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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 164 195
Rank change year-on-year -149 +31 +27
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 214 637 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.71% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.58% 10.93% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 148 250 378
10th Percentile £32,475 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% +10.61% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £89,125
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3,835 5,830 6,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.14% 15.65% 20.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 3,064 4,747
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,209 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,825
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -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 January 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 January 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 +16 79 £71,901 +3.74% 74
South East -121 48 £60,000 -23.81% 66
Yorkshire +17 42 £70,000 -3.45% 32
Midlands -11 31 £60,100 -7.54% 23
North West -3 28 £80,000 +23.08% 38
South West -51 28 £47,500 -26.92% 25
West Midlands +1 21 £61,350 -5.62% 12
East of England -42 14 £42,500 -26.09% 23
East Midlands -22 10 £60,100 +0.17% 11
Scotland -26 10 £73,801 +27.24% 13
North East +8 9 £53,850 -22.30% 5
Wales -21 5 £73,801 +13.54% 2
Northern Ireland -13 3 £73,801 +13.54% 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 12 (5.61%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.87%) Confluence
2 4 (1.87%) nginx
3 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Camunda
5 1 (0.47%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) WildFly
5 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 162 (75.70%) AWS
2 91 (42.52%) Azure
3 53 (24.77%) Serverless
4 51 (23.83%) Amazon ECS
5 42 (19.63%) GCP
6 36 (16.82%) GitHub
7 32 (14.95%) Amazon S3
7 32 (14.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (14.49%) Amazon EKS
9 28 (13.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (11.21%) SaaS
11 20 (9.35%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (8.41%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (7.94%) dbt
14 16 (7.48%) Amazon ECR
14 16 (7.48%) AWS Step Functions
14 16 (7.48%) Pulumi
15 15 (7.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 15 (7.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.94%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.21%) Firewall
3 6 (2.80%) DNS
3 6 (2.80%) HTTP
4 4 (1.87%) FTP
4 4 (1.87%) IMAP
4 4 (1.87%) Internet
4 4 (1.87%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (1.87%) SMTP
4 4 (1.87%) SSH
4 4 (1.87%) VPN
4 4 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.40%) iSCSI
5 3 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.40%) SAN
6 2 (0.93%) AMQP
7 1 (0.47%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.47%) DHCP
7 1 (0.47%) MQTT
7 1 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (26.64%) SQL Server
2 54 (25.23%) Relational Database
3 50 (23.36%) MySQL
4 34 (15.89%) MongoDB
5 31 (14.49%) NoSQL
5 31 (14.49%) Redis
6 25 (11.68%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (10.75%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (8.41%) DynamoDB
9 14 (6.54%) RDBMS
10 10 (4.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (3.27%) Oracle Database
12 6 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (2.34%) Power BI
14 4 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.87%) Oracle Database 10g
14 4 (1.87%) Oracle Database 11g
14 4 (1.87%) Oracle Database 12c
14 4 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 69 (32.24%) Git
2 53 (24.77%) Jenkins
3 26 (12.15%) JUnit
4 15 (7.01%) JMeter
5 14 (6.54%) Cucumber
5 14 (6.54%) Mockito
6 12 (5.61%) JIRA
7 11 (5.14%) GitLab
8 8 (3.74%) Selenium
9 6 (2.80%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.87%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.40%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.93%) Appium
12 2 (0.93%) Gradle
12 2 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.47%) jMock
13 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 69 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.75%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.07%) Finance
5 11 (5.14%) Marketing
6 10 (4.67%) Retail
7 5 (2.34%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Advertising
8 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.93%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.47%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) Games
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (43.93%) Developer
2 50 (23.36%) Senior
3 34 (15.89%) Java Developer
4 33 (15.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 32 (14.95%) Software Engineer
