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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 240 133
Rank change year-on-year -21 -107 +67
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 753 564 1,258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 1.32% 1.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.61% 9.10% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 520 395 599
10th Percentile £43,912 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,371 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% +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 £69,308
% change year-on-year -7.59% +8.21% -0.99%

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 7,835 6,195 10,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.49% 14.45% 16.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5,494 3,982 5,848
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,749 £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 15 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 15 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 -49 361 £83,750 -20.24% 664
South East -1 134 £70,000 +5.66% 87
North of England -22 123 £65,000 -3.70% 100
North West -11 57 £61,250 -10.91% 59
South West -58 50 £82,500 +52.78% 38
Midlands -37 44 £75,000 +7.14% 43
North East -33 41 £65,000 +25.30% 16
West Midlands -44 32 £85,000 +17.24% 32
East of England -38 27 £52,500 +72.13% 45
Yorkshire -35 25 £65,000 -7.14% 30
East Midlands -22 12 £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 22 (2.92%) Apache
1 22 (2.92%) Confluence
2 21 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.93%) Camunda
4 7 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.80%) nginx
6 5 (0.66%) WordPress
7 4 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Luigi
9 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.27%) Tornado
10 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.13%) Hedera
10 1 (0.13%) JBoss
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.27%) Shopify
3 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.13%) Finacle
3 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 414 (54.98%) AWS
2 236 (31.34%) Azure
3 132 (17.53%) GitHub
4 97 (12.88%) GCP
5 72 (9.56%) SaaS
6 65 (8.63%) Serverless
7 63 (8.37%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (6.64%) Amazon S3
10 49 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (5.18%) GitHub Copilot
13 32 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (3.45%) Power Platform
16 24 (3.19%) Azure AKS
17 23 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
19 21 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 19 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.19%) Broadband
2 18 (2.39%) TCP/IP
3 17 (2.26%) VPN
4 15 (1.99%) Firewall
5 12 (1.59%) BGP
6 9 (1.20%) DNS
7 8 (1.06%) Network Security
8 7 (0.93%) VLAN
9 6 (0.80%) HTTP
10 4 (0.53%) 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 (22.18%) MongoDB
2 156 (20.72%) MySQL
3 132 (17.53%) Relational Database
4 123 (16.33%) SQL Server
5 97 (12.88%) Redis
6 83 (11.02%) NoSQL
7 57 (7.57%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (5.05%) DynamoDB
8 38 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (4.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (2.79%) Metadata
11 21 (2.79%) Power BI
12 19 (2.52%) Big Data
13 17 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (2.26%) Pinecone
14 15 (1.99%) Data Lake
14 15 (1.99%) Oracle Database
15 13 (1.73%) Chroma
16 12 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 173 (22.97%) Git
2 68 (9.03%) Jenkins
3 62 (8.23%) GitLab
4 32 (4.25%) TeamCity
5 22 (2.92%) JUnit
6 19 (2.52%) JIRA
7 15 (1.99%) Mockito
8 12 (1.59%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.59%) JMeter
9 11 (1.46%) Vite
10 9 (1.20%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.06%) Selenium
12 7 (0.93%) Storybook
13 6 (0.80%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.80%) Mocha
14 5 (0.66%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.66%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.66%) Maven
15 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 182 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 101 (13.41%) Finance
3 86 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 77 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (7.44%) Law
7 41 (5.44%) Banking
8 35 (4.65%) Retail
9 28 (3.72%) Games
10 22 (2.92%) Legal
11 18 (2.39%) Financial Institution
12 16 (2.12%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.73%) Legal Technology
14 12 (1.59%) Back Office
15 11 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.33%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.93%) Automotive
17 7 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.93%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.80%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 226 (30.01%) Developer
2 219 (29.08%) Senior
3 172 (22.84%) Software Engineer
4 103 (13.68%) Lead
5 66 (8.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 63 (8.37%) Full-Stack Developer
7 61 (8.10%) Senior Developer
8 60 (7.97%) Python Engineer
9 51 (6.77%) Python Developer
10 50 (6.64%) Data Engineer
11 46 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
11 46 (6.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 44 (5.84%) DBA
13 36 (4.78%) Architect
14 35 (4.65%) Software Developer
15 33 (4.38%) Lead Developer
16 31 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
16 31 (4.12%) Database Engineer
17 30 (3.98%) Java Engineer
18 29 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (23.24%) React
2 169 (22.44%) Terraform
3 146 (19.39%) Node.js
4 129 (17.13%) REST
5 124 (16.47%) RESTful
6 93 (12.35%) Kafka
7 85 (11.29%) Spring
8 80 (10.62%) Spring Boot
9 76 (10.09%) .NET
10 73 (9.69%) CSS
11 67 (8.90%) Next.js
12 60 (7.97%) HTML
13 56 (7.44%) FastAPI
14 41 (5.44%) AngularJS
15 39 (5.18%) JSON
16 33 (4.38%) Ruby on Rails
17 30 (3.98%) JWT
18 28 (3.72%) Vue
19 27 (3.59%) Jest
20 26 (3.45%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 162 (21.51%) Cloud Native
2 112 (14.87%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.91%) Blog
4 29 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (3.72%) Low-Code
6 27 (3.59%) AI Agents
7 25 (3.32%) Video\Live Streaming
8 24 (3.19%) Onboarding
8 24 (3.19%) Replication
9 21 (2.79%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.26%) Data Structures
10 17 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (2.12%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (1.73%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (1.33%) EPoS
16 10 (1.33%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 104 (13.81%) Linux
2 36 (4.78%) Windows
3 15 (1.99%) Unix
4 14 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.80%) 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
1 370 (49.14%) CI/CD
2 285 (37.85%) Software Engineering
3 250 (33.20%) Agile
4 225 (29.88%) AI
5 196 (26.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 195 (25.90%) Microservices
7 187 (24.83%) DevOps
8 179 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 166 (22.05%) Observability
10 149 (19.79%) Test Automation
11 138 (18.33%) Mentoring
12 135 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
13 130 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 118 (15.67%) Containerisation
15 92 (12.22%) Clean Code
16 90 (11.95%) Event-Driven
17 84 (11.16%) Machine Learning
18 83 (11.02%) Analytics
19 79 (10.49%) Data Modelling
20 75 (9.96%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 309 (41.04%) Python
2 222 (29.48%) SQL
3 188 (24.97%) Java
4 151 (20.05%) TypeScript
5 141 (18.73%) JavaScript
6 83 (11.02%) C#
7 71 (9.43%) Go
8 45 (5.98%) Bash
9 33 (4.38%) Ruby
10 26 (3.45%) PHP
11 18 (2.39%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.26%) Scala
13 15 (1.99%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.86%) C++
15 12 (1.59%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.46%) Groovy
17 10 (1.33%) RPG
18 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.53%) Apex Code
20 3 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 129 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 111 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 81 (10.76%) Degree
4 30 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.32%) Master's Degree
7 22 (2.92%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.33%) CISSP
8 10 (1.33%) PhD
9 9 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.06%) CCSP
10 8 (1.06%) CISM
11 5 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.53%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.24%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.25%) QA
3 24 (3.19%) GDPR
4 22 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.12%) SOC 2
6 12 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.06%) NIST
8 5 (0.66%) SLA
9 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.27%) WCAG
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 1
System Software
1 219 (29.08%) Docker
2 9 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) 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
1 212 (28.15%) Kubernetes
2 87 (11.55%) Grafana
3 49 (6.51%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.44%) Ansible
5 36 (4.78%) Argo
6 13 (1.73%) Kibana
7 11 (1.46%) Rancher
8 10 (1.33%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.20%) Istio
10 8 (1.06%) Cilium
11 6 (0.80%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.80%) Puppet
12 4 (0.53%) 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 67 (8.90%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.76%) Oracle
3 35 (4.65%) Google
4 30 (3.98%) OpenAI
5 25 (3.32%) Databricks
6 24 (3.19%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.73%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.59%) Mistral
10 10 (1.33%) IBM
11 9 (1.20%) Splunk
12 5 (0.66%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.53%) Adobe
13 4 (0.53%) Netezza
13 4 (0.53%) Remedy
13 4 (0.53%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.53%) VMware
14 3 (0.40%) SAP
15 2 (0.27%) Dell
15 2 (0.27%) Informatica