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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 224 210
Rank change year-on-year -105 -14 +16
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 276 347 946
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 1.28% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.59% 8.22% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 197 234 577
10th Percentile £36,050 £36,475 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,750 £85,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 4,940 4,222 11,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.60% 15.55% 17.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,793 2,964 8,160
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £31,975
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £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 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 April 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 April 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 -32 100 £67,500 - 40
South East -77 82 £57,500 -16.36% 67
Yorkshire -34 46 £52,130 -12.93% 8
North West -37 42 £73,401 +8.54% 21
South West -45 35 £62,500 -3.85% 19
Scotland -34 20 £66,250 +2.82% 7
East of England -41 20 £47,500 -17.39% 10
Midlands -46 20 £55,200 -15.08% 20
North East -35 12 £52,130 -24.87% 11
West Midlands -30 11 £47,500 -26.92% 9
East Midlands -44 9 £60,100 -14.14% 11
Wales -52 3 £55,200 -15.08% 9
Northern Ireland -43 1 £73,801 +34.18% 5
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 23 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.35%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.90%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.09%) Apache
6 2 (0.72%) Confluence
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.72%) WildFly
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) JBoss
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 169 (61.23%) AWS
2 104 (37.68%) Azure
3 59 (21.38%) GCP
4 52 (18.84%) Serverless
5 29 (10.51%) Amazon S3
6 28 (10.14%) GitHub
7 27 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (9.42%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (9.06%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (9.06%) SaaS
10 24 (8.70%) Power Platform
11 23 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (7.25%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (6.16%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (5.80%) Azure AKS
16 14 (5.07%) OpenShift
17 13 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.99%) DHCP
1 11 (3.99%) DNS
1 11 (3.99%) Firewall
2 8 (2.90%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.54%) Internet
3 7 (2.54%) iSCSI
3 7 (2.54%) Network Security
3 7 (2.54%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (2.54%) SAN
4 5 (1.81%) Broadband
4 5 (1.81%) VPN
5 3 (1.09%) VLAN
5 3 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.72%) HTTP
6 2 (0.72%) MQTT
6 2 (0.72%) PBX
7 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.36%) LTE
7 1 (0.36%) Multicast
7 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (32.97%) SQL Server
2 70 (25.36%) MongoDB
3 68 (24.64%) MySQL
4 54 (19.57%) NoSQL
5 52 (18.84%) Relational Database
6 24 (8.70%) Power BI
7 20 (7.25%) Redis
8 19 (6.88%) DynamoDB
9 17 (6.16%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (3.62%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (3.62%) Oracle Database
12 9 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.26%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.17%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.45%) Looker
Development Applications
1 88 (31.88%) Git
2 25 (9.06%) GitLab
3 24 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 19 (6.88%) JUnit
5 12 (4.35%) JIRA
6 9 (3.26%) Mockito
6 9 (3.26%) Selenium
7 8 (2.90%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.54%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.45%) JMeter
9 4 (1.45%) Maven
10 2 (0.72%) DBeaver
10 2 (0.72%) Gradle
10 2 (0.72%) MSTest
11 1 (0.36%) Ant
11 1 (0.36%) Appium
11 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.36%) ERwin
11 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.36%) Toad
General
1 86 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.77%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.88%) Finance
6 18 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.35%) Advertising
8 9 (3.26%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.26%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.26%) Retail
9 8 (2.90%) Games
10 7 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.81%) Automotive
12 2 (0.72%) Aviation
12 2 (0.72%) Banking
12 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.72%) Legal
12 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 82 (29.71%) Developer
2 60 (21.74%) Senior
3 38 (13.77%) Software Engineer
