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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 220 164
Rank change year-on-year -76 -56 +61
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 525 620 1,545
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 1.58% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.34% 9.55% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 399 455 1,070
10th Percentile £42,400 £44,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,250 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.19% -8.57%

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 7,148 6,492 15,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.69% 16.58% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,669 4,326 11,422
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -91 207 £85,000 -10.53% 240
North of England -12 115 £67,500 - 69
South East -17 108 £57,500 +9.52% 41
North West -14 47 £69,310 -0.11% 45
Yorkshire -17 42 £60,000 -9.43% 17
South West -49 39 £62,500 +2.04% 20
North East -25 26 £65,000 +13.04% 7
East of England -31 22 £47,500 +36.69% 11
Midlands -49 13 £75,000 +10.90% 21
West Midlands -50 10 £77,500 +14.71% 11
East Midlands -36 3 £67,500 -3.57% 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 28 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.62%) Apache
4 16 (3.05%) Confluence
5 11 (2.10%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.10%) OpenStack
5 11 (2.10%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.76%) WordPress
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) Moodle
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (1.52%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 313 (59.62%) AWS
2 202 (38.48%) Azure
3 97 (18.48%) GCP
4 68 (12.95%) Serverless
5 53 (10.10%) GitHub
6 50 (9.52%) SaaS
7 39 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
8 38 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (6.67%) Power Platform
10 34 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (4.95%) Amazon S3
11 26 (4.95%) Azure Service Bus
12 24 (4.57%) Azure AKS
13 20 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (2.86%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.19%) Broadband
2 17 (3.24%) Firewall
3 16 (3.05%) DNS
4 15 (2.86%) DHCP
5 14 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.90%) VPN
7 8 (1.52%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (1.52%) SAN
8 7 (1.33%) Internet
8 7 (1.33%) Network Security
8 7 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.76%) VLAN
10 2 (0.38%) HTTP
10 2 (0.38%) LAN
10 2 (0.38%) PBX
10 2 (0.38%) WAN
11 1 (0.19%) LTE
11 1 (0.19%) SMS
11 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 127 (24.19%) MySQL
3 97 (18.48%) NoSQL
4 90 (17.14%) Relational Database
4 90 (17.14%) SQL Server
5 33 (6.29%) Redis
6 30 (5.71%) Power BI
7 21 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 21 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
10 13 (2.48%) RDBMS
11 12 (2.29%) Metadata
12 11 (2.10%) MariaDB
13 10 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.90%) Oracle Database
13 10 (1.90%) Pinecone
13 10 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (1.71%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 111 (21.14%) Git
2 38 (7.24%) GitLab
2 38 (7.24%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.76%) JIRA
4 16 (3.05%) JUnit
5 14 (2.67%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.67%) TeamCity
6 13 (2.48%) Mockito
7 10 (1.90%) JMeter
8 9 (1.71%) Selenium
9 7 (1.33%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.33%) Vite
10 6 (1.14%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.95%) Maven
12 3 (0.57%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.38%) ESLint
13 2 (0.38%) Gatling
13 2 (0.38%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 136 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 74 (14.10%) Finance
3 66 (12.57%) Public Sector
4 48 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.90%) Retail
7 25 (4.76%) Banking
7 25 (4.76%) Games
8 24 (4.57%) Law
9 20 (3.81%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (3.05%) Front Office
12 15 (2.86%) Advertising
13 12 (2.29%) Legal
14 9 (1.71%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.14%) Aviation
16 5 (0.95%) Automotive
16 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.76%) Tech for Good
18 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (31.43%) Developer
2 103 (19.62%) Senior
3 99 (18.86%) Software Engineer
4 81 (15.43%) Lead
5 53 (10.10%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (9.52%) Python Engineer
7 39 (7.43%) Java Developer
8 36 (6.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 36 (6.86%) Lead Developer
9 34 (6.48%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.10%) Lead Software Engineer
11 30 (5.71%) Data Engineer
12 29 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
12 29 (5.52%) Python Developer
13 24 (4.57%) Architect
13 24 (4.57%) Senior Developer
14 22 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
16 20 (3.81%) DBA
16 20 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (26.10%) React
2 128 (24.38%) Node.js
3 100 (19.05%) RESTful
4 76 (14.48%) REST
5 65 (12.38%) Spring
6 61 (11.62%) Spring Boot
7 48 (9.14%) Kafka
8 47 (8.95%) FastAPI
9 43 (8.19%) CSS
10 41 (7.81%) .NET
10 41 (7.81%) HTML
11 36 (6.86%) JSON
12 31 (5.90%) Django
13 29 (5.52%) AngularJS
14 28 (5.33%) Next.js
15 25 (4.76%) Flask
15 25 (4.76%) Vue
16 24 (4.57%) Redux
17 19 (3.62%) Web Services
18 18 (3.43%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 114 (21.71%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.71%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.38%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (4.19%) Low-Code
5 20 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.43%) Algorithms
7 17 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.05%) Blog
8 16 (3.05%) Data Structures
8 16 (3.05%) Derivative
8 16 (3.05%) Equities
8 16 (3.05%) Fixed Income
8 16 (3.05%) Replication
9 14 (2.67%) Management Information System
10 13 (2.48%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (15.05%) Linux
2 42 (8.00%) Windows
3 20 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.62%) Unix
5 10 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.57%) CentOS
9 2 (0.38%) Android
9 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) Debian
10 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (43.81%) CI/CD
2 199 (37.90%) Agile
3 172 (32.76%) Software Engineering
4 150 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 147 (28.00%) Microservices
6 120 (22.86%) DevOps
7 117 (22.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 111 (21.14%) AI
9 105 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 101 (19.24%) Mentoring
11 99 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
12 98 (18.67%) Containerisation
13 87 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 71 (13.52%) Scrum
15 67 (12.76%) Observability
16 66 (12.57%) Analytics
17 62 (11.81%) TDD
18 56 (10.67%) API Design
19 54 (10.29%) Data Modelling
20 50 (9.52%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 230 (43.81%) Python
2 165 (31.43%) Java
3 159 (30.29%) SQL
4 119 (22.67%) JavaScript
5 111 (21.14%) TypeScript
6 45 (8.57%) Go
7 42 (8.00%) C#
8 36 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 28 (5.33%) Bash
10 24 (4.57%) PHP
11 17 (3.24%) Ruby
12 12 (2.29%) C
12 12 (2.29%) C++
12 12 (2.29%) T-SQL
13 11 (2.10%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.71%) Scala
15 7 (1.33%) Korn
16 5 (0.95%) RPG
17 4 (0.76%) Delphi
17 4 (0.76%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 70 (13.33%) Degree
2 62 (11.81%) Security Cleared
3 49 (9.33%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.95%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.76%) PhD
11 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.57%) RHCE
12 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.38%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.19%) CISSP
13 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.57%) QA
3 20 (3.81%) GDPR
4 17 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.57%) SLA
7 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.38%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 154 (29.33%) Docker
2 30 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.71%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) Firmware
5 2 (0.38%) Samba
6 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 162 (30.86%) Kubernetes
2 110 (20.95%) Terraform
3 31 (5.90%) Grafana
4 30 (5.71%) Ansible
5 29 (5.52%) Argo
6 19 (3.62%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.90%) Kibana
8 7 (1.33%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.33%) Puppet
9 6 (1.14%) Istio
9 6 (1.14%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.57%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.57%) Nagios
10 3 (0.57%) Plesk
10 3 (0.57%) Rancher
11 2 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 65 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 55 (10.48%) Oracle
3 24 (4.57%) Google
4 16 (3.05%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.67%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.10%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.71%) Splunk
8 8 (1.52%) Dell
9 7 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.14%) Databricks
11 5 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.95%) IBM
11 5 (0.95%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.95%) VMware
12 4 (0.76%) Confluent
12 4 (0.76%) Netezza
12 4 (0.76%) Pega
12 4 (0.76%) Remedy
13 3 (0.57%) Revolut
14 2 (0.38%) TikTok