6 23 (10.75%) Software Developer
7 22 (10.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 20 (9.35%) Lead
9 14 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) .NET Developer
10 13 (6.07%) DBA
11 12 (5.61%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 12 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.14%) Lead Developer
13 10 (4.67%) Junior
13 10 (4.67%) Lead Software Developer
13 10 (4.67%) Python Developer
13 10 (4.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 9 (4.21%) Java Engineer
15 8 (3.74%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.17%) Spring
2 55 (25.70%) React
3 52 (24.30%) Spring Boot
4 43 (20.09%) RESTful
5 36 (16.82%) REST
6 33 (15.42%) .NET
7 32 (14.95%) Django
8 30 (14.02%) Node.js
9 28 (13.08%) HTML
10 24 (11.21%) Web Services
11 23 (10.75%) Kafka
12 20 (9.35%) .NET Core
13 18 (8.41%) AngularJS
13 18 (8.41%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (7.94%) Hibernate
15 16 (7.48%) Apache Camel
15 16 (7.48%) CSS
16 15 (7.01%) ASP.NET
17 14 (6.54%) jQuery
17 14 (6.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.36%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (13.55%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.67%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.67%) Replication
5 8 (3.74%) Marketing Technology
6 7 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.80%) Clustering
7 6 (2.80%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.34%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.40%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.47%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 52 (24.30%) Linux
2 21 (9.81%) Windows
3 20 (9.35%) Unix
4 10 (4.67%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.80%) VMS
6 5 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.34%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.87%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.87%) Debian
8 3 (1.40%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.47%) Fedora
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (51.40%) CI/CD
2 86 (40.19%) DevOps
3 85 (39.72%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (39.25%) Microservices
5 75 (35.05%) Agile
6 54 (25.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 49 (22.90%) Software Engineering
8 47 (21.96%) TDD
9 45 (21.03%) Containerisation
10 44 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (14.95%) Workflow
12 31 (14.49%) Mentoring
13 30 (14.02%) BDD
13 30 (14.02%) Clean Code
14 28 (13.08%) Migration
15 24 (11.21%) SDLC
16 23 (10.75%) Observability
16 23 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (10.75%) Test Automation
17 22 (10.28%) AI
Programming Languages
1 90 (42.06%) Python
2 74 (34.58%) Java
3 67 (31.31%) SQL
4 52 (24.30%) JavaScript
5 26 (12.15%) C#
5 26 (12.15%) TypeScript
6 17 (7.94%) Go
7 14 (6.54%) Shell Script
8 12 (5.61%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.21%) PHP
10 8 (3.74%) C
11 7 (3.27%) Delphi
11 7 (3.27%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.87%) Bash
12 4 (1.87%) Groovy
13 3 (1.40%) Korn
14 2 (0.93%) C++
14 2 (0.93%) Ruby
14 2 (0.93%) VB
14 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 41 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.68%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.75%) Degree
4 15 (7.01%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.14%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.80%) QA
2 5 (2.34%) SLA
3 3 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.93%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 105 (49.07%) Docker
2 4 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.87%) DFS Replication
2 4 (1.87%) Dovecot
2 4 (1.87%) Postfix
2 4 (1.87%) Squid
3 3 (1.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (34.11%) Kubernetes
2 49 (22.90%) Terraform
3 19 (8.88%) Ansible
4 15 (7.01%) Kibana
5 11 (5.14%) Grafana
6 10 (4.67%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.80%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.87%) Nessus
8 4 (1.87%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.40%) Nagios
9 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.93%) Control-M
10 2 (0.93%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.93%) Rancher
11 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (12.62%) Oracle
2 18 (8.41%) Google
3 16 (7.48%) Splunk
4 12 (5.61%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.61%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.27%) Informatica
6 5 (2.34%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.87%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.87%) Pega
7 4 (1.87%) RedGate
7 4 (1.87%) Talend
7 4 (1.87%) WSO2
8 3 (1.40%) Dell
8 3 (1.40%) VMware
9 2 (0.93%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.93%) SAP
10 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.47%) OpenText
10 1 (0.47%) SendGrid