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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 218 166
Rank change year-on-year -70 -52 +57
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 522 619 1,543
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 1.59% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.32% 9.53% 10.31%
Number of salaries quoted 397 452 1,072
10th Percentile £42,300 £43,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,438 £48,750
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 £105,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.19% -8.57%

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 7,129 6,492 14,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.62% 16.62% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,649 4,317 11,423
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -91 206 £84,625 -10.92% 252
North of England -28 114 £67,500 - 63
South East -22 108 £57,500 +9.52% 44
North West -24 47 £69,310 -0.11% 41
Yorkshire -20 42 £60,000 -9.43% 13
South West -46 39 £62,500 +2.04% 23
North East -31 25 £65,000 +4.00% 9
East of England -34 22 £47,500 +36.69% 11
Midlands -60 12 £75,000 +10.90% 22
West Midlands -53 10 £77,500 +14.71% 11
East Midlands -35 2 £75,000 +7.14% 11
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 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.64%) Apache
4 16 (3.07%) Confluence
5 11 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.11%) OpenStack
5 11 (2.11%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.77%) WordPress
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) Moodle
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (1.53%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 310 (59.39%) AWS
2 199 (38.12%) Azure
3 97 (18.58%) GCP
4 68 (13.03%) Serverless
5 52 (9.96%) GitHub
6 50 (9.58%) SaaS
7 39 (7.47%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
10 33 (6.32%) Power Platform
11 26 (4.98%) Amazon S3
11 26 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
12 24 (4.60%) Azure AKS
13 19 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (2.87%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.21%) Broadband
2 16 (3.07%) DNS
2 16 (3.07%) Firewall
3 15 (2.87%) DHCP
4 14 (2.68%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.72%) VPN
6 8 (1.53%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.53%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.53%) SAN
7 7 (1.34%) Internet
7 7 (1.34%) Network Security
7 7 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.57%) VLAN
9 2 (0.38%) HTTP
9 2 (0.38%) LAN
9 2 (0.38%) PBX
9 2 (0.38%) WAN
10 1 (0.19%) LTE
10 1 (0.19%) SMS
10 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (28.16%) MongoDB
2 125 (23.95%) MySQL
3 95 (18.20%) NoSQL
4 90 (17.24%) Relational Database
4 90 (17.24%) SQL Server
5 33 (6.32%) Redis
6 28 (5.36%) Power BI
7 21 (4.02%) DynamoDB
7 21 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 13 (2.49%) RDBMS
11 11 (2.11%) MariaDB
12 10 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.92%) Metadata
12 10 (1.92%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.92%) Pinecone
12 10 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (1.72%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 110 (21.07%) Git
2 38 (7.28%) GitLab
2 38 (7.28%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.79%) JIRA
4 16 (3.07%) JUnit
5 14 (2.68%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.68%) TeamCity
6 13 (2.49%) Mockito
7 10 (1.92%) JMeter
8 9 (1.72%) Selenium
9 7 (1.34%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.34%) Vite
10 6 (1.15%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.96%) Maven
12 3 (0.57%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.38%) ESLint
13 2 (0.38%) Gatling
13 2 (0.38%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 134 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 73 (13.98%) Finance
3 64 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 46 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.94%) Retail
7 25 (4.79%) Banking
7 25 (4.79%) Games
8 24 (4.60%) Law
9 19 (3.64%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.07%) Front Office
11 15 (2.87%) Advertising
12 11 (2.11%) Legal
13 9 (1.72%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.15%) Aviation
15 5 (0.96%) Automotive
15 5 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.77%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (31.61%) Developer
2 102 (19.54%) Senior
3 99 (18.97%) Software Engineer
4 81 (15.52%) Lead
5 53 (10.15%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (9.39%) Python Engineer
7 39 (7.47%) Java Developer
8 36 (6.90%) Lead Developer
9 35 (6.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 33 (6.32%) Java Engineer
11 32 (6.13%) Lead Software Engineer
12 30 (5.75%) Data Engineer
13 29 (5.56%) Python Developer
