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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 136 184
Rank change year-on-year -141 +48 +7
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 459 897 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 2.32% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.32% 12.33% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 330 489 952
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £61,250 £51,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +14.57% -12.71%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,750 £120,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,775 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.63% +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 6,268 7,272 13,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.48% 18.85% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,936 4,707 11,082
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,588
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -88 227 £90,000 +2.86% 166
North of England -23 95 £65,000 -5.06% 60
South East -132 64 £57,500 -20.69% 50
Yorkshire -17 43 £52,130 -12.73% 24
North West -24 40 £77,500 +11.82% 28
South West -41 28 £61,250 -5.77% 21
Midlands -32 26 £55,200 -15.08% 21
East of England -67 18 £45,000 -21.74% 15
West Midlands -3 17 £50,100 -22.92% 11
North East -20 12 £53,565 -22.76% 9
East Midlands -34 9 £65,000 -7.14% 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 20 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.49%) Apache Spark
4 15 (3.27%) Confluence
5 14 (3.05%) OpenStack
6 12 (2.61%) Apache
7 8 (1.74%) Tomcat
7 8 (1.74%) WebSphere
8 7 (1.53%) SharePoint
8 7 (1.53%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.44%) Camunda
9 2 (0.44%) CMS
9 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.22%) IIS
10 1 (0.22%) JBoss
10 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.18%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 301 (65.58%) AWS
2 177 (38.56%) Azure
3 121 (26.36%) GCP
4 73 (15.90%) Serverless
5 49 (10.68%) GitHub
6 47 (10.24%) Amazon EKS
7 42 (9.15%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (8.93%) Amazon S3
9 36 (7.84%) SaaS
10 35 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (6.75%) Power Platform
13 29 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (5.88%) dbt
15 26 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
16 23 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
17 19 (4.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 19 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.79%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.61%) VPN
3 11 (2.40%) DHCP
3 11 (2.40%) DNS
4 10 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.74%) SSL
6 7 (1.53%) Firewall
6 7 (1.53%) Internet
6 7 (1.53%) Network Security
7 6 (1.31%) Broadband
8 3 (0.65%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.65%) SAN
8 3 (0.65%) VLAN
9 2 (0.44%) HTTP
9 2 (0.44%) PBX
10 1 (0.22%) AMQP
10 1 (0.22%) LAN
10 1 (0.22%) LTE
10 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 99 (21.57%) MySQL
3 98 (21.35%) Relational Database
4 90 (19.61%) MongoDB
5 84 (18.30%) NoSQL
6 41 (8.93%) Redis
7 31 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (6.75%) DynamoDB
8 29 (6.32%) Power BI
9 28 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (5.66%) DB2
11 21 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (3.92%) RDBMS
13 17 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (3.05%) BigQuery
15 11 (2.40%) Big Data
16 10 (2.18%) Oracle Database
17 9 (1.96%) Hadoop
17 9 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 8 (1.74%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 108 (23.53%) Git
2 68 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.32%) JIRA
4 28 (6.10%) GitLab
5 25 (5.45%) Cucumber
6 24 (5.23%) JUnit
7 21 (4.58%) Selenium
8 20 (4.36%) Bitbucket
8 20 (4.36%) TeamCity
9 13 (2.83%) Mockito
10 8 (1.74%) JMeter
11 7 (1.53%) Vite
12 5 (1.09%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.87%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.87%) Maven
14 3 (0.65%) Gradle
14 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.65%) Subversion
15 2 (0.44%) Appium
15 2 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 128 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 90 (19.61%) Finance
3 52 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 39 (8.50%) Banking
6 32 (6.97%) Law
7 30 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (5.23%) Retail
9 17 (3.70%) Front Office
10 10 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.96%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.96%) Games
12 8 (1.74%) Advertising
12 8 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.31%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.09%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.87%) Back Office
15 4 (0.87%) Electronics
15 4 (0.87%) Marketing
16 3 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 151 (32.90%) Developer
2 85 (18.52%) Software Engineer
3 84 (18.30%) Senior
4 64 (13.94%) Lead
5 52 (11.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (10.68%) Java Developer
7 31 (6.75%) Data Engineer
