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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 255 185
Rank change year-on-year -47 -70 +62
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 385 362 878
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.52% 1.06% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.80% 8.01% 10.15%
Number of salaries quoted 310 237 462
10th Percentile £40,720 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,500 £42,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,987 £74,258 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%

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 5,659 4,518 8,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.68% 13.23% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,847 2,872 5,543
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,840 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% -4.00%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -7 129 £65,000 -3.70% 44
South East -17 125 £60,000 +4.35% 45
North West -19 56 £65,000 -3.70% 28
South West -45 47 £62,500 +4.17% 22
North East -22 40 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire -25 33 £65,000 -7.14% 11
East of England -29 28 £52,500 +64.06% 12
Midlands -52 26 £75,000 +10.90% 17
West Midlands -42 19 £80,000 +16.26% 9
Scotland -5 17 £65,000 -3.70% 17
Wales -52 17 £70,000 -9.68% 5
East Midlands -30 7 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Northern Ireland -75 1 £73,801 +34.18% 4
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 21 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.60%) Confluence
4 9 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.82%) Apache
6 5 (1.30%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.30%) WordPress
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Documentum
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 221 (57.40%) AWS
2 165 (42.86%) Azure
3 77 (20.00%) GCP
4 49 (12.73%) GitHub
5 42 (10.91%) Serverless
6 35 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
8 25 (6.49%) SaaS
9 24 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (5.97%) Power Platform
11 22 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (5.45%) Azure AKS
13 19 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (3.38%) Amazon S3
17 13 (3.38%) Azure Functions
17 13 (3.38%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.38%) Firewall
2 9 (2.34%) DNS
3 8 (2.08%) DHCP
3 8 (2.08%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.08%) SAN
4 7 (1.82%) Broadband
4 7 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.04%) VPN
6 3 (0.78%) Network Security
7 2 (0.52%) HTTP
7 2 (0.52%) MQTT
7 2 (0.52%) PBX
7 2 (0.52%) VLAN
8 1 (0.26%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.26%) LAN
8 1 (0.26%) LTE
8 1 (0.26%) Multicast
8 1 (0.26%) SMS
8 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (32.47%) MySQL
2 113 (29.35%) MongoDB
3 82 (21.30%) SQL Server
4 74 (19.22%) Relational Database
5 71 (18.44%) NoSQL
6 34 (8.83%) Redis
7 21 (5.45%) Power BI
8 19 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (3.12%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (3.12%) RDBMS
11 11 (2.86%) DynamoDB
12 10 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (2.34%) Oracle Database
14 7 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.82%) GIS
15 6 (1.56%) Pinecone
16 5 (1.30%) Metadata
16 5 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 106 (27.53%) Git
2 30 (7.79%) GitLab
3 28 (7.27%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.71%) JIRA
5 17 (4.42%) JUnit
6 12 (3.12%) Mockito
7 10 (2.60%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.60%) JMeter
8 5 (1.30%) RSpec
8 5 (1.30%) Selenium
9 4 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.04%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.04%) Maven
9 4 (1.04%) minitest
10 3 (0.78%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.78%) Mocha
10 3 (0.78%) Storybook
10 3 (0.78%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 97 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.48%) Public Sector
3 39 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (6.49%) Finance
6 19 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (3.90%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.64%) Advertising
9 11 (2.86%) Games
9 11 (2.86%) Law
9 11 (2.86%) Legal
10 9 (2.34%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.08%) Automotive
11 8 (2.08%) Retail
12 7 (1.82%) Aviation
12 7 (1.82%) Banking
13 6 (1.56%) Tech for Good
14 4 (1.04%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.04%) Legal Technology
14 4 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 111 (28.83%) Developer
2 95 (24.68%) Senior
3 79 (20.52%) Software Engineer
4 49 (12.73%) Lead
5 41 (10.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (7.01%) Python Engineer
8 26 (6.75%) Java Developer
9 25 (6.49%) Software Developer
10 24 (6.23%) Lead Software Engineer
