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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 221 156
Rank change year-on-year -47 -65 +57
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 667 629 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 1.44% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.34% 9.42% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 486 453 765
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,250 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,001
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 7,999 6,677 11,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.30% 15.26% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,555 4,398 7,573
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £109,125 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 26 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 26 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 -78 289 £85,000 -19.05% 328
South East -15 126 £65,000 +18.18% 47
North of England -10 124 £65,000 -3.70% 55
North West 0 57 £65,000 -3.70% 34
South West -60 48 £63,750 +30.77% 49
North East -30 40 £65,000 +30.98% 9
Midlands -46 31 £72,155 +3.08% 29
East of England -25 30 £52,500 +69.35% 13
Yorkshire -35 27 £69,308 +2.68% 12
West Midlands -40 22 £83,774 +15.55% 15
East Midlands -20 9 £60,000 +9.09% 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 31 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.90%) Apache
3 21 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.15%) Confluence
4 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.05%) Camunda
7 6 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.90%) WordPress
8 3 (0.45%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Luigi
9 2 (0.30%) Tornado
10 1 (0.15%) Documentum
10 1 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Finacle
2 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 365 (54.72%) AWS
2 235 (35.23%) Azure
3 99 (14.84%) GitHub
4 85 (12.74%) GCP
5 62 (9.30%) Serverless
6 60 (9.00%) SaaS
7 51 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (6.90%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (4.95%) GitHub Copilot
13 31 (4.65%) Power Platform
14 28 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 26 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (3.90%) Azure AKS
16 25 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
18 17 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.65%) Broadband
2 13 (1.95%) Firewall
3 10 (1.50%) DNS
4 7 (1.05%) DHCP
5 6 (0.90%) iSCSI
5 6 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (0.90%) SAN
6 5 (0.75%) HTTP
7 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.45%) VPN
9 2 (0.30%) SMS
9 2 (0.30%) VLAN
10 1 (0.15%) 4G
10 1 (0.15%) AMQP
10 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.15%) Internet
10 1 (0.15%) LAN
10 1 (0.15%) Network Security
10 1 (0.15%) PBX
10 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (25.34%) MongoDB
2 160 (23.99%) MySQL
3 130 (19.49%) Relational Database
4 120 (17.99%) SQL Server
5 89 (13.34%) NoSQL
6 68 (10.19%) Redis
7 41 (6.15%) DynamoDB
8 31 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (3.75%) Power BI
12 20 (3.00%) Metadata
13 19 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (2.85%) Big Data
14 16 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (1.95%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
17 12 (1.80%) Db2
17 12 (1.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 147 (22.04%) Git
2 49 (7.35%) GitLab
3 41 (6.15%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.75%) JUnit
5 23 (3.45%) JIRA
6 19 (2.85%) Mockito
7 12 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.65%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.50%) JMeter
9 10 (1.50%) Vite
10 9 (1.35%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.05%) Selenium
11 7 (1.05%) Storybook
12 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.90%) Maven
13 5 (0.75%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.75%) Mocha
14 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
15 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
General
1 162 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 85 (12.74%) Finance
3 83 (12.44%) Public Sector
4 54 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (5.85%) Law
7 36 (5.40%) Games
8 21 (3.15%) Banking
8 21 (3.15%) Legal
9 19 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.70%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.70%) Retail
11 13 (1.95%) Advertising
11 13 (1.95%) Legal Technology
12 9 (1.35%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.20%) Aviation
13 8 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.05%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 213 (31.93%) Developer
2 180 (26.99%) Senior
3 142 (21.29%) Software Engineer
4 107 (16.04%) Lead
