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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 160 221
Rank change year-on-year -153 +61 +15
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 261 481 824
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.84% 1.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.93% 10.94% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 180 257 547
10th Percentile £33,000 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £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 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,000 £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 4,403 4,395 11,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.98% 16.84% 18.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,515 2,911 8,125
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -27 96 £65,000 -6.22% 58
South East -133 65 £57,500 -23.33% 47
Yorkshire -16 43 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -29 41 £76,250 +10.02% 34
South West -50 30 £62,500 -3.85% 18
Midlands -44 25 £55,200 -15.08% 18
Scotland -31 20 £67,500 +12.03% 12
East of England -67 19 £45,000 -21.74% 16
West Midlands -11 16 £45,000 -30.77% 9
North East -21 12 £53,565 -22.76% 6
East Midlands -42 9 £60,100 -14.14% 9
Wales -43 7 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -33 4 £73,801 +18.74%
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 16 (6.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.36%) OpenStack
3 10 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.77%) CMS
6 2 (0.77%) Confluence
6 2 (0.77%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 169 (64.75%) AWS
2 105 (40.23%) Azure
3 69 (26.44%) GCP
4 52 (19.92%) Serverless
5 45 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (14.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (11.88%) Amazon S3
7 31 (11.88%) GitHub
8 28 (10.73%) Amazon EKS
9 26 (9.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (9.20%) dbt
10 24 (9.20%) SaaS
11 23 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (8.43%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (8.05%) Power Platform
14 20 (7.66%) Amazon ECR
14 20 (7.66%) Pulumi
15 19 (7.28%) AWS Step Functions
15 19 (7.28%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.20%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.07%) DHCP
2 8 (3.07%) DNS
2 8 (3.07%) VPN
3 7 (2.68%) Firewall
3 7 (2.68%) Internet
3 7 (2.68%) Network Security
4 6 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.92%) Broadband
6 3 (1.15%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.15%) SAN
6 3 (1.15%) VLAN
7 2 (0.77%) HTTP
7 2 (0.77%) PBX
8 1 (0.38%) LAN
8 1 (0.38%) LTE
8 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (29.50%) SQL Server
2 60 (22.99%) MySQL
3 56 (21.46%) Relational Database
4 53 (20.31%) MongoDB
5 51 (19.54%) NoSQL
6 38 (14.56%) Redis
7 34 (13.03%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (8.05%) Power BI
10 18 (6.90%) DynamoDB
11 10 (3.83%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (3.83%) Oracle Database
12 9 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.45%) RDBMS
13 8 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (2.30%) BigQuery
16 5 (1.92%) TimescaleDB
17 4 (1.53%) Looker
Development Applications
1 84 (32.18%) Git
2 36 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 21 (8.05%) JUnit
4 16 (6.13%) JIRA
5 14 (5.36%) GitLab
6 11 (4.21%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.21%) Mockito
7 8 (3.07%) Selenium
8 7 (2.68%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.30%) JMeter
10 3 (1.15%) Maven
10 3 (1.15%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.77%) Appium
11 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.77%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.77%) Gradle
11 2 (0.77%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.77%) Subversion
12 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 90 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (10.73%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.51%) Finance
5 16 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.45%) Advertising
7 9 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.07%) Games
9 7 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.92%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.92%) Retail
11 3 (1.15%) Automotive
11 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.15%) Marketing
12 2 (0.77%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.38%) Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Electronics
13 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (33.33%) Developer
2 58 (22.22%) Senior
3 44 (16.86%) Software Engineer
4 35 (13.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 33 (12.64%) Java Developer
6 20 (7.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 18 (6.90%) Lead
8 15 (5.75%) Analyst
8 15 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (5.36%) .NET Developer
9 14 (5.36%) IT Support
9 14 (5.36%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 13 (4.98%) DBA
10 13 (4.98%) Java Engineer
11 12 (4.60%) Java Software Engineer
11 12 (4.60%) Python Engineer
11 12 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.83%) Data Analyst
12 10 (3.83%) Junior
13 9 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (27.97%) React
2 55 (21.07%) Spring
2 55 (21.07%) Spring Boot
3 49 (18.77%) RESTful
4 44 (16.86%) REST
5 41 (15.71%) Django
6 32 (12.26%) Node.js
7 30 (11.49%) .NET
8 23 (8.81%) Vue
9 22 (8.43%) AngularJS
10 21 (8.05%) HTML
10 21 (8.05%) Web Services
11 20 (7.66%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (6.90%) .NET Core
12 18 (6.90%) Kafka
13 17 (6.51%) JSON
14 16 (6.13%) CSS
15 14 (5.36%) AWS CDK
15 14 (5.36%) Flask
15 14 (5.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.86%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.51%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.36%) Replication
5 11 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.07%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.30%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.92%) Clustering
10 5 (1.92%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
11 4 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.53%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.15%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.15%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 61 (23.37%) Linux
2 27 (10.34%) Unix
3 17 (6.51%) Windows
4 13 (4.98%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.15%) CentOS
6 3 (1.15%) Debian
6 3 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.77%) VMS
7 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.38%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 103 (39.46%) Agile
2 103 (39.46%) DevOps
3 83 (31.80%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (30.27%) Microservices
5 74 (28.35%) Software Engineering
6 68 (26.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 66 (25.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 57 (21.84%) Containerisation
9 56 (21.46%) TDD
10 47 (18.01%) Test Automation
11 41 (15.71%) Mentoring
12 34 (13.03%) BDD
13 33 (12.64%) Observability
14 32 (12.26%) AI
15 30 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (10.73%) Scrum
17 27 (10.34%) Data Modelling
18 26 (9.96%) Clean Code
19 25 (9.58%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 111 (42.53%) Python
2 92 (35.25%) Java
3 87 (33.33%) SQL
4 56 (21.46%) JavaScript
5 36 (13.79%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.81%) Go
7 22 (8.43%) C#
8 21 (8.05%) PowerShell
9 16 (6.13%) C
10 11 (4.21%) PHP
10 11 (4.21%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.83%) Shell Script
12 8 (3.07%) C++
13 7 (2.68%) Delphi
14 6 (2.30%) Bash
15 2 (0.77%) R
16 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.38%) Rust
16 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.49%) Degree
2 30 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.21%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.21%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.15%) RHCE
8 2 (0.77%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.77%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.43%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.21%) QA
3 5 (1.92%) GDPR
4 3 (1.15%) NCSC
5 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 108 (41.38%) Docker
2 22 (8.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (1.53%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.77%) Samba
5 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 86 (32.95%) Kubernetes
2 65 (24.90%) Terraform
3 23 (8.81%) Ansible
4 14 (5.36%) AWS Copilot
5 9 (3.45%) Grafana
6 8 (3.07%) Kibana
7 5 (1.92%) Nagios
7 5 (1.92%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.53%) Control-M
8 4 (1.53%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.15%) Rancher
10 2 (0.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.77%) Puppet
11 1 (0.38%) Podman
11 1 (0.38%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 43 (16.48%) Google
2 42 (16.09%) Oracle
3 20 (7.66%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.83%) Pega
5 7 (2.68%) Informatica
6 6 (2.30%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.30%) Splunk
7 5 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.92%) WSO2
8 4 (1.53%) VMware
9 3 (1.15%) Confluent
9 3 (1.15%) Dell
9 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.77%) D-Link
10 2 (0.77%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.77%) RedGate
10 2 (0.77%) Talend
11 1 (0.38%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds