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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 173 222
Rank change year-on-year -140 +49 +8
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 274 419 870
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 1.62% 1.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.77% 9.88% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 193 254 568
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -2.54%
75th Percentile £74,987 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £69,308 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 4,749 4,243 11,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.88% 16.38% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,738 2,975 8,240
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,000 £31,750
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 £68,750 £71,250 £65,250
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% -10.20%

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 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 11 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 -40 100 £66,250 -1.94% 57
South East -122 71 £55,750 -20.36% 48
Yorkshire -31 44 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -35 44 £77,500 +13.19% 33
South West -51 34 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Scotland -26 23 £67,500 +8.00% 12
Midlands -54 22 £47,500 -26.92% 18
East of England -61 22 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -24 13 £45,000 -30.77% 8
North East -22 12 £55,000 -20.73% 6
East Midlands -50 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -55 5 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -44 2 £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 21 (7.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.01%) OpenStack
4 7 (2.55%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.09%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) Confluence
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.73%) WildFly
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 174 (63.50%) AWS
2 107 (39.05%) Azure
3 71 (25.91%) GCP
4 51 (18.61%) Serverless
5 36 (13.14%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (12.41%) GitHub
7 32 (11.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (10.95%) Amazon S3
9 25 (9.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (9.12%) SaaS
10 24 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (8.39%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (8.39%) Power Platform
12 22 (8.03%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (7.30%) dbt
15 19 (6.93%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (5.11%) Amazon ECR
16 14 (5.11%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.57%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.65%) DHCP
2 10 (3.65%) DNS
2 10 (3.65%) Firewall
3 7 (2.55%) Internet
3 7 (2.55%) Network Security
3 7 (2.55%) VPN
4 6 (2.19%) iSCSI
4 6 (2.19%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (2.19%) SAN
5 5 (1.82%) Broadband
5 5 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.09%) VLAN
7 2 (0.73%) HTTP
7 2 (0.73%) MQTT
7 2 (0.73%) PBX
8 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.36%) LTE
8 1 (0.36%) Multicast
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (31.39%) SQL Server
2 65 (23.72%) MySQL
3 63 (22.99%) MongoDB
4 58 (21.17%) NoSQL
5 54 (19.71%) Relational Database
6 32 (11.68%) Redis
7 27 (9.85%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (8.39%) Power BI
9 21 (7.66%) DynamoDB
10 20 (7.30%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.28%) Oracle Database
12 9 (3.28%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.19%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 85 (31.02%) Git
2 26 (9.49%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.57%) JUnit
4 16 (5.84%) GitLab
5 15 (5.47%) JIRA
6 9 (3.28%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.28%) Mockito
6 9 (3.28%) Selenium
7 8 (2.92%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.82%) JMeter
9 4 (1.46%) Maven
10 2 (0.73%) DBeaver
10 2 (0.73%) Gradle
10 2 (0.73%) MSTest
11 1 (0.36%) Appium
11 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.36%) ERwin
11 1 (0.36%) jMock
11 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 94 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (10.58%) Public Sector
3 20 (7.30%) Finance
4 19 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (5.84%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (4.01%) Advertising
7 9 (3.28%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.92%) Games
9 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.82%) Automotive
10 5 (1.82%) Retail
11 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.73%) Aviation
12 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.73%) Legal
12 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.73%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.36%) Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (30.66%) Developer
2 61 (22.26%) Senior
3 42 (15.33%) Software Engineer
4 31 (11.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 28 (10.22%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.93%) Lead
7 18 (6.57%) Python Engineer
8 15 (5.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (5.47%) IT Support
9 14 (5.11%) .NET Developer
9 14 (5.11%) Analyst
9 14 (5.11%) DBA
10 13 (4.74%) Java Engineer
10 13 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (4.38%) Java Software Engineer
12 10 (3.65%) Administrator
12 10 (3.65%) Architect
12 10 (3.65%) Data Analyst
12 10 (3.65%) IT Support Technician
12 10 (3.65%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (28.10%) React
2 54 (19.71%) RESTful
3 47 (17.15%) Spring
3 47 (17.15%) Spring Boot
4 41 (14.96%) Django
4 41 (14.96%) REST
5 32 (11.68%) Node.js
6 31 (11.31%) .NET
7 25 (9.12%) Vue
8 21 (7.66%) AngularJS
9 20 (7.30%) HTML
10 19 (6.93%) Kafka
11 18 (6.57%) .NET Core
11 18 (6.57%) Flask
12 17 (6.20%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (6.20%) FastAPI
12 17 (6.20%) Web Services
13 16 (5.84%) CSS
13 16 (5.84%) JSON
14 14 (5.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.98%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.84%) Replication
4 13 (4.74%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (4.01%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (4.01%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.28%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.19%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.82%) Clustering
9 5 (1.82%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.46%) CUDA
10 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.46%) IoT
10 4 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 60 (21.90%) Linux
2 23 (8.39%) Unix
3 19 (6.93%) Windows
4 14 (5.11%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.09%) CentOS
6 3 (1.09%) Debian
7 2 (0.73%) VMS
7 2 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (47.08%) CI/CD
2 103 (37.59%) Agile
3 101 (36.86%) DevOps
4 78 (28.47%) Microservices
5 77 (28.10%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (26.64%) Software Engineering
7 64 (23.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 63 (22.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 57 (20.80%) Containerisation
10 56 (20.44%) TDD
11 51 (18.61%) Test Automation
12 42 (15.33%) AI
13 41 (14.96%) Mentoring
14 33 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (11.31%) Data Modelling
15 31 (11.31%) Observability
16 30 (10.95%) Scrum
17 28 (10.22%) BDD
17 28 (10.22%) Computer Science
18 25 (9.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 117 (42.70%) Python
2 100 (36.50%) SQL
3 87 (31.75%) Java
4 51 (18.61%) JavaScript
5 36 (13.14%) TypeScript
6 24 (8.76%) Go
7 23 (8.39%) PowerShell
8 22 (8.03%) C#
9 16 (5.84%) C
10 14 (5.11%) PHP
11 11 (4.01%) T-SQL
12 10 (3.65%) Bash
13 9 (3.28%) Shell Script
14 8 (2.92%) C++
15 7 (2.55%) Delphi
16 4 (1.46%) Korn
17 2 (0.73%) R
17 2 (0.73%) Scala
18 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (13.87%) Degree
2 33 (12.04%) Security Cleared
3 25 (9.12%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.01%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.01%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.09%) RHCE
9 2 (0.73%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.01%) QA
4 6 (2.19%) GDPR
5 5 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.09%) NCSC
7 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
7 2 (0.73%) WCAG
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 107 (39.05%) Docker
2 27 (9.85%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.46%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.73%) Samba
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 90 (32.85%) Kubernetes
2 63 (22.99%) Terraform
3 19 (6.93%) Ansible
4 12 (4.38%) Grafana
5 8 (2.92%) AWS Copilot
6 7 (2.55%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.19%) Kibana
8 5 (1.82%) Nagios
9 4 (1.46%) Control-M
9 4 (1.46%) Data Guard
9 4 (1.46%) Rancher
10 3 (1.09%) Argo
11 2 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.73%) Puppet
12 1 (0.36%) Plesk
12 1 (0.36%) Podman
12 1 (0.36%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 42 (15.33%) Oracle
2 36 (13.14%) Google
3 27 (9.85%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.92%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.55%) Informatica
5 7 (2.55%) Pega
6 6 (2.19%) Dell
7 5 (1.82%) Splunk
8 4 (1.46%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.46%) VMware
9 3 (1.09%) Confluent
9 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.73%) D-Link
10 2 (0.73%) Meraki
10 2 (0.73%) RedGate
10 2 (0.73%) Talend
10 2 (0.73%) WSO2
11 1 (0.36%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds