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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 84 123
Rank change year-on-year -53 +39 +68
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 45 117 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.27% 2.72% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.14% 17.06% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18 42 33
10th Percentile £42,125 £52,425 £46,360
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +41.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £99,375 £74,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £112,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -8.00%

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 553 686 787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.58% 15.97% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 255 363 512
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +8.99% -8.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 11 November 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 11 November 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 -48 30 £58,750 -30.88% 3
Buckinghamshire +11 14 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Oxfordshire +9 1 £70,000 -17.65% 6
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 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.89%) JBoss
2 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Fuse
3 2 (4.44%) Confluence
3 2 (4.44%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.22%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 39 (86.67%) AWS
2 25 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
2 25 (55.56%) Amazon EKS
2 25 (55.56%) Serverless
3 22 (48.89%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (8.89%) Azure
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.67%) AWS KMS
7 3 (6.67%) Route 53
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.22%) GCP
9 1 (2.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) Firewall
1 9 (20.00%) iSCSI
1 9 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
1 9 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 19 (42.22%) RDBMS
3 12 (26.67%) MySQL
4 11 (24.44%) SQL Server
5 4 (8.89%) DynamoDB
5 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.44%) Power BI
7 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (64.44%) Jenkins
2 26 (57.78%) JUnit
3 22 (48.89%) Mockito
4 19 (42.22%) JMeter
5 12 (26.67%) Git
6 3 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (6.67%) DbUnit
6 3 (6.67%) JIRA
6 3 (6.67%) jMock
6 3 (6.67%) Maven
6 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.22%) Selenium
General
1 26 (57.78%) Public Sector
2 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (24.44%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (75.56%) Developer
2 29 (64.44%) Java Developer
3 19 (42.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (37.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (33.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 10 (22.22%) Senior
7 9 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Lead
8 2 (4.44%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Python Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) SQL Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Backend Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Data Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Python Data Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) React Developer
9 1 (2.22%) SQL BI Developer
9 1 (2.22%) SQL DBA
9 1 (2.22%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (64.44%) Spring
1 29 (64.44%) Spring Boot
2 28 (62.22%) Web Services
3 27 (60.00%) REST
4 23 (51.11%) Apache Camel
5 22 (48.89%) ActiveMQ
5 22 (48.89%) Hibernate
6 19 (42.22%) HTML
6 19 (42.22%) jQuery
6 19 (42.22%) WireMock
7 18 (40.00%) JSON
7 18 (40.00%) XML
8 9 (20.00%) RESTful
9 7 (15.56%) SOAP
10 4 (8.89%) AngularJS
10 4 (8.89%) J2EE
10 4 (8.89%) Node.js
10 4 (8.89%) React
11 3 (6.67%) Bootstrap
11 3 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (57.78%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 9 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.67%) Linux
2 9 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (20.00%) Windows
2 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) Agile
2 31 (68.89%) Microservices
3 29 (64.44%) TDD
4 26 (57.78%) BDD
5 25 (55.56%) CI/CD
6 21 (46.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (42.22%) Process Management
7 19 (42.22%) Workflow
8 16 (35.56%) SDLC
9 11 (24.44%) Scrum
10 10 (22.22%) Kanban
11 9 (20.00%) ITIL
11 9 (20.00%) Time Management
12 8 (17.78%) DevOps
12 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (8.89%) Containerisation
14 3 (6.67%) Clean Code
14 3 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
14 3 (6.67%) Open Source
14 3 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (64.44%) Java
2 25 (55.56%) Python
3 22 (48.89%) JavaScript
4 19 (42.22%) Shell Script
5 9 (20.00%) Bash
5 9 (20.00%) Korn
6 6 (13.33%) SQL
7 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) Degree
3 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 39 (86.67%) Docker
2 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (20.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 35 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 19 (42.22%) Kibana
3 4 (8.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (62.22%) Splunk
2 19 (42.22%) Dynatrace
3 9 (20.00%) Dell
3 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.67%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle