PostgreSQL Job Trends in the South West

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 134 212
Rank change year-on-year -37 +78 -64
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 37 28 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.48% 1.04% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.34% 5.85% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 24 23 57
10th Percentile £48,225 £36,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +1.37%
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,888 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,375 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -13.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 584 479 1,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.58% 17.76% 14.20%
Number of salaries quoted 299 324 972
10th Percentile £34,800 £32,544 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £65,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the South West

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the South West

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Bristol -22 14 £63,750 -6.97% 7
Dorset -12 8 £52,500 +23.53% 3
Gloucestershire -25 5 £77,500 +19.23% 3
Somerset -25 4 £60,000 +23.08% 3
Devon - 3 £55,000 - 2
Wiltshire - 2 £57,500 - 1
Cornwall -9 1 - - 1
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (5.41%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) GCP
3 8 (21.62%) Azure
4 4 (10.81%) Serverless
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub
5 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Broadband
1 1 (2.70%) LAN
1 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (43.24%) MySQL
2 10 (27.03%) Relational Database
3 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
4 7 (18.92%) MongoDB
5 6 (16.22%) Oracle Database
6 4 (10.81%) MariaDB
6 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
7 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (8.11%) Power BI
8 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (5.41%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (5.41%) Star Schema
9 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.70%) Big Data
9 1 (2.70%) DB2
9 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
9 1 (2.70%) InfluxDB
9 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.41%) DBeaver
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) JUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Maven
3 1 (2.70%) Mockito
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Games
4 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) DBA
2 7 (18.92%) Software Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Python Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Administrator
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (8.11%) CUDA Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Java Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Java Software Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) MySQL DBA
5 3 (8.11%) Python Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Django Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) React
2 9 (24.32%) AngularJS
2 9 (24.32%) REST
2 9 (24.32%) Spring
3 7 (18.92%) RESTful
3 7 (18.92%) Spring Boot
4 6 (16.22%) Django
4 6 (16.22%) HTML
5 5 (13.51%) CSS
5 5 (13.51%) Vue
6 4 (10.81%) FastAPI
6 4 (10.81%) Flask
6 4 (10.81%) jQuery
7 3 (8.11%) CSS3
7 3 (8.11%) HTML5
7 3 (8.11%) OAuth
7 3 (8.11%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (5.41%) Kafka
8 2 (5.41%) OAuth2
8 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) CUDA
2 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.81%) Replication
3 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.70%) Clustering
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.70%) CentOS
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) CI/CD
2 16 (43.24%) Software Engineering
3 15 (40.54%) Agile
4 10 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (24.32%) DevOps
5 9 (24.32%) Microservices
6 8 (21.62%) Computer Science
6 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (18.92%) Analytics
7 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
8 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
8 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (16.22%) Decision-Making
8 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (16.22%) Scrum
9 5 (13.51%) Clean Code
9 5 (13.51%) High Availability
10 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (10.81%) Data Science
10 4 (10.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) Python
2 12 (32.43%) Java
2 12 (32.43%) SQL
3 10 (27.03%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.51%) PHP
5 4 (10.81%) Go
5 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) C#
7 1 (2.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (18.92%) Degree
2 7 (18.92%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.70%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (37.84%) Kubernetes
2 7 (18.92%) Terraform
3 5 (13.51%) Ansible
4 3 (8.11%) Data Guard
4 3 (8.11%) Plesk
4 3 (8.11%) Progress Chef
4 3 (8.11%) Puppet
5 2 (5.41%) Grafana
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.70%) Kibana
6 1 (2.70%) Nagios
6 1 (2.70%) Podman
6 1 (2.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Oracle
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco
2 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.70%) Juniper
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.70%) VMware