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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 143 111
Rank change year-on-year +2 -32 +21
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 68 56 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.90% 1.46% 1.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.19% 9.71% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 43 23 34
10th Percentile £51,100 £43,600 £44,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £49,625 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,750 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -9.68% +40.91%
75th Percentile £96,875 - £90,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £108,750
South East median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.66% +26.19% -6.67%

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 420 577 697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.57% 15.09% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 316 245 362
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,792 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,678 £41,250 £41,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,313
Median % change year-on-year - +2.89% -2.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £91,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - +0.92% -0.91%

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
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 October 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 10 October 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 +10 37 £100,000 +37.93% 10
Buckinghamshire +2 20 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Oxfordshire -25 11 £56,500 -16.30% 22
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 3 (4.41%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.94%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.47%) IIS
3 1 (1.47%) JBoss
3 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.47%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.47%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.47%) Finacle
2 1 (1.47%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.47%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (55.88%) AWS
2 16 (23.53%) Serverless
3 11 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (16.18%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (11.76%) Azure
4 8 (11.76%) SaaS
5 7 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (10.29%) OpenShift
6 6 (8.82%) GCP
7 4 (5.88%) GitHub
7 4 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.41%) Datadog
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Firewall
1 2 (2.94%) iSCSI
1 2 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (2.94%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.41%) Relational Database
2 16 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 12 (17.65%) MySQL
4 6 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 5 (7.35%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.88%) Redis
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.47%) Db2
8 1 (1.47%) GIS
Development Applications
1 15 (22.06%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.24%) JUnit
3 8 (11.76%) Git
4 7 (10.29%) JMeter
4 7 (10.29%) Mockito
5 3 (4.41%) GitLab
5 3 (4.41%) JIRA
6 2 (2.94%) Mocha
6 2 (2.94%) Selenium
7 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.47%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.47%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (1.47%) Storybook
General
1 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.82%) Aerospace
3 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.82%) Automotive
4 5 (7.35%) Retail
5 3 (4.41%) Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 3 (4.41%) Legal
6 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Developer
2 20 (29.41%) Senior
3 16 (23.53%) Software Engineer
4 12 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (13.24%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) AWS Software Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Java Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Python Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) Java Developer
7 7 (10.29%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (8.82%) C# Software Engineer
8 6 (8.82%) C++ Software Engineer
8 6 (8.82%) PHP Developer
8 6 (8.82%) Python Software Engineer
9 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (7.35%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (7.35%) Senior PHP Developer
9 5 (7.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.35%) React
2 16 (23.53%) Spring Boot
3 15 (22.06%) Spring
4 14 (20.59%) HTML
5 13 (19.12%) REST
6 12 (17.65%) Node.js
7 10 (14.71%) Hibernate
7 10 (14.71%) JSON
8 9 (13.24%) Web Services
8 9 (13.24%) XML
9 8 (11.76%) .NET
9 8 (11.76%) Apache Camel
9 8 (11.76%) jQuery
10 7 (10.29%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (10.29%) CSS
10 7 (10.29%) Loki
10 7 (10.29%) WireMock
11 6 (8.82%) Django
11 6 (8.82%) Vue
12 5 (7.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.24%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.29%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (8.82%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.41%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (4.41%) IoT
5 3 (4.41%) Robotics
6 2 (2.94%) Hackathon
6 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.47%) Life Science
7 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.59%) Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Windows
3 1 (1.47%) Unix
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 28 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (36.76%) Agile
4 22 (32.35%) Software Engineering
5 19 (27.94%) DevOps
6 13 (19.12%) AI
6 13 (19.12%) Microservices
6 13 (19.12%) Observability
7 11 (16.18%) TDD
8 10 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (13.24%) Machine Learning
9 9 (13.24%) Scrum
10 8 (11.76%) Analytics
10 8 (11.76%) B2B
10 8 (11.76%) BDD
10 8 (11.76%) LLM
10 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
10 8 (11.76%) Workflow
11 7 (10.29%) Design Patterns
11 7 (10.29%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (44.12%) Python
2 22 (32.35%) JavaScript
3 18 (26.47%) Java
3 18 (26.47%) TypeScript
4 14 (20.59%) C#
5 10 (14.71%) PHP
6 8 (11.76%) Shell Script
6 8 (11.76%) SQL
7 6 (8.82%) Bash
7 6 (8.82%) C++
8 3 (4.41%) Go
9 2 (2.94%) Korn
9 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.47%) COBOL
10 1 (1.47%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
1 15 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.18%) Degree
3 8 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 6 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (8.82%) PhD
5 1 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 23 (33.82%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 32 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.18%) Grafana
3 10 (14.71%) Prometheus
4 7 (10.29%) Argo
4 7 (10.29%) Kibana
4 7 (10.29%) Kustomize
5 6 (8.82%) Istio
6 2 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (13.24%) Red Hat
2 8 (11.76%) Dynatrace
3 7 (10.29%) Splunk
4 2 (2.94%) Dell
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) FIS
5 1 (1.47%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.47%) Temenos