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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 235 133
Rank change year-on-year -27 -102 +79
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 735 562 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 1.31% 1.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.47% 9.10% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 508 394 595
10th Percentile £43,876 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,313 £49,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.59% +11.11% -3.57%

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 7,758 6,177 10,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.48% 14.42% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,418 3,967 5,889
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -52 353 £83,750 -20.24% 566
South East +6 131 £70,000 +5.66% 71
North of England -14 118 £65,000 -3.70% 84
North West -14 54 £60,000 -14.29% 48
South West -57 50 £82,500 +52.78% 33
Midlands -40 42 £75,000 +5.26% 35
North East -39 39 £65,000 +25.30% 13
West Midlands -40 31 £85,000 +17.24% 24
East of England -33 27 £52,500 +72.13% 32
Yorkshire -41 25 £65,000 -7.14% 27
East Midlands -26 11 £60,000 +20.00% 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 23 (3.13%) Apache
2 22 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (2.99%) Confluence
3 19 (2.59%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.95%) Camunda
4 7 (0.95%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.82%) nginx
6 5 (0.68%) WordPress
7 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.41%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Luigi
9 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.27%) Tornado
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.27%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Finacle
2 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 402 (54.69%) AWS
2 231 (31.43%) Azure
3 128 (17.41%) GitHub
4 95 (12.93%) GCP
5 70 (9.52%) SaaS
6 65 (8.84%) Serverless
7 62 (8.44%) Amazon EKS
8 56 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 48 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (5.17%) GitHub Copilot
13 31 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (3.54%) Power Platform
16 24 (3.27%) Azure AKS
17 23 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
19 20 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 19 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.27%) Broadband
2 17 (2.31%) TCP/IP
3 16 (2.18%) VPN
4 14 (1.90%) Firewall
5 11 (1.50%) BGP
6 9 (1.22%) DNS
7 7 (0.95%) Network Security
7 7 (0.95%) VLAN
8 6 (0.82%) HTTP
9 4 (0.54%) DHCP
10 3 (0.41%) 4G
10 3 (0.41%) 5G
10 3 (0.41%) OpenVPN
10 3 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.41%) SSH
11 2 (0.27%) AMQP
11 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.27%) SAN
11 2 (0.27%) SMS
11 2 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (22.31%) MongoDB
2 153 (20.82%) MySQL
3 127 (17.28%) Relational Database
4 122 (16.60%) SQL Server
5 94 (12.79%) Redis
6 79 (10.75%) NoSQL
7 56 (7.62%) Amazon RDS
8 37 (5.03%) DynamoDB
8 37 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (4.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (2.86%) Metadata
11 21 (2.86%) Power BI
12 19 (2.59%) Big Data
13 17 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (2.31%) Pinecone
14 15 (2.04%) Data Lake
14 15 (2.04%) Oracle Database
15 12 (1.63%) Chroma
15 12 (1.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 165 (22.45%) Git
2 65 (8.84%) Jenkins
3 59 (8.03%) GitLab
4 31 (4.22%) TeamCity
5 22 (2.99%) JUnit
6 19 (2.59%) JIRA
7 15 (2.04%) Mockito
8 12 (1.63%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.63%) JMeter
9 11 (1.50%) Vite
10 9 (1.22%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.09%) Selenium
12 7 (0.95%) Storybook
13 6 (0.82%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.68%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.68%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.68%) Maven
14 5 (0.68%) Mocha
15 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 173 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 97 (13.20%) Finance
3 83 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 76 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (7.48%) Law
7 40 (5.44%) Banking
8 35 (4.76%) Retail
9 28 (3.81%) Games
10 22 (2.99%) Legal
11 17 (2.31%) Financial Institution
12 16 (2.18%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.77%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.50%) Back Office
14 11 (1.50%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.22%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.95%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.82%) Automotive
17 6 (0.82%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 222 (30.20%) Developer
2 211 (28.71%) Senior
3 165 (22.45%) Software Engineer
4 100 (13.61%) Lead
5 65 (8.84%) Senior Software Engineer
6 60 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 59 (8.03%) Senior Developer
8 58 (7.89%) Python Engineer
9 51 (6.94%) Python Developer
10 49 (6.67%) Data Engineer
11 46 (6.26%) DevOps Engineer
