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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 238 131
Rank change year-on-year -24 -107 +75
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 722 572 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.32% 1.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.37% 9.17% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 509 403 613
10th Percentile £43,894 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £116,250 £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 7,708 6,240 10,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.43% 14.38% 15.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,395 4,004 5,954
10th Percentile £37,250 £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £44,196 £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 £117,500
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 9 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 9 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 -47 340 £82,500 -21.43% 852
South East -6 128 £70,000 +5.66% 88
North of England -25 120 £65,000 -3.70% 110
North West -8 55 £62,500 -10.71% 65
South West -60 51 £82,500 +52.78% 35
Midlands -41 41 £75,000 +5.26% 38
North East -37 39 £65,000 +25.30% 17
West Midlands -40 31 £85,000 +17.24% 28
East of England -35 28 £52,500 +72.13% 45
Yorkshire -30 26 £67,155 -4.06% 32
East Midlands -31 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 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.19%) Apache
3 21 (2.91%) Confluence
4 20 (2.77%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.97%) Camunda
5 7 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.83%) WordPress
7 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.55%) nginx
9 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.42%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Luigi
10 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.28%) Tornado
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Documentum
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) Moodle
11 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (1.52%) 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
1 400 (55.40%) AWS
2 234 (32.41%) Azure
3 126 (17.45%) GitHub
4 94 (13.02%) GCP
5 66 (9.14%) SaaS
5 66 (9.14%) Serverless
6 60 (8.31%) Amazon EKS
7 54 (7.48%) GitHub Actions
8 50 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (6.65%) Amazon S3
10 42 (5.82%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
12 30 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (3.74%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
15 25 (3.46%) Power Platform
16 21 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.32%) Broadband
2 15 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.94%) Firewall
4 13 (1.80%) VPN
5 9 (1.25%) BGP
5 9 (1.25%) DNS
6 6 (0.83%) HTTP
6 6 (0.83%) Network Security
6 6 (0.83%) VLAN
7 4 (0.55%) DHCP
7 4 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.42%) 4G
8 3 (0.42%) 5G
8 3 (0.42%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.42%) SAN
8 3 (0.42%) SSH
9 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.28%) SMS
10 1 (0.14%) AMQP
10 1 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (23.27%) MongoDB
2 151 (20.91%) MySQL
3 127 (17.59%) Relational Database
4 121 (16.76%) SQL Server
5 91 (12.60%) Redis
6 82 (11.36%) NoSQL
7 52 (7.20%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (5.26%) DynamoDB
9 37 (5.12%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (4.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 23 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.91%) Metadata
13 20 (2.77%) Power BI
14 19 (2.63%) Big Data
15 18 (2.49%) Pinecone
16 16 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (2.22%) Data Lake
17 14 (1.94%) Oracle Database
18 13 (1.80%) Chroma
19 12 (1.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 163 (22.58%) Git
2 64 (8.86%) Jenkins
3 62 (8.59%) GitLab
4 28 (3.88%) TeamCity
5 22 (3.05%) JUnit
6 18 (2.49%) JIRA
7 15 (2.08%) Mockito
8 12 (1.66%) JMeter
8 12 (1.66%) Vite
9 11 (1.52%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.39%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.11%) Selenium
12 7 (0.97%) 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
1 169 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 92 (12.74%) Finance
3 85 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 72 (9.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (7.20%) Law
7 38 (5.26%) Banking
8 33 (4.57%) Retail
9 27 (3.74%) Games
10 22 (3.05%) Legal
11 16 (2.22%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.08%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.80%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.52%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.25%) Back Office
16 8 (1.11%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.97%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.83%) Automotive
18 6 (0.83%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 216 (29.92%) Developer
2 208 (28.81%) Senior
