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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 260 168
Rank change year-on-year -71 -92 +55
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 387 328 851
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.94% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.88% 7.50% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 301 206 431
10th Percentile £40,800 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,199
90th Percentile £88,148 £78,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 5,621 4,371 7,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.99% 12.51% 13.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,907 2,776 4,485
10th Percentile £34,900 £30,750 £32,660
25th Percentile £41,754 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,450 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +3.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -7 126 £65,000 +4.00% 75
North of England -33 123 £65,000 -3.70% 50
North West -2 57 £65,000 -3.70% 33
South West -58 48 £63,750 +30.77% 39
North East -29 40 £65,000 +26.83% 6
Midlands -45 31 £72,155 +3.08% 31
East of England -15 29 £52,500 +69.35% 12
Yorkshire -38 26 £69,310 +0.81% 11
West Midlands -38 22 £83,774 +15.55% 18
Wales -52 21 £67,500 -12.90% 8
Scotland -14 17 £65,000 -3.70% 21
East Midlands -25 9 £60,000 +9.09% 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 13 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.84%) Apache
4 9 (2.33%) Confluence
5 7 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.55%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Documentum
8 1 (0.26%) IIS
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Finacle
2 1 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 214 (55.30%) AWS
2 158 (40.83%) Azure
3 69 (17.83%) GCP
4 59 (15.25%) GitHub
5 40 (10.34%) Serverless
6 37 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (6.20%) SaaS
9 22 (5.68%) Azure AKS
9 22 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (4.13%) GitHub Copilot
13 15 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (3.62%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.62%) Azure Functions
14 14 (3.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.84%) Firewall
2 8 (2.07%) DNS
3 7 (1.81%) Broadband
4 6 (1.55%) DHCP
4 6 (1.55%) iSCSI
4 6 (1.55%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (1.55%) SAN
5 4 (1.03%) HTTP
5 4 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.78%) VPN
7 2 (0.52%) MQTT
7 2 (0.52%) VLAN
8 1 (0.26%) 4G
8 1 (0.26%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.26%) LAN
8 1 (0.26%) Multicast
8 1 (0.26%) Network Security
8 1 (0.26%) PBX
8 1 (0.26%) SMS
8 1 (0.26%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (30.75%) MySQL
2 104 (26.87%) MongoDB
3 86 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 84 (21.71%) SQL Server
5 58 (14.99%) NoSQL
6 31 (8.01%) Redis
7 18 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.62%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.84%) Power BI
10 11 (2.84%) RDBMS
11 9 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (2.33%) Oracle Database
12 8 (2.07%) GIS
13 7 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.55%) Pinecone
15 5 (1.29%) MariaDB
15 5 (1.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 118 (30.49%) Git
2 34 (8.79%) GitLab
3 30 (7.75%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.91%) JIRA
5 17 (4.39%) JUnit
6 11 (2.84%) Mockito
7 10 (2.58%) JMeter
8 9 (2.33%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.55%) Selenium
10 5 (1.29%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.29%) Mocha
10 5 (1.29%) RSpec
10 5 (1.29%) Storybook
11 4 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.03%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.03%) minitest
12 3 (0.78%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.78%) Maven
12 3 (0.78%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 94 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.64%) Public Sector
3 42 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (6.20%) Finance
6 17 (4.39%) Law
7 15 (3.88%) Manufacturing
7 15 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.36%) Legal
9 12 (3.10%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.84%) Advertising
10 11 (2.84%) Banking
11 9 (2.33%) Games
12 8 (2.07%) Automotive
12 8 (2.07%) Aviation
13 7 (1.81%) Retail
14 6 (1.55%) Tech for Good
15 5 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.29%) Telecoms
16 4 (1.03%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 124 (32.04%) Developer
2 105 (27.13%) Senior
3 83 (21.45%) Software Engineer
4 48 (12.40%) Lead
5 42 (10.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (8.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (8.01%) Python Engineer
7 29 (7.49%) Java Developer
7 29 (7.49%) Software Developer
8 28 (7.24%) Senior Developer
9 25 (6.46%) Lead Software Engineer
10 23 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (5.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 21 (5.43%) Python Developer
13 20 (5.17%) Data Engineer
14 19 (4.91%) DBA
15 17 (4.39%) Architect
16 15 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
16 15 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 13 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (26.36%) React
2 85 (21.96%) Terraform
3 79 (20.41%) Node.js
4 68 (17.57%) REST
5 62 (16.02%) RESTful
6 54 (13.95%) CSS
7 50 (12.92%) Spring
8 49 (12.66%) .NET
8 49 (12.66%) Spring Boot
9 46 (11.89%) HTML
10 42 (10.85%) Kafka
11 32 (8.27%) AngularJS
12 29 (7.49%) Next.js
12 29 (7.49%) Vue
13 27 (6.98%) Hibernate
14 24 (6.20%) RabbitMQ
15 23 (5.94%) Flask
16 21 (5.43%) Django
17 20 (5.17%) JPA
18 19 (4.91%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 80 (20.67%) Cloud Native
2 49 (12.66%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (8.01%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.88%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.88%) Algorithms
5 15 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.10%) Renewable Energy
6 12 (3.10%) Replication
7 11 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.84%) Robotics
8 10 (2.58%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.33%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.33%) Virtual Team
10 8 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.07%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.81%) IoT
11 7 (1.81%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 87 (22.48%) Linux
2 33 (8.53%) Windows
3 15 (3.88%) Unix
4 14 (3.62%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.52%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Solaris
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (52.71%) CI/CD
2 165 (42.64%) Agile
3 149 (38.50%) Software Engineering
4 134 (34.63%) DevOps
5 110 (28.42%) Full-Stack Development
6 109 (28.17%) Microservices
7 96 (24.81%) Mentoring
8 91 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 83 (21.45%) AI
11 68 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 63 (16.28%) Test Automation
13 62 (16.02%) Containerisation
14 56 (14.47%) Scrum
15 52 (13.44%) Observability
16 49 (12.66%) Data Modelling
17 46 (11.89%) TDD
18 45 (11.63%) Decision-Making
19 43 (11.11%) Analytics
20 40 (10.34%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 142 (36.69%) Python
2 123 (31.78%) SQL
3 99 (25.58%) Java
4 95 (24.55%) JavaScript
5 76 (19.64%) TypeScript
6 53 (13.70%) C#
7 26 (6.72%) Bash
8 24 (6.20%) Go
9 23 (5.94%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.36%) Ruby
11 11 (2.84%) C++
11 11 (2.84%) PHP
12 10 (2.58%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.55%) Scala
14 5 (1.29%) Korn
15 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.26%) C
17 1 (0.26%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 70 (18.09%) Degree
2 58 (14.99%) Security Cleared
3 47 (12.14%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (6.20%) Master's Degree
5 19 (4.91%) DV Cleared
6 17 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.07%) PhD
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.52%) CISSP
11 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.52%) RHCE
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.26%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.49%) QA
2 26 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.84%) GDPR
5 10 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.52%) NCSC
7 2 (0.52%) SLA
7 2 (0.52%) WCAG
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 121 (31.27%) Docker
2 15 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.26%) Samba
5 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 117 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.01%) Ansible
3 27 (6.98%) Grafana
4 23 (5.94%) Prometheus
5 22 (5.68%) Argo
6 10 (2.58%) Kibana
7 6 (1.55%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.55%) Puppet
8 4 (1.03%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.78%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.78%) Istio
9 3 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.78%) Plesk
9 3 (0.78%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.52%) Rancher
11 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 49 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.34%) Oracle
3 23 (5.94%) Google
4 18 (4.65%) Splunk
5 12 (3.10%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.84%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.58%) Databricks
8 7 (1.81%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.81%) Pega
9 6 (1.55%) Dell
10 5 (1.29%) Meraki
11 4 (1.03%) IBM
11 4 (1.03%) Informatica
11 4 (1.03%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.78%) VMware
13 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.52%) UiPath
13 2 (0.52%) WSO2