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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 146 207
Rank change year-on-year -86 +61 -113
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 598 1,258 887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.38% 1.82% 1.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.30% 11.78% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 421 666 740
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,465 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.20% -6.48% -6.67%
75th Percentile £120,000 £95,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -3.45%

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 6,432 10,683 11,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.88% 15.48% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,186 6,552 9,042
10th Percentile £33,875 £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +0.78% +7.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £81,188
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% +4.17%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +23 363 £105,000 +16.67% 189
South East -67 92 £67,500 +28.57% 72
North of England -93 76 £67,500 +12.50% 45
North West -102 43 £67,500 +17.39% 24
Midlands -41 35 £71,250 +23.91% 20
South West +5 34 £54,000 -10.00% 31
West Midlands +37 29 £72,500 +11.54% 7
East of England -15 28 £30,500 -44.55% 18
Yorkshire +11 24 £70,000 +11.59% 18
North East +24 9 £51,250 -21.71% 4
East Midlands -53 6 £45,000 -10.00% 13
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 107 (17.89%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.52%) Confluence
3 21 (3.51%) Tomcat
4 15 (2.51%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.34%) nginx
6 11 (1.84%) WebSphere
7 10 (1.67%) IIS
8 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (1.51%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (1.34%) JBoss
10 7 (1.17%) Red Hat Fuse
11 6 (1.00%) CMS
12 5 (0.84%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.67%) Apache
14 3 (0.50%) Luigi
14 3 (0.50%) SAS
15 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
16 1 (0.17%) Appian
16 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Notion
4 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 444 (74.25%) AWS
2 194 (32.44%) GCP
3 176 (29.43%) Azure
4 104 (17.39%) dbt
5 84 (14.05%) Serverless
6 81 (13.55%) Amazon EC2
7 57 (9.53%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (9.03%) Amazon S3
9 46 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (6.69%) GitHub
11 33 (5.52%) SaaS
12 30 (5.02%) Power Platform
13 29 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
15 24 (4.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (3.85%) Route 53
17 20 (3.34%) AWS KMS
18 13 (2.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.34%) SSL
2 19 (3.18%) Firewall
3 10 (1.67%) DNS
4 9 (1.51%) DMARC
4 9 (1.51%) FTP
4 9 (1.51%) iSCSI
4 9 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
4 9 (1.51%) SAN
4 9 (1.51%) SSH
5 8 (1.34%) HTTP
5 8 (1.34%) IMAP
5 8 (1.34%) MQTT
5 8 (1.34%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (1.34%) SMTP
6 6 (1.00%) VPN
7 4 (0.67%) SMS
8 3 (0.50%) Asterisk PBX
8 3 (0.50%) Multicast
8 3 (0.50%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (20.57%) MongoDB
2 117 (19.57%) SQL Server
3 116 (19.40%) MySQL
4 107 (17.89%) Relational Database
5 100 (16.72%) Amazon Athena
6 98 (16.39%) Apache Iceberg
7 97 (16.22%) Apache Arrow
7 97 (16.22%) Dremio
8 95 (15.89%) NoSQL
9 55 (9.20%) RDBMS
10 46 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
11 35 (5.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 31 (5.18%) DynamoDB
13 26 (4.35%) Power BI
14 24 (4.01%) DB2
15 22 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
16 20 (3.34%) Big Data
17 18 (3.01%) Redis
18 14 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
18 14 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 99 (16.56%) Jenkins
2 83 (13.88%) Git
3 59 (9.87%) JUnit
4 49 (8.19%) Mockito
5 40 (6.69%) JIRA
6 31 (5.18%) JMeter
7 28 (4.68%) GitLab
8 24 (4.01%) Maven
9 18 (3.01%) SonarQube
10 16 (2.68%) Bitbucket
10 16 (2.68%) Selenium
11 13 (2.17%) IntelliJ
12 12 (2.01%) Cucumber
12 12 (2.01%) DbUnit
12 12 (2.01%) jMock
13 11 (1.84%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (1.34%) Subversion
14 8 (1.34%) Vagrant
15 7 (1.17%) Postman
16 5 (0.84%) MLflow
General
1 210 (35.12%) Finance
2 117 (19.57%) Front Office
3 116 (19.40%) Social Skills
4 94 (15.72%) Public Sector
5 47 (7.86%) Banking
6 44 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (5.35%) Marketing
9 31 (5.18%) Law
10 23 (3.85%) Manufacturing
11 22 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (2.51%) Electronics
13 15 (2.51%) Retail
13 15 (2.51%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.84%) Advertising
15 10 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.51%) Czech Language
17 8 (1.34%) Investment Banking
17 8 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 305 (51.00%) Developer
2 158 (26.42%) Software Engineer
3 111 (18.56%) AWS Engineer
4 110 (18.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 108 (18.06%) Python Developer
6 105 (17.56%) AWS Developer
7 100 (16.72%) AWS Software Engineer
8 94 (15.72%) Java Developer
9 88 (14.72%) Python Engineer
10 83 (13.88%) Python Software Engineer