3 161 (22.30%) Software Engineer
4 100 (13.85%) Lead
5 63 (8.73%) Senior Software Engineer
6 60 (8.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 58 (8.03%) Python Engineer
8 55 (7.62%) Senior Developer
9 50 (6.93%) Data Engineer
9 50 (6.93%) Python Developer
10 46 (6.37%) DevOps Engineer
11 45 (6.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 39 (5.40%) DBA
13 36 (4.99%) Architect
14 35 (4.85%) Software Developer
15 31 (4.29%) Database Engineer
15 31 (4.29%) Lead Developer
16 29 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
16 29 (4.02%) Lead Software Engineer
17 28 (3.88%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (23.27%) React
2 161 (22.30%) Terraform
3 140 (19.39%) Node.js
4 119 (16.48%) REST
5 114 (15.79%) RESTful
6 95 (13.16%) Kafka
7 80 (11.08%) Spring
8 75 (10.39%) Spring Boot
9 71 (9.83%) .NET
10 67 (9.28%) CSS
11 65 (9.00%) Next.js
12 57 (7.89%) FastAPI
13 54 (7.48%) HTML
14 39 (5.40%) AngularJS
15 37 (5.12%) JSON
16 33 (4.57%) Ruby on Rails
17 29 (4.02%) JWT
18 26 (3.60%) Vue
19 25 (3.46%) Django
19 25 (3.46%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 153 (21.19%) Cloud Native
2 108 (14.96%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.57%) Blog
4 28 (3.88%) Low-Code
5 27 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (3.60%) AI Agents
7 25 (3.46%) Replication
7 25 (3.46%) Video\Live Streaming
8 23 (3.19%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.77%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (2.22%) Data Structures
12 15 (2.08%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (1.66%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.66%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.39%) EPoS
16 10 (1.39%) iSeries
16 10 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 98 (13.57%) Linux
2 37 (5.12%) Windows
3 17 (2.35%) Unix
4 14 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.55%) 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
1 355 (49.17%) CI/CD
2 271 (37.53%) Software Engineering
3 241 (33.38%) Agile
4 219 (30.33%) AI
5 189 (26.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 188 (26.04%) Microservices
7 176 (24.38%) DevOps
8 171 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 160 (22.16%) Observability
10 145 (20.08%) Test Automation
11 131 (18.14%) Mentoring
12 129 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
13 128 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 117 (16.20%) Containerisation
15 89 (12.33%) Clean Code
16 87 (12.05%) Event-Driven
17 83 (11.50%) Analytics
18 81 (11.22%) Machine Learning
19 77 (10.66%) Data Modelling
20 73 (10.11%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 304 (42.11%) Python
2 209 (28.95%) SQL
3 180 (24.93%) Java
4 143 (19.81%) TypeScript
5 130 (18.01%) JavaScript
6 77 (10.66%) C#
7 68 (9.42%) Go
8 44 (6.09%) Bash
9 33 (4.57%) Ruby
10 23 (3.19%) PHP
11 19 (2.63%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.35%) Scala
13 15 (2.08%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.80%) C++
15 11 (1.52%) Groovy
16 10 (1.39%) RPG
17 9 (1.25%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.69%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.55%) Apex Code
20 3 (0.42%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 121 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.22%) Degree
4 28 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 24 (3.32%) Master's Degree
7 23 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.25%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.25%) PhD
10 8 (1.11%) CISSP
11 7 (0.97%) 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 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.02%) QA
3 24 (3.32%) GDPR
4 18 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.80%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.83%) NIST
8 5 (0.69%) SLA
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 209 (28.95%) Docker
2 9 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) NFS
6 1 (0.14%) Samba
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 199 (27.56%) Kubernetes
2 78 (10.80%) Grafana
3 45 (6.23%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.68%) Ansible
5 36 (4.99%) Argo
6 12 (1.66%) Kibana
6 12 (1.66%) Rancher
7 8 (1.11%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.97%) Istio
9 6 (0.83%) Cilium
9 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.83%) Puppet
10 3 (0.42%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.28%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.28%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.28%) Plesk
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 69 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 63 (8.73%) Oracle
3 31 (4.29%) Google
4 30 (4.16%) OpenAI
5 25 (3.46%) Databricks
6 24 (3.32%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.80%) Mistral
9 12 (1.66%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.39%) IBM
11 9 (1.25%) 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 (0.42%) Adobe
14 3 (0.42%) Dell
14 3 (0.42%) SAP
15 2 (0.28%) Informatica