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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 207 206
Rank change year-on-year -117 -1 +20
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 274 376 934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 1.41% 1.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.56% 8.86% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 194 242 572
10th Percentile £35,750 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,063 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -5.58%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £71,991
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 4,928 4,243 11,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.70% 15.89% 17.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,774 2,976 8,220
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 24 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 24 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 -31 102 £67,500 - 30
South East -90 78 £57,000 -18.57% 55
Yorkshire -33 48 £56,065 -6.35% 7
North West -35 42 £73,401 +8.54% 13
South West -54 34 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Midlands -47 21 £51,350 -21.00% 19
Scotland -38 20 £66,250 +6.00% 9
East of England -63 20 £47,500 -17.39% 10
West Midlands -26 12 £46,250 -28.85% 8
North East -29 12 £52,130 -24.87% 10
East Midlands -58 9 £60,100 -14.14% 11
Wales -51 3 £55,200 -15.08% 3
Northern Ireland -41 1 £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 (8.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.11%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.38%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.92%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.09%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) Confluence
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.73%) WildFly
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) JBoss
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 170 (62.04%) AWS
2 104 (37.96%) Azure
3 58 (21.17%) GCP
4 52 (18.98%) Serverless
5 31 (11.31%) Amazon S3
6 30 (10.95%) GitHub
7 28 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (9.49%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (9.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (9.12%) SaaS
10 24 (8.76%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (8.76%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (8.76%) Power Platform
11 22 (8.03%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (8.03%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (6.93%) AWS Step Functions
13 15 (5.47%) Azure AKS
14 14 (5.11%) OpenShift
15 13 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.01%) DHCP
1 11 (4.01%) DNS
1 11 (4.01%) Firewall
2 8 (2.92%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.55%) Internet
3 7 (2.55%) iSCSI
3 7 (2.55%) Network Security
3 7 (2.55%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (2.55%) SAN
4 5 (1.82%) Broadband
4 5 (1.82%) VPN
5 3 (1.09%) VLAN
5 3 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.73%) HTTP
6 2 (0.73%) MQTT
6 2 (0.73%) PBX
7 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.36%) LAN
7 1 (0.36%) LTE
7 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (32.85%) SQL Server
2 69 (25.18%) MongoDB
3 67 (24.45%) MySQL
4 55 (20.07%) NoSQL
5 51 (18.61%) Relational Database
6 24 (8.76%) Power BI
7 21 (7.66%) DynamoDB
8 20 (7.30%) Redis
9 17 (6.20%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.28%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.92%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.19%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.46%) Data Lake
15 4 (1.46%) Looker
Development Applications
1 89 (32.48%) Git
2 24 (8.76%) GitLab
3 23 (8.39%) Jenkins
4 18 (6.57%) JUnit
5 13 (4.74%) JIRA
6 9 (3.28%) Selenium
7 8 (2.92%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.92%) Mockito
8 7 (2.55%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.46%) Maven
10 3 (1.09%) JMeter
11 2 (0.73%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.73%) Gradle
11 2 (0.73%) MSTest
12 1 (0.36%) Appium
12 1 (0.36%) jMock
12 1 (0.36%) Katalon Studio
12 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.36%) utPLSQL
General
1 88 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.14%) Public Sector
3 30 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.30%) Finance
4 20 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (6.57%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (4.38%) Advertising
7 9 (3.28%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.92%) Games
8 8 (2.92%) Retail
9 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.82%) Automotive
11 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.73%) Aviation
12 2 (0.73%) Banking
12 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.73%) Legal
12 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 82 (29.93%) Developer
2 60 (21.90%) Senior
3 40 (14.60%) Software Engineer
4 30 (10.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (9.12%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.93%) Lead
7 15 (5.47%) DBA
7 15 (5.47%) Python Engineer
8 14 (5.11%) Analyst
8 14 (5.11%) IT Support
8 14 (5.11%) Java Engineer
9 13 (4.74%) .NET Developer
9 13 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 12 (4.38%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (4.01%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.01%) IT Support Technician
11 11 (4.01%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (4.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (27.37%) React
2 50 (18.25%) RESTful
3 45 (16.42%) Spring
4 44 (16.06%) Node.js
4 44 (16.06%) Spring Boot
5 42 (15.33%) REST
6 31 (11.31%) .NET
7 28 (10.22%) Django
8 21 (7.66%) Vue
9 20 (7.30%) AngularJS
10 18 (6.57%) .NET Core
10 18 (6.57%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (6.20%) Web Services
12 16 (5.84%) Flask
12 16 (5.84%) HTML
12 16 (5.84%) JSON
12 16 (5.84%) Kafka
13 14 (5.11%) AWS CDK
13 14 (5.11%) CSS
13 14 (5.11%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.71%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.11%) Replication
4 13 (4.74%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.38%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.28%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.19%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.82%) Clustering
10 5 (1.82%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
11 4 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.46%) CUDA
11 4 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.46%) IoT
11 4 (1.46%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (21.90%) Linux
2 28 (10.22%) Windows
3 21 (7.66%) Unix
4 16 (5.84%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.09%) CentOS
8 2 (0.73%) VMS
9 1 (0.36%) AIX
9 1 (0.36%) Debian
9 1 (0.36%) Solaris
9 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (47.45%) CI/CD
2 115 (41.97%) Agile
3 93 (33.94%) DevOps
4 80 (29.20%) Microservices
5 74 (27.01%) Problem-Solving
6 72 (26.28%) Software Engineering
7 62 (22.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 57 (20.80%) Test Automation
9 54 (19.71%) Containerisation
9 54 (19.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 53 (19.34%) TDD
11 51 (18.61%) Mentoring
12 41 (14.96%) Scrum
13 39 (14.23%) AI
14 37 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (12.04%) Data Modelling
16 29 (10.58%) Analytics
17 26 (9.49%) Computer Science
18 25 (9.12%) BDD
19 24 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 108 (39.42%) Python
2 103 (37.59%) SQL
3 92 (33.58%) Java
4 44 (16.06%) JavaScript
5 37 (13.50%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.39%) Go
6 23 (8.39%) PowerShell
7 22 (8.03%) C#
8 16 (5.84%) C
9 14 (5.11%) Bash
10 13 (4.74%) PHP
11 11 (4.01%) T-SQL
12 8 (2.92%) C++
12 8 (2.92%) Shell Script
13 7 (2.55%) Delphi
14 5 (1.82%) Korn
15 3 (1.09%) Scala
16 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.73%) R
17 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 37 (13.50%) Degree
2 24 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.20%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.01%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.01%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (4.01%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.09%) RHCE
9 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.73%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.38%) QA
3 7 (2.55%) GDPR
4 5 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.09%) NCSC
6 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.73%) SLA
6 2 (0.73%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 94 (34.31%) Docker
2 29 (10.58%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.46%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.73%) Samba
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 89 (32.48%) Kubernetes
2 61 (22.26%) Terraform
3 21 (7.66%) Ansible
4 13 (4.74%) Argo
4 13 (4.74%) Grafana
5 9 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.82%) Data Guard
6 5 (1.82%) Nagios
7 4 (1.46%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (1.46%) Control-M
7 4 (1.46%) Kibana
7 4 (1.46%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.46%) Puppet
7 4 (1.46%) Rancher
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.73%) Istio
9 2 (0.73%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 45 (16.42%) Oracle
2 28 (10.22%) Microsoft
3 26 (9.49%) Google
4 12 (4.38%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.55%) Dell
5 7 (2.55%) Informatica
5 7 (2.55%) Pega
6 4 (1.46%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.46%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.46%) VMware
7 3 (1.09%) Confluent
7 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.09%) Splunk
8 2 (0.73%) D-Link
8 2 (0.73%) Meraki
8 2 (0.73%) RedGate
8 2 (0.73%) Talend
8 2 (0.73%) WSO2
9 1 (0.36%) Databricks
9 1 (0.36%) NVIDIA