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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 128 122
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 61 62 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.82% 1.65% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.22% 10.67% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 37 25 36
10th Percentile £50,750 £44,700 -
25th Percentile £58,750 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +30.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £94,375
South East median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +30.95% -8.70%

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 429 581 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.76% 15.43% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 321 244 377
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £90,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 0 33 £78,750 +8.62% 13
Buckinghamshire -1 18 £70,000 +3.70% 9
Oxfordshire -18 10 £56,500 -16.30% 19
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 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.92%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.28%) Confluence
4 1 (1.64%) Apache
4 1 (1.64%) CMS
4 1 (1.64%) IIS
4 1 (1.64%) JBoss
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.64%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Finacle
1 1 (1.64%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.64%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (63.93%) AWS
2 15 (24.59%) Serverless
3 11 (18.03%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (18.03%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (13.11%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (13.11%) SaaS
5 7 (11.48%) Azure
6 6 (9.84%) GCP
7 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (8.20%) OpenShift
8 4 (6.56%) GitHub
8 4 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.92%) Datadog
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) Firewall
1 5 (8.20%) iSCSI
1 5 (8.20%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (8.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (31.15%) Relational Database
2 17 (27.87%) SQL Server
3 14 (22.95%) MySQL
4 6 (9.84%) RDBMS
5 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.56%) Redis
6 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.64%) Db2
7 1 (1.64%) GIS
Development Applications
1 15 (24.59%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.39%) JUnit
3 8 (13.11%) JMeter
3 8 (13.11%) Mockito
4 7 (11.48%) Git
5 3 (4.92%) GitLab
5 3 (4.92%) JIRA
6 2 (3.28%) Mocha
6 2 (3.28%) Selenium
7 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.64%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.64%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (1.64%) Storybook
General
1 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.20%) Aerospace
3 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.20%) Automotive
3 5 (8.20%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (8.20%) Retail
4 3 (4.92%) Finance
4 3 (4.92%) Legal
5 2 (3.28%) Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) Developer
2 18 (29.51%) Senior
3 12 (19.67%) Software Engineer
4 11 (18.03%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (13.11%) Java Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Java Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Python Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) AWS Software Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.20%) C# Software Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Node.js Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Support Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (34.43%) React
2 16 (26.23%) Spring Boot
3 15 (24.59%) HTML
3 15 (24.59%) Spring
4 13 (21.31%) REST
5 11 (18.03%) Node.js
6 10 (16.39%) Hibernate
7 9 (14.75%) Apache Camel
7 9 (14.75%) jQuery
7 9 (14.75%) JSON
7 9 (14.75%) Web Services
8 8 (13.11%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (13.11%) WireMock
8 8 (13.11%) XML
9 7 (11.48%) .NET
9 7 (11.48%) CSS
10 5 (8.20%) Django
10 5 (8.20%) Mustache
10 5 (8.20%) Redux
10 5 (8.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) Cloud Native
2 10 (16.39%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (11.48%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (8.20%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (8.20%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.92%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (4.92%) IoT
5 3 (4.92%) Robotics
6 2 (3.28%) Hackathon
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.64%) Life Science
7 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.23%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.28%) Windows
4 1 (1.64%) Unix
4 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) CI/CD
2 25 (40.98%) Full-Stack Development
3 24 (39.34%) Agile
4 16 (26.23%) DevOps
4 16 (26.23%) Software Engineering
5 14 (22.95%) Microservices
6 11 (18.03%) AI
6 11 (18.03%) TDD
7 10 (16.39%) Observability
8 8 (13.11%) B2B
8 8 (13.11%) BDD
8 8 (13.11%) Scrum
8 8 (13.11%) Workflow
9 7 (11.48%) Analytics
9 7 (11.48%) High Availability
9 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (11.48%) LLM
9 7 (11.48%) Machine Learning
9 7 (11.48%) Mentoring
9 7 (11.48%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.90%) Python
2 22 (36.07%) JavaScript
3 18 (29.51%) Java
4 17 (27.87%) TypeScript
5 12 (19.67%) C#
6 9 (14.75%) Bash
6 9 (14.75%) Shell Script
7 7 (11.48%) SQL
8 6 (9.84%) PHP
9 5 (8.20%) C++
9 5 (8.20%) Korn
9 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
10 3 (4.92%) Go
11 1 (1.64%) COBOL
11 1 (1.64%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Degree
2 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) Master's Degree
4 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.20%) PhD
5 1 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 26 (42.62%) Docker
2 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 32 (52.46%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.11%) Grafana
2 8 (13.11%) Kibana
2 8 (13.11%) Prometheus
3 5 (8.20%) Argo
3 5 (8.20%) Kustomize
4 4 (6.56%) Istio
5 1 (1.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Red Hat
2 8 (13.11%) Dynatrace
2 8 (13.11%) Splunk
3 5 (8.20%) Dell
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) FIS
5 1 (1.64%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.64%) Temenos