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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 127 194
Rank change year-on-year -148 +67 -3
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 426 1,036 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 2.28% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.19% 12.64% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 301 470 884
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £100,000 £104,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,750 £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 5,924 8,197 12,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.27% 18.06% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,807 4,640 10,445
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,623 £48,750 £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 9 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 9 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 -81 243 £90,000 +2.86% 144
North of England -24 76 £73,801 +6.48% 69
South East -140 47 £56,250 -29.69% 50
Yorkshire -12 36 £62,500 +23.90% 16
North West -16 32 £85,000 +22.64% 40
Midlands -20 26 £55,200 -15.08% 29
South West -57 25 £62,500 -3.85% 31
West Midlands +9 17 £45,000 -30.77% 18
East of England -37 15 £42,500 -26.09% 15
East Midlands -32 9 £65,000 +8.33% 11
North East -4 8 £55,200 -20.35% 14
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 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.93%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.52%) Confluence
4 13 (3.05%) OpenStack
4 13 (3.05%) Tomcat
4 13 (3.05%) WebSphere
5 12 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
6 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.41%) Apache
8 3 (0.70%) CMS
8 3 (0.70%) Luigi
8 3 (0.70%) nginx
8 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.47%) Camunda
9 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.23%) IIS
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 282 (66.20%) AWS
2 145 (34.04%) Azure
3 108 (25.35%) GCP
4 74 (17.37%) Serverless
5 53 (12.44%) GitHub
6 45 (10.56%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (10.09%) Amazon S3
8 41 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
9 38 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (8.69%) SaaS
11 36 (8.45%) dbt
12 33 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (6.34%) Power Platform
15 24 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
16 22 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
18 18 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
19 16 (3.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 16 (3.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.23%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.05%) SSL
3 9 (2.11%) VPN
3 9 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.64%) Firewall
4 7 (1.64%) Internet
5 6 (1.41%) DNS
6 5 (1.17%) Network Security
6 5 (1.17%) VLAN
7 4 (0.94%) DHCP
8 3 (0.70%) HTTP
8 3 (0.70%) MQTT
8 3 (0.70%) WAN
9 2 (0.47%) BGP
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.47%) OSPF
9 2 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.47%) RTMP
9 2 (0.47%) Wireless
10 1 (0.23%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (25.82%) SQL Server
2 96 (22.54%) Relational Database
3 83 (19.48%) MySQL
4 71 (16.67%) MongoDB
5 67 (15.73%) NoSQL
6 37 (8.69%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (8.22%) Redis
8 33 (7.75%) DB2
9 31 (7.28%) DynamoDB
10 25 (5.87%) Power BI
10 25 (5.87%) RDBMS
11 21 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (4.23%) Apache Iceberg
14 17 (3.99%) Apache Cassandra
15 15 (3.52%) Apache Arrow
15 15 (3.52%) Big Data
15 15 (3.52%) Hadoop
16 14 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (3.29%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 95 (22.30%) Git
2 81 (19.01%) Jenkins
3 31 (7.28%) GitLab
4 29 (6.81%) JIRA
5 27 (6.34%) Cucumber
6 25 (5.87%) Selenium
7 23 (5.40%) JUnit
8 21 (4.93%) Bitbucket
9 18 (4.23%) TeamCity
10 14 (3.29%) JMeter
11 11 (2.58%) Mockito
12 7 (1.64%) Vite
13 6 (1.41%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.17%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.17%) Subversion
15 4 (0.94%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
16 3 (0.70%) Maven
16 3 (0.70%) MLflow
16 3 (0.70%) TestRail
General
1 120 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 95 (22.30%) Finance
3 48 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.86%) Banking
5 32 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 31 (7.28%) Law
7 20 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.46%) Front Office
8 19 (4.46%) Retail
9 11 (2.58%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.35%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.11%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.88%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.64%) Marketing
14 5 (1.17%) Advertising
14 5 (1.17%) Electronics
15 4 (0.94%) Back Office
16 3 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 156 (36.62%) Developer
2 73 (17.14%) Senior
3 68 (15.96%) Software Engineer
4 50 (11.74%) Java Developer
5 49 (11.50%) Lead
6 48 (11.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 30 (7.04%) Python Developer