11 21 (5.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 19 (4.94%) Data Engineer
12 19 (4.94%) Python Developer
12 19 (4.94%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.68%) DBA
14 17 (4.42%) Architect
14 17 (4.42%) Java Engineer
14 17 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (3.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (23.64%) React
2 76 (19.74%) Node.js
3 66 (17.14%) RESTful
4 62 (16.10%) REST
5 47 (12.21%) Spring
6 45 (11.69%) CSS
6 45 (11.69%) Spring Boot
7 41 (10.65%) HTML
8 36 (9.35%) .NET
8 36 (9.35%) Kafka
9 29 (7.53%) Vue
10 28 (7.27%) AngularJS
11 26 (6.75%) Django
11 26 (6.75%) Next.js
12 22 (5.71%) Flask
12 22 (5.71%) Hibernate
13 20 (5.19%) FastAPI
14 18 (4.68%) jQuery
14 18 (4.68%) JSON
14 18 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 83 (21.56%) Cloud Native
2 44 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.16%) Algorithms
5 14 (3.64%) AI Agents
6 13 (3.38%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.38%) Replication
7 12 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.12%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.12%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
8 11 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.34%) Robotics
10 8 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.82%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (23.12%) Linux
2 35 (9.09%) Windows
3 19 (4.94%) Unix
4 16 (4.16%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.78%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Solaris
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (50.65%) CI/CD
2 162 (42.08%) Agile
3 134 (34.81%) Software Engineering
4 130 (33.77%) DevOps
5 113 (29.35%) Microservices
6 104 (27.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 96 (24.94%) Mentoring
8 87 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (20.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 77 (20.00%) AI
11 68 (17.66%) Containerisation
11 68 (17.66%) Test Automation
12 65 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 60 (15.58%) TDD
14 53 (13.77%) Observability
15 48 (12.47%) Analytics
15 48 (12.47%) Scrum
16 45 (11.69%) Coaching
16 45 (11.69%) Data Modelling
17 39 (10.13%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 146 (37.92%) Python
2 132 (34.29%) SQL
3 109 (28.31%) Java
4 91 (23.64%) JavaScript
5 65 (16.88%) TypeScript
6 39 (10.13%) C#
7 31 (8.05%) PowerShell
8 29 (7.53%) Bash
9 20 (5.19%) Go
10 13 (3.38%) Ruby
11 12 (3.12%) C++
11 12 (3.12%) PHP
12 9 (2.34%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.82%) Scala
13 7 (1.82%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.56%) Korn
15 3 (0.78%) C
15 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 64 (16.62%) Degree
2 56 (14.55%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.94%) DV Cleared
6 15 (3.90%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.64%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.56%) PhD
11 4 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.78%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.78%) RHCE
13 2 (0.52%) CISSP
13 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.52%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.71%) QA
3 13 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.86%) GDPR
5 3 (0.78%) SLA
6 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (0.52%) NCSC
6 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.52%) WCAG
7 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 126 (32.73%) Docker
2 25 (6.49%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.52%) Samba
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 115 (29.87%) Kubernetes
2 81 (21.04%) Terraform
3 26 (6.75%) Ansible
4 22 (5.71%) Argo
4 22 (5.71%) Grafana
5 19 (4.94%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.86%) Kibana
7 6 (1.56%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.56%) Puppet
8 4 (1.04%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (1.04%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.78%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.78%) Istio
9 3 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.78%) Plesk
9 3 (0.78%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.52%) Rancher
11 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 50 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.91%) Oracle
3 32 (8.31%) Google
4 14 (3.64%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.64%) Splunk
5 11 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.08%) Dell
7 7 (1.82%) Pega
8 6 (1.56%) Databricks
8 6 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.30%) Meraki
10 4 (1.04%) IBM
10 4 (1.04%) Informatica
10 4 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.04%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.78%) Confluent
11 3 (0.78%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.78%) VMware
12 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.52%) UiPath