11 81 (13.55%) Senior
12 76 (12.71%) Lead
13 64 (10.70%) Java Engineer
14 52 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
15 40 (6.69%) Lead Developer
16 37 (6.19%) Java Software Engineer
17 31 (5.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 27 (4.52%) Software Developer
19 25 (4.18%) Senior Developer
20 24 (4.01%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (38.63%) React
2 183 (30.60%) Node.js
3 163 (27.26%) AngularJS
4 123 (20.57%) REST
5 119 (19.90%) Vue
6 109 (18.23%) Spring
7 101 (16.89%) Spring Boot
8 99 (16.56%) Pandas
9 98 (16.39%) NumPy
10 97 (16.22%) SciPy
11 88 (14.72%) RESTful
12 64 (10.70%) Kafka
13 62 (10.37%) HTML
14 55 (9.20%) Web Services
15 53 (8.86%) FastAPI
16 51 (8.53%) Hibernate
17 46 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
17 46 (7.69%) jQuery
18 34 (5.69%) Apache Camel
19 33 (5.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 110 (18.39%) Fixed Income
2 106 (17.73%) Equities
2 106 (17.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 62 (10.37%) Cloud Native
4 59 (9.87%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (4.52%) Product Ownership
6 24 (4.01%) Algorithms
6 24 (4.01%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.85%) Data Structures
8 18 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (2.17%) Replication
12 12 (2.01%) e-Learning
12 12 (2.01%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.84%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 108 (18.06%) Linux
2 56 (9.36%) Windows
3 31 (5.18%) Unix
4 18 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.34%) Android
5 14 (2.34%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.84%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.34%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (1.34%) VMS
9 5 (0.84%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (56.35%) Agile
2 219 (36.62%) Software Engineering
3 187 (31.27%) CI/CD
4 157 (26.25%) Microservices
5 142 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (23.24%) Fintech
7 113 (18.90%) DevOps
7 113 (18.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 111 (18.56%) Asset Management
9 110 (18.39%) Investment Management
10 105 (17.56%) Risk Management
11 101 (16.89%) Containerisation
12 97 (16.22%) Order Management
12 97 (16.22%) Performance Attribution
13 85 (14.21%) Artificial Intelligence
14 84 (14.05%) Mentoring
15 82 (13.71%) TDD
16 69 (11.54%) Test Automation
17 67 (11.20%) User Experience
18 64 (10.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 296 (49.50%) Python
2 256 (42.81%) JavaScript
3 218 (36.45%) Java
4 203 (33.95%) TypeScript
5 187 (31.27%) SQL
6 37 (6.19%) C#
7 35 (5.85%) Shell Script
8 25 (4.18%) Bash
8 25 (4.18%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.68%) PHP
10 14 (2.34%) Rust
11 13 (2.17%) T-SQL
12 12 (2.01%) Go
13 11 (1.84%) Groovy
14 10 (1.67%) Kotlin
15 9 (1.51%) Korn
15 9 (1.51%) VBA
16 7 (1.17%) C++
16 7 (1.17%) PL/SQL
17 6 (1.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 84 (14.05%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.03%) Degree
4 30 (5.02%) AWS Certification
5 15 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (1.67%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.33%) PhD
13 1 (0.17%) HNC
13 1 (0.17%) HND
13 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.17%) MCSA
13 1 (0.17%) MCSE
13 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.53%) QA
2 21 (3.51%) SLA
3 15 (2.51%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.34%) GDPR
5 11 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.67%) NIST
7 3 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.50%) CDISC
7 3 (0.50%) SEPA
8 1 (0.17%) GAAP
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.17%) MiFID
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 220 (36.79%) Docker
2 18 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.01%) Postfix
4 9 (1.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.34%) DFS Replication
5 8 (1.34%) Dovecot
5 8 (1.34%) Squid
6 5 (0.84%) zsh
7 3 (0.50%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.50%) HDFS
8 2 (0.33%) KVM
8 2 (0.33%) NFS
8 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.33%) Xen
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 168 (28.09%) Kubernetes
2 57 (9.53%) Terraform
3 33 (5.52%) Kibana
4 22 (3.68%) Ansible
5 20 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.18%) Grafana
7 14 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.34%) Nessus
9 8 (1.34%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.00%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.84%) logstash
12 4 (0.67%) Puppet
13 3 (0.50%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.50%) Oozie
13 3 (0.50%) Packer
14 2 (0.33%) Argo
14 2 (0.33%) CFEngine
15 1 (0.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 84 (14.05%) Oracle
2 47 (7.86%) Microsoft
3 42 (7.02%) Splunk
4 36 (6.02%) Red Hat
5 31 (5.18%) Dynatrace
6 28 (4.68%) Google
7 23 (3.85%) IBM
8 21 (3.51%) Databricks
9 20 (3.34%) SAP
10 19 (3.18%) Informatica
11 16 (2.68%) ServiceNow
12 15 (2.51%) Atlassian
13 13 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
14 12 (2.01%) Talend
15 9 (1.51%) Cisco
15 9 (1.51%) Dell
16 8 (1.34%) OpenAI
16 8 (1.34%) Salesforce
17 7 (1.17%) CA Agile Central
18 5 (0.84%) RedGate