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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 233 127
Rank change year-on-year -32 -106 +79
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 742 560 1,261
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 1.31% 1.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.50% 9.08% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 512 394 591
10th Percentile £43,930 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,996 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £68,404
% change year-on-year -7.59% +9.64% -2.28%

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 7,811 6,168 10,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.50% 14.43% 15.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5,444 3,969 5,826
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 13 October 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 October 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 -50 356 £82,500 -21.43% 649
South East +11 133 £70,000 +5.66% 84
North of England -21 120 £65,000 -3.70% 97
North West -17 55 £61,250 -12.50% 56
South West -58 50 £82,500 +52.78% 34
Midlands -49 42 £75,000 +5.26% 37
North East -40 40 £65,000 +25.30% 15
West Midlands -41 31 £85,000 +17.24% 26
East of England -30 27 £52,500 +72.13% 41
Yorkshire -34 25 £65,000 -7.14% 31
East Midlands -28 11 £60,000 +20.00% 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 23 (3.10%) Apache
2 22 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (2.96%) Confluence
3 19 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.94%) Camunda
4 7 (0.94%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.81%) nginx
6 5 (0.67%) WordPress
7 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.40%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Luigi
9 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.27%) Tornado
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.13%) Documentum
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.27%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Finacle
2 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 405 (54.58%) AWS
2 234 (31.54%) Azure
3 130 (17.52%) GitHub
4 96 (12.94%) GCP
5 71 (9.57%) SaaS
6 65 (8.76%) Serverless
7 63 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (6.60%) Amazon S3
10 48 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (5.12%) GitHub Copilot
13 31 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (3.50%) Power Platform
16 24 (3.23%) Azure AKS
17 23 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
19 21 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 19 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.23%) Broadband
2 18 (2.43%) TCP/IP
3 17 (2.29%) VPN
4 15 (2.02%) Firewall
5 12 (1.62%) BGP
6 9 (1.21%) DNS
7 8 (1.08%) Network Security
8 7 (0.94%) VLAN
9 6 (0.81%) HTTP
10 4 (0.54%) DHCP
11 3 (0.40%) 4G
11 3 (0.40%) 5G
11 3 (0.40%) OpenVPN
11 3 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.40%) SSH
12 2 (0.27%) AMQP
12 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.27%) SAN
12 2 (0.27%) SMS
12 2 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (22.51%) MongoDB
2 153 (20.62%) MySQL
3 127 (17.12%) Relational Database
4 122 (16.44%) SQL Server
5 95 (12.80%) Redis
6 82 (11.05%) NoSQL
7 57 (7.68%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (5.12%) DynamoDB
9 37 (4.99%) Elasticsearch
10 31 (4.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 23 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.83%) Metadata
12 21 (2.83%) Power BI
13 19 (2.56%) Big Data
14 17 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (2.29%) Pinecone
15 15 (2.02%) Data Lake
15 15 (2.02%) Oracle Database
16 13 (1.75%) Chroma
17 12 (1.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 168 (22.64%) Git
2 67 (9.03%) Jenkins
3 61 (8.22%) GitLab
4 32 (4.31%) TeamCity
5 22 (2.96%) JUnit
6 19 (2.56%) JIRA
7 15 (2.02%) Mockito
8 12 (1.62%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.62%) JMeter
9 11 (1.48%) Vite
10 9 (1.21%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.08%) Selenium
12 7 (0.94%) Storybook
13 6 (0.81%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.81%) Mocha
14 5 (0.67%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.67%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.67%) Maven
15 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 176 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 98 (13.21%) Finance
3 84 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 76 (10.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (7.55%) Law
7 40 (5.39%) Banking
8 35 (4.72%) Retail
9 28 (3.77%) Games
10 22 (2.96%) Legal
11 18 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 16 (2.16%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.75%) Legal Technology
14 12 (1.62%) Back Office
15 11 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.21%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.94%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.81%) Automotive
18 6 (0.81%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 223 (30.05%) Developer
2 215 (28.98%) Senior
3 166 (22.37%) Software Engineer
4 101 (13.61%) Lead
5 66 (8.89%) Senior Software Engineer
6 60 (8.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 59 (7.95%) Python Engineer
