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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 128 193
Rank change year-on-year -146 +65 -8
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 427 1,037 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 2.25% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.20% 12.51% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 300 468 876
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -10.34%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,875 £122,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 5,932 8,287 12,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 18.01% 19.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,841 4,664 10,370
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,150 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,497 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -80 242 £90,000 +2.86% 144
North of England -23 75 £73,801 +6.48% 58
South East -132 45 £58,750 -26.56% 48
Yorkshire +2 36 £62,500 +30.97% 12
North West -23 31 £85,000 +21.43% 38
Midlands -20 29 £55,200 -15.08% 25
South West -50 26 £60,000 -7.69% 31
West Midlands +15 19 £55,200 -15.08% 14
East of England -39 15 £42,500 -26.09% 18
East Midlands -17 10 £60,100 +0.17% 11
North East -8 8 £55,200 -20.35% 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 29 (6.79%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.92%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.75%) WebSphere
4 15 (3.51%) Confluence
4 15 (3.51%) Tomcat
5 14 (3.28%) WebSphere Application Server
6 13 (3.04%) OpenStack
7 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (1.17%) Apache
9 3 (0.70%) CMS
9 3 (0.70%) Luigi
9 3 (0.70%) nginx
9 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.47%) Camunda
10 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.23%) IIS
11 1 (0.23%) JBoss
11 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 287 (67.21%) AWS
2 139 (32.55%) Azure
3 105 (24.59%) GCP
4 75 (17.56%) Serverless
5 55 (12.88%) GitHub
6 47 (11.01%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (10.07%) Amazon ECS
7 43 (10.07%) Amazon S3
8 39 (9.13%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (8.67%) SaaS
10 36 (8.43%) dbt
11 34 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (7.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (5.85%) Power Platform
14 24 (5.62%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (4.45%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (3.98%) Amazon ECR
19 16 (3.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.22%) TCP/IP
2 16 (3.75%) SSL
3 9 (2.11%) VPN
3 9 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.64%) Firewall
4 7 (1.64%) Internet
5 6 (1.41%) DNS
6 5 (1.17%) Network Security
6 5 (1.17%) VLAN
7 4 (0.94%) DHCP
8 3 (0.70%) HTTP
8 3 (0.70%) MQTT
8 3 (0.70%) WAN
9 2 (0.47%) BGP
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.47%) OSPF
9 2 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.47%) RTMP
9 2 (0.47%) Wireless
10 1 (0.23%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (26.00%) SQL Server
2 98 (22.95%) Relational Database
3 81 (18.97%) MySQL
4 72 (16.86%) MongoDB
5 68 (15.93%) NoSQL
6 37 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (8.20%) DB2
7 35 (8.20%) Redis
8 31 (7.26%) DynamoDB
9 26 (6.09%) RDBMS
10 23 (5.39%) Power BI
11 21 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (4.22%) Apache Iceberg
13 17 (3.98%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (3.51%) Apache Arrow
14 15 (3.51%) Big Data
14 15 (3.51%) Hadoop
15 14 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (3.28%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 94 (22.01%) Git
2 82 (19.20%) Jenkins
3 31 (7.26%) GitLab
4 28 (6.56%) JIRA
5 27 (6.32%) Cucumber
6 25 (5.85%) Selenium
7 24 (5.62%) JUnit
8 21 (4.92%) Bitbucket
9 18 (4.22%) TeamCity
10 15 (3.51%) JMeter
11 12 (2.81%) Mockito
12 7 (1.64%) Vite
13 6 (1.41%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.17%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.94%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.94%) Subversion
16 3 (0.70%) MLflow
16 3 (0.70%) TestRail
17 2 (0.47%) Jaeger
General
1 119 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 93 (21.78%) Finance
3 44 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.07%) Banking
5 31 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 30 (7.03%) Law
7 21 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.45%) Retail
9 15 (3.51%) Front Office
10 11 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.34%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.34%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.64%) Marketing
14 5 (1.17%) Electronics
15 4 (0.94%) Advertising
15 4 (0.94%) Back Office
16 3 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 151 (35.36%) Developer
2 73 (17.10%) Senior
3 66 (15.46%) Software Engineer
4 50 (11.71%) Java Developer
5 46 (10.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 46 (10.77%) Lead
6 27 (6.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 27 (6.32%) Python Developer
7 26 (6.09%) Data Engineer
8 24 (5.62%) Principal Engineer
