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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 218 153
Rank change year-on-year -46 -65 +59
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 679 649 1,281
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.49% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.33% 9.55% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 506 474 778
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 £86,250 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 8,152 6,799 11,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.76% 15.61% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,602 4,468 7,853
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,297 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,406 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 7 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 7 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 -68 293 £85,000 -19.05% 346
North of England -10 134 £65,000 -3.70% 48
South East -11 129 £60,000 -2.04% 61
North West -7 60 £65,000 -3.70% 32
South West -50 47 £62,500 +8.70% 22
North East -22 41 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Yorkshire -18 33 £65,000 -5.45% 12
East of England -30 29 £52,500 +66.67% 7
Midlands -53 27 £75,000 +11.11% 24
West Midlands -47 20 £81,887 +21.09% 11
East Midlands -31 7 £60,000 +9.09% 13
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 34 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.83%) Apache
3 22 (3.24%) Confluence
4 21 (3.09%) Apache Spark
4 21 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.88%) Camunda
6 6 (0.88%) 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%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) Moodle
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.15%) Tornado
8 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (1.91%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 389 (57.29%) AWS
2 251 (36.97%) Azure
3 104 (15.32%) GCP
4 87 (12.81%) GitHub
5 62 (9.13%) Serverless
6 58 (8.54%) SaaS
7 51 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (6.33%) Amazon S3
9 41 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (5.01%) Power Platform
12 31 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
13 28 (4.12%) GitHub Copilot
14 26 (3.83%) Azure AKS
15 24 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (2.65%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.57%) Broadband
2 15 (2.21%) Firewall
3 13 (1.91%) DNS
4 11 (1.62%) DHCP
5 9 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.18%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.18%) SAN
7 7 (1.03%) VPN
8 4 (0.59%) HTTP
9 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.29%) Network Security
10 2 (0.29%) PBX
10 2 (0.29%) SMS
10 2 (0.29%) VLAN
11 1 (0.15%) AMQP
11 1 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.15%) LTE
11 1 (0.15%) SSL
11 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (26.51%) MongoDB
2 169 (24.89%) MySQL
3 119 (17.53%) Relational Database
4 114 (16.79%) SQL Server
5 103 (15.17%) NoSQL
6 74 (10.90%) Redis
7 39 (5.74%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (4.12%) Power BI
11 26 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (3.09%) Metadata
13 19 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (2.80%) Big Data
14 16 (2.36%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (2.36%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.91%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.77%) Data Lake
16 12 (1.77%) Tableau
17 11 (1.62%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 140 (20.62%) Git
2 44 (6.48%) GitLab
3 37 (5.45%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.53%) JIRA
4 24 (3.53%) JUnit
5 18 (2.65%) Mockito
6 13 (1.91%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 11 (1.62%) Vite
8 10 (1.47%) JMeter
9 8 (1.18%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.88%) Selenium
11 5 (0.74%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.74%) Maven
12 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.59%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.59%) Storybook
13 3 (0.44%) Mocha
13 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 161 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 89 (13.11%) Finance
2 89 (13.11%) Public Sector
3 54 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (5.30%) Law
6 35 (5.15%) Games
7 21 (3.09%) Legal
7 21 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (2.80%) Retail
9 18 (2.65%) Banking
10 17 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.06%) Advertising
12 13 (1.91%) Legal Technology
13 12 (1.77%) Front Office
14 8 (1.18%) Aviation
15 7 (1.03%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.03%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.88%) Automotive
16 6 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 210 (30.93%) Developer
2 172 (25.33%) Senior
3 150 (22.09%) Software Engineer
4 116 (17.08%) Lead
5 66 (9.72%) Python Engineer
6 61 (8.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 51 (7.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 50 (7.36%) Data Engineer
9 49 (7.22%) Python Developer
10 47 (6.92%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (6.48%) Lead Developer
12 40 (5.89%) Lead Software Engineer
13 37 (5.45%) Senior Developer
14 36 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
15 34 (5.01%) Architect
16 30 (4.42%) Ruby Developer
17 27 (3.98%) Java Engineer
18 26 (3.83%) Java Developer
19 24 (3.53%) DBA
20 23 (3.39%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (22.83%) React
2 147 (21.65%) Node.js
3 121 (17.82%) RESTful
4 100 (14.73%) REST
5 76 (11.19%) Spring
6 73 (10.75%) Kafka
7 72 (10.60%) Spring Boot
8 62 (9.13%) CSS
9 59 (8.69%) Next.js
10 54 (7.95%) FastAPI
10 54 (7.95%) HTML
11 53 (7.81%) .NET
12 44 (6.48%) JSON
13 39 (5.74%) AngularJS
14 35 (5.15%) Ruby on Rails
15 32 (4.71%) Django
15 32 (4.71%) JWT
16 27 (3.98%) Flask
17 25 (3.68%) Vue
18 24 (3.53%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 147 (21.65%) Cloud Native
2 85 (12.52%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.15%) Low-Code
4 32 (4.71%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 28 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 25 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (3.09%) AI Agents
7 21 (3.09%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.50%) Replication
9 14 (2.06%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.91%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.77%) Derivative
11 12 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
11 12 (1.77%) Equities
11 12 (1.77%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
12 10 (1.47%) Blog
12 10 (1.47%) IoT
12 10 (1.47%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 94 (13.84%) Linux
2 41 (6.04%) Windows
3 19 (2.80%) Unix
4 17 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.44%) CentOS
7 3 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (45.36%) CI/CD
2 250 (36.82%) Software Engineering
3 244 (35.94%) Agile
4 191 (28.13%) AI
5 190 (27.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 183 (26.95%) Microservices
7 161 (23.71%) DevOps
8 148 (21.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 140 (20.62%) Mentoring
10 129 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 127 (18.70%) Test Automation
12 124 (18.26%) Observability
13 123 (18.11%) Containerisation
14 120 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
15 88 (12.96%) Analytics
16 87 (12.81%) API Design
17 81 (11.93%) Clean Code
18 74 (10.90%) Machine Learning
19 72 (10.60%) Data Modelling
19 72 (10.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 295 (43.45%) Python
2 201 (29.60%) SQL
3 172 (25.33%) Java
4 135 (19.88%) TypeScript
5 134 (19.73%) JavaScript
6 62 (9.13%) C#
7 58 (8.54%) Go
8 35 (5.15%) Ruby
9 32 (4.71%) Bash
10 31 (4.57%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.09%) PHP
12 16 (2.36%) Scala
13 14 (2.06%) C++
14 11 (1.62%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.47%) RPG
16 6 (0.88%) Korn
16 6 (0.88%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.74%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.59%) C
19 3 (0.44%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 92 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.40%) Degree
3 69 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.09%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.88%) PhD
11 4 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.44%) RHCE
13 2 (0.29%) CISSP
13 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.29%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.29%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.54%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.12%) QA
3 24 (3.53%) GDPR
4 15 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.59%) SLA
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) 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
1 192 (28.28%) Docker
2 23 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.44%) Firmware
4 3 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) Samba
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 171 (25.18%) Kubernetes
2 128 (18.85%) Terraform
3 35 (5.15%) Ansible
3 35 (5.15%) Grafana
4 30 (4.42%) Argo
5 22 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.62%) Kibana
7 6 (0.88%) Istio
7 6 (0.88%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.88%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.88%) Puppet
8 3 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.44%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.44%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.44%) Plesk
8 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.29%) Nagios
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 73 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.84%) Oracle
3 32 (4.71%) Google
4 20 (2.95%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.80%) Databricks
6 15 (2.21%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.91%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.47%) IBM
9 9 (1.33%) Splunk
10 8 (1.18%) Dell
11 7 (1.03%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.88%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.59%) Confluent
13 4 (0.59%) Netezza
13 4 (0.59%) Pega
13 4 (0.59%) Remedy
14 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.44%) VMware
15 2 (0.29%) D-Link
15 2 (0.29%) WSO2