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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 220 170
Rank change year-on-year -60 -50 +46
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 603 657 1,488
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.53% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.71% 9.64% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 460 480 972
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,875 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 7,824 6,813 14,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.02% 15.82% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,317 4,537 10,837
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £35,442
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 9 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 9 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 -78 254 £85,000 -15.00% 193
North of England -17 118 £65,000 -3.70% 54
South East -33 118 £59,500 +8.18% 49
North West -18 53 £67,500 - 31
South West -44 45 £62,500 +4.17% 49
Yorkshire -26 33 £65,000 -3.70% 11
North East -23 32 £65,000 +23.81% 12
East of England -26 24 £52,500 +61.54% 14
Midlands -50 22 £75,000 +11.11% 19
West Midlands -37 18 £77,500 +14.81% 10
East Midlands -35 4 £65,000 +18.18% 9
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 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.32%) Apache
4 19 (3.15%) Confluence
5 14 (2.32%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.82%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.00%) WordPress
8 5 (0.83%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.66%) Camunda
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Documentum
11 1 (0.17%) IIS
11 1 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) Moodle
11 1 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (2.16%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 352 (58.37%) AWS
2 233 (38.64%) Azure
3 107 (17.74%) GCP
4 63 (10.45%) Serverless
5 62 (10.28%) GitHub
6 56 (9.29%) SaaS
7 43 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
8 38 (6.30%) Amazon S3
9 37 (6.14%) Power Platform
10 34 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
12 27 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
13 25 (4.15%) Azure AKS
14 24 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (2.49%) Azure Functions
17 15 (2.49%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.14%) Broadband
2 16 (2.65%) Firewall
3 14 (2.32%) DNS
4 13 (2.16%) DHCP
5 11 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.49%) VPN
7 8 (1.33%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (1.33%) SAN
8 5 (0.83%) Network Security
8 5 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.50%) VLAN
10 2 (0.33%) HTTP
10 2 (0.33%) PBX
11 1 (0.17%) Internet
11 1 (0.17%) LAN
11 1 (0.17%) LTE
11 1 (0.17%) SMS
11 1 (0.17%) SSL
11 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (27.53%) MongoDB
2 149 (24.71%) MySQL
3 99 (16.42%) SQL Server
4 97 (16.09%) Relational Database
5 95 (15.75%) NoSQL
6 56 (9.29%) Redis
7 32 (5.31%) Power BI
8 28 (4.64%) DynamoDB
9 27 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (3.15%) Metadata
13 16 (2.65%) Big Data
14 15 (2.49%) Apache Cassandra
15 14 (2.32%) Amazon Aurora
16 13 (2.16%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.99%) Pinecone
17 12 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 11 (1.82%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 112 (18.57%) Git
2 41 (6.80%) GitLab
3 33 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.65%) JIRA
5 20 (3.32%) JUnit
6 16 (2.65%) Mockito
7 15 (2.49%) TeamCity
8 13 (2.16%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.66%) JMeter
10 9 (1.49%) Vite
11 8 (1.33%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.00%) Maven
12 6 (1.00%) Selenium
13 4 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.50%) DBeaver
14 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.50%) Gatling
14 3 (0.50%) Storybook
15 2 (0.33%) Jaeger
General
1 135 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 83 (13.76%) Finance
3 75 (12.44%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.64%) Games
7 29 (4.81%) Retail
8 27 (4.48%) Law
9 24 (3.98%) Banking
10 19 (3.15%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.65%) Front Office
11 16 (2.65%) Legal
12 15 (2.49%) Advertising
13 11 (1.82%) Legal Technology
14 7 (1.16%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.16%) Aviation
15 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.83%) Automotive
16 5 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 182 (30.18%) Developer
2 133 (22.06%) Senior
3 127 (21.06%) Software Engineer
4 111 (18.41%) Lead
5 57 (9.45%) Python Engineer
6 53 (8.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 46 (7.63%) Lead Developer
8 44 (7.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 43 (7.13%) Python Developer
10 42 (6.97%) Data Engineer
11 41 (6.80%) Lead Software Engineer
12 36 (5.97%) Architect
13 35 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (5.31%) Java Engineer
