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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 135 180
Rank change year-on-year -119 +45 +9
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 443 1,056 843
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.84% 2.19% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.57% 12.18% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 323 480 709
10th Percentile £41,385 £50,000 £44,550
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -3.57%

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 5,852 8,668 9,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.13% 17.96% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,865 4,882 7,774
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 9 January 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 January 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 -51 254 £95,000 +8.57% 170
North of England +3 78 £73,801 +6.48% 133
South East -124 46 £60,000 -25.00% 229
Yorkshire +14 42 £70,000 - 61
Midlands -3 31 £60,100 -7.54% 91
South West -53 29 £50,000 -23.08% 105
North West -8 28 £85,000 +30.77% 52
West Midlands +10 21 £61,350 -5.62% 26
East of England -41 14 £42,500 -26.09% 120
East Midlands -20 10 £60,100 +0.17% 61
North East +6 8 £55,200 -20.35% 20
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 42 (9.48%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (5.19%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.29%) WebSphere
4 18 (4.06%) Confluence
5 17 (3.84%) Tomcat
6 16 (3.61%) WebSphere Application Server
7 13 (2.93%) OpenStack
8 7 (1.58%) nginx
9 5 (1.13%) Apache
10 3 (0.68%) CMS
10 3 (0.68%) Luigi
11 2 (0.45%) Camunda
11 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.23%) IIS
12 1 (0.23%) JBoss
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (2.03%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 313 (70.65%) AWS
2 150 (33.86%) Azure
3 116 (26.19%) GCP
4 77 (17.38%) Serverless
5 52 (11.74%) GitHub
6 48 (10.84%) Amazon ECS
7 46 (10.38%) dbt
8 45 (10.16%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (10.16%) Amazon S3
9 38 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (8.13%) SaaS
11 34 (7.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (4.97%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (4.51%) Power Platform
17 18 (4.06%) Amazon ECR
18 16 (3.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.29%) SSL
2 16 (3.61%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.48%) Firewall
4 8 (1.81%) DNS
5 7 (1.58%) VPN
5 7 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.35%) HTTP
6 6 (1.35%) Internet
7 4 (0.90%) FTP
7 4 (0.90%) IMAP
7 4 (0.90%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.90%) SMTP
7 4 (0.90%) SSH
7 4 (0.90%) VLAN
8 3 (0.68%) MQTT
8 3 (0.68%) WAN
9 2 (0.45%) DHCP
9 2 (0.45%) OSPF
9 2 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.45%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (26.64%) SQL Server
2 97 (21.90%) Relational Database
3 94 (21.22%) MySQL
4 79 (17.83%) MongoDB
5 72 (16.25%) NoSQL
6 38 (8.58%) DB2
7 36 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (7.90%) Redis
9 32 (7.22%) DynamoDB
10 31 (7.00%) Apache Iceberg
11 30 (6.77%) RDBMS
12 26 (5.87%) Amazon Athena
12 26 (5.87%) Apache Arrow
12 26 (5.87%) Dremio
13 25 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (4.74%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (4.29%) Power BI
16 17 (3.84%) Apache Cassandra
17 15 (3.39%) Big Data
17 15 (3.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 93 (20.99%) Git
1 93 (20.99%) Jenkins
2 31 (7.00%) JIRA
3 29 (6.55%) GitLab
4 28 (6.32%) Cucumber
4 28 (6.32%) JUnit
5 25 (5.64%) Selenium
6 20 (4.51%) Bitbucket
7 18 (4.06%) JMeter
8 16 (3.61%) Mockito
9 13 (2.93%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.58%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.35%) Vite
12 5 (1.13%) REST Assured
13 4 (0.90%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.90%) Subversion
13 4 (0.90%) Vagrant
14 3 (0.68%) Gradle
14 3 (0.68%) TestRail
General
1 118 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 102 (23.02%) Finance
3 40 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.13%) Banking
6 27 (6.09%) Front Office
7 20 (4.51%) Law
8 18 (4.06%) Retail
9 17 (3.84%) Marketing
10 12 (2.71%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.26%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.26%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.81%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.58%) Electronics
15 6 (1.35%) Advertising
15 6 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 177 (39.95%) Developer
2 73 (16.48%) Senior
3 69 (15.58%) Software Engineer
4 50 (11.29%) Java Developer
5 49 (11.06%) Lead
6 48 (10.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (10.84%) Python Developer
7 36 (8.13%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (7.67%) Python Engineer
9 32 (7.22%) AWS Developer
10 30 (6.77%) Python Software Engineer
11 29 (6.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 27 (6.09%) AWS Software Engineer
13 26 (5.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 24 (5.42%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (5.42%) Software Developer
15 23 (5.19%) Data Engineer
16 21 (4.74%) Applications Support
16 21 (4.74%) Linux Support
17 19 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (29.57%) React
2 95 (21.44%) Node.js
3 77 (17.38%) Spring
4 70 (15.80%) RESTful
5 69 (15.58%) Spring Boot
6 67 (15.12%) REST
7 60 (13.54%) AngularJS
8 55 (12.42%) FastAPI
9 53 (11.96%) Django
9 53 (11.96%) HTML
10 48 (10.84%) Vue
11 45 (10.16%) Kafka
12 43 (9.71%) .NET
12 43 (9.71%) CSS
13 35 (7.90%) Elastic Stack
14 32 (7.22%) Flask
15 30 (6.77%) Web Services
16 27 (6.09%) NumPy
16 27 (6.09%) Pandas
17 26 (5.87%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.32%) Distributed Systems
2 56 (12.64%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.87%) Equities
3 26 (5.87%) Fixed Income
3 26 (5.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 24 (5.42%) Management Information System
5 23 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
6 21 (4.74%) Product Ownership
7 15 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.93%) Replication
10 12 (2.71%) Algorithms
11 11 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.81%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (1.58%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.58%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.35%) Clustering
15 4 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 78 (17.61%) Linux
2 38 (8.58%) Windows
3 33 (7.45%) Unix
4 22 (4.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.71%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.58%) Android
6 7 (1.58%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.35%) VMS
8 5 (1.13%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.90%) Debian
10 3 (0.68%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.23%) Fedora
12 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (43.79%) CI/CD
2 183 (41.31%) Agile
3 143 (32.28%) Microservices
4 132 (29.80%) Problem-Solving
5 131 (29.57%) Software Engineering
6 123 (27.77%) DevOps
7 97 (21.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 94 (21.22%) Containerisation
9 73 (16.48%) AI
10 71 (16.03%) Fintech
11 63 (14.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 60 (13.54%) Test Automation
13 56 (12.64%) Mentoring
14 53 (11.96%) Technical Leadership
15 51 (11.51%) ETL
15 51 (11.51%) Scrum
16 50 (11.29%) TDD
17 46 (10.38%) Clean Code
18 43 (9.71%) Business Intelligence
18 43 (9.71%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 233 (52.60%) Python
2 139 (31.38%) SQL
3 138 (31.15%) Java
4 128 (28.89%) JavaScript
5 94 (21.22%) TypeScript
6 39 (8.80%) C#
7 24 (5.42%) Go
8 15 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 15 (3.39%) Shell Script
9 14 (3.16%) PHP
10 10 (2.26%) C
11 9 (2.03%) Rust
12 8 (1.81%) Delphi
13 6 (1.35%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.13%) Bash
14 5 (1.13%) Ruby
15 4 (0.90%) Groovy
16 3 (0.68%) Korn
16 3 (0.68%) RPG
16 3 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (14.90%) Security Cleared
2 61 (13.77%) Degree
3 44 (9.93%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.67%) AWS Certification
5 24 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.06%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.71%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.45%) HNC
11 2 (0.45%) HND
11 2 (0.45%) MCSA
11 2 (0.45%) MCSE
11 2 (0.45%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.74%) SLA
2 18 (4.06%) QA
3 13 (2.93%) GDPR
4 10 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.68%) SEPA
7 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.45%) PSD2
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) GAAP
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 172 (38.83%) Docker
2 4 (0.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.90%) DFS Replication
2 4 (0.90%) Dovecot
2 4 (0.90%) Postfix
2 4 (0.90%) Squid
3 2 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.45%) NFS
3 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) zsh
Systems Management
1 146 (32.96%) Kubernetes
2 87 (19.64%) Terraform
3 28 (6.32%) Ansible
4 23 (5.19%) Grafana
5 19 (4.29%) Kibana
6 16 (3.61%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.03%) Argo
8 6 (1.35%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (1.13%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.90%) Nessus
10 4 (0.90%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.90%) Puppet
11 3 (0.68%) Nagios
12 2 (0.45%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.45%) Rancher
13 1 (0.23%) Ambari
13 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (14.67%) Oracle
2 26 (5.87%) Red Hat
3 24 (5.42%) Google
4 23 (5.19%) Microsoft
5 22 (4.97%) IBM
6 18 (4.06%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.84%) Atlassian
8 16 (3.61%) Splunk
9 15 (3.39%) Informatica
10 13 (2.93%) Dynatrace
10 13 (2.93%) Talend
11 9 (2.03%) SAP
12 8 (1.81%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.90%) Dell
13 4 (0.90%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.90%) Pega
13 4 (0.90%) VMware
13 4 (0.90%) WSO2
14 3 (0.68%) RedGate
14 3 (0.68%) Salesforce