8 28 (6.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 26 (6.10%) Data Engineer
9 26 (6.10%) Python Engineer
10 24 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
11 22 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.16%) Java Engineer
12 19 (4.46%) AWS Developer
12 19 (4.46%) Python Software Engineer
12 19 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (3.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 16 (3.76%) Backend Developer
14 16 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 16 (3.76%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (31.46%) React
2 87 (20.42%) Node.js
3 77 (18.08%) Spring
4 71 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 64 (15.02%) REST
6 62 (14.55%) RESTful
7 54 (12.68%) FastAPI
8 50 (11.74%) Django
9 47 (11.03%) HTML
9 47 (11.03%) Kafka
10 46 (10.80%) AngularJS
11 42 (9.86%) .NET
12 41 (9.62%) CSS
13 37 (8.69%) Vue
14 35 (8.22%) Elastic Stack
15 29 (6.81%) Flask
16 28 (6.57%) Web Services
17 25 (5.87%) .NET Core
18 24 (5.63%) Next.js
19 20 (4.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.62%) Distributed Systems
2 57 (13.38%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.46%) Management Information System
5 18 (4.23%) Equities
5 18 (4.23%) Fixed Income
5 18 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.52%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (2.82%) Blog
9 12 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (2.35%) Algorithms
11 10 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (2.11%) Onboarding
12 9 (2.11%) Replication
13 7 (1.64%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.41%) Clustering
15 5 (1.17%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 66 (15.49%) Linux
2 29 (6.81%) Windows
3 26 (6.10%) Unix
4 16 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.64%) Android
6 7 (1.64%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.70%) Debian
8 3 (0.70%) VMS
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
10 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (45.54%) CI/CD
2 168 (39.44%) Agile
3 136 (31.92%) Software Engineering
4 133 (31.22%) Microservices
5 115 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
6 114 (26.76%) DevOps
7 101 (23.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 86 (20.19%) Containerisation
9 71 (16.67%) Fintech
9 71 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 67 (15.73%) Test Automation
11 66 (15.49%) AI
12 55 (12.91%) Scrum
13 53 (12.44%) Mentoring
14 51 (11.97%) Data Modelling
15 50 (11.74%) ETL
16 49 (11.50%) Business Intelligence
16 49 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
17 46 (10.80%) TDD
18 41 (9.62%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 212 (49.77%) Python
2 153 (35.92%) Java
3 144 (33.80%) SQL
4 119 (27.93%) JavaScript
5 92 (21.60%) TypeScript
6 35 (8.22%) C#
7 28 (6.57%) Go
8 22 (5.16%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.52%) PHP
10 13 (3.05%) T-SQL
11 12 (2.82%) C
12 10 (2.35%) Shell Script
13 9 (2.11%) Delphi
13 9 (2.11%) Rust
14 5 (1.17%) C++
14 5 (1.17%) Ruby
15 4 (0.94%) Bash
16 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.70%) RPG
16 3 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.68%) Degree
3 47 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.34%) AWS Certification
5 26 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.29%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
7 12 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.47%) HNC
11 2 (0.47%) HND
11 2 (0.47%) MCSA
11 2 (0.47%) MCSE
11 2 (0.47%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.46%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.23%) QA
3 15 (3.52%) SLA
4 13 (3.05%) GDPR
5 12 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.11%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.70%) SEPA
8 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.47%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) GAAP
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 156 (36.62%) Docker
2 10 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.47%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.23%) Postfix
5 1 (0.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 147 (34.51%) Kubernetes
2 90 (21.13%) Terraform
3 30 (7.04%) Ansible
4 26 (6.10%) Grafana
5 15 (3.52%) Kibana
6 13 (3.05%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.11%) Argo
8 6 (1.41%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.17%) Puppet
10 4 (0.94%) Nagios
11 3 (0.70%) Rancher
12 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.23%) Ambari
13 1 (0.23%) Nessus
13 1 (0.23%) Podman
13 1 (0.23%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (14.55%) Oracle
2 25 (5.87%) Google
2 25 (5.87%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.23%) Red Hat
4 16 (3.76%) Atlassian
4 16 (3.76%) IBM
5 15 (3.52%) Informatica
6 13 (3.05%) OpenAI
6 13 (3.05%) Talend
7 11 (2.58%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.35%) Splunk
9 9 (2.11%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.64%) SAP
11 5 (1.17%) VMware
12 4 (0.94%) Pega
12 4 (0.94%) WSO2
13 3 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.70%) Databricks
13 3 (0.70%) RedGate
13 3 (0.70%) Salesforce