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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 219 163
Rank change year-on-year -72 -56 +27
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 487 600 1,486
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.53% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.87% 8.82% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 355 454 1,075
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £109,000 £137,500 £112,500
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 7,086 6,803 14,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.75% 17.37% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,448 4,680 11,404
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -95 198 £90,000 +2.86% 161
North of England -20 106 £67,500 -0.19% 40
South East -42 94 £57,500 -8.00% 52
North West -4 45 £70,905 +2.19% 18
Yorkshire -34 45 £52,130 -12.93% 10
South West -44 37 £62,500 -3.85% 17
East of England -24 19 £47,500 -5.00% 5
North East -32 16 £55,000 -20.73% 12
Midlands -35 14 £65,000 -3.70% 21
East Midlands -30 7 £65,000 -7.14% 13
West Midlands -44 7 £67,500 +1.89% 8
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 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (5.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.70%) Apache
4 16 (3.29%) Apache Spark
5 15 (3.08%) Confluence
6 13 (2.67%) OpenStack
7 10 (2.05%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.41%) Camunda
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.41%) WordPress
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) JBoss
9 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.21%) nginx
9 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 297 (60.99%) AWS
2 190 (39.01%) Azure
3 107 (21.97%) GCP
4 69 (14.17%) Serverless
5 49 (10.06%) GitHub
6 48 (9.86%) SaaS
7 38 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (7.60%) Amazon EKS
9 34 (6.98%) Power Platform
10 33 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
11 30 (6.16%) Amazon S3
12 28 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (5.13%) Azure AKS
14 24 (4.93%) Azure Service Bus
15 23 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (3.49%) dbt
18 15 (3.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.52%) Broadband
2 16 (3.29%) DNS
3 15 (3.08%) DHCP
3 15 (3.08%) Firewall
4 13 (2.67%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.85%) VPN
6 8 (1.64%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.64%) SAN
7 7 (1.44%) Internet
7 7 (1.44%) Network Security
7 7 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.62%) VLAN
9 2 (0.41%) LAN
9 2 (0.41%) PBX
9 2 (0.41%) WAN
10 1 (0.21%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.21%) HTTP
10 1 (0.21%) LTE
10 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (26.49%) MongoDB
2 109 (22.38%) MySQL
3 106 (21.77%) SQL Server
4 90 (18.48%) NoSQL
5 89 (18.28%) Relational Database
6 32 (6.57%) DynamoDB
7 30 (6.16%) Power BI
8 26 (5.34%) Redis
9 24 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (3.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (3.08%) RDBMS
13 14 (2.87%) DB2
14 13 (2.67%) BigQuery
15 11 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (2.26%) MariaDB
15 11 (2.26%) Pinecone
16 9 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.85%) Metadata
16 9 (1.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 116 (23.82%) Git
2 42 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 38 (7.80%) GitLab
4 25 (5.13%) JIRA
5 19 (3.90%) Bitbucket
6 17 (3.49%) TeamCity
7 13 (2.67%) JUnit
8 12 (2.46%) Selenium
9 11 (2.26%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.26%) Mockito
10 9 (1.85%) Vite
11 6 (1.23%) Maven
12 5 (1.03%) JMeter
13 4 (0.82%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.41%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.41%) ESLint
14 2 (0.41%) Gatling
14 2 (0.41%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.41%) Storybook
14 2 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 125 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 77 (15.81%) Finance
3 48 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (5.95%) Retail
6 28 (5.75%) Banking
7 26 (5.34%) Law
8 25 (5.13%) Games
9 19 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (3.49%) Front Office
11 14 (2.87%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.67%) Advertising
13 7 (1.44%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.82%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.62%) Automotive
15 3 (0.62%) Back Office
15 3 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.62%) Legal
15 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 150 (30.80%) Developer
2 101 (20.74%) Senior
3 82 (16.84%) Software Engineer
4 72 (14.78%) Lead
5 52 (10.68%) Full-Stack Developer
6 44 (9.03%) Python Engineer
7 38 (7.80%) Java Developer
8 36 (7.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 33 (6.78%) Data Engineer
10 30 (6.16%) Java Engineer