5 63 (9.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 63 (9.45%) Python Engineer
6 54 (8.10%) Senior Software Engineer
7 52 (7.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 49 (7.35%) Data Engineer
9 47 (7.05%) Python Developer
10 44 (6.60%) Senior Developer
11 36 (5.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (5.40%) Lead Developer
12 35 (5.25%) Architect
13 31 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.50%) Ruby Developer
15 27 (4.05%) Database Engineer
16 26 (3.90%) Java Developer
17 25 (3.75%) Software Developer
18 24 (3.60%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (23.24%) React
2 142 (21.29%) Node.js
3 129 (19.34%) Terraform
4 117 (17.54%) RESTful
5 111 (16.64%) REST
6 80 (11.99%) Kafka
7 79 (11.84%) Spring
8 75 (11.24%) Spring Boot
9 71 (10.64%) CSS
10 62 (9.30%) Next.js
11 61 (9.15%) .NET
12 58 (8.70%) HTML
13 51 (7.65%) FastAPI
14 43 (6.45%) AngularJS
15 42 (6.30%) JSON
16 35 (5.25%) JWT
16 35 (5.25%) Ruby on Rails
17 28 (4.20%) Django
18 27 (4.05%) Flask
19 26 (3.90%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 135 (20.24%) Cloud Native
2 89 (13.34%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.25%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.80%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (4.20%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.60%) AI Agents
8 23 (3.45%) Onboarding
9 20 (3.00%) Algorithms
10 19 (2.85%) Replication
11 13 (1.95%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.65%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.50%) Blog
14 10 (1.50%) EPoS
14 10 (1.50%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 91 (13.64%) Linux
2 37 (5.55%) Windows
3 16 (2.40%) Unix
3 16 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.30%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (46.48%) CI/CD
2 245 (36.73%) Software Engineering
3 232 (34.78%) Agile
4 197 (29.54%) AI
4 197 (29.54%) Full-Stack Development
5 176 (26.39%) Microservices
6 161 (24.14%) DevOps
7 151 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 128 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 124 (18.59%) Mentoring
9 124 (18.59%) Observability
10 122 (18.29%) Test Automation
11 120 (17.99%) Containerisation
12 116 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
13 88 (13.19%) API Design
14 83 (12.44%) Analytics
15 81 (12.14%) Data Modelling
16 80 (11.99%) Clean Code
17 78 (11.69%) Scrum
18 77 (11.54%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 281 (42.13%) Python
2 185 (27.74%) SQL
3 162 (24.29%) Java
4 134 (20.09%) TypeScript
5 129 (19.34%) JavaScript
6 68 (10.19%) C#
7 59 (8.85%) Go
8 35 (5.25%) Ruby
9 31 (4.65%) Bash
10 24 (3.60%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.55%) PHP
11 17 (2.55%) Scala
12 13 (1.95%) C++
13 12 (1.80%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.50%) RPG
15 6 (0.90%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.75%) Korn
17 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
18 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 93 (13.94%) Degree
3 72 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.60%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.85%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.05%) PhD
11 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.30%) CISSP
13 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.30%) RHCE
13 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.25%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.10%) QA
3 26 (3.90%) GDPR
4 17 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.75%) SLA
7 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.45%) WCAG
9 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 187 (28.04%) Docker
2 17 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.05%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Samba
5 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 166 (24.89%) Kubernetes
2 40 (6.00%) Ansible
3 37 (5.55%) Grafana
4 31 (4.65%) Argo
5 22 (3.30%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.50%) Kibana
7 6 (0.90%) Istio
7 6 (0.90%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.90%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.90%) Puppet
8 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.45%) Plesk
8 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.30%) Rancher
10 1 (0.15%) Consul
10 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 71 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.30%) Oracle
3 26 (3.90%) Google
4 22 (3.30%) OpenAI
5 21 (3.15%) Databricks
6 13 (1.95%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.50%) IBM
8 9 (1.35%) Splunk
9 6 (0.90%) Dell
9 6 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.60%) Netezza
10 4 (0.60%) Pega
10 4 (0.60%) Remedy
11 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.45%) VMware
12 2 (0.30%) TikTok
12 2 (0.30%) UiPath
12 2 (0.30%) WSO2