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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 166 220
Rank change year-on-year -137 +54 +10
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 268 452 841
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.75% 1.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.86% 10.38% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 186 251 557
10th Percentile £33,000 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,724 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 4,574 4,354 11,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.94% 16.82% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,622 2,942 8,169
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,775 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,395 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -41 100 £65,000 -3.88% 57
South East -131 65 £55,750 -20.36% 48
Yorkshire -32 45 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -28 44 £76,250 +11.37% 33
South West -42 32 £62,500 -3.85% 20
Midlands -44 24 £50,100 -22.92% 18
Scotland -31 23 £67,500 +8.00% 12
East of England -71 19 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -27 15 £43,875 -32.50% 8
North East -19 11 £53,565 -22.76% 6
East Midlands -43 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -49 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -37 4 £73,801 +34.18%
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 17 (6.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.60%) OpenStack
3 11 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.24%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.12%) Apache
6 2 (0.75%) CMS
6 2 (0.75%) Confluence
6 2 (0.75%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 171 (63.81%) AWS
2 109 (40.67%) Azure
3 73 (27.24%) GCP
4 54 (20.15%) Serverless
5 46 (17.16%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (13.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (11.57%) GitHub
8 30 (11.19%) Amazon S3
9 27 (10.07%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (9.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (8.96%) dbt
11 24 (8.96%) SaaS
12 22 (8.21%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (8.21%) Power Platform
13 20 (7.46%) Amazon ECR
13 20 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (7.46%) Pulumi
14 19 (7.09%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.96%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.36%) DHCP
2 9 (3.36%) DNS
3 8 (2.99%) VPN
4 7 (2.61%) Firewall
4 7 (2.61%) Internet
4 7 (2.61%) Network Security
5 6 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.87%) Broadband
7 3 (1.12%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (1.12%) SAN
7 3 (1.12%) VLAN
8 2 (0.75%) PBX
9 1 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.37%) HTTP
9 1 (0.37%) LAN
9 1 (0.37%) LTE
9 1 (0.37%) Multicast
9 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (29.85%) SQL Server
2 61 (22.76%) MySQL
3 57 (21.27%) Relational Database
4 56 (20.90%) MongoDB
5 54 (20.15%) NoSQL
6 38 (14.18%) Redis
7 32 (11.94%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (9.33%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (8.21%) Power BI
10 18 (6.72%) DynamoDB
11 10 (3.73%) Oracle Database
12 9 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (2.99%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (2.24%) BigQuery
16 4 (1.49%) Looker
16 4 (1.49%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 88 (32.84%) Git
2 33 (12.31%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.09%) JUnit
4 15 (5.60%) JIRA
5 13 (4.85%) GitLab
6 10 (3.73%) Mockito
7 9 (3.36%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.99%) Selenium
9 7 (2.61%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.87%) JMeter
11 3 (1.12%) Maven
12 2 (0.75%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.75%) Gradle
13 1 (0.37%) Appium
13 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.37%) jMock
13 1 (0.37%) Katalon Studio
13 1 (0.37%) Postman
13 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.37%) utPLSQL
General
1 90 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.82%) Public Sector
3 28 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.46%) Finance
5 16 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.73%) Advertising
7 10 (3.73%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.99%) Games
9 7 (2.61%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.87%) Retail
11 4 (1.49%) Automotive
12 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.12%) Marketing
13 2 (0.75%) Legal
13 2 (0.75%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.37%) Aviation
14 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 88 (32.84%) Developer
2 58 (21.64%) Senior
3 41 (15.30%) Software Engineer
4 36 (13.43%) Full-Stack Developer
5 33 (12.31%) Java Developer
6 20 (7.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 18 (6.72%) Lead
8 16 (5.97%) Python Engineer
9 15 (5.60%) Analyst
9 15 (5.60%) IT Support
9 15 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.22%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.22%) DBA
10 14 (5.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.85%) Java Engineer
12 12 (4.48%) Java Software Engineer
12 12 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (3.73%) Administrator
13 10 (3.73%) Data Analyst
13 10 (3.73%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (26.87%) React
2 54 (20.15%) Spring
2 54 (20.15%) Spring Boot
3 50 (18.66%) RESTful
4 45 (16.79%) Django
4 45 (16.79%) REST
5 33 (12.31%) Node.js
6 30 (11.19%) .NET
7 25 (9.33%) AngularJS
8 24 (8.96%) Vue
9 21 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (7.84%) Web Services
10 20 (7.46%) HTML
11 18 (6.72%) .NET Core
12 17 (6.34%) Flask
12 17 (6.34%) Kafka
13 16 (5.97%) CSS
13 16 (5.97%) FastAPI
13 16 (5.97%) JSON
14 14 (5.22%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 33 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.34%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (6.34%) Replication
4 13 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.36%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.24%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.87%) Clustering
9 5 (1.87%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.49%) CUDA
10 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.12%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.01%) Linux
2 26 (9.70%) Unix
3 17 (6.34%) Windows
4 14 (5.22%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.49%) Debian
7 3 (1.12%) CentOS
7 3 (1.12%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.75%) VMS
8 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (47.01%) CI/CD
2 104 (38.81%) DevOps
3 101 (37.69%) Agile
4 81 (30.22%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (29.48%) Microservices
6 73 (27.24%) Software Engineering
7 70 (26.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 68 (25.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 57 (21.27%) TDD
10 56 (20.90%) Containerisation
11 47 (17.54%) Test Automation
12 39 (14.55%) Mentoring
13 37 (13.81%) AI
14 34 (12.69%) Observability
15 33 (12.31%) BDD
16 31 (11.57%) Scrum
17 30 (11.19%) Clean Code
17 30 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (11.19%) Data Modelling
18 28 (10.45%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 118 (44.03%) Python
2 92 (34.33%) SQL
3 89 (33.21%) Java
4 57 (21.27%) JavaScript
5 35 (13.06%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.58%) Go
7 22 (8.21%) C#
7 22 (8.21%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.97%) C
9 11 (4.10%) PHP
9 11 (4.10%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.36%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.99%) C++
12 7 (2.61%) Bash
12 7 (2.61%) Delphi
13 2 (0.75%) R
13 2 (0.75%) Scala
14 1 (0.37%) Korn
14 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 40 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.69%) Degree
3 31 (11.57%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.12%) RHCE
8 2 (0.75%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.73%) QA
4 5 (1.87%) GDPR
5 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.12%) NCSC
6 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 109 (40.67%) Docker
2 23 (8.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (1.49%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.75%) Samba
5 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 88 (32.84%) Kubernetes
2 69 (25.75%) Terraform
3 23 (8.58%) Ansible
4 14 (5.22%) AWS Copilot
5 10 (3.73%) Grafana
6 6 (2.24%) Kibana
7 5 (1.87%) Nagios
7 5 (1.87%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.49%) Control-M
8 4 (1.49%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.12%) Rancher
10 2 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.75%) Puppet
11 1 (0.37%) Podman
11 1 (0.37%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 43 (16.04%) Oracle
2 42 (15.67%) Google
3 22 (8.21%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.10%) Pega
5 7 (2.61%) Informatica
6 6 (2.24%) WSO2
7 5 (1.87%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.87%) Splunk
8 4 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.49%) VMware
9 3 (1.12%) Confluent
9 3 (1.12%) Dell
9 3 (1.12%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.75%) D-Link
10 2 (0.75%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.75%) RedGate
10 2 (0.75%) Talend
11 1 (0.37%) Meraki
11 1 (0.37%) SolarWinds