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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 221 146
Rank change year-on-year -56 -75 +66
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 670 612 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 1.41% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.40% 9.45% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 487 435 665
10th Percentile £43,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,500 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 7,980 6,474 10,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.97% 14.90% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,584 4,199 6,684
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% +0.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -78 296 £83,750 -20.24% 338
North of England +2 122 £65,000 -3.70% 50
South East -17 122 £65,000 - 62
North West -9 57 £65,000 -3.70% 29
South West -59 49 £65,000 +30.00% 47
North East -26 39 £65,000 +26.83% 6
Midlands -53 33 £75,000 +7.14% 23
East of England -28 29 £52,500 +72.13% 17
Yorkshire -45 26 £69,310 -0.99% 15
West Midlands -37 24 £83,774 +15.55% 18
East Midlands -33 9 £60,000 +9.09% 4
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 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.58%) Apache
3 21 (3.13%) Confluence
4 20 (2.99%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.19%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.04%) Camunda
7 7 (1.04%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.90%) WordPress
9 3 (0.45%) CMS
10 2 (0.30%) Luigi
10 2 (0.30%) Tornado
11 1 (0.15%) Documentum
11 1 (0.15%) IIS
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.64%) 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
1 369 (55.07%) AWS
2 226 (33.73%) Azure
3 103 (15.37%) GitHub
4 77 (11.49%) GCP
5 67 (10.00%) Serverless
6 59 (8.81%) SaaS
7 51 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (6.57%) Amazon S3
9 43 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
10 40 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
11 34 (5.07%) GitHub Copilot
12 30 (4.48%) Power Platform
13 29 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (4.18%) Azure Service Bus
15 26 (3.88%) Azure AKS
16 25 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
18 18 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.48%) Broadband
2 12 (1.79%) Firewall
3 10 (1.49%) DNS
4 7 (1.04%) HTTP
5 6 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.75%) DHCP
6 5 (0.75%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.75%) SAN
7 3 (0.45%) 4G
7 3 (0.45%) 5G
7 3 (0.45%) SSH
7 3 (0.45%) VLAN
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
8 2 (0.30%) VPN
9 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.15%) SNMP
9 1 (0.15%) SSL
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (24.48%) MongoDB
2 152 (22.69%) MySQL
3 124 (18.51%) Relational Database
4 118 (17.61%) SQL Server
5 85 (12.69%) NoSQL
6 76 (11.34%) Redis
7 39 (5.82%) DynamoDB
8 33 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (3.58%) Power BI
11 21 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 19 (2.84%) Metadata
13 18 (2.69%) Big Data
14 14 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.94%) Pinecone
16 12 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (1.79%) Data Lake
16 12 (1.79%) Db2
16 12 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 152 (22.69%) Git
2 52 (7.76%) GitLab
2 52 (7.76%) Jenkins
3 24 (3.58%) JUnit
4 20 (2.99%) JIRA
5 18 (2.69%) Mockito
6 15 (2.24%) TeamCity
7 12 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.79%) JMeter
8 11 (1.64%) Vite
9 10 (1.49%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.49%) Selenium
10 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.90%) Maven
10 6 (0.90%) Storybook
11 5 (0.75%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.75%) Mocha
12 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
General
1 157 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 83 (12.39%) Public Sector
3 76 (11.34%) Finance
4 60 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (6.27%) Law
7 33 (4.93%) Games
8 27 (4.03%) Banking
9 23 (3.43%) Retail
10 21 (3.13%) Legal
11 18 (2.69%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.94%) Legal Technology
14 11 (1.64%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.49%) Advertising
15 10 (1.49%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.19%) Aviation
17 7 (1.04%) Financial Institution
17 7 (1.04%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.90%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 210 (31.34%) Developer
2 181 (27.01%) Senior
3 143 (21.34%) Software Engineer
4 103 (15.37%) Lead
5 61 (9.10%) Python Engineer
6 60 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 55 (8.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 51 (7.61%) Data Engineer
9 50 (7.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (7.16%) Python Developer
11 44 (6.57%) Senior Developer
12 41 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
13 36 (5.37%) Architect
14 33 (4.93%) Lead Developer
15 30 (4.48%) Ruby Developer
16 28 (4.18%) Database Engineer
16 28 (4.18%) Lead Software Engineer
17 27 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
18 26 (3.88%) Java Developer
18 26 (3.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (23.28%) React
2 141 (21.04%) Terraform
3 138 (20.60%) Node.js
4 116 (17.31%) RESTful
5 115 (17.16%) REST
6 91 (13.58%) Kafka
7 79 (11.79%) Spring
8 75 (11.19%) Spring Boot
9 71 (10.60%) CSS
10 63 (9.40%) .NET
11 61 (9.10%) Next.js
12 59 (8.81%) HTML
13 51 (7.61%) FastAPI
14 43 (6.42%) JSON
15 41 (6.12%) AngularJS
16 35 (5.22%) Ruby on Rails
17 34 (5.07%) JWT
18 29 (4.33%) Django
18 29 (4.33%) Flask
19 25 (3.73%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 145 (21.64%) Cloud Native
2 90 (13.43%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.07%) Low-Code
4 31 (4.63%) Video\Live Streaming
5 27 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.58%) AI Agents
6 24 (3.58%) Product Ownership
7 22 (3.28%) Replication
8 21 (3.13%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.84%) Algorithms
10 15 (2.24%) Blog
11 13 (1.94%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.64%) IoT
14 10 (1.49%) EPoS
14 10 (1.49%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 90 (13.43%) Linux
2 35 (5.22%) Windows
3 16 (2.39%) Unix
4 14 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (48.36%) CI/CD
2 243 (36.27%) Software Engineering
3 235 (35.07%) Agile
4 201 (30.00%) AI
5 190 (28.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 174 (25.97%) Microservices
7 170 (25.37%) DevOps
8 160 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 136 (20.30%) Observability
10 132 (19.70%) Test Automation
11 127 (18.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (18.06%) Mentoring
13 117 (17.46%) Containerisation
14 116 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
15 86 (12.84%) API Design
16 81 (12.09%) Clean Code
17 80 (11.94%) Data Modelling
18 79 (11.79%) Analytics
19 78 (11.64%) Machine Learning
19 78 (11.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 286 (42.69%) Python
2 192 (28.66%) SQL
3 163 (24.33%) Java
4 133 (19.85%) TypeScript
5 128 (19.10%) JavaScript
6 71 (10.60%) C#
7 60 (8.96%) Go
8 38 (5.67%) Bash
9 35 (5.22%) Ruby
10 23 (3.43%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.54%) Scala
12 16 (2.39%) PHP
13 15 (2.24%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.94%) C++
15 10 (1.49%) RPG
16 7 (1.04%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.90%) Groovy
18 5 (0.75%) Korn
19 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
20 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.54%) Degree
3 79 (11.79%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.73%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.19%) PhD
10 7 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.30%) CISSP
13 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.22%) QA
3 26 (3.88%) GDPR
4 18 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) SLA
6 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.45%) WCAG
8 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 193 (28.81%) Docker
2 12 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 175 (26.12%) Kubernetes
2 51 (7.61%) Grafana
3 40 (5.97%) Ansible
4 33 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.78%) Argo
6 11 (1.64%) Kibana
7 8 (1.19%) Rancher
8 7 (1.04%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.90%) Istio
9 6 (0.90%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.90%) Puppet
10 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.45%) Plesk
10 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.15%) Nagios
12 1 (0.15%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 67 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.81%) Oracle
3 23 (3.43%) OpenAI
4 20 (2.99%) Databricks
4 20 (2.99%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.84%) Google
6 13 (1.94%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.49%) IBM
7 10 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.49%) Splunk
8 8 (1.19%) Mistral
9 5 (0.75%) Dell
10 4 (0.60%) Netezza
10 4 (0.60%) Pega
10 4 (0.60%) Remedy
10 4 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.45%) VMware
12 2 (0.30%) SAP
12 2 (0.30%) WSO2