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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 226 158
Rank change year-on-year -42 -68 +54
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 668 651 1,288
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.49% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.24% 9.56% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 505 478 792
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,875 £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 £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 8,109 6,813 11,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.86% 15.64% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,560 4,508 8,163
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,438 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.11% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% -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 1 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 1 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 -70 291 £85,000 -19.05% 233
North of England -12 130 £65,000 -3.70% 53
South East -17 127 £60,000 -2.04% 54
North West -4 57 £65,000 -3.70% 33
South West -57 46 £62,500 +6.38% 18
North East -23 40 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Yorkshire -26 33 £65,000 -7.14% 17
East of England -22 28 £52,500 +64.06% 9
Midlands -48 26 £75,000 +10.90% 24
West Midlands -43 19 £80,000 +16.26% 14
East Midlands -31 7 £60,000 +9.09% 10
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 32 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.59%) Apache
3 23 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (3.29%) Confluence
5 21 (3.14%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.50%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.90%) Camunda
7 6 (0.90%) WordPress
8 5 (0.75%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Documentum
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Luigi
9 1 (0.15%) Moodle
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 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
1 382 (57.19%) AWS
2 253 (37.87%) Azure
3 106 (15.87%) GCP
4 78 (11.68%) GitHub
5 62 (9.28%) Serverless
6 58 (8.68%) SaaS
7 49 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (6.29%) Amazon S3
9 38 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (5.24%) Power Platform
12 30 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
15 25 (3.74%) Azure AKS
16 23 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (3.14%) GitHub Copilot
19 18 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
20 17 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.64%) 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 3 (0.45%) HTTP
8 3 (0.45%) Network Security
8 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.30%) PBX
9 2 (0.30%) SMS
9 2 (0.30%) VLAN
10 1 (0.15%) AMQP
10 1 (0.15%) LAN
10 1 (0.15%) LTE
10 1 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (26.20%) MongoDB
2 167 (25.00%) MySQL
3 115 (17.22%) Relational Database
4 110 (16.47%) SQL Server
5 103 (15.42%) NoSQL
6 71 (10.63%) Redis
7 36 (5.39%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.49%) Power BI
9 28 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (3.29%) Metadata
12 20 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (2.99%) Big Data
13 17 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
14 16 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
15 13 (1.95%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.80%) Data Lake
16 12 (1.80%) Tableau
17 11 (1.65%) Db2
Development Applications
1 136 (20.36%) Git
2 43 (6.44%) GitLab
3 37 (5.54%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.74%) JIRA
5 24 (3.59%) JUnit
6 18 (2.69%) Mockito
7 13 (1.95%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.95%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.65%) Vite
9 10 (1.50%) JMeter
10 8 (1.20%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.90%) Maven
11 6 (0.90%) Selenium
12 5 (0.75%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.75%) Storybook
13 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.45%) Gatling
14 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 154 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 91 (13.62%) Finance
3 86 (12.87%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (5.24%) Games
7 31 (4.64%) Law
8 21 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.84%) Legal
9 19 (2.84%) Retail
10 18 (2.69%) Banking
11 17 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.40%) Front Office
13 15 (2.25%) Advertising
14 12 (1.80%) Legal Technology
15 7 (1.05%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.05%) Aviation
15 7 (1.05%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.90%) Automotive
16 6 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 209 (31.29%) Developer
2 163 (24.40%) Senior
3 146 (21.86%) Software Engineer
4 118 (17.66%) Lead
5 68 (10.18%) Python Engineer
6 59 (8.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 53 (7.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 51 (7.63%) Python Developer
9 48 (7.19%) Data Engineer
9 48 (7.19%) Lead Developer
10 42 (6.29%) Lead Software Engineer
11 41 (6.14%) Senior Software Engineer
12 36 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
13 34 (5.09%) Architect
13 34 (5.09%) Senior Developer
14 30 (4.49%) Java Developer
15 28 (4.19%) Ruby Developer
16 27 (4.04%) Java Engineer
17 23 (3.44%) DBA
17 23 (3.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (23.05%) React
2 146 (21.86%) Node.js
3 120 (17.96%) RESTful
4 103 (15.42%) REST
5 79 (11.83%) Spring
6 74 (11.08%) Spring Boot
7 71 (10.63%) Kafka
8 61 (9.13%) CSS
9 59 (8.83%) Next.js
10 56 (8.38%) FastAPI
11 52 (7.78%) HTML
12 46 (6.89%) .NET
13 44 (6.59%) JSON
14 37 (5.54%) AngularJS
15 32 (4.79%) Django
15 32 (4.79%) Ruby on Rails
16 30 (4.49%) JWT
17 28 (4.19%) Flask
18 26 (3.89%) Vue
19 25 (3.74%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 141 (21.11%) Cloud Native
2 82 (12.28%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.24%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.79%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.34%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (3.89%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.14%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.99%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.54%) Replication
10 16 (2.40%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.40%) Derivative
10 16 (2.40%) Equities
10 16 (2.40%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.95%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
13 11 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (1.50%) Blog
14 10 (1.50%) EPoS
14 10 (1.50%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 92 (13.77%) Linux
2 41 (6.14%) Windows
3 19 (2.84%) Unix
4 17 (2.54%) 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
1 302 (45.21%) CI/CD
2 243 (36.38%) Software Engineering
3 242 (36.23%) Agile
4 190 (28.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 183 (27.40%) AI
6 180 (26.95%) Microservices
7 156 (23.35%) DevOps
8 144 (21.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 139 (20.81%) Mentoring
10 127 (19.01%) Test Automation
11 122 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (18.11%) Containerisation
13 120 (17.96%) Observability
14 113 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
15 87 (13.02%) Analytics
16 85 (12.72%) API Design
17 76 (11.38%) Clean Code
18 72 (10.78%) Data Modelling
19 71 (10.63%) Scrum
20 70 (10.48%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 293 (43.86%) Python
2 201 (30.09%) SQL
3 173 (25.90%) Java
4 134 (20.06%) JavaScript
5 133 (19.91%) TypeScript
6 57 (8.53%) C#
7 55 (8.23%) Go
8 34 (5.09%) Bash
8 34 (5.09%) PowerShell
9 32 (4.79%) Ruby
10 21 (3.14%) PHP
11 15 (2.25%) C++
11 15 (2.25%) Scala
12 11 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.50%) RPG
14 8 (1.20%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.90%) Korn
16 5 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.60%) C
18 3 (0.45%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 90 (13.47%) Security Cleared
2 82 (12.28%) Degree
3 67 (10.03%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.54%) 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%) PhD
10 5 (0.75%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.45%) RHCE
13 2 (0.30%) CISSP
13 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.30%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.19%) QA
3 24 (3.59%) GDPR
4 15 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.10%) 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
1 187 (27.99%) Docker
2 24 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Firmware
5 2 (0.30%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 167 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 124 (18.56%) Terraform
3 33 (4.94%) Grafana
4 32 (4.79%) Ansible
5 30 (4.49%) Argo
6 21 (3.14%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.65%) Kibana
8 6 (0.90%) Istio
8 6 (0.90%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.90%) Puppet
9 3 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.45%) Plesk
9 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.30%) Nagios
10 2 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 72 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.83%) Oracle
3 32 (4.79%) Google
4 22 (3.29%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.54%) 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%) Revolut
15 2 (0.30%) TikTok