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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 222 153
Rank change year-on-year -45 -69 +52
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 679 643 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 1.47% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.37% 9.47% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 504 470 778
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 8,116 6,791 11,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.64% 15.55% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,589 4,428 7,777
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £45,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,625 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% -3.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 12 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 12 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 -73 299 £85,000 -19.05% 619
North of England -12 131 £65,000 -3.70% 68
South East -15 128 £61,250 - 90
North West -15 59 £65,000 -3.70% 42
South West -50 46 £62,500 +8.70% 38
North East -25 41 £60,000 +15.66% 11
Yorkshire -23 31 £65,000 -3.70% 15
East of England -34 29 £52,500 +66.67% 19
Midlands -40 27 £75,000 +11.01% 33
West Midlands -38 20 £81,887 +19.00% 15
East Midlands -23 7 £60,000 +9.09% 18
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 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (3.98%) Apache
3 22 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.24%) Confluence
4 19 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.03%) Camunda
7 6 (0.88%) WordPress
8 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) Luigi
9 2 (0.29%) Tornado
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Documentum
10 1 (0.15%) Moodle
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (1.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 384 (56.55%) AWS
2 249 (36.67%) Azure
3 101 (14.87%) GCP
4 90 (13.25%) GitHub
5 63 (9.28%) Serverless
6 58 (8.54%) SaaS
7 51 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (6.48%) Amazon S3
9 41 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (5.01%) Power Platform
12 33 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (4.27%) GitHub Copilot
14 28 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
15 26 (3.83%) Azure AKS
16 25 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
18 22 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
19 18 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
20 17 (2.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.57%) Broadband
2 15 (2.21%) Firewall
3 12 (1.77%) DNS
4 10 (1.47%) DHCP
5 8 (1.18%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.18%) SAN
5 8 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.88%) VPN
7 4 (0.59%) HTTP
8 2 (0.29%) Network Security
8 2 (0.29%) PBX
8 2 (0.29%) SMS
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
8 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.15%) LTE
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (26.22%) MongoDB
2 165 (24.30%) MySQL
3 124 (18.26%) Relational Database
4 116 (17.08%) SQL Server
5 99 (14.58%) NoSQL
6 74 (10.90%) Redis
7 39 (5.74%) DynamoDB
8 31 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (4.12%) Power BI
11 27 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (3.09%) Metadata
13 20 (2.95%) Big Data
14 19 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
16 16 (2.36%) Amazon Aurora
17 13 (1.91%) RDBMS
17 13 (1.91%) Tableau
18 12 (1.77%) Data Lake
18 12 (1.77%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 143 (21.06%) Git
2 45 (6.63%) GitLab
3 38 (5.60%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.68%) JUnit
5 24 (3.53%) JIRA
6 19 (2.80%) Mockito
7 13 (1.91%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.62%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.62%) Vite
9 10 (1.47%) JMeter
10 9 (1.33%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.88%) Maven
11 6 (0.88%) Selenium
12 5 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.74%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.59%) Storybook
14 3 (0.44%) Gatling
14 3 (0.44%) Mocha
14 3 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
General
1 162 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 91 (13.40%) Finance
3 86 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 55 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (5.30%) Law
7 35 (5.15%) Games
8 22 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (3.09%) Legal
10 17 (2.50%) Banking
10 17 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.50%) Retail
11 14 (2.06%) Advertising
12 13 (1.91%) Legal Technology
13 12 (1.77%) Front Office
14 8 (1.18%) Aviation
15 7 (1.03%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.03%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.03%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 213 (31.37%) Developer
2 176 (25.92%) Senior
3 146 (21.50%) Software Engineer
4 119 (17.53%) Lead
5 67 (9.87%) Python Engineer
6 61 (8.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 51 (7.51%) Data Engineer
