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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 133 189
Rank change year-on-year -145 +56 +6
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 440 937 1,140
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 2.37% 1.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.26% 12.49% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 317 498 944
10th Percentile £38,250 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £77,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% +18.38% -11.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £119,125 £105,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 6,060 7,503 13,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.50% 18.95% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,845 4,739 11,090
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,000 £87,500 £75,781
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 9 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 9 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 -94 224 £90,000 +2.86% 124
North of England -22 92 £66,250 -2.03% 79
South East -137 60 £60,000 -20.00% 102
Yorkshire -17 43 £52,130 -9.13% 29
North West -28 38 £77,500 +11.82% 41
Midlands -30 26 £55,200 -15.08% 43
South West -49 23 £65,000 - 52
West Midlands -8 17 £50,100 -22.92% 27
East of England -56 16 £42,500 -26.09% 54
North East -16 11 £55,000 -20.69% 10
East Midlands -28 9 £65,000 +8.33% 14
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 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 14 (3.18%) Confluence
5 13 (2.95%) OpenStack
6 11 (2.50%) Apache
7 10 (2.27%) Tomcat
7 10 (2.27%) WebSphere
8 9 (2.05%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (1.14%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.45%) Camunda
10 2 (0.45%) CMS
10 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.23%) IIS
11 1 (0.23%) JBoss
11 1 (0.23%) nginx
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Endur
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 295 (67.05%) AWS
2 170 (38.64%) Azure
3 121 (27.50%) GCP
4 71 (16.14%) Serverless
5 49 (11.14%) GitHub
6 48 (10.91%) Amazon EKS
7 41 (9.32%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (9.09%) Amazon S3
9 35 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (7.27%) dbt
11 30 (6.82%) SaaS
12 29 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (6.36%) Power Platform
14 24 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (4.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (4.09%) Amazon ECR
19 17 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.23%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.95%) VPN
3 11 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (2.27%) DHCP
4 10 (2.27%) DNS
4 10 (2.27%) SSL
5 8 (1.82%) Firewall
6 7 (1.59%) Internet
6 7 (1.59%) Network Security
7 4 (0.91%) VLAN
8 3 (0.68%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.68%) SAN
9 2 (0.45%) HTTP
9 2 (0.45%) PBX
9 2 (0.45%) WAN
10 1 (0.23%) Broadband
10 1 (0.23%) LAN
10 1 (0.23%) OSPF
10 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (23.18%) SQL Server
2 91 (20.68%) Relational Database
3 88 (20.00%) MySQL
4 84 (19.09%) MongoDB
5 80 (18.18%) NoSQL
6 40 (9.09%) Redis
7 30 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (6.82%) DynamoDB
8 28 (6.36%) DB2
8 28 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (6.14%) Power BI
10 20 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (4.09%) RDBMS
12 17 (3.86%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (3.18%) BigQuery
14 11 (2.50%) Big Data
15 10 (2.27%) Oracle Database
15 10 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 9 (2.05%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (2.05%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 99 (22.50%) Git
2 70 (15.91%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.59%) GitLab
4 27 (6.14%) JIRA
5 26 (5.91%) Cucumber
6 22 (5.00%) JUnit
7 21 (4.77%) Selenium
8 20 (4.55%) TeamCity
9 18 (4.09%) Bitbucket
10 10 (2.27%) Mockito
11 9 (2.05%) JMeter
12 7 (1.59%) Vite
13 6 (1.36%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.91%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.91%) Maven
15 3 (0.68%) Gradle
15 3 (0.68%) Jaeger
15 3 (0.68%) REST Assured
15 3 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 121 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 94 (21.36%) Finance
3 48 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.32%) Banking
5 38 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 32 (7.27%) Law
7 27 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (5.23%) Retail
9 22 (5.00%) Front Office
10 10 (2.27%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.59%) Advertising
11 7 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.91%) Back Office
14 4 (0.91%) Marketing
15 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.68%) Games
15 3 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 146 (33.18%) Developer
2 86 (19.55%) Software Engineer
3 81 (18.41%) Senior
4 58 (13.18%) Lead
5 50 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (10.45%) Java Developer
7 33 (7.50%) Java Engineer
8 29 (6.59%) Data Engineer
