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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 141 191
Rank change year-on-year -91 +50 -14
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 526 1,176 817
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.13% 1.95% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.58% 11.86% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 383 525 677
10th Percentile £42,040 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £89,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.43% +7.69% -7.14%

All Database and 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 6,133 9,918 9,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.22% 16.48% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,131 5,714 7,763
10th Percentile £34,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -32 308 £100,000 +17.65% 146
North of England -15 80 £67,500 +3.85% 43
South East -99 66 £65,000 +4.00% 113
Midlands +31 39 £55,000 -15.38% 24
South West -20 36 £54,000 -16.92% 19
North West -16 34 £70,000 +16.67% 30
Yorkshire +21 33 £68,750 -3.51% 10
West Midlands +39 26 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North East +24 13 £52,500 -24.25% 3
East Midlands +19 13 £50,000 -9.09% 10
East of England -43 13 £42,500 -26.09% 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 69 (13.12%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.37%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.61%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.23%) Confluence
4 17 (3.23%) Tomcat
5 16 (3.04%) WebSphere Application Server
6 9 (1.71%) nginx
7 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.14%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.76%) Apache
10 3 (0.57%) CMS
10 3 (0.57%) JBoss
10 3 (0.57%) Luigi
10 3 (0.57%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.38%) IIS
11 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.38%) SAS
12 1 (0.19%) Appian
12 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (1.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 6 (1.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.19%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 380 (72.24%) AWS
2 175 (33.27%) Azure
3 157 (29.85%) GCP
4 84 (15.97%) Serverless
5 72 (13.69%) dbt
6 58 (11.03%) Amazon ECS
7 50 (9.51%) GitHub
8 48 (9.13%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (7.98%) Amazon S3
11 40 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (6.65%) SaaS
13 28 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (5.13%) Power Platform
15 23 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (3.42%) Amazon ECR
17 16 (3.04%) Route 53
18 15 (2.85%) Amazon SQS
18 15 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
19 14 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.61%) SSL
2 17 (3.23%) Firewall
3 13 (2.47%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.52%) DNS
4 8 (1.52%) HTTP
4 8 (1.52%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.52%) SAN
5 7 (1.33%) FTP
6 6 (1.14%) IMAP
6 6 (1.14%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (1.14%) SMTP
6 6 (1.14%) SSH
7 5 (0.95%) VPN
7 5 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.57%) MQTT
9 2 (0.38%) AMQP
9 2 (0.38%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (23.00%) SQL Server
2 117 (22.24%) Relational Database
3 108 (20.53%) MySQL
4 87 (16.54%) MongoDB
5 74 (14.07%) NoSQL
6 55 (10.46%) Apache Iceberg
7 52 (9.89%) Amazon Athena
8 50 (9.51%) Apache Arrow
8 50 (9.51%) Dremio
9 45 (8.56%) RDBMS
10 36 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (6.84%) Redis
11 34 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
12 33 (6.27%) DB2
13 27 (5.13%) DynamoDB
14 25 (4.75%) Power BI
15 20 (3.80%) Big Data
16 19 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
16 19 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
17 14 (2.66%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 97 (18.44%) Jenkins
2 84 (15.97%) Git
3 40 (7.60%) JUnit
4 34 (6.46%) JIRA
5 27 (5.13%) Mockito
6 26 (4.94%) GitLab
6 26 (4.94%) JMeter
7 22 (4.18%) Cucumber
7 22 (4.18%) Selenium
8 16 (3.04%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.52%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.33%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.14%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.14%) Maven
11 6 (1.14%) REST Assured
11 6 (1.14%) Vagrant
12 5 (0.95%) Subversion
13 4 (0.76%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.76%) Vite
General
1 147 (27.95%) Finance
2 115 (21.86%) Social Skills
3 59 (11.22%) Public Sector
4 57 (10.84%) Front Office
5 45 (8.56%) Banking
6 33 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (5.89%) Marketing
8 30 (5.70%) Law
9 28 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 18 (3.42%) Telecoms
12 15 (2.85%) Electronics
13 13 (2.47%) Investment Banking
13 13 (2.47%) Retail
14 12 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.90%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.71%) Advertising
18 6 (1.14%) Legal
19 5 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 227 (43.16%) Developer
2 105 (19.96%) Software Engineer
3 89 (16.92%) Senior
4 74 (14.07%) Python Developer
5 67 (12.74%) Lead
6 64 (12.17%) Python Engineer
7 59 (11.22%) AWS Engineer
8 58 (11.03%) Java Developer
9 56 (10.65%) Python Software Engineer
10 55 (10.46%) AWS Developer
11 53 (10.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 52 (9.89%) Full-Stack Developer
13 51 (9.70%) AWS Software Engineer
14 33 (6.27%) Software Developer
15 30 (5.70%) Data Engineer
16 29 (5.51%) Java Engineer
16 29 (5.51%) Lead Developer
17 25 (4.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 24 (4.56%) Linux Support
19 23 (4.37%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (30.04%) React
2 123 (23.38%) Node.js
3 90 (17.11%) Spring
4 88 (16.73%) AngularJS
5 82 (15.59%) Spring Boot
6 80 (15.21%) REST
7 78 (14.83%) RESTful
8 71 (13.50%) FastAPI
8 71 (13.50%) Vue
9 63 (11.98%) HTML
10 55 (10.46%) Django
11 53 (10.08%) Kafka
12 52 (9.89%) NumPy
12 52 (9.89%) Pandas
13 50 (9.51%) SciPy
14 45 (8.56%) CSS
15 41 (7.79%) Flask
16 40 (7.60%) .NET
17 37 (7.03%) Web Services
18 30 (5.70%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 69 (13.12%) Cloud Native
2 61 (11.60%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (10.08%) Equities
3 53 (10.08%) Fixed Income
3 53 (10.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (5.32%) Management Information System
5 26 (4.94%) Linux Command Line
6 20 (3.80%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.85%) Replication
9 14 (2.66%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.71%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.33%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.14%) Clustering
15 5 (0.95%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 89 (16.92%) Linux
2 42 (7.98%) Windows
3 37 (7.03%) Unix
4 26 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.52%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.52%) VMS
5 8 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.33%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.95%) Debian
9 4 (0.76%) Android
9 4 (0.76%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.57%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.19%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (43.54%) Agile
2 201 (38.21%) CI/CD
3 173 (32.89%) Software Engineering
4 146 (27.76%) Microservices
5 134 (25.48%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (23.19%) DevOps
7 103 (19.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 101 (19.20%) Fintech
9 99 (18.82%) Containerisation
10 87 (16.54%) AI
11 77 (14.64%) Mentoring
12 65 (12.36%) Test Automation
13 62 (11.79%) Clean Code
13 62 (11.79%) TDD
14 60 (11.41%) ETL
15 54 (10.27%) Asset Management
15 54 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
16 53 (10.08%) Analytics
16 53 (10.08%) Data Engineering
16 53 (10.08%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 287 (54.56%) Python
2 169 (32.13%) JavaScript
3 159 (30.23%) Java
4 148 (28.14%) SQL
5 127 (24.14%) TypeScript
6 43 (8.17%) C#
7 26 (4.94%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.42%) PHP
9 17 (3.23%) Bash
10 16 (3.04%) Go
10 16 (3.04%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.28%) Rust
12 8 (1.52%) Delphi
12 8 (1.52%) Groovy
12 8 (1.52%) Korn
12 8 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.33%) Ruby
14 4 (0.76%) R
14 4 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.31%) Degree
3 58 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.65%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.09%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.38%) HNC
13 2 (0.38%) HND
13 2 (0.38%) MCSA
13 2 (0.38%) MCSE
13 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.19%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.22%) QA
2 23 (4.37%) SLA
3 18 (3.42%) GDPR
4 17 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.57%) NIST
6 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.57%) SEPA
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) PSD2
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) GAAP
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 198 (37.64%) Docker
2 8 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 6 (1.14%) DFS Replication
3 6 (1.14%) Dovecot
3 6 (1.14%) Postfix
3 6 (1.14%) Squid
4 4 (0.76%) zsh
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.38%) HDFS
5 2 (0.38%) NFS
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 158 (30.04%) Kubernetes
2 76 (14.45%) Terraform
3 31 (5.89%) Kibana
4 28 (5.32%) Grafana
5 20 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.42%) Ansible
7 7 (1.33%) Argo
8 6 (1.14%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.14%) Nessus
8 6 (1.14%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.76%) logstash
9 4 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.57%) Puppet
10 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.38%) Nagios
11 2 (0.38%) Oozie
12 1 (0.19%) Ambari
12 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (14.45%) Oracle
2 33 (6.27%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.27%) Splunk
3 30 (5.70%) Google
3 30 (5.70%) Red Hat
4 24 (4.56%) Dynatrace
5 21 (3.99%) ServiceNow
6 20 (3.80%) IBM
7 19 (3.61%) SAP
8 17 (3.23%) Informatica
9 16 (3.04%) Atlassian
10 13 (2.47%) Talend
11 12 (2.28%) Databricks
12 10 (1.90%) Dell
13 9 (1.71%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.33%) Salesforce
15 6 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
16 5 (0.95%) RedGate
17 4 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
17 4 (0.76%) WSO2