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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 237 205
Rank change year-on-year -83 -32 +52
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 333 360 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.19% 1.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.39% 8.24% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 262 231 597
10th Percentile £40,845 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,086 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,987 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 5,208 4,371 11,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.65% 14.42% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,451 2,756 8,169
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,000
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

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 June 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 June 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 -14 119 £65,000 -3.70% 36
South East -14 116 £59,500 +13.33% 49
North West -8 54 £67,500 -0.19% 23
South West -57 39 £62,500 +2.04% 9
Yorkshire -16 36 £52,130 -22.77% 7
North East -32 29 £65,000 +23.81% 6
East of England -25 23 £47,500 +50.79% 12
Scotland -6 18 £67,500 +3.85% 7
Midlands -58 14 £75,000 +11.11% 19
West Midlands -40 10 £77,500 +14.81% 10
Wales -58 5 £70,000 -9.68% 2
East Midlands -29 4 £65,000 +18.18% 9
Northern Ireland -41 1 £73,801 +34.18% 10
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 24 (7.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.10%) Confluence
4 7 (2.10%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.50%) WordPress
6 4 (1.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) IIS
8 1 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.30%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 189 (56.76%) AWS
2 134 (40.24%) Azure
3 62 (18.62%) GCP
4 49 (14.71%) Serverless
5 36 (10.81%) GitHub
6 31 (9.31%) Amazon ECS
7 30 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (8.71%) SaaS
9 27 (8.11%) Power Platform
10 22 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (6.31%) Azure AKS
12 17 (5.11%) Amazon S3
13 16 (4.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (3.60%) Azure Functions
16 12 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (3.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.80%) Firewall
2 11 (3.30%) DHCP
2 11 (3.30%) DNS
3 10 (3.00%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.40%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (2.40%) SAN
5 7 (2.10%) Broadband
5 7 (2.10%) Network Security
5 7 (2.10%) VPN
6 5 (1.50%) VLAN
7 4 (1.20%) Internet
8 3 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.60%) MQTT
9 2 (0.60%) PBX
10 1 (0.30%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.30%) LTE
10 1 (0.30%) Multicast
10 1 (0.30%) SMS
10 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (30.93%) MongoDB
2 98 (29.43%) MySQL
3 79 (23.72%) SQL Server
4 64 (19.22%) NoSQL
5 55 (16.52%) Relational Database
6 26 (7.81%) Power BI
6 26 (7.81%) Redis
7 18 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (3.60%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (3.30%) RDBMS
11 9 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.70%) Oracle Database
12 8 (2.40%) DynamoDB
12 8 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (1.80%) Pinecone
14 5 (1.50%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.50%) GIS
14 5 (1.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 87 (26.13%) Git
2 24 (7.21%) GitLab
2 24 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.71%) JIRA
4 16 (4.80%) JUnit
5 12 (3.60%) Mockito
6 10 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.00%) JMeter
7 5 (1.50%) Selenium
8 4 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.20%) Maven
9 3 (0.90%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.90%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.90%) Mocha
10 2 (0.60%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.60%) MSTest
10 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.60%) Vite
11 1 (0.30%) Toad
General
1 97 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.42%) Public Sector
3 35 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (6.31%) Finance
6 19 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (5.41%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.20%) Advertising
9 11 (3.30%) Aerospace
9 11 (3.30%) Retail
10 10 (3.00%) Games
10 10 (3.00%) Legal
11 7 (2.10%) Automotive
12 6 (1.80%) Aviation
12 6 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.20%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.20%) Legal Technology
13 4 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.20%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 86 (25.83%) Developer
2 69 (20.72%) Senior
3 62 (18.62%) Software Engineer
4 39 (11.71%) Lead
5 37 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 30 (9.01%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (7.51%) Java Developer
8 19 (5.71%) Java Engineer
8 19 (5.71%) Python Engineer
9 16 (4.80%) Architect
9 16 (4.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 16 (4.80%) Lead Software Engineer
10 15 (4.50%) DBA
10 15 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
10 15 (4.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 15 (4.50%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.20%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.20%) IT Support
12 13 (3.90%) Lead Developer
13 12 (3.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (23.72%) React
2 73 (21.92%) Node.js
3 55 (16.52%) RESTful
4 51 (15.32%) REST
5 42 (12.61%) Spring
6 40 (12.01%) Spring Boot
7 34 (10.21%) CSS
8 33 (9.91%) HTML
9 31 (9.31%) .NET
10 26 (7.81%) Vue
11 25 (7.51%) AngularJS
12 24 (7.21%) Django
13 22 (6.61%) Kafka
14 20 (6.01%) FastAPI
15 19 (5.71%) JSON
16 18 (5.41%) Flask
16 18 (5.41%) Next.js
17 17 (5.11%) jQuery
18 15 (4.50%) Hibernate
19 14 (4.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 68 (20.42%) Cloud Native
2 32 (9.61%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.50%) Algorithms
4 14 (4.20%) Data Structures
4 14 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.60%) Replication
7 10 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (2.10%) Low-Code
9 7 (2.10%) Video\Live Streaming
10 6 (1.80%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.50%) Robotics
11 5 (1.50%) SCADA
12 4 (1.20%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 82 (24.62%) Linux
2 38 (11.41%) Windows
3 22 (6.61%) Unix
4 19 (5.71%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.10%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.90%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) AIX
8 1 (0.30%) Debian
8 1 (0.30%) Solaris
8 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (48.95%) CI/CD
2 138 (41.44%) Agile
3 103 (30.93%) DevOps
4 102 (30.63%) Software Engineering
5 89 (26.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 89 (26.73%) Microservices
6 74 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 73 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (20.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 62 (18.62%) AI
10 57 (17.12%) Test Automation
11 56 (16.82%) TDD
12 54 (16.22%) Containerisation
13 53 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (14.11%) Data Modelling
14 47 (14.11%) Scrum
15 44 (13.21%) Analytics
16 42 (12.61%) Observability
17 37 (11.11%) Computer Science
18 36 (10.81%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 130 (39.04%) Python
2 122 (36.64%) SQL
3 104 (31.23%) Java
4 74 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 61 (18.32%) TypeScript
6 36 (10.81%) PowerShell
7 31 (9.31%) C#
8 29 (8.71%) Bash
9 17 (5.11%) Go
10 12 (3.60%) PHP
11 11 (3.30%) C++
11 11 (3.30%) Shell Script
12 10 (3.00%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.70%) C
13 9 (2.70%) Ruby
14 6 (1.80%) Korn
15 5 (1.50%) Scala
16 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.30%) Perl
17 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 55 (16.52%) Degree
2 40 (12.01%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.20%) PhD
9 3 (0.90%) RHCE
10 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.60%) CISSP
10 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.60%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.61%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (4.50%) QA
3 14 (4.20%) GDPR
4 9 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.60%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.60%) NCSC
5 2 (0.60%) SLA
5 2 (0.60%) WCAG
6 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 96 (28.83%) Docker
2 30 (9.01%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.60%) Samba
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 104 (31.23%) Kubernetes
2 67 (20.12%) Terraform
3 28 (8.41%) Ansible
4 22 (6.61%) Argo
5 16 (4.80%) Grafana
6 14 (4.20%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.00%) Kibana
8 7 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.10%) Puppet
9 4 (1.20%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.20%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.90%) Control-M
10 3 (0.90%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.90%) Istio
10 3 (0.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.90%) Plesk
10 3 (0.90%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.90%) Rancher
10 3 (0.90%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.60%) Nagios
Vendors
1 50 (15.02%) Oracle
2 45 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 27 (8.11%) Google
4 14 (4.20%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.00%) Splunk
6 8 (2.40%) Dell
6 8 (2.40%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.10%) Pega
8 6 (1.80%) VMware
9 4 (1.20%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.90%) Confluent
10 3 (0.90%) Informatica
10 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.60%) Databricks
11 2 (0.60%) D-Link
11 2 (0.60%) Meraki
11 2 (0.60%) WSO2
12 1 (0.30%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.30%) OneLogin