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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 227 158
Rank change year-on-year -39 -69 +55
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 673 635 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 1.45% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.35% 9.48% 11.18%
Number of salaries quoted 493 459 769
10th Percentile £42,100 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,125 £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 £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 8,060 6,700 11,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.46% 15.33% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,565 4,398 7,635
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,675 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 21 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 21 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 -77 295 £85,000 -19.05% 85
South East -16 127 £62,500 +13.64% 48
North of England -3 125 £65,000 -3.70% 24
North West -14 58 £65,000 -3.70% 13
South West -56 46 £62,500 +19.05% 14
North East -24 40 £65,000 +26.83% 4
Midlands -51 31 £72,155 +3.08% 24
East of England -20 29 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Yorkshire -37 27 £69,308 +2.68% 7
West Midlands -46 22 £81,887 +12.95% 11
East Midlands -20 9 £60,000 +9.09% 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 32 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (4.16%) Apache
3 21 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.12%) Confluence
4 15 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.04%) Camunda
7 6 (0.89%) WordPress
8 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.45%) CMS
10 2 (0.30%) Luigi
10 2 (0.30%) Tornado
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.15%) Documentum
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
11 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
1 375 (55.72%) AWS
2 240 (35.66%) Azure
3 98 (14.56%) GitHub
4 90 (13.37%) GCP
5 64 (9.51%) Serverless
6 60 (8.92%) SaaS
7 51 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (6.84%) Amazon S3
9 38 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
9 38 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
10 34 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
11 32 (4.75%) GitHub Copilot
12 30 (4.46%) Power Platform
13 28 (4.16%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (3.86%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
16 18 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.61%) Broadband
2 14 (2.08%) Firewall
3 10 (1.49%) DNS
4 8 (1.19%) DHCP
5 7 (1.04%) iSCSI
5 7 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (1.04%) SAN
6 5 (0.74%) VPN
7 4 (0.59%) HTTP
7 4 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.30%) Network Security
8 2 (0.30%) PBX
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
8 2 (0.30%) VLAN
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.15%) Multicast
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
9 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (25.41%) MongoDB
2 162 (24.07%) MySQL
3 130 (19.32%) Relational Database
4 120 (17.83%) SQL Server
5 90 (13.37%) NoSQL
6 68 (10.10%) Redis
7 41 (6.09%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (3.57%) Power BI
11 21 (3.12%) Metadata
12 20 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (2.82%) Big Data
14 16 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (1.93%) Pinecone
16 13 (1.93%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.78%) Data Lake
17 12 (1.78%) Db2
Development Applications
1 148 (21.99%) Git
2 49 (7.28%) GitLab
3 41 (6.09%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.71%) JUnit
5 24 (3.57%) JIRA
6 19 (2.82%) Mockito
7 12 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.63%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.63%) Vite
9 10 (1.49%) JMeter
10 9 (1.34%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.04%) Storybook
12 6 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.89%) Maven
12 6 (0.89%) Selenium
13 5 (0.74%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.74%) Mocha
14 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
15 3 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 167 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 87 (12.93%) Finance
3 84 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (5.79%) Law
7 37 (5.50%) Games
8 21 (3.12%) Legal
9 20 (2.97%) Banking
9 20 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.53%) Retail
11 13 (1.93%) Advertising
11 13 (1.93%) Legal Technology
12 9 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.19%) Aviation
13 8 (1.19%) Front Office
14 7 (1.04%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.04%) Tech for Good
14 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 215 (31.95%) Developer
2 180 (26.75%) Senior
3 145 (21.55%) Software Engineer
4 111 (16.49%) Lead
5 66 (9.81%) Python Engineer
6 63 (9.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (8.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 54 (8.02%) Senior Software Engineer
8 49 (7.28%) Data Engineer
9 48 (7.13%) Python Developer
10 41 (6.09%) Senior Developer
11 40 (5.94%) Lead Developer
12 36 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
13 34 (5.05%) Architect
13 34 (5.05%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.46%) Ruby Developer
15 26 (3.86%) Database Engineer
15 26 (3.86%) Java Developer
16 25 (3.71%) Software Developer
17 24 (3.57%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (23.63%) React
2 147 (21.84%) Node.js
3 130 (19.32%) Terraform
4 116 (17.24%) RESTful
5 111 (16.49%) REST
6 80 (11.89%) Spring
7 77 (11.44%) Kafka
8 76 (11.29%) Spring Boot
9 71 (10.55%) CSS
10 63 (9.36%) Next.js
11 59 (8.77%) .NET
12 58 (8.62%) HTML
13 52 (7.73%) FastAPI
14 43 (6.39%) AngularJS
15 42 (6.24%) JSON
16 35 (5.20%) Ruby on Rails
17 34 (5.05%) JWT
18 30 (4.46%) Django
19 27 (4.01%) Flask
20 26 (3.86%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 134 (19.91%) Cloud Native
2 88 (13.08%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.20%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.75%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (4.16%) Product Ownership
6 25 (3.71%) AI Agents
6 25 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.57%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.97%) Algorithms
9 18 (2.67%) Replication
10 13 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
11 12 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.49%) EPoS
13 10 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.49%) IoT
13 10 (1.49%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 92 (13.67%) Linux
2 39 (5.79%) Windows
3 17 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.38%) Unix
5 8 (1.19%) 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 3 (0.45%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (46.36%) CI/CD
2 247 (36.70%) Software Engineering
3 238 (35.36%) Agile
4 198 (29.42%) AI
5 197 (29.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 179 (26.60%) Microservices
7 162 (24.07%) DevOps
8 152 (22.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 130 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 128 (19.02%) Mentoring
11 123 (18.28%) Containerisation
11 123 (18.28%) Observability
12 121 (17.98%) Test Automation
13 119 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
14 89 (13.22%) API Design
15 81 (12.04%) Analytics
16 80 (11.89%) Clean Code
16 80 (11.89%) Data Modelling
17 77 (11.44%) Scrum
18 76 (11.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 289 (42.94%) Python
2 190 (28.23%) SQL
3 163 (24.22%) Java
4 139 (20.65%) TypeScript
5 134 (19.91%) JavaScript
6 67 (9.96%) C#
7 58 (8.62%) Go
8 35 (5.20%) Ruby
9 31 (4.61%) Bash
10 26 (3.86%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.67%) PHP
12 17 (2.53%) Scala
13 14 (2.08%) C++
14 11 (1.63%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.49%) RPG
16 7 (1.04%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.74%) Korn
18 4 (0.59%) C
18 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
19 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 97 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 95 (14.12%) Degree
3 75 (11.14%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.53%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.04%) PhD
11 6 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.45%) RHCE
14 2 (0.30%) CISSP
14 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.30%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.32%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.90%) QA
3 26 (3.86%) GDPR
4 17 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.89%) 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 22301
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 192 (28.53%) Docker
2 19 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 169 (25.11%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.94%) Ansible
3 34 (5.05%) Grafana
4 31 (4.61%) Argo
5 21 (3.12%) 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%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.30%) Nagios
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.30%) Rancher
10 1 (0.15%) Consul
Vendors
1 72 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 63 (9.36%) Oracle
3 27 (4.01%) Google
4 23 (3.42%) OpenAI
5 21 (3.12%) Databricks
6 14 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.93%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.49%) IBM
9 9 (1.34%) Splunk
10 7 (1.04%) Dell
10 7 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.59%) Netezza
12 4 (0.59%) Pega
12 4 (0.59%) Remedy
13 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.45%) VMware
14 2 (0.30%) TikTok
14 2 (0.30%) UiPath
14 2 (0.30%) WSO2