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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 151 226
Rank change year-on-year -178 +75 -3
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 208 622 640
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 1.85% 1.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.34% 11.47% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 139 239 501
10th Percentile £35,400 £45,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £54,713 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.59% +10.61% +6.23%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £87,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 3,893 5,423 9,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.43% 16.17% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,337 2,822 7,389
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,438 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -32 76 £73,801 +6.48% 64
South East -134 46 £57,500 -28.13% 50
Yorkshire -8 36 £62,500 +23.90% 15
North West -14 32 £85,000 +22.64% 40
Midlands -21 27 £55,200 -15.08% 30
South West -49 26 £60,000 -7.69% 31
West Midlands +11 18 £50,100 -22.92% 18
East of England -34 15 £42,500 -26.09% 15
Scotland -40 15 £73,801 +22.49% 19
East Midlands -27 9 £65,000 +8.33% 12
North East -6 8 £55,200 -20.35% 10
Wales -23 5 £73,801 +13.54% 4
Northern Ireland -26 3 £73,801 +25.62% 1
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 (5.77%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.96%) CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.48%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) WildFly
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 146 (70.19%) AWS
2 80 (38.46%) Azure
3 54 (25.96%) Serverless
4 46 (22.12%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (18.27%) GCP
6 34 (16.35%) Amazon S3
7 33 (15.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (15.87%) GitHub
8 29 (13.94%) Amazon EKS
9 28 (13.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (12.02%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (10.58%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (10.58%) SaaS
12 19 (9.13%) AWS Step Functions
13 17 (8.17%) dbt
14 16 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
14 16 (7.69%) Pulumi
15 15 (7.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 15 (7.21%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (6.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.13%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.37%) Internet
3 6 (2.88%) VPN
3 6 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.40%) DNS
4 5 (2.40%) Firewall
4 5 (2.40%) Network Security
5 3 (1.44%) DHCP
5 3 (1.44%) HTTP
5 3 (1.44%) VLAN
6 1 (0.48%) AMQP
6 1 (0.48%) FTP
6 1 (0.48%) IMAP
6 1 (0.48%) MQTT
6 1 (0.48%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.48%) SMTP
6 1 (0.48%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (29.33%) SQL Server
2 53 (25.48%) Relational Database
3 41 (19.71%) MySQL
4 32 (15.38%) Redis
5 29 (13.94%) NoSQL
6 27 (12.98%) MongoDB
7 26 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (10.58%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (8.17%) DynamoDB
10 13 (6.25%) Power BI
11 10 (4.81%) RDBMS
12 9 (4.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (3.85%) Oracle Database
13 8 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
16 4 (1.92%) Oracle Database 10g
16 4 (1.92%) Oracle Database 11g
16 4 (1.92%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 76 (36.54%) Git
2 42 (20.19%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.06%) JUnit
4 14 (6.73%) GitLab
5 13 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.77%) JMeter
7 11 (5.29%) Mockito
8 10 (4.81%) JIRA
9 8 (3.85%) Selenium
10 6 (2.88%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.44%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.96%) Appium
12 2 (0.96%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.96%) Subversion
13 1 (0.48%) Gradle
13 1 (0.48%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 71 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.17%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.29%) Finance
5 7 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.37%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.40%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.44%) Advertising
7 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.44%) Marketing
7 3 (1.44%) Retail
7 3 (1.44%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.48%) Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Electronics
9 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (37.02%) Developer
2 51 (24.52%) Senior
3 37 (17.79%) Software Engineer
4 33 (15.87%) Java Developer
5 30 (14.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (10.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.25%) DBA
8 13 (6.25%) Lead
9 12 (5.77%) Analyst
10 11 (5.29%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.33%) Junior
12 9 (4.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 9 (4.33%) Software Developer
13 7 (3.37%) Administrator
13 7 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 7 (3.37%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.37%) React
2 56 (26.92%) Spring
3 55 (26.44%) Spring Boot
4 36 (17.31%) REST
5 34 (16.35%) RESTful
6 30 (14.42%) .NET
6 30 (14.42%) Django
7 27 (12.98%) Node.js
8 21 (10.10%) HTML
8 21 (10.10%) Web Services
9 19 (9.13%) Kafka
10 18 (8.65%) .NET Core
10 18 (8.65%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (8.17%) JSON
11 17 (8.17%) Vue
12 16 (7.69%) AngularJS
12 16 (7.69%) XML
13 14 (6.73%) AWS CDK
13 14 (6.73%) Hibernate
14 13 (6.25%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.81%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.85%) Replication
5 6 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.40%) Clustering
6 5 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.92%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.96%) Life Science
9 2 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 51 (24.52%) Linux
2 22 (10.58%) Unix
3 16 (7.69%) Windows
4 11 (5.29%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.44%) Debian
5 3 (1.44%) VMS
5 3 (1.44%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.48%) Fedora
7 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 84 (40.38%) DevOps
3 77 (37.02%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (35.10%) Agile
5 68 (32.69%) Microservices
6 60 (28.85%) Software Engineering
7 53 (25.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 52 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 44 (21.15%) TDD
10 40 (19.23%) Containerisation
11 28 (13.46%) BDD
12 27 (12.98%) Test Automation
13 25 (12.02%) Scrum
14 24 (11.54%) Observability
14 24 (11.54%) SDLC
15 22 (10.58%) Workflow
16 21 (10.10%) Migration
17 19 (9.13%) Clean Code
17 19 (9.13%) Mentoring
17 19 (9.13%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 88 (42.31%) Python
2 80 (38.46%) Java
3 69 (33.17%) SQL
4 49 (23.56%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.94%) TypeScript
6 21 (10.10%) C#
6 21 (10.10%) Go
7 18 (8.65%) PowerShell
8 13 (6.25%) C
8 13 (6.25%) Shell Script
9 12 (5.77%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.85%) PHP
11 7 (3.37%) Delphi
12 6 (2.88%) C++
13 3 (1.44%) Bash
14 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.48%) Perl
14 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.48%) R
14 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.13%) Degree
4 12 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.29%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.88%) QA
4 3 (1.44%) GDPR
4 3 (1.44%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 90 (43.27%) Docker
2 9 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.44%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.48%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.48%) Postfix
4 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 70 (33.65%) Kubernetes
2 51 (24.52%) Terraform
3 23 (11.06%) Ansible
4 12 (5.77%) Kibana
5 10 (4.81%) AWS Copilot
6 8 (3.85%) Grafana
7 4 (1.92%) Control-M
7 4 (1.92%) Nagios
7 4 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.44%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.44%) Rancher
9 2 (0.96%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.96%) Puppet
10 1 (0.48%) Nessus
10 1 (0.48%) Podman
10 1 (0.48%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 37 (17.79%) Oracle
2 21 (10.10%) Google
3 10 (4.81%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.81%) Splunk
4 9 (4.33%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.85%) Informatica
6 5 (2.40%) VMware
7 4 (1.92%) Pega
7 4 (1.92%) WSO2
8 3 (1.44%) RedGate
8 3 (1.44%) Talend
9 2 (0.96%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.96%) SAP
10 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.48%) IBM
10 1 (0.48%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (0.48%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.48%) Siemens