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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 227 151
Rank change year-on-year -58 -76 +59
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 657 605 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.39% 1.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.32% 9.36% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 477 428 654
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £118,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 7,892 6,466 10,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.88% 14.90% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,502 4,197 6,636
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -75 293 £85,000 -19.05% 543
South East -16 121 £65,000 - 75
North of England -18 119 £65,000 -3.70% 72
North West -2 56 £65,000 -3.70% 37
South West -55 46 £65,000 +30.00% 48
North East -31 38 £65,000 +26.83% 8
Midlands -57 34 £75,000 +5.26% 32
East of England -31 27 £52,500 +72.13% 28
West Midlands -43 25 £83,774 +15.55% 25
Yorkshire -44 25 £69,310 -0.99% 27
East Midlands -30 9 £60,000 +33.33% 6
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 29 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.65%) Apache
3 20 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.04%) Confluence
4 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.07%) Camunda
5 7 (1.07%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.91%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) CMS
8 2 (0.30%) Luigi
8 2 (0.30%) Tornado
9 1 (0.15%) Documentum
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Finacle
2 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 362 (55.10%) AWS
2 218 (33.18%) Azure
3 102 (15.53%) GitHub
4 75 (11.42%) GCP
5 64 (9.74%) Serverless
6 58 (8.83%) SaaS
7 49 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (6.39%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (6.39%) Amazon S3
9 40 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
10 39 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (5.18%) GitHub Copilot
12 28 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (4.26%) Power Platform
13 27 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.96%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.59%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.57%) Broadband
2 12 (1.83%) Firewall
3 10 (1.52%) DNS
4 7 (1.07%) HTTP
5 6 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.76%) DHCP
6 5 (0.76%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.76%) SAN
7 3 (0.46%) 4G
7 3 (0.46%) 5G
7 3 (0.46%) SSH
7 3 (0.46%) VLAN
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
8 2 (0.30%) VPN
9 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.15%) SNMP
9 1 (0.15%) SSL
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (24.66%) MongoDB
2 146 (22.22%) MySQL
3 121 (18.42%) Relational Database
4 113 (17.20%) SQL Server
5 82 (12.48%) NoSQL
6 76 (11.57%) Redis
7 38 (5.78%) DynamoDB
8 33 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
9 32 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
10 25 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (3.50%) Power BI
12 21 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 19 (2.89%) Metadata
14 18 (2.74%) Big Data
15 13 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.98%) Pinecone
16 12 (1.83%) Data Lake
16 12 (1.83%) Db2
16 12 (1.83%) Tableau
17 11 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 147 (22.37%) Git
2 52 (7.91%) GitLab
3 51 (7.76%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.35%) JUnit
5 19 (2.89%) JIRA
6 16 (2.44%) Mockito
7 15 (2.28%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.83%) JMeter
9 11 (1.67%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.67%) Vite
10 10 (1.52%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.52%) Selenium
11 6 (0.91%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.91%) Maven
11 6 (0.91%) Storybook
12 5 (0.76%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.76%) Mocha
13 4 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.61%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
General
1 154 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 81 (12.33%) Public Sector
3 76 (11.57%) Finance
4 58 (8.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (6.39%) Law
7 33 (5.02%) Games
8 27 (4.11%) Banking
9 23 (3.50%) Retail
10 21 (3.20%) Legal
11 18 (2.74%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.98%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.67%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.52%) Advertising
15 10 (1.52%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.22%) Aviation
17 7 (1.07%) Financial Institution
17 7 (1.07%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.91%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 204 (31.05%) Developer
2 178 (27.09%) Senior
3 138 (21.00%) Software Engineer
4 102 (15.53%) Lead
5 60 (9.13%) Python Engineer
