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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 219 162
Rank change year-on-year -82 -57 +23
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 515 592 1,530
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 1.55% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.09% 9.28% 10.32%
Number of salaries quoted 390 433 1,076
10th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £41,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,403 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,844 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,125 £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 7,266 6,376 14,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.73% 16.65% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,692 4,264 11,413
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 29 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 29 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 -98 201 £84,625 -8.51% 130
North of England -20 116 £67,500 -0.19% 35
South East -25 104 £57,500 +9.52% 33
North West -17 47 £69,310 -0.11% 25
Yorkshire -30 44 £60,000 -7.69% 4
South West -46 38 £62,500 -3.85% 14
North East -20 25 £65,000 +4.00% 6
East of England -34 22 £47,500 +36.69% 9
Midlands -52 14 £75,000 +11.01% 17
West Midlands -49 11 £75,000 +11.11% 8
East Midlands -41 3 £70,000 - 9
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 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.69%) Apache
4 15 (2.91%) Confluence
5 14 (2.72%) Apache Spark
6 12 (2.33%) OpenStack
7 11 (2.14%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.78%) WordPress
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.19%) Moodle
10 1 (0.19%) nginx
10 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Shopify
2 1 (0.19%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 309 (60.00%) AWS
2 200 (38.83%) Azure
3 100 (19.42%) GCP
4 68 (13.20%) Serverless
5 53 (10.29%) GitHub
6 50 (9.71%) SaaS
7 39 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
8 38 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
10 33 (6.41%) Power Platform
11 28 (5.44%) Amazon S3
12 24 (4.66%) Azure Service Bus
13 23 (4.47%) Azure AKS
14 21 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (2.91%) Azure Functions
17 15 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.27%) Broadband
2 16 (3.11%) DNS
2 16 (3.11%) Firewall
3 15 (2.91%) DHCP
4 14 (2.72%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.75%) VPN
6 8 (1.55%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.55%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.55%) SAN
7 7 (1.36%) Internet
7 7 (1.36%) Network Security
7 7 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.58%) VLAN
9 2 (0.39%) HTTP
9 2 (0.39%) LAN
9 2 (0.39%) PBX
9 2 (0.39%) WAN
10 1 (0.19%) LTE
10 1 (0.19%) SMS
10 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (28.16%) MongoDB
2 124 (24.08%) MySQL
3 97 (18.83%) NoSQL
3 97 (18.83%) SQL Server
4 90 (17.48%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.83%) Redis
6 28 (5.44%) Power BI
7 25 (4.85%) DynamoDB
8 22 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (3.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (2.91%) RDBMS
12 11 (2.14%) MariaDB
12 11 (2.14%) Oracle Database
13 10 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.94%) Metadata
13 10 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (1.75%) Big Data
14 9 (1.75%) DB2
Development Applications
1 110 (21.36%) Git
2 39 (7.57%) Jenkins
3 37 (7.18%) GitLab
4 24 (4.66%) JIRA
5 16 (3.11%) JUnit
6 15 (2.91%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.91%) TeamCity
7 13 (2.52%) Mockito
8 10 (1.94%) JMeter
9 8 (1.55%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.55%) Selenium
10 7 (1.36%) Vite
11 5 (0.97%) Maven
12 4 (0.78%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.58%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.39%) ESLint
14 2 (0.39%) Gatling
14 2 (0.39%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.39%) Storybook
General
1 135 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 76 (14.76%) Finance
3 63 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 49 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (6.02%) Retail
7 27 (5.24%) Law
8 26 (5.05%) Banking
9 25 (4.85%) Games
10 19 (3.69%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (3.11%) Front Office
12 15 (2.91%) Advertising
13 10 (1.94%) Legal
14 9 (1.75%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.97%) Automotive
15 5 (0.97%) Aviation
15 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.78%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 164 (31.84%) Developer
2 102 (19.81%) Senior
3 99 (19.22%) Software Engineer
4 81 (15.73%) Lead
5 54 (10.49%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (9.32%) Python Engineer
