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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 295 152
Rank change year-on-year -38 -143 +63
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 405 273 792
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.80% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.56% 6.86% 12.35%
Number of salaries quoted 309 172 316
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,849 £45,938 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £74,144
90th Percentile £88,148 £84,075 £82,500
UK median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year -7.59% +8.21% -0.99%

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.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,358 3,980 6,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.14% 11.67% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,869 2,456 3,290
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,000
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 16 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 16 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 -5 134 £70,000 +5.66% 82
North of England -21 122 £65,000 -3.70% 101
North West -13 57 £61,250 -10.91% 58
South West -53 50 £82,500 +52.78% 31
Midlands -39 44 £75,000 +7.14% 41
North East -41 41 £65,000 +25.30% 15
West Midlands -42 32 £85,000 +17.24% 31
East of England -41 28 £52,500 +72.13% 36
Wales -51 28 £64,000 -1.54% 11
Yorkshire -36 24 £65,000 -7.14% 33
East Midlands -32 12 £60,000 +20.00% 10
Scotland -12 10 £65,000 -8.00% 30
Northern Ireland -83 2 - - 28
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1MySQL29.4%119
2MongoDB25.4%103
3Relational Database23.0%93
4SQL Server20.2%82
5NoSQL15.3%62
6Redis9.9%40
7Elasticsearch5.9%24
8Amazon RDS4.2%17
9DynamoDB3.5%14
10GIS2.2%9
10Pinecone2.2%9
10RDBMS2.2%9
10Spatial Data2.2%9
14Oracle Database2.0%8
15Chroma1.7%7
16Amazon Aurora1.5%6
16Amazon Redshift1.5%6
16Azure SQL Database1.5%6
16Data Warehouse1.5%6
20Amazon Athena1.2%5
359 PostgreSQL jobs in the UK excluding London