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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 149 234
Rank change year-on-year -164 +85 +2
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 242 544 715
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.93% 1.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.87% 11.38% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 166 258 528
10th Percentile £34,375 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +1.24%
75th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,625 £87,500
UK median annual salary £73,151 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.47% +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 4,124 4,781 10,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.89% 16.98% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,410 2,916 7,987
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,500
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 £81,289 £83,125 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -29 91 £65,000 -5.06% 88
South East -125 62 £58,750 -21.67% 109
Yorkshire -18 42 £52,130 -9.13% 37
North West -27 38 £77,500 +11.82% 40
Midlands -31 26 £55,200 -15.08% 55
South West -41 25 £65,000 - 55
West Midlands -18 17 £50,100 -22.92% 34
Scotland -33 17 £65,000 +4.00% 19
East of England -59 16 £42,500 -26.09% 67
North East -16 11 £55,000 -20.69% 12
East Midlands -36 9 £65,000 +8.33% 20
Wales -34 6 £73,801 +13.54% 13
Northern Ireland -25 4 £73,801 +18.74% 3
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 14 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.96%) OpenStack
3 10 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.24%) Apache
4 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.83%) CMS
5 2 (0.83%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.41%) Camunda
6 1 (0.41%) Confluence
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 169 (69.83%) AWS
2 101 (41.74%) Azure
3 62 (25.62%) GCP
4 53 (21.90%) Serverless
5 46 (19.01%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (15.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (13.22%) Amazon S3
8 31 (12.81%) GitHub
9 29 (11.98%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (11.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (9.92%) dbt
12 22 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (9.09%) SaaS
13 20 (8.26%) Amazon ECR
13 20 (8.26%) Pulumi
14 19 (7.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 19 (7.85%) AWS Step Functions
15 18 (7.44%) Power Platform
16 17 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.50%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.31%) VPN
3 7 (2.89%) Firewall
3 7 (2.89%) Internet
3 7 (2.89%) Network Security
4 6 (2.48%) DHCP
4 6 (2.48%) DNS
4 6 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.24%) iSCSI
5 3 (1.24%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.24%) SAN
5 3 (1.24%) VLAN
6 2 (0.83%) HTTP
6 2 (0.83%) PBX
7 1 (0.41%) AMQP
7 1 (0.41%) Broadband
7 1 (0.41%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (28.93%) SQL Server
2 54 (22.31%) MySQL
3 53 (21.90%) Relational Database
4 49 (20.25%) NoSQL
5 46 (19.01%) MongoDB
6 39 (16.12%) Redis
7 34 (14.05%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (9.92%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (7.44%) DynamoDB
9 18 (7.44%) Power BI
10 10 (4.13%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (4.13%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (3.31%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (2.48%) BigQuery
15 5 (2.07%) TimescaleDB
16 4 (1.65%) Looker
Development Applications
1 79 (32.64%) Git
2 39 (16.12%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.50%) JUnit
4 14 (5.79%) GitLab
4 14 (5.79%) JIRA
5 13 (5.37%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.55%) Mockito
7 9 (3.72%) JMeter
8 8 (3.31%) Selenium
9 6 (2.48%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.24%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.24%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.83%) Appium
11 2 (0.83%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.83%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.83%) Maven
11 2 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.83%) Subversion
12 1 (0.41%) jMock
12 1 (0.41%) TestNG
General
1 84 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (9.50%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.85%) Finance
5 10 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.72%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.48%) Advertising
8 6 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.65%) Games
9 4 (1.65%) Retail
10 3 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.24%) Marketing
10 3 (1.24%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.83%) Automotive
12 1 (0.41%) Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Electronics
12 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (31.82%) Developer
2 57 (23.55%) Senior
3 44 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 33 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 30 (12.40%) Java Developer
6 19 (7.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 17 (7.02%) Java Engineer
8 16 (6.61%) Lead
9 15 (6.20%) Analyst
10 14 (5.79%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (5.37%) .NET Developer
11 13 (5.37%) Java Software Engineer
12 12 (4.96%) IT Support
13 10 (4.13%) Data Analyst
13 10 (4.13%) DBA
13 10 (4.13%) Junior
14 9 (3.72%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 9 (3.72%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (28.51%) React
2 57 (23.55%) Spring
3 55 (22.73%) Spring Boot
4 46 (19.01%) RESTful
5 38 (15.70%) REST
6 37 (15.29%) Django
7 30 (12.40%) .NET
7 30 (12.40%) Node.js
8 21 (8.68%) HTML
8 21 (8.68%) Kafka
8 21 (8.68%) Web Services
9 19 (7.85%) AngularJS
9 19 (7.85%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (7.85%) Vue
10 18 (7.44%) .NET Core
11 16 (6.61%) JSON
12 15 (6.20%) CSS
12 15 (6.20%) XML
13 14 (5.79%) AWS CDK
13 14 (5.79%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.70%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.98%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.02%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.55%) Replication
5 10 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.13%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.31%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.65%) Clustering
7 4 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.65%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.24%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.24%) SCADA
8 3 (1.24%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (25.21%) Linux
2 27 (11.16%) Unix
3 15 (6.20%) Windows
4 11 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.24%) Debian
6 3 (1.24%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.83%) CentOS
7 2 (0.83%) VMS
7 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.41%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (50.41%) CI/CD
2 96 (39.67%) DevOps
3 91 (37.60%) Agile
4 79 (32.64%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (32.23%) Microservices
6 70 (28.93%) Software Engineering
7 62 (25.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 61 (25.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 56 (23.14%) TDD
10 55 (22.73%) Containerisation
11 41 (16.94%) Test Automation
12 34 (14.05%) Mentoring
13 33 (13.64%) BDD
13 33 (13.64%) Observability
14 28 (11.57%) AI
15 26 (10.74%) Scrum
16 25 (10.33%) Clean Code
16 25 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (9.92%) Migration
18 23 (9.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 101 (41.74%) Python
2 94 (38.84%) Java
3 80 (33.06%) SQL
4 52 (21.49%) JavaScript
5 36 (14.88%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.26%) C#
6 20 (8.26%) Go
6 20 (8.26%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.61%) C
8 11 (4.55%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.13%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.72%) PHP
11 7 (2.89%) C++
11 7 (2.89%) Delphi
12 6 (2.48%) Bash
13 2 (0.83%) R
14 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.41%) Perl
14 1 (0.41%) Scala
14 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.98%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.57%) Degree
4 13 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
6 7 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.83%) RHCE
9 2 (0.83%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.89%) QA
4 4 (1.65%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.83%) NCSC
5 2 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 109 (45.04%) Docker
2 20 (8.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (1.24%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.83%) Samba
Systems Management
1 80 (33.06%) Kubernetes
2 59 (24.38%) Terraform
3 23 (9.50%) Ansible
4 14 (5.79%) AWS Copilot
5 10 (4.13%) Kibana
6 9 (3.72%) Grafana
7 5 (2.07%) Nagios
7 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.65%) Control-M
8 4 (1.65%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.24%) Rancher
10 2 (0.83%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.83%) Puppet
11 1 (0.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (15.70%) Oracle
2 37 (15.29%) Google
3 20 (8.26%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.89%) Informatica
4 7 (2.89%) Splunk
5 6 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.07%) Pega
6 5 (2.07%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.07%) VMware
7 4 (1.65%) WSO2
8 3 (1.24%) Confluent
8 3 (1.24%) Dell
8 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.83%) D-Link
9 2 (0.83%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.83%) RedGate
9 2 (0.83%) Talend
10 1 (0.41%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.41%) NVIDIA