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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 153 220
Rank change year-on-year -162 +67 -7
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 209 638 558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 1.80% 1.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.48% 11.44% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 140 243 427
10th Percentile £33,900 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% +10.61% +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £74,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% +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 3,815 5,578 7,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.77% 15.73% 19.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,385 2,868 6,110
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,250
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 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,750 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 0 77 £73,801 +6.48% 94
South East -131 43 £60,000 -25.00% 175
Yorkshire +5 38 £65,000 +8.81% 31
Midlands -6 32 £55,200 -15.08% 55
North West -10 31 £85,000 +22.64% 50
South West -48 27 £54,000 -16.92% 72
West Midlands +11 22 £55,200 -15.08% 24
Scotland -32 15 £73,801 +27.24% 35
East of England -48 12 £42,500 -26.09% 73
East Midlands -23 10 £60,100 +0.17% 30
North East +5 8 £55,200 -20.35% 14
Wales -23 5 £73,801 +13.54% 25
Northern Ireland -12 3 £73,801 +11.98% 11
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 (5.74%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.91%) Confluence
3 4 (1.91%) nginx
4 2 (0.96%) CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.48%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) WildFly
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 157 (75.12%) AWS
2 81 (38.76%) Azure
3 55 (26.32%) Serverless
4 51 (24.40%) Amazon ECS
5 39 (18.66%) GCP
6 35 (16.75%) Amazon S3
6 35 (16.75%) GitHub
7 33 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (14.83%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (13.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (11.00%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (9.57%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
12 19 (9.09%) SaaS
13 17 (8.13%) dbt
14 16 (7.66%) Amazon ECR
14 16 (7.66%) Pulumi
15 15 (7.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 15 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.31%) Firewall
3 8 (3.83%) DNS
4 7 (3.35%) Internet
5 6 (2.87%) HTTP
5 6 (2.87%) VPN
5 6 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.91%) FTP
6 4 (1.91%) IMAP
6 4 (1.91%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.91%) SMTP
6 4 (1.91%) SSH
7 3 (1.44%) DHCP
7 3 (1.44%) Network Security
7 3 (1.44%) VLAN
8 1 (0.48%) AMQP
8 1 (0.48%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.48%) MQTT
8 1 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (27.75%) SQL Server
2 55 (26.32%) Relational Database
3 43 (20.57%) MySQL
4 31 (14.83%) Redis
5 30 (14.35%) MongoDB
6 29 (13.88%) NoSQL
7 26 (12.44%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (11.96%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (8.13%) DynamoDB
10 12 (5.74%) RDBMS
11 9 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (3.83%) Oracle Database
13 7 (3.35%) Power BI
14 6 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
16 4 (1.91%) Oracle Database 10g
16 4 (1.91%) Oracle Database 11g
16 4 (1.91%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 77 (36.84%) Git
2 48 (22.97%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.96%) JUnit
4 14 (6.70%) JMeter
5 13 (6.22%) Cucumber
5 13 (6.22%) GitLab
5 13 (6.22%) Mockito
6 12 (5.74%) JIRA
7 8 (3.83%) Selenium
8 6 (2.87%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.91%) Vagrant
10 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.44%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.96%) Appium
11 2 (0.96%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.96%) Subversion
12 1 (0.48%) Gradle
12 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 72 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.26%) Finance
5 7 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.87%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.87%) Retail
7 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.39%) Marketing
8 4 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.96%) Advertising
10 2 (0.96%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
11 1 (0.48%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (38.76%) Developer
2 52 (24.88%) Senior
3 35 (16.75%) Java Developer
4 34 (16.27%) Software Engineer
5 31 (14.83%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (7.18%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (6.70%) Lead
9 13 (6.22%) .NET Developer
9 13 (6.22%) DBA
9 13 (6.22%) Software Developer
10 12 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 10 (4.78%) Junior
12 10 (4.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Analyst
13 8 (3.83%) Java Engineer
14 7 (3.35%) Administrator
14 7 (3.35%) Python Engineer
14 7 (3.35%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.79%) React
2 55 (26.32%) Spring
3 53 (25.36%) Spring Boot
4 37 (17.70%) REST
5 36 (17.22%) RESTful
6 32 (15.31%) Django
7 31 (14.83%) .NET
8 26 (12.44%) Node.js
9 24 (11.48%) HTML
10 23 (11.00%) Web Services
11 20 (9.57%) Kafka
12 18 (8.61%) .NET Core
12 18 (8.61%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (8.13%) Hibernate
14 16 (7.66%) AngularJS
14 16 (7.66%) Vue
15 15 (7.18%) Apache Camel
16 14 (6.70%) AWS CDK
17 13 (6.22%) ASP.NET Core
17 13 (6.22%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.27%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (12.44%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.26%) Replication
4 10 (4.78%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.39%) Clustering
5 5 (2.39%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.91%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.44%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.48%) Life Science
9 1 (0.48%) PKI
9 1 (0.48%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 57 (27.27%) Linux
2 22 (10.53%) Unix
2 22 (10.53%) Windows
3 13 (6.22%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.87%) VMS
5 4 (1.91%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.91%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.44%) Debian
6 3 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.48%) Fedora
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (55.50%) CI/CD
2 87 (41.63%) DevOps
3 83 (39.71%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (35.89%) Agile
5 72 (34.45%) Microservices
6 53 (25.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 53 (25.36%) Software Engineering
7 49 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (22.49%) TDD
9 41 (19.62%) Containerisation
10 30 (14.35%) BDD
11 27 (12.92%) Workflow
12 25 (11.96%) Migration
12 25 (11.96%) Test Automation
13 24 (11.48%) Observability
13 24 (11.48%) SDLC
14 23 (11.00%) Mentoring
15 22 (10.53%) Clean Code
15 22 (10.53%) Scrum
16 19 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 87 (41.63%) Python
2 76 (36.36%) Java
3 69 (33.01%) SQL
4 50 (23.92%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.40%) TypeScript
6 23 (11.00%) C#
7 20 (9.57%) Go
8 15 (7.18%) Shell Script
9 14 (6.70%) PowerShell
10 12 (5.74%) C
11 9 (4.31%) PHP
12 7 (3.35%) Delphi
13 6 (2.87%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.91%) Groovy
15 3 (1.44%) C++
16 2 (0.96%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.48%) Perl
17 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.48%) Ruby
17 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.00%) Degree
4 15 (7.18%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.83%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.39%) QA
2 5 (2.39%) SLA
3 4 (1.91%) GDPR
4 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 96 (45.93%) Docker
2 4 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.91%) DFS Replication
2 4 (1.91%) Dovecot
2 4 (1.91%) Postfix
2 4 (1.91%) Squid
3 3 (1.44%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 73 (34.93%) Kubernetes
2 51 (24.40%) Terraform
3 23 (11.00%) Ansible
4 14 (6.70%) Kibana
5 11 (5.26%) Grafana
6 10 (4.78%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.39%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.91%) Control-M
8 4 (1.91%) Nessus
8 4 (1.91%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.91%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.44%) Nagios
9 3 (1.44%) Rancher
10 2 (0.96%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (16.75%) Oracle
2 19 (9.09%) Google
3 13 (6.22%) Splunk
4 11 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.83%) Informatica
6 5 (2.39%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.39%) VMware
7 4 (1.91%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.91%) Pega
7 4 (1.91%) WSO2
8 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.44%) RedGate
8 3 (1.44%) Talend
9 2 (0.96%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.96%) SAP
10 1 (0.48%) Dell
10 1 (0.48%) IBM
10 1 (0.48%) OpenText
10 1 (0.48%) Siemens