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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 66 148
Rank change year-on-year -81 +82 +6
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 24 141 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.57% 4.16% 1.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.23% 21.73% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 54 35
10th Percentile £62,000 £53,275 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £66,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,750 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +23.05% -14.67%
75th Percentile - £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile - £112,500 £84,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -4.00%

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 459 649 898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.00% 19.13% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 225 376 652
10th Percentile £35,792 £36,250 £37,575
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £91,250 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £58,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.29% +5.91% -

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
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 24 January 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 -74 19 £62,500 -26.47% 62
Buckinghamshire +3 4 £65,000 +6.12% 11
Oxfordshire -6 1 - - 8
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 6 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 22 (91.67%) AWS
2 17 (70.83%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (70.83%) Amazon EKS
2 17 (70.83%) Serverless
3 11 (45.83%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (20.83%) Azure
6 4 (16.67%) GCP
7 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.17%) dbt
8 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (91.67%) Relational Database
2 11 (45.83%) RDBMS
3 5 (20.83%) MySQL
4 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (12.50%) Power BI
6 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
7 1 (4.17%) Looker
7 1 (4.17%) Metadata
7 1 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (70.83%) Jenkins
2 13 (54.17%) JUnit
3 12 (50.00%) Mockito
4 11 (45.83%) Git
4 11 (45.83%) JMeter
5 1 (4.17%) Ant
5 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.17%) GitLab
5 1 (4.17%) Gradle
5 1 (4.17%) Maven
General
1 12 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (91.67%) Developer
2 17 (70.83%) Java Developer
3 15 (62.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (58.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (45.83%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior
7 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (8.33%) SQL Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) DBA
8 1 (4.17%) Development Team Leader
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Software Development Team Leader
8 1 (4.17%) Software Team Leader
8 1 (4.17%) SQL DBA
8 1 (4.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (75.00%) Spring
1 18 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 17 (70.83%) REST
3 16 (66.67%) Web Services
4 12 (50.00%) HTML
5 11 (45.83%) ActiveMQ
5 11 (45.83%) Apache Camel
5 11 (45.83%) Hibernate
5 11 (45.83%) jQuery
5 11 (45.83%) JSON
5 11 (45.83%) WireMock
5 11 (45.83%) XML
6 8 (33.33%) React
7 7 (29.17%) Node.js
8 6 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (25.00%) Kafka
8 6 (25.00%) Mustache
9 2 (8.33%) CSS
10 1 (4.17%) .NET
10 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (70.83%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Life Science
2 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Agile
1 21 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 18 (75.00%) TDD
3 17 (70.83%) Microservices
3 17 (70.83%) SDLC
4 16 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (54.17%) Workflow
6 11 (45.83%) BDD
6 11 (45.83%) Process Management
7 7 (29.17%) Scrum
8 4 (16.67%) ETL
8 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (8.33%) AI
10 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
10 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
10 2 (8.33%) DevOps
10 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) Java
1 18 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (62.50%) Python
3 11 (45.83%) Shell Script
4 5 (20.83%) SQL
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.17%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) Go
6 1 (4.17%) R
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (79.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (45.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Dynatrace
1 11 (45.83%) Splunk
2 2 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Informatica
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat