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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 219 163
Rank change year-on-year -64 -56 +52
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 640 652 1,378
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 1.51% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.09% 9.55% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 494 483 877
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,250 £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 £100,875 £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 7,910 6,830 12,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.89% 15.78% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,412 4,522 9,273
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,391 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,725
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -60 273 £85,000 -17.87% 201
South East -7 123 £59,500 +8.18% 46
North of England -14 121 £65,000 -3.70% 65
North West -14 51 £65,000 -3.70% 42
South West -41 48 £62,500 +4.17% 19
North East -27 37 £55,000 +4.76% 7
Yorkshire -26 33 £65,000 -3.70% 16
East of England -12 28 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Midlands -45 25 £75,000 +11.01% 17
West Midlands -41 19 £80,000 +18.30% 9
East Midlands -31 6 £60,000 +9.09% 8
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 27 (4.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.28%) Confluence
4 20 (3.13%) Apache
5 16 (2.50%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.72%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.94%) Camunda
7 6 (0.94%) WordPress
8 5 (0.78%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) Documentum
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) Moodle
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (2.03%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 363 (56.72%) AWS
2 248 (38.75%) Azure
3 104 (16.25%) GCP
4 72 (11.25%) GitHub
5 63 (9.84%) Serverless
6 58 (9.06%) SaaS
7 47 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (6.56%) Amazon S3
9 36 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
9 36 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
9 36 (5.63%) Power Platform
10 30 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (4.22%) Azure Service Bus
13 24 (3.75%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.84%) Broadband
2 15 (2.34%) Firewall
3 13 (2.03%) DNS
4 12 (1.88%) DHCP
5 10 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.25%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.25%) SAN
6 8 (1.25%) VPN
7 4 (0.63%) Network Security
7 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.31%) HTTP
8 2 (0.31%) PBX
8 2 (0.31%) VLAN
9 1 (0.16%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.16%) LAN
9 1 (0.16%) LTE
9 1 (0.16%) SMS
9 1 (0.16%) SSL
9 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (26.56%) MongoDB
2 162 (25.31%) MySQL
3 105 (16.41%) Relational Database
4 104 (16.25%) SQL Server
5 99 (15.47%) NoSQL
6 67 (10.47%) Redis
7 32 (5.00%) DynamoDB
8 31 (4.84%) Power BI
9 26 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
9 26 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (3.28%) Metadata
12 20 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (2.97%) Big Data
14 16 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (2.03%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.88%) Data Lake
17 12 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 11 (1.72%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 125 (19.53%) Git
2 43 (6.72%) GitLab
3 35 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.75%) JIRA
5 23 (3.59%) JUnit
6 18 (2.81%) Mockito
7 13 (2.03%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.88%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.56%) JMeter
9 10 (1.56%) Vite
10 8 (1.25%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.94%) Maven
11 6 (0.94%) Selenium
12 5 (0.78%) Storybook
13 4 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.63%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.47%) Gatling
15 2 (0.31%) ESLint
15 2 (0.31%) Jaeger
General
1 139 (21.72%) Social Skills
2 86 (13.44%) Finance
3 82 (12.81%) Public Sector
4 52 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.31%) Games
7 27 (4.22%) Law
8 22 (3.44%) Retail
9 19 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.81%) Banking
11 17 (2.66%) Legal
11 17 (2.66%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.50%) Front Office
13 15 (2.34%) Advertising
14 11 (1.72%) Legal Technology
15 7 (1.09%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.09%) Aviation
16 6 (0.94%) Automotive
16 6 (0.94%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 201 (31.41%) Developer
2 149 (23.28%) Senior
3 139 (21.72%) Software Engineer
4 113 (17.66%) Lead
5 64 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 58 (9.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 49 (7.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 49 (7.66%) Python Developer
8 46 (7.19%) Lead Developer
9 42 (6.56%) Data Engineer
10 41 (6.41%) Lead Software Engineer
11 36 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
12 35 (5.47%) Architect
12 35 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
13 30 (4.69%) Senior Developer
14 29 (4.53%) Java Developer
15 28 (4.38%) Java Engineer
16 26 (4.06%) Ruby Developer
17 21 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
17 21 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (22.97%) React
2 144 (22.50%) Node.js
3 120 (18.75%) RESTful
4 97 (15.16%) REST
5 76 (11.88%) Spring
6 73 (11.41%) Spring Boot
7 67 (10.47%) Kafka
8 57 (8.91%) CSS
8 57 (8.91%) FastAPI
9 53 (8.28%) Next.js
10 49 (7.66%) HTML
11 45 (7.03%) JSON
12 40 (6.25%) .NET
13 33 (5.16%) AngularJS
14 30 (4.69%) Ruby on Rails
15 29 (4.53%) Django
15 29 (4.53%) JWT
16 27 (4.22%) Flask
17 26 (4.06%) Vue
18 24 (3.75%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 137 (21.41%) Cloud Native
2 79 (12.34%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.47%) Low-Code
4 33 (5.16%) Onboarding
5 32 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
6 26 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.75%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.28%) Algorithms
9 19 (2.97%) AI Agents
10 17 (2.66%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.50%) Derivative
11 16 (2.50%) Equities
11 16 (2.50%) Fixed Income
12 15 (2.34%) Replication
13 13 (2.03%) Blog
13 13 (2.03%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.88%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
16 10 (1.56%) EPoS
16 10 (1.56%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 89 (13.91%) Linux
2 39 (6.09%) Windows
3 19 (2.97%) Unix
4 15 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.47%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Debian
9 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (45.63%) CI/CD
2 235 (36.72%) Software Engineering
3 228 (35.63%) Agile
4 182 (28.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 174 (27.19%) Microservices
6 168 (26.25%) AI
7 150 (23.44%) DevOps
8 140 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 135 (21.09%) Mentoring
10 127 (19.84%) Test Automation
11 120 (18.75%) Containerisation
12 113 (17.66%) Observability
13 112 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 105 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
15 85 (13.28%) Analytics
16 82 (12.81%) API Design
17 74 (11.56%) Data Modelling
18 71 (11.09%) Clean Code
19 69 (10.78%) TDD
20 68 (10.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 280 (43.75%) Python
2 196 (30.63%) SQL
3 173 (27.03%) Java
4 131 (20.47%) TypeScript
5 128 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 52 (8.13%) C#
6 52 (8.13%) Go
7 37 (5.78%) PowerShell
8 33 (5.16%) Bash
9 30 (4.69%) Ruby
10 23 (3.59%) PHP
11 15 (2.34%) C++
11 15 (2.34%) Scala
12 11 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.72%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.56%) RPG
14 6 (0.94%) Korn
15 5 (0.78%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.63%) Delphi
16 4 (0.63%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 85 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 72 (11.25%) Degree
3 62 (9.69%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.94%) PhD
11 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.47%) RHCE
13 2 (0.31%) CISSP
13 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.31%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.31%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.06%) QA
3 23 (3.59%) GDPR
4 17 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.34%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.47%) SLA
7 2 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.31%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 177 (27.66%) Docker
2 26 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Firmware
5 2 (0.31%) Samba
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 161 (25.16%) Kubernetes
2 122 (19.06%) Terraform
3 34 (5.31%) Grafana
4 29 (4.53%) Ansible
4 29 (4.53%) Argo
5 21 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.56%) Kibana
7 6 (0.94%) Istio
7 6 (0.94%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.94%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.94%) Puppet
8 3 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.47%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.47%) Plesk
8 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.47%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.31%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 67 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.22%) Oracle
3 33 (5.16%) Google
4 22 (3.44%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.34%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.03%) Databricks
7 12 (1.88%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.56%) IBM
9 9 (1.41%) Splunk
10 8 (1.25%) Dell
11 7 (1.09%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.94%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.63%) Confluent
13 4 (0.63%) Netezza
13 4 (0.63%) Pega
13 4 (0.63%) Remedy
14 3 (0.47%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.47%) VMware
15 2 (0.31%) UiPath
15 2 (0.31%) WSO2