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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 133 190
Rank change year-on-year -128 +57 +5
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 434 1,060 980
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.79% 2.23% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.42% 12.42% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 304 477 833
10th Percentile £41,453 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,932 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +22.97% -10.34%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £127,000 £122,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 5,853 8,538 11,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.61% 17.96% 19.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,820 4,772 9,548
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,375 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -6.40%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -76 251 £90,000 +2.86% 160
North of England -10 77 £73,801 +6.48% 111
South East -127 43 £60,000 -25.00% 189
Yorkshire -1 37 £65,000 +8.81% 42
Midlands -18 32 £60,100 -7.54% 71
North West -19 32 £85,000 +19.73% 54
South West -58 26 £54,000 -16.92% 88
West Midlands +12 22 £61,350 -5.62% 26
East of England -41 13 £42,500 -26.09% 92
East Midlands -19 10 £60,100 +0.17% 45
North East 0 8 £55,200 -20.35% 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 35 (8.06%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.84%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.38%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.92%) Confluence
4 17 (3.92%) Tomcat
5 16 (3.69%) WebSphere Application Server
6 13 (3.00%) OpenStack
7 6 (1.38%) nginx
8 4 (0.92%) Apache
9 3 (0.69%) CMS
9 3 (0.69%) Luigi
10 2 (0.46%) Camunda
10 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.23%) IIS
11 1 (0.23%) JBoss
11 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (2.07%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 305 (70.28%) AWS
2 138 (31.80%) Azure
3 114 (26.27%) GCP
4 76 (17.51%) Serverless
5 53 (12.21%) GitHub
6 50 (11.52%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (10.83%) Amazon ECS
8 45 (10.37%) Amazon S3
9 42 (9.68%) dbt
10 39 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (8.53%) SaaS
12 35 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (6.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
16 21 (4.84%) Power Platform
17 20 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
18 19 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
19 18 (4.15%) Amazon ECR
20 16 (3.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.38%) SSL
2 17 (3.92%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.07%) Firewall
4 8 (1.84%) VPN
4 8 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.61%) DNS
5 7 (1.61%) Internet
6 5 (1.15%) HTTP
6 5 (1.15%) VLAN
7 4 (0.92%) Network Security
8 3 (0.69%) DHCP
8 3 (0.69%) FTP
8 3 (0.69%) IMAP
8 3 (0.69%) MQTT
8 3 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.69%) SMTP
8 3 (0.69%) SSH
8 3 (0.69%) WAN
9 2 (0.46%) RTMP
9 2 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (25.12%) SQL Server
2 98 (22.58%) Relational Database
3 84 (19.35%) MySQL
4 75 (17.28%) MongoDB
5 70 (16.13%) NoSQL
6 37 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (8.53%) DB2
7 35 (8.06%) Redis
8 31 (7.14%) DynamoDB
9 28 (6.45%) RDBMS
10 24 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (5.53%) Apache Iceberg
11 21 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (4.61%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (4.61%) Apache Arrow
12 20 (4.61%) Dremio
12 20 (4.61%) Power BI
13 17 (3.92%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (3.46%) Hadoop
15 14 (3.23%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 95 (21.89%) Git
2 87 (20.05%) Jenkins
3 32 (7.37%) GitLab
4 30 (6.91%) JIRA
5 27 (6.22%) Cucumber
5 27 (6.22%) JUnit
6 25 (5.76%) Selenium
7 21 (4.84%) Bitbucket
8 18 (4.15%) TeamCity
9 17 (3.92%) JMeter
10 15 (3.46%) Mockito
11 8 (1.84%) Vite
12 7 (1.61%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.15%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.92%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.92%) Subversion
15 3 (0.69%) MLflow
15 3 (0.69%) TestRail
15 3 (0.69%) Vagrant
General
1 120 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 100 (23.04%) Finance
3 45 (10.37%) Banking
4 40 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.91%) Law
7 21 (4.84%) Front Office
7 21 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (4.84%) Retail
8 11 (2.53%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.30%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.30%) Marketing
10 9 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.38%) Electronics
12 5 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Advertising
13 4 (0.92%) Back Office
14 3 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 160 (36.87%) Developer
2 73 (16.82%) Senior
3 69 (15.90%) Software Engineer
4 51 (11.75%) Java Developer
5 46 (10.60%) Full-Stack Developer
6 45 (10.37%) Lead
7 36 (8.29%) Python Developer
8 30 (6.91%) Python Engineer
9 29 (6.68%) AWS Engineer
