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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 63 134
Rank change year-on-year -80 +71 +24
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 24 140 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.59% 4.11% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.07% 21.44% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4 53 35
10th Percentile £62,375 £52,850 £50,000
25th Percentile £64,063 £66,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +25.00% -14.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £68,500 £112,500 £84,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +39.13% -8.00%

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 473 653 824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.58% 19.18% 19.48%
Number of salaries quoted 226 380 586
10th Percentile £35,802 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,875 £92,750 £89,375
South East median annual salary £57,500 £59,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.77% +8.64% -

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 17 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% 65
Buckinghamshire +9 5 £65,000 +8.33% 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
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
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 4 (16.67%) Azure
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (12.50%) GCP
6 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.17%) dbt
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
1 1 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (91.67%) Relational Database
2 11 (45.83%) RDBMS
3 6 (25.00%) 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%) Gradle
5 1 (4.17%) Maven
General
1 12 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
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 4 (16.67%) 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%) ETL Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) SQL Data Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) SQL DBA
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%) AngularJS
10 1 (4.17%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (70.83%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 20 (83.33%) Agile
3 18 (75.00%) TDD
4 17 (70.83%) Microservices
4 17 (70.83%) SDLC
5 16 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (54.17%) Workflow
7 11 (45.83%) BDD
7 11 (45.83%) Process Management
8 6 (25.00%) Scrum
9 4 (16.67%) ETL
10 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
11 2 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
11 2 (8.33%) DevOps
11 2 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
12 1 (4.17%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (70.83%) Java
3 14 (58.33%) Python
4 11 (45.83%) Shell Script
5 5 (20.83%) SQL
6 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.17%) Bash
7 1 (4.17%) Go
7 1 (4.17%) Korn
7 1 (4.17%) R
7 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 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) NCSC
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 20 (83.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 19 (79.17%) Kubernetes
2 11 (45.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Splunk
2 11 (45.83%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Informatica
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft