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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 219 154
Rank change year-on-year -48 -65 +61
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 684 652 1,278
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.49% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.39% 9.58% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 507 476 779
10th Percentile £41,700 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £58,438 £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 £86,625 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 8,151 6,804 11,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.69% 15.53% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,586 4,467 7,791
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.82%

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 10 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 10 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 -74 297 £85,000 -19.05% 363
North of England -3 135 £65,000 -3.70% 49
South East -13 130 £60,000 -2.04% 61
North West -5 60 £65,000 -3.70% 32
South West -55 46 £62,500 +8.70% 26
North East -26 42 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire -33 33 £65,000 -3.70% 12
East of England -32 29 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Midlands -52 27 £75,000 +11.01% 25
West Midlands -43 20 £81,887 +19.00% 11
East Midlands -25 7 £60,000 +9.09% 14
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 (5.12%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (3.95%) Apache
3 22 (3.22%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.22%) Confluence
4 19 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.46%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.02%) Camunda
7 6 (0.88%) WordPress
8 5 (0.73%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) Luigi
9 2 (0.29%) Tornado
10 1 (0.15%) Documentum
10 1 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Moodle
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 391 (57.16%) AWS
2 252 (36.84%) Azure
3 104 (15.20%) GCP
4 89 (13.01%) GitHub
5 62 (9.06%) Serverless
6 57 (8.33%) SaaS
7 51 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (6.29%) Amazon S3
9 41 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (5.12%) Power Platform
12 32 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (4.24%) GitHub Copilot
14 28 (4.09%) Azure Service Bus
15 26 (3.80%) Azure AKS
16 24 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
17 22 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
18 18 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.53%) Broadband
2 15 (2.19%) Firewall
3 12 (1.75%) DNS
4 10 (1.46%) DHCP
5 8 (1.17%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.17%) SAN
5 8 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.88%) VPN
7 4 (0.58%) HTTP
8 2 (0.29%) Network Security
8 2 (0.29%) PBX
8 2 (0.29%) SMS
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
8 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.15%) LTE
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (26.61%) MongoDB
2 170 (24.85%) MySQL
3 123 (17.98%) Relational Database
4 115 (16.81%) SQL Server
5 104 (15.20%) NoSQL
6 75 (10.96%) Redis
7 39 (5.70%) DynamoDB
8 31 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (4.24%) Power BI
10 26 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (3.07%) Metadata
12 20 (2.92%) Big Data
13 19 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (2.49%) Apache Cassandra
15 16 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
16 13 (1.90%) RDBMS
16 13 (1.90%) Tableau
17 12 (1.75%) Data Lake
18 11 (1.61%) Db2
Development Applications
1 142 (20.76%) Git
2 44 (6.43%) GitLab
3 37 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.51%) JIRA
4 24 (3.51%) JUnit
5 18 (2.63%) Mockito
6 13 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.90%) TeamCity
7 11 (1.61%) Vite
8 10 (1.46%) JMeter
9 9 (1.32%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.88%) Selenium
11 5 (0.73%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.73%) Maven
12 4 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.58%) Storybook
13 3 (0.44%) Gatling
13 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 162 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 91 (13.30%) Finance
2 91 (13.30%) Public Sector
3 55 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (5.56%) Law
6 35 (5.12%) Games
7 22 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (3.07%) Legal
9 19 (2.78%) Banking
9 19 (2.78%) Retail
10 18 (2.63%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.05%) Advertising
12 13 (1.90%) Legal Technology
13 12 (1.75%) Front Office
14 8 (1.17%) Aviation
15 7 (1.02%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.02%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.02%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 212 (30.99%) Developer
2 176 (25.73%) Senior
3 153 (22.37%) Software Engineer
4 118 (17.25%) Lead
5 66 (9.65%) Python Engineer
6 61 (8.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 51 (7.46%) Data Engineer
7 51 (7.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 50 (7.31%) Python Developer
9 49 (7.16%) Senior Software Engineer
10 45 (6.58%) Lead Developer
11 40 (5.85%) Lead Software Engineer
12 38 (5.56%) Senior Developer
13 36 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (4.97%) Architect
15 30 (4.39%) Ruby Developer
16 27 (3.95%) Java Engineer
17 26 (3.80%) Java Developer
18 24 (3.51%) DBA
18 24 (3.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (22.81%) React
2 148 (21.64%) Node.js
3 123 (17.98%) RESTful
4 102 (14.91%) REST
5 77 (11.26%) Spring
6 74 (10.82%) Kafka
7 72 (10.53%) Spring Boot
8 64 (9.36%) CSS
9 59 (8.63%) Next.js
10 55 (8.04%) HTML
11 54 (7.89%) .NET
11 54 (7.89%) FastAPI
12 43 (6.29%) JSON
13 40 (5.85%) AngularJS
14 35 (5.12%) Ruby on Rails
15 33 (4.82%) Django
15 33 (4.82%) JWT
16 28 (4.09%) Flask
17 25 (3.65%) Vue
18 24 (3.51%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 147 (21.49%) Cloud Native
2 86 (12.57%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.12%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.68%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.80%) Onboarding
7 25 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (3.22%) AI Agents
9 21 (3.07%) Algorithms
10 17 (2.49%) Replication
11 13 (1.90%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.90%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.75%) Derivative
12 12 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (1.75%) Equities
12 12 (1.75%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (1.46%) Blog
13 10 (1.46%) EPoS
13 10 (1.46%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 95 (13.89%) Linux
2 40 (5.85%) Windows
3 19 (2.78%) Unix
4 17 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.44%) CentOS
8 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (45.47%) CI/CD
2 253 (36.99%) Software Engineering
3 247 (36.11%) Agile
4 194 (28.36%) AI
5 191 (27.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 185 (27.05%) Microservices
7 161 (23.54%) DevOps
8 150 (21.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 141 (20.61%) Mentoring
10 129 (18.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 128 (18.71%) Test Automation
12 125 (18.27%) Observability
13 123 (17.98%) Containerisation
14 120 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
15 89 (13.01%) API Design
16 88 (12.87%) Analytics
17 83 (12.13%) Clean Code
18 75 (10.96%) Machine Learning
19 74 (10.82%) Data Modelling
19 74 (10.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 295 (43.13%) Python
2 200 (29.24%) SQL
3 173 (25.29%) Java
4 137 (20.03%) TypeScript
5 135 (19.74%) JavaScript
6 63 (9.21%) C#
7 58 (8.48%) Go
8 35 (5.12%) Ruby
9 32 (4.68%) Bash
10 29 (4.24%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.92%) PHP
12 16 (2.34%) Scala
13 14 (2.05%) C++
14 11 (1.61%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.46%) RPG
16 6 (0.88%) Korn
17 5 (0.73%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.73%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.58%) C
19 3 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 92 (13.45%) Degree
3 70 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.22%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.34%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.88%) PhD
11 4 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.44%) RHCE
13 2 (0.29%) CISSP
13 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.29%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.29%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.48%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.24%) QA
3 25 (3.65%) GDPR
4 15 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.58%) SLA
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) 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
1 193 (28.22%) Docker
2 22 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.44%) Firmware
4 3 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 172 (25.15%) Kubernetes
2 129 (18.86%) Terraform
3 36 (5.26%) Ansible
4 34 (4.97%) Grafana
5 31 (4.53%) Argo
6 21 (3.07%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.61%) Kibana
8 6 (0.88%) Istio
8 6 (0.88%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.88%) Puppet
9 3 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.44%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.44%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.44%) Plesk
9 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.29%) Nagios
10 2 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 73 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.77%) Oracle
3 32 (4.68%) Google
4 20 (2.92%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.78%) Databricks
6 15 (2.19%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.46%) IBM
9 9 (1.32%) Splunk
10 8 (1.17%) Dell
11 7 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.02%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.58%) Confluent
12 4 (0.58%) Netezza
12 4 (0.58%) Pega
12 4 (0.58%) Remedy
13 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.44%) VMware
14 2 (0.29%) TikTok
14 2 (0.29%) UiPath