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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 257 196
Rank change year-on-year -65 -61 +54
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 363 368 972
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.09% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.63% 8.15% 9.43%
Number of salaries quoted 294 241 545
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -7.08%
75th Percentile £74,987 £74,258 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,954 £82,500 £79,500
UK median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 5,475 4,516 10,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.64% 13.36% 14.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,741 2,855 6,954
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,439 £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 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,091 £58,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +4.43% -6.40%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -9 121 £59,750 +8.64% 78
North of England -10 121 £65,000 -3.70% 91
North West -19 52 £65,000 -3.70% 44
South West -37 46 £62,500 +4.17% 32
North East -32 36 £60,000 +14.29% 16
Yorkshire -30 33 £65,000 -3.70% 31
East of England -18 27 £52,500 +66.67% 41
Midlands -49 22 £75,000 +11.11% 46
West Midlands -32 18 £80,000 +18.41% 21
Scotland -14 16 £65,000 -1.89% 35
Wales -53 13 £70,000 -9.68% 22
East Midlands -19 4 £65,000 +18.18% 25
Northern Ireland -63 1 £73,801 +34.18% 21
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 (6.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.48%) Confluence
3 9 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.38%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.38%) WordPress
5 4 (1.10%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Documentum
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 206 (56.75%) AWS
2 160 (44.08%) Azure
3 73 (20.11%) GCP
4 42 (11.57%) GitHub
4 42 (11.57%) Serverless
5 31 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (8.26%) Amazon ECS
7 27 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (7.44%) SaaS
8 25 (6.89%) Power Platform
9 21 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (5.51%) Azure AKS
11 16 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.58%) Amazon S3
14 12 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.31%) Azure Functions
15 10 (2.75%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.58%) Firewall
2 8 (2.20%) DHCP
2 8 (2.20%) DNS
2 8 (2.20%) iSCSI
2 8 (2.20%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (2.20%) SAN
3 7 (1.93%) Broadband
3 7 (1.93%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.10%) Network Security
4 4 (1.10%) VPN
5 2 (0.55%) MQTT
5 2 (0.55%) PBX
5 2 (0.55%) VLAN
6 1 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.28%) HTTP
6 1 (0.28%) LAN
6 1 (0.28%) LTE
6 1 (0.28%) Multicast
6 1 (0.28%) SMS
6 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (32.23%) MySQL
2 112 (30.85%) MongoDB
3 80 (22.04%) SQL Server
4 70 (19.28%) NoSQL
5 65 (17.91%) Relational Database
6 32 (8.82%) Redis
7 24 (6.61%) Power BI
8 17 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (3.31%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (3.03%) RDBMS
11 9 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.48%) Oracle Database
12 8 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.93%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.65%) GIS
14 6 (1.65%) Pinecone
15 5 (1.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 91 (25.07%) Git
2 28 (7.71%) GitLab
3 24 (6.61%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.79%) JIRA
5 16 (4.41%) JUnit
6 12 (3.31%) Mockito
7 10 (2.75%) JMeter
8 9 (2.48%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.38%) Selenium
10 4 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.10%) Maven
11 3 (0.83%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.83%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.83%) Mocha
11 3 (0.83%) RSpec
12 2 (0.55%) minitest
12 2 (0.55%) MSTest
12 2 (0.55%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.55%) Vite
General
1 92 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 71 (19.56%) Public Sector
3 36 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (6.34%) Finance
6 19 (5.23%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.86%) Advertising
9 10 (2.75%) Games
9 10 (2.75%) Legal
10 8 (2.20%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.20%) Retail
11 7 (1.93%) Automotive
12 6 (1.65%) Aviation
12 6 (1.65%) Banking
12 6 (1.65%) Law
12 6 (1.65%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.10%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.10%) Legal Technology
13 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 100 (27.55%) Developer
2 85 (23.42%) Senior
3 73 (20.11%) Software Engineer
4 47 (12.95%) Lead
5 39 (10.74%) Full-Stack Developer
6 30 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (6.89%) Java Developer
7 25 (6.89%) Python Engineer
8 22 (6.06%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (5.51%) Software Developer
10 19 (5.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 19 (5.23%) Java Engineer