4 31 (11.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (9.06%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.88%) Lead
7 16 (5.80%) DBA
8 15 (5.43%) Java Engineer
8 15 (5.43%) Python Engineer
9 14 (5.07%) Analyst
9 14 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.07%) IT Support
10 12 (4.35%) .NET Developer
10 12 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 12 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.99%) IT Support Technician
11 11 (3.99%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (26.45%) React
2 48 (17.39%) RESTful
3 45 (16.30%) Node.js
3 45 (16.30%) Spring
4 44 (15.94%) Spring Boot
5 43 (15.58%) REST
6 30 (10.87%) .NET
7 28 (10.14%) Django
8 20 (7.25%) AngularJS
8 20 (7.25%) Vue
9 18 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (6.52%) Web Services
10 17 (6.16%) JSON
11 16 (5.80%) .NET Core
11 16 (5.80%) Flask
11 16 (5.80%) HTML
11 16 (5.80%) Kafka
12 14 (5.07%) FastAPI
12 14 (5.07%) XML
13 13 (4.71%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.20%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.71%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.71%) Replication
4 12 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.26%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.17%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.81%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.81%) Video\Live Streaming
9 4 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.45%) Clustering
9 4 (1.45%) CUDA
9 4 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.45%) IoT
9 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.46%) Linux
2 30 (10.87%) Windows
3 22 (7.97%) Unix
4 17 (6.16%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.09%) CentOS
8 2 (0.72%) VMS
9 1 (0.36%) AIX
9 1 (0.36%) Debian
9 1 (0.36%) Solaris
9 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (48.19%) CI/CD
2 118 (42.75%) Agile
3 91 (32.97%) DevOps
4 80 (28.99%) Microservices
5 71 (25.72%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (25.72%) Software Engineering
6 62 (22.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 58 (21.01%) Test Automation
8 54 (19.57%) TDD
9 52 (18.84%) Containerisation
9 52 (18.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 51 (18.48%) Mentoring
11 43 (15.58%) Scrum
12 39 (14.13%) AI
13 38 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (12.32%) Data Modelling
15 31 (11.23%) Analytics
16 27 (9.78%) Computer Science
17 26 (9.42%) BDD
18 24 (8.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 110 (39.86%) Python
2 103 (37.32%) SQL
3 94 (34.06%) Java
4 44 (15.94%) JavaScript
5 38 (13.77%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.33%) C#
6 23 (8.33%) Go
6 23 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.80%) C
8 14 (5.07%) Bash
9 12 (4.35%) PHP
10 11 (3.99%) T-SQL
11 9 (3.26%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.90%) C++
13 7 (2.54%) Delphi
14 5 (1.81%) Korn
15 4 (1.45%) Scala
16 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.72%) R
17 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (13.77%) Degree
2 24 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.99%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.26%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.26%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.09%) RHCE
10 2 (0.72%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.35%) QA
3 8 (2.90%) GDPR
4 5 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.09%) NCSC
6 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.72%) SLA
6 2 (0.72%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 92 (33.33%) Docker
2 29 (10.51%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.72%) Samba
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 89 (32.25%) Kubernetes
2 60 (21.74%) Terraform
3 23 (8.33%) Ansible
4 14 (5.07%) Argo
5 13 (4.71%) Grafana
6 9 (3.26%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.17%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.17%) Puppet
8 5 (1.81%) Kibana
9 4 (1.45%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.45%) Control-M
9 4 (1.45%) Data Guard
9 4 (1.45%) Nagios
9 4 (1.45%) Rancher
10 3 (1.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.72%) Istio
11 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.36%) Podman
12 1 (0.36%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 47 (17.03%) Oracle
2 29 (10.51%) Microsoft
3 26 (9.42%) Google
4 12 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.54%) Dell
5 7 (2.54%) Informatica
5 7 (2.54%) Pega
6 5 (1.81%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.45%) Splunk
7 4 (1.45%) VMware
8 3 (1.09%) Confluent
8 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.72%) D-Link
9 2 (0.72%) Meraki
9 2 (0.72%) RedGate
9 2 (0.72%) Talend
9 2 (0.72%) WSO2
10 1 (0.36%) Siemens
10 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds