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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 222 153
Rank change year-on-year -42 -69 +50
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 680 648 1,282
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 1.48% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.39% 9.55% 11.37%
Number of salaries quoted 501 475 791
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £64,250
% change year-on-year -7.59% +16.73% -8.21%

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 8,109 6,782 11,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.62% 15.49% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,567 4,422 7,781
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,182 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% -2.11% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 13 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 13 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 -75 300 £85,000 -19.05% 617
North of England -10 131 £65,000 -3.70% 69
South East 0 128 £62,500 -1.96% 91
North West +5 60 £65,000 -3.70% 43
South West -46 45 £62,500 +8.70% 38
North East -25 41 £60,000 +15.66% 11
Yorkshire -21 30 £65,000 -3.70% 15
East of England -26 29 £52,500 +66.67% 18
Midlands -58 27 £75,000 +11.01% 33
West Midlands -44 20 £81,887 +19.00% 15
East Midlands -31 7 £60,000 +9.09% 18
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 34 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.12%) Apache
3 22 (3.24%) Apache Spark
4 21 (3.09%) Confluence
5 18 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.47%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.03%) Camunda
8 6 (0.88%) WordPress
9 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
10 2 (0.29%) Luigi
10 2 (0.29%) Tornado
11 1 (0.15%) Documentum
11 1 (0.15%) IIS
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (1.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Finacle
2 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 385 (56.62%) AWS
2 246 (36.18%) Azure
3 100 (14.71%) GCP
4 92 (13.53%) GitHub
5 63 (9.26%) Serverless
6 57 (8.38%) SaaS
7 51 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (6.62%) Amazon S3
9 41 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (4.85%) Power Platform
13 30 (4.41%) GitHub Copilot
14 28 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
15 26 (3.82%) Azure AKS
16 25 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
19 18 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
19 18 (2.65%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.56%) Broadband
2 15 (2.21%) Firewall
3 12 (1.76%) DNS
4 10 (1.47%) DHCP
5 8 (1.18%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.18%) SAN
5 8 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.88%) VPN
7 4 (0.59%) HTTP
8 2 (0.29%) Network Security
8 2 (0.29%) PBX
8 2 (0.29%) SMS
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
8 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.15%) LTE
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (25.88%) MongoDB
2 164 (24.12%) MySQL
3 126 (18.53%) Relational Database
4 117 (17.21%) SQL Server
5 98 (14.41%) NoSQL
6 74 (10.88%) Redis
7 41 (6.03%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (3.97%) Power BI
10 21 (3.09%) Metadata
11 20 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (2.94%) Big Data
12 16 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 16 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (1.91%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.91%) Tableau
14 12 (1.76%) Data Lake
14 12 (1.76%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 142 (20.88%) Git
2 45 (6.62%) GitLab
3 39 (5.74%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.68%) JUnit
5 24 (3.53%) JIRA
6 19 (2.79%) Mockito
7 12 (1.76%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.62%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.62%) Vite
9 10 (1.47%) JMeter
10 9 (1.32%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.88%) Selenium
12 5 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.74%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.74%) Maven
13 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.59%) Storybook
14 3 (0.44%) Gatling
14 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 165 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 91 (13.38%) Finance
3 86 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (5.44%) Law
7 36 (5.29%) Games
8 22 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (3.09%) Legal
10 19 (2.79%) Banking
11 17 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.50%) Retail
12 14 (2.06%) Advertising
13 13 (1.91%) Legal Technology
14 12 (1.76%) Front Office
15 8 (1.18%) Aviation
16 7 (1.03%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.03%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.03%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 213 (31.32%) Developer
2 180 (26.47%) Senior
3 147 (21.62%) Software Engineer
4 117 (17.21%) Lead
5 67 (9.85%) Python Engineer
