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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 277 173
Rank change year-on-year -66 -104 +48
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 393 286 777
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.83% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.13% 6.97% 11.13%
Number of salaries quoted 304 171 340
10th Percentile £40,240 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £68,125
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £69,305 £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 5,512 4,104 6,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.42% 11.92% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,942 2,560 3,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 25 September 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 25 September 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
South East -22 127 £65,000 -5.45% 101
North of England -16 125 £65,000 -3.70% 133
North West -12 58 £62,500 -7.41% 77
South West -61 48 £65,000 +25.00% 53
Midlands -40 39 £75,000 +7.14% 48
North East -40 39 £65,000 +26.83% 20
West Midlands -44 30 £83,774 +15.55% 35
East of England -19 28 £50,000 +63.93% 38
Yorkshire -29 28 £67,155 -4.06% 38
Wales -46 24 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Scotland -5 13 £65,000 -3.70% 44
East Midlands -30 9 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Northern Ireland -93 1 - - 32
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 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.29%) Apache
3 8 (2.04%) Confluence
3 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.78%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.27%) WordPress
6 4 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Documentum
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.25%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) Finacle
2 1 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 220 (55.98%) AWS
2 164 (41.73%) Azure
3 61 (15.52%) GCP
3 61 (15.52%) GitHub
4 46 (11.70%) Serverless
5 35 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (7.38%) Amazon ECS
7 25 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (6.11%) SaaS
9 23 (5.85%) Azure AKS
10 22 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (4.58%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
13 16 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (4.07%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.56%) Azure Functions
14 14 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (2.80%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.54%) Firewall
2 9 (2.29%) DNS
3 6 (1.53%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.27%) DHCP
4 5 (1.27%) HTTP
4 5 (1.27%) iSCSI
4 5 (1.27%) SAN
5 3 (0.76%) VPN
6 2 (0.51%) 4G
6 2 (0.51%) 5G
6 2 (0.51%) Broadband
6 2 (0.51%) MQTT
6 2 (0.51%) SSH
6 2 (0.51%) VLAN
7 1 (0.25%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) Multicast
7 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (30.03%) MySQL
2 99 (25.19%) MongoDB
3 90 (22.90%) Relational Database
4 86 (21.88%) SQL Server
5 58 (14.76%) NoSQL
6 34 (8.65%) Redis
7 24 (6.11%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.82%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.29%) GIS
10 9 (2.29%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.04%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.78%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.78%) Power BI
13 6 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.27%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.27%) Spatial Data
14 5 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 122 (31.04%) Git
2 38 (9.67%) GitLab
3 35 (8.91%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.33%) JUnit
5 16 (4.07%) JIRA
6 13 (3.31%) JMeter
7 10 (2.54%) Mockito
8 9 (2.29%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.29%) Selenium
9 6 (1.53%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.27%) Mocha
10 5 (1.27%) RSpec
10 5 (1.27%) Storybook
11 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.02%) minitest
11 4 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.76%) Maven
12 3 (0.76%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.76%) Vite
General
1 89 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.34%) Public Sector
3 48 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.09%) Finance
6 18 (4.58%) Banking
7 17 (4.33%) Law
8 15 (3.82%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.56%) Legal
10 11 (2.80%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.04%) Aviation
12 8 (2.04%) Retail
13 7 (1.78%) Automotive
13 7 (1.78%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.53%) Advertising
14 6 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.02%) Health Technology
16 4 (1.02%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 129 (32.82%) Developer
2 116 (29.52%) Senior
3 88 (22.39%) Software Engineer
4 44 (11.20%) Lead
5 41 (10.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 35 (8.91%) Senior Developer
7 34 (8.65%) Software Developer
8 31 (7.89%) Python Engineer
9 30 (7.63%) Java Developer