11 29 (5.95%) Lead Developer
12 27 (5.54%) Python Developer
13 24 (4.93%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
15 20 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
16 19 (3.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 18 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
17 18 (3.70%) IT Support
17 18 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
17 18 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (30.39%) React
2 113 (23.20%) Node.js
3 92 (18.89%) RESTful
4 64 (13.14%) REST
5 53 (10.88%) Spring
6 50 (10.27%) Spring Boot
7 46 (9.45%) .NET
8 45 (9.24%) FastAPI
9 43 (8.83%) CSS
9 43 (8.83%) Kafka
10 42 (8.62%) HTML
11 32 (6.57%) AngularJS
12 30 (6.16%) Django
13 28 (5.75%) JSON
14 27 (5.54%) Next.js
15 25 (5.13%) Redux
15 25 (5.13%) Vue
16 23 (4.72%) Flask
17 22 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
18 20 (4.11%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 102 (20.94%) Cloud Native
2 54 (11.09%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.34%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.52%) Low-Code
4 22 (4.52%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.29%) Derivative
7 16 (3.29%) Equities
7 16 (3.29%) Fixed Income
7 16 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (3.08%) Algorithms
9 14 (2.87%) Blog
10 13 (2.67%) Data Structures
11 12 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.46%) Replication
12 10 (2.05%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 67 (13.76%) Linux
2 37 (7.60%) Windows
3 19 (3.90%) Unix
3 19 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.03%) Android
6 5 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.82%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.62%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Debian
9 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (47.02%) CI/CD
2 190 (39.01%) Agile
3 162 (33.26%) Software Engineering
4 145 (29.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 139 (28.54%) Microservices
6 120 (24.64%) DevOps
7 111 (22.79%) Test Automation
8 109 (22.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 99 (20.33%) AI
10 91 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (18.48%) Containerisation
12 87 (17.86%) Mentoring
13 75 (15.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 71 (14.58%) Scrum
15 66 (13.55%) Analytics
16 60 (12.32%) Observability
17 52 (10.68%) TDD
18 51 (10.47%) Data Modelling
19 50 (10.27%) API Design
20 46 (9.45%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 219 (44.97%) Python
2 156 (32.03%) SQL
3 155 (31.83%) Java
4 109 (22.38%) JavaScript
4 109 (22.38%) TypeScript
5 49 (10.06%) Go
6 43 (8.83%) C#
7 28 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 25 (5.13%) PHP
9 19 (3.90%) Bash
10 15 (3.08%) C
11 9 (1.85%) C++
11 9 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.64%) Scala
13 7 (1.44%) Korn
13 7 (1.44%) Ruby
13 7 (1.44%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.03%) Delphi
15 4 (0.82%) Pascal
16 3 (0.62%) RPG
Qualifications
1 60 (12.32%) Degree
2 57 (11.70%) Security Cleared
3 46 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.05%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.44%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.62%) RHCE
12 2 (0.41%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.41%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.31%) QA
3 15 (3.08%) GDPR
3 15 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.62%) SLA
6 2 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.41%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.21%) NCSC
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 153 (31.42%) Docker
2 30 (6.16%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.82%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) Firmware
5 2 (0.41%) Samba
6 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 160 (32.85%) Kubernetes
2 111 (22.79%) Terraform
3 29 (5.95%) Ansible
3 29 (5.95%) Argo
4 28 (5.75%) Grafana
5 21 (4.31%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.23%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.23%) Puppet
7 5 (1.03%) Istio
7 5 (1.03%) Kibana
8 4 (0.82%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.82%) Nagios
8 4 (0.82%) Rancher
9 3 (0.62%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.62%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.62%) Plesk
10 2 (0.41%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 53 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.65%) Oracle
3 22 (4.52%) Google
4 17 (3.49%) Red Hat
5 15 (3.08%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.64%) Dell
7 7 (1.44%) Databricks
8 6 (1.23%) Confluent
8 6 (1.23%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.23%) Informatica
9 5 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.03%) Talend
10 4 (0.82%) Pega
10 4 (0.82%) Splunk
10 4 (0.82%) VMware
11 3 (0.62%) IBM
11 3 (0.62%) Revolut
12 2 (0.41%) D-Link