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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 261 178
Rank change year-on-year -60 -83 +58
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 387 339 837
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.98% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.84% 7.70% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 300 216 448
10th Percentile £38,984 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,688 £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 £74,990 £73,750 £70,688
90th Percentile £87,565 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +19.05% -10.00%

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 5,661 4,400 7,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.20% 12.69% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,912 2,779 4,820
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,974 £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 - - -4.76%

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 22 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 22 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 -11 126 £63,750 +8.51% 48
North of England -12 125 £65,000 -3.70% 23
North West -4 58 £65,000 -3.70% 14
South West -59 47 £62,500 +19.05% 22
North East -20 40 £65,000 +26.83% 3
Midlands -50 32 £75,000 +7.14% 25
East of England -28 29 £52,500 +66.67% 9
Yorkshire -34 27 £69,308 +2.68% 6
West Midlands -37 23 £83,774 +15.55% 12
Wales -47 19 £70,000 -9.68% 6
Scotland -4 17 £65,000 -3.70% 7
East Midlands -23 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 14 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.10%) Apache
4 9 (2.33%) Confluence
5 8 (2.07%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.29%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Documentum
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Finacle
2 1 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 216 (55.81%) AWS
2 157 (40.57%) Azure
3 70 (18.09%) GCP
4 58 (14.99%) GitHub
5 42 (10.85%) Serverless
6 37 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (6.20%) SaaS
9 22 (5.68%) Azure AKS
9 22 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
12 17 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.88%) GitHub Copilot
13 15 (3.88%) Power Platform
14 14 (3.62%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.62%) Azure Functions
15 13 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.10%) Firewall
2 8 (2.07%) DNS
3 7 (1.81%) Broadband
3 7 (1.81%) DHCP
3 7 (1.81%) iSCSI
3 7 (1.81%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (1.81%) SAN
4 4 (1.03%) VPN
5 3 (0.78%) HTTP
5 3 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.52%) MQTT
6 2 (0.52%) Network Security
6 2 (0.52%) PBX
6 2 (0.52%) VLAN
7 1 (0.26%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.26%) Internet
7 1 (0.26%) LAN
7 1 (0.26%) Multicast
7 1 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (30.75%) MySQL
2 103 (26.61%) MongoDB
3 87 (22.48%) Relational Database
4 85 (21.96%) SQL Server
5 56 (14.47%) NoSQL
6 31 (8.01%) Redis
7 18 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.62%) DynamoDB
10 12 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.10%) Power BI
10 12 (3.10%) RDBMS
11 10 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (2.33%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.07%) GIS
14 7 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.55%) Pinecone
16 5 (1.29%) Metadata
16 5 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 116 (29.97%) Git
2 33 (8.53%) GitLab
3 29 (7.49%) Jenkins
4 20 (5.17%) JIRA
5 17 (4.39%) JUnit
6 11 (2.84%) Mockito
7 10 (2.58%) JMeter
8 9 (2.33%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.29%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.29%) Mocha
9 5 (1.29%) RSpec
9 5 (1.29%) Selenium
9 5 (1.29%) Storybook
10 4 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.03%) minitest
11 3 (0.78%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.78%) Maven
11 3 (0.78%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 96 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 74 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 42 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (6.46%) Finance
6 17 (4.39%) Law
6 17 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (3.88%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.36%) Legal
9 12 (3.10%) Advertising
10 11 (2.84%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.58%) Games
12 9 (2.33%) Banking
13 8 (2.07%) Aviation
14 7 (1.81%) Automotive
14 7 (1.81%) Retail
15 6 (1.55%) Tech for Good
16 5 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (1.03%) Health Technology
17 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (31.52%) Developer
2 105 (27.13%) Senior
3 82 (21.19%) Software Engineer
4 48 (12.40%) Lead
5 43 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (8.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (8.01%) Python Engineer
7 29 (7.49%) Software Developer
8 27 (6.98%) Java Developer
9 25 (6.46%) Lead Software Engineer
9 25 (6.46%) Senior Developer
