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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 254 203
Rank change year-on-year -59 -51 +24
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 302 322 974
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 1.13% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.03% 7.81% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 221 208 584
10th Percentile £38,500 £34,425 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £74,444 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £84,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 5,007 4,122 11,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.49% 14.45% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,007 2,626 8,098
10th Percentile £33,900 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -4 114 £67,500 -2.71% 40
South East -30 102 £57,500 +9.52% 37
Yorkshire -14 48 £60,000 -7.69% 6
North West -14 43 £69,310 -0.55% 27
South West -46 38 £62,500 -3.85% 13
North East -20 23 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Scotland -15 19 £66,250 +10.42% 4
East of England -35 18 £55,000 +48.65% 9
Midlands -57 13 £68,405 +1.25% 17
West Midlands -40 10 £74,655 +10.60% 6
East Midlands -42 3 £65,000 -7.14% 11
Wales -55 2 £59,401 -12.16% 3
Northern Ireland -42 1 £73,801 +34.18% 7
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 24 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (4.30%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.65%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.66%) Confluence
6 4 (1.32%) Apache
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.66%) WildFly
7 2 (0.66%) WordPress
8 1 (0.33%) Camunda
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) IIS
8 1 (0.33%) JBoss
8 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 186 (61.59%) AWS
2 123 (40.73%) Azure
3 59 (19.54%) Serverless
4 57 (18.87%) GCP
5 35 (11.59%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (10.26%) GitHub
7 30 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (9.93%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (9.93%) SaaS
8 29 (9.60%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (8.94%) Amazon S3
10 24 (7.95%) Power Platform
11 19 (6.29%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (6.29%) Azure AKS
12 18 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (4.97%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (4.64%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.64%) Firewall
2 11 (3.64%) DHCP
2 11 (3.64%) DNS
3 10 (3.31%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.65%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.65%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (2.65%) SAN
5 7 (2.32%) Internet
5 7 (2.32%) Network Security
6 5 (1.66%) Broadband
6 5 (1.66%) VPN
7 3 (0.99%) VLAN
7 3 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.66%) MQTT
8 2 (0.66%) PBX
9 1 (0.33%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.33%) LAN
9 1 (0.33%) LTE
9 1 (0.33%) Multicast
9 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (29.14%) MongoDB
2 84 (27.81%) MySQL
3 80 (26.49%) SQL Server
4 64 (21.19%) NoSQL
5 55 (18.21%) Relational Database
6 24 (7.95%) Power BI
7 17 (5.63%) Redis
8 15 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (4.97%) DynamoDB
8 15 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (3.64%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (3.31%) Oracle Database
10 10 (3.31%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (1.66%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.66%) GIS
12 5 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 95 (31.46%) Git
2 24 (7.95%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.28%) GitLab
4 16 (5.30%) JUnit
5 15 (4.97%) JIRA
6 12 (3.97%) Mockito
7 9 (2.98%) JMeter
8 7 (2.32%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.32%) Maven
10 3 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.99%) DBeaver
10 3 (0.99%) Selenium
11 2 (0.66%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.66%) Gradle
11 2 (0.66%) MSTest
12 1 (0.33%) Ant
12 1 (0.33%) ERwin
12 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.33%) jMock
12 1 (0.33%) Toad
General
1 96 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 55 (18.21%) Public Sector
3 30 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.29%) Finance
5 19 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (5.30%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.30%) Advertising
8 11 (3.64%) Retail
9 10 (3.31%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.65%) Games
11 7 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.99%) Automotive
13 5 (1.66%) Legal
14 3 (0.99%) Aviation
14 3 (0.99%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.99%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.66%) Banking
15 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (29.47%) Developer
2 63 (20.86%) Senior
3 52 (17.22%) Software Engineer
4 39 (12.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 31 (10.26%) Java Developer
6 30 (9.93%) Lead
7 18 (5.96%) Python Engineer
8 17 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 16 (5.30%) Java Engineer