10 29 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 25 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (6.11%) Data Engineer
13 23 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (5.85%) Lead Software Engineer
14 19 (4.83%) DBA
14 19 (4.83%) Python Developer
15 16 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
16 15 (3.82%) Senior DevOps
16 15 (3.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (26.72%) React
2 82 (20.87%) Terraform
3 80 (20.36%) Node.js
4 66 (16.79%) REST
5 63 (16.03%) RESTful
6 56 (14.25%) .NET
7 53 (13.49%) Spring
8 52 (13.23%) Kafka
8 52 (13.23%) Spring Boot
9 51 (12.98%) CSS
10 44 (11.20%) HTML
11 31 (7.89%) Next.js
12 29 (7.38%) Hibernate
13 28 (7.12%) AngularJS
13 28 (7.12%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (6.62%) Vue
15 22 (5.60%) Flask
16 21 (5.34%) FastAPI
17 20 (5.09%) JPA
18 19 (4.83%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 83 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 55 (13.99%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (7.12%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.60%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.56%) AI Agents
6 14 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.31%) Virtual Team
8 12 (3.05%) Algorithms
8 12 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (3.05%) Renewable Energy
9 11 (2.80%) Robotics
10 9 (2.29%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.29%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.04%) IoT
12 7 (1.78%) Replication
13 6 (1.53%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.27%) Clustering
14 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 91 (23.16%) Linux
2 33 (8.40%) Windows
3 17 (4.33%) Unix
4 13 (3.31%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.51%) Debian
6 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) AIX
7 1 (0.25%) CentOS
7 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.25%) Solaris
7 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (51.91%) CI/CD
2 165 (41.98%) Agile
3 158 (40.20%) Software Engineering
4 135 (34.35%) DevOps
5 114 (29.01%) Microservices
6 110 (27.99%) Full-Stack Development
7 95 (24.17%) Mentoring
7 95 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (23.41%) AI
9 91 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 67 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (16.28%) Containerisation
12 59 (15.01%) Scrum
13 57 (14.50%) Test Automation
14 56 (14.25%) Observability
15 50 (12.72%) Decision-Making
16 46 (11.70%) TDD
17 44 (11.20%) Analytics
18 43 (10.94%) Event-Driven
19 42 (10.69%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 147 (37.40%) Python
2 124 (31.55%) SQL
3 103 (26.21%) Java
4 95 (24.17%) JavaScript
5 77 (19.59%) TypeScript
6 58 (14.76%) C#
7 27 (6.87%) Bash
8 25 (6.36%) Go
9 22 (5.60%) PowerShell
10 16 (4.07%) PHP
11 13 (3.31%) Ruby
11 13 (3.31%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.54%) C++
13 6 (1.53%) Scala
14 5 (1.27%) Korn
15 3 (0.76%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.25%) C
17 1 (0.25%) COBOL
17 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (17.05%) Degree
2 62 (15.78%) Security Cleared
3 51 (12.98%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (6.11%) Master's Degree
6 21 (5.34%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.83%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.04%) PhD
10 5 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.51%) CISSP
12 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.89%) QA
2 25 (6.36%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.54%) GDPR
4 10 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.02%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (0.51%) WCAG
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 128 (32.57%) Docker
2 12 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Ceph
6 1 (0.25%) Lustre
6 1 (0.25%) NFS
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.25%) Samba
6 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 114 (29.01%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.40%) Grafana
3 31 (7.89%) Ansible
4 29 (7.38%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.85%) Argo
6 12 (3.05%) Kibana
7 6 (1.53%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.53%) Puppet
8 5 (1.27%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.02%) Istio
10 3 (0.76%) Plesk
10 3 (0.76%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.76%) Rancher
10 3 (0.76%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.51%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.25%) logstash
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 50 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.41%) Oracle
3 24 (6.11%) Splunk
4 12 (3.05%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.05%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.80%) Google
6 9 (2.29%) Databricks
7 8 (2.04%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.53%) Informatica
9 5 (1.27%) Dell
9 5 (1.27%) Meraki
10 4 (1.02%) IBM
10 4 (1.02%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.02%) VMware
11 3 (0.76%) Mistral
12 2 (0.51%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.51%) SAP
12 2 (0.51%) UiPath
13 1 (0.25%) Apple
13 1 (0.25%) Temenos