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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 169 221
Rank change year-on-year -129 +52 +13
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 274 443 847
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.71% 1.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.88% 10.13% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 192 250 563
10th Percentile £33,275 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,362 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,438 £71,991
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,875 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 4,661 4,371 11,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.91% 16.88% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,659 2,962 8,184
10th Percentile £33,950 £32,565 £31,750
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 £68,750 £71,250 £65,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -10.18%

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 6 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 6 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 -34 102 £65,000 -3.88% 57
South East -127 66 £55,000 -21.43% 48
Yorkshire -27 45 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -28 45 £75,000 +9.54% 33
South West -48 33 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Midlands -40 25 £47,500 -26.92% 18
Scotland -30 24 £70,000 +12.00% 12
East of England -71 20 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -19 16 £45,000 -30.77% 8
North East -23 12 £55,000 -20.69% 6
East Midlands -46 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -53 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -38 3 £73,801 +34.18%
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 17 (6.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.47%) OpenStack
3 12 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.09%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) CMS
6 2 (0.73%) Confluence
6 2 (0.73%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.73%) WildFly
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 174 (63.50%) AWS
2 111 (40.51%) Azure
3 74 (27.01%) GCP
4 54 (19.71%) Serverless
5 46 (16.79%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (13.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 34 (12.41%) GitHub
8 29 (10.58%) Amazon S3
9 27 (9.85%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (9.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (9.12%) dbt
10 25 (9.12%) SaaS
11 22 (8.03%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (8.03%) Power Platform
12 20 (7.30%) Amazon ECR
12 20 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (7.30%) Pulumi
13 19 (6.93%) AWS Step Functions
14 17 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.76%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.28%) DHCP
2 9 (3.28%) DNS
3 8 (2.92%) VPN
4 7 (2.55%) Firewall
4 7 (2.55%) Internet
4 7 (2.55%) Network Security
5 6 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.82%) Broadband
7 3 (1.09%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (1.09%) SAN
7 3 (1.09%) VLAN
8 2 (0.73%) HTTP
8 2 (0.73%) MQTT
8 2 (0.73%) PBX
9 1 (0.36%) LAN
9 1 (0.36%) LTE
9 1 (0.36%) Multicast
9 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (29.93%) SQL Server
2 62 (22.63%) MySQL
3 59 (21.53%) Relational Database
4 57 (20.80%) MongoDB
5 55 (20.07%) NoSQL
6 38 (13.87%) Redis
7 32 (11.68%) Elasticsearch
8 26 (9.49%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (8.03%) Power BI
10 19 (6.93%) DynamoDB
11 10 (3.65%) Oracle Database
12 9 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.28%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.19%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.46%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 88 (32.12%) Git
2 33 (12.04%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.93%) JUnit
4 16 (5.84%) JIRA
5 13 (4.74%) GitLab
6 10 (3.65%) Mockito
7 9 (3.28%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.92%) Selenium
9 7 (2.55%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.82%) JMeter
11 4 (1.46%) Maven
12 2 (0.73%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.73%) Gradle
13 1 (0.36%) Appium
13 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.36%) ERwin
13 1 (0.36%) jMock
13 1 (0.36%) MSTest
13 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 90 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.95%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.30%) Finance
5 17 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.65%) Advertising
7 10 (3.65%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.92%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.92%) Games
9 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.82%) Automotive
10 5 (1.82%) Retail
11 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.09%) Marketing
12 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.73%) Legal
12 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.73%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.36%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 90 (32.85%) Developer
2 59 (21.53%) Senior
3 42 (15.33%) Software Engineer
4 36 (13.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (12.41%) Java Developer
6 20 (7.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 18 (6.57%) Lead
8 16 (5.84%) Python Engineer
9 15 (5.47%) DBA
9 15 (5.47%) IT Support
9 15 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.11%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.11%) Analyst
10 14 (5.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.74%) Java Engineer
11 13 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (4.38%) Java Software Engineer
13 11 (4.01%) Administrator
14 10 (3.65%) Architect
14 10 (3.65%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (27.37%) React
2 54 (19.71%) Spring
2 54 (19.71%) Spring Boot
3 52 (18.98%) RESTful
4 45 (16.42%) Django
4 45 (16.42%) REST
5 34 (12.41%) Node.js
6 30 (10.95%) .NET
7 26 (9.49%) AngularJS
8 25 (9.12%) Vue
9 21 (7.66%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (7.66%) HTML
9 21 (7.66%) Web Services
10 18 (6.57%) .NET Core
10 18 (6.57%) Kafka
11 17 (6.20%) CSS
11 17 (6.20%) Flask
12 16 (5.84%) FastAPI
13 15 (5.47%) JSON
14 14 (5.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.52%) Cloud Native
2 34 (12.41%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.20%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (6.20%) Replication
4 13 (4.74%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.28%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.92%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.19%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.82%) Clustering
10 5 (1.82%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
11 4 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.46%) CUDA
11 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.46%) IoT
11 4 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (21.90%) Linux
2 26 (9.49%) Unix
3 17 (6.20%) Windows
4 14 (5.11%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.46%) Debian
7 3 (1.09%) CentOS
7 3 (1.09%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.73%) VMS
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (46.72%) CI/CD
2 105 (38.32%) DevOps
3 103 (37.59%) Agile
4 81 (29.56%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (28.83%) Microservices
6 74 (27.01%) Software Engineering
7 70 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (25.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 58 (21.17%) TDD
10 56 (20.44%) Containerisation
11 47 (17.15%) Test Automation
12 40 (14.60%) AI
13 39 (14.23%) Mentoring
14 35 (12.77%) Observability
15 33 (12.04%) BDD
16 32 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (11.68%) Scrum
17 31 (11.31%) Data Modelling
18 30 (10.95%) Clean Code
19 29 (10.58%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 120 (43.80%) Python
2 95 (34.67%) SQL
3 90 (32.85%) Java
4 59 (21.53%) JavaScript
5 36 (13.14%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.39%) Go
7 22 (8.03%) C#
8 21 (7.66%) PowerShell
9 16 (5.84%) C
10 13 (4.74%) PHP
11 11 (4.01%) T-SQL
12 9 (3.28%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.92%) C++
14 7 (2.55%) Bash
14 7 (2.55%) Delphi
15 2 (0.73%) R
15 2 (0.73%) Scala
16 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.77%) Degree
3 31 (11.31%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.01%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.01%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (4.01%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.09%) RHCE
8 2 (0.73%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.12%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.65%) QA
4 6 (2.19%) GDPR
5 4 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.09%) NCSC
7 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 110 (40.15%) Docker
2 23 (8.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (1.46%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.73%) Samba
5 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 88 (32.12%) Kubernetes
2 69 (25.18%) Terraform
3 23 (8.39%) Ansible
4 14 (5.11%) AWS Copilot
5 11 (4.01%) Grafana
6 6 (2.19%) Kibana
6 6 (2.19%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.82%) Nagios
8 4 (1.46%) Control-M
8 4 (1.46%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.09%) Rancher
10 2 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.73%) Puppet
11 1 (0.36%) Plesk
11 1 (0.36%) Podman
11 1 (0.36%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 44 (16.06%) Oracle
2 42 (15.33%) Google
3 24 (8.76%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.01%) Pega
5 7 (2.55%) Informatica
6 6 (2.19%) WSO2
7 5 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.82%) Splunk
8 4 (1.46%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.46%) VMware
9 3 (1.09%) Confluent
9 3 (1.09%) Dell
9 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.73%) D-Link
10 2 (0.73%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.73%) Meraki
10 2 (0.73%) RedGate
10 2 (0.73%) Talend
11 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds