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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 212 169
Rank change year-on-year -77 -43 +56
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 550 641 1,579
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.61% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.42% 9.69% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 419 470 1,071
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,125 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,250 £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 7,417 6,617 15,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.84% 16.60% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,994 4,414 11,614
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -9.68%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -101 217 £84,625 -10.92% 90
North of England -13 119 £65,000 -3.70% 33
South East -13 116 £59,500 +13.33% 46
North West -7 54 £67,500 -0.19% 22
South West -53 39 £62,500 +2.04% 10
Yorkshire -22 36 £52,130 -22.77% 6
North East -29 29 £65,000 +23.81% 5
East of England -24 23 £47,500 +50.79% 10
Midlands -48 14 £75,000 +11.11% 18
West Midlands -44 10 £77,500 +14.81% 9
East Midlands -32 4 £65,000 +18.18% 9
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 28 (5.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.64%) Apache
4 16 (2.91%) Confluence
5 12 (2.18%) Apache Spark
6 11 (2.00%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.27%) OpenStack
8 6 (1.09%) WordPress
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) Moodle
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 326 (59.27%) AWS
2 210 (38.18%) Azure
3 97 (17.64%) GCP
4 62 (11.27%) Serverless
5 56 (10.18%) GitHub
6 49 (8.91%) SaaS
7 36 (6.55%) Power Platform
8 35 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
8 35 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (5.82%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (4.91%) Azure Service Bus
12 26 (4.73%) Amazon S3
13 25 (4.55%) Azure AKS
14 19 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (2.73%) Azure Functions
16 15 (2.73%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.64%) Broadband
2 18 (3.27%) Firewall
3 16 (2.91%) DNS
4 15 (2.73%) DHCP
5 14 (2.55%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.00%) VPN
7 8 (1.45%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (1.45%) SAN
8 7 (1.27%) Network Security
8 7 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.91%) Internet
9 5 (0.91%) VLAN
10 2 (0.36%) HTTP
10 2 (0.36%) LAN
10 2 (0.36%) PBX
10 2 (0.36%) WAN
11 1 (0.18%) LTE
11 1 (0.18%) SMS
11 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (29.82%) MongoDB
2 135 (24.55%) MySQL
3 92 (16.73%) NoSQL
3 92 (16.73%) SQL Server
4 90 (16.36%) Relational Database
5 44 (8.00%) Redis
6 31 (5.64%) Power BI
7 23 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (3.45%) DynamoDB
10 15 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (2.36%) Metadata
11 13 (2.36%) Pinecone
11 13 (2.36%) RDBMS
12 12 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (2.00%) MariaDB
13 11 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (1.82%) Oracle Database
15 9 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 107 (19.45%) Git
2 41 (7.45%) GitLab
3 35 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 22 (4.00%) JIRA
5 17 (3.09%) JUnit
6 13 (2.36%) Bitbucket
6 13 (2.36%) Mockito
6 13 (2.36%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.82%) JMeter
8 9 (1.64%) Vite
9 8 (1.45%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.09%) Maven
10 6 (1.09%) Selenium
11 4 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.55%) DBeaver
12 3 (0.55%) Gatling
12 3 (0.55%) Storybook
13 2 (0.36%) ESLint
13 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
General
1 132 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 78 (14.18%) Finance
3 67 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.18%) Games
7 29 (5.27%) Retail
8 25 (4.55%) Law
9 22 (4.00%) Banking
10 20 (3.64%) Manufacturing
11 19 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.91%) Front Office
13 15 (2.73%) Advertising
13 15 (2.73%) Legal
14 10 (1.82%) Legal Technology
15 9 (1.64%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.27%) Aviation
17 5 (0.91%) Automotive
17 5 (0.91%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 166 (30.18%) Developer
2 113 (20.55%) Senior
3 109 (19.82%) Software Engineer
4 93 (16.91%) Lead
5 51 (9.27%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (9.09%) Python Engineer
7 42 (7.64%) Lead Developer
8 39 (7.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 35 (6.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 35 (6.36%) Lead Software Engineer
9 35 (6.36%) Python Developer
10 33 (6.00%) Architect
10 33 (6.00%) Data Engineer
10 33 (6.00%) Java Developer
10 33 (6.00%) Java Engineer
11 27 (4.91%) Senior Developer
12 21 (3.82%) Senior DevOps
13 20 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (3.64%) Ruby Developer
13 20 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (24.73%) React
2 126 (22.91%) Node.js
3 104 (18.91%) RESTful
4 76 (13.82%) REST
5 65 (11.82%) Spring
6 62 (11.27%) Spring Boot
7 53 (9.64%) Kafka
8 48 (8.73%) FastAPI
9 44 (8.00%) CSS
10 40 (7.27%) HTML
11 39 (7.09%) .NET
12 38 (6.91%) Next.js
13 36 (6.55%) JSON
14 30 (5.45%) AngularJS
15 27 (4.91%) Django
15 27 (4.91%) Vue
16 24 (4.36%) Flask
16 24 (4.36%) Redux
16 24 (4.36%) Ruby on Rails
17 18 (3.27%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 129 (23.45%) Cloud Native
2 60 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.82%) Video\Live Streaming
4 31 (5.64%) Low-Code
5 22 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.64%) Algorithms
6 20 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (3.45%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.91%) Blog
8 16 (2.91%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.91%) Derivative
8 16 (2.91%) Equities
8 16 (2.91%) Fixed Income
9 15 (2.73%) Replication
10 14 (2.55%) Management Information System
11 13 (2.36%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (1.27%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 89 (16.18%) Linux
2 44 (8.00%) Windows
3 20 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.45%) Unix
5 9 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.55%) CentOS
9 1 (0.18%) Debian
9 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (44.55%) CI/CD
2 197 (35.82%) Agile
3 192 (34.91%) Software Engineering
4 156 (28.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 142 (25.82%) Microservices
6 131 (23.82%) AI
6 131 (23.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 126 (22.91%) DevOps
8 110 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 108 (19.64%) Mentoring
10 104 (18.91%) Containerisation
11 99 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 97 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
13 89 (16.18%) Observability
14 71 (12.91%) Analytics
15 67 (12.18%) API Design
16 66 (12.00%) Scrum
17 64 (11.64%) Data Modelling
18 61 (11.09%) TDD
19 59 (10.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 241 (43.82%) Python
2 168 (30.55%) SQL
3 163 (29.64%) Java
4 118 (21.45%) TypeScript
5 113 (20.55%) JavaScript
6 52 (9.45%) Go
7 45 (8.18%) C#
8 41 (7.45%) PowerShell
9 33 (6.00%) Bash
10 24 (4.36%) PHP
10 24 (4.36%) Ruby
11 13 (2.36%) C++
12 12 (2.18%) T-SQL
13 11 (2.00%) Scala
13 11 (2.00%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.82%) C
15 7 (1.27%) Korn
16 6 (1.09%) RPG
17 4 (0.73%) Delphi
17 4 (0.73%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 69 (12.55%) Degree
1 69 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 54 (9.82%) SC Cleared
3 28 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.09%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (0.73%) PhD
9 3 (0.55%) RHCE
9 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.36%) CISSP
10 2 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.55%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.36%) QA
3 22 (4.00%) GDPR
4 18 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.18%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.55%) SLA
7 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.36%) WCAG
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 151 (27.45%) Docker
2 30 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Samba
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 160 (29.09%) Kubernetes
2 111 (20.18%) Terraform
3 32 (5.82%) Grafana
4 31 (5.64%) Ansible
5 29 (5.27%) Argo
6 20 (3.64%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.82%) Kibana
8 7 (1.27%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.27%) Puppet
9 6 (1.09%) Istio
9 6 (1.09%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.55%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.55%) Plesk
10 3 (0.55%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.55%) Rancher
10 3 (0.55%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.36%) Nagios
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 68 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 56 (10.18%) Oracle
3 25 (4.55%) Google
4 17 (3.09%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.91%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.64%) Splunk
8 8 (1.45%) Dell
9 7 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.09%) Databricks
10 6 (1.09%) IBM
10 6 (1.09%) VMware
11 5 (0.91%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.73%) Confluent
12 4 (0.73%) Netezza
12 4 (0.73%) Pega
12 4 (0.73%) Remedy
13 3 (0.55%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.55%) Revolut
14 2 (0.36%) WSO2