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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 58 166
Rank change year-on-year -77 +108 -5
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 26 119 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.57% 4.22% 1.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.25% 21.17% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6 45 43
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.97% +6.90% +9.43%
75th Percentile £66,938 £112,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £70,250 - £86,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +20.00% -

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 416 562 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.15% 19.94% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 233 376 797
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £91,250 £90,000
South East median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -63 15 £61,250 -23.44% 15
Buckinghamshire +4 9 £53,500 -12.65% 12
Oxfordshire -10 2 - - 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 6 (23.08%) OpenStack
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (7.69%) Apache
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.85%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 25 (96.15%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) Amazon ECS
2 12 (46.15%) Amazon EKS
2 12 (46.15%) Serverless
3 7 (26.92%) GCP
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (23.08%) Azure
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.85%) dbt
6 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
1 3 (11.54%) iSCSI
1 3 (11.54%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (11.54%) SAN
2 2 (7.69%) Network Security
2 2 (7.69%) PBX
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (57.69%) Relational Database
2 9 (34.62%) SQL Server
3 7 (26.92%) MySQL
4 6 (23.08%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.85%) Looker
5 1 (3.85%) Metadata
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
5 1 (3.85%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.85%) Tableau
5 1 (3.85%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (34.62%) Git
3 8 (30.77%) JUnit
4 7 (26.92%) Mockito
5 6 (23.08%) JMeter
6 2 (7.69%) GitLab
6 2 (7.69%) JIRA
7 1 (3.85%) Ant
7 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.85%) Gradle
7 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Games
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Developer
2 12 (46.15%) Java Developer
3 11 (42.31%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (34.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (26.92%) Senior
6 6 (23.08%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 3 (11.54%) Analyst
7 3 (11.54%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Applications Support
8 2 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
8 2 (7.69%) Development Team Leader
8 2 (7.69%) Lead
8 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (7.69%) Software Development Team Leader
8 2 (7.69%) Software Team Leader
8 2 (7.69%) Support Analyst
8 2 (7.69%) Team Leader
9 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) Spring
1 13 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 12 (46.15%) REST
3 11 (42.31%) Web Services
4 10 (38.46%) React
5 8 (30.77%) Node.js
6 7 (26.92%) HTML
7 6 (23.08%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (23.08%) Apache Camel
7 6 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (23.08%) Hibernate
7 6 (23.08%) jQuery
7 6 (23.08%) JSON
7 6 (23.08%) Kafka
7 6 (23.08%) Mustache
7 6 (23.08%) WireMock
7 6 (23.08%) XML
8 2 (7.69%) .NET
8 2 (7.69%) CSS
9 1 (3.85%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Life Science
3 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.85%) IoT
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.69%) CentOS
3 2 (7.69%) Windows
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Agile
2 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
3 13 (50.00%) TDD
4 12 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (46.15%) Microservices
4 12 (46.15%) SDLC
5 8 (30.77%) Scrum
5 8 (30.77%) Workflow
6 6 (23.08%) AI
6 6 (23.08%) BDD
6 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 6 (23.08%) Process Management
7 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
7 5 (19.23%) ITIL
8 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (11.54%) Analytics
9 3 (11.54%) Architectural Design
9 3 (11.54%) Data Science
9 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
9 3 (11.54%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Java
2 13 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (46.15%) Python
4 7 (26.92%) Shell Script
5 5 (19.23%) SQL
6 3 (11.54%) Bash
6 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
7 2 (7.69%) C
7 2 (7.69%) C#
7 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.85%) C++
8 1 (3.85%) Go
8 1 (3.85%) Korn
8 1 (3.85%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) Degree
3 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (7.69%) RHCE
4 2 (7.69%) RHCSA
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) SLA
3 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (76.92%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (11.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (7.69%) Samba
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 6 (23.08%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Dynatrace
1 6 (23.08%) Splunk
2 5 (19.23%) Google
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 3 (11.54%) Dell
5 2 (7.69%) D-Link
5 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.85%) Informatica
6 1 (3.85%) NVIDIA