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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 278 170
Rank change year-on-year -55 -108 +40
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 390 283 785
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.82% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.14% 6.97% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 302 172 343
10th Percentile £40,845 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +15.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 5,459 4,060 6,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.34% 11.80% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,891 2,526 3,618
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,750 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -20 126 £66,250 -1.85% 74
North of England -11 125 £65,000 -3.70% 118
North West -19 58 £62,500 -7.41% 70
South West -69 47 £65,000 +25.00% 49
North East -36 39 £65,000 +26.83% 16
Midlands -45 39 £75,000 +5.26% 44
West Midlands -35 30 £83,774 +15.55% 32
East of England -24 29 £50,000 +63.93% 35
Yorkshire -21 28 £67,155 -4.06% 33
Wales -37 25 £64,500 +3.20% 14
Scotland -11 10 £65,000 -3.70% 37
East Midlands -34 9 £60,000 +20.00% 12
Northern Ireland -91 1 - - 25
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 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.31%) Apache
3 8 (2.05%) Confluence
3 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.28%) WordPress
6 4 (1.03%) SharePoint
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 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Finacle
2 1 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 219 (56.15%) AWS
2 166 (42.56%) Azure
3 62 (15.90%) GCP
3 62 (15.90%) GitHub
4 46 (11.79%) Serverless
5 35 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (7.44%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (6.15%) SaaS
9 23 (5.90%) Azure AKS
10 22 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (4.62%) GitHub Copilot
13 16 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (4.10%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.59%) Azure Functions
14 14 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (2.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.56%) Firewall
2 9 (2.31%) DNS
3 6 (1.54%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (1.54%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.28%) DHCP
4 5 (1.28%) HTTP
4 5 (1.28%) iSCSI
4 5 (1.28%) SAN
5 3 (0.77%) VPN
6 2 (0.51%) 4G
6 2 (0.51%) 5G
6 2 (0.51%) Broadband
6 2 (0.51%) SSH
6 2 (0.51%) VLAN
7 1 (0.26%) Internet
7 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.26%) MQTT
7 1 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.26%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (30.51%) MySQL
2 100 (25.64%) MongoDB
3 89 (22.82%) Relational Database
4 86 (22.05%) SQL Server
5 59 (15.13%) NoSQL
6 35 (8.97%) Redis
7 24 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.85%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.31%) GIS
10 9 (2.31%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.05%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.79%) Power BI
13 6 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.54%) Pinecone
13 6 (1.54%) Spatial Data
14 5 (1.28%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 123 (31.54%) Git
2 39 (10.00%) GitLab
3 35 (8.97%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.36%) JUnit
5 16 (4.10%) JIRA
6 13 (3.33%) JMeter
7 10 (2.56%) Mockito
8 9 (2.31%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.31%) Selenium
9 6 (1.54%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.28%) Mocha
10 5 (1.28%) RSpec
10 5 (1.28%) Storybook
11 4 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.03%) minitest
11 4 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.77%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.77%) Maven
12 3 (0.77%) TeamCity
General
1 88 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 77 (19.74%) Public Sector
3 49 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (4.87%) Banking
5 19 (4.87%) Finance
6 17 (4.36%) Law
7 15 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.08%) Legal
9 10 (2.56%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.05%) Aviation
10 8 (2.05%) Retail
11 7 (1.79%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.54%) Advertising
12 6 (1.54%) Automotive
12 6 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.03%) Legal Technology
13 4 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.77%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 130 (33.33%) Developer
2 116 (29.74%) Senior
3 88 (22.56%) Software Engineer
4 45 (11.54%) Lead
5 41 (10.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 35 (8.97%) Senior Developer
7 34 (8.72%) Software Developer
8 31 (7.95%) Java Developer
9 30 (7.69%) Python Engineer
10 29 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
11 25 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (6.15%) Data Engineer
13 23 (5.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (5.90%) Lead Software Engineer
14 19 (4.87%) DBA
14 19 (4.87%) Python Developer
15 16 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
16 15 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
16 15 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (26.92%) React
2 82 (21.03%) Terraform
3 80 (20.51%) Node.js
4 65 (16.67%) REST
4 65 (16.67%) RESTful
5 56 (14.36%) .NET
6 54 (13.85%) Spring
7 53 (13.59%) Kafka
7 53 (13.59%) Spring Boot
8 51 (13.08%) CSS
9 44 (11.28%) HTML
10 31 (7.95%) Next.js
11 30 (7.69%) Hibernate
12 29 (7.44%) RabbitMQ
13 28 (7.18%) AngularJS
14 26 (6.67%) Vue
15 22 (5.64%) Flask
16 21 (5.38%) FastAPI
16 21 (5.38%) JPA
17 19 (4.87%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 83 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 53 (13.59%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.44%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.90%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.59%) AI Agents
6 14 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (3.59%) Virtual Team
7 12 (3.08%) Algorithms
7 12 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
8 10 (2.56%) Robotics
9 9 (2.31%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.31%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.79%) IoT
11 6 (1.54%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.28%) Clustering
12 5 (1.28%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 90 (23.08%) Linux
2 33 (8.46%) Windows
3 17 (4.36%) Unix
4 13 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) AIX
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Debian
6 1 (0.26%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.26%) Solaris
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (52.56%) CI/CD
2 167 (42.82%) Agile
3 158 (40.51%) Software Engineering
4 136 (34.87%) DevOps
5 116 (29.74%) Microservices
6 110 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 96 (24.62%) Mentoring
7 96 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (23.33%) AI
8 91 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 67 (17.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (16.92%) Containerisation
11 60 (15.38%) Scrum
12 58 (14.87%) Test Automation
13 57 (14.62%) Observability
14 51 (13.08%) Decision-Making
15 46 (11.79%) TDD
16 44 (11.28%) Event-Driven
17 43 (11.03%) Analytics
18 42 (10.77%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 143 (36.67%) Python
2 123 (31.54%) SQL
3 104 (26.67%) Java
4 95 (24.36%) JavaScript
5 77 (19.74%) TypeScript
6 58 (14.87%) C#
7 26 (6.67%) Bash
8 25 (6.41%) Go
9 22 (5.64%) PowerShell
10 16 (4.10%) PHP
11 13 (3.33%) Ruby
11 13 (3.33%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.56%) C++
13 6 (1.54%) Scala
14 5 (1.28%) Korn
15 3 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.26%) C
17 1 (0.26%) COBOL
17 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (16.67%) Degree
2 62 (15.90%) Security Cleared
3 51 (13.08%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (6.15%) Master's Degree
5 21 (5.38%) Azure Certification
6 19 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.05%) PhD
9 5 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.51%) CISSP
11 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.21%) QA
2 25 (6.41%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.56%) GDPR
4 10 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (0.51%) WCAG
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 130 (33.33%) Docker
2 12 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) Ceph
6 1 (0.26%) Lustre
6 1 (0.26%) NFS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.26%) Samba
6 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 114 (29.23%) Kubernetes
2 34 (8.72%) Grafana
3 31 (7.95%) Ansible
4 30 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.90%) Argo
6 12 (3.08%) Kibana
7 6 (1.54%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.54%) Puppet
8 5 (1.28%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.03%) Istio
10 3 (0.77%) Plesk
10 3 (0.77%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.77%) Rancher
10 3 (0.77%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.51%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.26%) logstash
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 50 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.49%) Oracle
3 25 (6.41%) Splunk
4 12 (3.08%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.08%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.82%) Google
6 9 (2.31%) Databricks
7 8 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.54%) Informatica
9 5 (1.28%) Dell
10 4 (1.03%) IBM
10 4 (1.03%) Meraki
10 4 (1.03%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.03%) VMware
11 3 (0.77%) Mistral
12 2 (0.51%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.51%) SAP
12 2 (0.51%) UiPath
13 1 (0.26%) Apple
13 1 (0.26%) Micro Focus