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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 195 214
Rank change year-on-year -106 +19 +21
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 282 386 909
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 1.46% 1.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.79% 9.13% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 200 238 573
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,438 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -6.78%
75th Percentile £74,987 £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 4,872 4,228 11,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.76% 16.00% 17.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,753 2,983 8,281
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,800 £32,000
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 £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 18 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 18 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 -32 102 £66,250 -1.85% 39
South East -101 79 £56,500 -19.29% 51
Yorkshire -40 46 £52,130 -12.73% 13
North West -28 43 £77,500 +14.81% 21
South West -44 34 £61,250 -5.77% 22
Scotland -33 23 £67,500 +8.00% 12
Midlands -43 21 £51,350 -21.00% 18
East of England -59 21 £45,000 -21.74% 8
North East -24 13 £53,565 -22.80% 5
West Midlands -31 12 £46,250 -28.85% 8
East Midlands -48 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -48 5 £73,801 +13.54% 6
Northern Ireland -42 2 £73,801 +34.18% 1
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 22 (7.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.26%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.84%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.06%) Apache
6 2 (0.71%) Confluence
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.71%) WildFly
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 176 (62.41%) AWS
2 110 (39.01%) Azure
3 69 (24.47%) GCP
4 56 (19.86%) Serverless
5 36 (12.77%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (12.06%) GitHub
7 31 (10.99%) Amazon S3
7 31 (10.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (8.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 25 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (8.87%) SaaS
9 24 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (8.51%) Power Platform
10 23 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (7.80%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (7.09%) dbt
13 19 (6.74%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (4.61%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.03%) TCP/IP
2 11 (3.90%) DHCP
2 11 (3.90%) DNS
3 10 (3.55%) Firewall
4 7 (2.48%) Internet
4 7 (2.48%) Network Security
5 6 (2.13%) iSCSI
5 6 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (2.13%) SAN
5 6 (2.13%) VPN
6 5 (1.77%) Broadband
7 4 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.06%) VLAN
9 2 (0.71%) HTTP
9 2 (0.71%) MQTT
9 2 (0.71%) PBX
10 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.35%) LTE
10 1 (0.35%) Multicast
10 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (31.91%) SQL Server
2 65 (23.05%) MongoDB
2 65 (23.05%) MySQL
3 58 (20.57%) NoSQL
4 55 (19.50%) Relational Database
5 31 (10.99%) Redis
6 26 (9.22%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (8.51%) Power BI
8 21 (7.45%) DynamoDB
9 19 (6.74%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (3.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.19%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.84%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.13%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 90 (31.91%) Git
2 27 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.74%) JUnit
4 18 (6.38%) GitLab
5 14 (4.96%) JIRA
6 9 (3.19%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.19%) Mockito
6 9 (3.19%) Selenium
7 8 (2.84%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.77%) JMeter
9 4 (1.42%) Maven
10 2 (0.71%) DBeaver
10 2 (0.71%) Gradle
10 2 (0.71%) MSTest
11 1 (0.35%) Appium
11 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.35%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.35%) utPLSQL
General
1 95 (33.69%) Social Skills
2 31 (10.99%) Public Sector
3 30 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.45%) Finance
5 19 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.26%) Advertising
8 9 (3.19%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.19%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.84%) Games
10 7 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.48%) Retail
11 5 (1.77%) Automotive
12 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.71%) Aviation
13 2 (0.71%) Banking
13 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.71%) Legal
13 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 87 (30.85%) Developer
2 63 (22.34%) Senior
3 41 (14.54%) Software Engineer
4 32 (11.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 28 (9.93%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.74%) Lead
7 17 (6.03%) Python Engineer
8 15 (5.32%) IT Support
8 15 (5.32%) Java Engineer
9 14 (4.96%) .NET Developer
9 14 (4.96%) Analyst
9 14 (4.96%) DBA
9 14 (4.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 13 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (3.90%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.90%) IT Support Technician
12 11 (3.90%) IT Technician
12 11 (3.90%) Support Technician
13 10 (3.55%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (26.95%) React
2 53 (18.79%) RESTful
3 48 (17.02%) Spring
4 47 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 44 (15.60%) REST
6 39 (13.83%) Django
7 36 (12.77%) Node.js
8 34 (12.06%) .NET
9 23 (8.16%) Vue
10 22 (7.80%) AngularJS
11 18 (6.38%) .NET Core
11 18 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (6.38%) HTML
11 18 (6.38%) Kafka
11 18 (6.38%) Web Services
12 17 (6.03%) Flask
12 17 (6.03%) JSON
13 16 (5.67%) FastAPI
14 14 (4.96%) AWS CDK
14 14 (4.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.32%) Replication
4 13 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.90%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.19%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.13%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.77%) Clustering
9 5 (1.77%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.77%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.42%) CUDA
10 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.42%) IoT
10 4 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (21.63%) Linux
2 24 (8.51%) Unix
3 21 (7.45%) Windows
4 14 (4.96%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.06%) CentOS
7 2 (0.71%) Debian
7 2 (0.71%) VMS
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) AIX
8 1 (0.35%) Solaris
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (48.23%) CI/CD
2 108 (38.30%) Agile
3 102 (36.17%) DevOps
4 80 (28.37%) Microservices
4 80 (28.37%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (26.24%) Software Engineering
6 64 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 63 (22.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 56 (19.86%) Containerisation
9 55 (19.50%) TDD
10 53 (18.79%) Test Automation
11 44 (15.60%) Mentoring
12 42 (14.89%) AI
13 36 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (12.06%) Scrum
15 33 (11.70%) Data Modelling
16 31 (10.99%) Observability
17 29 (10.28%) Computer Science
18 28 (9.93%) Analytics
18 28 (9.93%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 120 (42.55%) Python
2 105 (37.23%) SQL
3 90 (31.91%) Java
4 49 (17.38%) JavaScript
5 37 (13.12%) TypeScript
6 25 (8.87%) C#
7 24 (8.51%) Go
8 23 (8.16%) PowerShell
9 16 (5.67%) C
10 13 (4.61%) PHP
11 12 (4.26%) Bash
12 11 (3.90%) T-SQL
13 9 (3.19%) Shell Script
14 8 (2.84%) C++
15 7 (2.48%) Delphi
16 4 (1.42%) Korn
17 3 (1.06%) Scala
18 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
18 2 (0.71%) R
19 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (13.83%) Degree
2 33 (11.70%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.90%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.90%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.06%) RHCE
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.71%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.26%) QA
3 7 (2.48%) GDPR
4 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.06%) NCSC
6 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.71%) SLA
6 2 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 105 (37.23%) Docker
2 28 (9.93%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.42%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.71%) Samba
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 90 (31.91%) Kubernetes
2 64 (22.70%) Terraform
3 20 (7.09%) Ansible
4 13 (4.61%) Grafana
5 8 (2.84%) AWS Copilot
5 8 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.13%) Argo
6 6 (2.13%) Kibana
7 5 (1.77%) Data Guard
7 5 (1.77%) Nagios
8 4 (1.42%) Control-M
8 4 (1.42%) Rancher
9 3 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.71%) Puppet
11 1 (0.35%) Istio
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.35%) Plesk
11 1 (0.35%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 45 (15.96%) Oracle
2 35 (12.41%) Google
3 29 (10.28%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.55%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.48%) Informatica
5 7 (2.48%) Pega
6 6 (2.13%) Dell
7 5 (1.77%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.77%) Splunk
8 4 (1.42%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.42%) VMware
9 3 (1.06%) Confluent
9 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.71%) D-Link
10 2 (0.71%) Meraki
10 2 (0.71%) RedGate
10 2 (0.71%) Talend
10 2 (0.71%) WSO2
11 1 (0.35%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.35%) SolarWinds