14 28 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
15 24 (4.60%) Senior Developer
16 22 (4.21%) Architect
16 22 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
17 21 (4.02%) Senior DevOps
18 20 (3.83%) DBA
18 20 (3.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (26.25%) React
2 128 (24.52%) Node.js
3 100 (19.16%) RESTful
4 76 (14.56%) REST
5 65 (12.45%) Spring
6 61 (11.69%) Spring Boot
7 48 (9.20%) Kafka
8 47 (9.00%) FastAPI
9 43 (8.24%) CSS
10 41 (7.85%) .NET
10 41 (7.85%) HTML
11 36 (6.90%) JSON
12 31 (5.94%) Django
13 29 (5.56%) AngularJS
14 28 (5.36%) Next.js
15 25 (4.79%) Flask
15 25 (4.79%) Vue
16 24 (4.60%) Redux
17 19 (3.64%) Web Services
18 18 (3.45%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 114 (21.84%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.77%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.41%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (4.21%) Low-Code
5 20 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.45%) Algorithms
7 17 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.26%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.07%) Blog
8 16 (3.07%) Data Structures
8 16 (3.07%) Derivative
8 16 (3.07%) Equities
8 16 (3.07%) Fixed Income
8 16 (3.07%) Replication
9 14 (2.68%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.30%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (1.34%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 78 (14.94%) Linux
2 41 (7.85%) Windows
3 19 (3.64%) Unix
3 19 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.77%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.57%) CentOS
8 2 (0.38%) Android
8 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.19%) Debian
9 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (43.87%) CI/CD
2 197 (37.74%) Agile
3 171 (32.76%) Software Engineering
4 149 (28.54%) Full-Stack Development
5 147 (28.16%) Microservices
6 119 (22.80%) DevOps
7 116 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 110 (21.07%) AI
9 105 (20.11%) Test Automation
10 101 (19.35%) Mentoring
11 96 (18.39%) Containerisation
11 96 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
12 85 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 71 (13.60%) Scrum
14 66 (12.64%) Observability
15 64 (12.26%) Analytics
16 62 (11.88%) TDD
17 56 (10.73%) API Design
18 52 (9.96%) Data Modelling
19 50 (9.58%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 228 (43.68%) Python
2 164 (31.42%) Java
3 159 (30.46%) SQL
4 119 (22.80%) JavaScript
5 111 (21.26%) TypeScript
6 45 (8.62%) Go
7 42 (8.05%) C#
8 35 (6.70%) PowerShell
9 27 (5.17%) Bash
10 24 (4.60%) PHP
11 17 (3.26%) Ruby
12 12 (2.30%) C
12 12 (2.30%) C++
12 12 (2.30%) T-SQL
13 11 (2.11%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.72%) Scala
15 7 (1.34%) Korn
16 5 (0.96%) RPG
17 4 (0.77%) Delphi
17 4 (0.77%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 70 (13.41%) Degree
2 61 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 48 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.96%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.77%) PhD
11 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.57%) RHCE
12 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.38%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.60%) QA
3 20 (3.83%) GDPR
4 16 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.30%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.57%) SLA
7 2 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.38%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 153 (29.31%) Docker
2 30 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) Firmware
5 2 (0.38%) Samba
6 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 160 (30.65%) Kubernetes
2 109 (20.88%) Terraform
3 30 (5.75%) Grafana
4 29 (5.56%) Ansible
4 29 (5.56%) Argo
5 18 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.92%) Kibana
7 7 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.34%) Puppet
8 6 (1.15%) Istio
8 6 (1.15%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.57%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.57%) Nagios
9 3 (0.57%) Plesk
9 3 (0.57%) Rancher
10 2 (0.38%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 65 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 53 (10.15%) Oracle
3 24 (4.60%) Google
4 16 (3.07%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.68%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.11%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.72%) Splunk
8 8 (1.53%) Dell
9 7 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.15%) Databricks
11 5 (0.96%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.96%) IBM
11 5 (0.96%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.77%) Confluent
12 4 (0.77%) Netezza
12 4 (0.77%) Pega
12 4 (0.77%) Remedy
12 4 (0.77%) VMware
13 3 (0.57%) Revolut
14 2 (0.38%) TikTok