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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 219 148
Rank change year-on-year -53 -71 +61
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 668 626 1,277
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 1.43% 1.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.41% 9.46% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 486 453 742
10th Percentile £43,125 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,250 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +14.57% -6.48%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £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 7,947 6,615 11,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.18% 15.11% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,541 4,363 7,238
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,550 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.51% -2.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £116,250
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 1 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 1 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 -65 293 £83,750 -20.24% 607
South East -18 125 £65,000 +1.96% 88
North of England -14 122 £65,000 -3.70% 74
North West -12 56 £65,000 -3.70% 47
South West -62 48 £63,750 +30.77% 50
North East -29 40 £65,000 +26.83% 11
Midlands -54 31 £72,155 +3.08% 42
East of England -22 29 £52,500 +69.35% 22
Yorkshire -38 26 £69,310 +0.81% 16
West Midlands -34 22 £83,774 +15.55% 26
East Midlands -20 9 £60,000 +9.09% 15
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 31 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.74%) Apache
3 21 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.14%) Confluence
4 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.05%) Camunda
7 6 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.90%) WordPress
8 3 (0.45%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Luigi
9 2 (0.30%) Tornado
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Documentum
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) Moodle
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.65%) 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 (54.94%) AWS
2 230 (34.43%) Azure
3 102 (15.27%) GitHub
4 80 (11.98%) GCP
5 64 (9.58%) Serverless
6 60 (8.98%) SaaS
7 51 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (6.89%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
10 38 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (5.09%) GitHub Copilot
12 30 (4.49%) Power Platform
13 28 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.89%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.54%) Anthropic Claude
17 17 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.64%) Broadband
2 12 (1.80%) Firewall
3 9 (1.35%) DNS
4 6 (0.90%) DHCP
5 5 (0.75%) HTTP
5 5 (0.75%) iSCSI
5 5 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (0.75%) SAN
6 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.30%) SMS
7 2 (0.30%) VLAN
7 2 (0.30%) VPN
8 1 (0.15%) 4G
8 1 (0.15%) 5G
8 1 (0.15%) AMQP
8 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.15%) Internet
8 1 (0.15%) Multicast
8 1 (0.15%) SSH
8 1 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (25.30%) MongoDB
2 156 (23.35%) MySQL
3 129 (19.31%) Relational Database
4 120 (17.96%) SQL Server
5 88 (13.17%) NoSQL
6 71 (10.63%) Redis
7 41 (6.14%) DynamoDB
8 31 (4.64%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
10 29 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (3.59%) Power BI
12 20 (2.99%) Metadata
13 19 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
13 19 (2.84%) Big Data
14 17 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.95%) Pinecone
16 12 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (1.80%) Db2
16 12 (1.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 150 (22.46%) Git
2 51 (7.63%) GitLab
3 46 (6.89%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.74%) JUnit
5 21 (3.14%) JIRA
6 19 (2.84%) Mockito
7 12 (1.80%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.80%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.65%) Vite
9 10 (1.50%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.50%) JMeter
10 7 (1.05%) Selenium
10 7 (1.05%) Storybook
11 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.90%) Maven
12 5 (0.75%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.75%) Mocha
13 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.45%) Gatling
General
1 162 (24.25%) Social Skills
2 83 (12.43%) Public Sector
3 79 (11.83%) Finance
4 54 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (5.99%) Law
7 35 (5.24%) Games
8 23 (3.44%) Banking
9 21 (3.14%) Legal
10 19 (2.84%) Retail
11 18 (2.69%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.95%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.65%) Advertising
15 10 (1.50%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.20%) Aviation
16 8 (1.20%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 7 (1.05%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.90%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 208 (31.14%) Developer