10 23 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (5.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 20 (5.17%) Data Engineer
12 20 (5.17%) Python Developer
13 19 (4.91%) DBA
14 17 (4.39%) Architect
15 15 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 12 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (25.58%) React
2 83 (21.45%) Terraform
3 79 (20.41%) Node.js
4 69 (17.83%) REST
5 59 (15.25%) RESTful
6 54 (13.95%) CSS
7 48 (12.40%) Spring
8 47 (12.14%) Spring Boot
9 46 (11.89%) .NET
9 46 (11.89%) HTML
10 39 (10.08%) Kafka
11 32 (8.27%) AngularJS
12 29 (7.49%) Next.js
13 28 (7.24%) Vue
14 25 (6.46%) Hibernate
15 22 (5.68%) Django
15 22 (5.68%) Flask
16 21 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
17 19 (4.91%) FastAPI
18 18 (4.65%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 78 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 47 (12.14%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.49%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.88%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.88%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.36%) Replication
6 13 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.10%) Renewable Energy
8 11 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.84%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.84%) Robotics
9 10 (2.58%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.81%) IoT
12 7 (1.81%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.81%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 88 (22.74%) Linux
2 34 (8.79%) Windows
3 15 (3.88%) Unix
3 15 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.78%) CentOS
7 1 (0.26%) AIX
7 1 (0.26%) Debian
7 1 (0.26%) Solaris
7 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (52.20%) CI/CD
2 161 (41.60%) Agile
3 144 (37.21%) Software Engineering
4 133 (34.37%) DevOps
5 108 (27.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 108 (27.91%) Microservices
6 94 (24.29%) Mentoring
7 91 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (22.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 82 (21.19%) AI
10 70 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (16.02%) Test Automation
12 61 (15.76%) Containerisation
13 53 (13.70%) Scrum
14 51 (13.18%) Observability
15 48 (12.40%) Data Modelling
16 47 (12.14%) TDD
17 44 (11.37%) Analytics
18 43 (11.11%) Decision-Making
19 40 (10.34%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 144 (37.21%) Python
2 123 (31.78%) SQL
3 98 (25.32%) Java
4 94 (24.29%) JavaScript
5 75 (19.38%) TypeScript
6 49 (12.66%) C#
7 26 (6.72%) Bash
8 24 (6.20%) Go
8 24 (6.20%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.36%) Ruby
10 11 (2.84%) C++
10 11 (2.84%) PHP
11 9 (2.33%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.55%) Scala
13 5 (1.29%) Korn
14 3 (0.78%) C
14 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.26%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 71 (18.35%) Degree
2 60 (15.50%) Security Cleared
3 49 (12.66%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (5.94%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 17 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.81%) PhD
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.78%) RHCE
12 2 (0.52%) CISSP
12 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.52%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.72%) Data Quality
1 26 (6.72%) QA
2 12 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.84%) GDPR
4 10 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.78%) SLA
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.52%) NCSC
7 2 (0.52%) WCAG
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 123 (31.78%) Docker
2 18 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.07%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.52%) Samba
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 117 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.01%) Ansible
3 24 (6.20%) Grafana
4 22 (5.68%) Argo
5 21 (5.43%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.58%) Kibana
7 6 (1.55%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.55%) Puppet
8 4 (1.03%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.78%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.78%) Istio
9 3 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.78%) Plesk
9 3 (0.78%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.52%) Rancher
11 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 51 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.59%) Oracle
3 25 (6.46%) Google
4 16 (4.13%) Splunk
5 13 (3.36%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.84%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.58%) Databricks
8 7 (1.81%) Dell
8 7 (1.81%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.81%) Pega
9 5 (1.29%) Meraki
10 4 (1.03%) IBM
10 4 (1.03%) Informatica
10 4 (1.03%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.78%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.78%) VMware
12 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.52%) D-Link
12 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.52%) WSO2