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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 221 161
Rank change year-on-year -52 -60 +52
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 629 650 1,393
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 1.50% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.01% 9.56% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 484 482 893
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,250 £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 7,848 6,801 12,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.85% 15.69% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,376 4,508 9,415
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,622 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.03% +1.04% -4.76%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -66 267 £85,000 -19.05% 180
North of England -6 120 £65,000 -3.70% 45
South East -21 120 £59,750 +3.91% 41
North West -16 50 £65,000 -3.70% 24
South West -41 48 £62,500 +4.17% 19
North East -21 37 £55,000 +4.76% 7
Yorkshire -32 33 £65,000 -3.70% 14
East of England -15 28 £52,500 +66.67% 8
Midlands -51 23 £75,000 +11.11% 17
West Midlands -32 19 £80,000 +18.41% 9
East Midlands -28 4 £65,000 +18.18% 8
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 28 (4.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.34%) Confluence
4 20 (3.18%) Apache
5 15 (2.38%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.75%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.95%) WordPress
8 5 (0.79%) Camunda
8 5 (0.79%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Documentum
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) Moodle
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (2.07%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 359 (57.07%) AWS
2 244 (38.79%) Azure
3 105 (16.69%) GCP
4 67 (10.65%) GitHub
5 61 (9.70%) Serverless
6 57 (9.06%) SaaS
7 46 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (6.36%) Amazon S3
9 38 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (5.88%) Power Platform
11 33 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
13 27 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (3.82%) Azure AKS
16 22 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
18 17 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
19 15 (2.38%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.93%) Broadband
2 15 (2.38%) Firewall
3 13 (2.07%) DNS
4 12 (1.91%) DHCP
5 10 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.27%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.27%) SAN
6 8 (1.27%) VPN
7 4 (0.64%) Network Security
7 4 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.32%) HTTP
8 2 (0.32%) PBX
8 2 (0.32%) VLAN
9 1 (0.16%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.16%) LAN
9 1 (0.16%) LTE
9 1 (0.16%) Multicast
9 1 (0.16%) SMS
9 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (26.87%) MongoDB
2 159 (25.28%) MySQL
3 104 (16.53%) SQL Server
4 102 (16.22%) Relational Database
5 98 (15.58%) NoSQL
6 63 (10.02%) Redis
7 32 (5.09%) Power BI
8 30 (4.77%) DynamoDB
9 26 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (3.34%) Metadata
13 20 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (2.86%) Big Data
15 15 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (2.07%) RDBMS
16 13 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 12 (1.91%) Data Lake
18 11 (1.75%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 118 (18.76%) Git
2 41 (6.52%) GitLab
3 33 (5.25%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.82%) JIRA
5 21 (3.34%) JUnit
6 17 (2.70%) Mockito
7 14 (2.23%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.91%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.59%) JMeter
9 10 (1.59%) Vite
10 8 (1.27%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.95%) Maven
11 6 (0.95%) Selenium
12 4 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.64%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.48%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.48%) Gatling
13 3 (0.48%) Storybook
14 2 (0.32%) ESLint
14 2 (0.32%) Jaeger
General
1 135 (21.46%) Social Skills
2 85 (13.51%) Finance
3 79 (12.56%) Public Sector
4 50 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.41%) Games
7 28 (4.45%) Law
8 26 (4.13%) Retail
9 22 (3.50%) Banking
10 19 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.70%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.54%) Front Office
12 16 (2.54%) Legal
13 15 (2.38%) Advertising
14 11 (1.75%) Legal Technology
15 7 (1.11%) Aviation
15 7 (1.11%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.95%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.95%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 193 (30.68%) Developer
2 139 (22.10%) Senior
3 135 (21.46%) Software Engineer
4 114 (18.12%) Lead
5 60 (9.54%) Python Engineer
6 56 (8.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 48 (7.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 48 (7.63%) Python Developer
8 46 (7.31%) Lead Developer
9 42 (6.68%) Data Engineer
9 42 (6.68%) Lead Software Engineer
10 36 (5.72%) Architect
11 35 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
12 31 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
13 30 (4.77%) Java Engineer
14 29 (4.61%) Java Developer
15 27 (4.29%) Senior Developer
16 25 (3.97%) Ruby Developer
17 21 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
18 20 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (22.89%) Node.js
1 144 (22.89%) React
2 120 (19.08%) RESTful
3 91 (14.47%) REST
4 74 (11.76%) Spring
5 71 (11.29%) Spring Boot
6 67 (10.65%) Kafka
7 56 (8.90%) FastAPI
8 53 (8.43%) CSS
9 49 (7.79%) Next.js
10 47 (7.47%) HTML
11 43 (6.84%) JSON
12 39 (6.20%) .NET
13 31 (4.93%) AngularJS
14 29 (4.61%) Ruby on Rails
15 28 (4.45%) Django
16 27 (4.29%) Flask
17 26 (4.13%) JWT
18 25 (3.97%) Vue
19 24 (3.82%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 138 (21.94%) Cloud Native
2 77 (12.24%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 33 (5.25%) Onboarding
5 32 (5.09%) Video\Live Streaming
6 26 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (3.97%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.34%) Algorithms
9 18 (2.86%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.86%) Data Structures
10 17 (2.70%) Blog
11 16 (2.54%) Derivative
11 16 (2.54%) Equities
11 16 (2.54%) Fixed Income
12 15 (2.38%) Replication
13 13 (2.07%) Management Information System
14 11 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (1.59%) EPoS
15 10 (1.59%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 88 (13.99%) Linux
2 39 (6.20%) Windows
3 19 (3.02%) Unix
4 15 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Debian
9 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (44.83%) CI/CD
2 232 (36.88%) Software Engineering
3 218 (34.66%) Agile
4 175 (27.82%) Full-Stack Development
5 173 (27.50%) Microservices
6 162 (25.76%) AI
7 147 (23.37%) DevOps
8 139 (22.10%) Infrastructure as Code
9 132 (20.99%) Mentoring
10 125 (19.87%) Test Automation
11 116 (18.44%) Containerisation
12 108 (17.17%) Observability
13 107 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 103 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
15 84 (13.35%) Analytics
16 80 (12.72%) API Design
17 75 (11.92%) Data Modelling
18 69 (10.97%) TDD
19 68 (10.81%) Clean Code
20 65 (10.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 275 (43.72%) Python
2 193 (30.68%) SQL
3 175 (27.82%) Java
4 124 (19.71%) TypeScript
5 123 (19.55%) JavaScript
6 50 (7.95%) Go
7 49 (7.79%) C#
8 38 (6.04%) PowerShell
9 33 (5.25%) Bash
10 29 (4.61%) Ruby
11 23 (3.66%) PHP
12 16 (2.54%) C++
13 15 (2.38%) Scala
14 12 (1.91%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.75%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.59%) RPG
17 6 (0.95%) Korn
18 5 (0.79%) C
18 5 (0.79%) Kotlin
19 4 (0.64%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 82 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 69 (10.97%) Degree
3 59 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.79%) PhD
11 4 (0.64%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.48%) RHCE
13 2 (0.32%) CISSP
13 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.32%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.32%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.97%) QA
3 23 (3.66%) GDPR
4 16 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.48%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 172 (27.34%) Docker
2 27 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 163 (25.91%) Kubernetes
2 122 (19.40%) Terraform
3 34 (5.41%) Grafana
4 29 (4.61%) Ansible
4 29 (4.61%) Argo
5 21 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.59%) Kibana
7 6 (0.95%) Istio
7 6 (0.95%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.95%) Puppet
8 3 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.48%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.48%) Plesk
8 3 (0.48%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.48%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.32%) Nagios
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 67 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.38%) Oracle
3 32 (5.09%) Google
4 21 (3.34%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.91%) Databricks
6 12 (1.91%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.59%) IBM
8 9 (1.43%) Splunk
9 8 (1.27%) Dell
10 7 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.79%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.64%) Confluent
12 4 (0.64%) Netezza
12 4 (0.64%) Pega
12 4 (0.64%) Remedy
13 3 (0.48%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.48%) VMware
14 2 (0.32%) UiPath
14 2 (0.32%) WSO2