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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 225 156
Rank change year-on-year -36 -69 +56
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 676 639 1,270
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 1.46% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.37% 9.53% 11.37%
Number of salaries quoted 495 465 774
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,233
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +14.97% -6.81%
75th Percentile £86,625 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,308 £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 8,081 6,703 11,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.50% 15.30% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,584 4,391 7,675
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -3.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.51%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -77 296 £85,000 -19.05% 83
South East -8 129 £62,500 +8.70% 48
North of England -1 125 £65,000 -3.70% 24
North West +4 57 £65,000 -3.70% 13
South West -56 46 £62,500 +19.05% 17
North East -30 39 £65,000 +26.83% 5
Midlands -47 31 £72,155 +6.70% 27
Yorkshire -27 29 £67,153 -0.51% 6
East of England -32 29 £52,500 +66.67% 5
West Midlands -38 22 £81,887 +16.98% 15
East Midlands -23 9 £60,000 +9.09% 12
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 33 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.14%) Apache
3 22 (3.25%) Apache Spark
4 21 (3.11%) Confluence
5 17 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.48%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.04%) Camunda
8 6 (0.89%) WordPress
9 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.44%) CMS
11 2 (0.30%) Luigi
11 2 (0.30%) Tornado
12 1 (0.15%) Documentum
12 1 (0.15%) IIS
12 1 (0.15%) JBoss
12 1 (0.15%) Moodle
12 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.63%) 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
1 378 (55.92%) AWS
2 241 (35.65%) Azure
3 96 (14.20%) GitHub
4 94 (13.91%) GCP
5 63 (9.32%) Serverless
6 59 (8.73%) SaaS
7 51 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (6.66%) Amazon S3
9 38 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
11 34 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
12 32 (4.73%) GitHub Copilot
13 31 (4.59%) Power Platform
14 28 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
15 26 (3.85%) Azure AKS
16 25 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
18 20 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
19 18 (2.66%) Amazon SQS
20 17 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.59%) Broadband
2 15 (2.22%) Firewall
3 11 (1.63%) DNS
4 9 (1.33%) DHCP
5 8 (1.18%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.18%) SAN
6 5 (0.74%) VPN
7 4 (0.59%) HTTP
7 4 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.30%) Network Security
8 2 (0.30%) PBX
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
8 2 (0.30%) VLAN
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.15%) Internet
9 1 (0.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.15%) SSL
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (25.59%) MongoDB
2 165 (24.41%) MySQL
3 131 (19.38%) Relational Database
4 121 (17.90%) SQL Server
5 92 (13.61%) NoSQL
6 71 (10.50%) Redis
7 41 (6.07%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
10 25 (3.70%) Power BI
11 21 (3.11%) Metadata
12 20 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (2.96%) Big Data
13 16 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
13 16 (2.37%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.92%) RDBMS
15 12 (1.78%) Data Lake
15 12 (1.78%) Db2
15 12 (1.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 147 (21.75%) Git
2 48 (7.10%) GitLab
3 40 (5.92%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.70%) JUnit
5 24 (3.55%) JIRA
6 19 (2.81%) Mockito
7 12 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.63%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.63%) Vite
9 10 (1.48%) JMeter
10 9 (1.33%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.04%) Storybook
12 6 (0.89%) Selenium
13 5 (0.74%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.74%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.74%) Maven
13 5 (0.74%) Mocha
14 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
15 3 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
General
1 167 (24.70%) Social Skills
2 88 (13.02%) Finance
3 84 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (5.77%) Law
7 37 (5.47%) Games
8 22 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (3.11%) Legal
10 20 (2.96%) Banking
11 17 (2.51%) Retail
12 16 (2.37%) Manufacturing
13 14 (2.07%) Advertising
14 13 (1.92%) Legal Technology
15 9 (1.33%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.18%) Aviation
16 8 (1.18%) Front Office
17 7 (1.04%) Financial Institution
17 7 (1.04%) Tech for Good
17 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 215 (31.80%) Developer
2 181 (26.78%) Senior
