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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 153 220
Rank change year-on-year -162 +67 +9
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 220 616 655
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.89% 1.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.52% 11.58% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 151 239 497
10th Percentile £35,750 £44,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,125 £53,507 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +6.23%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £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 3,984 5,319 9,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.36% 16.30% 18.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,387 2,805 7,375
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
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 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -17 85 £68,750 -0.80% 60
South East -130 49 £55,000 -31.25% 53
Yorkshire -9 40 £60,000 +8.91% 18
North West -25 34 £77,500 +11.82% 31
South West -61 26 £62,500 -5.66% 25
Midlands -23 25 £55,200 -15.08% 30
West Midlands +4 16 £45,000 -30.77% 20
Scotland -34 15 £73,801 +27.24% 24
East of England -39 15 £42,500 -26.09% 16
North East -7 11 £52,500 -24.25% 12
East Midlands -33 9 £65,000 +8.33% 10
Wales -24 6 £73,801 +13.54% 6
Northern Ireland -24 4 £73,801 +25.62% 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 12 (5.45%) OpenStack
2 8 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.91%) CMS
3 2 (0.91%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.91%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.45%) Camunda
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) JBoss
4 1 (0.45%) WildFly
4 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 158 (71.82%) AWS
2 92 (41.82%) Azure
3 54 (24.55%) Serverless
4 48 (21.82%) Amazon ECS
5 46 (20.91%) GCP
6 37 (16.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (15.00%) Amazon S3
8 31 (14.09%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (14.09%) GitHub
9 27 (12.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (10.45%) dbt
12 22 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (10.00%) SaaS
13 20 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
13 20 (9.09%) Pulumi
14 19 (8.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 19 (8.64%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (6.36%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.45%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.18%) Internet
3 6 (2.73%) VPN
3 6 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.27%) Network Security
5 4 (1.82%) Firewall
6 3 (1.36%) DHCP
6 3 (1.36%) DNS
6 3 (1.36%) VLAN
7 2 (0.91%) HTTP
8 1 (0.45%) AMQP
8 1 (0.45%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (27.73%) SQL Server
2 51 (23.18%) Relational Database
3 47 (21.36%) MySQL
4 39 (17.73%) NoSQL
5 38 (17.27%) MongoDB
5 38 (17.27%) Redis
6 33 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
7 25 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (7.73%) DynamoDB
9 14 (6.36%) Power BI
10 10 (4.55%) RDBMS
11 9 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (3.64%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.82%) Oracle Database 10g
15 4 (1.82%) Oracle Database 11g
15 4 (1.82%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 74 (33.64%) Git
2 41 (18.64%) Jenkins
3 23 (10.45%) JUnit
4 14 (6.36%) GitLab
5 13 (5.91%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.45%) JMeter
7 11 (5.00%) Mockito
8 10 (4.55%) JIRA
9 8 (3.64%) Selenium
10 7 (3.18%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.36%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.91%) Appium
12 2 (0.91%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.91%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.91%) Maven
12 2 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.91%) Subversion
13 1 (0.45%) Gradle
13 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
General
1 74 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.45%) Finance
5 8 (3.64%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.36%) Advertising
8 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.36%) Marketing
8 3 (1.36%) Retail
8 3 (1.36%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.45%) Automotive
9 1 (0.45%) Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Electronics
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (34.09%) Developer
2 53 (24.09%) Senior
3 44 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 32 (14.55%) Java Developer
5 31 (14.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (9.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 19 (8.64%) Java Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Java Software Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Lead
8 14 (6.36%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (5.91%) .NET Developer
9 13 (5.91%) Analyst
10 12 (5.45%) DBA
11 9 (4.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 9 (4.09%) Data Analyst
11 9 (4.09%) Junior
11 9 (4.09%) Software Developer
11 9 (4.09%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (27.73%) React
2 58 (26.36%) Spring
3 56 (25.45%) Spring Boot
4 41 (18.64%) RESTful
5 36 (16.36%) REST
6 34 (15.45%) Django
7 30 (13.64%) .NET
8 27 (12.27%) Node.js
9 21 (9.55%) Kafka
9 21 (9.55%) Web Services
10 20 (9.09%) HTML
11 19 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (8.64%) JSON
12 18 (8.18%) .NET Core
12 18 (8.18%) AngularJS
12 18 (8.18%) XML
13 17 (7.73%) Vue
14 14 (6.36%) AWS CDK
14 14 (6.36%) Hibernate
15 13 (5.91%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.45%) Cloud Native
2 32 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.36%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.18%) Replication
7 6 (2.73%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.27%) Clustering
9 4 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.82%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.36%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.36%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.91%) Life Science
11 2 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.91%) SCADA
11 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (24.55%) Linux
2 26 (11.82%) Unix
3 14 (6.36%) Windows
4 10 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.36%) Debian
5 3 (1.36%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.91%) VMS
6 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.45%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (51.36%) CI/CD
2 89 (40.45%) Agile
3 88 (40.00%) DevOps
4 77 (35.00%) Microservices
5 74 (33.64%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (30.45%) Software Engineering
7 55 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 55 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (25.00%) TDD
8 45 (20.45%) Containerisation
9 36 (16.36%) BDD
10 35 (15.91%) Test Automation
11 30 (13.64%) Observability
12 29 (13.18%) Mentoring
13 26 (11.82%) Scrum
14 25 (11.36%) Migration
15 24 (10.91%) Open Source
15 24 (10.91%) SDLC
16 22 (10.00%) Clean Code
16 22 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 94 (42.73%) Java
2 93 (42.27%) Python
3 76 (34.55%) SQL
4 51 (23.18%) JavaScript
5 32 (14.55%) TypeScript
6 20 (9.09%) C#
6 20 (9.09%) Go
7 17 (7.73%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.91%) C
8 13 (5.91%) Shell Script
9 12 (5.45%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.64%) PHP
11 7 (3.18%) Delphi
12 6 (2.73%) C++
13 3 (1.36%) Bash
14 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.45%) Perl
14 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.45%) R
14 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.64%) Degree
4 12 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.64%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.73%) QA
4 3 (1.36%) GDPR
5 2 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.91%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 96 (43.64%) Docker
2 11 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (32.73%) Kubernetes
2 55 (25.00%) Terraform
3 23 (10.45%) Ansible
4 14 (6.36%) AWS Copilot
5 13 (5.91%) Kibana
6 9 (4.09%) Grafana
7 4 (1.82%) Control-M
7 4 (1.82%) Nagios
7 4 (1.82%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.82%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.36%) Rancher
9 2 (0.91%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.91%) Puppet
10 1 (0.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (16.82%) Oracle
2 27 (12.27%) Google
3 11 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.55%) Splunk
5 9 (4.09%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.64%) Informatica
7 5 (2.27%) VMware
8 4 (1.82%) Pega
8 4 (1.82%) WSO2
9 3 (1.36%) RedGate
9 3 (1.36%) Talend
10 2 (0.91%) Confluent
10 2 (0.91%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.91%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.91%) SAP
11 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.45%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.45%) IBM
11 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.45%) Siemens