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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 217 154
Rank change year-on-year -52 -63 +50
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 673 627 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.43% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.40% 9.43% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 490 454 741
10th Percentile £43,625 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year -7.59% +17.65% -8.93%

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 8,008 6,651 11,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.27% 15.17% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,569 4,385 7,274
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £115,525
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 29 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 29 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 -68 295 £85,000 -19.05% 651
South East -11 127 £65,000 +4.00% 93
North of England -19 123 £65,000 -3.70% 77
North West -7 57 £65,000 -3.70% 48
South West -54 48 £63,750 +30.77% 54
North East -30 40 £65,000 +26.83% 11
Midlands -46 31 £72,155 +3.08% 43
East of England -14 30 £52,500 +69.35% 22
Yorkshire -40 26 £69,310 +0.81% 18
West Midlands -32 22 £83,774 +15.55% 26
East Midlands -26 9 £60,000 +9.09% 16
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 31 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.86%) Apache
3 21 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.12%) Confluence
4 12 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.04%) Camunda
7 6 (0.89%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.89%) WordPress
8 3 (0.45%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Luigi
9 2 (0.30%) Tornado
10 1 (0.15%) Documentum
10 1 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Finacle
2 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 370 (54.98%) AWS
2 235 (34.92%) Azure
3 100 (14.86%) GitHub
4 85 (12.63%) GCP
5 63 (9.36%) Serverless
6 60 (8.92%) SaaS
7 51 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (6.84%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (5.05%) GitHub Copilot
13 30 (4.46%) Power Platform
14 28 (4.16%) Azure Service Bus
15 27 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
16 26 (3.86%) Azure AKS
17 25 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
19 17 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.61%) Broadband
2 13 (1.93%) Firewall
3 9 (1.34%) DNS
4 6 (0.89%) DHCP
4 6 (0.89%) iSCSI
4 6 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (0.89%) SAN
5 5 (0.74%) HTTP
6 4 (0.59%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.45%) VPN
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
8 2 (0.30%) VLAN
9 1 (0.15%) 4G
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.15%) Internet
9 1 (0.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.15%) Network Security
9 1 (0.15%) PBX
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (25.11%) MongoDB
2 160 (23.77%) MySQL
3 131 (19.47%) Relational Database
4 122 (18.13%) SQL Server
5 89 (13.22%) NoSQL
6 69 (10.25%) Redis
7 41 (6.09%) DynamoDB
8 31 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (3.57%) Power BI
11 20 (2.97%) Metadata
12 19 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (2.82%) Big Data
13 17 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.93%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (1.78%) Db2
16 12 (1.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 148 (21.99%) Git
2 49 (7.28%) GitLab
3 42 (6.24%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.71%) JUnit
5 22 (3.27%) JIRA
6 19 (2.82%) Mockito
7 12 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.63%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.49%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.49%) JMeter
9 10 (1.49%) Vite
10 7 (1.04%) Selenium
10 7 (1.04%) Storybook
11 6 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.89%) Maven
12 5 (0.74%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.74%) Mocha
13 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
General
1 163 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 86 (12.78%) Finance
3 83 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (5.79%) Law
7 35 (5.20%) Games
8 22 (3.27%) Banking
9 21 (3.12%) Legal
10 18 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.67%) Retail
11 13 (1.93%) Legal Technology
12 12 (1.78%) Advertising
13 10 (1.49%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.19%) Aviation
14 8 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.04%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.89%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 214 (31.80%) Developer
2 181 (26.89%) Senior
3 144 (21.40%) Software Engineer
4 107 (15.90%) Lead
5 64 (9.51%) Python Engineer
6 63 (9.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (8.02%) Senior Software Engineer
8 52 (7.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 50 (7.43%) Data Engineer
10 47 (6.98%) Python Developer
11 44 (6.54%) Senior Developer
12 37 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
13 36 (5.35%) Architect
13 36 (5.35%) Lead Developer
14 31 (4.61%) Lead Software Engineer
15 30 (4.46%) Ruby Developer
16 27 (4.01%) Database Engineer
17 26 (3.86%) Java Developer
18 25 (3.71%) Software Developer
19 24 (3.57%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (23.33%) React
2 142 (21.10%) Node.js
3 133 (19.76%) Terraform
4 117 (17.38%) RESTful
5 115 (17.09%) REST
6 82 (12.18%) Kafka
7 80 (11.89%) Spring
8 76 (11.29%) Spring Boot
9 71 (10.55%) CSS
10 65 (9.66%) .NET
11 62 (9.21%) Next.js
12 58 (8.62%) HTML
13 51 (7.58%) FastAPI
14 43 (6.39%) AngularJS
15 42 (6.24%) JSON
16 35 (5.20%) JWT
16 35 (5.20%) Ruby on Rails
17 29 (4.31%) Django
18 27 (4.01%) Flask
19 26 (3.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 139 (20.65%) Cloud Native
2 89 (13.22%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.20%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.75%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (4.16%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.57%) AI Agents
8 22 (3.27%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.97%) Algorithms
9 20 (2.97%) Replication
10 13 (1.93%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
11 12 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.49%) Blog
13 10 (1.49%) EPoS
13 10 (1.49%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 91 (13.52%) Linux
2 36 (5.35%) Windows
3 16 (2.38%) Unix
4 15 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.30%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (46.66%) CI/CD
2 250 (37.15%) Software Engineering
3 235 (34.92%) Agile
4 199 (29.57%) AI
5 198 (29.42%) Full-Stack Development
6 177 (26.30%) Microservices
7 165 (24.52%) DevOps
8 155 (23.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 128 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 127 (18.87%) Observability
11 124 (18.42%) Mentoring
11 124 (18.42%) Test Automation
12 119 (17.68%) Containerisation
13 116 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
14 88 (13.08%) API Design
15 83 (12.33%) Data Modelling
16 82 (12.18%) Analytics
17 80 (11.89%) Clean Code
18 78 (11.59%) Machine Learning
18 78 (11.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 283 (42.05%) Python
2 188 (27.93%) SQL
3 163 (24.22%) Java
4 136 (20.21%) TypeScript
5 130 (19.32%) JavaScript
6 73 (10.85%) C#
7 59 (8.77%) Go
8 35 (5.20%) Ruby
9 32 (4.75%) Bash
10 24 (3.57%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.53%) PHP
11 17 (2.53%) Scala
12 14 (2.08%) C++
13 12 (1.78%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.49%) RPG
15 6 (0.89%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.74%) Korn
17 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
18 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 93 (13.82%) Degree
3 72 (10.70%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.71%) Master's Degree
6 21 (3.12%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.19%) PhD
11 6 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.30%) CISSP
13 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.30%) RHCE
13 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.17%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.05%) QA
3 26 (3.86%) GDPR
4 17 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.74%) SLA
7 4 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.45%) WCAG
9 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 188 (27.93%) Docker
2 15 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.04%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Samba
5 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 169 (25.11%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.94%) Ansible
3 38 (5.65%) Grafana
4 31 (4.61%) Argo
5 23 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.49%) Kibana
7 6 (0.89%) Istio
7 6 (0.89%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.89%) Puppet
8 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.45%) Plesk
8 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.45%) Rancher
8 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.15%) Consul
10 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 71 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.21%) Oracle
3 25 (3.71%) Google
4 22 (3.27%) OpenAI
5 21 (3.12%) Databricks
6 14 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.93%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.49%) IBM
9 9 (1.34%) Splunk
10 6 (0.89%) Dell
10 6 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.89%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.59%) Netezza
11 4 (0.59%) Pega
11 4 (0.59%) Remedy
12 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.45%) VMware
13 2 (0.30%) TikTok
13 2 (0.30%) UiPath
13 2 (0.30%) WSO2