10 15 (4.97%) Lead Software Engineer
11 14 (4.64%) .NET Developer
11 14 (4.64%) DBA
11 14 (4.64%) IT Support
11 14 (4.64%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (4.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.30%) Architect
13 12 (3.97%) Analyst
13 12 (3.97%) Data Engineer
13 12 (3.97%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (26.49%) React
2 71 (23.51%) Node.js
3 59 (19.54%) RESTful
4 51 (16.89%) REST
5 46 (15.23%) Spring
6 44 (14.57%) Spring Boot
7 36 (11.92%) .NET
8 29 (9.60%) HTML
9 27 (8.94%) CSS
10 26 (8.61%) AngularJS
11 23 (7.62%) Django
12 22 (7.28%) Vue
13 20 (6.62%) JSON
13 20 (6.62%) Web Services
14 19 (6.29%) Kafka
15 17 (5.63%) jQuery
16 16 (5.30%) Flask
17 15 (4.97%) .NET Core
17 15 (4.97%) Hibernate
17 15 (4.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.21%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.97%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.97%) Replication
5 11 (3.64%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.31%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.65%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (2.32%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.66%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.66%) Robotics
10 5 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
11 4 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.32%) CUDA
11 4 (1.32%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 69 (22.85%) Linux
2 33 (10.93%) Windows
3 23 (7.62%) Unix
4 18 (5.96%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.32%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (2.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.99%) CentOS
8 1 (0.33%) AIX
8 1 (0.33%) Debian
8 1 (0.33%) Solaris
8 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (48.01%) CI/CD
2 137 (45.36%) Agile
3 93 (30.79%) DevOps
4 92 (30.46%) Microservices
5 84 (27.81%) Software Engineering
6 82 (27.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 68 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (21.19%) Mentoring
9 60 (19.87%) TDD
10 59 (19.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 55 (18.21%) Test Automation
12 51 (16.89%) Scrum
13 50 (16.56%) Containerisation
14 44 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (14.24%) AI
16 37 (12.25%) Computer Science
16 37 (12.25%) Data Modelling
17 36 (11.92%) Analytics
17 36 (11.92%) Coaching
18 27 (8.94%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 118 (39.07%) Python
2 109 (36.09%) SQL
3 105 (34.77%) Java
4 70 (23.18%) JavaScript
5 47 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 27 (8.94%) C#
7 25 (8.28%) PowerShell
8 19 (6.29%) Go
9 17 (5.63%) Bash
10 13 (4.30%) C
11 12 (3.97%) Shell Script
12 11 (3.64%) PHP
13 9 (2.98%) C++
13 9 (2.98%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.99%) Korn
15 5 (1.66%) Scala
16 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.33%) Perl
17 1 (0.33%) R
17 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (16.56%) Degree
2 29 (9.60%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.98%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.65%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.99%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.99%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.99%) RHCE
12 2 (0.66%) PhD
12 2 (0.66%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.60%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.30%) GDPR
3 12 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.31%) QA
5 7 (2.32%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.99%) NCSC
7 2 (0.66%) SLA
7 2 (0.66%) WCAG
8 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 99 (32.78%) Docker
2 30 (9.93%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.98%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.66%) Samba
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 91 (30.13%) Kubernetes
2 62 (20.53%) Terraform
3 25 (8.28%) Ansible
4 16 (5.30%) Argo
5 10 (3.31%) Grafana
5 10 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.98%) Kibana
7 7 (2.32%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.32%) Puppet
8 4 (1.32%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (1.32%) Control-M
8 4 (1.32%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.32%) Nagios
8 4 (1.32%) Rancher
9 3 (0.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.99%) Plesk
10 2 (0.66%) Istio
10 2 (0.66%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.33%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 50 (16.56%) Oracle
2 38 (12.58%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.28%) Google
4 13 (4.30%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.65%) Dell
5 8 (2.65%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.65%) Splunk
6 7 (2.32%) Pega
7 4 (1.32%) Informatica
7 4 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.32%) VMware
8 3 (0.99%) Confluent
8 3 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.66%) Databricks
9 2 (0.66%) D-Link
9 2 (0.66%) Meraki
9 2 (0.66%) WSO2
10 1 (0.33%) Juniper
10 1 (0.33%) Siemens
10 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds