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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 224 170
Rank change year-on-year -53 -54 +42
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 617 650 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.50% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.87% 9.55% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 471 479 953
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £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 £103,750 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 7,835 6,804 14,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.94% 15.70% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,319 4,517 10,538
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,529
25th Percentile £45,438 £46,250 £43,500
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 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.22% +5.64% -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 15 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 15 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 -80 262 £85,000 -15.00% 154
North of England -16 122 £65,000 -3.70% 112
South East -10 119 £59,500 +3.48% 112
North West -20 53 £65,000 -3.70% 60
South West -48 45 £62,500 +4.17% 47
North East -33 35 £65,000 +23.81% 14
Yorkshire -24 34 £65,000 -3.70% 38
East of England -27 26 £52,500 +69.35% 60
Midlands -49 21 £75,000 +11.11% 57
West Midlands -41 17 £80,000 +18.41% 25
East Midlands -30 4 £65,000 +18.18% 32
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 (4.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.24%) Apache
3 20 (3.24%) Confluence
4 14 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.78%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.97%) WordPress
7 5 (0.81%) Camunda
7 5 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Documentum
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.16%) Moodle
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 356 (57.70%) AWS
2 240 (38.90%) Azure
3 107 (17.34%) GCP
4 63 (10.21%) GitHub
5 61 (9.89%) Serverless
6 58 (9.40%) SaaS
7 45 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (6.32%) Amazon S3
9 36 (5.83%) Power Platform
10 33 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
12 27 (4.38%) Azure Service Bus
13 25 (4.05%) Azure AKS
13 25 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
18 15 (2.43%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.02%) Broadband
2 16 (2.59%) Firewall
3 14 (2.27%) DNS
4 13 (2.11%) DHCP
5 11 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.46%) VPN
7 8 (1.30%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (1.30%) SAN
8 5 (0.81%) Network Security
8 5 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.49%) VLAN
10 2 (0.32%) HTTP
10 2 (0.32%) PBX
11 1 (0.16%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.16%) LAN
11 1 (0.16%) LTE
11 1 (0.16%) SMS
11 1 (0.16%) SSL
11 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (26.90%) MongoDB
2 157 (25.45%) MySQL
3 104 (16.86%) SQL Server
4 100 (16.21%) Relational Database
5 96 (15.56%) NoSQL
6 61 (9.89%) Redis
7 31 (5.02%) Power BI
8 30 (4.86%) DynamoDB
9 26 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (3.24%) Metadata
13 17 (2.76%) Big Data
14 15 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (2.43%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (2.11%) RDBMS
15 13 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (1.94%) Data Lake
17 11 (1.78%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 113 (18.31%) Git
2 40 (6.48%) GitLab
3 31 (5.02%) Jenkins
4 23 (3.73%) JIRA
5 21 (3.40%) JUnit
6 17 (2.76%) Mockito
7 15 (2.43%) TeamCity
8 13 (2.11%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.62%) JMeter
10 8 (1.30%) Claude Code
10 8 (1.30%) Vite
11 6 (0.97%) Maven
11 6 (0.97%) Selenium
12 4 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.65%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.49%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.49%) Gatling
13 3 (0.49%) Storybook
14 2 (0.32%) ESLint
14 2 (0.32%) Jaeger
General
1 137 (22.20%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.29%) Finance
3 78 (12.64%) Public Sector
4 49 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.51%) Games
7 29 (4.70%) Law
8 28 (4.54%) Retail
9 23 (3.73%) Banking
10 19 (3.08%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.59%) Front Office
11 16 (2.59%) Legal
12 15 (2.43%) Advertising
13 11 (1.78%) Legal Technology
14 7 (1.13%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.13%) Aviation
15 6 (0.97%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.97%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 189 (30.63%) Developer
2 137 (22.20%) Senior
3 131 (21.23%) Software Engineer
4 113 (18.31%) Lead
5 59 (9.56%) Python Engineer
6 55 (8.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 46 (7.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 46 (7.46%) Lead Developer
8 45 (7.29%) Python Developer
9 41 (6.65%) Lead Software Engineer
10 40 (6.48%) Data Engineer
11 36 (5.83%) Architect
12 35 (5.67%) DevOps Engineer
13 31 (5.02%) Java Engineer
14 30 (4.86%) Java Developer
14 30 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
15 28 (4.54%) Senior Developer
16 25 (4.05%) Ruby Developer
17 21 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
18 20 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (23.01%) React
2 141 (22.85%) Node.js
3 119 (19.29%) RESTful
4 89 (14.42%) REST
5 73 (11.83%) Spring
6 70 (11.35%) Spring Boot
7 64 (10.37%) Kafka
8 54 (8.75%) FastAPI
9 50 (8.10%) CSS
10 45 (7.29%) Next.js
11 44 (7.13%) HTML
12 43 (6.97%) JSON
13 39 (6.32%) .NET
14 31 (5.02%) AngularJS
15 29 (4.70%) Ruby on Rails
16 28 (4.54%) Django
17 27 (4.38%) Flask
18 26 (4.21%) JWT
18 26 (4.21%) Vue
19 24 (3.89%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 136 (22.04%) Cloud Native
2 73 (11.83%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.51%) Low-Code
4 32 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 32 (5.19%) Video\Live Streaming
5 25 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.89%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.40%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.92%) Blog
8 18 (2.92%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.76%) AI Agents
10 16 (2.59%) Derivative
10 16 (2.59%) Equities
10 16 (2.59%) Fixed Income
11 14 (2.27%) Replication
12 13 (2.11%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
13 11 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (1.62%) iSeries
14 10 (1.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (14.26%) Linux
2 41 (6.65%) Windows
3 19 (3.08%) Unix
4 17 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.49%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Debian
9 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (44.25%) CI/CD
2 226 (36.63%) Software Engineering
3 215 (34.85%) Agile
4 170 (27.55%) Microservices
5 169 (27.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 155 (25.12%) AI
7 145 (23.50%) DevOps
8 136 (22.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 128 (20.75%) Mentoring
10 124 (20.10%) Test Automation
11 115 (18.64%) Containerisation
12 105 (17.02%) Observability
13 104 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 101 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
15 82 (13.29%) Analytics
16 79 (12.80%) API Design
17 73 (11.83%) Data Modelling
18 69 (11.18%) TDD
19 67 (10.86%) Clean Code
20 65 (10.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 264 (42.79%) Python
2 187 (30.31%) SQL
3 177 (28.69%) Java
4 121 (19.61%) TypeScript
5 119 (19.29%) JavaScript
6 50 (8.10%) Go
7 47 (7.62%) C#
8 39 (6.32%) PowerShell
9 33 (5.35%) Bash
10 29 (4.70%) Ruby
11 23 (3.73%) PHP
12 15 (2.43%) C++
13 14 (2.27%) Scala
14 12 (1.94%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.62%) RPG
15 10 (1.62%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.97%) Korn
17 5 (0.81%) C
18 4 (0.65%) Delphi
18 4 (0.65%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 80 (12.97%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.18%) Degree
3 57 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.81%) PhD
11 4 (0.65%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.49%) RHCE
13 2 (0.32%) CISSP
13 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.32%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.32%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.21%) QA
3 22 (3.57%) GDPR
4 16 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.49%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 166 (26.90%) Docker
2 28 (4.54%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 161 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 119 (19.29%) Terraform
3 35 (5.67%) Grafana
4 29 (4.70%) Ansible
4 29 (4.70%) Argo
5 21 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.62%) Kibana
7 7 (1.13%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.13%) Puppet
8 6 (0.97%) Istio
8 6 (0.97%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.49%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.49%) Plesk
9 3 (0.49%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.49%) Rancher
9 3 (0.49%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.32%) Nagios
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 66 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.72%) Oracle
3 32 (5.19%) Google
4 21 (3.40%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.43%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.94%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.62%) Databricks
7 10 (1.62%) IBM
8 9 (1.46%) Splunk
9 8 (1.30%) Dell
10 7 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.65%) Confluent
12 4 (0.65%) Netezza
12 4 (0.65%) Pega
12 4 (0.65%) Remedy
12 4 (0.65%) VMware
13 3 (0.49%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.49%) Revolut
14 2 (0.32%) WSO2