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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 138 182
Rank change year-on-year -94 +44 -6
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 488 1,141 809
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.99% 2.05% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.14% 11.80% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 355 514 681
10th Percentile £42,155 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £98,750 £89,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £116,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -6.90%

All Database and 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 5,994 9,669 9,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.18% 17.37% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,975 5,633 7,615
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,017 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -31 291 £98,750 +14.49% 159
North of England -12 77 £70,000 +1.00% 147
South East -103 61 £62,500 -12.28% 195
Yorkshire +4 38 £70,000 -3.45% 66
Midlands +11 37 £55,200 -15.08% 115
North West -19 28 £70,000 +14.29% 74
South West -33 28 £50,000 -23.08% 76
West Midlands +21 24 £61,350 -5.62% 58
East Midlands +3 13 £55,000 - 52
East of England -44 12 £42,500 -26.09% 90
North East +12 11 £52,500 -24.25% 7
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 63 (12.91%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (5.53%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.89%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.48%) Tomcat
5 16 (3.28%) WebSphere Application Server
6 15 (3.07%) Confluence
7 9 (1.84%) OpenStack
8 8 (1.64%) nginx
9 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.82%) Apache
11 3 (0.61%) CMS
11 3 (0.61%) Luigi
12 2 (0.41%) Camunda
12 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.41%) SAS
12 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.20%) IIS
13 1 (0.20%) JBoss
13 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (1.43%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Endur
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 351 (71.93%) AWS
2 163 (33.40%) Azure
3 147 (30.12%) GCP
4 80 (16.39%) Serverless
5 66 (13.52%) dbt
6 55 (11.27%) Amazon ECS
7 49 (10.04%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (10.04%) GitHub
8 41 (8.40%) Amazon S3
9 38 (7.79%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (6.97%) SaaS
12 28 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (4.51%) Power Platform
14 18 (3.69%) Amazon ECR
15 16 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (3.07%) Amazon EMR
16 15 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.89%) SSL
2 14 (2.87%) Firewall
3 13 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.43%) DNS
4 7 (1.43%) HTTP
5 6 (1.23%) iSCSI
5 6 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (1.23%) SAN
6 5 (1.02%) FTP
6 5 (1.02%) IMAP
6 5 (1.02%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (1.02%) SMTP
6 5 (1.02%) SSH
6 5 (1.02%) VPN
6 5 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.61%) MQTT
8 2 (0.41%) Multicast
8 2 (0.41%) PuTTY
8 2 (0.41%) RTMP
8 2 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 113 (23.16%) Relational Database
3 102 (20.90%) MySQL
4 80 (16.39%) MongoDB
5 76 (15.57%) NoSQL
6 50 (10.25%) Apache Iceberg
7 47 (9.63%) Amazon Athena
8 45 (9.22%) Apache Arrow
8 45 (9.22%) Dremio
9 44 (9.02%) RDBMS
10 39 (7.99%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (7.17%) DB2
11 35 (7.17%) Redis
12 31 (6.35%) DynamoDB
13 27 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (4.51%) Big Data
15 21 (4.30%) Power BI
16 18 (3.69%) Apache Cassandra
16 18 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (3.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 95 (19.47%) Jenkins
2 82 (16.80%) Git
3 36 (7.38%) JUnit
4 30 (6.15%) JIRA
5 26 (5.33%) JMeter
6 25 (5.12%) Cucumber
6 25 (5.12%) GitLab
7 24 (4.92%) Mockito
8 22 (4.51%) Selenium
9 18 (3.69%) Bitbucket
10 10 (2.05%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.43%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.02%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.02%) Vagrant
13 4 (0.82%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.82%) Gradle
13 4 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.82%) Subversion
13 4 (0.82%) Vite
14 3 (0.61%) Maven
General
1 129 (26.43%) Finance
2 114 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 49 (10.04%) Front Office
3 49 (10.04%) Public Sector
4 38 (7.79%) Banking
5 37 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.12%) Law
7 21 (4.30%) Marketing
8 18 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.87%) Retail
10 13 (2.66%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.46%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.84%) Electronics
14 9 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.64%) Advertising
16 6 (1.23%) Legal
17 3 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 206 (42.21%) Developer
2 93 (19.06%) Software Engineer
3 82 (16.80%) Senior
4 67 (13.73%) Python Developer
5 57 (11.68%) Java Developer
5 57 (11.68%) Lead
6 53 (10.86%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (10.66%) Python Engineer
8 50 (10.25%) AWS Developer
8 50 (10.25%) Full-Stack Developer
9 47 (9.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 47 (9.63%) Python Software Engineer
10 46 (9.43%) AWS Software Engineer
11 31 (6.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 31 (6.35%) Software Developer
12 27 (5.53%) Data Engineer
13 25 (5.12%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (4.92%) Lead Developer
15 23 (4.71%) Linux Support
16 21 (4.30%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (30.74%) React
2 112 (22.95%) Node.js
3 82 (16.80%) Spring
4 77 (15.78%) AngularJS
4 77 (15.78%) REST
5 74 (15.16%) Spring Boot
6 70 (14.34%) RESTful
7 64 (13.11%) Vue
8 60 (12.30%) HTML
9 58 (11.89%) FastAPI
10 56 (11.48%) Django
11 50 (10.25%) Kafka
12 46 (9.43%) NumPy
12 46 (9.43%) Pandas
13 45 (9.22%) SciPy
14 42 (8.61%) CSS
15 40 (8.20%) .NET
16 39 (7.99%) Flask
17 34 (6.97%) Web Services
18 29 (5.94%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 64 (13.11%) Distributed Systems
2 58 (11.89%) Cloud Native
3 47 (9.63%) Equities
3 47 (9.63%) Fixed Income
3 47 (9.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (5.94%) Management Information System
5 25 (5.12%) Linux Command Line
6 24 (4.92%) Product Ownership
7 16 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.66%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.66%) Replication
9 12 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.05%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.23%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.02%) Clustering
15 4 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 79 (16.19%) Linux
2 39 (7.99%) Windows
3 36 (7.38%) Unix
4 24 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.43%) VMS
7 6 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (1.02%) Android
8 5 (1.02%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.02%) Debian
9 3 (0.61%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.20%) Fedora
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (43.85%) Agile
2 207 (42.42%) CI/CD
3 162 (33.20%) Software Engineering
4 146 (29.92%) Microservices
5 126 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (25.00%) DevOps
7 102 (20.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 96 (19.67%) Fintech
9 89 (18.24%) Containerisation
10 79 (16.19%) AI
11 70 (14.34%) Mentoring
12 62 (12.70%) Test Automation
13 60 (12.30%) TDD
14 55 (11.27%) Clean Code
14 55 (11.27%) ETL
15 50 (10.25%) Infrastructure as Code
16 49 (10.04%) Data Engineering
17 48 (9.84%) Asset Management
17 48 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
17 48 (9.84%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 266 (54.51%) Python
2 151 (30.94%) JavaScript
3 150 (30.74%) Java
4 143 (29.30%) SQL
5 113 (23.16%) TypeScript
6 42 (8.61%) C#
7 24 (4.92%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.69%) Go
9 14 (2.87%) PHP
9 14 (2.87%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.66%) Bash
11 10 (2.05%) Rust
12 8 (1.64%) Delphi
13 7 (1.43%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.23%) Korn
14 6 (1.23%) Ruby
15 5 (1.02%) Groovy
15 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.82%) C
17 3 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 63 (12.91%) Degree
3 52 (10.66%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.17%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.69%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.84%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.41%) HNC
11 2 (0.41%) HND
11 2 (0.41%) MCSA
11 2 (0.41%) MCSE
11 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.35%) QA
2 21 (4.30%) SLA
3 13 (2.66%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.66%) GDPR
4 10 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.61%) SEPA
6 2 (0.41%) NIST
6 2 (0.41%) PSD2
7 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.20%) GAAP
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 185 (37.91%) Docker
2 6 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (1.02%) DFS Replication
3 5 (1.02%) Dovecot
3 5 (1.02%) Postfix
3 5 (1.02%) Squid
4 3 (0.61%) zsh
5 2 (0.41%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.41%) HDFS
5 2 (0.41%) NFS
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (30.12%) Kubernetes
2 74 (15.16%) Terraform
3 30 (6.15%) Kibana
4 26 (5.33%) Grafana
5 19 (3.89%) Ansible
5 19 (3.89%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.43%) Argo
7 6 (1.23%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (1.02%) Nessus
8 5 (1.02%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.02%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.82%) Puppet
10 3 (0.61%) logstash
10 3 (0.61%) Nagios
11 2 (0.41%) Oozie
12 1 (0.20%) Ambari
12 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.20%) Rancher
12 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 68 (13.93%) Oracle
2 29 (5.94%) Red Hat
2 29 (5.94%) Splunk
3 26 (5.33%) Google
3 26 (5.33%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.51%) Dynatrace
5 21 (4.30%) IBM
6 19 (3.89%) Informatica
6 19 (3.89%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.07%) Talend
8 14 (2.87%) Atlassian
9 12 (2.46%) SAP
10 8 (1.64%) Dell
11 7 (1.43%) Databricks
11 7 (1.43%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
12 5 (1.02%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.82%) Pega
13 4 (0.82%) RedGate
13 4 (0.82%) WSO2