7 41 (7.96%) Java Developer
8 35 (6.80%) Lead Developer
9 33 (6.41%) Lead Software Engineer
10 32 (6.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (5.83%) Data Engineer
11 30 (5.83%) Java Engineer
12 28 (5.44%) Python Developer
13 27 (5.24%) DevOps Engineer
14 24 (4.66%) Senior Developer
15 22 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (3.88%) Architect
17 20 (3.88%) DBA
17 20 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (26.99%) React
2 127 (24.66%) Node.js
3 101 (19.61%) RESTful
4 73 (14.17%) REST
5 62 (12.04%) Spring
6 58 (11.26%) Spring Boot
7 47 (9.13%) Kafka
8 45 (8.74%) FastAPI
9 44 (8.54%) .NET
10 42 (8.16%) CSS
11 40 (7.77%) HTML
12 35 (6.80%) JSON
13 31 (6.02%) Django
14 29 (5.63%) AngularJS
15 28 (5.44%) Next.js
16 25 (4.85%) Vue
17 24 (4.66%) Flask
17 24 (4.66%) Redux
18 20 (3.88%) Web Services
19 18 (3.50%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 112 (21.75%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.90%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.47%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (4.27%) Low-Code
5 17 (3.30%) Algorithms
5 17 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.11%) Blog
6 16 (3.11%) Derivative
6 16 (3.11%) Equities
6 16 (3.11%) Fixed Income
7 15 (2.91%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.91%) Replication
8 12 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.94%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.36%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 77 (14.95%) Linux
2 41 (7.96%) Windows
3 20 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.50%) Unix
5 10 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.78%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.58%) CentOS
9 2 (0.39%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) Debian
10 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 198 (38.45%) Agile
3 175 (33.98%) Software Engineering
4 148 (28.74%) Full-Stack Development
5 144 (27.96%) Microservices
6 120 (23.30%) DevOps
7 113 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 106 (20.58%) AI
8 106 (20.58%) Test Automation
9 101 (19.61%) Mentoring
10 96 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (17.48%) Containerisation
12 84 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 71 (13.79%) Scrum
14 67 (13.01%) Analytics
15 63 (12.23%) TDD
16 62 (12.04%) Observability
17 54 (10.49%) API Design
18 53 (10.29%) Data Modelling
19 50 (9.71%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 222 (43.11%) Python
2 163 (31.65%) Java
3 159 (30.87%) SQL
4 118 (22.91%) JavaScript
5 111 (21.55%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.54%) C#
6 44 (8.54%) Go
7 34 (6.60%) PowerShell
8 24 (4.66%) Bash
8 24 (4.66%) PHP
9 15 (2.91%) Ruby
10 13 (2.52%) C
11 12 (2.33%) C++
11 12 (2.33%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.75%) Scala
14 7 (1.36%) Korn
15 5 (0.97%) RPG
16 4 (0.78%) Delphi
16 4 (0.78%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 67 (13.01%) Degree
2 58 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 45 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.17%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.58%) PhD
11 3 (0.58%) RHCE
12 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.39%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.66%) QA
3 20 (3.88%) GDPR
4 16 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.58%) SLA
7 2 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.39%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 150 (29.13%) Docker
2 30 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Firmware
5 2 (0.39%) Samba
6 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 155 (30.10%) Kubernetes
2 109 (21.17%) Terraform
3 29 (5.63%) Ansible
4 28 (5.44%) Grafana
5 27 (5.24%) Argo
6 17 (3.30%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.94%) Kibana
8 8 (1.55%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.55%) Puppet
9 5 (0.97%) Istio
10 4 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.78%) Nagios
11 3 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (0.58%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.58%) Plesk
11 3 (0.58%) Rancher
12 2 (0.39%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 56 (10.87%) Oracle
3 23 (4.47%) Google
4 14 (2.72%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.52%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.14%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.75%) Splunk
8 8 (1.55%) Dell
9 7 (1.36%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.17%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.17%) Databricks
11 5 (0.97%) IBM
11 5 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.78%) Confluent
12 4 (0.78%) Informatica
12 4 (0.78%) Netezza
12 4 (0.78%) Pega
12 4 (0.78%) Remedy
12 4 (0.78%) Talend
12 4 (0.78%) VMware