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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 155 204
Rank change year-on-year -157 +49 +10
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 212 633 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.75% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.61% 11.12% 7.55%
Number of salaries quoted 148 247 382
10th Percentile £32,475 £46,250 £40,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% +10.61% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -3.57%

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 3,780 5,691 6,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.93% 15.73% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,390 2,956 5,085
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,897 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +2.61% -2.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +3 78 £73,801 +6.48% 130
South East -124 46 £60,000 -25.00% 228
Yorkshire +14 42 £70,000 - 59
Midlands -3 31 £60,100 -7.54% 90
South West -53 29 £50,000 -23.08% 104
North West -8 28 £85,000 +30.77% 52
West Midlands +10 21 £61,350 -5.62% 26
East of England -41 14 £42,500 -26.09% 119
Scotland -27 11 £73,801 +27.24% 27
East Midlands -20 10 £60,100 +0.17% 60
North East +6 8 £55,200 -20.35% 19
Wales -23 5 £73,801 +13.54% 40
Northern Ireland -12 3 £73,801 +11.98% 19
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 12 (5.66%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.89%) Confluence
2 4 (1.89%) nginx
3 2 (0.94%) CMS
3 2 (0.94%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) Camunda
4 1 (0.47%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) WildFly
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 162 (76.42%) AWS
2 88 (41.51%) Azure
3 53 (25.00%) Serverless
4 50 (23.58%) Amazon ECS
5 42 (19.81%) GCP
6 35 (16.51%) GitHub
7 33 (15.57%) Amazon S3
8 32 (15.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (14.15%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (13.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (11.32%) SaaS
12 21 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (9.43%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (8.49%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (8.02%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (8.02%) dbt
16 16 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
16 16 (7.55%) Pulumi
17 15 (7.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 15 (7.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.49%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.25%) Firewall
3 7 (3.30%) DNS
4 6 (2.83%) HTTP
4 6 (2.83%) Internet
5 5 (2.36%) VPN
5 5 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.89%) FTP
6 4 (1.89%) IMAP
6 4 (1.89%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.89%) SMTP
6 4 (1.89%) SSH
7 2 (0.94%) AMQP
7 2 (0.94%) DHCP
7 2 (0.94%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.94%) Network Security
7 2 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.94%) SAN
7 2 (0.94%) VLAN
8 1 (0.47%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (26.42%) SQL Server
2 53 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 49 (23.11%) MySQL
4 33 (15.57%) MongoDB
5 32 (15.09%) Redis
6 29 (13.68%) NoSQL
7 26 (12.26%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (11.32%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (8.49%) DynamoDB
10 12 (5.66%) RDBMS
11 9 (4.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (3.30%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (2.36%) Power BI
15 4 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.89%) Oracle Database 10g
15 4 (1.89%) Oracle Database 11g
15 4 (1.89%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 72 (33.96%) Git
2 51 (24.06%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.79%) JUnit
4 14 (6.60%) Cucumber
4 14 (6.60%) JMeter
5 13 (6.13%) Mockito
6 12 (5.66%) JIRA
7 11 (5.19%) GitLab
8 8 (3.77%) Selenium
9 5 (2.36%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.89%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.42%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.42%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.94%) Appium
12 2 (0.94%) Gradle
12 2 (0.94%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.47%) jMock
13 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.38%) Public Sector
3 19 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.13%) Finance
5 11 (5.19%) Marketing
5 11 (5.19%) Retail
6 5 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.36%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Advertising
9 2 (0.94%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.94%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.47%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) Games
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (41.98%) Developer
2 50 (23.58%) Senior
3 33 (15.57%) Java Developer
3 33 (15.57%) Software Engineer
4 31 (14.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (9.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 21 (9.91%) Software Developer
6 19 (8.96%) Lead
7 14 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (6.13%) .NET Developer
9 12 (5.66%) DBA
9 12 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.19%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 10 (4.72%) Junior
11 10 (4.72%) Python Developer
11 10 (4.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.25%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.25%) Lead Developer
12 9 (4.25%) Lead Software Developer
13 8 (3.77%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.42%) React
2 55 (25.94%) Spring
3 51 (24.06%) Spring Boot
4 43 (20.28%) RESTful
5 36 (16.98%) REST
6 32 (15.09%) .NET
7 31 (14.62%) Django
8 29 (13.68%) Node.js
9 26 (12.26%) HTML
10 23 (10.85%) Web Services
11 22 (10.38%) Kafka
12 19 (8.96%) .NET Core
13 18 (8.49%) AngularJS
13 18 (8.49%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (7.55%) Hibernate
15 15 (7.08%) Apache Camel
15 15 (7.08%) CSS
15 15 (7.08%) Vue
16 14 (6.60%) ASP.NET
16 14 (6.60%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.04%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (13.21%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.72%) Replication
5 8 (3.77%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (2.83%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.36%) Clustering
8 4 (1.89%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.42%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.94%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 55 (25.94%) Linux
2 21 (9.91%) Unix
2 21 (9.91%) Windows
3 11 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.83%) VMS
5 5 (2.36%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.89%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.89%) Debian
6 4 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.42%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.47%) Fedora
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (51.89%) CI/CD
2 87 (41.04%) DevOps
2 87 (41.04%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (38.68%) Microservices
4 74 (34.91%) Agile
5 53 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 50 (23.58%) Software Engineering
7 46 (21.70%) Containerisation
7 46 (21.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (21.70%) TDD
8 32 (15.09%) Workflow
9 30 (14.15%) BDD
9 30 (14.15%) Mentoring
10 29 (13.68%) Clean Code
11 28 (13.21%) Migration
12 25 (11.79%) SDLC
13 24 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (10.85%) Observability
14 23 (10.85%) Test Automation
15 21 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 91 (42.92%) Python
2 74 (34.91%) Java
3 66 (31.13%) SQL
4 51 (24.06%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.68%) TypeScript
6 25 (11.79%) C#
7 18 (8.49%) Go
8 14 (6.60%) Shell Script
9 13 (6.13%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.72%) C
11 9 (4.25%) PHP
12 7 (3.30%) Delphi
13 6 (2.83%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.89%) Groovy
15 3 (1.42%) Bash
16 2 (0.94%) C++
16 2 (0.94%) Korn
16 2 (0.94%) VB
16 2 (0.94%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.85%) Degree
4 15 (7.08%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.19%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.94%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.36%) QA
1 5 (2.36%) SLA
2 4 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.42%) GDPR
4 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 103 (48.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.89%) DFS Replication
2 4 (1.89%) Dovecot
2 4 (1.89%) Postfix
2 4 (1.89%) Squid
3 2 (0.94%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (34.43%) Kubernetes
2 51 (24.06%) Terraform
3 21 (9.91%) Ansible
4 14 (6.60%) Kibana
5 11 (5.19%) Grafana
6 10 (4.72%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.83%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.89%) Nessus
8 4 (1.89%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.42%) Control-M
9 3 (1.42%) Nagios
9 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.94%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.94%) Rancher
11 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (13.21%) Oracle
2 18 (8.49%) Google
3 14 (6.60%) Splunk
4 12 (5.66%) Microsoft
5 11 (5.19%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.30%) Informatica
7 5 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.89%) Pega
8 4 (1.89%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.89%) VMware
8 4 (1.89%) WSO2
9 3 (1.42%) RedGate
9 3 (1.42%) Talend
10 2 (0.94%) Dell
10 2 (0.94%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.94%) SAP
11 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.47%) OpenText
11 1 (0.47%) SendGrid