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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 136 191
Rank change year-on-year -94 +55 -17
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 495 1,153 798
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 2.03% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.28% 11.78% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 362 523 670
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £98,125 £89,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -4.93%

All Database and 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 5,981 9,787 9,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.35% 17.26% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,014 5,685 7,544
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £104,625 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 -36 294 £100,000 +14.29% 107
North of England -9 77 £68,750 +5.77% 44
South East -100 64 £65,000 -7.14% 72
Midlands +21 38 £55,200 -15.08% 14
Yorkshire +4 36 £70,000 -1.75% 16
North West -19 29 £70,000 +16.67% 25
South West -39 28 £50,000 -23.08% 29
West Midlands +19 25 £67,500 +3.85% 9
East Midlands -3 13 £55,000 - 5
North East +14 12 £52,500 -24.25% 3
East of England -39 12 £42,500 -26.09% 13
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 64 (12.93%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.84%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.43%) Tomcat
5 16 (3.23%) Confluence
5 16 (3.23%) WebSphere Application Server
6 8 (1.62%) nginx
6 8 (1.62%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.81%) Apache
9 3 (0.61%) CMS
9 3 (0.61%) Luigi
10 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.40%) JBoss
10 2 (0.40%) SAS
10 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.20%) IIS
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (1.41%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 354 (71.52%) AWS
2 165 (33.33%) Azure
3 150 (30.30%) GCP
4 79 (15.96%) Serverless
5 66 (13.33%) dbt
6 55 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 49 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (9.70%) GitHub
9 40 (8.08%) Amazon EC2
9 40 (8.08%) Amazon S3
10 34 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (6.87%) SaaS
11 28 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (4.65%) Power Platform
14 18 (3.64%) Amazon ECR
15 15 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
15 15 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (2.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.84%) SSL
2 15 (3.03%) Firewall
3 13 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.41%) DNS
4 7 (1.41%) HTTP
4 7 (1.41%) iSCSI
4 7 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (1.41%) SAN
5 5 (1.01%) FTP
5 5 (1.01%) IMAP
5 5 (1.01%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (1.01%) SMTP
5 5 (1.01%) SSH
5 5 (1.01%) VPN
5 5 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.61%) MQTT
7 2 (0.40%) Multicast
7 2 (0.40%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.40%) RTMP
7 2 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (25.05%) SQL Server
2 115 (23.23%) Relational Database
3 103 (20.81%) MySQL
4 80 (16.16%) MongoDB
5 75 (15.15%) NoSQL
6 50 (10.10%) Apache Iceberg
7 47 (9.49%) Amazon Athena
8 45 (9.09%) Apache Arrow
8 45 (9.09%) Dremio
8 45 (9.09%) RDBMS
9 40 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (7.07%) DB2
10 35 (7.07%) Redis
11 31 (6.26%) DynamoDB
12 28 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (4.65%) Big Data
14 22 (4.44%) Power BI
15 18 (3.64%) Apache Cassandra
15 18 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (3.64%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 96 (19.39%) Jenkins
2 82 (16.57%) Git
3 38 (7.68%) JUnit
4 31 (6.26%) JIRA
5 26 (5.25%) JMeter
6 25 (5.05%) Cucumber
6 25 (5.05%) GitLab
6 25 (5.05%) Mockito
7 23 (4.65%) Selenium
8 18 (3.64%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.02%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.41%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.01%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.01%) Vagrant
12 4 (0.81%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.81%) Gradle
12 4 (0.81%) Maven
12 4 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.81%) Subversion
12 4 (0.81%) Vite
General
1 129 (26.06%) Finance
2 114 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 52 (10.51%) Public Sector
4 49 (9.90%) Front Office
5 38 (7.68%) Banking
6 37 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (5.05%) Law
8 22 (4.44%) Marketing
9 18 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.83%) Retail
11 13 (2.63%) Investment Banking
11 13 (2.63%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.42%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (2.02%) Electronics
14 10 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.82%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.62%) Advertising
17 6 (1.21%) Legal
18 4 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 208 (42.02%) Developer
2 93 (18.79%) Software Engineer
3 85 (17.17%) Senior
4 68 (13.74%) Python Developer
5 60 (12.12%) Lead
6 58 (11.72%) Java Developer
