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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 170 215
Rank change year-on-year -143 +45 +17
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 275 436 862
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.69% 1.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.82% 9.98% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 192 253 566
10th Percentile £33,275 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £74,846 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £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 4,722 4,367 11,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.90% 16.91% 17.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,716 2,972 8,242
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,565 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £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 £68,750 £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% -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 9 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 9 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 -47 102 £60,000 -11.19% 57
South East -115 71 £55,750 -20.36% 48
Yorkshire -34 46 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -35 44 £75,901 +10.86% 33
South West -35 33 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Midlands -47 24 £46,250 -28.85% 18
Scotland -18 23 £67,500 +8.00% 12
East of England -64 20 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -28 15 £43,875 -32.50% 8
North East -27 12 £55,000 -20.73% 6
East Midlands -53 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -54 5 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -42 2 £73,801 +34.18%
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 20 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.45%) OpenStack
3 12 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.55%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.09%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) CMS
6 2 (0.73%) Confluence
6 2 (0.73%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.73%) WildFly
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 174 (63.27%) AWS
2 108 (39.27%) Azure
3 69 (25.09%) GCP
4 55 (20.00%) Serverless
5 40 (14.55%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (12.73%) GitHub
7 31 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (10.91%) Amazon S3
9 27 (9.82%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (9.45%) SaaS
11 25 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (8.36%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (8.36%) Power Platform
13 22 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (7.27%) dbt
15 19 (6.91%) AWS Step Functions
15 19 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (5.09%) Amazon ECR
16 14 (5.09%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.55%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.64%) DHCP
2 10 (3.64%) DNS
3 9 (3.27%) Firewall
4 7 (2.55%) Internet
4 7 (2.55%) Network Security
4 7 (2.55%) VPN
5 5 (1.82%) Broadband
5 5 (1.82%) iSCSI
5 5 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (1.82%) SAN
5 5 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.09%) VLAN
7 2 (0.73%) HTTP
7 2 (0.73%) MQTT
7 2 (0.73%) PBX
8 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.36%) LTE
8 1 (0.36%) Multicast
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (30.91%) SQL Server
2 64 (23.27%) MySQL
3 60 (21.82%) Relational Database
4 58 (21.09%) MongoDB
5 56 (20.36%) NoSQL
6 32 (11.64%) Redis
7 26 (9.45%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (8.36%) Power BI
9 20 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (6.91%) DynamoDB
11 10 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (3.64%) Oracle Database
12 9 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.27%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.27%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.18%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 90 (32.73%) Git
2 32 (11.64%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.91%) JUnit
4 17 (6.18%) JIRA
5 13 (4.73%) GitLab
6 10 (3.64%) Mockito
7 9 (3.27%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.27%) Selenium
8 7 (2.55%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.82%) JMeter
10 4 (1.45%) Maven
11 2 (0.73%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.73%) Gradle
11 2 (0.73%) MSTest
12 1 (0.36%) Appium
12 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.36%) ERwin
12 1 (0.36%) jMock
12 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 94 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.91%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.27%) Finance
5 18 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (4.00%) Advertising
8 9 (3.27%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.91%) Games
10 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.82%) Automotive
11 5 (1.82%) Retail
12 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.73%) Aviation
13 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.73%) Legal
13 2 (0.73%) Marketing
13 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 90 (32.73%) Developer
2 56 (20.36%) Senior
3 43 (15.64%) Software Engineer
4 35 (12.73%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (12.36%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 19 (6.91%) Lead
7 17 (6.18%) Python Engineer
8 15 (5.45%) DBA
8 15 (5.45%) IT Support
9 14 (5.09%) .NET Developer
9 14 (5.09%) Analyst
10 13 (4.73%) Java Engineer
10 13 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (4.36%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (4.00%) Administrator
13 10 (3.64%) Architect
13 10 (3.64%) IT Support Technician
13 10 (3.64%) Junior
13 10 (3.64%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (28.36%) React
2 54 (19.64%) RESTful
3 53 (19.27%) Spring
3 53 (19.27%) Spring Boot
4 46 (16.73%) REST
5 40 (14.55%) Django
6 35 (12.73%) Node.js
7 31 (11.27%) .NET
8 26 (9.45%) AngularJS
8 26 (9.45%) Vue
9 21 (7.64%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (7.64%) HTML
9 21 (7.64%) Web Services
10 18 (6.55%) .NET Core
10 18 (6.55%) Flask
10 18 (6.55%) Kafka
11 17 (6.18%) CSS
12 16 (5.82%) FastAPI
12 16 (5.82%) JSON
13 14 (5.09%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.82%) Cloud Native
2 34 (12.36%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.18%) Replication
4 13 (4.73%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.36%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (3.64%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.27%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.18%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.82%) Clustering
10 5 (1.82%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
11 4 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.45%) CUDA
11 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.45%) IoT
11 4 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.36%) Linux
2 21 (7.64%) Unix
3 17 (6.18%) Windows
4 14 (5.09%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.09%) CentOS
6 3 (1.09%) Debian
7 2 (0.73%) VMS
7 2 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (46.55%) CI/CD
2 104 (37.82%) Agile
3 103 (37.45%) DevOps
4 81 (29.45%) Microservices
5 78 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (26.91%) Software Engineering
7 68 (24.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 63 (22.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 60 (21.82%) TDD
10 56 (20.36%) Containerisation
11 48 (17.45%) Test Automation
12 42 (15.27%) AI
13 40 (14.55%) Mentoring
14 33 (12.00%) BDD
14 33 (12.00%) Scrum
15 32 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (11.27%) Data Modelling
17 30 (10.91%) Computer Science
18 29 (10.55%) Observability
19 25 (9.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 115 (41.82%) Python
2 98 (35.64%) SQL
3 90 (32.73%) Java
4 58 (21.09%) JavaScript
5 36 (13.09%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.36%) Go
6 23 (8.36%) PowerShell
7 22 (8.00%) C#
8 16 (5.82%) C
9 14 (5.09%) PHP
10 11 (4.00%) T-SQL
11 9 (3.27%) Bash
11 9 (3.27%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.91%) C++
13 7 (2.55%) Delphi
14 3 (1.09%) Korn
15 2 (0.73%) R
15 2 (0.73%) Scala
16 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (14.18%) Degree
2 33 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.09%) RHCE
9 2 (0.73%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.00%) QA
4 6 (2.18%) GDPR
5 5 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.09%) NCSC
7 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
7 2 (0.73%) WCAG
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 109 (39.64%) Docker
2 26 (9.45%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.73%) Samba
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 91 (33.09%) Kubernetes
2 64 (23.27%) Terraform
3 23 (8.36%) Ansible
4 11 (4.00%) Grafana
5 8 (2.91%) AWS Copilot
6 6 (2.18%) Kibana
6 6 (2.18%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.82%) Nagios
8 4 (1.45%) Control-M
8 4 (1.45%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.09%) Rancher
10 2 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.73%) Puppet
11 1 (0.36%) Argo
11 1 (0.36%) Plesk
11 1 (0.36%) Podman
11 1 (0.36%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 43 (15.64%) Oracle
2 36 (13.09%) Google
3 26 (9.45%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.00%) Pega
5 7 (2.55%) Informatica
5 7 (2.55%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.18%) WSO2
7 5 (1.82%) Dell
7 5 (1.82%) Splunk
8 4 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.45%) VMware
9 3 (1.09%) Confluent
9 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.73%) D-Link
10 2 (0.73%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.73%) Meraki
10 2 (0.73%) RedGate
10 2 (0.73%) Talend
11 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds