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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 241 200
Rank change year-on-year -69 -41 +59
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 337 362 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.19% 1.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.43% 8.26% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 264 232 594
10th Percentile £40,935 £31,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,293 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,987 £73,979 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,625 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%

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 5,244 4,381 11,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.67% 14.38% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,488 2,769 8,095
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,103
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 £83,750 £82,550 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -17 118 £59,500 +13.33% 49
North of England -20 118 £65,000 -3.70% 34
North West -16 53 £67,500 -0.19% 20
South West -49 41 £62,500 +2.04% 14
Yorkshire -18 36 £52,130 -22.77% 8
North East -27 29 £65,000 +25.30% 6
East of England -23 23 £47,500 +50.79% 14
Scotland -11 18 £67,500 +1.89% 7
Midlands -50 15 £75,000 +11.11% 20
West Midlands -39 11 £80,000 +18.52% 11
Wales -59 6 £70,000 -9.68% 3
East Midlands -38 4 £65,000 +18.18% 9
Northern Ireland -41 1 £73,801 +34.18% 1
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 24 (7.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.08%) Confluence
4 7 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.48%) WordPress
6 4 (1.19%) Apache
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) IIS
8 1 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.30%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 190 (56.38%) AWS
2 138 (40.95%) Azure
3 64 (18.99%) GCP
4 49 (14.54%) Serverless
5 37 (10.98%) GitHub
6 31 (9.20%) Amazon ECS
7 30 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (8.90%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (8.61%) SaaS
9 27 (8.01%) Power Platform
10 22 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (6.23%) Azure AKS
12 17 (5.04%) Amazon S3
13 16 (4.75%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (4.45%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (3.56%) Azure Functions
17 10 (2.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.75%) Firewall
2 11 (3.26%) DHCP
2 11 (3.26%) DNS
3 10 (2.97%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.37%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.37%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (2.37%) SAN
5 7 (2.08%) Broadband
5 7 (2.08%) Network Security
5 7 (2.08%) VPN
6 5 (1.48%) VLAN
7 3 (0.89%) Internet
7 3 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.59%) MQTT
8 2 (0.59%) PBX
9 1 (0.30%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.30%) LTE
9 1 (0.30%) Multicast
9 1 (0.30%) SMS
9 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (30.56%) MongoDB
2 100 (29.67%) MySQL
3 80 (23.74%) SQL Server
4 65 (19.29%) NoSQL
5 57 (16.91%) Relational Database
6 26 (7.72%) Power BI
6 26 (7.72%) Redis
7 18 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (4.75%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (3.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (3.26%) RDBMS
11 9 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.67%) Oracle Database
12 8 (2.37%) DynamoDB
12 8 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (1.78%) GIS
13 6 (1.78%) Pinecone
14 5 (1.48%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 88 (26.11%) Git
2 25 (7.42%) GitLab
2 25 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.64%) JIRA
4 16 (4.75%) JUnit
5 12 (3.56%) Mockito
6 10 (2.97%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.97%) JMeter
7 5 (1.48%) Selenium
8 4 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.19%) Maven
9 3 (0.89%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.89%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.89%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.89%) Mocha
10 2 (0.59%) MSTest
10 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.59%) Vite
11 1 (0.30%) RSpec
General
1 97 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.51%) Public Sector
3 37 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (6.23%) Finance
6 19 (5.64%) Manufacturing
6 19 (5.64%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.15%) Advertising
8 11 (3.26%) Aerospace
8 11 (3.26%) Retail
9 10 (2.97%) Games
9 10 (2.97%) Legal
10 7 (2.08%) Automotive
11 6 (1.78%) Aviation
11 6 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.19%) Banking
12 4 (1.19%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.19%) Legal Technology
12 4 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.19%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 89 (26.41%) Developer
2 71 (21.07%) Senior
3 63 (18.69%) Software Engineer
4 39 (11.57%) Lead
5 38 (11.28%) Full-Stack Developer
6 30 (8.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.01%) Java Developer
8 20 (5.93%) Python Engineer
9 19 (5.64%) Java Engineer
10 16 (4.75%) Architect
10 16 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (4.75%) Lead Software Engineer
10 16 (4.75%) Software Developer
11 15 (4.45%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.45%) DBA
11 15 (4.45%) Senior DevOps
11 15 (4.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.15%) IT Support
13 13 (3.86%) Lead Developer
14 12 (3.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (24.04%) React
2 73 (21.66%) Node.js
3 57 (16.91%) RESTful
4 52 (15.43%) REST
5 45 (13.35%) Spring
6 43 (12.76%) Spring Boot
7 36 (10.68%) CSS
8 35 (10.39%) HTML
9 31 (9.20%) .NET
10 26 (7.72%) AngularJS
10 26 (7.72%) Vue
11 24 (7.12%) Django
11 24 (7.12%) Kafka
12 20 (5.93%) FastAPI
13 19 (5.64%) JSON
14 18 (5.34%) Flask
14 18 (5.34%) Next.js
15 17 (5.04%) Hibernate
15 17 (5.04%) jQuery
16 15 (4.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 69 (20.47%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.79%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.45%) Algorithms
5 14 (4.15%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.86%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.56%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.56%) Replication
8 10 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (2.08%) Low-Code
11 7 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.78%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.48%) Robotics
13 5 (1.48%) SCADA
14 4 (1.19%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 81 (24.04%) Linux
2 38 (11.28%) Windows
3 22 (6.53%) Unix
4 19 (5.64%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.89%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) AIX
8 1 (0.30%) Debian
8 1 (0.30%) Solaris
8 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (49.26%) CI/CD
2 141 (41.84%) Agile
3 107 (31.75%) DevOps
4 105 (31.16%) Software Engineering
5 92 (27.30%) Microservices
6 91 (27.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 76 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (22.26%) Mentoring
9 68 (20.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 63 (18.69%) AI
11 60 (17.80%) Test Automation
12 56 (16.62%) Containerisation
12 56 (16.62%) TDD
13 53 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (14.54%) Scrum
15 47 (13.95%) Data Modelling
16 45 (13.35%) Analytics
17 43 (12.76%) Observability
18 38 (11.28%) Computer Science
19 36 (10.68%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 130 (38.58%) Python
2 123 (36.50%) SQL
3 108 (32.05%) Java
4 76 (22.55%) JavaScript
5 61 (18.10%) TypeScript
6 36 (10.68%) PowerShell
7 32 (9.50%) C#
8 29 (8.61%) Bash
9 17 (5.04%) Go
10 12 (3.56%) PHP
11 11 (3.26%) C++
11 11 (3.26%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.97%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.67%) Ruby
14 8 (2.37%) C
15 6 (1.78%) Korn
16 5 (1.48%) Scala
17 3 (0.89%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.30%) Perl
18 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 56 (16.62%) Degree
2 42 (12.46%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.86%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.19%) PhD
10 3 (0.89%) RHCE
11 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.59%) CISSP
11 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.59%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.59%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.50%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.75%) QA
3 15 (4.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.15%) GDPR
5 9 (2.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.59%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (0.59%) NCSC
6 2 (0.59%) SLA
6 2 (0.59%) WCAG
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 99 (29.38%) Docker
2 30 (8.90%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.59%) Samba
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 105 (31.16%) Kubernetes
2 67 (19.88%) Terraform
3 27 (8.01%) Ansible
4 22 (6.53%) Argo
5 17 (5.04%) Grafana
6 15 (4.45%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.97%) Kibana
8 7 (2.08%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.08%) Puppet
9 4 (1.19%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.19%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.89%) Control-M
10 3 (0.89%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.89%) Istio
10 3 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.89%) Plesk
10 3 (0.89%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.89%) Rancher
10 3 (0.89%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.59%) Nagios
Vendors
1 50 (14.84%) Oracle
2 45 (13.35%) Microsoft
3 27 (8.01%) Google
4 14 (4.15%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.26%) Splunk
6 8 (2.37%) Dell
6 8 (2.37%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.08%) Pega
8 6 (1.78%) VMware
9 4 (1.19%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.89%) Confluent
10 3 (0.89%) Informatica
10 3 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.59%) Databricks
11 2 (0.59%) D-Link
11 2 (0.59%) Meraki
11 2 (0.59%) WSO2
12 1 (0.30%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.30%) OneLogin