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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 214 164
Rank change year-on-year -79 -50 +55
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 571 636 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 1.55% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.53% 9.59% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 436 467 1,025
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £47,500
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 £100,625 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 7,584 6,634 15,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.93% 16.21% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,153 4,430 11,325
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £79,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.73%

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 28 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 28 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 -93 231 £85,000 -10.53% 105
North of England -30 119 £65,000 -3.70% 37
South East -14 118 £59,500 +13.33% 50
North West -13 54 £67,500 - 22
South West -57 41 £62,500 - 15
Yorkshire -23 36 £58,565 -13.24% 8
North East -27 29 £65,000 +25.30% 7
East of England -20 23 £47,500 +50.79% 14
Midlands -59 16 £75,000 +11.11% 21
West Midlands -40 12 £77,500 +14.81% 12
East Midlands -25 4 £65,000 +18.18% 9
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 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.50%) Apache
4 16 (2.80%) Confluence
5 13 (2.28%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.93%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 6 (1.05%) WordPress
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Documentum
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) Moodle
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 339 (59.37%) AWS
2 221 (38.70%) Azure
3 103 (18.04%) GCP
4 63 (11.03%) Serverless
5 59 (10.33%) GitHub
6 54 (9.46%) SaaS
7 38 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (6.48%) Power Platform
9 36 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (5.60%) Amazon S3
13 27 (4.73%) Azure Service Bus
14 25 (4.38%) Azure AKS
15 22 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (2.98%) Azure Monitor
18 15 (2.63%) Azure Functions
18 15 (2.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.43%) Broadband
2 18 (3.15%) Firewall
3 16 (2.80%) DNS
4 15 (2.63%) DHCP
5 14 (2.45%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.93%) VPN
7 8 (1.40%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (1.40%) SAN
8 7 (1.23%) Network Security
8 7 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.88%) VLAN
10 3 (0.53%) Internet
11 2 (0.35%) HTTP
11 2 (0.35%) LAN
11 2 (0.35%) PBX
11 2 (0.35%) WAN
12 1 (0.18%) Asterisk PBX
12 1 (0.18%) LTE
12 1 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (29.07%) MongoDB
2 141 (24.69%) MySQL
3 97 (16.99%) SQL Server
4 96 (16.81%) Relational Database
5 93 (16.29%) NoSQL
6 48 (8.41%) Redis
7 32 (5.60%) Power BI
8 24 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (4.03%) DynamoDB
10 21 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.63%) Metadata
12 13 (2.28%) Pinecone
12 13 (2.28%) RDBMS
13 12 (2.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (1.93%) MariaDB
15 10 (1.75%) Oracle Database
15 10 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 109 (19.09%) Git
2 41 (7.18%) GitLab
3 35 (6.13%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.85%) JIRA
5 17 (2.98%) JUnit
6 14 (2.45%) TeamCity
7 13 (2.28%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.28%) Mockito
8 10 (1.75%) JMeter
9 9 (1.58%) Vite
10 8 (1.40%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.05%) Maven
11 6 (1.05%) Selenium
12 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.70%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.53%) DBeaver
13 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.53%) Gatling
13 3 (0.53%) Storybook
14 2 (0.35%) Jaeger
General
1 136 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 80 (14.01%) Finance
3 70 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.95%) Games
7 30 (5.25%) Retail
8 26 (4.55%) Law
9 23 (4.03%) Banking
10 21 (3.68%) Manufacturing
11 19 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.80%) Front Office
13 15 (2.63%) Advertising
13 15 (2.63%) Legal
14 10 (1.75%) Legal Technology
15 9 (1.58%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.23%) Aviation
17 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.88%) Automotive
18 5 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 175 (30.65%) Developer
2 119 (20.84%) Senior
3 117 (20.49%) Software Engineer
4 103 (18.04%) Lead
5 53 (9.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 53 (9.28%) Python Engineer
6 44 (7.71%) Lead Developer
7 42 (7.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 39 (6.83%) Lead Software Engineer
