PostgreSQL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 156 217
Rank change year-on-year -152 +61 +18
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 264 458 831
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.77% 1.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.84% 10.49% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 184 247 552
10th Percentile £33,000 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,356 £51,724 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,523 4,368 11,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.96% 16.83% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,583 2,933 8,148
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,175 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.03% +9.87% -8.00%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England -33 96 £62,500 -8.71% 57
South East -128 65 £58,000 -20.00% 48
Yorkshire -20 44 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -21 41 £76,250 +10.02% 33
South West -45 31 £62,500 -3.85% 20
Midlands -36 25 £55,200 -15.08% 18
Scotland -35 23 £67,500 +8.00% 12
East of England -74 19 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -18 16 £45,000 -30.77% 8
North East -16 11 £53,565 -22.76% 6
East Midlands -46 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -50 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -36 4 £73,801 +34.18%
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (6.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.30%) OpenStack
3 10 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.14%) Apache
6 2 (0.76%) CMS
6 2 (0.76%) Confluence
6 2 (0.76%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 170 (64.39%) AWS
2 106 (40.15%) Azure
3 70 (26.52%) GCP
4 50 (18.94%) Serverless
5 44 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (14.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (11.74%) GitHub
8 30 (11.36%) Amazon S3
9 27 (10.23%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (9.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (9.09%) dbt
11 24 (9.09%) SaaS
12 22 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (8.33%) Power Platform
13 20 (7.58%) Amazon ECR
13 20 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (7.58%) Pulumi
14 19 (7.20%) AWS Step Functions
15 18 (6.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.41%) DHCP
2 9 (3.41%) DNS
3 8 (3.03%) VPN
4 7 (2.65%) Internet
4 7 (2.65%) Network Security
5 6 (2.27%) Firewall
5 6 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.89%) Broadband
7 3 (1.14%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (1.14%) SAN
7 3 (1.14%) VLAN
8 2 (0.76%) PBX
9 1 (0.38%) HTTP
9 1 (0.38%) LAN
9 1 (0.38%) LTE
9 1 (0.38%) MQTT
9 1 (0.38%) Multicast
9 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (29.92%) SQL Server
2 60 (22.73%) MySQL
3 55 (20.83%) Relational Database
4 53 (20.08%) MongoDB
5 51 (19.32%) NoSQL
6 38 (14.39%) Redis
7 33 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (8.33%) Power BI
10 18 (6.82%) DynamoDB
11 10 (3.79%) Oracle Database
12 9 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (3.03%) RDBMS
13 8 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (2.27%) BigQuery
16 5 (1.89%) TimescaleDB
17 4 (1.52%) Looker
Development Applications
1 85 (32.20%) Git
2 34 (12.88%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.58%) JUnit
4 14 (5.30%) JIRA
5 13 (4.92%) GitLab
6 10 (3.79%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.79%) Mockito
7 9 (3.41%) Selenium
8 7 (2.65%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.89%) JMeter
10 3 (1.14%) Maven
11 2 (0.76%) Appium
11 2 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.76%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.76%) Gradle
11 2 (0.76%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.76%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.38%) Postman
12 1 (0.38%) TestNG
12 1 (0.38%) utPLSQL
General
1 90 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.82%) Finance
5 16 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.41%) Advertising
7 9 (3.41%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.03%) Games
9 7 (2.65%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.89%) Retail
11 4 (1.52%) Automotive
12 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.14%) Marketing
13 2 (0.76%) Legal
13 2 (0.76%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.38%) Aviation
14 1 (0.38%) Electronics
14 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 86 (32.58%) Developer
2 58 (21.97%) Senior
3 42 (15.91%) Software Engineer
4 34 (12.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 32 (12.12%) Java Developer
6 19 (7.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 18 (6.82%) Lead
8 15 (5.68%) Analyst
8 15 (5.68%) IT Support
8 15 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (5.30%) .NET Developer
9 14 (5.30%) DBA
9 14 (5.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 13 (4.92%) Java Engineer
10 13 (4.92%) Python Engineer
11 12 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
11 12 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.79%) Administrator
12 10 (3.79%) Data Analyst
12 10 (3.79%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (27.65%) React
2 53 (20.08%) Spring
2 53 (20.08%) Spring Boot
3 49 (18.56%) RESTful
4 43 (16.29%) REST
5 42 (15.91%) Django
6 32 (12.12%) Node.js
7 29 (10.98%) .NET
8 23 (8.71%) Vue
9 22 (8.33%) AngularJS
10 20 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
10 20 (7.58%) HTML
10 20 (7.58%) Web Services
11 18 (6.82%) .NET Core
12 17 (6.44%) Kafka
13 16 (6.06%) CSS
13 16 (6.06%) JSON
14 15 (5.68%) Flask
15 14 (5.30%) AWS CDK
15 14 (5.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 32 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.44%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (6.44%) Replication
4 14 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.03%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.27%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.89%) Clustering
9 5 (1.89%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.14%) CUDA
11 3 (1.14%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (22.73%) Linux
2 26 (9.85%) Unix
3 17 (6.44%) Windows
4 14 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.52%) Debian
7 3 (1.14%) CentOS
7 3 (1.14%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.76%) VMS
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (47.35%) CI/CD
2 103 (39.02%) DevOps
3 99 (37.50%) Agile
4 82 (31.06%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (29.17%) Microservices
6 72 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 67 (25.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 66 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 56 (21.21%) Containerisation
10 54 (20.45%) TDD
11 47 (17.80%) Test Automation
12 40 (15.15%) Mentoring
13 35 (13.26%) AI
14 33 (12.50%) Observability
15 32 (12.12%) BDD
16 30 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (10.98%) Data Modelling
18 27 (10.23%) Clean Code
18 27 (10.23%) Scrum
19 26 (9.85%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 114 (43.18%) Python
2 89 (33.71%) Java
2 89 (33.71%) SQL
3 55 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 36 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.71%) Go
6 22 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 21 (7.95%) C#
8 16 (6.06%) C
9 11 (4.17%) PHP
9 11 (4.17%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.41%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.03%) C++
12 7 (2.65%) Bash
12 7 (2.65%) Delphi
13 2 (0.76%) R
14 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.38%) Rust
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.50%) Degree
3 32 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.14%) RHCE
8 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.76%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.17%) QA
3 5 (1.89%) GDPR
4 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.14%) NCSC
5 2 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (40.15%) Docker
2 23 (8.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (1.52%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.76%) Samba
5 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 84 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 66 (25.00%) Terraform
3 23 (8.71%) Ansible
4 14 (5.30%) AWS Copilot
5 9 (3.41%) Grafana
6 7 (2.65%) Kibana
7 5 (1.89%) Nagios
7 5 (1.89%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.52%) Control-M
8 4 (1.52%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.14%) Rancher
10 2 (0.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.76%) Puppet
11 1 (0.38%) Podman
11 1 (0.38%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 43 (16.29%) Google
1 43 (16.29%) Oracle
2 21 (7.95%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.79%) Pega
4 7 (2.65%) Informatica
5 5 (1.89%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.89%) Splunk
5 5 (1.89%) WSO2
6 4 (1.52%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.52%) VMware
7 3 (1.14%) Confluent
7 3 (1.14%) Dell
7 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.76%) D-Link
8 2 (0.76%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.76%) RedGate
8 2 (0.76%) Talend
9 1 (0.38%) Meraki
9 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds