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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 154 217
Rank change year-on-year -162 +63 -4
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 209 634 611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.82% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.51% 11.44% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 138 242 474
10th Percentile £33,700 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% +10.61% +6.23%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,376 £87,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 3,793 5,542 8,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.50% 15.87% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,352 2,841 6,701
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,547
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.95% -7.92%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -6 76 £73,801 +6.48% 78
South East -134 45 £60,000 -25.00% 154
Yorkshire -4 36 £62,500 +23.90% 20
North West -15 32 £85,000 +19.73% 45
Midlands -23 31 £55,200 -15.08% 40
South West -48 26 £57,000 -12.31% 53
West Midlands +12 21 £55,200 -15.08% 20
Scotland -34 15 £73,801 +27.24% 31
East of England -38 13 £42,500 -26.09% 70
East Midlands -25 10 £60,100 +0.17% 19
North East -5 8 £55,200 -20.35% 14
Wales -26 5 £73,801 +13.54% 23
Northern Ireland -16 3 £73,801 +11.98% 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 12 (5.74%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.44%) nginx
4 2 (0.96%) CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.48%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) WildFly
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 151 (72.25%) AWS
2 79 (37.80%) Azure
3 55 (26.32%) Serverless
4 49 (23.44%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (18.18%) GCP
6 35 (16.75%) Amazon S3
7 34 (16.27%) GitHub
8 33 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (14.35%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (13.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (10.05%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (9.57%) SaaS
14 19 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (8.13%) dbt
16 16 (7.66%) Amazon ECR
16 16 (7.66%) Pulumi
17 15 (7.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 15 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.35%) DNS
2 7 (3.35%) Firewall
2 7 (3.35%) Internet
3 6 (2.87%) VPN
3 6 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.39%) HTTP
5 4 (1.91%) Network Security
6 3 (1.44%) DHCP
6 3 (1.44%) FTP
6 3 (1.44%) IMAP
6 3 (1.44%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.44%) SMTP
6 3 (1.44%) SSH
6 3 (1.44%) VLAN
7 1 (0.48%) AMQP
7 1 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (28.23%) SQL Server
2 55 (26.32%) Relational Database
3 39 (18.66%) MySQL
4 32 (15.31%) Redis
5 28 (13.40%) NoSQL
6 27 (12.92%) MongoDB
7 26 (12.44%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (8.13%) DynamoDB
10 11 (5.26%) RDBMS
11 10 (4.78%) Power BI
12 9 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (3.83%) Oracle Database
14 6 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
16 4 (1.91%) Oracle Database 11g
16 4 (1.91%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 76 (36.36%) Git
2 45 (21.53%) Jenkins
3 24 (11.48%) JUnit
4 14 (6.70%) GitLab
5 13 (6.22%) Cucumber
5 13 (6.22%) JMeter
6 12 (5.74%) Mockito
7 11 (5.26%) JIRA
8 8 (3.83%) Selenium
9 6 (2.87%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.44%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.44%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.96%) Appium
11 2 (0.96%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.96%) Subversion
12 1 (0.48%) Gradle
12 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 73 (34.93%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.26%) Finance
5 7 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.35%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.44%) Marketing
7 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Retail
7 3 (1.44%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.96%) Advertising
9 1 (0.48%) Electronics
9 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (37.80%) Developer
2 51 (24.40%) Senior
3 36 (17.22%) Software Engineer
4 34 (16.27%) Java Developer
5 30 (14.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (10.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (7.18%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (6.22%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.22%) DBA
8 13 (6.22%) Lead
9 11 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (5.26%) Software Developer
10 10 (4.78%) Analyst
10 10 (4.78%) Java Engineer
10 10 (4.78%) Junior
10 10 (4.78%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 10 (4.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Administrator
11 7 (3.35%) Junior Developer
11 7 (3.35%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.75%) React
2 56 (26.79%) Spring
3 54 (25.84%) Spring Boot
4 37 (17.70%) REST
5 33 (15.79%) RESTful
6 31 (14.83%) .NET
6 31 (14.83%) Django
7 27 (12.92%) Node.js
8 22 (10.53%) HTML
8 22 (10.53%) Web Services
9 19 (9.09%) Kafka
10 18 (8.61%) .NET Core
10 18 (8.61%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (7.66%) Hibernate
11 16 (7.66%) Vue
12 15 (7.18%) AngularJS
12 15 (7.18%) JSON
13 14 (6.70%) Apache Camel
13 14 (6.70%) AWS CDK
13 14 (6.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (11.96%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.78%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.78%) Replication
5 5 (2.39%) Clustering
5 5 (2.39%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.91%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.91%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.44%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.96%) Life Science
8 2 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 54 (25.84%) Linux
2 22 (10.53%) Unix
3 19 (9.09%) Windows
4 12 (5.74%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.39%) VMS
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.44%) Debian
6 3 (1.44%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.48%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (55.02%) CI/CD
2 86 (41.15%) DevOps
3 82 (39.23%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (34.93%) Agile
5 69 (33.01%) Microservices
6 58 (27.75%) Software Engineering
7 52 (24.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 51 (24.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (22.01%) TDD
10 40 (19.14%) Containerisation
11 29 (13.88%) BDD
12 26 (12.44%) Test Automation
13 24 (11.48%) Observability
13 24 (11.48%) Workflow
14 23 (11.00%) Migration
14 23 (11.00%) Scrum
14 23 (11.00%) SDLC
15 20 (9.57%) Clean Code
15 20 (9.57%) Mentoring
16 19 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 88 (42.11%) Python
2 79 (37.80%) Java
3 69 (33.01%) SQL
4 48 (22.97%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.88%) TypeScript
6 22 (10.53%) C#
7 20 (9.57%) Go
8 16 (7.66%) PowerShell
9 14 (6.70%) Shell Script
10 13 (6.22%) C
11 9 (4.31%) PHP
11 9 (4.31%) T-SQL
12 7 (3.35%) Delphi
13 5 (2.39%) C++
14 3 (1.44%) Groovy
15 1 (0.48%) Perl
15 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.48%) Ruby
15 1 (0.48%) VB
15 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.53%) Degree
4 14 (6.70%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.87%) QA
3 4 (1.91%) SLA
4 3 (1.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 92 (44.02%) Docker
2 6 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.44%) DFS Replication
3 3 (1.44%) Dovecot
3 3 (1.44%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.44%) Postfix
3 3 (1.44%) Squid
3 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (33.97%) Kubernetes
2 52 (24.88%) Terraform
3 23 (11.00%) Ansible
4 13 (6.22%) Kibana
5 10 (4.78%) AWS Copilot
5 10 (4.78%) Grafana
6 5 (2.39%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.91%) Control-M
7 4 (1.91%) Nagios
7 4 (1.91%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.44%) Nessus
8 3 (1.44%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.44%) Rancher
9 2 (0.96%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (17.70%) Oracle
2 21 (10.05%) Google
3 11 (5.26%) Splunk
4 10 (4.78%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.78%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.83%) Informatica
6 5 (2.39%) VMware
7 4 (1.91%) Pega
7 4 (1.91%) WSO2
8 3 (1.44%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.44%) RedGate
8 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.44%) Talend
9 2 (0.96%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.96%) SAP
10 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.48%) IBM
10 1 (0.48%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.48%) Siemens