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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 129 194
Rank change year-on-year -133 +65 -6
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 428 1,047 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 2.24% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.26% 12.50% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 300 469 877
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -6.90%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,750 £122,500 £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 5,892 8,379 12,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.49% 17.93% 19.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,807 4,684 10,230
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,780 £48,750 £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 £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -75 243 £90,000 +2.86% 164
North of England -23 76 £73,801 +6.48% 53
South East -121 44 £60,000 -25.00% 46
Yorkshire +3 36 £62,500 +23.90% 10
North West -9 32 £85,000 +21.43% 39
Midlands -15 30 £55,200 -15.08% 26
South West -50 26 £60,000 -7.69% 34
West Midlands +18 20 £55,200 -15.08% 15
East of England -38 14 £42,500 -26.09% 16
East Midlands -23 10 £60,100 +0.17% 11
North East -3 8 £55,200 -20.35% 5
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 32 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.91%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.74%) Confluence
3 16 (3.74%) WebSphere
4 15 (3.50%) Tomcat
5 14 (3.27%) WebSphere Application Server
6 13 (3.04%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.17%) Apache
7 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.93%) nginx
9 3 (0.70%) CMS
9 3 (0.70%) Luigi
9 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.47%) Camunda
10 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.23%) IIS
11 1 (0.23%) JBoss
11 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (2.10%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 292 (68.22%) AWS
2 140 (32.71%) Azure
3 109 (25.47%) GCP
4 74 (17.29%) Serverless
5 55 (12.85%) GitHub
6 47 (10.98%) Amazon EKS
7 44 (10.28%) Amazon ECS
8 43 (10.05%) Amazon S3
9 39 (9.11%) dbt
10 38 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (8.64%) SaaS
12 34 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (7.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (5.61%) Power Platform
15 23 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
16 22 (5.14%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (3.97%) Amazon ECR
19 16 (3.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.21%) TCP/IP
2 16 (3.74%) SSL
3 9 (2.10%) VPN
3 9 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.87%) Firewall
5 7 (1.64%) DNS
5 7 (1.64%) Internet
6 5 (1.17%) VLAN
7 4 (0.93%) DHCP
7 4 (0.93%) HTTP
7 4 (0.93%) Network Security
8 3 (0.70%) MQTT
8 3 (0.70%) WAN
9 2 (0.47%) BGP
9 2 (0.47%) FTP
9 2 (0.47%) OSPF
9 2 (0.47%) RTMP
9 2 (0.47%) SMTP
9 2 (0.47%) SSH
9 2 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (25.70%) SQL Server
2 98 (22.90%) Relational Database
3 81 (18.93%) MySQL
4 73 (17.06%) MongoDB
5 69 (16.12%) NoSQL
6 37 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (8.18%) DB2
7 35 (8.18%) Redis
8 31 (7.24%) DynamoDB
9 26 (6.07%) RDBMS
10 22 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
10 22 (5.14%) Power BI
11 21 (4.91%) Apache Iceberg
11 21 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (4.21%) Apache Arrow
13 17 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (3.97%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (3.97%) Dremio
14 15 (3.50%) Hadoop
15 14 (3.27%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 95 (22.20%) Git
2 84 (19.63%) Jenkins
3 32 (7.48%) GitLab
4 29 (6.78%) JIRA
5 27 (6.31%) Cucumber
6 25 (5.84%) JUnit
6 25 (5.84%) Selenium
7 21 (4.91%) Bitbucket
8 18 (4.21%) TeamCity
9 15 (3.50%) JMeter
10 13 (3.04%) Mockito
11 7 (1.64%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.64%) Vite
12 5 (1.17%) REST Assured
13 4 (0.93%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.93%) Subversion
14 3 (0.70%) MLflow
14 3 (0.70%) TestRail
15 2 (0.47%) Jaeger
General
1 121 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 94 (21.96%) Finance
3 44 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.05%) Banking
5 32 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 30 (7.01%) Law
7 21 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.44%) Retail
9 18 (4.21%) Front Office
10 11 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.34%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.34%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.64%) Marketing
14 5 (1.17%) Electronics
15 4 (0.93%) Advertising
15 4 (0.93%) Back Office
15 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 153 (35.75%) Developer
2 73 (17.06%) Senior
3 68 (15.89%) Software Engineer
4 49 (11.45%) Java Developer
5 46 (10.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 45 (10.51%) Lead
7 30 (7.01%) Python Developer
8 27 (6.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 27 (6.31%) Python Engineer
9 26 (6.07%) Data Engineer
10 25 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (5.61%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (5.14%) AWS Developer