12 44 (5.99%) DBA
13 43 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 36 (4.90%) Architect
14 36 (4.90%) Software Developer
15 32 (4.35%) Lead Developer
16 31 (4.22%) Database Engineer
17 29 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
17 29 (3.95%) Lead Software Engineer
18 28 (3.81%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (22.86%) React
2 164 (22.31%) Terraform
3 137 (18.64%) Node.js
4 123 (16.73%) REST
5 116 (15.78%) RESTful
6 94 (12.79%) Kafka
7 80 (10.88%) Spring
8 75 (10.20%) .NET
8 75 (10.20%) Spring Boot
9 68 (9.25%) CSS
10 65 (8.84%) Next.js
11 55 (7.48%) FastAPI
11 55 (7.48%) HTML
12 39 (5.31%) AngularJS
13 38 (5.17%) JSON
14 33 (4.49%) Ruby on Rails
15 29 (3.95%) JWT
16 27 (3.67%) Vue
17 26 (3.54%) Jest
18 25 (3.40%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 156 (21.22%) Cloud Native
2 111 (15.10%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.90%) Blog
4 28 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (3.81%) Low-Code
5 27 (3.67%) AI Agents
6 25 (3.40%) Replication
6 25 (3.40%) Video\Live Streaming
7 23 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.72%) Product Ownership
9 17 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.18%) Algorithms
10 16 (2.18%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (1.63%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.63%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.36%) EPoS
14 10 (1.36%) iSeries
15 9 (1.22%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 100 (13.61%) Linux
2 36 (4.90%) Windows
3 15 (2.04%) Unix
4 14 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.14%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Debian
7 1 (0.14%) macOS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (48.98%) CI/CD
2 274 (37.28%) Software Engineering
3 241 (32.79%) Agile
4 222 (30.20%) AI
5 188 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 188 (25.58%) Microservices
6 180 (24.49%) DevOps
7 175 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 163 (22.18%) Observability
9 145 (19.73%) Test Automation
10 133 (18.10%) Mentoring
11 132 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
12 129 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (15.92%) Containerisation
14 91 (12.38%) Clean Code
15 89 (12.11%) Event-Driven
16 83 (11.29%) Analytics
16 83 (11.29%) Machine Learning
17 79 (10.75%) Data Modelling
18 74 (10.07%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 308 (41.90%) Python
2 214 (29.12%) SQL
3 181 (24.63%) Java
4 143 (19.46%) TypeScript
5 132 (17.96%) JavaScript
6 81 (11.02%) C#
7 70 (9.52%) Go
8 45 (6.12%) Bash
9 33 (4.49%) Ruby
10 24 (3.27%) PHP
11 18 (2.45%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.31%) Scala
13 15 (2.04%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.77%) C++
15 11 (1.50%) Groovy
16 10 (1.36%) RPG
17 9 (1.22%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.54%) Apex Code
20 3 (0.41%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 123 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 104 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.02%) Degree
4 29 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 24 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 23 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.22%) CISSP
9 9 (1.22%) PhD
10 8 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (0.95%) CCSP
11 7 (0.95%) CISM
12 4 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.22%) QA
3 25 (3.40%) GDPR
4 21 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.72%) Accessibility
6 15 (2.04%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.50%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.95%) NIST
9 5 (0.68%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.27%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 211 (28.71%) Docker
2 9 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) Ceph
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) Lustre
5 1 (0.14%) NFS
5 1 (0.14%) Samba
5 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 204 (27.76%) Kubernetes
2 84 (11.43%) Grafana
3 47 (6.39%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.58%) Ansible
5 35 (4.76%) Argo
6 13 (1.77%) Kibana
7 11 (1.50%) Rancher
8 9 (1.22%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.09%) Istio
10 7 (0.95%) Cilium
11 6 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.82%) Puppet
12 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.27%) Data Guard
14 2 (0.27%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.27%) Packer
14 2 (0.27%) Plesk
14 2 (0.27%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 68 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.84%) Oracle
3 34 (4.63%) Google
4 29 (3.95%) OpenAI
5 26 (3.54%) Databricks
6 24 (3.27%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.63%) Mistral
8 12 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.36%) IBM
10 9 (1.22%) Splunk
11 5 (0.68%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.54%) Netezza
12 4 (0.54%) Remedy
12 4 (0.54%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.54%) VMware
13 3 (0.41%) Adobe
13 3 (0.41%) SAP
14 2 (0.27%) Dell
14 2 (0.27%) Informatica