3 145 (21.45%) Software Engineer
4 113 (16.72%) Lead
5 66 (9.76%) Python Engineer
6 63 (9.32%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (7.99%) Senior Software Engineer
8 53 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 51 (7.54%) Data Engineer
10 48 (7.10%) Python Developer
11 41 (6.07%) Senior Developer
12 40 (5.92%) Lead Developer
13 36 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
14 35 (5.18%) Lead Software Engineer
15 34 (5.03%) Architect
16 30 (4.44%) Ruby Developer
17 26 (3.85%) Database Engineer
17 26 (3.85%) Java Developer
18 25 (3.70%) Software Developer
19 24 (3.55%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (23.22%) React
2 147 (21.75%) Node.js
3 116 (17.16%) RESTful
4 108 (15.98%) REST
5 80 (11.83%) Spring
6 78 (11.54%) Kafka
7 76 (11.24%) Spring Boot
8 70 (10.36%) CSS
9 64 (9.47%) Next.js
10 59 (8.73%) HTML
11 58 (8.58%) .NET
12 52 (7.69%) FastAPI
13 43 (6.36%) AngularJS
14 42 (6.21%) JSON
15 35 (5.18%) Ruby on Rails
16 33 (4.88%) JWT
17 30 (4.44%) Django
18 27 (3.99%) Flask
19 26 (3.85%) Hibernate
19 26 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 134 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 89 (13.17%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.18%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.73%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 25 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.55%) AI Agents
7 24 (3.55%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.96%) Algorithms
9 18 (2.66%) Replication
10 13 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
10 13 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.48%) EPoS
13 10 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.48%) IoT
13 10 (1.48%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 93 (13.76%) Linux
2 39 (5.77%) Windows
3 17 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.37%) Unix
5 9 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.44%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (46.30%) CI/CD
2 247 (36.54%) Software Engineering
3 239 (35.36%) Agile
4 196 (28.99%) AI
4 196 (28.99%) Full-Stack Development
5 179 (26.48%) Microservices
6 162 (23.96%) DevOps
7 153 (22.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 130 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 129 (19.08%) Mentoring
10 125 (18.49%) Observability
11 122 (18.05%) Containerisation
11 122 (18.05%) Test Automation
12 121 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
13 89 (13.17%) API Design
14 84 (12.43%) Analytics
15 81 (11.98%) Clean Code
16 77 (11.39%) Machine Learning
16 77 (11.39%) Scrum
17 76 (11.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 290 (42.90%) Python
2 189 (27.96%) SQL
3 163 (24.11%) Java
4 139 (20.56%) TypeScript
5 135 (19.97%) JavaScript
6 66 (9.76%) C#
7 59 (8.73%) Go
8 35 (5.18%) Ruby
9 32 (4.73%) Bash
10 27 (3.99%) PowerShell
11 19 (2.81%) PHP
12 16 (2.37%) Scala
13 14 (2.07%) C++
14 11 (1.63%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.48%) RPG
16 6 (0.89%) Korn
16 6 (0.89%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.59%) C
17 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 95 (14.05%) Degree
3 74 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.55%) Master's Degree
6 23 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.51%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.04%) PhD
11 6 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.44%) RHCE
14 2 (0.30%) CISSP
14 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.30%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.59%) QA
3 26 (3.85%) GDPR
4 17 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.89%) SLA
7 4 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.44%) WCAG
9 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 195 (28.85%) Docker
2 21 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.44%) Firmware
4 3 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 173 (25.59%) Kubernetes
2 130 (19.23%) Terraform
3 40 (5.92%) Ansible
4 33 (4.88%) Grafana
5 31 (4.59%) Argo
6 22 (3.25%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.48%) Kibana
8 6 (0.89%) Istio
8 6 (0.89%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.89%) Puppet
9 3 (0.44%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.44%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.44%) Plesk
9 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.30%) Nagios
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 72 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.17%) Oracle
3 28 (4.14%) Google
4 22 (3.25%) OpenAI
5 21 (3.11%) Databricks
6 15 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.92%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.48%) IBM
9 9 (1.33%) Splunk
10 8 (1.18%) Dell
11 7 (1.04%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.59%) Netezza
12 4 (0.59%) Pega
12 4 (0.59%) Remedy
13 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.44%) VMware
14 2 (0.30%) D-Link
14 2 (0.30%) TikTok
14 2 (0.30%) WSO2