15 31 (5.14%) Java Developer
16 27 (4.48%) Senior Developer
16 27 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
17 24 (3.98%) Ruby Developer
18 21 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
18 21 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (23.38%) React
2 139 (23.05%) Node.js
3 115 (19.07%) RESTful
4 85 (14.10%) REST
5 72 (11.94%) Spring
6 69 (11.44%) Spring Boot
7 64 (10.61%) Kafka
8 55 (9.12%) FastAPI
9 48 (7.96%) CSS
10 42 (6.97%) HTML
10 42 (6.97%) Next.js
11 41 (6.80%) JSON
12 39 (6.47%) .NET
13 31 (5.14%) AngularJS
14 28 (4.64%) Django
14 28 (4.64%) Ruby on Rails
15 26 (4.31%) Flask
15 26 (4.31%) Vue
16 24 (3.98%) JWT
16 24 (3.98%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 136 (22.55%) Cloud Native
2 68 (11.28%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.47%) Low-Code
4 32 (5.31%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (4.98%) Onboarding
6 24 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (3.81%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.48%) Algorithms
9 19 (3.15%) Blog
10 18 (2.99%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.65%) Derivative
11 16 (2.65%) Equities
11 16 (2.65%) Fixed Income
12 15 (2.49%) AI Agents
13 14 (2.32%) Replication
14 13 (2.16%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.66%) EPoS
15 10 (1.66%) iSeries
15 10 (1.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (14.26%) Linux
2 41 (6.80%) Windows
3 19 (3.15%) Unix
4 17 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.50%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Debian
9 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 221 (36.65%) Software Engineering
3 211 (34.99%) Agile
4 169 (28.03%) Microservices
5 165 (27.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 146 (24.21%) AI
7 141 (23.38%) DevOps
8 137 (22.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 125 (20.73%) Mentoring
10 124 (20.56%) Test Automation
11 114 (18.91%) Containerisation
12 104 (17.25%) Observability
13 102 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 98 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
15 82 (13.60%) Analytics
16 76 (12.60%) API Design
17 71 (11.77%) Data Modelling
18 70 (11.61%) TDD
19 65 (10.78%) Clean Code
19 65 (10.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 260 (43.12%) Python
2 186 (30.85%) SQL
3 178 (29.52%) Java
4 121 (20.07%) TypeScript
5 119 (19.73%) JavaScript
6 51 (8.46%) Go
7 46 (7.63%) C#
8 39 (6.47%) PowerShell
9 32 (5.31%) Bash
10 28 (4.64%) Ruby
11 24 (3.98%) PHP
12 14 (2.32%) C++
12 14 (2.32%) Scala
13 12 (1.99%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.66%) RPG
14 10 (1.66%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.00%) C
15 6 (1.00%) Korn
16 4 (0.66%) Delphi
16 4 (0.66%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 81 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 70 (11.61%) Degree
3 59 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.83%) PhD
11 4 (0.66%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.50%) RHCE
13 2 (0.33%) CISSP
13 2 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.33%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.33%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.12%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.15%) QA
3 22 (3.65%) GDPR
4 16 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.50%) SLA
7 2 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.33%) WCAG
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.17%) MiFID
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 164 (27.20%) Docker
2 28 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) Firmware
5 2 (0.33%) Samba
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 163 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 119 (19.73%) Terraform
3 35 (5.80%) Grafana
4 29 (4.81%) Ansible
4 29 (4.81%) Argo
5 21 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.66%) Kibana
7 7 (1.16%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.16%) Puppet
8 6 (1.00%) Istio
8 6 (1.00%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.50%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.50%) Plesk
9 3 (0.50%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.50%) Rancher
9 3 (0.50%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.33%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.33%) Nagios
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 66 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.95%) Oracle
3 30 (4.98%) Google
4 21 (3.48%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.49%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.66%) Databricks
7 10 (1.66%) IBM
8 9 (1.49%) Splunk
9 8 (1.33%) Dell
10 7 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.83%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.66%) Confluent
12 4 (0.66%) Netezza
12 4 (0.66%) Pega
12 4 (0.66%) Remedy
12 4 (0.66%) VMware
13 3 (0.50%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.50%) Revolut
14 2 (0.33%) TikTok