PostgreSQL Job Trends in the Thames Valley

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 106 133
Rank change year-on-year -38 +27 +65
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 56 96 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.48% 2.16% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.71% 14.33% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23 37 34
10th Percentile £43,600 £45,500 £43,385
25th Percentile £49,625 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +40.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile - £91,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £112,500 £80,250
South East median annual salary £66,250 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.19% -4.55% -12.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 577 670 812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.23% 15.08% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 245 355 525
10th Percentile £32,600 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,125 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -1.46% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £94,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Berkshire -36 37 £72,500 -9.38% 10
Buckinghamshire +18 17 £70,000 +19.15% 6
Oxfordshire 0 2 £67,500 -12.90% 6
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.93%) JBoss
2 5 (8.93%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (5.36%) Confluence
4 2 (3.57%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.79%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 49 (87.50%) AWS
2 28 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 28 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 28 (50.00%) Serverless
3 27 (48.21%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (16.07%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 8 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (10.71%) Azure
7 5 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (8.93%) AWS KMS
7 5 (8.93%) Route 53
8 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 3 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.57%) GCP
11 1 (1.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) Firewall
1 9 (16.07%) iSCSI
1 9 (16.07%) Remote Desktop
1 9 (16.07%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (55.36%) Relational Database
2 21 (37.50%) RDBMS
3 13 (23.21%) SQL Server
4 12 (21.43%) MySQL
5 7 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (10.71%) DynamoDB
7 5 (8.93%) MongoDB
8 4 (7.14%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (3.57%) Power BI
9 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.79%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 39 (69.64%) Jenkins
2 34 (60.71%) JUnit
3 28 (50.00%) Mockito
4 21 (37.50%) JMeter
5 16 (28.57%) Git
6 7 (12.50%) Maven
7 6 (10.71%) SonarQube
8 5 (8.93%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (8.93%) DbUnit
8 5 (8.93%) jMock
9 4 (7.14%) JIRA
10 1 (1.79%) GitLab
10 1 (1.79%) MLflow
10 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 33 (58.93%) Public Sector
2 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 11 (19.64%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (73.21%) Developer
2 36 (64.29%) Java Developer
3 17 (30.36%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (26.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 13 (23.21%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 11 (19.64%) Senior
7 9 (16.07%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (16.07%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Lead
8 5 (8.93%) Lead Developer
8 5 (8.93%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Power Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Python Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (3.57%) SQL Developer
10 1 (1.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 1 (1.79%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (69.64%) Spring Boot
2 37 (66.07%) Spring
3 36 (64.29%) REST
4 34 (60.71%) Web Services
5 30 (53.57%) ActiveMQ
6 28 (50.00%) Hibernate
7 26 (46.43%) Apache Camel
8 21 (37.50%) HTML
8 21 (37.50%) jQuery
8 21 (37.50%) WireMock
9 17 (30.36%) JSON
9 17 (30.36%) XML
10 13 (23.21%) RESTful
11 12 (21.43%) SOAP
12 9 (16.07%) AngularJS
13 7 (12.50%) Bootstrap
13 7 (12.50%) JPA
13 7 (12.50%) React
14 6 (10.71%) Kafka
14 6 (10.71%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 30 (53.57%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (17.86%) Cloud Native
3 9 (16.07%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.36%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.00%) Linux
2 9 (16.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (16.07%) Windows
2 9 (16.07%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (71.43%) Agile
1 40 (71.43%) Microservices
2 36 (64.29%) TDD
3 31 (55.36%) BDD
4 30 (53.57%) CI/CD
5 21 (37.50%) Process Management
5 21 (37.50%) Workflow
6 19 (33.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (33.93%) Scrum
7 16 (28.57%) Kanban
7 16 (28.57%) SDLC
8 13 (23.21%) DevOps
9 9 (16.07%) Containerisation
9 9 (16.07%) ITIL
9 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (16.07%) Time Management
10 5 (8.93%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (8.93%) Open Source
11 4 (7.14%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 39 (69.64%) Java
2 28 (50.00%) Python
3 26 (46.43%) JavaScript
4 21 (37.50%) Shell Script
5 10 (17.86%) SQL
6 9 (16.07%) Bash
6 9 (16.07%) Korn
7 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (51.79%) Security Cleared
2 16 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.07%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) SLA
2 2 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 49 (87.50%) Docker
2 9 (16.07%) Active Directory
2 9 (16.07%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (1.79%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 39 (69.64%) Kubernetes
2 21 (37.50%) Kibana
3 7 (12.50%) Ansible
4 2 (3.57%) Grafana
4 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (53.57%) Splunk
2 21 (37.50%) Dynatrace
3 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
4 9 (16.07%) Dell
4 9 (16.07%) Red Hat
5 5 (8.93%) Atlassian
6 3 (5.36%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (3.57%) WSO2
8 1 (1.79%) Databricks
8 1 (1.79%) Oracle