8 30 (6.54%) Java Engineer
9 27 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 27 (5.88%) Python Engineer
10 25 (5.45%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.23%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (4.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 20 (4.36%) Python Developer
12 20 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (4.14%) Analyst
13 19 (4.14%) Principal Engineer
14 18 (3.92%) Java Software Engineer
15 17 (3.70%) IT Support
16 16 (3.49%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (31.37%) React
2 89 (19.39%) Node.js
3 82 (17.86%) RESTful
4 77 (16.78%) Spring
5 71 (15.47%) Spring Boot
6 63 (13.73%) REST
7 54 (11.76%) Django
8 51 (11.11%) FastAPI
9 47 (10.24%) HTML
10 45 (9.80%) Kafka
11 44 (9.59%) CSS
12 42 (9.15%) .NET
13 34 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
14 32 (6.97%) AngularJS
15 27 (5.88%) Flask
16 26 (5.66%) Next.js
16 26 (5.66%) Vue
16 26 (5.66%) Web Services
17 24 (5.23%) .NET Core
18 22 (4.79%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 76 (16.56%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.14%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (4.14%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.70%) Derivative
6 16 (3.49%) Equities
6 16 (3.49%) Fixed Income
6 16 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.27%) Blog
8 14 (3.05%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.83%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.83%) Replication
10 12 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.53%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.31%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 62 (13.51%) Linux
2 27 (5.88%) Windows
3 25 (5.45%) Unix
4 14 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.83%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.53%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.09%) Android
7 5 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.65%) Debian
9 2 (0.44%) CentOS
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.22%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (42.70%) CI/CD
2 178 (38.78%) Agile
3 156 (33.99%) Software Engineering
4 147 (32.03%) Microservices
5 128 (27.89%) DevOps
6 121 (26.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 110 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (20.92%) Containerisation
9 88 (19.17%) Test Automation
10 87 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 83 (18.08%) Mentoring
12 79 (17.21%) AI
13 62 (13.51%) Fintech
14 59 (12.85%) TDD
15 57 (12.42%) Scrum
16 53 (11.55%) Data Modelling
17 52 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
18 50 (10.89%) Analytics
19 47 (10.24%) Business Intelligence
19 47 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 217 (47.28%) Python
2 164 (35.73%) Java
3 156 (33.99%) SQL
4 118 (25.71%) JavaScript
5 100 (21.79%) TypeScript
6 37 (8.06%) Go
7 36 (7.84%) C#
8 27 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 20 (4.36%) PHP
10 15 (3.27%) C
11 12 (2.61%) Delphi
12 11 (2.40%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.74%) Rust
13 8 (1.74%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.53%) Bash
14 7 (1.53%) C++
15 4 (0.87%) Pascal
15 4 (0.87%) Ruby
16 3 (0.65%) RPG
17 2 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.85%) Degree
3 54 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.36%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.44%) RHCE
11 2 (0.44%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.44%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.22%) HNC
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.58%) QA
3 14 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.83%) GDPR
5 9 (1.96%) SLA
6 8 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.65%) 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
System Software
1 166 (36.17%) Docker
2 21 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.44%) Samba
Systems Management
1 153 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 98 (21.35%) Terraform
3 29 (6.32%) Grafana
4 26 (5.66%) Ansible
5 17 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.61%) Kibana
7 9 (1.96%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (1.74%) Argo
9 5 (1.09%) Nagios
10 3 (0.65%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.65%) Puppet
10 3 (0.65%) Rancher
11 1 (0.22%) Ambari
11 1 (0.22%) Istio
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.22%) Podman
11 1 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
11 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (11.55%) Oracle
2 37 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.84%) Google
4 16 (3.49%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.83%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.61%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.40%) IBM
8 10 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.96%) Informatica
10 8 (1.74%) Talend
11 7 (1.53%) Splunk
12 6 (1.31%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.31%) Pega
13 5 (1.09%) Confluent
13 5 (1.09%) Databricks
13 5 (1.09%) Dell
13 5 (1.09%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.09%) WSO2
14 4 (0.87%) VMware
15 3 (0.65%) SAP