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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 132 189
Rank change year-on-year -89 +57 -46
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 562 1,210 839
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.29% 1.99% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.15% 12.46% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 395 540 696
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £59,250 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £89,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%

All Database and 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 6,145 9,712 10,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.10% 15.99% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,041 5,539 8,122
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,799
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.18% -1.12%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -2.44%

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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 2025. 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 -18 338 £105,000 +23.53% 301
North of England -58 84 £67,500 +0.52% 41
South East -98 74 £67,500 +12.50% 200
North West -62 40 £70,000 +12.00% 19
Midlands +23 37 £70,000 +7.69% 35
South West -24 35 £55,750 -14.23% 23
West Midlands +32 30 £72,500 +11.54% 16
Yorkshire +2 29 £70,000 -1.75% 15
East of England -44 16 £32,500 -43.48% 9
North East +19 15 £51,875 -25.15% 7
East Midlands +11 7 £50,000 -9.09% 18
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 77 (13.70%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.63%) Confluence
3 22 (3.91%) Apache Spark
4 21 (3.74%) Tomcat
5 19 (3.38%) WebSphere
6 16 (2.85%) WebSphere Application Server
7 11 (1.96%) nginx
8 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.07%) Apache
9 6 (1.07%) IIS
9 6 (1.07%) JBoss
9 6 (1.07%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.89%) Red Hat Fuse
11 3 (0.53%) CMS
11 3 (0.53%) Luigi
11 3 (0.53%) SAS
11 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.18%) Appian
13 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (1.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Notion
4 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 417 (74.20%) AWS
2 181 (32.21%) Azure
3 167 (29.72%) GCP
4 90 (16.01%) Serverless
5 86 (15.30%) dbt
6 70 (12.46%) Amazon ECS
7 68 (12.10%) Amazon EC2
8 55 (9.79%) Amazon S3
9 53 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (8.90%) GitHub
11 40 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (6.41%) SaaS
13 28 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (4.63%) Route 53
15 24 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
15 24 (4.27%) Power Platform
16 21 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (3.56%) AWS KMS
18 19 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.09%) SSL
2 20 (3.56%) Firewall
3 13 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.78%) DNS
5 9 (1.60%) FTP
5 9 (1.60%) HTTP
5 9 (1.60%) iSCSI
5 9 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
5 9 (1.60%) SAN
5 9 (1.60%) SSH
6 8 (1.42%) IMAP
6 8 (1.42%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (1.42%) SMTP
6 8 (1.42%) VPN
7 7 (1.25%) MQTT
8 5 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.71%) DMARC
10 3 (0.53%) Multicast
10 3 (0.53%) PuTTY
10 3 (0.53%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (21.35%) Relational Database
2 116 (20.64%) MySQL
3 113 (20.11%) MongoDB
4 110 (19.57%) SQL Server
5 89 (15.84%) NoSQL
6 70 (12.46%) Apache Iceberg
7 68 (12.10%) Amazon Athena
8 65 (11.57%) Apache Arrow
8 65 (11.57%) Dremio
9 51 (9.07%) RDBMS
10 50 (8.90%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (6.76%) DB2
12 35 (6.23%) Amazon Aurora
13 34 (6.05%) DynamoDB
14 33 (5.87%) Redis
15 31 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
16 22 (3.91%) Big Data
16 22 (3.91%) Power BI
17 20 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
18 15 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 104 (18.51%) Jenkins
2 81 (14.41%) Git
3 47 (8.36%) JUnit
4 43 (7.65%) JIRA
5 38 (6.76%) Mockito
6 28 (4.98%) JMeter
7 24 (4.27%) GitLab
8 18 (3.20%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.20%) Selenium
9 17 (3.02%) Maven
10 16 (2.85%) Bitbucket
11 13 (2.31%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.96%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (1.96%) DbUnit
12 11 (1.96%) jMock
13 8 (1.42%) Cypress.io
13 8 (1.42%) Vagrant
14 7 (1.25%) IntelliJ
15 5 (0.89%) Subversion
15 5 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 178 (31.67%) Finance
2 110 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 90 (16.01%) Public Sector
4 76 (13.52%) Front Office
5 51 (9.07%) Banking
6 47 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (6.58%) Law
9 35 (6.23%) Marketing
10 21 (3.74%) Manufacturing
11 17 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (3.02%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.85%) Electronics
12 16 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (2.49%) Investment Banking
13 14 (2.49%) Retail
14 11 (1.96%) Advertising
15 10 (1.78%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.89%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 247 (43.95%) Developer
2 125 (22.24%) Software Engineer
3 89 (15.84%) Senior
4 85 (15.12%) Python Developer
5 79 (14.06%) AWS Engineer