10 28 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 26 (5.99%) Data Engineer
12 25 (5.76%) AWS Developer
12 25 (5.76%) Python Software Engineer
13 24 (5.53%) Principal Engineer
14 21 (4.84%) AWS Software Engineer
14 21 (4.84%) Linux Support
15 20 (4.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 20 (4.61%) Java Engineer
15 20 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (4.38%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (30.18%) React
2 87 (20.05%) Node.js
3 76 (17.51%) Spring
4 70 (16.13%) Spring Boot
5 66 (15.21%) REST
6 64 (14.75%) RESTful
7 55 (12.67%) FastAPI
8 53 (12.21%) Django
9 51 (11.75%) AngularJS
10 49 (11.29%) HTML
11 45 (10.37%) Kafka
12 43 (9.91%) Vue
13 40 (9.22%) .NET
13 40 (9.22%) CSS
14 35 (8.06%) Elastic Stack
15 29 (6.68%) Flask
16 28 (6.45%) Web Services
17 24 (5.53%) .NET Core
18 22 (5.07%) Next.js
19 21 (4.84%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.36%) Cloud Native
1 58 (13.36%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (5.07%) Linux Command Line
3 21 (4.84%) Management Information System
4 20 (4.61%) Equities
4 20 (4.61%) Fixed Income
4 20 (4.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.76%) Blog
8 11 (2.53%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.53%) Replication
9 9 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.61%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.38%) Clustering
11 6 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 78 (17.97%) Linux
2 36 (8.29%) Windows
3 32 (7.37%) Unix
4 20 (4.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (3.23%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.61%) Android
6 7 (1.61%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.15%) VMS
8 3 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.69%) Debian
8 3 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.69%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (46.08%) CI/CD
2 170 (39.17%) Agile
3 136 (31.34%) Microservices
4 134 (30.88%) Software Engineering
5 123 (28.34%) Problem-Solving
6 121 (27.88%) DevOps
7 96 (22.12%) Full-Stack Development
8 89 (20.51%) Containerisation
9 74 (17.05%) Fintech
10 69 (15.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 67 (15.44%) AI
12 65 (14.98%) Test Automation
13 52 (11.98%) Scrum
14 50 (11.52%) ETL
14 50 (11.52%) TDD
14 50 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
15 48 (11.06%) Mentoring
16 45 (10.37%) Business Intelligence
17 42 (9.68%) Clean Code
18 41 (9.45%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 222 (51.15%) Python
2 151 (34.79%) Java
3 140 (32.26%) SQL
4 120 (27.65%) JavaScript
5 91 (20.97%) TypeScript
6 34 (7.83%) C#
7 28 (6.45%) Go
8 16 (3.69%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.46%) PHP
10 13 (3.00%) Shell Script
11 12 (2.76%) C
12 9 (2.07%) Rust
13 8 (1.84%) Delphi
13 8 (1.84%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.15%) Ruby
15 4 (0.92%) C++
16 3 (0.69%) Groovy
16 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.69%) RPG
16 3 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.59%) Degree
3 45 (10.37%) SC Cleared
4 33 (7.60%) AWS Certification
5 25 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.15%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (2.76%) AWS Certified Developer
7 12 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.46%) HNC
11 2 (0.46%) HND
11 2 (0.46%) MCSA
11 2 (0.46%) MCSE
11 2 (0.46%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.84%) SLA
2 18 (4.15%) QA
3 13 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.76%) GDPR
5 9 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.69%) SEPA
8 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.46%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) GAAP
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 165 (38.02%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.69%) DFS Replication
3 3 (0.69%) Dovecot
3 3 (0.69%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.69%) Postfix
3 3 (0.69%) Squid
3 3 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.46%) NFS
Systems Management
1 154 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 95 (21.89%) Terraform
3 30 (6.91%) Ansible
4 27 (6.22%) Grafana
5 18 (4.15%) Kibana
6 15 (3.46%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.07%) Argo
8 6 (1.38%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.38%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.15%) Puppet
10 4 (0.92%) Nagios
11 3 (0.69%) Nessus
11 3 (0.69%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.69%) Rancher
12 2 (0.46%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.23%) Ambari
13 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (14.29%) Oracle
2 24 (5.53%) Google
2 24 (5.53%) Red Hat
3 22 (5.07%) IBM
3 22 (5.07%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.69%) Atlassian
5 15 (3.46%) Informatica
5 15 (3.46%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.00%) Splunk
6 13 (3.00%) Talend
7 12 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 11 (2.53%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.84%) SAP
10 5 (1.15%) VMware
11 4 (0.92%) Pega
11 4 (0.92%) WSO2
12 3 (0.69%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.69%) Jaspersoft
12 3 (0.69%) RedGate
13 2 (0.46%) Sonatype