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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 156 227
Rank change year-on-year -145 +71 +12
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 261 508 759
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 1.88% 1.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.15% 11.13% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 178 260 529
10th Percentile £34,925 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +0.34%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £87,500
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 4,246 4,566 10,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.86% 16.89% 18.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,471 2,914 8,017
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,681
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,750
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 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -24 94 £65,000 -6.22% 57
South East -128 66 £58,750 -21.67% 42
Yorkshire -21 42 £52,130 -12.73% 22
North West -26 40 £77,500 +11.82% 30
South West -43 30 £62,500 -3.85% 20
Midlands -36 26 £55,200 -15.08% 20
Scotland -31 20 £67,500 +12.03% 14
East of England -66 19 £45,000 -21.74% 18
West Midlands -4 16 £45,000 -30.77% 10
North East -21 12 £53,565 -22.76% 6
East Midlands -51 10 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Wales -45 7 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -31 4 £73,801 +18.74% 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 15 (5.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.36%) OpenStack
3 10 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.77%) CMS
6 2 (0.77%) Confluence
6 2 (0.77%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 171 (65.52%) AWS
2 106 (40.61%) Azure
3 69 (26.44%) GCP
4 53 (20.31%) Serverless
5 46 (17.62%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (14.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (12.26%) GitHub
8 31 (11.88%) Amazon S3
9 29 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (9.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (9.20%) dbt
11 24 (9.20%) SaaS
12 23 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (8.43%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (7.66%) Amazon ECR
14 20 (7.66%) Power Platform
14 20 (7.66%) Pulumi
15 19 (7.28%) AWS Step Functions
16 18 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.20%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.07%) VPN
3 7 (2.68%) DHCP
3 7 (2.68%) DNS
3 7 (2.68%) Firewall
3 7 (2.68%) Internet
3 7 (2.68%) Network Security
4 6 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.92%) Broadband
6 3 (1.15%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.15%) SAN
6 3 (1.15%) VLAN
7 2 (0.77%) HTTP
7 2 (0.77%) PBX
8 1 (0.38%) LAN
8 1 (0.38%) LTE
8 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (29.50%) SQL Server
2 59 (22.61%) MySQL
3 57 (21.84%) Relational Database
4 53 (20.31%) MongoDB
5 50 (19.16%) NoSQL
6 39 (14.94%) Redis
7 34 (13.03%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (7.66%) Power BI
10 18 (6.90%) DynamoDB
11 10 (3.83%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (3.83%) Oracle Database
11 10 (3.83%) RDBMS
12 9 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (2.30%) BigQuery
16 5 (1.92%) TimescaleDB
17 4 (1.53%) Looker
Development Applications
1 84 (32.18%) Git
2 38 (14.56%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.81%) JUnit
4 15 (5.75%) JIRA
5 14 (5.36%) GitLab
6 12 (4.60%) Cucumber
6 12 (4.60%) Mockito
7 8 (3.07%) JMeter
7 8 (3.07%) Selenium
8 7 (2.68%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.15%) Maven
9 3 (1.15%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.77%) Appium
10 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.77%) DBeaver
10 2 (0.77%) Gradle
10 2 (0.77%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.77%) Subversion
11 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 88 (33.72%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 17 (6.51%) Finance
4 16 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 9 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (3.07%) Games
7 7 (2.68%) Advertising
7 7 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Retail
9 4 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.15%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Automotive
11 2 (0.77%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.38%) Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Electronics
12 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (33.33%) Developer
2 59 (22.61%) Senior
3 44 (16.86%) Software Engineer
4 35 (13.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 33 (12.64%) Java Developer
6 20 (7.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 19 (7.28%) Lead
8 15 (5.75%) Analyst
8 15 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (5.36%) .NET Developer
9 14 (5.36%) Java Engineer
9 14 (5.36%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 13 (4.98%) DBA
10 13 (4.98%) IT Support
10 13 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (4.60%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (4.21%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.83%) Data Analyst
13 10 (3.83%) Junior
14 9 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (27.59%) React
2 56 (21.46%) Spring
3 55 (21.07%) Spring Boot
4 48 (18.39%) RESTful
5 45 (17.24%) REST
6 40 (15.33%) Django
7 32 (12.26%) Node.js
8 31 (11.88%) .NET
9 22 (8.43%) HTML
9 22 (8.43%) Web Services
10 21 (8.05%) AngularJS
10 21 (8.05%) Vue
11 20 (7.66%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (7.28%) Kafka
13 18 (6.90%) .NET Core
13 18 (6.90%) JSON
14 16 (6.13%) CSS
15 15 (5.75%) Hibernate
15 15 (5.75%) XML
16 14 (5.36%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.86%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.51%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.36%) Replication
5 11 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.07%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.30%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.92%) Clustering
10 5 (1.92%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
11 4 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.53%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.15%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.15%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 61 (23.37%) Linux
2 27 (10.34%) Unix
3 17 (6.51%) Windows
4 13 (4.98%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.15%) CentOS
6 3 (1.15%) Debian
6 3 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.77%) VMS
7 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.38%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (48.66%) CI/CD
2 103 (39.46%) DevOps
3 102 (39.08%) Agile
4 81 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (30.65%) Microservices
6 74 (28.35%) Software Engineering
7 69 (26.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 66 (25.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 57 (21.84%) Containerisation
9 57 (21.84%) TDD
10 48 (18.39%) Test Automation
11 42 (16.09%) Mentoring
12 35 (13.41%) BDD
13 34 (13.03%) Observability
14 31 (11.88%) AI
15 30 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (10.34%) Data Modelling
16 27 (10.34%) Scrum
17 25 (9.58%) Open Source
17 25 (9.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 111 (42.53%) Python
2 93 (35.63%) Java
3 86 (32.95%) SQL
4 56 (21.46%) JavaScript
5 35 (13.41%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.81%) Go
7 22 (8.43%) C#
8 21 (8.05%) PowerShell
9 16 (6.13%) C
10 11 (4.21%) PHP
10 11 (4.21%) Shell Script
10 11 (4.21%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.68%) C++
11 7 (2.68%) Delphi
12 6 (2.30%) Bash
13 2 (0.77%) R
14 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.38%) Rust
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.11%) Degree
4 14 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.21%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.21%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (3.83%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.15%) RHCE
9 2 (0.77%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.43%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.21%) QA
3 5 (1.92%) GDPR
4 3 (1.15%) NCSC
5 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 109 (41.76%) Docker
2 21 (8.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (1.53%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.77%) Samba
5 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 86 (32.95%) Kubernetes
2 65 (24.90%) Terraform
3 24 (9.20%) Ansible
4 14 (5.36%) AWS Copilot
5 9 (3.45%) Grafana
5 9 (3.45%) Kibana
6 5 (1.92%) Nagios
6 5 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.53%) Control-M
7 4 (1.53%) Data Guard
8 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.15%) Rancher
9 2 (0.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.77%) Puppet
10 1 (0.38%) Podman
10 1 (0.38%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 43 (16.48%) Google
2 42 (16.09%) Oracle
3 21 (8.05%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.83%) Pega
5 7 (2.68%) Informatica
5 7 (2.68%) Splunk
6 6 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.30%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.92%) VMware
7 5 (1.92%) WSO2
8 3 (1.15%) Confluent
8 3 (1.15%) Dell
8 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.77%) D-Link
9 2 (0.77%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.77%) RedGate
9 2 (0.77%) Talend
10 1 (0.38%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds