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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 165 170
Rank change year-on-year -128 +5 +25
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 458 705 1,354
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.92% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.70% 10.47% 9.40%
Number of salaries quoted 338 461 1,017
10th Percentile £37,500 £49,118 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,813 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £94,688 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,375 £132,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%

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 6,840 6,733 14,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.02% 18.31% 17.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,201 4,764 11,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -103 202 £87,500 - 148
North of England -45 99 £67,500 - 33
South East -106 73 £56,500 -19.29% 52
Yorkshire -37 44 £52,130 -12.73% 10
North West -28 43 £77,500 +14.71% 18
South West -53 34 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Midlands -48 22 £47,500 -26.92% 15
East of England -54 22 £45,000 -21.74% 8
West Midlands -26 13 £45,000 -30.77% 7
North East -23 12 £55,000 -20.73% 5
East Midlands -47 9 £60,100 -14.14% 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 26 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (3.28%) Apache
3 15 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 14 (3.06%) Confluence
5 12 (2.62%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.97%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.44%) Camunda
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.44%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) WildFly
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.97%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Endur
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 276 (60.26%) AWS
2 177 (38.65%) Azure
3 119 (25.98%) GCP
4 63 (13.76%) Serverless
5 52 (11.35%) GitHub
6 45 (9.83%) SaaS
7 37 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
8 34 (7.42%) Amazon S3
9 31 (6.77%) Power Platform
10 30 (6.55%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
12 27 (5.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
13 25 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (5.24%) dbt
15 19 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (3.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 16 (3.49%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.93%) TCP/IP
2 14 (3.06%) DHCP
2 14 (3.06%) DNS
3 11 (2.40%) Firewall
3 11 (2.40%) VPN
4 9 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.53%) Broadband
5 7 (1.53%) Internet
5 7 (1.53%) Network Security
6 6 (1.31%) iSCSI
6 6 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (1.31%) SAN
7 3 (0.66%) VLAN
8 2 (0.44%) HTTP
8 2 (0.44%) LAN
8 2 (0.44%) PBX
8 2 (0.44%) SSL
8 2 (0.44%) WAN
9 1 (0.22%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (24.24%) SQL Server
2 106 (23.14%) MySQL
3 93 (20.31%) MongoDB
3 93 (20.31%) Relational Database
4 91 (19.87%) NoSQL
5 35 (7.64%) Redis
6 33 (7.21%) DynamoDB
7 30 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (6.33%) Power BI
9 25 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (3.71%) DB2
11 15 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (3.28%) RDBMS
12 14 (3.06%) BigQuery
13 12 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (2.18%) Oracle Database
15 9 (1.97%) Big Data
15 9 (1.97%) MariaDB
15 9 (1.97%) Pinecone
16 8 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 111 (24.24%) Git
2 50 (10.92%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.11%) GitLab
3 28 (6.11%) JIRA
4 21 (4.59%) Bitbucket
4 21 (4.59%) Cucumber
4 21 (4.59%) Selenium
5 19 (4.15%) TeamCity
6 18 (3.93%) JUnit
7 9 (1.97%) Mockito
8 8 (1.75%) Vite
9 6 (1.31%) Maven
10 4 (0.87%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.87%) JMeter
11 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.66%) Gradle
12 2 (0.44%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.44%) MSTest
12 2 (0.44%) Subversion
12 2 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 130 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 83 (18.12%) Finance
3 48 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.86%) Public Sector
5 33 (7.21%) Banking
6 31 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (6.33%) Law
8 27 (5.90%) Retail
9 17 (3.71%) Front Office
10 16 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.62%) Advertising
12 11 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.18%) Games
14 8 (1.75%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.53%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.09%) Back Office
17 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.66%) Automotive
18 3 (0.66%) Electronics
18 3 (0.66%) Legal
Job Titles
1 141 (30.79%) Developer
2 87 (19.00%) Senior
3 84 (18.34%) Software Engineer
4 70 (15.28%) Lead
5 48 (10.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 42 (9.17%) Java Developer
