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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 151 213
Rank change year-on-year -164 +62 +7
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 211 633 622
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.83% 1.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.47% 11.48% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 139 242 484
10th Percentile £33,800 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.59% +10.61% +6.23%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,376 £87,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 3,858 5,515 8,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.54% 15.96% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,347 2,844 6,892
10th Percentile £31,860 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,526
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +12.17% -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 31 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 31 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 -23 76 £73,801 +6.48% 47
South East -131 45 £60,000 -25.00% 46
Yorkshire +7 36 £62,500 +23.90% 8
North West -16 32 £85,000 +21.43% 35
Midlands -15 31 £55,200 -15.08% 25
South West -50 27 £57,000 -12.31% 33
West Midlands +11 21 £55,200 -15.08% 15
Scotland -34 15 £73,801 +22.49% 17
East of England -32 14 £42,500 -26.09% 15
East Midlands -21 10 £60,100 +0.17% 10
North East -2 8 £55,200 -20.35% 5
Wales -29 5 £73,801 +13.54% 3
Northern Ireland -19 3 £73,801 +11.98%
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 (5.69%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.42%) Confluence
4 3 (1.42%) nginx
5 2 (0.95%) CMS
5 2 (0.95%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.47%) Camunda
6 1 (0.47%) JBoss
6 1 (0.47%) WildFly
6 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 150 (71.09%) AWS
2 80 (37.91%) Azure
3 54 (25.59%) Serverless
4 49 (23.22%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (18.01%) GCP
6 35 (16.59%) Amazon S3
7 34 (16.11%) GitHub
8 33 (15.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (14.22%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (13.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (11.37%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (10.43%) SaaS
13 21 (9.95%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (9.00%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (8.06%) dbt
16 16 (7.58%) Amazon ECR
16 16 (7.58%) Pulumi
17 15 (7.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 15 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.32%) DNS
2 7 (3.32%) Firewall
2 7 (3.32%) Internet
3 6 (2.84%) VPN
3 6 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.37%) HTTP
5 4 (1.90%) Network Security
6 3 (1.42%) DHCP
6 3 (1.42%) FTP
6 3 (1.42%) IMAP
6 3 (1.42%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.42%) SMTP
6 3 (1.42%) SSH
6 3 (1.42%) VLAN
7 1 (0.47%) AMQP
7 1 (0.47%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (27.96%) SQL Server
2 55 (26.07%) Relational Database
3 39 (18.48%) MySQL
4 32 (15.17%) Redis
5 28 (13.27%) NoSQL
6 27 (12.80%) MongoDB
7 26 (12.32%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (11.37%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (8.06%) DynamoDB
10 11 (5.21%) Power BI
10 11 (5.21%) RDBMS
11 9 (4.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (3.79%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (1.90%) Oracle Database 10g
15 4 (1.90%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 77 (36.49%) Git
2 45 (21.33%) Jenkins
3 24 (11.37%) JUnit
4 14 (6.64%) GitLab
5 13 (6.16%) Cucumber
5 13 (6.16%) JMeter
6 12 (5.69%) Mockito
7 11 (5.21%) JIRA
8 8 (3.79%) Selenium
9 6 (2.84%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.42%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.42%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.42%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.95%) Appium
11 2 (0.95%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.95%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.95%) Subversion
12 1 (0.47%) Gradle
12 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 74 (35.07%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.48%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.21%) Finance
5 7 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.32%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.37%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.42%) Marketing
7 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.42%) Retail
7 3 (1.42%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.95%) Advertising
9 1 (0.47%) Electronics
9 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (37.44%) Developer
2 51 (24.17%) Senior
3 37 (17.54%) Software Engineer
4 34 (16.11%) Java Developer
5 30 (14.22%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (9.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (7.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (6.16%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.16%) DBA
8 13 (6.16%) Lead
9 11 (5.21%) Analyst
9 11 (5.21%) Java Engineer
9 11 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.74%) Junior
10 10 (4.74%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 10 (4.74%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.74%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.32%) Administrator
11 7 (3.32%) Junior Developer
11 7 (3.32%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.96%) React
2 57 (27.01%) Spring
3 55 (26.07%) Spring Boot
4 37 (17.54%) REST
5 34 (16.11%) RESTful
6 31 (14.69%) Django
7 30 (14.22%) .NET
8 27 (12.80%) Node.js
9 22 (10.43%) HTML
9 22 (10.43%) Web Services
10 19 (9.00%) Kafka
11 18 (8.53%) .NET Core
11 18 (8.53%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (7.58%) Hibernate
12 16 (7.58%) JSON
12 16 (7.58%) Vue
13 15 (7.11%) XML
14 14 (6.64%) AngularJS
14 14 (6.64%) Apache Camel
14 14 (6.64%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.64%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (11.37%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.74%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (4.74%) Replication
4 5 (2.37%) Clustering
5 4 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (1.90%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.42%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.42%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.95%) Life Science
7 2 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 54 (25.59%) Linux
2 22 (10.43%) Unix
3 19 (9.00%) Windows
4 12 (5.69%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.37%) VMS
6 3 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.42%) Debian
6 3 (1.42%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.42%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.47%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (54.50%) CI/CD
2 86 (40.76%) DevOps
3 82 (38.86%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (34.60%) Agile
5 68 (32.23%) Microservices
6 59 (27.96%) Software Engineering
7 52 (24.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 51 (24.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (21.80%) TDD
10 39 (18.48%) Containerisation
11 29 (13.74%) BDD
12 27 (12.80%) Test Automation
13 24 (11.37%) Observability
13 24 (11.37%) Scrum
13 24 (11.37%) SDLC
13 24 (11.37%) Workflow
14 22 (10.43%) Migration
15 20 (9.48%) Clean Code
15 20 (9.48%) Mentoring
16 19 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 89 (42.18%) Python
2 80 (37.91%) Java
3 71 (33.65%) SQL
4 48 (22.75%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.74%) TypeScript
6 22 (10.43%) C#
7 20 (9.48%) Go
8 17 (8.06%) PowerShell
9 14 (6.64%) Shell Script
10 13 (6.16%) C
11 10 (4.74%) T-SQL
12 9 (4.27%) PHP
13 7 (3.32%) Delphi
14 5 (2.37%) C++
15 3 (1.42%) Groovy
16 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.47%) Perl
16 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.47%) Ruby
16 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.37%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.43%) Degree
4 14 (6.64%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.21%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.84%) QA
4 4 (1.90%) SLA
5 3 (1.42%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 92 (43.60%) Docker
2 7 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.42%) DFS Replication
3 3 (1.42%) Dovecot
3 3 (1.42%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.42%) Postfix
3 3 (1.42%) Squid
3 3 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (33.65%) Kubernetes
2 52 (24.64%) Terraform
3 23 (10.90%) Ansible
4 13 (6.16%) Kibana
5 10 (4.74%) AWS Copilot
5 10 (4.74%) Grafana
6 5 (2.37%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.90%) Control-M
7 4 (1.90%) Nagios
7 4 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.42%) Nessus
8 3 (1.42%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.42%) Rancher
9 2 (0.95%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (18.01%) Oracle
2 21 (9.95%) Google
3 11 (5.21%) Splunk
4 10 (4.74%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.74%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.79%) Informatica
6 5 (2.37%) VMware
7 4 (1.90%) Pega
7 4 (1.90%) WSO2
8 3 (1.42%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.42%) RedGate
8 3 (1.42%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.42%) Talend
9 2 (0.95%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.95%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.95%) SAP
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.47%) IBM
10 1 (0.47%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.47%) Siemens