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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 233 143
Rank change year-on-year -41 -90 +66
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 708 574 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 1.34% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.97% 9.17% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 505 403 629
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +11.82% -0.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £117,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £68,403 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.80% +15.38% -7.14%

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 7,896 6,260 10,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.62% 14.61% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,524 4,039 6,161
10th Percentile £36,666 £33,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,938 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +3.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 September 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 September 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 -69 318 £82,500 -21.43% 618
South East -15 129 £66,250 -1.85% 73
North of England -20 125 £65,000 -3.70% 121
North West -8 58 £62,500 -7.41% 72
South West -66 49 £65,000 +25.00% 51
Midlands -48 40 £75,000 +5.26% 43
North East -39 39 £65,000 +26.83% 16
West Midlands -42 31 £83,774 +15.55% 31
East of England -26 30 £52,500 +72.13% 35
Yorkshire -26 28 £67,155 -4.06% 35
East Midlands -40 9 £60,000 +20.00% 12
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 27 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.11%) Apache
3 20 (2.82%) Confluence
4 18 (2.54%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.13%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.99%) Camunda
8 6 (0.85%) WordPress
9 4 (0.56%) nginx
9 4 (0.56%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.42%) CMS
11 2 (0.28%) Luigi
11 2 (0.28%) Tornado
12 1 (0.14%) Documentum
12 1 (0.14%) IIS
12 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.14%) Moodle
12 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Finacle
2 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 395 (55.79%) AWS
2 238 (33.62%) Azure
3 117 (16.53%) GitHub
4 90 (12.71%) GCP
5 73 (10.31%) Serverless
6 64 (9.04%) SaaS
7 56 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
8 52 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (6.21%) Amazon S3
12 39 (5.51%) GitHub Copilot
13 30 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
15 27 (3.81%) Azure AKS
15 27 (3.81%) Power Platform
16 20 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.39%) Broadband
2 13 (1.84%) Firewall
3 11 (1.55%) DNS
4 9 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.99%) HTTP
5 7 (0.99%) VPN
6 6 (0.85%) DHCP
6 6 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.71%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.71%) SAN
7 5 (0.71%) VLAN
8 3 (0.42%) 4G
8 3 (0.42%) 5G
8 3 (0.42%) BGP
8 3 (0.42%) SSH
9 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.28%) SMS
10 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.14%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (23.02%) MongoDB
2 147 (20.76%) MySQL
3 129 (18.22%) Relational Database
4 126 (17.80%) SQL Server
5 86 (12.15%) Redis
6 84 (11.86%) NoSQL
7 44 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (5.65%) DynamoDB
9 35 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 22 (3.11%) Power BI
13 20 (2.82%) Metadata
14 18 (2.54%) Big Data
15 16 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (2.26%) Data Lake
16 15 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (1.98%) Pinecone
18 12 (1.69%) Oracle Database
18 12 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 158 (22.32%) Git
2 63 (8.90%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.19%) GitLab
4 23 (3.25%) JUnit
5 22 (3.11%) TeamCity
6 20 (2.82%) JIRA
7 16 (2.26%) Mockito
8 13 (1.84%) JMeter
9 12 (1.69%) Vite
10 11 (1.55%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.55%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.55%) Selenium
11 7 (0.99%) Storybook
12 6 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.85%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.85%) Maven
13 5 (0.71%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.71%) Mocha
14 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 164 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 84 (11.86%) Finance
2 84 (11.86%) Public Sector
3 72 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (7.20%) Law
6 37 (5.23%) Banking
7 31 (4.38%) Retail
8 27 (3.81%) Games
9 22 (3.11%) Legal
10 18 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.84%) Legal Technology
11 13 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.55%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.27%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.27%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.13%) Aviation
15 7 (0.99%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.85%) Advertising
16 6 (0.85%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 216 (30.51%) Developer
2 198 (27.97%) Senior
3 154 (21.75%) Software Engineer
