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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 290 169
Rank change year-on-year -49 -121 +37
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 402 281 789
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.81% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.39% 6.95% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 312 171 336
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,635 £46,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,625 £73,750 £70,100
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 5,442 4,042 6,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.31% 11.71% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,914 2,516 3,541
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,750 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 1 October 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 1 October 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
South East -21 130 £67,500 - 76
North of England -20 127 £65,000 -3.70% 118
North West -13 58 £62,500 -7.41% 71
South West -59 51 £65,000 +25.00% 62
North East -35 41 £65,000 +26.83% 15
Midlands -40 41 £75,000 +5.26% 46
West Midlands -43 32 £84,387 +16.40% 33
East of England -23 30 £52,500 +72.13% 39
Yorkshire -27 28 £67,155 -4.06% 35
Wales -49 25 £64,500 +3.20% 19
Scotland -3 10 £65,000 -3.70% 43
East Midlands -32 9 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Northern Ireland -88 1 - - 21
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 12 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.49%) Apache
3 8 (1.99%) Confluence
4 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.74%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.24%) WordPress
6 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Documentum
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.25%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) Finacle
2 1 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 227 (56.47%) AWS
2 169 (42.04%) Azure
3 63 (15.67%) GCP
4 62 (15.42%) GitHub
5 48 (11.94%) Serverless
6 34 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (5.97%) SaaS
10 23 (5.72%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (5.72%) Azure AKS
11 21 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (4.48%) GitHub Copilot
13 16 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (3.98%) Amazon S3
14 15 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (3.48%) Azure Functions
16 11 (2.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.49%) Firewall
2 9 (2.24%) DNS
3 6 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.24%) DHCP
4 5 (1.24%) HTTP
4 5 (1.24%) iSCSI
4 5 (1.24%) SAN
5 3 (0.75%) VPN
6 2 (0.50%) 4G
6 2 (0.50%) 5G
6 2 (0.50%) Broadband
6 2 (0.50%) SSH
6 2 (0.50%) VLAN
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (30.10%) MySQL
2 102 (25.37%) MongoDB
3 94 (23.38%) Relational Database
4 86 (21.39%) SQL Server
5 62 (15.42%) NoSQL
6 35 (8.71%) Redis
7 25 (6.22%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.73%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.24%) GIS
10 9 (2.24%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.99%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.49%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.49%) Pinecone
13 6 (1.49%) Power BI
13 6 (1.49%) Spatial Data
14 5 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 124 (30.85%) Git
2 39 (9.70%) GitLab
3 36 (8.96%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.23%) JUnit
5 16 (3.98%) JIRA
6 13 (3.23%) JMeter
7 10 (2.49%) Mockito
8 9 (2.24%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.99%) Selenium
10 6 (1.49%) Eclipse
11 5 (1.24%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.24%) Mocha
11 5 (1.24%) RSpec
11 5 (1.24%) Storybook
12 4 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.00%) minitest
12 4 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.75%) Maven
13 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.75%) Vite
General
1 92 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 80 (19.90%) Public Sector
3 51 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (4.98%) Banking
5 20 (4.98%) Finance
6 17 (4.23%) Law
7 15 (3.73%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.99%) Legal
9 10 (2.49%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.99%) Retail
12 7 (1.74%) Automotive
12 7 (1.74%) Aviation
12 7 (1.74%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.49%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.24%) Advertising
15 4 (1.00%) Legal Technology
15 4 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 133 (33.08%) Developer
2 118 (29.35%) Senior
3 95 (23.63%) Software Engineer
4 45 (11.19%) Lead
5 43 (10.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 36 (8.96%) Software Developer
7 35 (8.71%) Senior Developer
8 34 (8.46%) Python Engineer
9 32 (7.96%) Java Developer
10 29 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (6.47%) Data Engineer