7 39 (8.52%) Data Engineer
8 38 (8.30%) Python Engineer
9 29 (6.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 29 (6.33%) Java Engineer
10 26 (5.68%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.24%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (4.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 20 (4.37%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (4.15%) Analyst
13 19 (4.15%) IT Support
13 19 (4.15%) Java Software Engineer
13 19 (4.15%) Python Developer
14 16 (3.49%) DBA
15 15 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (31.66%) React
2 85 (18.56%) Node.js
2 85 (18.56%) RESTful
3 61 (13.32%) Spring
4 58 (12.66%) REST
4 58 (12.66%) Spring Boot
5 49 (10.70%) Django
5 49 (10.70%) FastAPI
6 44 (9.61%) Kafka
7 41 (8.95%) .NET
8 40 (8.73%) CSS
8 40 (8.73%) HTML
9 31 (6.77%) Flask
10 30 (6.55%) AngularJS
10 30 (6.55%) Elastic Stack
11 28 (6.11%) Vue
12 26 (5.68%) Next.js
13 22 (4.80%) JSON
13 22 (4.80%) Redux
14 21 (4.59%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 82 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 42 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.93%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.71%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.49%) Blog
6 16 (3.49%) Derivative
6 16 (3.49%) Equities
6 16 (3.49%) Fixed Income
6 16 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.49%) Replication
7 14 (3.06%) Algorithms
7 14 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.84%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.53%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.53%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 58 (12.66%) Linux
2 26 (5.68%) Windows
3 17 (3.71%) Unix
4 15 (3.28%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.31%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.09%) Android
7 5 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.66%) CentOS
8 3 (0.66%) Debian
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (42.79%) CI/CD
2 169 (36.90%) Agile
3 151 (32.97%) Software Engineering
4 138 (30.13%) Microservices
5 124 (27.07%) DevOps
6 120 (26.20%) Full-Stack Development
7 101 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (20.31%) Containerisation
9 92 (20.09%) Test Automation
10 91 (19.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 90 (19.65%) AI
12 79 (17.25%) Mentoring
13 60 (13.10%) Analytics
14 56 (12.23%) TDD
15 54 (11.79%) Fintech
15 54 (11.79%) Scrum
16 52 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (11.14%) Data Modelling
18 45 (9.83%) Business Intelligence
18 45 (9.83%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 208 (45.41%) Python
2 168 (36.68%) SQL
3 150 (32.75%) Java
4 106 (23.14%) JavaScript
5 94 (20.52%) TypeScript
6 38 (8.30%) Go
7 37 (8.08%) C#
8 29 (6.33%) PowerShell
9 22 (4.80%) PHP
10 15 (3.28%) C
11 12 (2.62%) Delphi
12 11 (2.40%) Bash
12 11 (2.40%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.75%) C++
14 5 (1.09%) Korn
14 5 (1.09%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.87%) Pascal
15 4 (0.87%) Ruby
15 4 (0.87%) Rust
16 3 (0.66%) RPG
Qualifications
1 60 (13.10%) Degree
2 58 (12.66%) Security Cleared
3 47 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.06%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.66%) RHCE
11 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.44%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.44%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.59%) QA
3 15 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.84%) GDPR
5 10 (2.18%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.09%) SLA
7 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.44%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 158 (34.50%) Docker
2 27 (5.90%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Firmware
5 2 (0.44%) Samba
6 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 156 (34.06%) Kubernetes
2 102 (22.27%) Terraform
3 34 (7.42%) Grafana
4 22 (4.80%) Ansible
5 19 (4.15%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.18%) Argo
7 7 (1.53%) Kibana
8 5 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (1.09%) Nagios
9 4 (0.87%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.87%) Rancher
10 3 (0.66%) Puppet
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.22%) Ambari
12 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.22%) Plesk
12 1 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
12 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (10.26%) Oracle
2 44 (9.61%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.55%) Google
4 13 (2.84%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.62%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.75%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.75%) Informatica
7 7 (1.53%) Talend
8 6 (1.31%) Confluent
8 6 (1.31%) Databricks
8 6 (1.31%) Dell
9 5 (1.09%) IBM
9 5 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.87%) Pega
10 4 (0.87%) Splunk
10 4 (0.87%) VMware
11 3 (0.66%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.66%) Revolut
12 2 (0.44%) D-Link