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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 278 170
Rank change year-on-year -45 -108 +57
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 386 306 836
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.89% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.86% 7.30% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 303 187 399
10th Percentile £40,890 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £45,625 £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 £76,288 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £79,250 £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 5,625 4,193 7,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.88% 12.17% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,943 2,622 4,182
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,800
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -12 125 £65,000 - 78
North of England -26 122 £65,000 -3.70% 61
North West -11 57 £65,000 -3.70% 39
South West -56 49 £65,000 +30.00% 50
North East -36 39 £65,000 +26.83% 8
Midlands -40 32 £75,000 +7.14% 32
East of England -29 29 £52,500 +72.13% 23
Yorkshire -45 26 £69,310 -0.99% 14
West Midlands -40 23 £83,774 +15.55% 21
Wales -44 21 £67,500 -12.90% 10
Scotland -4 17 £65,000 -3.70% 27
East Midlands -29 9 £60,000 +9.09% 10
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 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.59%) Apache
4 9 (2.33%) Confluence
5 7 (1.81%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.30%) WordPress
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Documentum
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 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
1 210 (54.40%) AWS
2 157 (40.67%) Azure
3 67 (17.36%) GCP
4 59 (15.28%) GitHub
5 40 (10.36%) Serverless
6 37 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (6.74%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (6.22%) SaaS
9 22 (5.70%) Azure AKS
9 22 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (4.66%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (4.15%) GitHub Copilot
13 15 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (3.63%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.63%) Azure Functions
14 14 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (3.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.59%) Firewall
2 9 (2.33%) DNS
3 6 (1.55%) Broadband
3 6 (1.55%) DHCP
4 5 (1.30%) HTTP
4 5 (1.30%) iSCSI
4 5 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (1.30%) SAN
4 5 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.52%) 4G
5 2 (0.52%) 5G
5 2 (0.52%) MQTT
5 2 (0.52%) SSH
5 2 (0.52%) VLAN
5 2 (0.52%) VPN
6 1 (0.26%) Internet
6 1 (0.26%) LAN
6 1 (0.26%) Multicast
6 1 (0.26%) SMS
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (30.31%) MySQL
2 102 (26.42%) MongoDB
3 85 (22.02%) Relational Database
4 84 (21.76%) SQL Server
5 56 (14.51%) NoSQL
6 32 (8.29%) Redis
7 19 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.63%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.85%) Power BI
11 10 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (2.59%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.33%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (2.07%) GIS
14 7 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (1.55%) Pinecone
16 5 (1.30%) MariaDB
16 5 (1.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 118 (30.57%) Git
2 35 (9.07%) GitLab
3 31 (8.03%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.66%) JIRA
5 16 (4.15%) JUnit
6 10 (2.59%) JMeter
6 10 (2.59%) Mockito
7 9 (2.33%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.81%) Selenium
9 5 (1.30%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.30%) Mocha
9 5 (1.30%) RSpec
9 5 (1.30%) Storybook
10 4 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.04%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.04%) minitest
11 3 (0.78%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.78%) Maven
11 3 (0.78%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 91 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.69%) Public Sector
3 42 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.44%) Finance
6 17 (4.40%) Law
7 15 (3.89%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.37%) Legal
10 12 (3.11%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.85%) Banking
12 10 (2.59%) Advertising
13 8 (2.07%) Automotive
13 8 (2.07%) Aviation
13 8 (2.07%) Games
14 7 (1.81%) Retail
15 6 (1.55%) Tech for Good
15 6 (1.55%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (1.04%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 122 (31.61%) Developer
2 105 (27.20%) Senior
3 83 (21.50%) Software Engineer
4 48 (12.44%) Lead
5 40 (10.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (8.29%) Python Engineer
7 31 (8.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 29 (7.51%) Software Developer
9 28 (7.25%) Java Developer
9 28 (7.25%) Senior Developer
10 25 (6.48%) Lead Software Engineer
11 23 (5.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 22 (5.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 21 (5.44%) Data Engineer
13 21 (5.44%) Python Developer
14 20 (5.18%) DBA
15 17 (4.40%) Architect
16 15 (3.89%) Senior DevOps
16 15 (3.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 13 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (26.17%) React
2 85 (22.02%) Terraform
3 78 (20.21%) Node.js
4 67 (17.36%) REST
5 61 (15.80%) RESTful
6 54 (13.99%) CSS
7 50 (12.95%) .NET
8 48 (12.44%) Spring
9 47 (12.18%) Spring Boot
10 46 (11.92%) HTML
11 44 (11.40%) Kafka
12 31 (8.03%) AngularJS
13 29 (7.51%) Next.js
14 28 (7.25%) Vue
15 26 (6.74%) Hibernate
16 25 (6.48%) RabbitMQ
17 24 (6.22%) Flask
18 21 (5.44%) Django
19 20 (5.18%) FastAPI
20 19 (4.92%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.98%) Cloud Native
2 48 (12.44%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.51%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.18%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.89%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.63%) Algorithms
7 12 (3.11%) Renewable Energy
8 11 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.85%) Replication
8 11 (2.85%) Robotics
9 10 (2.59%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.33%) Virtual Team
11 8 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.81%) IoT
12 7 (1.81%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.55%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 87 (22.54%) Linux
2 33 (8.55%) Windows
3 15 (3.89%) Unix
4 14 (3.63%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) AIX
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Debian
6 1 (0.26%) Solaris
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (52.59%) CI/CD
2 164 (42.49%) Agile
3 147 (38.08%) Software Engineering
4 134 (34.72%) DevOps
5 107 (27.72%) Full-Stack Development
5 107 (27.72%) Microservices
6 95 (24.61%) Mentoring
7 91 (23.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 90 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (21.50%) AI
10 67 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (15.80%) Containerisation
11 61 (15.80%) Test Automation
12 56 (14.51%) Scrum
13 53 (13.73%) Observability
14 47 (12.18%) Data Modelling
15 46 (11.92%) Decision-Making
16 45 (11.66%) TDD
17 44 (11.40%) Analytics
18 40 (10.36%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 143 (37.05%) Python
2 123 (31.87%) SQL
3 97 (25.13%) Java
4 95 (24.61%) JavaScript
5 75 (19.43%) TypeScript
6 54 (13.99%) C#
7 26 (6.74%) Bash
8 24 (6.22%) Go
9 22 (5.70%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.37%) Ruby
11 11 (2.85%) C++
11 11 (2.85%) PHP
11 11 (2.85%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.55%) Scala
13 5 (1.30%) Korn
14 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.26%) COBOL
16 1 (0.26%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 69 (17.88%) Degree
2 60 (15.54%) Security Cleared
3 49 (12.69%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (6.22%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.18%) DV Cleared
6 18 (4.66%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.07%) PhD
9 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.52%) CISSP
10 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.51%) QA
2 26 (6.74%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.85%) GDPR
5 10 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.52%) NCSC
7 2 (0.52%) WCAG
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 120 (31.09%) Docker
2 14 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 116 (30.05%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.03%) Ansible
3 29 (7.51%) Grafana
4 25 (6.48%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.96%) Argo
6 10 (2.59%) Kibana
7 6 (1.55%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.55%) Puppet
8 5 (1.30%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.04%) Istio
10 3 (0.78%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.78%) Plesk
10 3 (0.78%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.52%) Rancher
12 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 47 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.36%) Oracle
3 22 (5.70%) Google
4 18 (4.66%) Splunk
5 12 (3.11%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.85%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.59%) Databricks
8 7 (1.81%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.81%) Pega
9 5 (1.30%) Dell
9 5 (1.30%) Meraki
10 4 (1.04%) IBM
10 4 (1.04%) Informatica
10 4 (1.04%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.78%) VMware
12 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.52%) Mistral
12 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.52%) UiPath
12 2 (0.52%) WSO2