 6 (0.92%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.92%) Puppet
9 3 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.46%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.46%) Plesk
9 3 (0.46%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.31%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 71 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.08%) Oracle
3 32 (4.92%) Google
4 22 (3.38%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.31%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.15%) Databricks
7 13 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.54%) IBM
9 9 (1.38%) Splunk
10 8 (1.23%) Dell
11 7 (1.08%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.92%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.62%) Confluent
13 4 (0.62%) Netezza
13 4 (0.62%) Pega
13 4 (0.62%) Remedy
14 3 (0.46%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.46%) VMware
15 2 (0.31%) Revolut
15 2 (0.31%) TikTok