7 51 (7.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 50 (7.36%) Python Developer
9 49 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 45 (6.63%) Lead Developer
11 39 (5.74%) Lead Software Engineer
12 38 (5.60%) Senior Developer
13 36 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (5.01%) Architect
15 30 (4.42%) Ruby Developer
16 26 (3.83%) Java Developer
17 25 (3.68%) Database Engineer
18 24 (3.53%) DBA
18 24 (3.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (22.97%) React
2 148 (21.80%) Node.js
3 118 (17.38%) RESTful
4 103 (15.17%) REST
5 78 (11.49%) Spring
6 74 (10.90%) Kafka
7 73 (10.75%) Spring Boot
8 64 (9.43%) CSS
9 59 (8.69%) Next.js
10 55 (8.10%) HTML
11 54 (7.95%) .NET
11 54 (7.95%) FastAPI
12 43 (6.33%) JSON
13 40 (5.89%) AngularJS
14 35 (5.15%) Ruby on Rails
15 33 (4.86%) Django
15 33 (4.86%) JWT
16 28 (4.12%) Flask
17 25 (3.68%) Hibernate
17 25 (3.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 140 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 86 (12.67%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.15%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.71%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.83%) Onboarding
7 25 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (3.39%) AI Agents
9 21 (3.09%) Algorithms
10 17 (2.50%) Replication
11 13 (1.91%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.91%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.77%) Derivative
12 12 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (1.77%) Equities
12 12 (1.77%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (1.47%) EPoS
13 10 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 94 (13.84%) Linux
2 40 (5.89%) Windows
3 19 (2.80%) Unix
4 17 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.44%) CentOS
8 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (45.80%) CI/CD
2 246 (36.23%) Software Engineering
3 243 (35.79%) Agile
4 196 (28.87%) AI
5 191 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 180 (26.51%) Microservices
7 162 (23.86%) DevOps
8 150 (22.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 135 (19.88%) Mentoring
10 129 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 126 (18.56%) Observability
12 124 (18.26%) Containerisation
13 121 (17.82%) Test Automation
14 119 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
15 89 (13.11%) API Design
16 87 (12.81%) Analytics
17 82 (12.08%) Clean Code
18 75 (11.05%) Data Modelling
18 75 (11.05%) Scrum
19 74 (10.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 297 (43.74%) Python
2 195 (28.72%) SQL
3 167 (24.59%) Java
4 136 (20.03%) TypeScript
5 134 (19.73%) JavaScript
6 63 (9.28%) C#
7 58 (8.54%) Go
8 35 (5.15%) Ruby
9 32 (4.71%) Bash
10 29 (4.27%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.95%) PHP
12 17 (2.50%) Scala
13 14 (2.06%) C++
14 11 (1.62%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.47%) RPG
16 6 (0.88%) Korn
16 6 (0.88%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.74%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.59%) C
19 3 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 93 (13.70%) Degree
3 71 (10.46%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.24%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.88%) PhD
11 4 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.44%) RHCE
13 2 (0.29%) CISSP
13 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.29%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.54%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.42%) QA
3 26 (3.83%) GDPR
4 15 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.59%) SLA
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) 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
1 194 (28.57%) Docker
2 22 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.44%) Firmware
4 3 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 171 (25.18%) Kubernetes
2 127 (18.70%) Terraform
3 37 (5.45%) Ansible
4 33 (4.86%) Grafana
5 31 (4.57%) Argo
6 22 (3.24%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.62%) Kibana
8 6 (0.88%) Istio
8 6 (0.88%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.88%) Puppet
9 3 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.44%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.44%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.44%) Plesk
9 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.29%) Nagios
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 72 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.98%) Oracle
3 31 (4.57%) Google
4 21 (3.09%) OpenAI
5 20 (2.95%) Databricks
6 15 (2.21%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.91%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.47%) IBM
9 9 (1.33%) Splunk
10 8 (1.18%) Dell
11 7 (1.03%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.03%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.59%) Netezza
12 4 (0.59%) Pega
12 4 (0.59%) Remedy
13 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.44%) Confluent
13 3 (0.44%) VMware
14 2 (0.29%) TikTok
14 2 (0.29%) UiPath