7 59 (7.95%) Senior Developer
8 51 (6.87%) Python Developer
9 49 (6.60%) Data Engineer
10 46 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 45 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 44 (5.93%) DBA
13 36 (4.85%) Architect
13 36 (4.85%) Software Developer
14 32 (4.31%) Lead Developer
15 31 (4.18%) Database Engineer
16 29 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
16 29 (3.91%) Java Engineer
16 29 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (22.91%) React
2 168 (22.64%) Terraform
3 140 (18.87%) Node.js
4 127 (17.12%) REST
5 119 (16.04%) RESTful
6 94 (12.67%) Kafka
7 82 (11.05%) Spring
8 77 (10.38%) Spring Boot
9 75 (10.11%) .NET
10 70 (9.43%) CSS
11 65 (8.76%) Next.js
12 57 (7.68%) HTML
13 56 (7.55%) FastAPI
14 39 (5.26%) AngularJS
15 38 (5.12%) JSON
16 33 (4.45%) Ruby on Rails
17 30 (4.04%) JWT
18 27 (3.64%) Jest
18 27 (3.64%) Vue
19 25 (3.37%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 159 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 112 (15.09%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.99%) Blog
4 28 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (3.77%) Low-Code
5 27 (3.64%) AI Agents
6 25 (3.37%) Replication
6 25 (3.37%) Video\Live Streaming
7 23 (3.10%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.70%) Product Ownership
9 17 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.16%) Algorithms
10 16 (2.16%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.35%) EPoS
14 10 (1.35%) iSeries
15 9 (1.21%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 100 (13.48%) Linux
2 36 (4.85%) Windows
3 15 (2.02%) Unix
4 14 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) CentOS
7 1 (0.13%) Debian
7 1 (0.13%) macOS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (49.33%) CI/CD
2 278 (37.47%) Software Engineering
3 244 (32.88%) Agile
4 223 (30.05%) AI
5 192 (25.88%) Microservices
6 190 (25.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 183 (24.66%) DevOps
8 179 (24.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 165 (22.24%) Observability
10 146 (19.68%) Test Automation
11 135 (18.19%) Mentoring
12 133 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
13 129 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 118 (15.90%) Containerisation
15 91 (12.26%) Clean Code
16 90 (12.13%) Event-Driven
17 83 (11.19%) Analytics
17 83 (11.19%) Machine Learning
18 79 (10.65%) Data Modelling
19 75 (10.11%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 310 (41.78%) Python
2 219 (29.51%) SQL
3 184 (24.80%) Java
4 146 (19.68%) TypeScript
5 135 (18.19%) JavaScript
6 81 (10.92%) C#
7 71 (9.57%) Go
8 45 (6.06%) Bash
9 33 (4.45%) Ruby
10 25 (3.37%) PHP
11 18 (2.43%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.29%) Scala
13 15 (2.02%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.75%) C++
15 11 (1.48%) Groovy
15 11 (1.48%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.35%) RPG
17 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.54%) Apex Code
19 3 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 127 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 108 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 81 (10.92%) Degree
4 29 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 24 (3.23%) Master's Degree
7 23 (3.10%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.35%) CISSP
8 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.21%) PhD
10 8 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.08%) CCSP
10 8 (1.08%) CISM
11 5 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.33%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.18%) QA
3 25 (3.37%) GDPR
4 22 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.83%) Accessibility
6 16 (2.16%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.08%) NIST
9 5 (0.67%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.27%) WCAG
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 1
System Software
1 215 (28.98%) Docker
2 9 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.13%) Ceph
5 1 (0.13%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) Lustre
5 1 (0.13%) NFS
5 1 (0.13%) Samba
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 209 (28.17%) Kubernetes
2 86 (11.59%) Grafana
3 49 (6.60%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.53%) Ansible
5 36 (4.85%) Argo
6 13 (1.75%) Kibana
7 11 (1.48%) Rancher
8 10 (1.35%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.21%) Istio
10 8 (1.08%) Cilium
11 6 (0.81%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.81%) Puppet
12 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.40%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.27%) Data Guard
14 2 (0.27%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.27%) Packer
14 2 (0.27%) Plesk
14 2 (0.27%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 68 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.76%) Oracle
3 35 (4.72%) Google
4 30 (4.04%) OpenAI
5 26 (3.50%) Databricks
6 24 (3.23%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.62%) Mistral
10 10 (1.35%) IBM
11 9 (1.21%) Splunk
12 5 (0.67%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.54%) Netezza
13 4 (0.54%) Remedy
13 4 (0.54%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.54%) VMware
14 3 (0.40%) Adobe
14 3 (0.40%) SAP
15 2 (0.27%) Dell
15 2 (0.27%) Informatica