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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 225 163
Rank change year-on-year -66 -62 +27
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 496 588 1,517
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.49% 1.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.99% 8.94% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 364 439 1,088
10th Percentile £41,475 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £88,148 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 7,100 6,579 14,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.64% 16.70% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,494 4,506 11,399
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -91 196 £86,250 -5.48% 128
North of England -6 112 £67,500 -0.19% 35
South East -16 103 £57,500 +6.98% 36
Yorkshire -18 48 £60,000 - 6
North West -9 43 £69,310 -0.11% 24
South West -53 36 £62,500 -3.85% 13
North East -26 21 £65,000 -1.43% 5
East of England -35 18 £55,000 +48.65% 8
Midlands -50 14 £65,000 -3.70% 17
West Midlands -47 9 £69,310 +2.68% 6
East Midlands -34 5 £65,000 -7.14% 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 28 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.83%) Apache
4 15 (3.02%) Apache Spark
4 15 (3.02%) Confluence
5 14 (2.82%) OpenStack
6 10 (2.02%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.40%) Camunda
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.40%) WordPress
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 305 (61.49%) AWS
2 192 (38.71%) Azure
3 101 (20.36%) GCP
4 73 (14.72%) Serverless
5 51 (10.28%) GitHub
6 50 (10.08%) SaaS
7 41 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (6.85%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (6.25%) Amazon S3
10 31 (6.25%) Power Platform
11 25 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
12 24 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (4.64%) Azure AKS
13 23 (4.64%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (2.82%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.44%) Broadband
2 16 (3.23%) DNS
3 15 (3.02%) DHCP
3 15 (3.02%) Firewall
4 14 (2.82%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.81%) VPN
6 8 (1.61%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.61%) SAN
7 7 (1.41%) Internet
7 7 (1.41%) Network Security
7 7 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.60%) VLAN
9 2 (0.40%) HTTP
9 2 (0.40%) LAN
9 2 (0.40%) PBX
9 2 (0.40%) WAN
10 1 (0.20%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.20%) LTE
10 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (27.42%) MongoDB
2 118 (23.79%) MySQL
3 102 (20.56%) SQL Server
4 95 (19.15%) NoSQL
5 89 (17.94%) Relational Database
6 32 (6.45%) DynamoDB
7 29 (5.85%) Redis
8 27 (5.44%) Power BI
9 23 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
11 16 (3.23%) RDBMS
12 12 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (2.22%) MariaDB
14 10 (2.02%) Big Data
14 10 (2.02%) DB2
15 9 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.81%) BigQuery
15 9 (1.81%) Oracle Database
15 9 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 114 (22.98%) Git
2 42 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 38 (7.66%) GitLab
4 24 (4.84%) JIRA
5 17 (3.43%) Bitbucket
5 17 (3.43%) TeamCity
6 16 (3.23%) JUnit
7 14 (2.82%) Mockito
8 10 (2.02%) Selenium
9 9 (1.81%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.61%) JMeter
11 7 (1.41%) Vite
12 6 (1.21%) Maven
13 3 (0.60%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.40%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
14 2 (0.40%) ESLint
14 2 (0.40%) Gatling
14 2 (0.40%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 130 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 78 (15.73%) Finance
3 59 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 49 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (6.25%) Retail
7 28 (5.65%) Banking
8 27 (5.44%) Law
9 25 (5.04%) Games
10 19 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (3.43%) Front Office
11 17 (3.43%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.62%) Advertising
13 8 (1.61%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.41%) Legal
15 4 (0.81%) Automotive
15 4 (0.81%) Aviation
15 4 (0.81%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 161 (32.46%) Developer
2 99 (19.96%) Senior
3 93 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 78 (15.73%) Lead
5 55 (11.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (9.48%) Python Engineer
7 42 (8.47%) Java Developer
8 34 (6.85%) Lead Developer
9 32 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
11 30 (6.05%) Data Engineer
11 30 (6.05%) Java Engineer
12 27 (5.44%) Python Developer
13 22 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
14 20 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (4.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 20 (4.03%) Senior Developer
14 20 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
15 19 (3.83%) Java Software Engineer
15 19 (3.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (28.83%) React
2 121 (24.40%) Node.js
3 99 (19.96%) RESTful
4 74 (14.92%) REST
5 61 (12.30%) Spring
6 58 (11.69%) Spring Boot
7 48 (9.68%) .NET
8 43 (8.67%) Kafka
9 41 (8.27%) FastAPI
9 41 (8.27%) HTML
10 40 (8.06%) CSS
11 33 (6.65%) JSON
12 31 (6.25%) AngularJS
13 28 (5.65%) Django
14 26 (5.24%) Next.js
15 24 (4.84%) Redux
15 24 (4.84%) Vue
16 22 (4.44%) Web Services
17 21 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
17 21 (4.23%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 106 (21.37%) Cloud Native
2 52 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.64%) Video\Live Streaming
5 22 (4.44%) Low-Code
6 18 (3.63%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.43%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.23%) Blog
8 16 (3.23%) Derivative
8 16 (3.23%) Equities
8 16 (3.23%) Fixed Income
9 15 (3.02%) Algorithms
9 15 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.62%) Replication
12 12 (2.42%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.61%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
13 8 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 68 (13.71%) Linux
2 37 (7.46%) Windows
3 19 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.63%) Unix
5 10 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.21%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.81%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.60%) Android
8 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.60%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Debian
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (45.36%) CI/CD
2 193 (38.91%) Agile
3 170 (34.27%) Software Engineering
4 145 (29.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 144 (29.03%) Microservices
6 113 (22.78%) DevOps
7 109 (21.98%) Test Automation
8 106 (21.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 97 (19.56%) AI
10 94 (18.95%) Mentoring
11 91 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (17.34%) Containerisation
13 77 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 72 (14.52%) Scrum
15 65 (13.10%) Analytics
16 62 (12.50%) TDD
17 56 (11.29%) Observability
18 53 (10.69%) API Design
19 50 (10.08%) Data Modelling
20 47 (9.48%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 219 (44.15%) Python
2 164 (33.06%) Java
3 160 (32.26%) SQL
4 116 (23.39%) JavaScript
5 105 (21.17%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.87%) C#
7 43 (8.67%) Go
8 30 (6.05%) PowerShell
9 24 (4.84%) PHP
10 20 (4.03%) Bash
11 14 (2.82%) C
12 11 (2.22%) Ruby
13 10 (2.02%) C++
13 10 (2.02%) Shell Script
13 10 (2.02%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.81%) Scala
15 7 (1.41%) Korn
16 5 (1.01%) Delphi
17 4 (0.81%) Pascal
17 4 (0.81%) RPG
Qualifications
1 62 (12.50%) Degree
2 55 (11.09%) Security Cleared
3 43 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.81%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.60%) RHCE
11 2 (0.40%) PhD
11 2 (0.40%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.83%) QA
3 16 (3.23%) GDPR
4 15 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.60%) SLA
7 2 (0.40%) WCAG
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 149 (30.04%) Docker
2 30 (6.05%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.81%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.40%) Firmware
5 2 (0.40%) Samba
6 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 153 (30.85%) Kubernetes
2 107 (21.57%) Terraform
3 27 (5.44%) Ansible
4 25 (5.04%) Argo
4 25 (5.04%) Grafana
5 16 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.61%) Kibana
7 6 (1.21%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.21%) Puppet
8 5 (1.01%) Istio
9 4 (0.81%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.81%) Nagios
9 4 (0.81%) Rancher
10 3 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.60%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.60%) Plesk
11 2 (0.40%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 57 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.08%) Oracle
3 23 (4.64%) Google
4 15 (3.02%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.62%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.02%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.61%) Dell
8 7 (1.41%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.41%) Splunk
9 6 (1.21%) Databricks
9 6 (1.21%) Informatica
9 6 (1.21%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.01%) Confluent
10 5 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.01%) Talend
11 4 (0.81%) IBM
11 4 (0.81%) Pega
11 4 (0.81%) VMware
12 3 (0.60%) Netezza
12 3 (0.60%) Remedy