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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 251 201
Rank change year-on-year -66 -50 +47
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 351 367 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.12% 1.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.43% 8.18% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 280 234 572
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,625 £37,557
25th Percentile £48,216 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% -11.30%
75th Percentile £74,987 £73,886 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 5,463 4,486 11,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.75% 13.65% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,695 2,837 7,583
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £79,350
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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
South East -18 118 £59,500 +8.18% 52
North of England -25 118 £65,000 -3.70% 37
North West -22 53 £67,500 - 20
South West -41 45 £62,500 +4.17% 20
Yorkshire -20 33 £65,000 -3.70% 10
North East -23 32 £65,000 +25.30% 7
East of England -32 24 £52,500 +66.67% 14
Midlands -47 20 £75,000 +11.11% 21
Scotland -7 18 £65,000 -1.89% 7
West Midlands -31 16 £75,000 +11.11% 11
Wales -62 9 £70,000 -9.68% 6
East Midlands -32 4 £65,000 +18.18% 10
Northern Ireland -65 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 (6.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.99%) Confluence
5 5 (1.42%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.42%) WordPress
6 4 (1.14%) Apache
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Documentum
8 1 (0.28%) IIS
8 1 (0.28%) JBoss
8 1 (0.28%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.28%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 198 (56.41%) AWS
2 149 (42.45%) Azure
3 69 (19.66%) GCP
4 45 (12.82%) Serverless
5 39 (11.11%) GitHub
6 30 (8.55%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (7.69%) Power Platform
8 27 (7.69%) SaaS
9 21 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (5.98%) Azure AKS
10 16 (4.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (4.27%) Amazon S3
11 15 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (3.42%) Azure Functions
14 11 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (2.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.99%) Firewall
2 9 (2.56%) DHCP
2 9 (2.56%) DNS
3 8 (2.28%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.28%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.28%) SAN
3 8 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.99%) Broadband
5 5 (1.42%) Network Security
5 5 (1.42%) VPN
6 3 (0.85%) VLAN
7 2 (0.57%) MQTT
7 2 (0.57%) PBX
8 1 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) LAN
8 1 (0.28%) LTE
8 1 (0.28%) Multicast
8 1 (0.28%) SMS
8 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (31.34%) MongoDB
2 107 (30.48%) MySQL
3 79 (22.51%) SQL Server
4 68 (19.37%) NoSQL
5 62 (17.66%) Relational Database
6 28 (7.98%) Redis
7 26 (7.41%) Power BI
8 17 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (4.56%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (3.42%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (3.13%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.56%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.28%) DynamoDB
13 8 (2.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.71%) GIS
14 6 (1.71%) Pinecone
15 5 (1.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 89 (25.36%) Git
2 26 (7.41%) GitLab
3 23 (6.55%) Jenkins
4 19 (5.41%) JIRA
5 16 (4.56%) JUnit
6 12 (3.42%) Mockito
7 10 (2.85%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.85%) JMeter
8 5 (1.42%) Selenium
9 4 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.14%) Maven
10 3 (0.85%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.85%) DBeaver
10 3 (0.85%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.85%) Mocha
11 2 (0.57%) MSTest
11 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.57%) Vite
12 1 (0.28%) RSpec
General
1 95 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.80%) Public Sector
3 34 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.27%) Finance
6 19 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (4.84%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.99%) Advertising
9 10 (2.85%) Games
9 10 (2.85%) Legal
10 9 (2.56%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.56%) Retail
11 7 (1.99%) Automotive
12 6 (1.71%) Aviation
13 5 (1.42%) Banking
13 5 (1.42%) Tech for Good
14 4 (1.14%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.14%) Legal Technology
14 4 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 94 (26.78%) Developer
2 78 (22.22%) Senior
3 70 (19.94%) Software Engineer
4 46 (13.11%) Lead
5 39 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 30 (8.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (7.41%) Java Developer
8 22 (6.27%) Python Engineer
9 21 (5.98%) Lead Software Engineer
10 19 (5.41%) Java Engineer
11 18 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (4.84%) Software Developer
13 16 (4.56%) Architect
13 16 (4.56%) Data Engineer
14 15 (4.27%) DBA
14 15 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (4.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
16 13 (3.70%) Lead Developer
16 13 (3.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (23.08%) React
2 74 (21.08%) Node.js
3 62 (17.66%) RESTful
4 53 (15.10%) REST
5 45 (12.82%) Spring
6 43 (12.25%) Spring Boot
7 37 (10.54%) CSS
8 36 (10.26%) HTML
9 31 (8.83%) .NET
10 27 (7.69%) Kafka
11 25 (7.12%) AngularJS
11 25 (7.12%) Django
11 25 (7.12%) Vue
12 21 (5.98%) FastAPI
13 20 (5.70%) Flask
13 20 (5.70%) Next.js
14 19 (5.41%) Hibernate
14 19 (5.41%) JSON
15 17 (4.84%) jQuery
16 14 (3.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.97%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.56%) Algorithms
5 14 (3.99%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.42%) Replication
8 10 (2.85%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.85%) Renewable Energy
9 9 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.28%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.99%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.99%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.71%) Robotics
13 5 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.42%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 78 (22.22%) Linux
2 36 (10.26%) Windows
3 20 (5.70%) Unix
4 17 (4.84%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.99%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.85%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) AIX
8 1 (0.28%) Debian
8 1 (0.28%) Solaris
8 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (49.00%) CI/CD
2 147 (41.88%) Agile
3 116 (33.05%) Software Engineering
4 114 (32.48%) DevOps
5 103 (29.34%) Microservices
6 94 (26.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 83 (23.65%) Mentoring
8 76 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (20.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 66 (18.80%) AI
11 65 (18.52%) Test Automation
12 62 (17.66%) TDD
13 60 (17.09%) Containerisation
14 56 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (13.68%) Scrum
16 46 (13.11%) Analytics
16 46 (13.11%) Data Modelling
16 46 (13.11%) Observability
17 40 (11.40%) Coaching
18 37 (10.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 135 (38.46%) Python
2 127 (36.18%) SQL
3 113 (32.19%) Java
4 78 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 61 (17.38%) TypeScript
6 34 (9.69%) PowerShell
7 32 (9.12%) C#
8 29 (8.26%) Bash
9 16 (4.56%) Go
10 12 (3.42%) C++
10 12 (3.42%) PHP
11 10 (2.85%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.56%) Ruby
12 9 (2.56%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.99%) Scala
14 6 (1.71%) C
14 6 (1.71%) Korn
15 3 (0.85%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 56 (15.95%) Degree
2 47 (13.39%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.99%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.42%) PhD
10 4 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.85%) RHCE
12 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.57%) CISSP
12 2 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.57%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.12%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.84%) QA
3 13 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.42%) GDPR
5 9 (2.56%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (0.57%) NCSC
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
6 2 (0.57%) WCAG
7 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 106 (30.20%) Docker
2 28 (7.98%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.14%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.57%) Samba
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 107 (30.48%) Kubernetes
2 73 (20.80%) Terraform
3 27 (7.69%) Ansible
4 22 (6.27%) Argo
5 18 (5.13%) Grafana
6 16 (4.56%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.85%) Kibana
8 7 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.99%) Puppet
9 4 (1.14%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.14%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.85%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.85%) Istio
10 3 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.85%) Plesk
10 3 (0.85%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.85%) Rancher
10 3 (0.85%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.57%) Nagios
11 2 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 50 (14.25%) Oracle
2 46 (13.11%) Microsoft
3 28 (7.98%) Google
4 14 (3.99%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.42%) Splunk
6 9 (2.56%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.28%) Dell
8 7 (1.99%) Pega
9 5 (1.42%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.14%) Meraki
10 4 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.14%) VMware
11 3 (0.85%) Confluent
11 3 (0.85%) Databricks
11 3 (0.85%) IBM
11 3 (0.85%) Informatica
11 3 (0.85%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.57%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.57%) D-Link
12 2 (0.57%) TIBCO