11 17 (4.68%) Data Engineer
12 16 (4.41%) Architect
12 16 (4.41%) DBA
13 15 (4.13%) Python Developer
13 15 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (4.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 15 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (3.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (23.42%) React
2 76 (20.94%) Node.js
3 65 (17.91%) RESTful
4 55 (15.15%) REST
5 45 (12.40%) Spring
6 43 (11.85%) Spring Boot
7 38 (10.47%) CSS
8 37 (10.19%) HTML
9 32 (8.82%) .NET
9 32 (8.82%) Kafka
10 27 (7.44%) Vue
11 25 (6.89%) AngularJS
11 25 (6.89%) Django
12 24 (6.61%) Next.js
13 21 (5.79%) FastAPI
13 21 (5.79%) Flask
14 20 (5.51%) Hibernate
15 19 (5.23%) JSON
16 17 (4.68%) jQuery
17 15 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 75 (20.66%) Cloud Native
2 40 (11.02%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.41%) Algorithms
5 14 (3.86%) AI Agents
5 14 (3.86%) Data Structures
5 14 (3.86%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.31%) Replication
7 11 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
8 10 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.20%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.93%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.93%) Robotics
10 7 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
11 6 (1.65%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 82 (22.59%) Linux
2 35 (9.64%) Windows
3 19 (5.23%) Unix
4 16 (4.41%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.93%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.83%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) AIX
8 1 (0.28%) Debian
8 1 (0.28%) Solaris
8 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (49.31%) CI/CD
2 150 (41.32%) Agile
3 123 (33.88%) Software Engineering
4 120 (33.06%) DevOps
5 107 (29.48%) Microservices
6 95 (26.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 88 (24.24%) Mentoring
8 80 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (20.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 73 (20.11%) AI
11 65 (17.91%) Test Automation
12 64 (17.63%) Containerisation
13 61 (16.80%) TDD
14 58 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (13.22%) Observability
15 48 (13.22%) Scrum
16 47 (12.95%) Analytics
17 44 (12.12%) Data Modelling
18 42 (11.57%) Coaching
19 39 (10.74%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 139 (38.29%) Python
2 127 (34.99%) SQL
3 110 (30.30%) Java
4 82 (22.59%) JavaScript
5 62 (17.08%) TypeScript
6 34 (9.37%) C#
7 33 (9.09%) PowerShell
8 29 (7.99%) Bash
9 17 (4.68%) Go
10 12 (3.31%) C++
10 12 (3.31%) PHP
11 11 (3.03%) Ruby
12 10 (2.75%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.48%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.93%) Scala
15 6 (1.65%) Korn
16 4 (1.10%) C
17 3 (0.83%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (15.98%) Degree
2 50 (13.77%) Security Cleared
3 38 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.41%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.58%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.48%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.38%) PhD
10 4 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.83%) RHCE
12 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.55%) CISSP
12 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.55%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.99%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.51%) QA
3 13 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.03%) GDPR
5 9 (2.48%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.55%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (0.55%) NCSC
6 2 (0.55%) SLA
6 2 (0.55%) WCAG
7 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 113 (31.13%) Docker
2 27 (7.44%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.55%) Samba
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 109 (30.03%) Kubernetes
2 77 (21.21%) Terraform
3 26 (7.16%) Ansible
4 22 (6.06%) Argo
5 19 (5.23%) Grafana
6 17 (4.68%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.75%) Kibana
8 7 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.93%) Puppet
9 4 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.10%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.83%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.83%) Istio
10 3 (0.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.83%) Plesk
10 3 (0.83%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.83%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.55%) Nagios
11 2 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 46 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 45 (12.40%) Oracle
3 32 (8.82%) Google
4 14 (3.86%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.58%) Splunk
6 9 (2.48%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.20%) Dell
8 7 (1.93%) Pega
9 6 (1.65%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.38%) Meraki
11 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.83%) Confluent
12 3 (0.83%) Databricks
12 3 (0.83%) IBM
12 3 (0.83%) Informatica
12 3 (0.83%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.83%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.83%) VMware
13 2 (0.55%) D-Link
13 2 (0.55%) UiPath