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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 195 211
Rank change year-on-year -112 +16 +15
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 283 381 918
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 1.43% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.72% 8.92% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 202 240 574
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,063 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,986 £77,500 £71,806
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 4,950 4,271 11,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.78% 16.05% 17.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,778 2,994 8,221
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,606 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,575 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -39 100 £67,500 - 36
South East -95 81 £57,500 -17.86% 49
Yorkshire -32 46 £52,130 -12.73% 8
North West -41 41 £77,500 +14.71% 20
South West -52 34 £61,250 -5.77% 21
Scotland -30 23 £67,500 +8.00% 11
East of England -57 22 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Midlands -40 21 £51,350 -21.00% 20
North East -31 13 £53,565 -22.80% 8
West Midlands -34 12 £46,250 -28.85% 8
East Midlands -56 9 £60,100 -14.14% 12
Wales -52 5 £73,801 +13.54% 6
Northern Ireland -45 2 £73,801 +34.18% 5
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 23 (8.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.24%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.83%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.06%) Apache
6 2 (0.71%) Confluence
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.71%) WildFly
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 178 (62.90%) AWS
2 111 (39.22%) Azure
3 68 (24.03%) GCP
4 54 (19.08%) Serverless
5 34 (12.01%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (11.31%) GitHub
7 31 (10.95%) Amazon S3
7 31 (10.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (9.19%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (9.19%) SaaS
9 25 (8.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (8.48%) Power Platform
11 23 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (7.77%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (7.07%) dbt
14 19 (6.71%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (4.95%) OpenShift
16 13 (4.59%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.01%) TCP/IP
2 11 (3.89%) DHCP
2 11 (3.89%) DNS
2 11 (3.89%) Firewall
3 7 (2.47%) Internet
3 7 (2.47%) iSCSI
3 7 (2.47%) Network Security
3 7 (2.47%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (2.47%) SAN
4 6 (2.12%) VPN
5 5 (1.77%) Broadband
6 4 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.06%) VLAN
8 2 (0.71%) HTTP
8 2 (0.71%) MQTT
8 2 (0.71%) PBX
9 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.35%) LAN
9 1 (0.35%) LTE
9 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (32.16%) SQL Server
2 66 (23.32%) MySQL
3 65 (22.97%) MongoDB
4 57 (20.14%) NoSQL
5 53 (18.73%) Relational Database
6 30 (10.60%) Redis
7 26 (9.19%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (8.48%) Power BI
9 21 (7.42%) DynamoDB
10 19 (6.71%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.18%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.18%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.83%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.12%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.41%) Data Lake
15 4 (1.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 89 (31.45%) Git
2 25 (8.83%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.71%) GitLab
3 19 (6.71%) JUnit
4 13 (4.59%) JIRA
5 9 (3.18%) Mockito
5 9 (3.18%) Selenium
6 8 (2.83%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.83%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.41%) JMeter
7 4 (1.41%) Maven
8 2 (0.71%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.71%) Gradle
8 2 (0.71%) MSTest
9 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.35%) jMock
9 1 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.35%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.35%) utPLSQL
General
1 95 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.31%) Public Sector
3 30 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.07%) Finance
4 20 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (4.24%) Advertising
7 9 (3.18%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.18%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.83%) Games
8 8 (2.83%) Retail
9 7 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.77%) Automotive
11 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.71%) Aviation
12 2 (0.71%) Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.71%) Legal
12 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 86 (30.39%) Developer
2 64 (22.61%) Senior
3 41 (14.49%) Software Engineer
4 32 (11.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 27 (9.54%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.71%) Lead
