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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 124 142
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 +6
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 51 72 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.74% 1.90% 1.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.97% 10.86% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 27 30 42
10th Percentile £47,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,750 £50,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +38.46% -18.75%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £79,688
90th Percentile £72,950 £73,875 £85,000
South East median annual salary £63,750 £58,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.51% +17.50% -16.67%

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 465 663 747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.79% 17.49% 14.48%
Number of salaries quoted 338 287 466
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,741 £42,500 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +15.74% -13.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,750 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -7 23 £65,000 -10.34% 8
Buckinghamshire -6 18 £70,000 +7.69% 9
Oxfordshire -15 10 £56,500 -16.30% 13
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 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.88%) Apache
3 2 (3.92%) Confluence
3 2 (3.92%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.96%) CMS
4 1 (1.96%) IIS
4 1 (1.96%) JBoss
4 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.96%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Finacle
1 1 (1.96%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.96%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 42 (82.35%) AWS
2 12 (23.53%) Serverless
3 9 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (17.65%) SaaS
4 8 (15.69%) GCP
5 7 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (13.73%) Azure
5 7 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.84%) GitHub
6 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (7.84%) OpenShift
7 3 (5.88%) Datadog
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) Firewall
1 7 (13.73%) iSCSI
1 7 (13.73%) Remote Desktop
1 7 (13.73%) SAN
2 2 (3.92%) Network Security
2 2 (3.92%) PBX
2 2 (3.92%) VPN
3 1 (1.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (31.37%) Relational Database
2 15 (29.41%) MySQL
3 14 (27.45%) SQL Server
4 5 (9.80%) RDBMS
5 4 (7.84%) Redis
6 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.96%) Db2
8 1 (1.96%) GIS
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Jenkins
2 9 (17.65%) JUnit
3 7 (13.73%) JMeter
3 7 (13.73%) Mockito
4 6 (11.76%) Git
5 5 (9.80%) JIRA
6 3 (5.88%) GitLab
7 2 (3.92%) Mocha
7 2 (3.92%) Selenium
8 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.96%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.96%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (1.96%) Storybook
General
1 22 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (11.76%) Retail
5 5 (9.80%) Aerospace
5 5 (9.80%) Automotive
6 3 (5.88%) Finance
6 3 (5.88%) Games
6 3 (5.88%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Developer
1 14 (27.45%) Senior
2 10 (19.61%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Java Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Python Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Java Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Node.js Developer
7 5 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) AWS Software Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) C# Software Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Python Software Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Support Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Site Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (29.41%) React
2 14 (27.45%) HTML
2 14 (27.45%) Spring Boot
3 13 (25.49%) Spring
4 10 (19.61%) Node.js
4 10 (19.61%) REST
5 9 (17.65%) Hibernate
6 8 (15.69%) Apache Camel
6 8 (15.69%) jQuery
7 7 (13.73%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (13.73%) CSS
7 7 (13.73%) Web Services
7 7 (13.73%) WireMock
8 6 (11.76%) JSON
8 6 (11.76%) Redux
9 5 (9.80%) Django
9 5 (9.80%) Vue
9 5 (9.80%) XML
10 4 (7.84%) Loki
10 4 (7.84%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 8 (15.69%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (13.73%) Management Information System
4 6 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (9.80%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (5.88%) IoT
6 3 (5.88%) Robotics
7 2 (3.92%) Hackathon
7 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.96%) Life Science
8 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (39.22%) Linux
2 7 (13.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.84%) Windows
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.92%) CentOS
6 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 22 (43.14%) Agile
3 18 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (25.49%) DevOps
5 12 (23.53%) Microservices
6 11 (21.57%) Software Engineering
7 10 (19.61%) ITIL
8 9 (17.65%) B2B
8 9 (17.65%) High Availability
8 9 (17.65%) Observability
8 9 (17.65%) TDD
9 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
10 7 (13.73%) AI
10 7 (13.73%) BDD
10 7 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (13.73%) Scrum
10 7 (13.73%) Time Management
10 7 (13.73%) Workflow
11 6 (11.76%) Analytics
11 6 (11.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 28 (54.90%) Python
2 20 (39.22%) JavaScript
3 18 (35.29%) TypeScript
4 16 (31.37%) Java
5 11 (21.57%) Bash
6 8 (15.69%) Shell Script
7 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
7 7 (13.73%) SQL
8 6 (11.76%) C#
9 5 (9.80%) C++
9 5 (9.80%) Korn
10 4 (7.84%) Go
11 2 (3.92%) C
12 1 (1.96%) COBOL
12 1 (1.96%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 1 (1.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (29.41%) Degree
2 14 (27.45%) SC Cleared
2 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
3 7 (13.73%) Master's Degree
4 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (9.80%) PhD
5 3 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.92%) RHCE
6 2 (3.92%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.92%) QA
1 2 (3.92%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (54.90%) Docker
2 9 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 7 (13.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (3.92%) Samba
Systems Management
1 31 (60.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.73%) Grafana
2 7 (13.73%) Kibana
2 7 (13.73%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.84%) Argo
3 4 (7.84%) Kustomize
4 3 (5.88%) Istio
5 1 (1.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Red Hat
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.73%) Dell
3 7 (13.73%) Dynatrace
3 7 (13.73%) Splunk
4 4 (7.84%) Oracle
5 2 (3.92%) D-Link
5 2 (3.92%) Google
5 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.96%) FIS
6 1 (1.96%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.96%) Temenos