7 54 (10.91%) Python Engineer
8 53 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (10.10%) AWS Developer
9 50 (10.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 47 (9.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 47 (9.49%) Python Software Engineer
11 46 (9.29%) AWS Software Engineer
12 31 (6.26%) Software Developer
13 30 (6.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 28 (5.66%) Data Engineer
15 25 (5.05%) Lead Developer
15 25 (5.05%) Principal Engineer
16 23 (4.65%) Linux Support
17 21 (4.24%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (30.30%) React
2 112 (22.63%) Node.js
3 82 (16.57%) Spring
4 79 (15.96%) REST
5 78 (15.76%) AngularJS
6 74 (14.95%) Spring Boot
7 72 (14.55%) RESTful
8 64 (12.93%) Vue
9 60 (12.12%) FastAPI
9 60 (12.12%) HTML
10 56 (11.31%) Django
11 49 (9.90%) Kafka
12 46 (9.29%) NumPy
12 46 (9.29%) Pandas
13 45 (9.09%) SciPy
14 42 (8.48%) CSS
15 40 (8.08%) Flask
16 39 (7.88%) .NET
17 35 (7.07%) Web Services
18 28 (5.66%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 64 (12.93%) Distributed Systems
2 58 (11.72%) Cloud Native
3 47 (9.49%) Equities
3 47 (9.49%) Fixed Income
3 47 (9.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 31 (6.26%) Management Information System
5 25 (5.05%) Linux Command Line
6 24 (4.85%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.63%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.63%) Replication
9 12 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.02%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.62%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.01%) Clustering
15 4 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 81 (16.36%) Linux
2 40 (8.08%) Windows
3 36 (7.27%) Unix
4 25 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.41%) VMS
6 7 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (1.01%) Android
7 5 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.01%) Debian
8 3 (0.61%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.20%) Fedora
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (43.43%) Agile
2 205 (41.41%) CI/CD
3 161 (32.53%) Software Engineering
4 146 (29.49%) Microservices
5 127 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (24.85%) DevOps
7 101 (20.40%) Full-Stack Development
8 97 (19.60%) Fintech
9 92 (18.59%) Containerisation
10 79 (15.96%) AI
11 70 (14.14%) Mentoring
12 65 (13.13%) Test Automation
13 61 (12.32%) TDD
14 59 (11.92%) ETL
15 55 (11.11%) Clean Code
16 51 (10.30%) Data Engineering
17 50 (10.10%) Business Intelligence
18 49 (9.90%) Analytics
18 49 (9.90%) BDD
18 49 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 270 (54.55%) Python
2 151 (30.51%) Java
3 150 (30.30%) JavaScript
4 144 (29.09%) SQL
5 114 (23.03%) TypeScript
6 42 (8.48%) C#
7 24 (4.85%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.64%) Go
9 14 (2.83%) Bash
9 14 (2.83%) PHP
9 14 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.02%) Rust
11 8 (1.62%) Delphi
12 7 (1.41%) Korn
12 7 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.21%) Ruby
14 5 (1.01%) Groovy
14 5 (1.01%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.81%) C
15 4 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 77 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.13%) Degree
3 53 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.87%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.40%) HNC
12 2 (0.40%) HND
12 2 (0.40%) MCSA
12 2 (0.40%) MCSE
12 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.67%) QA
2 22 (4.44%) SLA
3 14 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.83%) GDPR
4 10 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.61%) SEPA
6 2 (0.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.40%) PSD2
7 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.20%) GAAP
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 188 (37.98%) Docker
2 7 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (1.01%) DFS Replication
3 5 (1.01%) Dovecot
3 5 (1.01%) Postfix
3 5 (1.01%) Squid
4 3 (0.61%) zsh
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.40%) HDFS
5 2 (0.40%) NFS
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 149 (30.10%) Kubernetes
2 74 (14.95%) Terraform
3 30 (6.06%) Kibana
4 26 (5.25%) Grafana
5 20 (4.04%) Ansible
6 19 (3.84%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.41%) Argo
8 6 (1.21%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (1.01%) Nessus
9 5 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.01%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.81%) Puppet
11 3 (0.61%) logstash
11 3 (0.61%) Nagios
12 2 (0.40%) Oozie
13 1 (0.20%) Ambari
13 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.20%) Rancher
13 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (14.14%) Oracle
2 30 (6.06%) Red Hat
2 30 (6.06%) Splunk
3 29 (5.86%) Microsoft
4 28 (5.66%) Google
5 22 (4.44%) Dynatrace
6 21 (4.24%) IBM
7 20 (4.04%) Informatica
7 20 (4.04%) ServiceNow
8 16 (3.23%) Talend
9 15 (3.03%) Atlassian
10 14 (2.83%) SAP
11 9 (1.82%) Dell
12 8 (1.62%) Databricks
13 7 (1.41%) OpenAI
14 6 (1.21%) Salesforce
15 5 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
16 4 (0.81%) Pega
16 4 (0.81%) RedGate
16 4 (0.81%) WSO2