6 59 (8.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (8.22%) Senior Software Engineer
8 50 (7.61%) Data Engineer
8 50 (7.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 49 (7.46%) Python Developer
10 44 (6.70%) Senior Developer
11 41 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (5.48%) Architect
13 33 (5.02%) Lead Developer
14 30 (4.57%) Ruby Developer
15 28 (4.26%) Database Engineer
16 27 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
16 27 (4.11%) Software Developer
17 26 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
18 24 (3.65%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (23.14%) React
2 137 (20.85%) Terraform
3 133 (20.24%) Node.js
4 113 (17.20%) REST
5 111 (16.89%) RESTful
6 88 (13.39%) Kafka
7 76 (11.57%) Spring
8 72 (10.96%) Spring Boot
9 69 (10.50%) CSS
10 62 (9.44%) .NET
11 61 (9.28%) Next.js
12 57 (8.68%) HTML
13 51 (7.76%) FastAPI
14 40 (6.09%) AngularJS
15 39 (5.94%) JSON
16 35 (5.33%) Ruby on Rails
17 32 (4.87%) JWT
18 28 (4.26%) Django
18 28 (4.26%) Flask
19 24 (3.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 140 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 89 (13.55%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.18%) Low-Code
4 31 (4.72%) Video\Live Streaming
5 27 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.65%) AI Agents
6 24 (3.65%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 20 (3.04%) Algorithms
8 20 (3.04%) Replication
9 15 (2.28%) Blog
10 13 (1.98%) Distributed Computing
11 12 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
12 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.52%) EPoS
12 10 (1.52%) iSeries
13 9 (1.37%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 91 (13.85%) Linux
2 34 (5.18%) Windows
3 16 (2.44%) Unix
4 13 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (48.40%) CI/CD
2 238 (36.23%) Software Engineering
3 228 (34.70%) Agile
4 201 (30.59%) AI
5 185 (28.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 168 (25.57%) Microservices
7 161 (24.51%) DevOps
8 158 (24.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 135 (20.55%) Observability
10 128 (19.48%) Test Automation
11 126 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (17.81%) Mentoring
13 116 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
14 114 (17.35%) Containerisation
15 82 (12.48%) Clean Code
16 81 (12.33%) API Design
17 79 (12.02%) Data Modelling
18 77 (11.72%) Event-Driven
18 77 (11.72%) Machine Learning
18 77 (11.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 282 (42.92%) Python
2 187 (28.46%) SQL
3 158 (24.05%) Java
4 131 (19.94%) TypeScript
5 124 (18.87%) JavaScript
6 69 (10.50%) C#
7 59 (8.98%) Go
8 38 (5.78%) Bash
9 35 (5.33%) Ruby
10 21 (3.20%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.59%) Scala
12 15 (2.28%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.98%) C++
13 13 (1.98%) PHP
14 10 (1.52%) RPG
15 7 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.91%) Groovy
17 5 (0.76%) Korn
18 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
18 3 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 83 (12.63%) Degree
3 79 (12.02%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.65%) Master's Degree
6 21 (3.20%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.22%) PhD
9 6 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.30%) CISSP
11 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.07%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.18%) QA
3 24 (3.65%) GDPR
4 18 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.61%) SLA
6 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.46%) WCAG
8 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 189 (28.77%) Docker
2 12 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 172 (26.18%) Kubernetes
2 51 (7.76%) Grafana
3 39 (5.94%) Ansible
4 33 (5.02%) Argo
4 33 (5.02%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.67%) Kibana
6 8 (1.22%) Rancher
7 7 (1.07%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.91%) Istio
8 6 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.91%) Puppet
9 3 (0.46%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.46%) Plesk
9 3 (0.46%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.30%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.15%) Consul
11 1 (0.15%) Nagios
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 65 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.68%) Oracle
3 23 (3.50%) OpenAI
4 20 (3.04%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.89%) Databricks
6 18 (2.74%) Google
7 13 (1.98%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.52%) IBM
8 10 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.52%) Splunk
9 8 (1.22%) Mistral
10 5 (0.76%) Dell
11 4 (0.61%) Netezza
11 4 (0.61%) Remedy
12 3 (0.46%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.46%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.46%) VMware
13 2 (0.30%) Pega
13 2 (0.30%) SAP
13 2 (0.30%) TikTok