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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 227 146
Rank change year-on-year -55 -81 +65
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 673 596 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.38% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.42% 9.26% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 485 420 651
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £80,000 £65,001
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £118,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 7,996 6,434 10,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.89% 14.91% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,589 4,183 6,506
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,688 £88,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%

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 17 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 17 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 -79 295 £85,000 -19.05% 820
South East -21 124 £65,000 -3.70% 106
North of England -12 122 £65,000 -3.70% 110
North West -10 57 £63,750 -5.56% 63
South West -58 49 £65,000 +20.93% 58
North East -34 39 £65,000 +26.83% 15
Midlands -39 39 £75,000 +5.26% 53
West Midlands -36 29 £83,774 +15.55% 37
East of England -32 27 £52,500 +72.13% 35
Yorkshire -39 26 £69,310 -0.99% 33
East Midlands -37 10 £60,000 +33.33% 16
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 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.42%) Apache
3 20 (2.97%) Confluence
4 19 (2.82%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.19%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.04%) Camunda
8 6 (0.89%) WordPress
9 5 (0.74%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.45%) CMS
10 3 (0.45%) nginx
11 2 (0.30%) Luigi
11 2 (0.30%) Tornado
12 1 (0.15%) Documentum
12 1 (0.15%) JBoss
12 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.15%) Moodle
12 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.63%) 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
1 367 (54.53%) AWS
2 228 (33.88%) Azure
3 109 (16.20%) GitHub
4 81 (12.04%) GCP
5 64 (9.51%) Serverless
6 59 (8.77%) SaaS
7 50 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (6.69%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (6.39%) Amazon S3
11 42 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
12 37 (5.50%) GitHub Copilot
13 27 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (4.01%) Azure AKS
13 27 (4.01%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (4.01%) Power Platform
14 26 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.71%) Broadband
2 12 (1.78%) Firewall
3 10 (1.49%) DNS
4 7 (1.04%) HTTP
4 7 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.74%) DHCP
5 5 (0.74%) iSCSI
5 5 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (0.74%) SAN
6 3 (0.45%) 4G
6 3 (0.45%) 5G
6 3 (0.45%) SSH
6 3 (0.45%) VLAN
6 3 (0.45%) VPN
7 2 (0.30%) SMS
8 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.15%) LAN
8 1 (0.15%) SNMP
8 1 (0.15%) SSL
8 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (23.77%) MongoDB
2 147 (21.84%) MySQL
3 125 (18.57%) Relational Database
4 119 (17.68%) SQL Server
5 82 (12.18%) NoSQL
6 77 (11.44%) Redis
7 38 (5.65%) DynamoDB
8 35 (5.20%) Elasticsearch
9 34 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
10 25 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (3.27%) Power BI
12 20 (2.97%) Amazon Aurora
13 19 (2.82%) Metadata
14 18 (2.67%) Big Data
15 14 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (2.08%) Pinecone
16 13 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (1.93%) Data Lake
17 12 (1.78%) Db2
17 12 (1.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 154 (22.88%) Git
2 56 (8.32%) Jenkins
3 55 (8.17%) GitLab
4 23 (3.42%) JUnit
5 21 (3.12%) JIRA
6 17 (2.53%) TeamCity
7 16 (2.38%) Mockito
8 12 (1.78%) JMeter
8 12 (1.78%) Vite
9 11 (1.63%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.49%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.49%) Selenium
11 6 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.89%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.89%) Maven
11 6 (0.89%) Storybook
12 5 (0.74%) Mocha
13 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 159 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 83 (12.33%) Public Sector
3 77 (11.44%) Finance
4 62 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (6.69%) Law
7 30 (4.46%) Banking
8 28 (4.16%) Games
9 27 (4.01%) Retail
10 22 (3.27%) Legal
11 18 (2.67%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.93%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.63%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.49%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.34%) Advertising
17 8 (1.19%) Aviation
18 7 (1.04%) Financial Institution
18 7 (1.04%) Tech for Good
19 6 (0.89%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 210 (31.20%) Developer
