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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 236 131
Rank change year-on-year -27 -105 +75
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 727 566 1,258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.31% 1.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.39% 9.13% 12.11%
Number of salaries quoted 508 399 602
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,371 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.59% +11.11% -3.57%

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 7,743 6,197 10,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.46% 14.38% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,407 3,978 5,919
10th Percentile £37,000 £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £43,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -47 346 £82,500 -21.43% 800
South East -5 131 £70,000 +5.66% 94
North of England -10 118 £65,000 -3.70% 105
North West -7 54 £61,250 -12.50% 62
South West -59 50 £82,500 +52.78% 37
Midlands -36 41 £75,000 +3.45% 36
North East -43 39 £65,000 +25.30% 15
West Midlands -44 31 £85,000 +17.24% 26
East of England -32 27 £52,500 +72.13% 46
Yorkshire -26 25 £65,000 -7.14% 32
East Midlands -32 10 £60,000 +20.00% 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 24 (3.30%) Apache
1 24 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.03%) Confluence
3 20 (2.75%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.96%) Camunda
4 7 (0.96%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.83%) WordPress
6 5 (0.69%) nginx
7 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.41%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Luigi
9 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.28%) Tornado
10 1 (0.14%) Documentum
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.28%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Finacle
2 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 399 (54.88%) AWS
2 233 (32.05%) Azure
3 128 (17.61%) GitHub
4 95 (13.07%) GCP
5 70 (9.63%) SaaS
6 65 (8.94%) Serverless
7 61 (8.39%) Amazon EKS
8 55 (7.57%) GitHub Actions
9 48 (6.60%) Amazon S3
9 48 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (5.23%) GitHub Copilot
12 30 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (3.58%) Power Platform
15 24 (3.30%) Azure AKS
16 23 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
17 22 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (2.61%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.30%) Broadband
2 16 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.93%) VPN
4 13 (1.79%) Firewall
5 10 (1.38%) BGP
6 9 (1.24%) DNS
7 7 (0.96%) VLAN
8 6 (0.83%) HTTP
8 6 (0.83%) Network Security
9 4 (0.55%) DHCP
10 3 (0.41%) 4G
10 3 (0.41%) 5G
10 3 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.41%) SSH
11 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
11 2 (0.28%) SAN
11 2 (0.28%) SMS
11 2 (0.28%) SSL
12 1 (0.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (22.70%) MongoDB
2 151 (20.77%) MySQL
3 128 (17.61%) Relational Database
4 122 (16.78%) SQL Server
5 92 (12.65%) Redis
6 82 (11.28%) NoSQL
7 53 (7.29%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (5.23%) DynamoDB
9 36 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (4.13%) Amazon Aurora
11 23 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.89%) Metadata
12 21 (2.89%) Power BI
13 19 (2.61%) Big Data
14 18 (2.48%) Pinecone
15 16 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (2.20%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.93%) Oracle Database
17 13 (1.79%) Chroma
18 12 (1.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 164 (22.56%) Git
2 64 (8.80%) Jenkins
3 59 (8.12%) GitLab
4 30 (4.13%) TeamCity
5 22 (3.03%) JUnit
6 19 (2.61%) JIRA
7 15 (2.06%) Mockito
8 12 (1.65%) JMeter
8 12 (1.65%) Vite
9 11 (1.51%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.24%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.10%) Selenium
12 7 (0.96%) Storybook
13 6 (0.83%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.69%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.69%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.69%) Maven
14 5 (0.69%) Mocha
15 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 171 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 94 (12.93%) Finance
3 83 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 76 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (7.43%) Law
7 40 (5.50%) Banking
8 35 (4.81%) Retail
9 28 (3.85%) Games
10 22 (3.03%) Legal
11 16 (2.20%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.20%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.79%) Legal Technology
13 11 (1.51%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.38%) Back Office
15 8 (1.10%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.96%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.83%) Automotive
17 6 (0.83%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 222 (30.54%) Developer
2 208 (28.61%) Senior
3 163 (22.42%) Software Engineer
4 102 (14.03%) Lead
5 65 (8.94%) Senior Software Engineer
6 61 (8.39%) Full-Stack Developer
7 58 (7.98%) Python Engineer
8 57 (7.84%) Senior Developer
