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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 154 213
Rank change year-on-year -164 +59 +7
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 208 634 613
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.82% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.50% 11.48% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 137 242 476
10th Percentile £33,600 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,934 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +11.56% +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,376 £87,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 3,781 5,525 8,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.50% 15.85% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,342 2,826 6,727
10th Percentile £31,685 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,270 £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 £66,137
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -7.20%

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 27 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 27 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 -5 76 £73,801 +6.48% 89
South East -131 44 £60,000 -25.00% 179
Yorkshire +3 36 £62,500 +4.62% 26
North West -9 32 £85,000 +19.73% 49
Midlands -25 31 £55,200 -15.08% 46
South West -58 26 £57,000 -12.31% 61
West Midlands +10 21 £55,200 -15.08% 22
Scotland -33 15 £73,801 +27.24% 39
East of England -38 13 £42,500 -26.09% 82
East Midlands -29 10 £60,100 +0.17% 23
North East -2 8 £55,200 -20.35% 15
Wales -27 5 £73,801 +13.54% 27
Northern Ireland -18 3 £73,801 +11.98% 12
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 (5.77%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
3 3 (1.44%) nginx
4 2 (0.96%) CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.48%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) WildFly
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 151 (72.60%) AWS
2 78 (37.50%) Azure
3 55 (26.44%) Serverless
4 49 (23.56%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (18.27%) GCP
6 35 (16.83%) Amazon S3
7 34 (16.35%) GitHub
8 33 (15.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (14.42%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (13.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (10.10%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (9.13%) AWS Step Functions
13 19 (9.13%) SaaS
14 17 (8.17%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (8.17%) dbt
15 16 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
15 16 (7.69%) Pulumi
16 15 (7.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 15 (7.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.13%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.37%) DNS
2 7 (3.37%) Firewall
2 7 (3.37%) Internet
3 6 (2.88%) VPN
3 6 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.40%) HTTP
5 4 (1.92%) Network Security
6 3 (1.44%) DHCP
6 3 (1.44%) FTP
6 3 (1.44%) IMAP
6 3 (1.44%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.44%) SMTP
6 3 (1.44%) SSH
6 3 (1.44%) VLAN
7 1 (0.48%) AMQP
7 1 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (27.88%) SQL Server
2 55 (26.44%) Relational Database
3 38 (18.27%) MySQL
4 32 (15.38%) Redis
5 28 (13.46%) NoSQL
6 27 (12.98%) MongoDB
7 26 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (8.17%) DynamoDB
10 11 (5.29%) RDBMS
11 9 (4.33%) Power BI
11 9 (4.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (3.85%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (1.92%) Oracle Database 11g
15 4 (1.92%) Oracle Database 12c
15 4 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (36.54%) Git
2 45 (21.63%) Jenkins
3 24 (11.54%) JUnit
4 14 (6.73%) GitLab
5 13 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 13 (6.25%) JMeter
6 12 (5.77%) Mockito
7 11 (5.29%) JIRA
8 8 (3.85%) Selenium
9 6 (2.88%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.44%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.44%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.96%) Appium
11 2 (0.96%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.96%) Subversion
12 1 (0.48%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 72 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.29%) Finance
5 7 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.37%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.40%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.44%) Marketing
7 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Retail
7 3 (1.44%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.96%) Advertising
9 1 (0.48%) Electronics
9 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (37.98%) Developer
2 51 (24.52%) Senior
3 36 (17.31%) Software Engineer
4 34 (16.35%) Java Developer
5 30 (14.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (10.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.25%) DBA
8 13 (6.25%) Lead
9 11 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (5.29%) Software Developer
10 10 (4.81%) Java Engineer
10 10 (4.81%) Junior
10 10 (4.81%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 10 (4.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Analyst
12 7 (3.37%) Administrator
12 7 (3.37%) IT Support
12 7 (3.37%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.88%) React
2 56 (26.92%) Spring
3 54 (25.96%) Spring Boot
4 37 (17.79%) REST
5 33 (15.87%) RESTful
6 31 (14.90%) .NET
6 31 (14.90%) Django
7 27 (12.98%) Node.js
8 22 (10.58%) HTML
8 22 (10.58%) Web Services
9 19 (9.13%) Kafka
10 18 (8.65%) .NET Core
10 18 (8.65%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (7.69%) Hibernate
11 16 (7.69%) Vue
12 15 (7.21%) AngularJS
13 14 (6.73%) Apache Camel
13 14 (6.73%) AWS CDK
13 14 (6.73%) JSON
14 13 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.87%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (12.02%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.81%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.81%) Replication
5 5 (2.40%) Clustering
5 5 (2.40%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.44%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.96%) Life Science
8 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 54 (25.96%) Linux
2 22 (10.58%) Unix
3 19 (9.13%) Windows
4 12 (5.77%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.40%) VMS
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.44%) Debian
6 3 (1.44%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.48%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (55.29%) CI/CD
2 86 (41.35%) DevOps
3 82 (39.42%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (35.10%) Agile
5 69 (33.17%) Microservices
6 58 (27.88%) Software Engineering
7 52 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 51 (24.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (22.12%) TDD
10 40 (19.23%) Containerisation
11 29 (13.94%) BDD
12 26 (12.50%) Test Automation
13 24 (11.54%) Observability
13 24 (11.54%) Workflow
14 23 (11.06%) Migration
14 23 (11.06%) Scrum
14 23 (11.06%) SDLC
15 20 (9.62%) Clean Code
15 20 (9.62%) Mentoring
16 19 (9.13%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 87 (41.83%) Python
2 79 (37.98%) Java
3 68 (32.69%) SQL
4 48 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.94%) TypeScript
6 22 (10.58%) C#
7 20 (9.62%) Go
8 15 (7.21%) PowerShell
9 14 (6.73%) Shell Script
10 13 (6.25%) C
11 9 (4.33%) PHP
12 8 (3.85%) T-SQL
13 7 (3.37%) Delphi
14 5 (2.40%) C++
15 3 (1.44%) Groovy
16 1 (0.48%) Perl
16 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.48%) Ruby
16 1 (0.48%) VB
16 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.58%) Degree
4 14 (6.73%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.29%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.81%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.88%) QA
3 5 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.92%) SLA
5 3 (1.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 92 (44.23%) Docker
2 5 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.44%) DFS Replication
3 3 (1.44%) Dovecot
3 3 (1.44%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.44%) Postfix
3 3 (1.44%) Squid
3 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (34.13%) Kubernetes
2 52 (25.00%) Terraform
3 23 (11.06%) Ansible
4 13 (6.25%) Kibana
5 10 (4.81%) AWS Copilot
5 10 (4.81%) Grafana
6 5 (2.40%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.92%) Control-M
7 4 (1.92%) Nagios
7 4 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.44%) Nessus
8 3 (1.44%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.44%) Rancher
9 2 (0.96%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (17.79%) Oracle
2 21 (10.10%) Google
3 11 (5.29%) Splunk
4 10 (4.81%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.81%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.85%) Informatica
6 5 (2.40%) VMware
7 4 (1.92%) Pega
7 4 (1.92%) WSO2
8 3 (1.44%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.44%) RedGate
8 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.44%) Talend
9 2 (0.96%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.96%) SAP
10 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.48%) IBM
10 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.48%) SendGrid