2 183 (27.19%) Senior
3 145 (21.55%) Software Engineer
4 100 (14.86%) Lead
5 61 (9.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 59 (8.77%) Python Engineer
7 57 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
8 50 (7.43%) Data Engineer
8 50 (7.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 48 (7.13%) Python Developer
10 47 (6.98%) Senior Developer
11 42 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
12 35 (5.20%) Architect
13 33 (4.90%) Lead Developer
14 32 (4.75%) Software Developer
15 30 (4.46%) Database Engineer
16 29 (4.31%) Ruby Developer
17 27 (4.01%) Lead Software Engineer
18 26 (3.86%) DBA
19 25 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (23.33%) React
2 145 (21.55%) Terraform
3 135 (20.06%) Node.js
4 114 (16.94%) REST
5 111 (16.49%) RESTful
6 90 (13.37%) Kafka
7 78 (11.59%) Spring
8 74 (11.00%) Spring Boot
9 70 (10.40%) CSS
10 67 (9.96%) .NET
11 61 (9.06%) Next.js
12 58 (8.62%) HTML
13 51 (7.58%) FastAPI
14 40 (5.94%) AngularJS
15 38 (5.65%) JSON
16 34 (5.05%) Ruby on Rails
17 31 (4.61%) JWT
18 30 (4.46%) Django
19 28 (4.16%) Flask
20 25 (3.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 143 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 93 (13.82%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (4.31%) Low-Code
4 27 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (3.86%) Video\Live Streaming
6 24 (3.57%) AI Agents
7 22 (3.27%) Replication
8 21 (3.12%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.82%) Blog
9 19 (2.82%) Product Ownership
10 15 (2.23%) Algorithms
11 14 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.78%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.49%) EPoS
14 10 (1.49%) iSeries
14 10 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (14.12%) Linux
2 37 (5.50%) Windows
3 17 (2.53%) Unix
4 15 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (48.89%) CI/CD
2 245 (36.40%) Software Engineering
3 234 (34.77%) Agile
4 203 (30.16%) AI
5 185 (27.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 174 (25.85%) Microservices
7 169 (25.11%) DevOps
8 158 (23.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 137 (20.36%) Observability
10 129 (19.17%) Test Automation
11 124 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (17.98%) Mentoring
13 120 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (17.53%) Containerisation
15 87 (12.93%) Clean Code
16 79 (11.74%) Event-Driven
17 77 (11.44%) Scrum
18 76 (11.29%) Analytics
18 76 (11.29%) API Design
19 75 (11.14%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 281 (41.75%) Python
2 195 (28.97%) SQL
3 165 (24.52%) Java
4 132 (19.61%) TypeScript
5 130 (19.32%) JavaScript
6 76 (11.29%) C#
7 56 (8.32%) Go
8 39 (5.79%) Bash
9 34 (5.05%) Ruby
10 22 (3.27%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.53%) PHP
11 17 (2.53%) Scala
12 15 (2.23%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.93%) C++
14 10 (1.49%) RPG
15 7 (1.04%) Groovy
15 7 (1.04%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.74%) Korn
17 4 (0.59%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.63%) Degree
3 84 (12.48%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.27%) Azure Certification
6 22 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.19%) PhD
9 6 (0.89%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.45%) 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 52 (7.73%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.31%) QA
3 25 (3.71%) GDPR
4 18 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.59%) SLA
6 4 (0.59%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.45%) 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
1 196 (29.12%) Docker
2 12 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 180 (26.75%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.02%) Grafana
3 41 (6.09%) Ansible
4 34 (5.05%) Argo
4 34 (5.05%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.78%) Kibana
6 9 (1.34%) Rancher
7 7 (1.04%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.89%) Istio
8 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.89%) Puppet
9 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.45%) Plesk
9 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.15%) Nagios
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 69 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.77%) Oracle
3 24 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 20 (2.97%) Databricks
4 20 (2.97%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.82%) Google
6 13 (1.93%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.49%) IBM
7 10 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.49%) Splunk
8 9 (1.34%) Mistral
9 5 (0.74%) Dell
10 4 (0.59%) Netezza
10 4 (0.59%) Remedy
10 4 (0.59%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.59%) VMware
11 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.30%) Pega
12 2 (0.30%) RedGate
12 2 (0.30%) SAP