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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 152 232
Rank change year-on-year -151 +80 +2
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 237 548 714
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.94% 1.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.84% 11.39% 6.78%
Number of salaries quoted 162 261 528
10th Percentile £33,275 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +1.81%
75th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 4,061 4,812 10,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.87% 17.01% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,394 2,927 7,978
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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 9 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 9 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 -22 92 £66,250 -2.03% 79
South East -137 60 £60,000 -20.00% 104
Yorkshire -17 43 £52,130 -9.13% 31
North West -28 38 £77,500 +11.82% 40
Midlands -30 26 £55,200 -15.08% 44
South West -49 23 £65,000 - 46
West Midlands -8 17 £50,100 -22.92% 27
East of England -56 16 £42,500 -26.09% 53
Scotland -31 15 £73,801 +22.49% 16
North East -16 11 £55,000 -20.69% 9
East Midlands -28 9 £65,000 +8.33% 15
Wales -33 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -30 4 £73,801 +34.18% 3
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 14 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.06%) OpenStack
3 9 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.84%) Apache
5 2 (0.84%) CMS
5 2 (0.84%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.42%) Camunda
6 1 (0.42%) Confluence
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 168 (70.89%) AWS
2 99 (41.77%) Azure
3 57 (24.05%) GCP
4 53 (22.36%) Serverless
5 46 (19.41%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (15.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (13.50%) Amazon S3
8 30 (12.66%) GitHub
9 29 (12.24%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (11.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (10.13%) dbt
12 22 (9.28%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (8.86%) SaaS
14 20 (8.44%) Amazon ECR
14 20 (8.44%) Pulumi
15 19 (8.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 19 (8.02%) AWS Step Functions
16 18 (7.59%) Power Platform
17 17 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.70%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.38%) VPN
3 7 (2.95%) Firewall
3 7 (2.95%) Internet
3 7 (2.95%) Network Security
4 6 (2.53%) DHCP
4 6 (2.53%) DNS
4 6 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.27%) iSCSI
5 3 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.27%) SAN
5 3 (1.27%) VLAN
6 2 (0.84%) HTTP
6 2 (0.84%) PBX
7 1 (0.42%) AMQP
7 1 (0.42%) Broadband
7 1 (0.42%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (28.69%) SQL Server
2 53 (22.36%) MySQL
3 52 (21.94%) Relational Database
4 48 (20.25%) NoSQL
5 45 (18.99%) MongoDB
6 39 (16.46%) Redis
7 34 (14.35%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (10.13%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (7.59%) DynamoDB
9 18 (7.59%) Power BI
10 10 (4.22%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (4.22%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (3.38%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (2.11%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.11%) TimescaleDB
15 4 (1.69%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 77 (32.49%) Git
2 39 (16.46%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.28%) JUnit
4 14 (5.91%) GitLab
5 13 (5.49%) Cucumber
5 13 (5.49%) JIRA
6 10 (4.22%) Mockito
7 9 (3.80%) JMeter
8 8 (3.38%) Selenium
9 6 (2.53%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.27%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.27%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.84%) Appium
11 2 (0.84%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.84%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.84%) Maven
11 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.84%) Subversion
12 1 (0.42%) Gradle
12 1 (0.42%) Postman
General
1 81 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (8.86%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.59%) Finance
5 9 (3.80%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.53%) Advertising
7 6 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.69%) Retail
10 3 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.27%) Games
10 3 (1.27%) Marketing
10 3 (1.27%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.84%) Automotive
12 1 (0.42%) Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Electronics
12 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (32.07%) Developer
2 58 (24.47%) Senior
3 45 (18.99%) Software Engineer
4 33 (13.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 30 (12.66%) Java Developer
6 19 (8.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 18 (7.59%) Java Engineer
8 15 (6.33%) Lead
8 15 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (5.91%) Analyst
9 14 (5.91%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (5.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.49%) .NET Developer
11 12 (5.06%) IT Support
12 10 (4.22%) Data Analyst
12 10 (4.22%) DBA
12 10 (4.22%) Junior
13 9 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 9 (3.80%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (28.69%) React
2 57 (24.05%) Spring
3 55 (23.21%) Spring Boot
4 45 (18.99%) RESTful
5 37 (15.61%) Django
5 37 (15.61%) REST
6 30 (12.66%) .NET
6 30 (12.66%) Node.js
7 21 (8.86%) Kafka
8 20 (8.44%) HTML
8 20 (8.44%) Web Services
9 19 (8.02%) AngularJS
9 19 (8.02%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (8.02%) Vue
10 18 (7.59%) .NET Core
11 16 (6.75%) JSON
12 15 (6.33%) XML
13 14 (5.91%) AWS CDK
13 14 (5.91%) CSS
14 13 (5.49%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.61%) Cloud Native
2 29 (12.24%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.75%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.64%) Replication
5 10 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.22%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.80%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.38%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.38%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.69%) Clustering
8 4 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.27%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.27%) SCADA
9 3 (1.27%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.84%) Life Science
10 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (25.32%) Linux
2 27 (11.39%) Unix
3 14 (5.91%) Windows
4 10 (4.22%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.27%) Debian
6 3 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.84%) CentOS
7 2 (0.84%) VMS
7 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.42%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (50.21%) CI/CD
2 94 (39.66%) DevOps
3 88 (37.13%) Agile
4 79 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (32.49%) Microservices
6 70 (29.54%) Software Engineering
7 61 (25.74%) Full-Stack Development
8 58 (24.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 55 (23.21%) TDD
10 53 (22.36%) Containerisation
11 40 (16.88%) Test Automation
12 33 (13.92%) BDD
13 32 (13.50%) Mentoring
13 32 (13.50%) Observability
14 27 (11.39%) AI
15 26 (10.97%) Scrum
16 25 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (10.13%) Clean Code
17 24 (10.13%) Migration
18 23 (9.70%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 99 (41.77%) Python
2 94 (39.66%) Java
3 78 (32.91%) SQL
4 51 (21.52%) JavaScript
5 36 (15.19%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.44%) C#
6 20 (8.44%) Go
6 20 (8.44%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.75%) C
8 11 (4.64%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.22%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.38%) PHP
11 7 (2.95%) C++
11 7 (2.95%) Delphi
12 6 (2.53%) Bash
13 2 (0.84%) R
14 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.42%) Korn
14 1 (0.42%) Scala
14 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (15.61%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.97%) Degree
4 12 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.64%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.64%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (2.53%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.84%) RHCE
8 2 (0.84%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.95%) QA
4 3 (1.27%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.84%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 108 (45.57%) Docker
2 19 (8.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (1.27%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.84%) Samba
Systems Management
1 78 (32.91%) Kubernetes
2 56 (23.63%) Terraform
3 23 (9.70%) Ansible
4 14 (5.91%) AWS Copilot
5 10 (4.22%) Kibana
6 9 (3.80%) Grafana
7 5 (2.11%) Nagios
7 5 (2.11%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.69%) Control-M
8 4 (1.69%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.27%) Rancher
10 2 (0.84%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.84%) Puppet
11 1 (0.42%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (15.61%) Oracle
2 34 (14.35%) Google
3 20 (8.44%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.95%) Informatica
4 7 (2.95%) Splunk
5 6 (2.53%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.11%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.11%) VMware
7 4 (1.69%) Pega
7 4 (1.69%) WSO2
8 3 (1.27%) Confluent
8 3 (1.27%) Dell
9 2 (0.84%) D-Link
9 2 (0.84%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.84%) RedGate
9 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.84%) Talend
10 1 (0.42%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.42%) NVIDIA