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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 219 155
Rank change year-on-year -50 -64 +57
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 667 639 1,263
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.46% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.32% 9.52% 11.23%
Number of salaries quoted 488 462 765
10th Percentile £42,350 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,938 £57,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £75,000 £65,001
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,500 £110,000 £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 8,014 6,710 11,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.35% 15.31% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,562 4,418 7,575
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 24 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 24 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 -75 290 £85,000 -19.05% 102
North of England 0 125 £65,000 -3.70% 29
South East -12 125 £65,000 +4.00% 49
North West -9 58 £65,000 -3.70% 20
South West -58 47 £62,500 +25.00% 26
North East -24 40 £65,000 +26.83% 3
Midlands -50 32 £75,000 +7.14% 27
East of England -30 29 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Yorkshire -24 27 £69,308 +2.68% 6
West Midlands -29 23 £83,774 +15.55% 14
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 32 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.05%) Apache
3 21 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.15%) Confluence
4 14 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.05%) Camunda
7 6 (0.90%) WordPress
8 5 (0.75%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.45%) CMS
10 2 (0.30%) Luigi
10 2 (0.30%) Tornado
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.15%) Documentum
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.65%) 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
1 368 (55.17%) AWS
2 234 (35.08%) Azure
3 98 (14.69%) GitHub
4 85 (12.74%) GCP
5 65 (9.75%) Serverless
6 60 (9.00%) SaaS
7 51 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (7.05%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
9 39 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
10 34 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
11 32 (4.80%) GitHub Copilot
12 30 (4.50%) Power Platform
13 28 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (3.90%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.65%) Broadband
2 13 (1.95%) Firewall
3 10 (1.50%) DNS
4 8 (1.20%) DHCP
5 6 (0.90%) iSCSI
5 6 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (0.90%) SAN
6 4 (0.60%) HTTP
6 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.60%) VPN
7 2 (0.30%) SMS
7 2 (0.30%) VLAN
8 1 (0.15%) AMQP
8 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.15%) LAN
8 1 (0.15%) Multicast
8 1 (0.15%) Network Security
8 1 (0.15%) PBX
8 1 (0.15%) WAN
8 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (25.34%) MongoDB
2 160 (23.99%) MySQL
3 130 (19.49%) Relational Database
4 118 (17.69%) SQL Server
5 88 (13.19%) NoSQL
6 68 (10.19%) Redis
7 42 (6.30%) DynamoDB
8 31 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (3.60%) Power BI
12 21 (3.15%) Metadata
13 20 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (2.85%) Big Data
15 17 (2.55%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
17 13 (1.95%) RDBMS
18 12 (1.80%) Data Lake
18 12 (1.80%) Db2
18 12 (1.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 147 (22.04%) Git
2 48 (7.20%) GitLab
3 40 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.75%) JUnit
5 23 (3.45%) JIRA
6 19 (2.85%) Mockito
7 12 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.65%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.50%) JMeter
9 10 (1.50%) Vite
10 9 (1.35%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.05%) Storybook
12 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.90%) Maven
12 6 (0.90%) Selenium
13 5 (0.75%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.75%) Mocha
14 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
15 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
General
1 163 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 84 (12.59%) Finance
3 83 (12.44%) Public Sector
4 55 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (5.85%) Law
7 36 (5.40%) Games
8 21 (3.15%) Legal
9 20 (3.00%) Banking
10 19 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.55%) Retail
12 13 (1.95%) Advertising
12 13 (1.95%) Legal Technology
13 9 (1.35%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.20%) Aviation
15 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.05%) Tech for Good
15 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 212 (31.78%) Developer
2 180 (26.99%) Senior
3 142 (21.29%) Software Engineer
4 107 (16.04%) Lead
5 65 (9.75%) Python Engineer
6 63 (9.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (8.10%) Senior Software Engineer
8 52 (7.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 50 (7.50%) Data Engineer
10 46 (6.90%) Python Developer
11 42 (6.30%) Senior Developer
12 36 (5.40%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (5.40%) Lead Developer
13 34 (5.10%) Architect
14 31 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
15 30 (4.50%) Ruby Developer
16 26 (3.90%) Database Engineer
16 26 (3.90%) Java Developer
17 25 (3.75%) Software Developer
18 24 (3.60%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (23.09%) React
2 143 (21.44%) Node.js
3 129 (19.34%) Terraform
4 117 (17.54%) RESTful
5 111 (16.64%) REST
6 79 (11.84%) Spring
7 78 (11.69%) Kafka
8 75 (11.24%) Spring Boot
9 70 (10.49%) CSS
10 62 (9.30%) Next.js
11 60 (9.00%) .NET
12 57 (8.55%) HTML
13 51 (7.65%) FastAPI
14 43 (6.45%) AngularJS
15 42 (6.30%) JSON
16 35 (5.25%) JWT
16 35 (5.25%) Ruby on Rails
17 30 (4.50%) Django
18 27 (4.05%) Flask
19 26 (3.90%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 133 (19.94%) Cloud Native
2 88 (13.19%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.25%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.80%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (4.20%) Product Ownership
6 25 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.60%) AI Agents
8 23 (3.45%) Onboarding
9 20 (3.00%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.70%) Replication
11 13 (1.95%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.65%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.50%) EPoS
14 10 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.50%) IoT
14 10 (1.50%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 90 (13.49%) Linux
2 38 (5.70%) Windows
3 16 (2.40%) Unix
3 16 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.30%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (46.63%) CI/CD
2 243 (36.43%) Software Engineering
3 232 (34.78%) Agile
4 196 (29.39%) AI
4 196 (29.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 178 (26.69%) Microservices
6 161 (24.14%) DevOps
7 151 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 129 (19.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 124 (18.59%) Mentoring
9 124 (18.59%) Observability
10 122 (18.29%) Test Automation
11 120 (17.99%) Containerisation
12 119 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
13 89 (13.34%) API Design
14 82 (12.29%) Analytics
15 80 (11.99%) Clean Code
15 80 (11.99%) Data Modelling
16 77 (11.54%) Scrum
17 76 (11.39%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 284 (42.58%) Python
2 187 (28.04%) SQL
3 162 (24.29%) Java
4 134 (20.09%) TypeScript
5 129 (19.34%) JavaScript
6 67 (10.04%) C#
7 59 (8.85%) Go
8 35 (5.25%) Ruby
9 30 (4.50%) Bash
10 25 (3.75%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.70%) PHP
12 17 (2.55%) Scala
13 14 (2.10%) C++
14 11 (1.65%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.50%) RPG
16 6 (0.90%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.75%) Korn
18 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
19 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
19 3 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 94 (14.09%) Degree
1 94 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 72 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (3.60%) Master's Degree
5 22 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.05%) PhD
10 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
12 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.30%) RHCE
12 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.15%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.40%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.95%) QA
3 26 (3.90%) GDPR
4 17 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.75%) SLA
7 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.45%) 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
1 188 (28.19%) Docker
2 17 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.05%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Samba
5 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 167 (25.04%) Kubernetes
2 40 (6.00%) Ansible
3 35 (5.25%) Grafana
4 31 (4.65%) Argo
5 21 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.50%) Kibana
7 6 (0.90%) Istio
7 6 (0.90%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.90%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.90%) Puppet
8 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.45%) Plesk
8 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.30%) Nagios
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.30%) Rancher
10 1 (0.15%) Consul
Vendors
1 70 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.30%) Oracle
3 26 (3.90%) Google
4 22 (3.30%) OpenAI
5 21 (3.15%) Databricks
6 13 (1.95%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.50%) IBM
8 9 (1.35%) Splunk
9 6 (0.90%) Dell
9 6 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.60%) Netezza
10 4 (0.60%) Pega
10 4 (0.60%) Remedy
11 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.45%) VMware
12 2 (0.30%) TikTok
12 2 (0.30%) UiPath
12 2 (0.30%) WSO2