12 22 (5.14%) Java Engineer
12 22 (5.14%) Python Software Engineer
13 20 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (4.44%) Linux Support
15 18 (4.21%) AWS Software Engineer
16 17 (3.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 16 (3.74%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (30.61%) React
2 86 (20.09%) Node.js
3 76 (17.76%) Spring
4 70 (16.36%) Spring Boot
5 64 (14.95%) REST
6 63 (14.72%) RESTful
7 54 (12.62%) FastAPI
8 52 (12.15%) Django
9 48 (11.21%) HTML
10 47 (10.98%) AngularJS
11 46 (10.75%) Kafka
12 41 (9.58%) .NET
13 40 (9.35%) CSS
13 40 (9.35%) Vue
14 35 (8.18%) Elastic Stack
15 29 (6.78%) Flask
16 27 (6.31%) Web Services
17 25 (5.84%) .NET Core
18 23 (5.37%) Next.js
19 18 (4.21%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.55%) Cloud Native
1 58 (13.55%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (4.67%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (4.67%) Management Information System
2 20 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.97%) Equities
3 17 (3.97%) Fixed Income
3 17 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (2.80%) Blog
6 11 (2.57%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.57%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.34%) Replication
7 10 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.40%) Clustering
9 6 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 72 (16.82%) Linux
2 33 (7.71%) Windows
3 29 (6.78%) Unix
4 18 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.04%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.64%) Android
6 7 (1.64%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.93%) VMS
7 4 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.70%) Debian
9 2 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (46.26%) CI/CD
2 166 (38.79%) Agile
3 136 (31.78%) Software Engineering
4 132 (30.84%) Microservices
5 120 (28.04%) Problem-Solving
6 119 (27.80%) DevOps
7 98 (22.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 87 (20.33%) Containerisation
9 70 (16.36%) Fintech
9 70 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 66 (15.42%) AI
10 66 (15.42%) Test Automation
11 53 (12.38%) Scrum
12 50 (11.68%) ETL
13 49 (11.45%) Mentoring
13 49 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
14 48 (11.21%) TDD
15 46 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
15 46 (10.75%) Data Modelling
16 42 (9.81%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 212 (49.53%) Python
2 152 (35.51%) Java
3 143 (33.41%) SQL
4 117 (27.34%) JavaScript
5 90 (21.03%) TypeScript
6 35 (8.18%) C#
7 28 (6.54%) Go
8 19 (4.44%) PowerShell
9 16 (3.74%) PHP
10 12 (2.80%) C
11 11 (2.57%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.34%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.10%) Delphi
13 9 (2.10%) Rust
14 5 (1.17%) Ruby
15 4 (0.93%) C++
16 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.70%) RPG
16 3 (0.70%) Scala
17 2 (0.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 64 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.32%) Degree
3 45 (10.51%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.01%) AWS Certification
5 26 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.50%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (2.80%) AWS Certified Developer
7 12 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.93%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.47%) HNC
10 2 (0.47%) HND
10 2 (0.47%) MCSA
10 2 (0.47%) MCSE
10 2 (0.47%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.21%) QA
1 18 (4.21%) SLA
2 15 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.04%) GDPR
4 9 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.70%) SEPA
6 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.47%) PSD2
7 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.23%) GAAP
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 159 (37.15%) Docker
2 7 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.47%) DFS Replication
4 2 (0.47%) Dovecot
4 2 (0.47%) NFS
4 2 (0.47%) Postfix
4 2 (0.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 151 (35.28%) Kubernetes
2 92 (21.50%) Terraform
3 30 (7.01%) Ansible
4 27 (6.31%) Grafana
5 16 (3.74%) Kibana
6 14 (3.27%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.10%) Argo
8 6 (1.40%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.40%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.17%) Puppet
10 4 (0.93%) Nagios
11 3 (0.70%) Rancher
12 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.47%) Nessus
12 2 (0.47%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.23%) Ambari
13 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (14.95%) Oracle
2 24 (5.61%) Google
2 24 (5.61%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.91%) Red Hat
4 19 (4.44%) IBM
5 16 (3.74%) Atlassian
6 15 (3.50%) Informatica
7 13 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.04%) Talend
8 11 (2.57%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.57%) Splunk
9 10 (2.34%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.64%) SAP
11 5 (1.17%) VMware
12 4 (0.93%) Pega
12 4 (0.93%) WSO2
13 3 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.70%) RedGate
13 3 (0.70%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.47%) Sonatype