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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 132 121
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 +73
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 66 66 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.68% 1.37% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.25% 9.73% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 25 36 38
10th Percentile £44,700 - £44,565
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +26.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile - £83,125 £71,875
90th Percentile £73,750 £91,250 £84,125
South East median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% -8.70% -11.54%

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 644 678 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.40% 14.08% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 252 381 604
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,263 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £97,500
South East median annual salary £55,565 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.03% -4.35% +4.55%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL 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 September 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 15 September 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 -7 44 £72,500 -6.45% 10
Buckinghamshire +6 20 £67,500 +50.00% 8
Oxfordshire +11 2 £67,500 -8.47% 6
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.61%) JBoss
2 7 (10.61%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (4.55%) Confluence
4 2 (3.03%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.52%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 58 (87.88%) AWS
2 33 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 33 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 33 (50.00%) Serverless
3 31 (46.97%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (13.64%) Azure
4 9 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (12.12%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.09%) AWS KMS
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (7.58%) GCP
7 5 (7.58%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.58%) Route 53
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.64%) Firewall
1 9 (13.64%) iSCSI
1 9 (13.64%) Remote Desktop
1 9 (13.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (54.55%) Relational Database
2 24 (36.36%) RDBMS
3 15 (22.73%) SQL Server
4 14 (21.21%) MySQL
5 8 (12.12%) MongoDB
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (9.09%) DynamoDB
8 5 (7.58%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (4.55%) Power BI
9 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (71.21%) Jenkins
2 42 (63.64%) JUnit
3 34 (51.52%) Mockito
4 24 (36.36%) JMeter
5 19 (28.79%) Git
6 8 (12.12%) Maven
7 7 (10.61%) SonarQube
8 6 (9.09%) DbUnit
8 6 (9.09%) jMock
9 5 (7.58%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (6.06%) JIRA
11 3 (4.55%) GitLab
12 1 (1.52%) MLflow
12 1 (1.52%) Selenium
General
1 41 (62.12%) Public Sector
2 16 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (75.76%) Developer
2 44 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 18 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (22.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (16.67%) Senior
6 9 (13.64%) Linux Engineer
6 9 (13.64%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 9 (13.64%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Lead
7 5 (7.58%) Lead Developer
7 5 (7.58%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Power Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) React Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.03%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (69.70%) Spring Boot
2 45 (68.18%) Spring
3 42 (63.64%) REST
4 40 (60.61%) Web Services
5 34 (51.52%) ActiveMQ
5 34 (51.52%) Hibernate
6 31 (46.97%) Apache Camel
7 24 (36.36%) HTML
7 24 (36.36%) jQuery
7 24 (36.36%) WireMock
8 18 (27.27%) RESTful
9 17 (25.76%) JSON
9 17 (25.76%) XML
10 15 (22.73%) SOAP
11 12 (18.18%) AngularJS
12 10 (15.15%) React
13 8 (12.12%) JPA
13 8 (12.12%) Kafka
14 7 (10.61%) Bootstrap
14 7 (10.61%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 36 (54.55%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (15.15%) Cloud Native
3 9 (13.64%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.21%) Linux
2 9 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (13.64%) Windows
2 9 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (72.73%) Agile
1 48 (72.73%) Microservices
2 42 (63.64%) TDD
3 37 (56.06%) BDD
4 36 (54.55%) CI/CD
5 25 (37.88%) Scrum
6 24 (36.36%) Process Management
6 24 (36.36%) Workflow
7 22 (33.33%) Kanban
8 20 (30.30%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (27.27%) DevOps
10 14 (21.21%) SDLC
11 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (18.18%) Containerisation
13 9 (13.64%) ITIL
13 9 (13.64%) Time Management
14 8 (12.12%) Collaborative Working
15 7 (10.61%) Architectural Design
16 6 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
16 6 (9.09%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 47 (71.21%) Java
2 31 (46.97%) Python
3 29 (43.94%) JavaScript
4 24 (36.36%) Shell Script
5 15 (22.73%) SQL
6 9 (13.64%) Bash
6 9 (13.64%) Korn
7 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) SLA
2 2 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 57 (86.36%) Docker
2 9 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (3.03%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 47 (71.21%) Kubernetes
2 24 (36.36%) Kibana
3 9 (13.64%) Ansible
4 2 (3.03%) Grafana
4 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (50.00%) Splunk
2 24 (36.36%) Dynatrace
3 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 9 (13.64%) Dell
4 9 (13.64%) Red Hat
5 5 (7.58%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (3.03%) WSO2
8 1 (1.52%) Databricks
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle