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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 246 198
Rank change year-on-year -64 -48 +65
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 322 361 1,022
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 1.21% 1.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.36% 8.26% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 251 232 594
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +15.91% -4.35%
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 5,065 4,373 11,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.55% 14.69% 14.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,292 2,747 8,146
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £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 £83,750 £82,751 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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 16 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 16 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
North of England -18 114 £65,000 -3.70% 175
South East -8 113 £59,500 +13.33% 196
North West -13 48 £67,500 -1.47% 83
Yorkshire -20 38 £56,065 -16.94% 60
South West -51 38 £62,500 - 72
North East -28 28 £65,000 +23.81% 32
East of England -29 23 £47,500 +46.15% 122
Scotland -16 18 £67,500 +8.00% 94
Midlands -42 12 £75,000 +11.11% 94
West Midlands -43 9 £80,000 +18.52% 43
Wales -58 5 £70,000 -9.68% 57
East Midlands -30 3 £67,500 +12.50% 51
Northern Ireland -38 1 £73,801 +34.18% 68
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 (7.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.17%) Confluence
4 7 (2.17%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.24%) Apache
5 4 (1.24%) WordPress
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.31%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 188 (58.39%) AWS
2 132 (40.99%) Azure
3 59 (18.32%) GCP
4 51 (15.84%) Serverless
5 34 (10.56%) GitHub
6 30 (9.32%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (9.32%) SaaS
7 27 (8.39%) Power Platform
8 21 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (6.21%) Azure AKS
10 18 (5.59%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.97%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (4.66%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (3.73%) Azure Functions
14 12 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (3.11%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.66%) Firewall
2 11 (3.42%) DHCP
2 11 (3.42%) DNS
3 10 (3.11%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.48%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.48%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (2.48%) SAN
5 7 (2.17%) Broadband
5 7 (2.17%) Network Security
6 6 (1.86%) VPN
7 5 (1.55%) Internet
8 4 (1.24%) VLAN
9 3 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.62%) MQTT
10 2 (0.62%) PBX
11 1 (0.31%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.31%) LTE
11 1 (0.31%) Multicast
11 1 (0.31%) SMS
11 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (30.75%) MongoDB
2 95 (29.50%) MySQL
3 80 (24.84%) SQL Server
4 65 (20.19%) NoSQL
5 54 (16.77%) Relational Database
6 26 (8.07%) Power BI
7 25 (7.76%) Redis
8 17 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (3.73%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (3.42%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (2.80%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.48%) DynamoDB
13 8 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (1.86%) Pinecone
15 5 (1.55%) GIS
15 5 (1.55%) Metadata
15 5 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 87 (27.02%) Git
2 23 (7.14%) GitLab
2 23 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.90%) JIRA
4 15 (4.66%) JUnit
5 11 (3.42%) Mockito
6 10 (3.11%) JMeter
7 7 (2.17%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.55%) Selenium
9 3 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.93%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.93%) Maven
9 3 (0.93%) Mocha
10 2 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.62%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.62%) MSTest
10 2 (0.62%) Vite
11 1 (0.31%) ERwin
11 1 (0.31%) Subversion
11 1 (0.31%) Toad
General
1 95 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.01%) Public Sector
3 35 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (5.90%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (5.59%) Finance
7 17 (5.28%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.35%) Advertising
9 11 (3.42%) Aerospace
9 11 (3.42%) Retail
10 10 (3.11%) Games
11 9 (2.80%) Legal
12 7 (2.17%) Automotive
12 7 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.86%) Aviation
14 4 (1.24%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.24%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.93%) Law
15 3 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (26.71%) Developer
2 67 (20.81%) Senior
3 57 (17.70%) Software Engineer
4 36 (11.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (10.56%) Lead
6 26 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (7.76%) Java Developer
8 19 (5.90%) Python Engineer
9 18 (5.59%) Java Engineer
10 16 (4.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 15 (4.66%) Architect
11 15 (4.66%) DBA
11 15 (4.66%) Senior DevOps
11 15 (4.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.66%) Software Developer
12 14 (4.35%) IT Support
12 14 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
13 13 (4.04%) Data Engineer
14 12 (3.73%) Analyst
14 12 (3.73%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (23.60%) React
2 73 (22.67%) Node.js
3 54 (16.77%) RESTful
4 50 (15.53%) REST
5 41 (12.73%) Spring
6 39 (12.11%) Spring Boot
7 33 (10.25%) CSS
8 32 (9.94%) HTML
9 31 (9.63%) .NET
10 25 (7.76%) Vue
11 24 (7.45%) AngularJS
11 24 (7.45%) Django
12 20 (6.21%) FastAPI
13 19 (5.90%) JSON
13 19 (5.90%) Kafka
14 18 (5.59%) Flask
15 17 (5.28%) jQuery
16 15 (4.66%) Hibernate
17 14 (4.35%) Web Services
17 14 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (19.88%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 13 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 13 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.04%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.73%) Replication
6 10 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.48%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.17%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.17%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (1.86%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.55%) Robotics
11 4 (1.24%) CUDA
11 4 (1.24%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 77 (23.91%) Linux
2 36 (11.18%) Windows
3 23 (7.14%) Unix
4 18 (5.59%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.93%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) AIX
8 1 (0.31%) Debian
8 1 (0.31%) Solaris
8 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (48.45%) CI/CD
2 133 (41.30%) Agile
3 98 (30.43%) DevOps
4 93 (28.88%) Software Engineering
5 88 (27.33%) Microservices
6 86 (26.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 69 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 68 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (20.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 60 (18.63%) AI
11 56 (17.39%) Test Automation
12 55 (17.08%) TDD
13 51 (15.84%) Containerisation
14 50 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (14.60%) Scrum
16 43 (13.35%) Analytics
16 43 (13.35%) Data Modelling
17 38 (11.80%) Computer Science
17 38 (11.80%) Observability
18 36 (11.18%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 129 (40.06%) Python
2 116 (36.02%) SQL
3 102 (31.68%) Java
4 74 (22.98%) JavaScript
5 56 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 32 (9.94%) PowerShell
7 29 (9.01%) C#
8 25 (7.76%) Bash
9 17 (5.28%) Go
10 12 (3.73%) PHP
10 12 (3.73%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.42%) C++
12 10 (3.11%) C
12 10 (3.11%) T-SQL
13 7 (2.17%) Ruby
14 6 (1.86%) Korn
15 5 (1.55%) Scala
16 3 (0.93%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.31%) Perl
17 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 56 (17.39%) Degree
2 38 (11.80%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.80%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.24%) PhD
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.93%) RHCE
10 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.62%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.94%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.35%) GDPR
2 14 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.35%) QA
3 9 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
4 2 (0.62%) NCSC
4 2 (0.62%) SLA
4 2 (0.62%) WCAG
5 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 95 (29.50%) Docker
2 30 (9.32%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (1.55%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.62%) Samba
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 97 (30.12%) Kubernetes
2 64 (19.88%) Terraform
3 25 (7.76%) Ansible
4 20 (6.21%) Argo
5 15 (4.66%) Grafana
6 13 (4.04%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.11%) Kibana
8 7 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.17%) Puppet
9 4 (1.24%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.24%) Control-M
9 4 (1.24%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.93%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.93%) Istio
10 3 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.93%) Plesk
11 2 (0.62%) Nagios
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.62%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.62%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (15.84%) Oracle
2 45 (13.98%) Microsoft
3 27 (8.39%) Google
4 14 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.11%) Splunk
6 8 (2.48%) Dell
6 8 (2.48%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.17%) Pega
8 5 (1.55%) VMware
9 4 (1.24%) Informatica
9 4 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.93%) Confluent
10 3 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.62%) Databricks
11 2 (0.62%) D-Link
11 2 (0.62%) Meraki
11 2 (0.62%) WSO2
12 1 (0.31%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.31%) OneLogin