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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 237 146
Rank change year-on-year -27 -91 +65
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 714 575 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 1.34% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.01% 9.18% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 509 404 627
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,750 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +13.62% -0.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £117,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
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 7,921 6,264 10,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.63% 14.57% 15.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,538 4,048 6,110
10th Percentile £36,853 £33,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -71 321 £82,500 -21.43% 623
South East -13 131 £66,250 -1.85% 74
North of England -12 125 £65,000 -3.70% 113
North West -13 58 £62,500 -7.41% 68
South West -60 50 £65,000 +25.00% 53
Midlands -53 40 £75,000 +5.26% 41
North East -36 39 £65,000 +26.83% 14
West Midlands -43 31 £83,774 +15.55% 31
East of England -29 30 £52,500 +72.13% 37
Yorkshire -29 28 £67,155 -4.06% 33
East Midlands -37 9 £60,000 +20.00% 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 27 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.36%) Apache
3 20 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.80%) Confluence
4 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.98%) Camunda
6 6 (0.84%) WordPress
7 4 (0.56%) nginx
8 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.28%) Luigi
9 2 (0.28%) Tornado
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.14%) Documentum
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.54%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.28%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Finacle
2 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 399 (55.88%) AWS
2 239 (33.47%) Azure
3 118 (16.53%) GitHub
4 93 (13.03%) GCP
5 74 (10.36%) Serverless
6 65 (9.10%) SaaS
7 57 (7.98%) Amazon EKS
8 52 (7.28%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
10 45 (6.30%) Amazon S3
11 40 (5.60%) GitHub Copilot
12 30 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
15 27 (3.78%) Azure AKS
16 26 (3.64%) Power Platform
17 20 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (2.66%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.38%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.36%) Broadband
2 14 (1.96%) Firewall
3 10 (1.40%) DNS
3 10 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.12%) VPN
5 7 (0.98%) HTTP
6 6 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.70%) DHCP
7 5 (0.70%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.70%) SAN
7 5 (0.70%) VLAN
8 4 (0.56%) BGP
9 3 (0.42%) 4G
9 3 (0.42%) 5G
9 3 (0.42%) SSH
10 2 (0.28%) Network Security
10 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.28%) SMS
11 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (22.97%) MongoDB
2 148 (20.73%) MySQL
3 132 (18.49%) Relational Database
4 126 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 86 (12.04%) Redis
6 85 (11.90%) NoSQL
7 45 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (5.60%) DynamoDB
9 35 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 25 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.94%) Power BI
13 20 (2.80%) Metadata
14 18 (2.52%) Big Data
15 16 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (2.24%) Data Lake
16 15 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (1.96%) Pinecone
18 12 (1.68%) Oracle Database
18 12 (1.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 160 (22.41%) Git
2 63 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.12%) GitLab
4 23 (3.22%) JUnit
4 23 (3.22%) TeamCity
5 20 (2.80%) JIRA
6 16 (2.24%) Mockito
7 13 (1.82%) JMeter
8 12 (1.68%) Vite
9 11 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.54%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.54%) Selenium
10 7 (0.98%) Storybook
11 6 (0.84%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.84%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.84%) Maven
12 5 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.70%) Mocha
13 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 168 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 88 (12.32%) Finance
3 85 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 72 (10.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (7.14%) Law
7 38 (5.32%) Banking
8 31 (4.34%) Retail
9 27 (3.78%) Games
10 22 (3.08%) Legal
11 18 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.82%) Legal Technology
13 12 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.54%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.40%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.26%) Aerospace
17 8 (1.12%) Aviation
18 7 (0.98%) Tech for Good
19 6 (0.84%) Automotive
20 5 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 216 (30.25%) Developer
2 198 (27.73%) Senior
3 159 (22.27%) Software Engineer
