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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 253 200
Rank change year-on-year -66 -53 +35
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 290 339 959
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 1.18% 1.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.74% 7.58% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 209 228 583
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £85,000
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 5,048 4,472 11,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.71% 15.56% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,980 2,927 8,140
10th Percentile £34,796 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -4 106 £67,500 -0.19% 33
South East -22 96 £57,500 -8.00% 51
Yorkshire -27 45 £52,130 -12.93% 7
North West -13 44 £69,310 -0.11% 17
South West -37 37 £62,500 -3.85% 20
Scotland -12 20 £66,250 +2.82% 2
East of England -33 19 £47,500 -5.00% 5
North East -25 17 £60,000 -13.52% 9
Midlands -50 14 £65,000 -3.70% 20
East Midlands -33 7 £65,000 -7.14% 12
West Midlands -42 7 £67,500 +1.89% 8
Wales -48 2 £59,401 -8.61% 1
Northern Ireland -41 1 £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 24 (8.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.14%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.76%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.72%) Confluence
6 4 (1.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.69%) WildFly
7 2 (0.69%) WordPress
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) IIS
8 1 (0.34%) JBoss
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (60.00%) AWS
2 112 (38.62%) Azure
3 58 (20.00%) GCP
4 57 (19.66%) Serverless
5 30 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 29 (10.00%) GitHub
6 29 (10.00%) SaaS
7 28 (9.66%) Amazon S3
8 24 (8.28%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (8.28%) Power Platform
9 21 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (6.55%) Amazon SQS
10 19 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (6.21%) Azure AKS
12 16 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (5.52%) AWS Step Functions
13 15 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.48%) Firewall
2 11 (3.79%) DHCP
2 11 (3.79%) DNS
3 10 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.76%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.76%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (2.76%) SAN
5 7 (2.41%) Internet
5 7 (2.41%) Network Security
6 5 (1.72%) Broadband
6 5 (1.72%) VPN
7 3 (1.03%) VLAN
7 3 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.69%) MQTT
8 2 (0.69%) PBX
9 1 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.34%) HTTP
9 1 (0.34%) LAN
9 1 (0.34%) LTE
9 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 76 (26.21%) MongoDB
3 74 (25.52%) MySQL
4 54 (18.62%) Relational Database
5 53 (18.28%) NoSQL
6 24 (8.28%) Power BI
7 18 (6.21%) DynamoDB
7 18 (6.21%) Redis
8 16 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (3.10%) Oracle Database
11 9 (3.10%) RDBMS
12 8 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.72%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.38%) Data Lake
15 4 (1.38%) Looker
Development Applications
1 96 (33.10%) Git
2 21 (7.24%) GitLab
3 19 (6.55%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.17%) JIRA
5 12 (4.14%) JUnit
6 9 (3.10%) Mockito
7 7 (2.41%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.72%) JMeter
9 4 (1.38%) Maven
10 3 (1.03%) Selenium
11 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.69%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.69%) Gradle
11 2 (0.69%) MSTest
12 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.34%) jMock
12 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.34%) Snyk
12 1 (0.34%) utPLSQL
General
1 91 (31.38%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.14%) Public Sector
3 30 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.55%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (6.21%) Finance
7 14 (4.83%) Manufacturing
8 12 (4.14%) Advertising
9 11 (3.79%) Retail
10 9 (3.10%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.76%) Games
12 7 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.72%) Automotive
14 3 (1.03%) Health Technology
14 3 (1.03%) Legal
14 3 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.03%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.69%) Aviation
15 2 (0.69%) Banking
15 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (30.69%) Developer
2 64 (22.07%) Senior
3 41 (14.14%) Software Engineer
4 36 (12.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (8.62%) Java Developer
6 21 (7.24%) Lead
7 16 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (5.52%) Python Engineer
8 15 (5.17%) .NET Developer
8 15 (5.17%) Java Engineer
9 14 (4.83%) IT Support
9 14 (4.83%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (4.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.48%) DBA
11 12 (4.14%) Analyst
11 12 (4.14%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (4.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 12 (4.14%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.79%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (28.62%) React
2 60 (20.69%) Node.js
3 51 (17.59%) RESTful
4 49 (16.90%) REST
5 40 (13.79%) .NET
6 39 (13.45%) Spring
7 37 (12.76%) Spring Boot
8 25 (8.62%) AngularJS
9 23 (7.93%) CSS
9 23 (7.93%) HTML
10 22 (7.59%) Django
10 22 (7.59%) Vue
11 19 (6.55%) JSON
12 18 (6.21%) .NET Core
12 18 (6.21%) Web Services
13 16 (5.52%) Kafka
14 14 (4.83%) FastAPI
14 14 (4.83%) XML
15 13 (4.48%) ASP.NET
15 13 (4.48%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.31%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.48%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.14%) Replication
5 9 (3.10%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.10%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.07%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.72%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.72%) Robotics
8 5 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 4 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.38%) CUDA
9 4 (1.38%) IoT
9 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (23.10%) Linux
2 33 (11.38%) Windows
3 24 (8.28%) Unix
4 18 (6.21%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.07%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (2.07%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.03%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) AIX
8 1 (0.34%) Debian
8 1 (0.34%) Solaris
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 121 (41.72%) Agile
3 91 (31.38%) DevOps
4 78 (26.90%) Microservices
5 76 (26.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 74 (25.52%) Software Engineering
7 70 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (19.66%) Test Automation
9 56 (19.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 54 (18.62%) Mentoring
11 48 (16.55%) Containerisation
11 48 (16.55%) TDD
12 47 (16.21%) Scrum
13 44 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (14.48%) AI
15 36 (12.41%) Data Modelling
16 35 (12.07%) Analytics
17 34 (11.72%) Computer Science
18 25 (8.62%) Coaching
19 24 (8.28%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 112 (38.62%) Python
2 101 (34.83%) SQL
3 89 (30.69%) Java
4 54 (18.62%) JavaScript
5 49 (16.90%) TypeScript
6 31 (10.69%) C#
7 23 (7.93%) PowerShell
8 22 (7.59%) Go
9 16 (5.52%) Bash
10 15 (5.17%) C
11 14 (4.83%) PHP
12 9 (3.10%) Shell Script
12 9 (3.10%) T-SQL
13 8 (2.76%) C++
14 6 (2.07%) Korn
15 4 (1.38%) Scala
16 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.69%) R
17 1 (0.34%) Delphi
17 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (15.86%) Degree
2 25 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.76%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.03%) RHCE
11 2 (0.69%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.14%) GDPR
2 12 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.14%) QA
3 8 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.03%) NCSC
5 2 (0.69%) SLA
5 2 (0.69%) WCAG
6 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 93 (32.07%) Docker
2 30 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.38%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.69%) Samba
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 86 (29.66%) Kubernetes
2 62 (21.38%) Terraform
3 24 (8.28%) Ansible
4 16 (5.52%) Argo
5 9 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.76%) Grafana
7 6 (2.07%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.07%) Puppet
8 5 (1.72%) Kibana
9 4 (1.38%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.38%) Control-M
9 4 (1.38%) Data Guard
9 4 (1.38%) Nagios
9 4 (1.38%) Rancher
10 3 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.03%) Plesk
11 2 (0.69%) Istio
11 2 (0.69%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 46 (15.86%) Oracle
2 35 (12.07%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.62%) Google
4 13 (4.48%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.76%) Dell
6 7 (2.41%) Pega
7 5 (1.72%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.72%) Informatica
8 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.38%) Splunk
8 4 (1.38%) VMware
9 3 (1.03%) Confluent
9 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.69%) Databricks
10 2 (0.69%) D-Link
10 2 (0.69%) Meraki
10 2 (0.69%) WSO2
11 1 (0.34%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.34%) Siemens
11 1 (0.34%) SolarWinds