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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 112 166
Rank change year-on-year -15 +54 +8
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 46 68 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.82% 2.02% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.02% 11.89% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 23 24 51
10th Percentile £38,400 £48,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,750 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -18.52%
75th Percentile £70,250 £84,688 £83,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £114,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £61,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.12% +16.67% -19.23%

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 459 572 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.14% 17.00% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 288 319 775
10th Percentile £38,500 £37,050 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,250 £86,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -3.51%

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 15 May 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 15 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
Berkshire -21 27 £62,500 -34.21% 2
Buckinghamshire -3 15 £70,000 +33.33% 1
Oxfordshire -4 4 £56,500 -16.30% 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
1 8 (17.39%) OpenStack
2 3 (6.52%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) Camunda
3 1 (2.17%) CMS
3 1 (2.17%) IIS
3 1 (2.17%) JBoss
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 42 (91.30%) AWS
2 15 (32.61%) Amazon ECS
2 15 (32.61%) Amazon EKS
2 15 (32.61%) Serverless
3 8 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (15.22%) Amazon S3
4 7 (15.22%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (15.22%) Azure
4 7 (15.22%) GCP
4 7 (15.22%) SaaS
5 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.17%) dbt
6 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
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 18 (39.13%) Relational Database
2 15 (32.61%) SQL Server
3 13 (28.26%) MySQL
4 5 (10.87%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.17%) Looker
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Power BI
5 1 (2.17%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.17%) Tableau
5 1 (2.17%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 12 (26.09%) Git
3 10 (21.74%) JUnit
4 8 (17.39%) Mockito
5 7 (15.22%) JMeter
6 3 (6.52%) JIRA
7 2 (4.35%) GitLab
8 1 (2.17%) Ant
8 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.17%) Gradle
8 1 (2.17%) Maven
General
1 17 (36.96%) 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 2 (4.35%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.35%) Automotive
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Developer
2 15 (32.61%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (23.91%) Java Developer
3 11 (23.91%) Senior
4 8 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Node.js Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Java Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Support Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Analyst
8 3 (6.52%) Applications Support
8 3 (6.52%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Support Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Site Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) React
2 16 (34.78%) Node.js
2 16 (34.78%) Spring
2 16 (34.78%) Spring Boot
3 15 (32.61%) REST
4 12 (26.09%) Web Services
5 10 (21.74%) Mustache
6 9 (19.57%) HTML
7 8 (17.39%) Apache Camel
7 8 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (17.39%) Hibernate
7 8 (17.39%) jQuery
8 7 (15.22%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (15.22%) Kafka
8 7 (15.22%) Redux
8 7 (15.22%) WireMock
9 6 (13.04%) JSON
10 5 (10.87%) XML
11 3 (6.52%) CSS
11 3 (6.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (23.91%) Cloud Native
3 8 (17.39%) Management Information System
4 6 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 2 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (4.35%) Life Science
6 2 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
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%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Linux
2 8 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.70%) Windows
3 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.35%) CentOS
5 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) Agile
2 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 17 (36.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (34.78%) TDD
5 15 (32.61%) Microservices
6 13 (28.26%) Scrum
7 12 (26.09%) ITIL
7 12 (26.09%) SDLC
8 9 (19.57%) AI
8 9 (19.57%) Analytics
8 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
9 8 (17.39%) B2B
9 8 (17.39%) High Availability
9 8 (17.39%) Time Management
9 8 (17.39%) Workflow
10 7 (15.22%) BDD
11 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
11 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
12 5 (10.87%) Biometrics
12 5 (10.87%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) Python
2 18 (39.13%) JavaScript
3 17 (36.96%) Java
4 10 (21.74%) Bash
4 10 (21.74%) TypeScript
5 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 8 (17.39%) Shell Script
6 6 (13.04%) Korn
7 5 (10.87%) SQL
8 4 (8.70%) C#
9 3 (6.52%) C++
10 2 (4.35%) C
10 2 (4.35%) Go
11 1 (2.17%) PHP
11 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Degree
2 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
2 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.35%) PhD
5 2 (4.35%) RHCE
5 2 (4.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) SLA
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (63.04%) 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 2 (4.35%) Argo
3 2 (4.35%) Grafana
3 2 (4.35%) Istio
3 2 (4.35%) Kustomize
3 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) 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%) Informatica
8 1 (2.17%) NVIDIA