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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 232 147
Rank change year-on-year -44 -85 +61
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 697 587 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 1.36% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.80% 9.24% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 501 413 646
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +15.43% -0.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £120,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 7,916 6,351 10,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.65% 14.70% 15.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,561 4,118 6,328
10th Percentile £36,500 £33,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +3.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,781 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £118,750
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 26 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 26 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 -67 312 £82,500 -21.43% 766
South East -2 127 £65,000 -5.45% 107
North of England -9 125 £65,000 -3.70% 137
North West -11 58 £62,500 -7.41% 79
South West -62 48 £65,000 +25.00% 62
North East -33 39 £65,000 +26.83% 21
Midlands -45 39 £75,000 +5.26% 52
West Midlands -36 30 £83,774 +15.55% 37
East of England -25 29 £50,000 +63.93% 39
Yorkshire -36 28 £67,155 -4.06% 40
East Midlands -28 9 £60,000 +20.00% 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 27 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.16%) Apache
3 20 (2.87%) Confluence
4 18 (2.58%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.15%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.00%) Camunda
8 6 (0.86%) WordPress
9 4 (0.57%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.43%) CMS
10 3 (0.43%) nginx
11 2 (0.29%) Luigi
11 2 (0.29%) Tornado
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.14%) Documentum
12 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.14%) Moodle
12 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.58%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Finacle
2 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 384 (55.09%) AWS
2 237 (34.00%) Azure
3 116 (16.64%) GitHub
4 89 (12.77%) GCP
5 72 (10.33%) Serverless
6 65 (9.33%) SaaS
7 53 (7.60%) Amazon EKS
8 51 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (6.31%) Amazon ECS
9 44 (6.31%) Amazon S3
10 39 (5.60%) GitHub Copilot
11 30 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (4.02%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (3.87%) Azure AKS
13 27 (3.87%) Power Platform
14 20 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.44%) Broadband
2 13 (1.87%) Firewall
3 10 (1.43%) DNS
4 9 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.00%) HTTP
6 6 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (0.86%) VPN
7 5 (0.72%) DHCP
7 5 (0.72%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.72%) SAN
7 5 (0.72%) VLAN
8 3 (0.43%) 4G
8 3 (0.43%) 5G
8 3 (0.43%) BGP
8 3 (0.43%) SSH
9 2 (0.29%) SMS
10 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.14%) SNMP
10 1 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (23.39%) MongoDB
2 148 (21.23%) MySQL
3 128 (18.36%) Relational Database
4 125 (17.93%) SQL Server
5 86 (12.34%) Redis
6 82 (11.76%) NoSQL
7 42 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
8 39 (5.60%) DynamoDB
9 35 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (3.44%) Amazon Aurora
12 22 (3.16%) Power BI
13 20 (2.87%) Metadata
14 18 (2.58%) Big Data
15 15 (2.15%) Data Lake
16 14 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (2.01%) Pinecone
17 12 (1.72%) Db2
17 12 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 159 (22.81%) Git
2 61 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 57 (8.18%) GitLab
4 23 (3.30%) JUnit
5 20 (2.87%) JIRA
5 20 (2.87%) TeamCity
6 16 (2.30%) Mockito
7 13 (1.87%) JMeter
8 12 (1.72%) Vite
9 11 (1.58%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.58%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.58%) Selenium
10 7 (1.00%) Storybook
11 6 (0.86%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.86%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.86%) Maven
12 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.72%) Mocha
13 4 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 163 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 85 (12.20%) Finance
3 84 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 69 (9.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (6.89%) Law
7 34 (4.88%) Banking
8 28 (4.02%) Retail
9 27 (3.87%) Games
10 22 (3.16%) Legal
11 18 (2.58%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.87%) Legal Technology
12 13 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.58%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.29%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.15%) Aviation
16 7 (1.00%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.86%) Advertising
