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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 168 220
Rank change year-on-year -140 +52 +10
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 272 443 846
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.71% 1.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.91% 10.15% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 190 250 562
10th Percentile £33,000 £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 4,600 4,364 11,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.89% 16.89% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,651 2,956 8,195
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,522 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,498 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +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% -10.16%

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 5 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 5 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 -31 102 £65,000 -3.88% 57
South East -126 65 £55,750 -20.36% 48
North West -27 45 £75,000 +9.54% 33
Yorkshire -29 45 £52,130 -12.73% 19
South West -42 32 £62,500 -3.85% 20
Midlands -47 25 £47,500 -26.92% 18
Scotland -36 24 £70,000 +12.00% 12
East of England -64 20 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -24 16 £45,000 -30.77% 8
North East -18 12 £55,000 -20.69% 6
East Midlands -43 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -53 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -42 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.51%) OpenStack
3 12 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.10%) Apache
6 2 (0.74%) CMS
6 2 (0.74%) Confluence
6 2 (0.74%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.74%) WildFly
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 173 (63.60%) AWS
2 111 (40.81%) Azure
3 74 (27.21%) GCP
4 54 (19.85%) Serverless
5 46 (16.91%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (13.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (11.76%) GitHub
8 29 (10.66%) Amazon S3
9 27 (9.93%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (9.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (9.19%) dbt
11 24 (8.82%) SaaS
12 22 (8.09%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (8.09%) Power Platform
13 20 (7.35%) Amazon ECR
13 20 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (7.35%) Pulumi
14 19 (6.99%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.82%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.31%) DHCP
2 9 (3.31%) DNS
3 8 (2.94%) VPN
4 7 (2.57%) Firewall
4 7 (2.57%) Internet
4 7 (2.57%) Network Security
5 6 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.84%) Broadband
7 3 (1.10%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (1.10%) SAN
7 3 (1.10%) VLAN
8 2 (0.74%) HTTP
8 2 (0.74%) MQTT
8 2 (0.74%) PBX
9 1 (0.37%) LAN
9 1 (0.37%) LTE
9 1 (0.37%) Multicast
9 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (30.15%) SQL Server
2 61 (22.43%) MySQL
3 59 (21.69%) Relational Database
4 57 (20.96%) MongoDB
5 55 (20.22%) NoSQL
6 38 (13.97%) Redis
7 32 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
8 26 (9.56%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (8.09%) Power BI
10 19 (6.99%) DynamoDB
11 10 (3.68%) Oracle Database
12 9 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.31%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.31%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.21%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.47%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 88 (32.35%) Git
2 33 (12.13%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.99%) JUnit
4 15 (5.51%) JIRA
5 13 (4.78%) GitLab
6 10 (3.68%) Mockito
7 9 (3.31%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.94%) Selenium
9 7 (2.57%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.84%) JMeter
11 4 (1.47%) Maven
12 2 (0.74%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.74%) Gradle
13 1 (0.37%) Appium
13 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.37%) ERwin
13 1 (0.37%) jMock
13 1 (0.37%) MSTest
13 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 90 (33.09%) Social Skills
2 30 (11.03%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.35%) Finance
5 17 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.68%) Advertising
7 10 (3.68%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.94%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.94%) Games
9 7 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.84%) Automotive
10 5 (1.84%) Retail
11 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.10%) Marketing
12 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.74%) Legal
12 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 89 (32.72%) Developer
2 58 (21.32%) Senior
3 41 (15.07%) Software Engineer
4 36 (13.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 20 (7.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 18 (6.62%) Lead
8 16 (5.88%) Python Engineer
9 15 (5.51%) DBA
9 15 (5.51%) IT Support
9 15 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.15%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.15%) Analyst
10 14 (5.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.78%) Java Engineer
12 12 (4.41%) Java Software Engineer
12 12 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (4.04%) Administrator
14 10 (3.68%) Architect
14 10 (3.68%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (26.84%) React
2 54 (19.85%) Spring
2 54 (19.85%) Spring Boot
3 50 (18.38%) RESTful
4 45 (16.54%) Django
4 45 (16.54%) REST
5 34 (12.50%) Node.js
6 30 (11.03%) .NET
7 25 (9.19%) AngularJS
8 24 (8.82%) Vue
9 21 (7.72%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (7.72%) Web Services
10 20 (7.35%) HTML
11 18 (6.62%) .NET Core
11 18 (6.62%) Kafka
12 17 (6.25%) Flask
13 16 (5.88%) CSS
13 16 (5.88%) FastAPI
14 15 (5.51%) JSON
15 14 (5.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 34 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (6.25%) Replication
4 13 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.21%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.84%) Clustering
9 5 (1.84%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.84%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.47%) CUDA
10 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.47%) IoT
10 4 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 59 (21.69%) Linux
2 26 (9.56%) Unix
3 17 (6.25%) Windows
4 14 (5.15%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.47%) Debian
7 3 (1.10%) CentOS
7 3 (1.10%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.74%) VMS
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (46.69%) CI/CD
2 104 (38.24%) DevOps
3 102 (37.50%) Agile
4 81 (29.78%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (29.04%) Microservices
6 73 (26.84%) Software Engineering
7 70 (25.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (25.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 57 (20.96%) TDD
10 56 (20.59%) Containerisation
11 47 (17.28%) Test Automation
12 39 (14.34%) AI
12 39 (14.34%) Mentoring
13 35 (12.87%) Observability
14 33 (12.13%) BDD
15 32 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (11.40%) Data Modelling
16 31 (11.40%) Scrum
17 30 (11.03%) Clean Code
18 28 (10.29%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 120 (44.12%) Python
2 95 (34.93%) SQL
3 90 (33.09%) Java
4 58 (21.32%) JavaScript
5 36 (13.24%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.46%) Go
7 22 (8.09%) C#
8 21 (7.72%) PowerShell
9 16 (5.88%) C
10 11 (4.04%) PHP
10 11 (4.04%) T-SQL
11 9 (3.31%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.94%) C++
13 7 (2.57%) Bash
13 7 (2.57%) Delphi
14 2 (0.74%) R
14 2 (0.74%) Scala
15 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.50%) Degree
3 31 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.04%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.04%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.10%) RHCE
8 2 (0.74%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.19%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.68%) QA
4 6 (2.21%) GDPR
5 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.10%) NCSC
6 2 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.74%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 110 (40.44%) Docker
2 23 (8.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (1.47%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.74%) Samba
5 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 88 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 69 (25.37%) Terraform
3 23 (8.46%) Ansible
4 14 (5.15%) AWS Copilot
5 11 (4.04%) Grafana
6 6 (2.21%) Kibana
6 6 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.84%) Nagios
8 4 (1.47%) Control-M
8 4 (1.47%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.10%) Rancher
10 2 (0.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.74%) Puppet
11 1 (0.37%) Podman
11 1 (0.37%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 44 (16.18%) Oracle
2 42 (15.44%) Google
3 24 (8.82%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.04%) Pega
5 7 (2.57%) Informatica
6 6 (2.21%) WSO2
7 5 (1.84%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.84%) Splunk
8 4 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.47%) VMware
9 3 (1.10%) Confluent
9 3 (1.10%) Dell
9 3 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.74%) D-Link
10 2 (0.74%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.74%) Meraki
10 2 (0.74%) RedGate
10 2 (0.74%) Talend
11 1 (0.37%) SolarWinds