9 23 (5.39%) Python Engineer
10 22 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.15%) Java Engineer
11 20 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (4.45%) AWS Developer
12 19 (4.45%) Linux Support
13 18 (4.22%) Python Software Engineer
14 16 (3.75%) Applications Support
14 16 (3.75%) Backend Developer
14 16 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (29.98%) React
2 83 (19.44%) Node.js
3 77 (18.03%) Spring
4 71 (16.63%) Spring Boot
5 66 (15.46%) REST
6 61 (14.29%) RESTful
7 53 (12.41%) FastAPI
8 51 (11.94%) Django
9 47 (11.01%) HTML
10 46 (10.77%) Kafka
11 44 (10.30%) AngularJS
12 42 (9.84%) .NET
13 40 (9.37%) CSS
14 36 (8.43%) Vue
15 35 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
16 28 (6.56%) Flask
17 27 (6.32%) Web Services
18 25 (5.85%) .NET Core
19 23 (5.39%) Next.js
20 19 (4.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.58%) Cloud Native
1 58 (13.58%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.68%) Linux Command Line
3 20 (4.68%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (3.28%) Equities
5 14 (3.28%) Fixed Income
5 14 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (2.81%) Blog
6 12 (2.81%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.58%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.11%) Replication
10 7 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.64%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.41%) Clustering
12 5 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.39%) Linux
2 31 (7.26%) Windows
3 29 (6.79%) Unix
4 18 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.81%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.64%) Android
6 7 (1.64%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.70%) Debian
8 3 (0.70%) VMS
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
10 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (45.90%) CI/CD
2 165 (38.64%) Agile
3 135 (31.62%) Software Engineering
4 134 (31.38%) Microservices
5 118 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
6 117 (27.40%) DevOps
7 99 (23.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 87 (20.37%) Containerisation
9 71 (16.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 67 (15.69%) AI
10 67 (15.69%) Fintech
10 67 (15.69%) Test Automation
11 55 (12.88%) Scrum
12 50 (11.71%) ETL
13 49 (11.48%) Mentoring
13 49 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (11.01%) Business Intelligence
14 47 (11.01%) Data Modelling
14 47 (11.01%) TDD
15 41 (9.60%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 210 (49.18%) Python
2 154 (36.07%) Java
3 143 (33.49%) SQL
4 114 (26.70%) JavaScript
5 88 (20.61%) TypeScript
6 36 (8.43%) C#
7 29 (6.79%) Go
8 20 (4.68%) PowerShell
9 16 (3.75%) PHP
10 12 (2.81%) C
11 11 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.58%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.11%) Delphi
12 9 (2.11%) Rust
13 5 (1.17%) C++
13 5 (1.17%) Ruby
14 4 (0.94%) Bash
15 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.70%) RPG
15 3 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (14.99%) Security Cleared
2 55 (12.88%) Degree
3 45 (10.54%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.79%) AWS Certification
5 25 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.51%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (3.04%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.47%) HNC
12 2 (0.47%) HND
12 2 (0.47%) MCSA
12 2 (0.47%) MCSE
12 2 (0.47%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.22%) QA
2 17 (3.98%) SLA
3 16 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.04%) GDPR
5 10 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.11%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.70%) SEPA
8 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.47%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) GAAP
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 159 (37.24%) Docker
2 8 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.47%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.23%) Postfix
5 1 (0.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 150 (35.13%) Kubernetes
2 92 (21.55%) Terraform
3 30 (7.03%) Ansible
4 26 (6.09%) Grafana
5 16 (3.75%) Kibana
6 13 (3.04%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.11%) Argo
8 6 (1.41%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.17%) Puppet
10 4 (0.94%) Nagios
11 3 (0.70%) Rancher
12 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.23%) Ambari
13 1 (0.23%) Nessus
13 1 (0.23%) Podman
13 1 (0.23%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (14.75%) Oracle
2 25 (5.85%) Google
2 25 (5.85%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.92%) Red Hat
4 19 (4.45%) IBM
5 16 (3.75%) Atlassian
6 15 (3.51%) Informatica
7 13 (3.04%) OpenAI
7 13 (3.04%) Talend
8 12 (2.81%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.58%) Splunk
10 10 (2.34%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.64%) SAP
12 5 (1.17%) VMware
13 4 (0.94%) Pega
13 4 (0.94%) WSO2
14 3 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
14 3 (0.70%) RedGate
14 3 (0.70%) Revolut
14 3 (0.70%) Salesforce