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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 254 177
Rank change year-on-year -62 -77 +71
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 392 348 853
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.00% 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.85% 7.83% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 304 225 449
10th Percentile £38,150 £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 £74,987 £73,750 £70,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,500 £78,750
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 5,721 4,445 7,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.36% 12.79% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,930 2,813 4,881
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,750
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 - - -4.00%

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 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 16 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
South East -21 129 £62,500 +8.70% 48
North of England -19 127 £65,000 -3.70% 24
North West -2 59 £65,000 -3.70% 14
South West -64 47 £62,500 +8.70% 18
North East -34 39 £65,000 +25.30% 3
Midlands -40 31 £72,155 +6.70% 22
Yorkshire -28 29 £67,153 -0.51% 7
East of England -33 29 £52,500 +66.67% 4
West Midlands -42 22 £81,887 +16.98% 10
Wales -54 19 £70,000 -9.68% 5
Scotland -11 17 £65,000 -3.70% 13
East Midlands -24 9 £60,000 +9.09% 12
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 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.57%) 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
1 221 (56.38%) AWS
2 157 (40.05%) Azure
3 73 (18.62%) GCP
4 56 (14.29%) GitHub
5 42 (10.71%) Serverless
6 37 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (6.89%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (5.87%) SaaS
9 22 (5.61%) Azure AKS
10 21 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
13 18 (4.59%) Power Platform
14 15 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (3.57%) Amazon S3
15 14 (3.57%) Azure Functions
15 14 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.32%) Firewall
2 9 (2.30%) DNS
3 8 (2.04%) DHCP
3 8 (2.04%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.04%) SAN
4 7 (1.79%) Broadband
5 4 (1.02%) VPN
6 3 (0.77%) HTTP
6 3 (0.77%) TCP/IP
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%) Internet
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 (30.61%) MySQL
2 104 (26.53%) MongoDB
3 87 (22.19%) Relational Database
3 87 (22.19%) SQL Server
4 60 (15.31%) NoSQL
5 31 (7.91%) Redis
6 17 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (3.83%) DynamoDB
8 15 (3.83%) Power BI
9 12 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.06%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (2.30%) Oracle Database
12 8 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.04%) GIS
13 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.53%) Pinecone
15 5 (1.28%) Metadata
15 5 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 115 (29.34%) Git
2 33 (8.42%) GitLab
3 30 (7.65%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.36%) JIRA
5 18 (4.59%) JUnit
6 12 (3.06%) Mockito
7 10 (2.55%) JMeter
8 9 (2.30%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.28%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.28%) Mocha
9 5 (1.28%) RSpec
9 5 (1.28%) Selenium
9 5 (1.28%) Storybook
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%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 100 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 73 (18.62%) Public Sector
3 43 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (6.63%) Finance
6 19 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (4.34%) Law
8 15 (3.83%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.32%) Advertising
9 13 (3.32%) Legal
10 11 (2.81%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.81%) Games
11 9 (2.30%) Banking
12 8 (2.04%) Automotive
12 8 (2.04%) Aviation
13 7 (1.79%) Retail
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
1 122 (31.12%) Developer
2 106 (27.04%) Senior
3 81 (20.66%) Software Engineer
4 49 (12.50%) Lead
5 43 (10.97%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (7.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (7.91%) Python Engineer
7 29 (7.40%) Software Developer
8 27 (6.89%) Java Developer
9 25 (6.38%) Lead Software Engineer
9 25 (6.38%) Senior Developer
10 23 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 20 (5.10%) Data Engineer
12 20 (5.10%) Python Developer
13 19 (4.85%) DBA
14 17 (4.34%) Architect
15 15 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (3.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 12 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (25.51%) React
2 78 (19.90%) Node.js
3 67 (17.09%) REST
4 60 (15.31%) RESTful
5 54 (13.78%) CSS
6 48 (12.24%) Spring
7 47 (11.99%) HTML
7 47 (11.99%) Spring Boot
8 45 (11.48%) .NET
9 38 (9.69%) Kafka
10 31 (7.91%) AngularJS
11 30 (7.65%) Next.js
12 29 (7.40%) Vue
13 25 (6.38%) Hibernate
14 23 (5.87%) Django
14 23 (5.87%) Flask
15 21 (5.36%) FastAPI
16 20 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (4.59%) JPA
17 18 (4.59%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.66%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.73%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.65%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.08%) Algorithms
6 14 (3.57%) AI Agents
7 13 (3.32%) Replication
7 13 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (3.06%) Management Information System
8 12 (3.06%) Renewable Energy
9 11 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.81%) Robotics
10 9 (2.30%) Data Structures
11 8 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (2.04%) IoT
11 8 (2.04%) Onboarding
11 8 (2.04%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.79%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 91 (23.21%) Linux
2 35 (8.93%) Windows
3 16 (4.08%) Unix
3 16 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.77%) CentOS
7 1 (0.26%) AIX
7 1 (0.26%) Debian
7 1 (0.26%) Solaris
7 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (51.79%) CI/CD
2 162 (41.33%) Agile
3 142 (36.22%) Software Engineering
4 133 (33.93%) DevOps
5 108 (27.55%) Full-Stack Development
6 107 (27.30%) Microservices
7 95 (24.23%) Mentoring
7 95 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (21.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 83 (21.17%) AI
10 72 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (16.84%) Containerisation
12 63 (16.07%) Test Automation
13 53 (13.52%) Scrum
14 52 (13.27%) Observability
15 49 (12.50%) TDD
16 47 (11.99%) Analytics
17 45 (11.48%) Data Modelling
18 42 (10.71%) Decision-Making
19 40 (10.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 148 (37.76%) Python
2 126 (32.14%) SQL
3 98 (25.00%) Java
4 96 (24.49%) JavaScript
5 74 (18.88%) TypeScript
6 48 (12.24%) C#
7 27 (6.89%) Bash
8 25 (6.38%) PowerShell
9 23 (5.87%) Go
10 13 (3.32%) Ruby
11 12 (3.06%) C++
11 12 (3.06%) PHP
12 10 (2.55%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.53%) Korn
13 6 (1.53%) Scala
14 3 (0.77%) C
14 3 (0.77%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.26%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 74 (18.88%) Degree
2 61 (15.56%) Security Cleared
3 49 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (5.87%) Master's Degree
6 21 (5.36%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.08%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.79%) 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 27 (6.89%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.38%) QA
3 12 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.81%) GDPR
5 10 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.02%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.77%) SLA
8 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.51%) NCSC
8 2 (0.51%) WCAG
9 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 129 (32.91%) Docker
2 21 (5.36%) 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
1 120 (30.61%) Kubernetes
2 82 (20.92%) Terraform
3 30 (7.65%) Ansible
4 24 (6.12%) Grafana
5 22 (5.61%) Argo
6 21 (5.36%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.55%) Kibana
8 6 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.53%) Puppet
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%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 52 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.97%) Oracle
3 26 (6.63%) Google
4 16 (4.08%) Splunk
5 14 (3.57%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.81%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.55%) Databricks
8 8 (2.04%) 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%) D-Link
14 2 (0.51%) WSO2