4 99 (13.98%) Lead
5 62 (8.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 61 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
7 60 (8.47%) Python Engineer
8 51 (7.20%) Data Engineer
8 51 (7.20%) Senior Developer
9 50 (7.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 46 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 46 (6.50%) Python Developer
11 37 (5.23%) Architect
12 35 (4.94%) Software Developer
13 32 (4.52%) Lead Developer
14 31 (4.38%) Database Engineer
15 30 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
15 30 (4.24%) DBA
16 29 (4.10%) Ruby Developer
17 27 (3.81%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (23.31%) React
2 155 (21.89%) Terraform
3 140 (19.77%) Node.js
4 121 (17.09%) REST
5 115 (16.24%) RESTful
6 94 (13.28%) Kafka
7 79 (11.16%) Spring
8 75 (10.59%) Spring Boot
9 72 (10.17%) .NET
10 68 (9.60%) CSS
11 63 (8.90%) Next.js
12 56 (7.91%) HTML
13 54 (7.63%) FastAPI
14 41 (5.79%) JSON
15 38 (5.37%) AngularJS
16 34 (4.80%) Ruby on Rails
17 31 (4.38%) JWT
18 28 (3.95%) Django
19 27 (3.81%) Flask
19 27 (3.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 149 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 103 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (3.95%) Low-Code
4 27 (3.81%) Blog
5 26 (3.67%) Replication
6 25 (3.53%) Video\Live Streaming
7 23 (3.25%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.97%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.68%) Product Ownership
10 16 (2.26%) Algorithms
10 16 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.98%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (1.41%) EPoS
14 10 (1.41%) iSeries
14 10 (1.41%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 96 (13.56%) Linux
2 39 (5.51%) Windows
3 18 (2.54%) Unix
4 15 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Debian
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (49.15%) CI/CD
2 257 (36.30%) Software Engineering
3 241 (34.04%) Agile
4 217 (30.65%) AI
5 191 (26.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 183 (25.85%) Microservices
7 179 (25.28%) DevOps
8 164 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 149 (21.05%) Observability
10 140 (19.77%) Test Automation
11 129 (18.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 126 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
13 125 (17.66%) Mentoring
14 122 (17.23%) Containerisation
15 89 (12.57%) Clean Code
16 88 (12.43%) Event-Driven
17 81 (11.44%) Analytics
17 81 (11.44%) Machine Learning
18 79 (11.16%) Scrum
19 77 (10.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 299 (42.23%) Python
2 206 (29.10%) SQL
3 171 (24.15%) Java
4 137 (19.35%) TypeScript
5 132 (18.64%) JavaScript
6 78 (11.02%) C#
7 61 (8.62%) Go
8 43 (6.07%) Bash
9 34 (4.80%) Ruby
10 23 (3.25%) PHP
11 22 (3.11%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.40%) Scala
13 16 (2.26%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.84%) C++
15 11 (1.55%) Groovy
16 10 (1.41%) RPG
17 7 (0.99%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.71%) Korn
19 4 (0.56%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 114 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 93 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.86%) Degree
4 30 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.53%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.39%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.97%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.27%) PhD
10 6 (0.85%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.42%) CISSP
13 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.28%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.24%) QA
3 25 (3.53%) GDPR
4 21 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.56%) SLA
7 4 (0.56%) WCAG
8 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) MiFID
10 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 214 (30.23%) Docker
2 13 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.71%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) NFS
6 1 (0.14%) Samba
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 191 (26.98%) Kubernetes
2 69 (9.75%) Grafana
3 43 (6.07%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.79%) Ansible
5 36 (5.08%) Argo
6 13 (1.84%) Kibana
7 12 (1.69%) Rancher
8 7 (0.99%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.85%) Istio
9 6 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.85%) Puppet
10 3 (0.42%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.42%) Plesk
10 3 (0.42%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.28%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) Nagios
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 76 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.62%) Oracle
3 25 (3.53%) Dynatrace
4 24 (3.39%) OpenAI
5 23 (3.25%) Databricks
6 22 (3.11%) Google
7 14 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.84%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.41%) IBM
9 10 (1.41%) Splunk
10 9 (1.27%) Mistral
11 5 (0.71%) Dell
12 4 (0.56%) Netezza
12 4 (0.56%) Remedy
12 4 (0.56%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.56%) VMware
13 3 (0.42%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.42%) SAP
14 2 (0.28%) Informatica
14 2 (0.28%) UiPath