7 16 (5.65%) Python Engineer
8 15 (5.30%) IT Support
9 14 (4.95%) .NET Developer
9 14 (4.95%) Analyst
9 14 (4.95%) DBA
9 14 (4.95%) Java Engineer
10 13 (4.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 13 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) IT Support Technician
12 11 (3.89%) IT Technician
12 11 (3.89%) Support Technician
13 10 (3.53%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (27.21%) React
2 53 (18.73%) RESTful
3 46 (16.25%) Spring
4 45 (15.90%) Spring Boot
5 43 (15.19%) REST
6 38 (13.43%) Django
6 38 (13.43%) Node.js
7 34 (12.01%) .NET
8 23 (8.13%) Vue
9 21 (7.42%) AngularJS
10 18 (6.36%) .NET Core
10 18 (6.36%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (6.36%) HTML
10 18 (6.36%) Web Services
11 17 (6.01%) Flask
11 17 (6.01%) JSON
11 17 (6.01%) Kafka
12 15 (5.30%) FastAPI
13 14 (4.95%) AWS CDK
13 14 (4.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.43%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.25%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.30%) Replication
4 13 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (4.24%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.24%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.89%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.18%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.12%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.77%) Clustering
9 5 (1.77%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.77%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.41%) CUDA
10 4 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.41%) IoT
10 4 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.26%) Linux
2 25 (8.83%) Unix
3 22 (7.77%) Windows
4 14 (4.95%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.06%) CentOS
7 2 (0.71%) Debian
7 2 (0.71%) VMS
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) AIX
8 1 (0.35%) Solaris
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (48.06%) CI/CD
2 109 (38.52%) Agile
3 100 (35.34%) DevOps
4 79 (27.92%) Microservices
4 79 (27.92%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (25.80%) Software Engineering
6 64 (22.61%) Full-Stack Development
6 64 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (19.79%) Containerisation
8 54 (19.08%) TDD
8 54 (19.08%) Test Automation
9 46 (16.25%) Mentoring
10 41 (14.49%) AI
11 36 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (12.37%) Scrum
13 33 (11.66%) Data Modelling
14 31 (10.95%) Observability
15 29 (10.25%) Analytics
16 27 (9.54%) BDD
16 27 (9.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 120 (42.40%) Python
2 105 (37.10%) SQL
3 89 (31.45%) Java
4 47 (16.61%) JavaScript
5 38 (13.43%) TypeScript
6 25 (8.83%) C#
7 24 (8.48%) Go
7 24 (8.48%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.65%) C
9 14 (4.95%) Bash
10 13 (4.59%) PHP
11 11 (3.89%) T-SQL
12 9 (3.18%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.83%) C++
14 7 (2.47%) Delphi
15 5 (1.77%) Korn
16 3 (1.06%) Scala
17 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.71%) R
18 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (13.43%) Degree
2 34 (12.01%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.19%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.89%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.89%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.06%) RHCE
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.71%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.54%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.24%) QA
3 7 (2.47%) GDPR
4 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.06%) NCSC
6 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.71%) SLA
6 2 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 106 (37.46%) Docker
2 29 (10.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.71%) Samba
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 91 (32.16%) Kubernetes
2 65 (22.97%) Terraform
3 19 (6.71%) Ansible
4 13 (4.59%) Grafana
5 9 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.83%) Argo
6 8 (2.83%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (1.77%) Data Guard
7 5 (1.77%) Kibana
7 5 (1.77%) Nagios
8 4 (1.41%) Control-M
8 4 (1.41%) Rancher
9 3 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.71%) Istio
10 2 (0.71%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.71%) Puppet
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 44 (15.55%) Oracle
2 35 (12.37%) Google
3 30 (10.60%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.24%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.47%) Dell
5 7 (2.47%) Informatica
5 7 (2.47%) Pega
6 5 (1.77%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.41%) Splunk
7 4 (1.41%) VMware
8 3 (1.06%) Confluent
8 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.71%) D-Link
9 2 (0.71%) Meraki
9 2 (0.71%) RedGate
9 2 (0.71%) Talend
9 2 (0.71%) WSO2
10 1 (0.35%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.35%) SolarWinds