18 5 (0.72%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 214 (30.70%) Developer
2 194 (27.83%) Senior
3 147 (21.09%) Software Engineer
4 100 (14.35%) Lead
5 60 (8.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 59 (8.46%) Python Engineer
7 58 (8.32%) Senior Software Engineer
8 51 (7.32%) Data Engineer
8 51 (7.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 51 (7.32%) Senior Developer
9 46 (6.60%) Python Developer
10 45 (6.46%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (5.16%) Architect
12 33 (4.73%) Lead Developer
12 33 (4.73%) Software Developer
13 30 (4.30%) Database Engineer
14 29 (4.16%) Ruby Developer
15 28 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
15 28 (4.02%) DBA
16 27 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (23.10%) React
2 151 (21.66%) Terraform
3 140 (20.09%) Node.js
4 121 (17.36%) REST
5 114 (16.36%) RESTful
6 93 (13.34%) Kafka
7 78 (11.19%) Spring
8 74 (10.62%) Spring Boot
9 71 (10.19%) .NET
10 68 (9.76%) CSS
11 64 (9.18%) Next.js
12 56 (8.03%) HTML
13 55 (7.89%) FastAPI
14 40 (5.74%) JSON
15 38 (5.45%) AngularJS
16 34 (4.88%) Ruby on Rails
17 31 (4.45%) JWT
18 29 (4.16%) Django
19 28 (4.02%) Flask
20 24 (3.44%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 148 (21.23%) Cloud Native
2 101 (14.49%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (4.02%) Low-Code
4 25 (3.59%) Replication
4 25 (3.59%) Video\Live Streaming
5 24 (3.44%) Blog
6 23 (3.30%) AI Agents
7 21 (3.01%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.73%) Product Ownership
9 15 (2.15%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (1.43%) EPoS
13 10 (1.43%) iSeries
13 10 (1.43%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 95 (13.63%) Linux
2 37 (5.31%) Windows
3 18 (2.58%) Unix
4 14 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.29%) Debian
6 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.14%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (49.50%) CI/CD
2 250 (35.87%) Software Engineering
3 238 (34.15%) Agile
4 214 (30.70%) AI
5 189 (27.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 180 (25.82%) Microservices
7 177 (25.39%) DevOps
8 164 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 146 (20.95%) Observability
10 138 (19.80%) Test Automation
11 127 (18.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (17.93%) Mentoring
13 123 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
14 121 (17.36%) Containerisation
15 88 (12.63%) Clean Code
16 87 (12.48%) Event-Driven
17 80 (11.48%) Analytics
18 78 (11.19%) Scrum
19 77 (11.05%) Machine Learning
20 76 (10.90%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 297 (42.61%) Python
2 204 (29.27%) SQL
3 167 (23.96%) Java
4 136 (19.51%) TypeScript
5 128 (18.36%) JavaScript
6 76 (10.90%) C#
7 61 (8.75%) Go
8 44 (6.31%) Bash
9 34 (4.88%) Ruby
10 22 (3.16%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.87%) PHP
12 17 (2.44%) Scala
13 16 (2.30%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.72%) C++
15 10 (1.43%) Groovy
15 10 (1.43%) RPG
16 7 (1.00%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.72%) Korn
18 4 (0.57%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 89 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 86 (12.34%) Degree
4 31 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.44%) Azure Certification
5 24 (3.44%) Master's Degree
6 21 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.15%) PhD
9 6 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.43%) CISSP
11 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.29%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.30%) QA
3 25 (3.59%) GDPR
4 21 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.00%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.57%) SLA
7 4 (0.57%) WCAG
8 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) MiFID
10 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 208 (29.84%) Docker
2 12 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) NFS
6 1 (0.14%) Samba
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 188 (26.97%) Kubernetes
2 65 (9.33%) Grafana
3 42 (6.03%) Prometheus
4 40 (5.74%) Ansible
5 36 (5.16%) Argo
6 12 (1.72%) Kibana
6 12 (1.72%) Rancher
7 7 (1.00%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.86%) Istio
8 6 (0.86%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.86%) Puppet
9 3 (0.43%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.43%) Plesk
9 3 (0.43%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) Consul
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
11 1 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.46%) Oracle
3 24 (3.44%) Dynatrace
3 24 (3.44%) OpenAI
4 22 (3.16%) Google
5 21 (3.01%) Databricks
6 13 (1.87%) Red Hat
6 13 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.43%) IBM
7 10 (1.43%) Splunk
8 9 (1.29%) Mistral
9 5 (0.72%) Dell
10 4 (0.57%) Netezza
10 4 (0.57%) Remedy
10 4 (0.57%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.43%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.43%) SAP
11 3 (0.43%) VMware
12 2 (0.29%) Informatica
12 2 (0.29%) UiPath