PostgreSQL Job Trends in the South East

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 107 163
Rank change year-on-year -103 +56 +41
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 61 271 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.62% 2.61% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.38% 14.62% 7.12%
Number of salaries quoted 31 96 77
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +23.91% -8.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £112,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 956 1,853 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.76% 17.82% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 552 1,023 1,134
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the South East

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South East over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the South East

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 December 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
Thames Valley -67 37 £70,000 -11.11% 79
Berkshire -57 26 £53,750 -34.85% 43
Hampshire +26 13 £60,000 +2.13% 28
Buckinghamshire +21 11 £70,000 +16.67% 26
West Sussex -11 6 £63,750 -3.77% 8
East Sussex +12 3 £35,000 -41.67% 6
Surrey -14 1 £67,500 +50.00% 13
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.20%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 40 (65.57%) AWS
2 25 (40.98%) Serverless
3 23 (37.70%) Amazon ECS
3 23 (37.70%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (29.51%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (9.84%) Azure
5 6 (9.84%) GitHub
5 6 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (8.20%) Amazon S3
6 5 (8.20%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.92%) GCP
7 3 (4.92%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.64%) dbt
9 1 (1.64%) Stripe
9 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) Firewall
1 6 (9.84%) iSCSI
1 6 (9.84%) Remote Desktop
1 6 (9.84%) SAN
2 2 (3.28%) Asterisk PBX
2 2 (3.28%) HTTP
2 2 (3.28%) Multicast
3 1 (1.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (49.18%) Relational Database
2 18 (29.51%) RDBMS
3 14 (22.95%) SQL Server
4 13 (21.31%) MySQL
5 4 (6.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.56%) Oracle Database
5 4 (6.56%) Oracle Database 10g
5 4 (6.56%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (6.56%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.92%) Power BI
7 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.28%) DB2
7 2 (3.28%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (50.82%) Jenkins
2 24 (39.34%) JUnit
3 21 (34.43%) JMeter
4 19 (31.15%) Mockito
5 16 (26.23%) Git
6 8 (13.11%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.92%) Gradle
7 3 (4.92%) REST Assured
8 2 (3.28%) Appium
8 2 (3.28%) JIRA
8 2 (3.28%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (3.28%) Maven
8 2 (3.28%) Selenium
8 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.64%) Ant
9 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.64%) Subversion
9 1 (1.64%) TestNG
9 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (31.15%) Public Sector
2 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Finance
6 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Advertising
7 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 35 (57.38%) Developer
2 26 (42.62%) Java Developer
3 23 (37.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (32.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (24.59%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 9 (14.75%) Senior
7 8 (13.11%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (9.84%) Administrator
8 6 (9.84%) DBA
8 6 (9.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) Software Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Java Engineer
11 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 2 (3.28%) Kafka Engineer
12 2 (3.28%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 2 (3.28%) Network Systems Engineer
12 2 (3.28%) React Developer
12 2 (3.28%) Software Developer
12 2 (3.28%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (49.18%) Spring
2 27 (44.26%) Spring Boot
3 26 (42.62%) REST
4 22 (36.07%) Web Services
5 21 (34.43%) HTML
6 20 (32.79%) Hibernate
6 20 (32.79%) XML
7 19 (31.15%) WireMock
8 18 (29.51%) ActiveMQ
8 18 (29.51%) Apache Camel
8 18 (29.51%) jQuery
8 18 (29.51%) JSON
9 12 (19.67%) React
10 11 (18.03%) Kafka
11 8 (13.11%) RESTful
12 7 (11.48%) Node.js
13 5 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (8.20%) Mustache
14 4 (6.56%) CSS
15 2 (3.28%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (39.34%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (13.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.84%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.56%) Replication
5 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.92%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.64%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Windows
2 6 (9.84%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.28%) Debian
3 2 (3.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (62.30%) CI/CD
2 36 (59.02%) Agile
3 32 (52.46%) Microservices
4 30 (49.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (44.26%) TDD
6 23 (37.70%) BDD
7 20 (32.79%) Workflow
8 18 (29.51%) Process Management
8 18 (29.51%) SDLC
9 9 (14.75%) DevOps
9 9 (14.75%) Migration
9 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (13.11%) Scrum
10 8 (13.11%) Software Engineering
10 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
11 6 (9.84%) ITIL
11 6 (9.84%) Time Management
12 5 (8.20%) Computer Science
12 5 (8.20%) High Availability
12 5 (8.20%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 33 (54.10%) Java
2 29 (47.54%) Python
3 26 (42.62%) JavaScript
4 19 (31.15%) SQL
5 18 (29.51%) Shell Script
6 8 (13.11%) Bash
7 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
8 6 (9.84%) Korn
8 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.92%) Go
10 2 (3.28%) C#
10 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.64%) R
11 1 (1.64%) Ruby
11 1 (1.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.03%) Degree
3 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (55.74%) Docker
2 6 (9.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.84%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 35 (57.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (31.15%) Kibana
3 3 (4.92%) Ansible
4 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.64%) Grafana
5 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (40.98%) Splunk
2 18 (29.51%) Dynatrace
3 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
4 8 (13.11%) Oracle
5 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
6 6 (9.84%) Dell
7 2 (3.28%) VMware
8 1 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.64%) Google
8 1 (1.64%) Informatica
8 1 (1.64%) SendGrid