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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 141 173
Rank change year-on-year -154 +32 +21
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 454 777 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 2.13% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.86% 11.31% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 328 466 1,000
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,775 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% +14.57% -12.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £123,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%

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 6,615 6,868 14,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.30% 18.79% 18.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,113 4,725 11,307
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -98 211 £90,000 +2.86% 152
North of England -41 100 £65,000 -3.88% 57
South East -131 65 £55,750 -20.36% 48
Yorkshire -32 45 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -28 44 £76,250 +11.37% 33
South West -42 32 £62,500 -3.85% 20
Midlands -44 24 £50,100 -22.92% 18
East of England -71 19 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -27 15 £43,875 -32.50% 8
North East -19 11 £53,565 -22.76% 6
East Midlands -43 9 £60,100 -14.14% 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 21 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
1 21 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.52%) OpenStack
3 14 (3.08%) Confluence
4 12 (2.64%) Apache
4 12 (2.64%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.10%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.44%) Camunda
7 2 (0.44%) CMS
7 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (1.98%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 280 (61.67%) AWS
2 178 (39.21%) Azure
3 126 (27.75%) GCP
4 67 (14.76%) Serverless
5 48 (10.57%) GitHub
6 44 (9.69%) Amazon EKS
7 40 (8.81%) Amazon ECS
7 40 (8.81%) SaaS
8 36 (7.93%) Amazon S3
9 34 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (6.83%) Power Platform
11 28 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (5.73%) dbt
14 25 (5.51%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (3.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 16 (3.52%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.07%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.86%) DHCP
2 13 (2.86%) DNS
3 12 (2.64%) VPN
4 10 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.54%) Broadband
5 7 (1.54%) Firewall
5 7 (1.54%) Internet
5 7 (1.54%) Network Security
6 5 (1.10%) SSL
7 3 (0.66%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.66%) SAN
7 3 (0.66%) VLAN
8 2 (0.44%) LAN
8 2 (0.44%) PBX
8 2 (0.44%) WAN
9 1 (0.22%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.22%) HTTP
9 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (23.79%) SQL Server
2 102 (22.47%) MySQL
3 99 (21.81%) Relational Database
4 86 (18.94%) MongoDB
5 85 (18.72%) NoSQL
6 39 (8.59%) Redis
7 29 (6.39%) DynamoDB
7 29 (6.39%) Power BI
8 27 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (4.63%) DB2
10 19 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (3.30%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (3.30%) RDBMS
12 14 (3.08%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.42%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.76%) Big Data
14 8 (1.76%) Pinecone
14 8 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 113 (24.89%) Git
2 58 (12.78%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.17%) JIRA
4 23 (5.07%) GitLab
5 22 (4.85%) Cucumber
6 21 (4.63%) Selenium
7 20 (4.41%) Bitbucket
7 20 (4.41%) JUnit
7 20 (4.41%) TeamCity
8 11 (2.42%) Mockito
9 7 (1.54%) Vite
10 5 (1.10%) JMeter
10 5 (1.10%) Maven
11 4 (0.88%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.66%) Gradle
13 2 (0.44%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.44%) ESLint
13 2 (0.44%) Subversion
13 2 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 128 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 88 (19.38%) Finance
3 47 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.37%) Banking
4 38 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (6.61%) Law
6 27 (5.95%) Retail
7 17 (3.74%) Front Office
8 11 (2.42%) Advertising
8 11 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.20%) Games
10 8 (1.76%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.10%) Back Office
12 5 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.88%) Electronics
13 4 (0.88%) Marketing
14 3 (0.66%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 150 (33.04%) Developer
2 83 (18.28%) Software Engineer
3 82 (18.06%) Senior
4 68 (14.98%) Lead
5 56 (12.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (10.79%) Java Developer
7 35 (7.71%) Python Engineer
8 33 (7.27%) Data Engineer
9 29 (6.39%) Java Engineer
10 27 (5.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 27 (5.95%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.29%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 21 (4.63%) Python Developer
14 19 (4.19%) Analyst
14 19 (4.19%) IT Support
14 19 (4.19%) Java Software Engineer
14 19 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (3.30%) DBA
16 14 (3.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (31.28%) React
2 87 (19.16%) Node.js
3 84 (18.50%) RESTful
4 70 (15.42%) Spring
5 66 (14.54%) Spring Boot
6 65 (14.32%) REST
7 59 (13.00%) Django
8 51 (11.23%) FastAPI
9 44 (9.69%) HTML
10 42 (9.25%) CSS
11 40 (8.81%) Kafka
12 39 (8.59%) .NET
13 35 (7.71%) AngularJS
13 35 (7.71%) Elastic Stack
14 33 (7.27%) Flask
15 29 (6.39%) Vue
16 26 (5.73%) Next.js
17 24 (5.29%) Web Services
18 22 (4.85%) .NET Core
19 21 (4.63%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 78 (17.18%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.79%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.52%) Blog
5 16 (3.52%) Derivative
5 16 (3.52%) Equities
5 16 (3.52%) Fixed Income
5 16 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.52%) Replication
6 14 (3.08%) Algorithms
6 14 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.86%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.54%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.54%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
10 6 (1.32%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 59 (13.00%) Linux
2 27 (5.95%) Windows
3 22 (4.85%) Unix
4 15 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.54%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.10%) Android
7 5 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.88%) Debian
9 3 (0.66%) CentOS
10 2 (0.44%) VMS
10 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (43.17%) CI/CD
2 173 (38.11%) Agile
3 153 (33.70%) Software Engineering
4 146 (32.16%) Microservices
5 128 (28.19%) DevOps
6 124 (27.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 104 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (20.48%) Containerisation
8 93 (20.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 90 (19.82%) Test Automation
10 82 (18.06%) AI
11 81 (17.84%) Mentoring
12 59 (13.00%) TDD
13 58 (12.78%) Fintech
14 56 (12.33%) Analytics
15 55 (12.11%) Scrum
16 51 (11.23%) Data Modelling
17 50 (11.01%) Clean Code
17 50 (11.01%) Technical Leadership
18 46 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 215 (47.36%) Python
2 156 (34.36%) Java
2 156 (34.36%) SQL
3 115 (25.33%) JavaScript
4 93 (20.48%) TypeScript
5 37 (8.15%) Go
6 36 (7.93%) C#
7 27 (5.95%) PowerShell
8 19 (4.19%) PHP
9 15 (3.30%) C
10 12 (2.64%) Delphi
11 11 (2.42%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.76%) Bash
12 8 (1.76%) C++
13 6 (1.32%) Rust
13 6 (1.32%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.88%) Pascal
14 4 (0.88%) Ruby
15 3 (0.66%) RPG
15 3 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (14.32%) Security Cleared
2 61 (13.44%) Degree
3 53 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.74%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.64%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.66%) RHCE
12 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.44%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.44%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.41%) QA
3 14 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.86%) GDPR
5 8 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.54%) SLA
7 3 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.44%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 162 (35.68%) Docker
2 23 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.44%) Samba
5 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 159 (35.02%) Kubernetes
2 105 (23.13%) Terraform
3 31 (6.83%) Grafana
4 26 (5.73%) Ansible
5 17 (3.74%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.98%) AWS Copilot
7 8 (1.76%) Argo
7 8 (1.76%) Kibana
8 5 (1.10%) Nagios
9 4 (0.88%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.66%) Puppet
10 3 (0.66%) Rancher
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.22%) Ambari
12 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.22%) Istio
12 1 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
12 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (10.57%) Oracle
2 37 (8.15%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.93%) Google
4 14 (3.08%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.42%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.98%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.76%) IBM
7 8 (1.76%) Informatica
7 8 (1.76%) Pega
8 7 (1.54%) Talend
9 6 (1.32%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.32%) WSO2
10 5 (1.10%) Confluent
10 5 (1.10%) Databricks
10 5 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.10%) Splunk
11 4 (0.88%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.88%) VMware
12 3 (0.66%) Dell
12 3 (0.66%) SAP