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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 217 152
Rank change year-on-year -52 -65 +59
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 673 657 1,277
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.51% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.28% 9.62% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 509 484 782
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 £87,500 £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 8,128 6,831 11,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.85% 15.65% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,570 4,523 7,945
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,199
25th Percentile £45,438 £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 £60,622 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.03% +1.04% -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 2 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 2 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 -66 294 £85,000 -19.05% 229
North of England -8 131 £65,000 -3.70% 54
South East -8 129 £60,000 -2.04% 56
North West -7 57 £65,000 -3.70% 35
South West -53 46 £62,500 +8.70% 18
North East -23 41 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Yorkshire -31 33 £65,000 -7.14% 16
East of England -29 27 £52,500 +64.06% 8
Midlands -46 26 £75,000 +10.90% 24
West Midlands -51 19 £80,000 +16.26% 14
East Midlands -32 7 £60,000 +9.09% 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 32 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.57%) Apache
3 23 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (3.27%) Confluence
5 21 (3.12%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.49%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.89%) Camunda
7 6 (0.89%) WordPress
8 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Documentum
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Moodle
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.15%) Tornado
9 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
1 385 (57.21%) AWS
2 255 (37.89%) Azure
3 107 (15.90%) GCP
4 78 (11.59%) GitHub
5 63 (9.36%) Serverless
6 58 (8.62%) SaaS
7 51 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (6.39%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (5.35%) Power Platform
12 30 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.86%) Azure AKS
14 26 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
15 25 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (3.12%) GitHub Copilot
18 18 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.61%) Broadband
2 15 (2.23%) Firewall
3 13 (1.93%) DNS
4 11 (1.63%) 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 (0.59%) 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
1 177 (26.30%) MongoDB
2 169 (25.11%) MySQL
3 117 (17.38%) Relational Database
4 112 (16.64%) SQL Server
5 104 (15.45%) NoSQL
6 71 (10.55%) Redis
7 36 (5.35%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.46%) Power BI
9 29 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (3.27%) Metadata
13 20 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (2.97%) Big Data
14 17 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
15 16 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 13 (1.93%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.78%) Data Lake
17 12 (1.78%) Tableau
18 11 (1.63%) Db2
Development Applications
1 138 (20.51%) Git
2 43 (6.39%) GitLab
3 37 (5.50%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.71%) JIRA
5 24 (3.57%) JUnit
6 18 (2.67%) Mockito
7 13 (1.93%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.93%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.63%) 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 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.59%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.45%) Gatling
14 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 154 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 92 (13.67%) Finance
3 87 (12.93%) Public Sector
4 55 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (5.20%) Games
7 32 (4.75%) Law
8 21 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.82%) Legal
9 19 (2.82%) Retail
10 18 (2.67%) Banking
11 17 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.38%) Front Office
13 15 (2.23%) Advertising
14 12 (1.78%) 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
1 212 (31.50%) Developer
2 165 (24.52%) Senior
3 148 (21.99%) Software Engineer
4 119 (17.68%) Lead
5 68 (10.10%) Python Engineer
6 61 (9.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 53 (7.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 52 (7.73%) Python Developer
9 48 (7.13%) Data Engineer
9 48 (7.13%) Lead Developer
10 43 (6.39%) Lead Software Engineer
11 42 (6.24%) Senior Software Engineer
12 36 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
13 35 (5.20%) Senior Developer
14 34 (5.05%) Architect
15 30 (4.46%) Java Developer
16 28 (4.16%) Ruby Developer
17 27 (4.01%) Java Engineer
18 24 (3.57%) Software Developer
19 23 (3.42%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (23.33%) React
2 148 (21.99%) Node.js
3 120 (17.83%) RESTful
4 104 (15.45%) REST
5 79 (11.74%) Spring
6 74 (11.00%) Spring Boot
7 71 (10.55%) Kafka
8 63 (9.36%) CSS
9 59 (8.77%) Next.js
10 56 (8.32%) FastAPI
11 54 (8.02%) HTML
12 49 (7.28%) .NET
13 44 (6.54%) JSON
14 38 (5.65%) AngularJS
15 33 (4.90%) Ruby on Rails
16 32 (4.75%) Django
17 30 (4.46%) JWT
18 29 (4.31%) Flask
19 26 (3.86%) Vue
20 25 (3.71%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 142 (21.10%) Cloud Native
2 82 (12.18%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.20%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.75%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (3.71%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.12%) Algorithms
9 20 (2.97%) AI Agents
10 17 (2.53%) Replication
11 16 (2.38%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.38%) Derivative
11 16 (2.38%) Equities
11 16 (2.38%) Fixed Income
12 13 (1.93%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (1.49%) Blog
14 10 (1.49%) EPoS
14 10 (1.49%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 92 (13.67%) Linux
2 41 (6.09%) Windows
3 19 (2.82%) 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
1 304 (45.17%) CI/CD
2 245 (36.40%) Software Engineering
3 243 (36.11%) Agile
4 192 (28.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 184 (27.34%) AI
6 182 (27.04%) Microservices
7 158 (23.48%) DevOps
8 144 (21.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 140 (20.80%) Mentoring
10 126 (18.72%) Test Automation
11 123 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (17.83%) Containerisation
12 120 (17.83%) Observability
13 115 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
14 88 (13.08%) Analytics
15 85 (12.63%) API Design
16 77 (11.44%) Clean Code
17 72 (10.70%) Data Modelling
17 72 (10.70%) Scrum
18 70 (10.40%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 296 (43.98%) Python
2 202 (30.01%) SQL
3 173 (25.71%) Java
4 137 (20.36%) JavaScript
5 134 (19.91%) TypeScript
6 59 (8.77%) C#
7 56 (8.32%) Go
8 34 (5.05%) PowerShell
9 33 (4.90%) Bash
9 33 (4.90%) Ruby
10 21 (3.12%) PHP
11 15 (2.23%) C++
11 15 (2.23%) Scala
12 11 (1.63%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.49%) RPG
14 8 (1.19%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.89%) Korn
16 5 (0.74%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.59%) C
18 3 (0.45%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 91 (13.52%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.63%) Degree
3 68 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.67%) 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 (0.59%) 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 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.16%) QA
3 24 (3.57%) GDPR
4 15 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.59%) 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
1 189 (28.08%) Docker
2 25 (3.71%) 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 (25.11%) Kubernetes
2 125 (18.57%) Terraform
3 33 (4.90%) Ansible
3 33 (4.90%) Grafana
4 30 (4.46%) Argo
5 21 (3.12%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.63%) 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 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.77%) Oracle
3 32 (4.75%) Google
4 22 (3.27%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.53%) 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 (0.59%) Confluent
13 4 (0.59%) Netezza
13 4 (0.59%) Pega
13 4 (0.59%) Remedy
14 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.45%) VMware
15 2 (0.30%) Revolut
15 2 (0.30%) TikTok