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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 251 185
Rank change year-on-year -57 -66 +58
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 380 365 894
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.52% 1.07% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.73% 8.07% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 306 239 480
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,987 £74,258 £67,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%

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 5,645 4,524 8,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.71% 13.28% 13.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,837 2,875 5,816
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,897 £41,250 £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 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -10 126 £60,000 +4.35% 52
North of England -12 124 £65,000 -3.70% 40
North West -7 53 £65,000 -3.70% 24
South West -50 48 £62,500 +4.17% 18
North East -22 38 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire -34 33 £65,000 -5.45% 11
East of England -23 27 £52,500 +64.06% 8
Midlands -52 25 £75,000 +10.90% 16
West Midlands -33 19 £80,000 +16.26% 9
Scotland +2 17 £65,000 -3.70% 17
Wales -53 17 £70,000 -9.68% 3
East Midlands -36 6 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Northern Ireland -72 1 £73,801 +34.18% 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 22 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.37%) Confluence
3 9 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.32%) Apache
4 5 (1.32%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.32%) WordPress
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) Documentum
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) JBoss
5 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 217 (57.11%) AWS
2 165 (43.42%) Azure
3 78 (20.53%) GCP
4 46 (12.11%) GitHub
5 42 (11.05%) Serverless
6 34 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
8 27 (7.11%) SaaS
9 25 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (6.32%) Power Platform
11 22 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (5.53%) Azure AKS
13 18 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (4.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (3.42%) Azure Functions
18 12 (3.16%) Amazon S3
19 11 (2.89%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.42%) Firewall
2 9 (2.37%) DNS
3 8 (2.11%) DHCP
3 8 (2.11%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.11%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.11%) SAN
4 7 (1.84%) Broadband
4 7 (1.84%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.05%) VPN
6 3 (0.79%) Network Security
7 2 (0.53%) HTTP
7 2 (0.53%) MQTT
7 2 (0.53%) PBX
7 2 (0.53%) VLAN
8 1 (0.26%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.26%) LAN
8 1 (0.26%) LTE
8 1 (0.26%) Multicast
8 1 (0.26%) SMS
8 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (32.89%) MySQL
2 113 (29.74%) MongoDB
3 83 (21.84%) SQL Server
4 73 (19.21%) Relational Database
5 71 (18.68%) NoSQL
6 34 (8.95%) Redis
7 22 (5.79%) Power BI
8 18 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (4.74%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
9 12 (3.16%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.37%) DynamoDB
12 8 (2.11%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.58%) GIS
14 6 (1.58%) Pinecone
14 6 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (1.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 104 (27.37%) Git
2 31 (8.16%) GitLab
3 28 (7.37%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.53%) JIRA
5 17 (4.47%) JUnit
6 12 (3.16%) Mockito
7 10 (2.63%) JMeter
8 9 (2.37%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.32%) RSpec
9 5 (1.32%) Selenium
10 4 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.05%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.05%) Maven
10 4 (1.05%) minitest
11 3 (0.79%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.79%) Mocha
11 3 (0.79%) Storybook
11 3 (0.79%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.53%) MSTest
General
1 93 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.74%) Public Sector
3 39 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (6.58%) Finance
6 19 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (3.95%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.68%) Advertising
9 11 (2.89%) Games
9 11 (2.89%) Legal
10 9 (2.37%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.37%) Law
11 8 (2.11%) Automotive
11 8 (2.11%) Retail
12 7 (1.84%) Aviation
12 7 (1.84%) Banking
13 6 (1.58%) Tech for Good
14 4 (1.05%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.05%) Legal Technology
14 4 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 109 (28.68%) Developer
2 93 (24.47%) Senior
3 77 (20.26%) Software Engineer
4 50 (13.16%) Lead
5 40 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (7.11%) Python Engineer
8 26 (6.84%) Java Developer
9 24 (6.32%) Lead Software Engineer
9 24 (6.32%) Software Developer
10 21 (5.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 19 (5.00%) Data Engineer
12 18 (4.74%) Java Engineer
12 18 (4.74%) Senior Developer
13 17 (4.47%) Architect
13 17 (4.47%) Python Developer
14 16 (4.21%) DBA
14 16 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (3.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (23.95%) React
2 75 (19.74%) Node.js
3 67 (17.63%) RESTful
4 61 (16.05%) REST
5 48 (12.63%) Spring
6 46 (12.11%) Spring Boot
7 44 (11.58%) CSS
8 41 (10.79%) HTML
9 36 (9.47%) Kafka
10 35 (9.21%) .NET
11 29 (7.63%) Vue
12 28 (7.37%) AngularJS
13 26 (6.84%) Django
13 26 (6.84%) Next.js
14 22 (5.79%) Hibernate
15 21 (5.53%) Flask
16 20 (5.26%) FastAPI
17 18 (4.74%) JSON
17 18 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
18 17 (4.47%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 44 (11.58%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.21%) Algorithms
5 14 (3.68%) AI Agents
6 13 (3.42%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.16%) Replication
8 11 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.89%) Renewable Energy
8 11 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.37%) Robotics
10 8 (2.11%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.84%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.84%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 87 (22.89%) Linux
2 35 (9.21%) Windows
3 19 (5.00%) Unix
4 16 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.79%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Solaris
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (50.26%) CI/CD
2 161 (42.37%) Agile
3 132 (34.74%) Software Engineering
4 128 (33.68%) DevOps
5 112 (29.47%) Microservices
6 101 (26.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 95 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 86 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (20.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 75 (19.74%) AI
11 69 (18.16%) Test Automation
12 67 (17.63%) Containerisation
13 64 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (15.79%) TDD
15 53 (13.95%) Observability
16 50 (13.16%) Scrum
17 48 (12.63%) Analytics
18 44 (11.58%) Coaching
18 44 (11.58%) Data Modelling
19 38 (10.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 144 (37.89%) Python
2 132 (34.74%) SQL
3 111 (29.21%) Java
4 90 (23.68%) JavaScript
5 65 (17.11%) TypeScript
6 40 (10.53%) C#
7 32 (8.42%) PowerShell
8 29 (7.63%) Bash
9 20 (5.26%) Go
10 13 (3.42%) Ruby
11 12 (3.16%) C++
11 12 (3.16%) PHP
12 9 (2.37%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.11%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.84%) Scala
15 6 (1.58%) Korn
16 3 (0.79%) C
16 3 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 61 (16.05%) Degree
2 56 (14.74%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.58%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.74%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.42%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.58%) PhD
10 4 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.79%) RHCE
12 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.53%) CISSP
12 2 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.53%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.05%) QA
3 14 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.89%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.53%) NCSC
5 2 (0.53%) SLA
5 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.53%) WCAG
6 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 124 (32.63%) Docker
2 26 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.53%) Samba
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 114 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 80 (21.05%) Terraform
3 25 (6.58%) Ansible
4 22 (5.79%) Argo
4 22 (5.79%) Grafana
5 19 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.89%) Kibana
7 6 (1.58%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.58%) Puppet
8 4 (1.05%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (1.05%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.79%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.79%) Istio
9 3 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.79%) Plesk
9 3 (0.79%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.79%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.53%) Rancher
11 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 50 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 43 (11.32%) Oracle
3 33 (8.68%) Google
4 14 (3.68%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.68%) Splunk
5 11 (2.89%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.11%) Dell
7 7 (1.84%) Pega
8 6 (1.58%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.32%) Meraki
10 4 (1.05%) Databricks
10 4 (1.05%) IBM
10 4 (1.05%) Informatica
10 4 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.05%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.79%) Confluent
11 3 (0.79%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.79%) VMware
12 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.53%) WSO2