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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 227 146
Rank change year-on-year -52 -81 +65
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 662 596 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.38% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.37% 9.26% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 480 420 651
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,750 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £80,000 £65,001
Median % change year-on-year -12.93% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £118,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 7,911 6,434 10,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.86% 14.91% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,545 4,183 6,506
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,688 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,750 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -77 290 £85,000 -19.05% 922
South East -26 122 £65,000 -3.70% 119
North of England -22 121 £65,000 -3.70% 123
North West -4 57 £63,750 -5.56% 70
South West -55 49 £65,000 +20.93% 71
North East -33 39 £65,000 +26.83% 16
Midlands -30 36 £75,000 +5.26% 59
East of England -33 27 £52,500 +72.13% 43
West Midlands -42 27 £83,774 +15.55% 42
Yorkshire -32 25 £69,310 -0.99% 38
East Midlands -28 9 £60,000 +33.33% 16
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 28 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.47%) Apache
3 20 (3.02%) Confluence
4 19 (2.87%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.06%) Camunda
6 7 (1.06%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.91%) WordPress
8 5 (0.76%) SharePoint
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%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.66%) 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
1 362 (54.68%) AWS
2 225 (33.99%) Azure
3 106 (16.01%) GitHub
4 79 (11.93%) GCP
5 63 (9.52%) Serverless
6 57 (8.61%) SaaS
7 50 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
9 43 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (6.34%) Amazon S3
11 41 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (5.44%) GitHub Copilot
13 27 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (4.08%) Azure AKS
13 27 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (4.08%) Power Platform
14 25 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (2.57%) Anthropic Claude
16 17 (2.57%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.78%) Broadband
2 12 (1.81%) Firewall
3 9 (1.36%) DNS
4 7 (1.06%) HTTP
4 7 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.76%) iSCSI
5 5 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (0.76%) SAN
6 4 (0.60%) DHCP
7 3 (0.45%) 4G
7 3 (0.45%) 5G
7 3 (0.45%) SSH
7 3 (0.45%) VLAN
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
8 2 (0.30%) VPN
9 1 (0.15%) Internet
9 1 (0.15%) MPLS
9 1 (0.15%) SSL
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
9 1 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (24.17%) MongoDB
2 147 (22.21%) MySQL
3 122 (18.43%) Relational Database
4 114 (17.22%) SQL Server
5 82 (12.39%) NoSQL
6 77 (11.63%) Redis
7 38 (5.74%) DynamoDB
8 35 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
10 25 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (3.32%) Power BI
12 20 (3.02%) Amazon Aurora
13 19 (2.87%) Metadata
14 18 (2.72%) Big Data
15 14 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (2.11%) Pinecone
16 13 (1.96%) Data Lake
17 12 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
17 12 (1.81%) Db2
17 12 (1.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 151 (22.81%) Git
2 54 (8.16%) GitLab
2 54 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.47%) JUnit
4 21 (3.17%) JIRA
5 17 (2.57%) TeamCity
6 16 (2.42%) Mockito
7 12 (1.81%) JMeter
7 12 (1.81%) Vite
8 11 (1.66%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.51%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.51%) Selenium
10 6 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.91%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.91%) Maven
10 6 (0.91%) Storybook
11 5 (0.76%) Mocha
12 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 157 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 83 (12.54%) Public Sector
3 76 (11.48%) Finance
4 61 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (6.80%) Law
7 30 (4.53%) Banking
8 28 (4.23%) Games
9 26 (3.93%) Retail
10 22 (3.32%) Legal
11 18 (2.72%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.96%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.66%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.51%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.36%) Advertising
17 8 (1.21%) Aviation
18 7 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 7 (1.06%) Tech for Good
19 6 (0.91%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 208 (31.42%) Developer
2 182 (27.49%) Senior
3 141 (21.30%) Software Engineer
4 100 (15.11%) Lead
5 60 (9.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 59 (8.91%) Python Engineer
7 57 (8.61%) Senior Software Engineer
8 50 (7.55%) Data Engineer
8 50 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 48 (7.25%) Python Developer
10 46 (6.95%) Senior Developer
11 40 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
12 35 (5.29%) Architect
13 33 (4.98%) Lead Developer
14 31 (4.68%) Software Developer
15 30 (4.53%) Database Engineer
16 29 (4.38%) Ruby Developer
17 27 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
18 25 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
18 25 (3.78%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (23.11%) React
2 143 (21.60%) Terraform
3 133 (20.09%) Node.js
4 111 (16.77%) RESTful
5 110 (16.62%) REST
6 88 (13.29%) Kafka
7 77 (11.63%) Spring
8 73 (11.03%) Spring Boot
9 69 (10.42%) CSS
10 63 (9.52%) .NET
11 61 (9.21%) Next.js
12 57 (8.61%) HTML
13 51 (7.70%) FastAPI
14 40 (6.04%) AngularJS
15 38 (5.74%) JSON
16 34 (5.14%) Ruby on Rails
17 31 (4.68%) JWT
18 29 (4.38%) Django
19 28 (4.23%) Flask
20 25 (3.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 143 (21.60%) Cloud Native
2 91 (13.75%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (4.38%) Low-Code
4 27 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (3.93%) Video\Live Streaming
6 24 (3.63%) AI Agents
7 22 (3.32%) Replication
8 21 (3.17%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.87%) Blog
9 19 (2.87%) Product Ownership
10 15 (2.27%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.81%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.51%) EPoS
13 10 (1.51%) iSeries
13 10 (1.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (14.20%) Linux
2 35 (5.29%) Windows
3 17 (2.57%) Unix
4 14 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (48.94%) CI/CD
2 240 (36.25%) Software Engineering
3 232 (35.05%) Agile
4 198 (29.91%) AI
5 181 (27.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 172 (25.98%) Microservices
7 166 (25.08%) DevOps
8 156 (23.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 136 (20.54%) Observability
10 128 (19.34%) Test Automation
11 123 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (18.13%) Mentoring
13 117 (17.67%) Containerisation
14 116 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
15 85 (12.84%) Clean Code
16 78 (11.78%) Event-Driven
17 76 (11.48%) Scrum
18 75 (11.33%) Analytics
18 75 (11.33%) API Design
18 75 (11.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 277 (41.84%) Python
2 192 (29.00%) SQL
3 164 (24.77%) Java
4 132 (19.94%) TypeScript
5 126 (19.03%) JavaScript
6 72 (10.88%) C#
7 56 (8.46%) Go
8 38 (5.74%) Bash
9 34 (5.14%) Ruby
10 22 (3.32%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.57%) PHP
11 17 (2.57%) Scala
12 15 (2.27%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.96%) C++
14 10 (1.51%) RPG
15 7 (1.06%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.91%) Groovy
17 5 (0.76%) Korn
18 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
19 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 105 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.69%) Degree
3 83 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.63%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 22 (3.32%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.21%) PhD
9 6 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.30%) CISSP
11 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.85%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.38%) QA
3 24 (3.63%) GDPR
4 18 (2.72%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) SLA
6 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.45%) WCAG
8 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 193 (29.15%) Docker
2 11 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 177 (26.74%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.16%) Grafana
3 41 (6.19%) Ansible
4 34 (5.14%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.98%) Argo
6 11 (1.66%) Kibana
7 9 (1.36%) Rancher
8 7 (1.06%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.91%) Istio
9 6 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.91%) Puppet
10 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.45%) Plesk
10 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.15%) Nagios
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 67 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.91%) Oracle
3 24 (3.63%) OpenAI
4 20 (3.02%) Databricks
4 20 (3.02%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.72%) Google
6 13 (1.96%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.51%) IBM
7 10 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.51%) Splunk
8 9 (1.36%) Mistral
9 5 (0.76%) Dell
10 4 (0.60%) Netezza
10 4 (0.60%) Remedy
11 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.45%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.45%) VMware
12 2 (0.30%) Pega
12 2 (0.30%) RedGate
12 2 (0.30%) SAP