9 51 (7.02%) Python Developer
10 50 (6.88%) Data Engineer
11 44 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 44 (6.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 39 (5.36%) DBA
13 36 (4.95%) Architect
13 36 (4.95%) Software Developer
14 32 (4.40%) Lead Developer
15 31 (4.26%) Database Engineer
16 29 (3.99%) Lead Software Engineer
17 28 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
17 28 (3.85%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (23.25%) React
2 162 (22.28%) Terraform
3 138 (18.98%) Node.js
4 121 (16.64%) REST
5 116 (15.96%) RESTful
6 95 (13.07%) Kafka
7 80 (11.00%) Spring
8 75 (10.32%) Spring Boot
9 74 (10.18%) .NET
10 68 (9.35%) CSS
11 66 (9.08%) Next.js
12 56 (7.70%) FastAPI
13 55 (7.57%) HTML
14 39 (5.36%) AngularJS
15 38 (5.23%) JSON
16 33 (4.54%) Ruby on Rails
17 29 (3.99%) JWT
18 26 (3.58%) Jest
18 26 (3.58%) Vue
19 25 (3.44%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 155 (21.32%) Cloud Native
2 110 (15.13%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.81%) Blog
4 28 (3.85%) Low-Code
5 27 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (3.58%) AI Agents
7 25 (3.44%) Replication
7 25 (3.44%) Video\Live Streaming
8 23 (3.16%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.75%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (2.20%) Data Structures
12 15 (2.06%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (1.51%) Management Information System
16 10 (1.38%) EPoS
16 10 (1.38%) iSeries
17 9 (1.24%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 96 (13.20%) Linux
2 35 (4.81%) Windows
3 15 (2.06%) Unix
4 14 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Debian
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (49.11%) CI/CD
2 271 (37.28%) Software Engineering
3 240 (33.01%) Agile
4 221 (30.40%) AI
5 189 (26.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 186 (25.58%) Microservices
7 176 (24.21%) DevOps
8 173 (23.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 163 (22.42%) Observability
10 144 (19.81%) Test Automation
11 131 (18.02%) Mentoring
12 129 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
13 128 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (15.96%) Containerisation
15 91 (12.52%) Clean Code
16 88 (12.10%) Event-Driven
17 83 (11.42%) Analytics
18 82 (11.28%) Machine Learning
19 78 (10.73%) Data Modelling
20 73 (10.04%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 306 (42.09%) Python
2 211 (29.02%) SQL
3 179 (24.62%) Java
4 144 (19.81%) TypeScript
5 132 (18.16%) JavaScript
6 80 (11.00%) C#
7 68 (9.35%) Go
8 44 (6.05%) Bash
9 33 (4.54%) Ruby
10 24 (3.30%) PHP
11 18 (2.48%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.34%) Scala
13 15 (2.06%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.79%) C++
15 11 (1.51%) Groovy
16 10 (1.38%) RPG
17 9 (1.24%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.69%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.55%) Apex Code
20 3 (0.41%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 121 (16.64%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.03%) SC Cleared
3 80 (11.00%) Degree
4 28 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 24 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 23 (3.16%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.24%) PhD
10 8 (1.10%) CISSP
11 7 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.83%) CCSP
12 6 (0.83%) CISM
13 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.26%) QA
3 24 (3.30%) GDPR
4 20 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.61%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.93%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.38%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.83%) NIST
9 5 (0.69%) SLA
10 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.28%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 208 (28.61%) Docker
2 9 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) Ceph
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) Lustre
5 1 (0.14%) NFS
5 1 (0.14%) Samba
5 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 200 (27.51%) Kubernetes
2 82 (11.28%) Grafana
3 47 (6.46%) Prometheus
4 40 (5.50%) Ansible
5 35 (4.81%) Argo
6 12 (1.65%) Kibana
7 11 (1.51%) Rancher
8 9 (1.24%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.10%) Istio
10 6 (0.83%) Cilium
10 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.83%) Puppet
11 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.28%) Data Guard
13 2 (0.28%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.28%) Plesk
14 1 (0.14%) logstash
14 1 (0.14%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 69 (9.49%) Microsoft
2 63 (8.67%) Oracle
3 33 (4.54%) Google
4 30 (4.13%) OpenAI
5 25 (3.44%) Databricks
6 24 (3.30%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.93%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.79%) Mistral
9 12 (1.65%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.38%) IBM
11 9 (1.24%) Splunk
12 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.55%) Netezza
13 4 (0.55%) Remedy
13 4 (0.55%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.55%) VMware
14 3 (0.41%) Adobe
14 3 (0.41%) SAP
15 2 (0.28%) Dell
15 2 (0.28%) Informatica