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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 152 221
Rank change year-on-year -174 +69 -2
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 210 639 581
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.80% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.53% 11.43% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 140 246 447
10th Percentile £33,900 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +10.61% +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,987 £87,500
UK median annual salary £74,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% +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 3,798 5,591 8,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.59% 15.75% 19.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,367 2,890 6,384
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,250
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 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £59,556
% change year-on-year -6.98% +8.30% -4.71%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -4 77 £73,801 +6.48% 111
South East -123 43 £60,000 -25.00% 205
Yorkshire -2 37 £65,000 +8.81% 42
Midlands -14 33 £60,100 -7.54% 73
North West -13 32 £85,000 +21.43% 53
South West -53 26 £54,000 -16.92% 88
West Midlands +23 23 £61,350 -5.62% 27
Scotland -36 15 £73,801 +22.49% 39
East of England -38 13 £42,500 -26.09% 98
East Midlands -19 10 £60,100 +0.17% 46
North East -1 8 £55,200 -20.35% 17
Wales -24 5 £73,801 +13.54% 31
Northern Ireland -17 3 £73,801 +11.98% 15
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 (5.71%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.90%) Confluence
3 4 (1.90%) nginx
4 2 (0.95%) CMS
4 2 (0.95%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.95%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.48%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) WildFly
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 155 (73.81%) AWS
2 80 (38.10%) Azure
3 55 (26.19%) Serverless
4 51 (24.29%) Amazon ECS
5 39 (18.57%) GCP
6 35 (16.67%) Amazon S3
7 34 (16.19%) GitHub
8 33 (15.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (14.76%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (13.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (10.95%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (10.00%) SaaS
13 20 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (9.05%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (9.05%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (8.10%) dbt
16 16 (7.62%) Amazon ECR
16 16 (7.62%) Pulumi
17 15 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 15 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.05%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.81%) DNS
2 8 (3.81%) Firewall
3 7 (3.33%) Internet
4 6 (2.86%) HTTP
4 6 (2.86%) VPN
4 6 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.90%) FTP
5 4 (1.90%) IMAP
5 4 (1.90%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (1.90%) SMTP
5 4 (1.90%) SSH
6 3 (1.43%) DHCP
6 3 (1.43%) Network Security
6 3 (1.43%) VLAN
7 1 (0.48%) AMQP
7 1 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (27.14%) SQL Server
2 56 (26.67%) Relational Database
3 41 (19.52%) MySQL
4 32 (15.24%) Redis
5 29 (13.81%) MongoDB
6 28 (13.33%) NoSQL
7 26 (12.38%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (8.10%) DynamoDB
10 12 (5.71%) RDBMS
11 9 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (3.81%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.81%) Power BI
13 6 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (1.90%) Oracle Database 10g
15 4 (1.90%) Oracle Database 11g
15 4 (1.90%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 77 (36.67%) Git
2 47 (22.38%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.90%) JUnit
4 14 (6.67%) JMeter
5 13 (6.19%) Cucumber
5 13 (6.19%) GitLab
5 13 (6.19%) Mockito
6 12 (5.71%) JIRA
7 8 (3.81%) Selenium
8 6 (2.86%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.90%) Vagrant
10 3 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.43%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.95%) Appium
11 2 (0.95%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.95%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.95%) Subversion
12 1 (0.48%) jMock
12 1 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 72 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.48%) Public Sector
3 21 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.24%) Finance
5 7 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.86%) Retail
7 5 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.38%) Marketing
8 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.43%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.43%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.95%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
11 1 (0.48%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (39.05%) Developer
2 51 (24.29%) Senior
3 35 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 35 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 31 (14.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (10.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 15 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Lead
8 13 (6.19%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.19%) DBA
8 13 (6.19%) Software Developer
9 12 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.24%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Junior
11 10 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.29%) Analyst
12 9 (4.29%) Java Engineer
13 7 (3.33%) Administrator
13 7 (3.33%) IT Support
13 7 (3.33%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.62%) React
2 56 (26.67%) Spring
3 54 (25.71%) Spring Boot
4 38 (18.10%) REST
5 35 (16.67%) RESTful
6 31 (14.76%) Django
7 30 (14.29%) .NET
8 27 (12.86%) Node.js
9 23 (10.95%) HTML
9 23 (10.95%) Web Services
10 19 (9.05%) Kafka
11 18 (8.57%) .NET Core
11 18 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (8.10%) Hibernate
13 16 (7.62%) Vue
14 15 (7.14%) AngularJS
14 15 (7.14%) Apache Camel
15 14 (6.67%) AWS CDK
15 14 (6.67%) JSON
16 13 (6.19%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.19%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (11.90%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.24%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.24%) Replication
4 10 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.38%) Clustering
5 5 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.90%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.43%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.43%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.48%) Cybercrime
9 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (26.67%) Linux
2 22 (10.48%) Unix
3 21 (10.00%) Windows
4 13 (6.19%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.86%) VMS
6 4 (1.90%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.43%) Debian
7 3 (1.43%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.48%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (55.24%) CI/CD
2 87 (41.43%) DevOps
3 84 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (34.76%) Agile
5 72 (34.29%) Microservices
6 55 (26.19%) Software Engineering
7 53 (25.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 50 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (22.38%) TDD
10 41 (19.52%) Containerisation
11 30 (14.29%) BDD
12 27 (12.86%) Workflow
13 25 (11.90%) Test Automation
14 24 (11.43%) Observability
14 24 (11.43%) SDLC
15 23 (10.95%) Migration
16 22 (10.48%) Clean Code
16 22 (10.48%) Mentoring
16 22 (10.48%) Scrum
17 19 (9.05%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 88 (41.90%) Python
2 78 (37.14%) Java
3 69 (32.86%) SQL
4 49 (23.33%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.81%) TypeScript
6 21 (10.00%) C#
7 20 (9.52%) Go
8 15 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 15 (7.14%) Shell Script
9 13 (6.19%) C
10 9 (4.29%) PHP
11 7 (3.33%) Delphi
11 7 (3.33%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.38%) C++
13 4 (1.90%) Groovy
14 1 (0.48%) Perl
14 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.48%) Ruby
14 1 (0.48%) VB
14 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.48%) Degree
4 15 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.24%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.38%) QA
2 5 (2.38%) SLA
3 4 (1.90%) GDPR
3 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 95 (45.24%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.90%) DFS Replication
2 4 (1.90%) Dovecot
2 4 (1.90%) Postfix
2 4 (1.90%) Squid
3 3 (1.43%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (34.29%) Kubernetes
2 52 (24.76%) Terraform
3 23 (10.95%) Ansible
4 14 (6.67%) Kibana
5 11 (5.24%) Grafana
6 10 (4.76%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.86%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.90%) Control-M
8 4 (1.90%) Nagios
8 4 (1.90%) Nessus
8 4 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.90%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.43%) Rancher
10 2 (0.95%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (17.14%) Oracle
2 20 (9.52%) Google
3 12 (5.71%) Splunk
4 11 (5.24%) Dynatrace
5 10 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.81%) Informatica
7 5 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.38%) VMware
8 4 (1.90%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.90%) Pega
8 4 (1.90%) WSO2
9 3 (1.43%) RedGate
9 3 (1.43%) Talend
10 2 (0.95%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.95%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.95%) SAP
11 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.48%) IBM
11 1 (0.48%) OpenText
11 1 (0.48%) Siemens