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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 219 152
Rank change year-on-year -47 -67 +64
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 672 658 1,279
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.50% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.28% 9.62% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 506 484 784
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,375 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%

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 8,116 6,837 11,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.83% 15.64% 15.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,558 4,527 7,911
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,199
25th Percentile £45,297 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -73 293 £85,000 -19.05% 236
North of England -6 132 £65,000 -3.70% 48
South East -2 128 £60,000 -2.04% 55
North West -2 58 £65,000 -3.70% 31
South West -57 46 £62,500 +8.70% 21
North East -24 41 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Yorkshire -32 33 £65,000 -7.14% 14
East of England -30 27 £52,500 +64.06% 8
Midlands -46 26 £75,000 +10.90% 28
West Midlands -46 19 £80,000 +16.26% 17
East Midlands -23 7 £60,000 +9.09% 11
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 33 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.72%) Apache
3 22 (3.27%) Confluence
3 22 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (3.13%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.89%) Camunda
6 6 (0.89%) WordPress
7 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Documentum
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Moodle
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.15%) Tornado
8 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.93%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 387 (57.59%) AWS
2 255 (37.95%) Azure
3 108 (16.07%) GCP
4 80 (11.90%) GitHub
5 63 (9.38%) Serverless
6 57 (8.48%) SaaS
7 51 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (6.40%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (5.21%) Power Platform
12 30 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (4.32%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.87%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (3.27%) GitHub Copilot
17 18 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.61%) Broadband
2 15 (2.23%) Firewall
3 13 (1.93%) DNS
4 11 (1.64%) DHCP
5 9 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.19%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.19%) SAN
7 7 (1.04%) VPN
8 4 (0.60%) HTTP
9 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.30%) Network Security
10 2 (0.30%) PBX
10 2 (0.30%) SMS
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
11 1 (0.15%) AMQP
11 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.15%) LAN
11 1 (0.15%) LTE
11 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (26.49%) MongoDB
2 169 (25.15%) MySQL
3 117 (17.41%) Relational Database
4 111 (16.52%) SQL Server
5 105 (15.63%) NoSQL
6 71 (10.57%) Redis
7 37 (5.51%) DynamoDB
8 29 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (4.32%) Power BI
9 28 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (3.27%) Metadata
12 20 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (2.98%) Big Data
13 17 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
14 16 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 13 (1.93%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.79%) Data Lake
16 12 (1.79%) Tableau
17 11 (1.64%) Db2
Development Applications
1 139 (20.68%) Git
2 44 (6.55%) GitLab
3 37 (5.51%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.72%) JIRA
5 24 (3.57%) JUnit
6 18 (2.68%) Mockito
7 13 (1.93%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.93%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.64%) Vite
9 10 (1.49%) JMeter
10 8 (1.19%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.89%) Maven
11 6 (0.89%) Selenium
12 5 (0.74%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.74%) Storybook
13 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.45%) Mocha
14 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 155 (23.07%) Social Skills
2 90 (13.39%) Finance
3 88 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 54 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (5.21%) Games
7 32 (4.76%) Law
8 21 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.83%) Legal
9 19 (2.83%) Retail
10 18 (2.68%) Banking
11 17 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.38%) Front Office
13 15 (2.23%) Advertising
14 12 (1.79%) Legal Technology
15 8 (1.19%) Aviation
16 7 (1.04%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.04%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.89%) Automotive
17 6 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 211 (31.40%) Developer
2 165 (24.55%) Senior
3 148 (22.02%) Software Engineer
4 118 (17.56%) Lead
5 68 (10.12%) Python Engineer
6 61 (9.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 53 (7.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 52 (7.74%) Python Developer
9 49 (7.29%) Data Engineer
10 47 (6.99%) Lead Developer
11 43 (6.40%) Lead Software Engineer
12 42 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
13 36 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
14 35 (5.21%) Senior Developer
15 34 (5.06%) Architect
16 28 (4.17%) Java Developer
16 28 (4.17%) Ruby Developer
17 27 (4.02%) Java Engineer
18 24 (3.57%) Software Developer
19 23 (3.42%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (23.51%) React
2 149 (22.17%) Node.js
3 121 (18.01%) RESTful
4 102 (15.18%) REST
5 77 (11.46%) Spring
6 72 (10.71%) Kafka
6 72 (10.71%) Spring Boot
7 63 (9.38%) CSS
8 59 (8.78%) Next.js
9 56 (8.33%) FastAPI
10 54 (8.04%) HTML
11 50 (7.44%) .NET
12 43 (6.40%) JSON
13 39 (5.80%) AngularJS
14 33 (4.91%) Ruby on Rails
15 32 (4.76%) Django
16 31 (4.61%) JWT
17 29 (4.32%) Flask
18 27 (4.02%) Vue
19 25 (3.72%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 143 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 82 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.21%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (4.32%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.13%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.98%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.53%) Replication
10 16 (2.38%) Derivative
10 16 (2.38%) Equities
10 16 (2.38%) Fixed Income
11 15 (2.23%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.93%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (1.49%) Blog
14 10 (1.49%) EPoS
14 10 (1.49%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 92 (13.69%) Linux
2 41 (6.10%) Windows
3 19 (2.83%) Unix
4 17 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.45%) CentOS
7 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (45.39%) CI/CD
2 245 (36.46%) Agile
2 245 (36.46%) Software Engineering
3 192 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 185 (27.53%) AI
5 181 (26.93%) Microservices
6 159 (23.66%) DevOps
7 144 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 140 (20.83%) Mentoring
9 126 (18.75%) Test Automation
10 123 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 121 (18.01%) Containerisation
12 120 (17.86%) Observability
13 115 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
14 88 (13.10%) Analytics
15 85 (12.65%) API Design
16 78 (11.61%) Clean Code
17 72 (10.71%) Scrum
18 71 (10.57%) Data Modelling
18 71 (10.57%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 296 (44.05%) Python
2 203 (30.21%) SQL
3 172 (25.60%) Java
4 138 (20.54%) JavaScript
5 135 (20.09%) TypeScript
6 59 (8.78%) C#
7 56 (8.33%) Go
8 33 (4.91%) Bash
8 33 (4.91%) PowerShell
8 33 (4.91%) Ruby
9 21 (3.13%) PHP
10 15 (2.23%) C++
10 15 (2.23%) Scala
11 11 (1.64%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.49%) RPG
13 7 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.89%) Korn
15 5 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.60%) C
17 3 (0.45%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 91 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 86 (12.80%) Degree
3 68 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.83%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.89%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.89%) PhD
10 4 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.45%) RHCE
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
12 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.30%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.48%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.17%) QA
3 24 (3.57%) GDPR
4 15 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) SLA
7 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.30%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 190 (28.27%) Docker
2 24 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.45%) Firmware
4 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 169 (25.15%) Kubernetes
2 125 (18.60%) Terraform
3 33 (4.91%) Ansible
3 33 (4.91%) Grafana
4 30 (4.46%) Argo
5 21 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.64%) Kibana
7 6 (0.89%) Istio
7 6 (0.89%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.89%) Puppet
8 3 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.45%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.45%) Plesk
8 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.30%) Nagios
9 2 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 73 (10.86%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.78%) Oracle
3 33 (4.91%) Google
4 20 (2.98%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.68%) Databricks
6 15 (2.23%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.93%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.49%) IBM
9 9 (1.34%) Splunk
10 8 (1.19%) Dell
11 7 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.89%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.60%) Confluent
13 4 (0.60%) Netezza
13 4 (0.60%) Pega
13 4 (0.60%) Remedy
14 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.45%) VMware
15 2 (0.30%) TikTok
15 2 (0.30%) UiPath