8 39 (6.83%) Python Developer
9 37 (6.48%) Data Engineer
10 35 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (5.95%) Architect
12 33 (5.78%) Java Developer
13 32 (5.60%) Java Engineer
14 26 (4.55%) Senior Developer
15 21 (3.68%) Ruby Developer
15 21 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
15 21 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 20 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (24.52%) React
2 132 (23.12%) Node.js
3 107 (18.74%) RESTful
4 79 (13.84%) REST
5 66 (11.56%) Spring
6 63 (11.03%) Spring Boot
7 56 (9.81%) Kafka
8 51 (8.93%) FastAPI
9 47 (8.23%) CSS
10 42 (7.36%) HTML
11 40 (7.01%) Next.js
12 39 (6.83%) .NET
13 38 (6.65%) JSON
14 32 (5.60%) AngularJS
15 27 (4.73%) Django
16 26 (4.55%) Vue
17 25 (4.38%) Ruby on Rails
18 24 (4.20%) Flask
18 24 (4.20%) Redux
19 18 (3.15%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 132 (23.12%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.60%) Low-Code
3 32 (5.60%) Video\Live Streaming
4 23 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.68%) Algorithms
5 21 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (3.15%) Blog
6 18 (3.15%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.80%) Derivative
7 16 (2.80%) Equities
7 16 (2.80%) Fixed Income
8 15 (2.63%) Replication
9 14 (2.45%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.45%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.58%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 88 (15.41%) Linux
2 44 (7.71%) Windows
3 20 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.33%) Unix
5 9 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.18%) Debian
9 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (44.48%) CI/CD
2 206 (36.08%) Software Engineering
3 201 (35.20%) Agile
4 162 (28.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 156 (27.32%) Microservices
6 136 (23.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 135 (23.64%) AI
8 134 (23.47%) DevOps
9 117 (20.49%) Mentoring
9 117 (20.49%) Test Automation
10 108 (18.91%) Containerisation
11 99 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
12 98 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 95 (16.64%) Observability
14 74 (12.96%) Analytics
15 68 (11.91%) API Design
16 67 (11.73%) Data Modelling
17 65 (11.38%) Scrum
18 64 (11.21%) TDD
19 60 (10.51%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 246 (43.08%) Python
2 176 (30.82%) SQL
3 168 (29.42%) Java
4 122 (21.37%) TypeScript
5 116 (20.32%) JavaScript
6 51 (8.93%) Go
7 46 (8.06%) C#
8 41 (7.18%) PowerShell
9 33 (5.78%) Bash
10 25 (4.38%) Ruby
11 24 (4.20%) PHP
12 13 (2.28%) C++
13 12 (2.10%) T-SQL
14 11 (1.93%) Scala
14 11 (1.93%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.40%) C
16 7 (1.23%) Korn
16 7 (1.23%) RPG
17 4 (0.70%) Delphi
17 4 (0.70%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 73 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.26%) Degree
3 58 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.98%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.70%) PhD
11 3 (0.53%) RHCE
11 3 (0.53%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 2 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.35%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.20%) QA
3 23 (4.03%) GDPR
4 18 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.10%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.53%) SLA
7 2 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.35%) WCAG
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 158 (27.67%) Docker
2 30 (5.25%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Firmware
5 2 (0.35%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 163 (28.55%) Kubernetes
2 116 (20.32%) Terraform
3 34 (5.95%) Grafana
4 31 (5.43%) Ansible
5 29 (5.08%) Argo
6 20 (3.50%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.75%) Kibana
8 7 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.23%) Puppet
9 6 (1.05%) Istio
9 6 (1.05%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.53%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.53%) Plesk
10 3 (0.53%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.53%) Rancher
10 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.35%) Nagios
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 68 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 56 (9.81%) Oracle
3 25 (4.38%) Google
4 17 (2.98%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 12 (2.10%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.58%) Databricks
7 9 (1.58%) Splunk
8 8 (1.40%) Dell
9 7 (1.23%) IBM
9 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.05%) VMware
11 5 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.70%) Confluent
12 4 (0.70%) Netezza
12 4 (0.70%) Pega
12 4 (0.70%) Remedy
13 3 (0.53%) Revolut
14 2 (0.35%) Mapbox
14 2 (0.35%) TikTok