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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 258 178
Rank change year-on-year -57 -80 +58
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 391 356 856
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.02% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.92% 7.91% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 304 231 455
10th Percentile £38,984 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,990 £73,750 £70,199
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £64,250
% change year-on-year -7.59% +16.73% -8.21%

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 5,654 4,503 8,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.33% 12.96% 13.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,900 2,826 4,929
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £40,000 £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 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -10 131 £65,000 -3.70% 45
South East 0 128 £62,500 -1.96% 71
North West +5 60 £65,000 -3.70% 26
South West -46 45 £62,500 +8.70% 23
North East -25 41 £60,000 +15.66% 6
Yorkshire -21 30 £65,000 -3.70% 13
East of England -26 29 £52,500 +66.67% 8
Midlands -58 27 £75,000 +11.01% 28
West Midlands -44 20 £81,887 +19.00% 13
Wales -53 19 £70,000 -9.68% 10
Scotland -1 17 £65,000 -1.89% 23
East Midlands -31 7 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Northern Ireland -75 1 £73,801 +34.18% 6
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 16 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.81%) Apache
4 9 (2.30%) Confluence
4 9 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.28%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.28%) WordPress
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Documentum
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Finacle
2 1 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 224 (57.29%) AWS
2 158 (40.41%) Azure
3 76 (19.44%) GCP
4 55 (14.07%) GitHub
5 42 (10.74%) Serverless
6 37 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (7.93%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (5.63%) Azure AKS
8 22 (5.63%) SaaS
9 21 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (4.60%) Power Platform
13 16 (4.09%) dbt
14 15 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (3.58%) Amazon S3
15 14 (3.58%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.32%) Firewall
2 9 (2.30%) DNS
3 8 (2.05%) DHCP
3 8 (2.05%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.05%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.05%) SAN
4 7 (1.79%) Broadband
4 7 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.02%) VPN
6 3 (0.77%) HTTP
7 2 (0.51%) MQTT
7 2 (0.51%) Network Security
7 2 (0.51%) PBX
7 2 (0.51%) 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
1 120 (30.69%) MySQL
2 107 (27.37%) MongoDB
3 85 (21.74%) SQL Server
4 82 (20.97%) Relational Database
5 63 (16.11%) NoSQL
6 36 (9.21%) Redis
7 20 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (3.84%) DynamoDB
9 15 (3.84%) Power BI
10 12 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.07%) RDBMS
11 10 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (2.30%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.05%) GIS
14 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.53%) Pinecone
16 5 (1.28%) Metadata
16 5 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 111 (28.39%) Git
2 30 (7.67%) GitLab
3 29 (7.42%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.37%) JIRA
5 18 (4.60%) JUnit
6 12 (3.07%) Mockito
7 10 (2.56%) JMeter
8 9 (2.30%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.28%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.28%) RSpec
9 5 (1.28%) Selenium
10 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.02%) minitest
11 3 (0.77%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.77%) Maven
11 3 (0.77%) Mocha
11 3 (0.77%) Storybook
11 3 (0.77%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 98 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.18%) Public Sector
3 42 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (6.65%) Finance
6 19 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (4.35%) Law
8 15 (3.84%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.32%) Advertising
9 13 (3.32%) Legal
10 11 (2.81%) Games
11 9 (2.30%) Aerospace
12 8 (2.05%) Aviation
12 8 (2.05%) Banking
12 8 (2.05%) Retail
13 7 (1.79%) Automotive
14 6 (1.53%) Tech for Good
15 4 (1.02%) Health Technology
15 4 (1.02%) Legal Technology
15 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 118 (30.18%) Developer
2 107 (27.37%) Senior
3 80 (20.46%) Software Engineer
4 49 (12.53%) Lead
5 41 (10.49%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (7.93%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (7.42%) Python Engineer
8 28 (7.16%) Software Developer
9 26 (6.65%) Java Developer
10 25 (6.39%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (6.14%) Senior Developer
12 22 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (5.12%) Data Engineer
13 20 (5.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 20 (5.12%) Python Developer
14 19 (4.86%) DBA
15 17 (4.35%) Architect
16 15 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
16 15 (3.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 12 (3.07%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (24.30%) React
2 78 (19.95%) Node.js
3 63 (16.11%) REST
4 61 (15.60%) RESTful
5 50 (12.79%) CSS
6 46 (11.76%) Spring
7 45 (11.51%) HTML
7 45 (11.51%) Spring Boot
8 44 (11.25%) .NET
9 37 (9.46%) Kafka
10 30 (7.67%) AngularJS
11 27 (6.91%) Vue
12 26 (6.65%) Django
12 26 (6.65%) Next.js
13 24 (6.14%) Hibernate
14 23 (5.88%) Flask
15 21 (5.37%) FastAPI
16 19 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (4.60%) jQuery
18 17 (4.35%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 83 (21.23%) Cloud Native
2 45 (11.51%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.42%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.09%) Algorithms
5 15 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.58%) AI Agents
7 13 (3.32%) Replication
8 12 (3.07%) Management Information System
8 12 (3.07%) Renewable Energy
8 12 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.81%) Robotics
10 9 (2.30%) Data Structures
11 8 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (2.05%) Onboarding
11 8 (2.05%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.79%) IoT
12 7 (1.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 92 (23.53%) Linux
2 35 (8.95%) Windows
3 19 (4.86%) Unix
4 16 (4.09%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.77%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Solaris
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (51.92%) CI/CD
2 163 (41.69%) Agile
3 140 (35.81%) Software Engineering
4 134 (34.27%) DevOps
5 109 (27.88%) Microservices
6 103 (26.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 97 (24.81%) Mentoring
8 92 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (21.99%) Infrastructure as Code
10 83 (21.23%) AI
11 70 (17.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 66 (16.88%) Containerisation
13 61 (15.60%) Test Automation
14 56 (14.32%) Observability
14 56 (14.32%) TDD
15 52 (13.30%) Scrum
16 47 (12.02%) Analytics
17 45 (11.51%) Data Modelling
18 43 (11.00%) Coaching
19 40 (10.23%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 147 (37.60%) Python
2 126 (32.23%) SQL
3 101 (25.83%) Java
4 92 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 70 (17.90%) TypeScript
6 47 (12.02%) C#
7 27 (6.91%) Bash
8 25 (6.39%) PowerShell
9 22 (5.63%) Go
10 13 (3.32%) Ruby
11 12 (3.07%) PHP
12 11 (2.81%) C++
13 9 (2.30%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.53%) Korn
14 6 (1.53%) Scala
15 3 (0.77%) C
15 3 (0.77%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 73 (18.67%) Degree
2 61 (15.60%) Security Cleared
3 49 (12.53%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (5.63%) Master's Degree
6 20 (5.12%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.84%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.53%) PhD
11 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.77%) RHCE
13 2 (0.51%) CISSP
13 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.51%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.88%) QA
3 11 (2.81%) GDPR
4 10 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.77%) SLA
7 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.51%) NCSC
7 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.51%) WCAG
8 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 127 (32.48%) Docker
2 21 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.51%) Samba
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 117 (29.92%) Kubernetes
2 84 (21.48%) Terraform
3 28 (7.16%) Ansible
4 23 (5.88%) Grafana
5 22 (5.63%) Argo
6 20 (5.12%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.56%) Kibana
8 6 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.53%) Puppet
9 4 (1.02%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.02%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.77%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.77%) Istio
10 3 (0.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.77%) Plesk
10 3 (0.77%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.77%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.51%) Rancher
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 51 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.74%) Oracle
3 31 (7.93%) Google
4 15 (3.84%) Splunk
5 14 (3.58%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.81%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.56%) Databricks
8 8 (2.05%) Dell
9 7 (1.79%) Pega
10 6 (1.53%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.28%) Meraki
12 4 (1.02%) IBM
12 4 (1.02%) Informatica
12 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.02%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.77%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.77%) VMware
14 2 (0.51%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.51%) UiPath
14 2 (0.51%) WSO2