4 99 (13.87%) Lead
5 62 (8.68%) Python Engineer
5 62 (8.68%) Senior Software Engineer
6 61 (8.54%) Full-Stack Developer
7 51 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 51 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 50 (7.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 46 (6.44%) DevOps Engineer
9 46 (6.44%) Python Developer
10 37 (5.18%) Architect
11 35 (4.90%) Software Developer
12 32 (4.48%) Lead Developer
13 31 (4.34%) AWS Engineer
13 31 (4.34%) Database Engineer
14 30 (4.20%) DBA
15 29 (4.06%) Ruby Developer
16 27 (3.78%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (23.53%) React
2 158 (22.13%) Terraform
3 142 (19.89%) Node.js
4 123 (17.23%) REST
5 116 (16.25%) RESTful
6 94 (13.17%) Kafka
7 80 (11.20%) Spring
8 76 (10.64%) Spring Boot
9 73 (10.22%) .NET
10 68 (9.52%) CSS
11 64 (8.96%) Next.js
12 56 (7.84%) FastAPI
12 56 (7.84%) HTML
13 41 (5.74%) AngularJS
13 41 (5.74%) JSON
14 34 (4.76%) Ruby on Rails
15 31 (4.34%) JWT
16 29 (4.06%) Vue
17 28 (3.92%) Django
18 27 (3.78%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 153 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 104 (14.57%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (3.92%) Blog
3 28 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (3.92%) Low-Code
4 26 (3.64%) Replication
5 25 (3.50%) Video\Live Streaming
6 23 (3.22%) AI Agents
7 22 (3.08%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 16 (2.24%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.96%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (1.40%) EPoS
13 10 (1.40%) iSeries
13 10 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (13.45%) Linux
2 39 (5.46%) Windows
3 18 (2.52%) Unix
4 15 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Debian
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (49.44%) CI/CD
2 262 (36.69%) Software Engineering
3 242 (33.89%) Agile
4 219 (30.67%) AI
5 193 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 185 (25.91%) Microservices
7 180 (25.21%) DevOps
8 167 (23.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 150 (21.01%) Observability
10 144 (20.17%) Test Automation
11 130 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 128 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
13 127 (17.79%) Mentoring
14 122 (17.09%) Containerisation
15 91 (12.75%) Clean Code
16 88 (12.32%) Event-Driven
17 82 (11.48%) Analytics
18 81 (11.34%) Machine Learning
19 79 (11.06%) Scrum
20 77 (10.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 303 (42.44%) Python
2 208 (29.13%) SQL
3 174 (24.37%) Java
4 139 (19.47%) TypeScript
5 132 (18.49%) JavaScript
6 79 (11.06%) C#
7 62 (8.68%) Go
8 43 (6.02%) Bash
9 34 (4.76%) Ruby
10 23 (3.22%) PHP
11 22 (3.08%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.38%) Scala
13 16 (2.24%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.82%) C++
15 11 (1.54%) Groovy
16 10 (1.40%) RPG
17 7 (0.98%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.70%) Korn
19 4 (0.56%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 114 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 93 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.76%) Degree
4 30 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.50%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.36%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.26%) PhD
10 7 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.56%) CISSP
12 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.28%) CCSP
14 2 (0.28%) CISM
14 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.20%) QA
3 25 (3.50%) GDPR
4 21 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.12%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.56%) SLA
7 4 (0.56%) WCAG
8 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.28%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 216 (30.25%) Docker
2 12 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) NFS
6 1 (0.14%) Samba
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 195 (27.31%) Kubernetes
2 70 (9.80%) Grafana
3 43 (6.02%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.74%) Ansible
5 36 (5.04%) Argo
6 13 (1.82%) Kibana
7 12 (1.68%) Rancher
8 7 (0.98%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.84%) Istio
9 6 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.84%) Puppet
10 3 (0.42%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.42%) Plesk
10 3 (0.42%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.28%) Cilium
11 2 (0.28%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) Nagios
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 76 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.54%) Oracle
3 25 (3.50%) Databricks
3 25 (3.50%) Dynatrace
3 25 (3.50%) Google
4 24 (3.36%) OpenAI
5 14 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.40%) IBM
7 10 (1.40%) Splunk
8 9 (1.26%) Mistral
9 5 (0.70%) Dell
10 4 (0.56%) Netezza
10 4 (0.56%) Remedy
10 4 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.56%) VMware
11 3 (0.42%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.42%) SAP
12 2 (0.28%) Informatica
12 2 (0.28%) TikTok