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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 220 150
Rank change year-on-year -50 -70 +61
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 670 652 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 1.50% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.24% 9.57% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 502 478 784
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%

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 8,134 6,815 11,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.79% 15.64% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,564 4,488 7,902
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,199
25th Percentile £45,391 £46,250 £45,786
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
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 5 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 5 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 -74 289 £85,000 -19.05% 370
North of England -4 132 £65,000 -3.70% 53
South East -10 129 £60,000 -2.04% 61
North West +1 58 £65,000 -3.70% 35
South West -47 46 £62,500 +8.70% 24
North East -23 41 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire -28 33 £65,000 -7.14% 13
East of England -30 28 £52,500 +64.06% 9
Midlands -52 26 £75,000 +11.01% 28
West Midlands -47 19 £80,000 +18.30% 15
East Midlands -26 7 £60,000 +9.09% 13
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 34 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.88%) Apache
3 22 (3.28%) Confluence
3 22 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (3.13%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.90%) Camunda
6 6 (0.90%) WordPress
7 5 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Documentum
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Moodle
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.15%) Tornado
8 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 384 (57.31%) AWS
2 250 (37.31%) Azure
3 103 (15.37%) GCP
4 83 (12.39%) GitHub
5 62 (9.25%) Serverless
6 57 (8.51%) SaaS
7 51 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (6.42%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.82%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (5.22%) Power Platform
12 30 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (4.18%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.88%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (3.73%) GitHub Copilot
15 25 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.54%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.63%) Broadband
2 15 (2.24%) Firewall
3 13 (1.94%) DNS
4 11 (1.64%) DHCP
5 9 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.19%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.19%) SAN
7 7 (1.04%) VPN
8 4 (0.60%) HTTP
9 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.30%) Network Security
10 2 (0.30%) PBX
10 2 (0.30%) SMS
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
11 1 (0.15%) AMQP
11 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.15%) LAN
11 1 (0.15%) LTE
11 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (26.57%) MongoDB
2 169 (25.22%) MySQL
3 118 (17.61%) Relational Database
4 112 (16.72%) SQL Server
5 103 (15.37%) NoSQL
6 72 (10.75%) Redis
7 38 (5.67%) DynamoDB
8 29 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (4.33%) Power BI
9 26 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
10 22 (3.28%) Metadata
11 20 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (2.84%) Big Data
13 16 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
13 16 (2.39%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.94%) RDBMS
15 12 (1.79%) Data Lake
15 12 (1.79%) Tableau
16 11 (1.64%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 138 (20.60%) Git
2 44 (6.57%) GitLab
3 37 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.58%) JIRA
4 24 (3.58%) JUnit
5 18 (2.69%) Mockito
6 13 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.94%) TeamCity
7 11 (1.64%) Vite
8 10 (1.49%) JMeter
9 8 (1.19%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.90%) Maven
10 6 (0.90%) Selenium
11 5 (0.75%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.60%) Storybook
13 3 (0.45%) Gatling
13 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 158 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 88 (13.13%) Public Sector
3 87 (12.99%) Finance
4 54 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (5.22%) Games
7 33 (4.93%) Law
8 21 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.84%) Legal
9 19 (2.84%) Retail
10 18 (2.69%) Banking
11 17 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.09%) Advertising
13 12 (1.79%) Front Office
13 12 (1.79%) Legal Technology
14 8 (1.19%) Aviation
15 7 (1.04%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.04%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.90%) Automotive
16 6 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 207 (30.90%) Developer
2 168 (25.07%) Senior
3 147 (21.94%) Software Engineer
4 114 (17.01%) Lead
5 66 (9.85%) Python Engineer
6 60 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 51 (7.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 50 (7.46%) Python Developer
9 49 (7.31%) Data Engineer
10 45 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 43 (6.42%) Lead Developer
12 40 (5.97%) Lead Software Engineer
13 36 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
14 35 (5.22%) Senior Developer
15 34 (5.07%) Architect
16 28 (4.18%) Ruby Developer
17 27 (4.03%) Java Developer
17 27 (4.03%) Java Engineer
18 24 (3.58%) Software Developer
19 23 (3.43%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (22.69%) React
2 146 (21.79%) Node.js
3 120 (17.91%) RESTful
4 100 (14.93%) REST
5 77 (11.49%) Spring
6 72 (10.75%) Kafka
6 72 (10.75%) Spring Boot
7 61 (9.10%) CSS
8 58 (8.66%) Next.js
9 55 (8.21%) FastAPI
10 53 (7.91%) HTML
11 50 (7.46%) .NET
12 43 (6.42%) JSON
13 38 (5.67%) AngularJS
14 33 (4.93%) Ruby on Rails
15 32 (4.78%) Django
16 30 (4.48%) JWT
17 28 (4.18%) Flask
18 25 (3.73%) Hibernate
18 25 (3.73%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 146 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 84 (12.54%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.22%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.78%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.33%) Onboarding
6 27 (4.03%) Product Ownership
7 26 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (3.13%) Algorithms
9 20 (2.99%) AI Agents
10 17 (2.54%) Replication
11 15 (2.24%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.94%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.79%) Derivative
13 12 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (1.79%) Equities
13 12 (1.79%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (1.49%) Blog
14 10 (1.49%) EPoS
14 10 (1.49%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 93 (13.88%) Linux
2 41 (6.12%) Windows
3 19 (2.84%) Unix
4 17 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.45%) CentOS
7 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (45.67%) CI/CD
2 245 (36.57%) Software Engineering
3 240 (35.82%) Agile
4 189 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
5 187 (27.91%) AI
6 182 (27.16%) Microservices
7 158 (23.58%) DevOps
8 147 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 138 (20.60%) Mentoring
10 127 (18.96%) Test Automation
11 125 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (18.06%) Containerisation
13 120 (17.91%) Observability
14 117 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
15 87 (12.99%) Analytics
16 86 (12.84%) API Design
17 78 (11.64%) Clean Code
18 73 (10.90%) Data Modelling
19 72 (10.75%) Machine Learning
20 70 (10.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 292 (43.58%) Python
2 202 (30.15%) SQL
3 172 (25.67%) Java
4 132 (19.70%) JavaScript
4 132 (19.70%) TypeScript
5 59 (8.81%) C#
6 55 (8.21%) Go
7 33 (4.93%) Ruby
8 32 (4.78%) Bash
8 32 (4.78%) PowerShell
9 21 (3.13%) PHP
10 16 (2.39%) Scala
11 14 (2.09%) C++
12 11 (1.64%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.49%) RPG
14 7 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.90%) Korn
16 5 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.60%) C
18 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.28%) Degree
3 67 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.90%) PhD
10 4 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.45%) RHCE
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%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.66%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.18%) QA
3 24 (3.58%) GDPR
4 15 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) SLA
7 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.30%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 188 (28.06%) Docker
2 24 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 168 (25.07%) Kubernetes
2 126 (18.81%) Terraform
3 34 (5.07%) Ansible
4 33 (4.93%) Grafana
5 30 (4.48%) Argo
6 21 (3.13%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.64%) Kibana
8 6 (0.90%) Istio
8 6 (0.90%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.90%) Puppet
9 3 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.45%) Plesk
9 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.30%) Nagios
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 73 (10.90%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.81%) Oracle
3 32 (4.78%) Google
4 20 (2.99%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.84%) Databricks
6 15 (2.24%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.49%) IBM
9 9 (1.34%) Splunk
10 8 (1.19%) Dell
11 7 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.90%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.60%) Confluent
13 4 (0.60%) Netezza
13 4 (0.60%) Pega
13 4 (0.60%) Remedy
14 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.45%) VMware
15 2 (0.30%) D-Link
15 2 (0.30%) WSO2