6 77 (13.70%) Java Developer
7 73 (12.99%) Lead
7 73 (12.99%) Python Engineer
8 71 (12.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 69 (12.28%) AWS Developer
10 68 (12.10%) AWS Software Engineer
11 66 (11.74%) Python Software Engineer
12 50 (8.90%) Full-Stack Developer
13 42 (7.47%) Java Engineer
14 38 (6.76%) Lead Developer
15 28 (4.98%) Data Engineer
16 27 (4.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (4.80%) Software Developer
17 26 (4.63%) Java Software Engineer
17 26 (4.63%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (31.49%) React
2 142 (25.27%) Node.js
3 122 (21.71%) AngularJS
4 107 (19.04%) Spring
5 99 (17.62%) Spring Boot
6 97 (17.26%) REST
7 88 (15.66%) RESTful
8 82 (14.59%) Vue
9 68 (12.10%) Pandas
10 67 (11.92%) FastAPI
10 67 (11.92%) NumPy
11 65 (11.57%) SciPy
12 62 (11.03%) Kafka
13 58 (10.32%) HTML
14 52 (9.25%) Web Services
15 44 (7.83%) Django
16 42 (7.47%) jQuery
17 40 (7.12%) Hibernate
18 39 (6.94%) ActiveMQ
19 38 (6.76%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 71 (12.63%) Equities
1 71 (12.63%) Fixed Income
1 71 (12.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 69 (12.28%) Cloud Native
3 64 (11.39%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.34%) Management Information System
5 28 (4.98%) Linux Command Line
6 25 (4.45%) Algorithms
7 23 (4.09%) Data Structures
8 20 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (3.56%) Product Ownership
9 18 (3.20%) Replication
10 13 (2.31%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.96%) e-Learning
12 9 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.60%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 124 (22.06%) Linux
2 61 (10.85%) Windows
3 43 (7.65%) Unix
4 27 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.49%) Android
5 14 (2.49%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.96%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.78%) VMS
8 9 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (1.07%) Debian
10 6 (1.07%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.53%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.18%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (48.93%) Agile
2 198 (35.23%) CI/CD
3 191 (33.99%) Software Engineering
4 151 (26.87%) Microservices
5 132 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (21.00%) DevOps
7 116 (20.64%) Fintech
8 113 (20.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 99 (17.62%) Containerisation
10 95 (16.90%) AI
11 82 (14.59%) Mentoring
12 79 (14.06%) TDD
13 73 (12.99%) Test Automation
14 72 (12.81%) Asset Management
15 71 (12.63%) Investment Management
16 70 (12.46%) Risk Management
17 65 (11.57%) Order Management
17 65 (11.57%) Performance Attribution
18 63 (11.21%) Clean Code
19 59 (10.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 299 (53.20%) Python
2 189 (33.63%) JavaScript
3 186 (33.10%) Java
4 170 (30.25%) SQL
5 146 (25.98%) TypeScript
6 36 (6.41%) C#
7 28 (4.98%) Shell Script
8 24 (4.27%) Bash
8 24 (4.27%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.49%) PHP
10 13 (2.31%) Rust
11 12 (2.14%) Go
12 10 (1.78%) Groovy
12 10 (1.78%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.78%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.60%) Korn
14 5 (0.89%) R
14 5 (0.89%) Ruby
15 4 (0.71%) Scala
15 4 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 94 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.63%) Degree
3 66 (11.74%) SC Cleared
4 38 (6.76%) AWS Certification
5 21 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.31%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.07%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.36%) HNC
13 2 (0.36%) HND
13 2 (0.36%) MCSA
13 2 (0.36%) MCSE
13 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.94%) QA
2 26 (4.63%) SLA
3 15 (2.67%) GDPR
4 14 (2.49%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.53%) NIST
7 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.53%) SEPA
8 2 (0.36%) PSD2
9 1 (0.18%) GAAP
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 212 (37.72%) Docker
2 13 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.96%) Postfix
4 9 (1.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.42%) DFS Replication
5 8 (1.42%) Dovecot
5 8 (1.42%) Squid
6 5 (0.89%) zsh
7 3 (0.53%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.53%) HDFS
8 2 (0.36%) KVM
8 2 (0.36%) NFS
8 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.36%) Xen
9 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 159 (28.29%) Kubernetes
2 74 (13.17%) Terraform
3 34 (6.05%) Kibana
4 21 (3.74%) Grafana
5 20 (3.56%) Ansible
5 20 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.42%) Nessus
6 8 (1.42%) Proxmox
6 8 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.07%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.89%) logstash
8 5 (0.89%) Puppet
9 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.53%) Argo
10 3 (0.53%) Oozie
11 2 (0.36%) CFEngine
11 2 (0.36%) Nagios
12 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (14.41%) Oracle
2 41 (7.30%) Red Hat
3 37 (6.58%) Microsoft
4 36 (6.41%) Splunk
5 34 (6.05%) Google
6 32 (5.69%) IBM
7 26 (4.63%) Dynatrace
8 23 (4.09%) ServiceNow
9 21 (3.74%) Atlassian
9 21 (3.74%) SAP
10 20 (3.56%) Informatica
11 17 (3.02%) Databricks
12 15 (2.67%) Talend
13 13 (2.31%) Jaspersoft
14 11 (1.96%) Dell
15 8 (1.42%) OpenAI
15 8 (1.42%) Salesforce
16 7 (1.25%) RedGate
17 5 (0.89%) WSO2
18 4 (0.71%) CA Agile Central