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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 130 185
Rank change year-on-year -138 +55 +11
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 431 1,026 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 2.29% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.15% 12.60% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 304 461 874
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £41,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £52,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,125 £125,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 6,030 8,143 12,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.26% 18.15% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,877 4,665 10,386
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,375 £49,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -66 241 £90,000 +2.86% 135
North of England -18 81 £70,000 +1.00% 62
South East -118 49 £55,000 -31.25% 53
Yorkshire -12 39 £60,000 +8.91% 18
North West -27 33 £85,000 +22.57% 34
South West -58 26 £62,500 -5.66% 27
Midlands -22 25 £55,200 -15.08% 29
West Midlands +2 16 £45,000 -30.77% 19
East of England -44 15 £42,500 -26.09% 16
North East -6 9 £53,850 -22.30% 11
East Midlands -30 9 £65,000 +8.33% 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 30 (6.96%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.94%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.48%) Confluence
4 13 (3.02%) OpenStack
4 13 (3.02%) Tomcat
4 13 (3.02%) WebSphere
5 12 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
6 10 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.39%) Apache
8 3 (0.70%) CMS
8 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.46%) Camunda
9 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.46%) nginx
9 2 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.32%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 286 (66.36%) AWS
2 149 (34.57%) Azure
3 110 (25.52%) GCP
4 74 (17.17%) Serverless
5 52 (12.06%) GitHub
6 49 (11.37%) Amazon EKS
7 41 (9.51%) Amazon S3
8 40 (9.28%) Amazon ECS
9 37 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (8.58%) dbt
9 37 (8.58%) SaaS
10 33 (7.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (6.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (6.26%) Power Platform
13 24 (5.57%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (3.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (3.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.41%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.02%) SSL
3 10 (2.32%) VPN
3 10 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.62%) Internet
5 6 (1.39%) DNS
5 6 (1.39%) Firewall
6 5 (1.16%) DHCP
6 5 (1.16%) Network Security
6 5 (1.16%) VLAN
7 3 (0.70%) MQTT
7 3 (0.70%) WAN
8 2 (0.46%) BGP
8 2 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.46%) HTTP
8 2 (0.46%) OSPF
8 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.46%) RTMP
8 2 (0.46%) Wireless
9 1 (0.23%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (25.06%) SQL Server
2 93 (21.58%) Relational Database
3 87 (20.19%) MySQL
4 77 (17.87%) MongoDB
5 70 (16.24%) NoSQL
6 36 (8.35%) Redis
7 34 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (7.66%) DB2
9 30 (6.96%) DynamoDB
10 25 (5.80%) Power BI
11 23 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (5.34%) RDBMS
12 18 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (4.18%) Apache Iceberg
13 15 (3.48%) Apache Arrow
13 15 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (3.25%) Big Data
14 14 (3.25%) Dremio
15 12 (2.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 94 (21.81%) Git
2 78 (18.10%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.73%) GitLab
3 29 (6.73%) JIRA
4 27 (6.26%) Cucumber
5 25 (5.80%) Selenium
6 23 (5.34%) JUnit
7 22 (5.10%) Bitbucket
8 21 (4.87%) TeamCity
9 14 (3.25%) JMeter
10 11 (2.55%) Mockito
11 6 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.39%) Vite
12 5 (1.16%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.16%) Subversion
13 4 (0.93%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.93%) Maven
13 4 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.70%) MLflow
14 3 (0.70%) TestRail
General
1 121 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 96 (22.27%) Finance
3 47 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.44%) Banking
5 36 (8.35%) Public Sector
6 33 (7.66%) Law
7 23 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (5.10%) Retail
9 19 (4.41%) Front Office
10 11 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.32%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.09%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.62%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.39%) Marketing
15 5 (1.16%) Advertising
16 4 (0.93%) Back Office
16 4 (0.93%) Electronics
17 3 (0.70%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 153 (35.50%) Developer
2 77 (17.87%) Software Engineer
3 73 (16.94%) Senior
4 51 (11.83%) Lead
5 50 (11.60%) Java Developer
6 49 (11.37%) Full-Stack Developer
7 29 (6.73%) Java Engineer
7 29 (6.73%) Python Developer
8 28 (6.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 26 (6.03%) Python Engineer
10 25 (5.80%) Data Engineer
11 23 (5.34%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (4.41%) AWS Developer
13 19 (4.41%) Python Software Engineer
13 19 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (3.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 16 (3.71%) Analyst
15 16 (3.71%) Lead Developer
15 16 (3.71%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (31.32%) React
2 86 (19.95%) Node.js
3 78 (18.10%) Spring
4 71 (16.47%) Spring Boot
5 68 (15.78%) RESTful
6 64 (14.85%) REST
7 51 (11.83%) FastAPI
8 50 (11.60%) Django
9 48 (11.14%) AngularJS
10 47 (10.90%) HTML
11 45 (10.44%) Kafka
12 42 (9.74%) .NET
13 41 (9.51%) CSS
14 37 (8.58%) Vue
15 34 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
16 28 (6.50%) Flask
16 28 (6.50%) Web Services
17 25 (5.80%) .NET Core
18 23 (5.34%) Next.js
19 21 (4.87%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 67 (15.55%) Cloud Native
2 55 (12.76%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.18%) Equities
4 18 (4.18%) Fixed Income
4 18 (4.18%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (4.18%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.48%) Blog
7 14 (3.25%) Data Structures
7 14 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.55%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.86%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.86%) Replication
12 7 (1.62%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.39%) Clustering
14 5 (1.16%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 65 (15.08%) Linux
2 28 (6.50%) Windows
3 26 (6.03%) Unix
4 16 (3.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.55%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.62%) Android
6 7 (1.62%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.16%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.70%) Debian
9 2 (0.46%) VMS
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (44.78%) CI/CD
2 173 (40.14%) Agile
3 144 (33.41%) Software Engineering
4 141 (32.71%) Microservices
5 115 (26.68%) DevOps
6 112 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (23.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 86 (19.95%) Containerisation
9 76 (17.63%) Test Automation
10 72 (16.71%) Fintech
11 70 (16.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 63 (14.62%) AI
13 62 (14.39%) Mentoring
14 55 (12.76%) Scrum
15 51 (11.83%) Data Modelling
15 51 (11.83%) Technical Leadership
16 50 (11.60%) TDD
17 47 (10.90%) Business Intelligence
18 46 (10.67%) ETL
19 44 (10.21%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 206 (47.80%) Python
2 160 (37.12%) Java
3 147 (34.11%) SQL
4 120 (27.84%) JavaScript
5 92 (21.35%) TypeScript
6 35 (8.12%) C#
7 28 (6.50%) Go
8 21 (4.87%) PowerShell
9 16 (3.71%) PHP
10 12 (2.78%) C
10 12 (2.78%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.32%) Delphi
11 10 (2.32%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.09%) Rust
13 5 (1.16%) C++
13 5 (1.16%) Ruby
14 4 (0.93%) Bash
15 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.70%) RPG
16 2 (0.46%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 63 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.53%) Degree
3 45 (10.44%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (6.03%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.02%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
7 12 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.86%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) HNC
10 2 (0.46%) HND
10 2 (0.46%) MCSA
10 2 (0.46%) MCSE
10 2 (0.46%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.94%) QA
3 14 (3.25%) SLA
4 13 (3.02%) GDPR
4 13 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.32%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.70%) SEPA
7 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.46%) PSD2
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) GAAP
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 156 (36.19%) Docker
2 11 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.46%) NFS
Systems Management
1 151 (35.03%) Kubernetes
2 91 (21.11%) Terraform
3 30 (6.96%) Grafana
4 28 (6.50%) Ansible
5 16 (3.71%) Kibana
6 14 (3.25%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.09%) Argo
8 6 (1.39%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.93%) Nagios
9 4 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.70%) Puppet
10 3 (0.70%) Rancher
11 2 (0.46%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.23%) Ambari
12 1 (0.23%) Podman
12 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (13.92%) Oracle
2 27 (6.26%) Microsoft
3 25 (5.80%) Google
4 18 (4.18%) Red Hat
5 16 (3.71%) IBM
6 15 (3.48%) Atlassian
7 14 (3.25%) Informatica
8 12 (2.78%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.78%) Talend
9 10 (2.32%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.32%) Splunk
10 9 (2.09%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.39%) SAP
12 5 (1.16%) VMware
13 4 (0.93%) Pega
13 4 (0.93%) WSO2
14 3 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
14 3 (0.70%) Databricks
14 3 (0.70%) RedGate
14 3 (0.70%) Salesforce