2 181 (27.10%) Senior
3 141 (21.11%) Software Engineer
4 104 (15.57%) Lead
5 62 (9.28%) Python Engineer
6 61 (9.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 55 (8.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 52 (7.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 50 (7.49%) Data Engineer
10 45 (6.74%) Python Developer
11 44 (6.59%) Senior Developer
12 39 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
13 36 (5.39%) Architect
14 32 (4.79%) Lead Developer
15 30 (4.49%) Ruby Developer
16 28 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
17 27 (4.04%) Database Engineer
18 25 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
18 25 (3.74%) Java Developer
18 25 (3.74%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (23.05%) React
2 139 (20.81%) Node.js
3 138 (20.66%) Terraform
4 116 (17.37%) RESTful
5 114 (17.07%) REST
6 84 (12.57%) Kafka
7 80 (11.98%) Spring
8 76 (11.38%) Spring Boot
9 70 (10.48%) CSS
10 64 (9.58%) .NET
11 62 (9.28%) Next.js
12 57 (8.53%) HTML
13 51 (7.63%) FastAPI
14 42 (6.29%) JSON
15 41 (6.14%) AngularJS
16 35 (5.24%) JWT
16 35 (5.24%) Ruby on Rails
17 28 (4.19%) Django
18 27 (4.04%) Flask
19 26 (3.89%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 141 (21.11%) Cloud Native
2 88 (13.17%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.24%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.79%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (4.19%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.59%) AI Agents
8 22 (3.29%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.99%) Algorithms
9 20 (2.99%) Replication
10 13 (1.95%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
11 12 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (1.65%) Blog
12 11 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.50%) EPoS
13 10 (1.50%) IoT
13 10 (1.50%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 89 (13.32%) Linux
2 36 (5.39%) Windows
3 16 (2.40%) Unix
4 15 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.15%) CentOS
6 1 (0.15%) Debian
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (47.75%) CI/CD
2 245 (36.68%) Software Engineering
3 233 (34.88%) Agile
4 199 (29.79%) AI
5 196 (29.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 177 (26.50%) Microservices
7 167 (25.00%) DevOps
8 160 (23.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 131 (19.61%) Observability
10 128 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 127 (19.01%) Test Automation
12 122 (18.26%) Mentoring
13 119 (17.81%) Containerisation
14 115 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
15 87 (13.02%) API Design
16 83 (12.43%) Data Modelling
17 81 (12.13%) Analytics
18 80 (11.98%) Clean Code
19 77 (11.53%) Machine Learning
19 77 (11.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 280 (41.92%) Python
2 188 (28.14%) SQL
3 164 (24.55%) Java
4 133 (19.91%) TypeScript
5 124 (18.56%) JavaScript
6 73 (10.93%) C#
7 59 (8.83%) Go
8 35 (5.24%) Ruby
9 33 (4.94%) Bash
10 23 (3.44%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.54%) PHP
11 17 (2.54%) Scala
12 14 (2.10%) C++
13 12 (1.80%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.50%) RPG
15 7 (1.05%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.75%) Korn
17 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.45%) Groovy
18 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.62%) Degree
3 76 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 21 (3.14%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.84%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.20%) PhD
11 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.30%) CISSP
13 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.15%) RHCE
14 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.23%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.09%) QA
3 26 (3.89%) GDPR
4 18 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) SLA
6 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.45%) WCAG
8 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 190 (28.44%) Docker
2 14 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 173 (25.90%) Kubernetes
2 42 (6.29%) Grafana
3 40 (5.99%) Ansible
4 32 (4.79%) Argo
5 26 (3.89%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.50%) Kibana
7 7 (1.05%) Istio
7 7 (1.05%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.90%) Puppet
9 5 (0.75%) Rancher
10 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.45%) Plesk
10 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 68 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.28%) Oracle
3 23 (3.44%) Google
3 23 (3.44%) OpenAI
4 21 (3.14%) Databricks
5 16 (2.40%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.50%) IBM
8 9 (1.35%) Splunk
9 8 (1.20%) Mistral
9 8 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.75%) Dell
12 4 (0.60%) Netezza
12 4 (0.60%) Pega
12 4 (0.60%) Remedy
13 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.45%) VMware
14 2 (0.30%) UiPath
14 2 (0.30%) WSO2