11 26 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (5.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 23 (5.72%) Lead Software Engineer
13 19 (4.73%) Python Developer
14 18 (4.48%) DBA
15 17 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
15 17 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
17 15 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (27.11%) React
2 83 (20.65%) Terraform
3 81 (20.15%) Node.js
4 68 (16.92%) RESTful
5 66 (16.42%) REST
6 56 (13.93%) .NET
7 55 (13.68%) Spring
8 54 (13.43%) Kafka
8 54 (13.43%) Spring Boot
9 51 (12.69%) CSS
10 44 (10.95%) HTML
11 32 (7.96%) Next.js
12 31 (7.71%) Hibernate
13 30 (7.46%) Vue
14 29 (7.21%) AngularJS
14 29 (7.21%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (5.47%) FastAPI
15 22 (5.47%) Flask
16 21 (5.22%) JPA
17 19 (4.73%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 84 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 53 (13.18%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.21%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (3.48%) AI Agents
7 14 (3.48%) Virtual Team
8 13 (3.23%) Algorithms
9 12 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (2.49%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.49%) Robotics
11 9 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (2.24%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.74%) IoT
13 6 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.49%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.24%) Clustering
15 4 (1.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 91 (22.64%) Linux
2 33 (8.21%) Windows
3 17 (4.23%) Unix
4 13 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) AIX
6 1 (0.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) Debian
6 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.25%) Solaris
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (51.74%) CI/CD
2 173 (43.03%) Agile
3 168 (41.79%) Software Engineering
4 138 (34.33%) DevOps
5 118 (29.35%) Microservices
6 115 (28.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 99 (24.63%) Mentoring
7 99 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (23.38%) AI
9 92 (22.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 68 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (16.42%) Containerisation
12 61 (15.17%) Scrum
13 60 (14.93%) Test Automation
14 58 (14.43%) Observability
15 52 (12.94%) Decision-Making
16 50 (12.44%) TDD
17 47 (11.69%) Analytics
18 44 (10.95%) Coaching
18 44 (10.95%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 150 (37.31%) Python
2 126 (31.34%) SQL
3 109 (27.11%) Java
4 98 (24.38%) JavaScript
5 79 (19.65%) TypeScript
6 59 (14.68%) C#
7 26 (6.47%) Bash
7 26 (6.47%) Go
8 21 (5.22%) PowerShell
9 19 (4.73%) PHP
10 13 (3.23%) Ruby
10 13 (3.23%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.74%) C++
12 6 (1.49%) Scala
13 5 (1.24%) Korn
14 3 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.25%) C
16 1 (0.25%) Fortran
16 1 (0.25%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 65 (16.17%) Degree
2 64 (15.92%) Security Cleared
3 53 (13.18%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (6.22%) Master's Degree
5 23 (5.72%) Azure Certification
6 19 (4.73%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.24%) PhD
8 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.00%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.71%) QA
2 26 (6.47%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.49%) GDPR
4 10 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.50%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 133 (33.08%) Docker
2 12 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) Ceph
5 1 (0.25%) Lustre
5 1 (0.25%) NFS
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.25%) Samba
5 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 119 (29.60%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.71%) Grafana
3 32 (7.96%) Ansible
4 30 (7.46%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.72%) Argo
6 12 (2.99%) Kibana
7 6 (1.49%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.49%) Puppet
8 5 (1.24%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.00%) Istio
10 3 (0.75%) Plesk
10 3 (0.75%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.75%) Rancher
10 3 (0.75%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 50 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.96%) Oracle
3 25 (6.22%) Splunk
4 13 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 12 (2.99%) Google
5 12 (2.99%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.74%) Databricks
7 8 (1.99%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.49%) Informatica
9 5 (1.24%) Dell
9 5 (1.24%) VMware
10 4 (1.00%) IBM
10 4 (1.00%) Meraki
10 4 (1.00%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.75%) Mistral
12 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.50%) SAP
12 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.50%) UiPath
13 1 (0.25%) Temenos