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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 220 150
Rank change year-on-year -42 -70 +61
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 667 652 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.50% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.24% 9.57% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 499 478 784
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,250 £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 £86,250 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 8,091 6,815 11,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.80% 15.64% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,536 4,488 7,902
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,199
25th Percentile £45,391 £46,250 £45,786
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 4 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 4 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 -67 288 £85,000 -19.05% 357
North of England -4 132 £65,000 -3.70% 55
South East -9 128 £60,000 -2.04% 57
North West -6 58 £65,000 -3.70% 37
South West -46 46 £62,500 +8.70% 23
North East -22 41 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire -29 33 £65,000 -7.14% 13
East of England -31 27 £52,500 +64.06% 8
Midlands -58 26 £75,000 +11.01% 30
West Midlands -48 19 £80,000 +18.30% 17
East Midlands -22 7 £60,000 +9.09% 13
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 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.90%) Apache
3 22 (3.30%) Confluence
3 22 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (3.15%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.50%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.90%) Camunda
6 6 (0.90%) WordPress
7 5 (0.75%) 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%) 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%) Tornado
8 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.95%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 383 (57.42%) AWS
2 250 (37.48%) Azure
3 103 (15.44%) GCP
4 82 (12.29%) GitHub
5 62 (9.30%) Serverless
6 57 (8.55%) SaaS
7 51 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (6.45%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (5.55%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (5.25%) Power Platform
12 30 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.90%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
16 24 (3.60%) GitHub Copilot
17 22 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
18 18 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.65%) Broadband
2 15 (2.25%) Firewall
3 13 (1.95%) DNS
4 11 (1.65%) DHCP
5 9 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.20%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.20%) SAN
7 7 (1.05%) VPN
8 4 (0.60%) HTTP
9 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.30%) Network Security
10 2 (0.30%) PBX
10 2 (0.30%) SMS
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
11 1 (0.15%) AMQP
11 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.15%) LAN
11 1 (0.15%) LTE
11 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (26.54%) MongoDB
2 167 (25.04%) MySQL
3 117 (17.54%) Relational Database
4 111 (16.64%) SQL Server
5 103 (15.44%) NoSQL
6 71 (10.64%) Redis
7 38 (5.70%) DynamoDB
8 29 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (4.35%) Power BI
9 28 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (3.30%) Metadata
12 20 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (2.85%) Big Data
14 16 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.95%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.80%) Data Lake
16 12 (1.80%) Tableau
17 11 (1.65%) Db2
Development Applications
1 137 (20.54%) Git
2 44 (6.60%) GitLab
3 37 (5.55%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.60%) JIRA
4 24 (3.60%) JUnit
5 18 (2.70%) Mockito
6 13 (1.95%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.95%) TeamCity
7 11 (1.65%) Vite
8 10 (1.50%) JMeter
9 8 (1.20%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.90%) Maven
10 6 (0.90%) Selenium
11 5 (0.75%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.60%) Storybook
13 3 (0.45%) Gatling
13 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 157 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 88 (13.19%) Public Sector
3 87 (13.04%) Finance
4 53 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (5.25%) Games
7 33 (4.95%) Law
8 21 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.85%) Legal
9 19 (2.85%) Retail
10 18 (2.70%) Banking
11 17 (2.55%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.10%) Advertising
13 12 (1.80%) Front Office
13 12 (1.80%) Legal Technology
14 8 (1.20%) Aviation
15 7 (1.05%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.05%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.90%) Automotive
16 6 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 206 (30.88%) Developer
2 166 (24.89%) Senior
3 145 (21.74%) Software Engineer
4 114 (17.09%) Lead
5 66 (9.90%) Python Engineer
6 60 (9.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 51 (7.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 50 (7.50%) Python Developer
9 49 (7.35%) Data Engineer
10 43 (6.45%) Lead Developer
10 43 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
12 36 (5.40%) DevOps Engineer
13 35 (5.25%) Senior Developer
14 34 (5.10%) Architect
15 28 (4.20%) Ruby Developer
16 27 (4.05%) Java Developer
16 27 (4.05%) Java Engineer
17 24 (3.60%) Software Developer
18 23 (3.45%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (22.64%) React
2 146 (21.89%) Node.js
3 120 (17.99%) RESTful
4 100 (14.99%) REST
5 77 (11.54%) Spring
6 72 (10.79%) Kafka
6 72 (10.79%) Spring Boot
7 61 (9.15%) CSS
8 58 (8.70%) Next.js
9 55 (8.25%) FastAPI
10 53 (7.95%) HTML
11 49 (7.35%) .NET
12 43 (6.45%) JSON
13 37 (5.55%) AngularJS
14 33 (4.95%) Ruby on Rails
15 32 (4.80%) Django
16 30 (4.50%) JWT
17 28 (4.20%) Flask
18 25 (3.75%) Hibernate
18 25 (3.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 145 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 83 (12.44%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.25%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.80%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 27 (4.05%) Product Ownership
7 26 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (3.15%) Algorithms
9 20 (3.00%) AI Agents
10 17 (2.55%) Replication
11 15 (2.25%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.95%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.80%) Derivative
13 12 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (1.80%) Equities
13 12 (1.80%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (1.50%) Blog
14 10 (1.50%) EPoS
14 10 (1.50%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 92 (13.79%) Linux
2 41 (6.15%) Windows
3 19 (2.85%) Unix
4 17 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.45%) CentOS
7 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (45.58%) CI/CD
2 242 (36.28%) Software Engineering
3 239 (35.83%) Agile
4 189 (28.34%) Full-Stack Development
5 186 (27.89%) AI
6 180 (26.99%) Microservices
7 158 (23.69%) DevOps
8 145 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 136 (20.39%) Mentoring
10 126 (18.89%) Test Automation
11 123 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (17.99%) Containerisation
12 120 (17.99%) Observability
13 116 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (13.04%) Analytics
15 85 (12.74%) API Design
16 78 (11.69%) Clean Code
17 72 (10.79%) Data Modelling
17 72 (10.79%) Machine Learning
18 70 (10.49%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 291 (43.63%) Python
2 202 (30.28%) SQL
3 171 (25.64%) Java
4 132 (19.79%) JavaScript
5 130 (19.49%) TypeScript
6 58 (8.70%) C#
7 55 (8.25%) Go
8 33 (4.95%) Ruby
9 32 (4.80%) Bash
9 32 (4.80%) PowerShell
10 21 (3.15%) PHP
11 15 (2.25%) Scala
12 14 (2.10%) C++
13 11 (1.65%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.50%) RPG
15 7 (1.05%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.90%) Korn
17 5 (0.75%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.60%) C
19 3 (0.45%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 90 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 87 (13.04%) Degree
3 67 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.90%) PhD
10 4 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.45%) RHCE
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%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.20%) QA
3 24 (3.60%) GDPR
4 15 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) SLA
7 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.30%) 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
1 188 (28.19%) Docker
2 24 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 167 (25.04%) Kubernetes
2 125 (18.74%) Terraform
3 33 (4.95%) Ansible
3 33 (4.95%) Grafana
4 30 (4.50%) Argo
5 21 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.65%) 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%) AWS Copilot
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%) Rancher
Vendors
1 73 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.85%) Oracle
3 32 (4.80%) Google
4 20 (3.00%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.85%) Databricks
6 15 (2.25%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.95%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.50%) IBM
9 9 (1.35%) Splunk
10 8 (1.20%) Dell
11 7 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.90%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.60%) Confluent
13 4 (0.60%) Netezza
13 4 (0.60%) Pega
13 4 (0.60%) Remedy
14 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.45%) VMware
15 2 (0.30%) D-Link
15 2 (0.30%) TikTok