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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 157 174
Rank change year-on-year -144 +17 +24
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 461 742 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 2.03% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.80% 10.82% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 336 462 1,007
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £130,000 £110,000
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 6,779 6,855 14,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.20% 18.76% 17.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,215 4,755 11,398
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,063
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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -105 206 £88,750 +1.43% 152
North of England -47 102 £60,000 -11.19% 57
South East -115 71 £55,750 -20.36% 48
Yorkshire -34 46 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -35 44 £75,901 +10.86% 33
South West -35 33 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Midlands -47 24 £46,250 -28.85% 18
East of England -64 20 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -28 15 £43,875 -32.50% 8
North East -27 12 £55,000 -20.73% 6
East Midlands -53 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
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 24 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.99%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.47%) OpenStack
4 14 (3.04%) Confluence
5 13 (2.82%) Apache
5 13 (2.82%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.95%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.87%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.87%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.43%) Camunda
8 2 (0.43%) CMS
8 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (1.95%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 281 (60.95%) AWS
2 179 (38.83%) Azure
3 121 (26.25%) GCP
4 68 (14.75%) Serverless
5 52 (11.28%) GitHub
6 44 (9.54%) SaaS
7 43 (9.33%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
9 35 (7.59%) Amazon S3
10 31 (6.72%) Power Platform
11 29 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
14 25 (5.42%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (5.21%) dbt
16 23 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (3.47%) AWS Step Functions
19 15 (3.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.12%) TCP/IP
2 14 (3.04%) DHCP
2 14 (3.04%) DNS
3 11 (2.39%) VPN
4 10 (2.17%) Firewall
5 9 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.52%) Broadband
6 7 (1.52%) Internet
6 7 (1.52%) Network Security
7 5 (1.08%) iSCSI
7 5 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (1.08%) SAN
8 4 (0.87%) SSL
9 3 (0.65%) VLAN
10 2 (0.43%) HTTP
10 2 (0.43%) LAN
10 2 (0.43%) PBX
10 2 (0.43%) WAN
11 1 (0.22%) LTE
11 1 (0.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (24.08%) SQL Server
2 106 (22.99%) MySQL
3 101 (21.91%) Relational Database
4 88 (19.09%) MongoDB
4 88 (19.09%) NoSQL
5 36 (7.81%) Redis
6 31 (6.72%) DynamoDB
7 29 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
7 29 (6.29%) Power BI
8 24 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (4.12%) DB2
10 16 (3.47%) RDBMS
11 15 (3.25%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (3.04%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.39%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.95%) Big Data
14 9 (1.95%) MariaDB
15 8 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 115 (24.95%) Git
2 56 (12.15%) Jenkins
3 30 (6.51%) JIRA
4 24 (5.21%) GitLab
5 21 (4.56%) Cucumber
5 21 (4.56%) Selenium
6 20 (4.34%) Bitbucket
6 20 (4.34%) JUnit
7 19 (4.12%) TeamCity
8 11 (2.39%) Mockito
9 7 (1.52%) Vite
10 6 (1.30%) Maven
11 5 (1.08%) JMeter
12 4 (0.87%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.65%) Gradle
14 2 (0.43%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.43%) MSTest
14 2 (0.43%) Subversion
14 2 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 131 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 85 (18.44%) Finance
3 48 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.59%) Banking
6 31 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (6.51%) Law
8 26 (5.64%) Retail
9 17 (3.69%) Front Office
10 15 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.60%) Advertising
12 11 (2.39%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.17%) Games
14 8 (1.74%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.52%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.08%) Back Office
17 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.65%) Automotive
18 3 (0.65%) Electronics
18 3 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 149 (32.32%) Developer
2 86 (18.66%) Software Engineer
3 83 (18.00%) Senior
4 69 (14.97%) Lead
5 52 (11.28%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (10.63%) Java Developer
7 37 (8.03%) Data Engineer
7 37 (8.03%) Python Engineer
8 29 (6.29%) Java Engineer
9 27 (5.86%) Lead Developer
10 26 (5.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 25 (5.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 24 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (4.34%) Python Developer
13 20 (4.34%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (4.12%) Analyst
14 19 (4.12%) IT Support
14 19 (4.12%) Java Software Engineer
15 16 (3.47%) DBA
16 14 (3.04%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (31.67%) React
2 87 (18.87%) Node.js
2 87 (18.87%) RESTful
3 68 (14.75%) Spring
4 65 (14.10%) REST
4 65 (14.10%) Spring Boot
5 53 (11.50%) Django
6 49 (10.63%) FastAPI
7 43 (9.33%) HTML
8 42 (9.11%) CSS
9 41 (8.89%) .NET
9 41 (8.89%) Kafka
10 36 (7.81%) AngularJS
11 34 (7.38%) Elastic Stack
12 33 (7.16%) Flask
13 30 (6.51%) Vue
14 26 (5.64%) Next.js
15 24 (5.21%) Web Services
16 23 (4.99%) JSON
17 22 (4.77%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 79 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.63%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.47%) Blog
6 16 (3.47%) Derivative
6 16 (3.47%) Equities
6 16 (3.47%) Fixed Income
6 16 (3.47%) Replication
7 15 (3.25%) Algorithms
7 15 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.82%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.52%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.52%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.52%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 57 (12.36%) Linux
2 26 (5.64%) Windows
3 18 (3.90%) Unix
4 15 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.08%) Android
7 5 (1.08%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.65%) CentOS
8 3 (0.65%) Debian
9 2 (0.43%) VMS
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (42.52%) CI/CD
2 173 (37.53%) Agile
3 153 (33.19%) Software Engineering
4 143 (31.02%) Microservices
5 128 (27.77%) DevOps
6 123 (26.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 103 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (20.17%) Containerisation
9 89 (19.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 89 (19.31%) Test Automation
10 88 (19.09%) AI
11 80 (17.35%) Mentoring
12 62 (13.45%) TDD
13 58 (12.58%) Scrum
14 57 (12.36%) Analytics
14 57 (12.36%) Fintech
15 51 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 51 (11.06%) Data Modelling
16 47 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
17 46 (9.98%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 209 (45.34%) Python
2 163 (35.36%) SQL
3 154 (33.41%) Java
4 114 (24.73%) JavaScript
5 92 (19.96%) TypeScript
6 37 (8.03%) C#
6 37 (8.03%) Go
7 29 (6.29%) PowerShell
8 22 (4.77%) PHP
9 15 (3.25%) C
10 12 (2.60%) Delphi
11 11 (2.39%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.17%) Bash
13 8 (1.74%) C++
14 6 (1.30%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.08%) Rust
16 4 (0.87%) Korn
16 4 (0.87%) Pascal
16 4 (0.87%) Ruby
17 3 (0.65%) RPG
Qualifications
1 64 (13.88%) Degree
2 59 (12.80%) Security Cleared
3 49 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 31 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) RHCE
12 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.43%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.43%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.56%) QA
3 15 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.82%) GDPR
5 10 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.30%) SLA
7 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.43%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 162 (35.14%) Docker
2 26 (5.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.43%) Samba
6 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 159 (34.49%) Kubernetes
2 102 (22.13%) Terraform
3 33 (7.16%) Grafana
4 26 (5.64%) Ansible
5 18 (3.90%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.74%) Argo
6 8 (1.74%) Kibana
7 5 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (1.08%) Nagios
8 4 (0.87%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.65%) Puppet
9 3 (0.65%) Rancher
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) Ambari
11 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.22%) Plesk
11 1 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
11 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (10.20%) Oracle
2 42 (9.11%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.72%) Google
4 14 (3.04%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.39%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.74%) Informatica
6 8 (1.74%) Pega
7 7 (1.52%) IBM
7 7 (1.52%) Talend
8 6 (1.30%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.30%) WSO2
9 5 (1.08%) Confluent
9 5 (1.08%) Databricks
9 5 (1.08%) Dell
9 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.08%) Splunk
10 4 (0.87%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.87%) VMware
11 3 (0.65%) Revolut