9 27 (6.14%) Python Engineer
10 26 (5.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 24 (5.45%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.45%) Python Developer
12 23 (5.23%) Lead Software Engineer
13 21 (4.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 20 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (4.32%) Java Software Engineer
15 19 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (4.09%) Analyst
17 17 (3.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 16 (3.64%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (32.95%) React
2 90 (20.45%) Node.js
3 77 (17.50%) Spring
4 76 (17.27%) RESTful
5 70 (15.91%) Spring Boot
6 53 (12.05%) Django
6 53 (12.05%) REST
7 50 (11.36%) FastAPI
8 45 (10.23%) HTML
9 44 (10.00%) Kafka
10 42 (9.55%) CSS
11 40 (9.09%) .NET
12 37 (8.41%) AngularJS
13 33 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
14 31 (7.05%) Vue
15 26 (5.91%) Flask
15 26 (5.91%) Next.js
16 24 (5.45%) .NET Core
16 24 (5.45%) Web Services
17 23 (5.23%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 71 (16.14%) Cloud Native
2 49 (11.14%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.77%) Equities
3 21 (4.77%) Fixed Income
3 21 (4.77%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 20 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.86%) Derivative
6 15 (3.41%) Blog
6 15 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.41%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.95%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.73%) Replication
9 10 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.82%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.59%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.59%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 63 (14.32%) Linux
2 27 (6.14%) Unix
2 27 (6.14%) Windows
3 16 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.14%) Android
6 5 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.68%) Debian
8 2 (0.45%) CentOS
8 2 (0.45%) VMS
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.23%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (43.64%) CI/CD
2 176 (40.00%) Agile
3 149 (33.86%) Software Engineering
4 142 (32.27%) Microservices
5 122 (27.73%) DevOps
6 112 (25.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 106 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (20.68%) Containerisation
9 79 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 78 (17.73%) Test Automation
11 77 (17.50%) Mentoring
12 74 (16.82%) AI
13 68 (15.45%) Fintech
14 56 (12.73%) TDD
15 55 (12.50%) Scrum
16 49 (11.14%) Technical Leadership
17 48 (10.91%) Data Modelling
18 44 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
19 43 (9.77%) BDD
20 42 (9.55%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 208 (47.27%) Python
2 160 (36.36%) Java
3 150 (34.09%) SQL
4 120 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 102 (23.18%) TypeScript
6 33 (7.50%) C#
7 30 (6.82%) Go
8 25 (5.68%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.41%) C
9 15 (3.41%) PHP
10 12 (2.73%) Delphi
11 10 (2.27%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.82%) Rust
12 8 (1.82%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.59%) Bash
14 6 (1.36%) C++
15 4 (0.91%) Pascal
16 3 (0.68%) RPG
16 3 (0.68%) Ruby
17 2 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 67 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 56 (12.73%) Degree
3 53 (12.05%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 14 (3.18%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.45%) RHCE
12 2 (0.45%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.45%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.23%) HNC
13 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.91%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.41%) QA
3 12 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.50%) GDPR
4 11 (2.50%) SLA
5 8 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.45%) PSD2
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 161 (36.59%) Docker
2 19 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.45%) Samba
5 1 (0.23%) NFS
Systems Management
1 147 (33.41%) Kubernetes
2 94 (21.36%) Terraform
3 28 (6.36%) Grafana
4 27 (6.14%) Ansible
5 16 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.95%) Kibana
7 9 (2.05%) Argo
7 9 (2.05%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (1.14%) Nagios
9 4 (0.91%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.68%) Puppet
10 3 (0.68%) Rancher
11 2 (0.45%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.23%) Ambari
12 1 (0.23%) Istio
12 1 (0.23%) Podman
12 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (11.59%) Oracle
2 35 (7.95%) Microsoft
3 34 (7.73%) Google
4 18 (4.09%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.95%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.95%) IBM
5 13 (2.95%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.05%) Informatica
8 8 (1.82%) Talend
9 7 (1.59%) Splunk
10 6 (1.36%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.14%) Confluent
11 5 (1.14%) Dell
11 5 (1.14%) VMware
12 4 (0.91%) Databricks
12 4 (0.91%) Pega
12 4 (0.91%) WSO2
13 3 (0.68%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.68%) SAP