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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 114 182
Rank change year-on-year -22 +68 +1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 46 72 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.77% 2.08% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.18% 12.33% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 26 27 40
10th Percentile £39,750 £45,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,750 £50,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year - +40.54% -33.93%
75th Percentile £72,188 £73,750 £80,938
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £85,125
South East median annual salary £59,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% +5.00% -23.08%

All Database & 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 452 584 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.58% 16.89% 13.99%
Number of salaries quoted 318 296 729
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.09% -12.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £86,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

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 26 June 2026.

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 26 June 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
Berkshire -21 24 £63,750 -12.07% 7
Buckinghamshire -8 16 £70,000 +33.33% 3
Oxfordshire -8 6 £56,500 -19.29% 5
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 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.52%) Apache
2 3 (6.52%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.35%) Confluence
4 1 (2.17%) CMS
4 1 (2.17%) IIS
4 1 (2.17%) JBoss
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 39 (84.78%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Serverless
3 10 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (17.39%) Azure
4 8 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (15.22%) GCP
5 7 (15.22%) SaaS
6 4 (8.70%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) Firewall
1 8 (17.39%) iSCSI
1 8 (17.39%) Remote Desktop
1 8 (17.39%) SAN
2 2 (4.35%) Network Security
2 2 (4.35%) PBX
2 2 (4.35%) VPN
3 1 (2.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) SQL Server
2 14 (30.43%) MySQL
3 13 (28.26%) Relational Database
4 5 (10.87%) RDBMS
5 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.35%) Redis
7 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.17%) GIS
7 1 (2.17%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) Jenkins
2 9 (19.57%) JUnit
3 7 (15.22%) Git
3 7 (15.22%) JMeter
3 7 (15.22%) Mockito
4 5 (10.87%) GitLab
4 5 (10.87%) JIRA
5 2 (4.35%) Mocha
5 2 (4.35%) Selenium
6 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.17%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.17%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (2.17%) Storybook
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Organisational Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 7 (15.22%) Retail
4 4 (8.70%) Games
5 3 (6.52%) Aerospace
5 3 (6.52%) Automotive
5 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Developer
2 12 (26.09%) Senior
3 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Java Developer
5 7 (15.22%) Java Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Node.js Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Software Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Support Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Site Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Applications Support
8 3 (6.52%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) Spring Boot
2 12 (26.09%) HTML
2 12 (26.09%) Node.js
2 12 (26.09%) React
2 12 (26.09%) Spring
3 11 (23.91%) REST
4 9 (19.57%) Hibernate
5 8 (17.39%) Apache Camel
5 8 (17.39%) jQuery
5 8 (17.39%) Web Services
6 7 (15.22%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (15.22%) Redux
6 7 (15.22%) WireMock
7 6 (13.04%) JSON
8 5 (10.87%) CSS
8 5 (10.87%) Mustache
8 5 (10.87%) XML
9 4 (8.70%) Loki
10 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (6.52%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 9 (19.57%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (17.39%) Management Information System
4 6 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (6.52%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (6.52%) Life Science
5 3 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.52%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 2 (4.35%) Hackathon
6 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
7 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 1 (2.17%) IoT
7 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
7 1 (2.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.78%) Linux
2 8 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.87%) Windows
4 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.35%) CentOS
6 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Agile
2 19 (41.30%) CI/CD
3 16 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (28.26%) Microservices
5 12 (26.09%) ITIL
6 10 (21.74%) TDD
7 9 (19.57%) AI
7 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
7 9 (19.57%) Scrum
7 9 (19.57%) Software Engineering
8 8 (17.39%) Analytics
8 8 (17.39%) DevOps
8 8 (17.39%) High Availability
8 8 (17.39%) Time Management
9 7 (15.22%) B2B
9 7 (15.22%) BDD
9 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.22%) SDLC
9 7 (15.22%) Workflow
10 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 24 (52.17%) Python
2 17 (36.96%) Java
2 17 (36.96%) JavaScript
3 12 (26.09%) Bash
3 12 (26.09%) TypeScript
4 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 8 (17.39%) Shell Script
5 6 (13.04%) Korn
6 5 (10.87%) C#
6 5 (10.87%) SQL
7 4 (8.70%) C++
8 2 (4.35%) C
9 1 (2.17%) Go
9 1 (2.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) Degree
2 13 (28.26%) SC Cleared
2 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) PhD
6 2 (4.35%) RHCE
6 2 (4.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (58.70%) Docker
2 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
3 8 (17.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (4.35%) Samba
Systems Management
1 29 (63.04%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.22%) Kibana
3 4 (8.70%) Argo
3 4 (8.70%) Grafana
3 4 (8.70%) Kustomize
3 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.52%) Istio
5 1 (2.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Red Hat
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.39%) Dell
4 7 (15.22%) Dynatrace
4 7 (15.22%) Splunk
5 5 (10.87%) Google
5 5 (10.87%) Oracle
6 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.35%) D-Link
8 1 (2.17%) NVIDIA