6 60 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 52 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 51 (7.50%) Data Engineer
8 51 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 50 (7.35%) Python Developer
10 44 (6.47%) Lead Developer
11 39 (5.74%) Senior Developer
12 38 (5.59%) Lead Software Engineer
13 36 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (5.00%) Architect
15 30 (4.41%) Ruby Developer
16 26 (3.82%) Java Developer
17 25 (3.68%) Database Engineer
18 24 (3.53%) DBA
18 24 (3.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (22.94%) React
2 149 (21.91%) Node.js
3 118 (17.35%) RESTful
4 102 (15.00%) REST
5 78 (11.47%) Spring
6 76 (11.18%) Kafka
7 74 (10.88%) Spring Boot
8 65 (9.56%) CSS
9 59 (8.68%) Next.js
10 56 (8.24%) HTML
11 55 (8.09%) .NET
12 54 (7.94%) FastAPI
13 42 (6.18%) JSON
14 40 (5.88%) AngularJS
15 35 (5.15%) Ruby on Rails
16 33 (4.85%) Django
16 33 (4.85%) JWT
17 28 (4.12%) Flask
18 25 (3.68%) Hibernate
18 25 (3.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 139 (20.44%) Cloud Native
2 87 (12.79%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.15%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.71%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 25 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.68%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.38%) AI Agents
8 21 (3.09%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.50%) Replication
10 13 (1.91%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.76%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.76%) Derivative
11 12 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
11 12 (1.76%) Equities
11 12 (1.76%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.76%) Renewable Energy
12 10 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.47%) IoT
12 10 (1.47%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 94 (13.82%) Linux
2 40 (5.88%) Windows
3 19 (2.79%) Unix
4 17 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.44%) CentOS
8 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (45.74%) CI/CD
2 248 (36.47%) Software Engineering
3 243 (35.74%) Agile
4 197 (28.97%) AI
5 190 (27.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 180 (26.47%) Microservices
7 162 (23.82%) DevOps
8 151 (22.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 135 (19.85%) Mentoring
10 129 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 127 (18.68%) Observability
12 124 (18.24%) Containerisation
13 121 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (17.65%) Test Automation
15 89 (13.09%) API Design
16 86 (12.65%) Analytics
17 83 (12.21%) Clean Code
18 76 (11.18%) Scrum
19 75 (11.03%) Data Modelling
19 75 (11.03%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 296 (43.53%) Python
2 194 (28.53%) SQL
3 165 (24.26%) Java
4 136 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 134 (19.71%) JavaScript
6 64 (9.41%) C#
7 58 (8.53%) Go
8 35 (5.15%) Ruby
9 32 (4.71%) Bash
10 28 (4.12%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.94%) PHP
12 16 (2.35%) Scala
13 14 (2.06%) C++
14 11 (1.62%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.47%) RPG
16 6 (0.88%) Korn
16 6 (0.88%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.59%) C
17 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 94 (13.82%) Degree
3 72 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.38%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.38%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.88%) PhD
10 4 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.44%) RHCE
12 2 (0.29%) CISSP
12 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.29%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.41%) QA
3 26 (3.82%) GDPR
4 14 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.74%) SLA
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 194 (28.53%) Docker
2 21 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.44%) Firmware
4 3 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 170 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 128 (18.82%) Terraform
3 37 (5.44%) Ansible
4 32 (4.71%) Grafana
5 31 (4.56%) Argo
6 21 (3.09%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.47%) Kibana
8 6 (0.88%) Istio
8 6 (0.88%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.88%) Puppet
9 3 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.44%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.44%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.44%) Plesk
9 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.29%) Nagios
10 2 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 72 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.12%) Oracle
3 31 (4.56%) Google
4 21 (3.09%) Databricks
4 21 (3.09%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.21%) Red Hat
6 13 (1.91%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.47%) IBM
8 9 (1.32%) Splunk
9 8 (1.18%) Dell
10 7 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.59%) Netezza
11 4 (0.59%) Pega
11 4 (0.59%) Remedy
12 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.44%) Confluent
12 3 (0.44%) VMware
13 2 (0.29%) TikTok
13 2 (0.29%) UiPath