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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 160 197
Rank change year-on-year -138 +37 +23
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 214 635 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.73% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.65% 11.02% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 148 248 387
10th Percentile £32,475 £46,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.59% +10.61% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,000 £90,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -3.57%

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 3,790 5,762 6,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.06% 15.70% 20.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,394 3,010 4,951
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,844 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -0.29% -1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 4 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 4 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 +11 79 £73,801 +6.48% 196
South East -129 47 £60,000 -25.00% 231
Yorkshire +16 43 £70,000 - 92
Midlands -11 31 £60,100 -7.54% 148
South West -50 28 £47,500 -26.92% 97
North West -2 27 £85,000 +30.77% 88
West Midlands +14 21 £61,350 -5.62% 75
East of England -39 15 £42,500 -26.09% 129
Scotland -35 11 £73,801 +27.24% 37
East Midlands -15 10 £60,100 +0.17% 63
North East +7 9 £53,850 -22.30% 17
Wales -19 5 £73,801 +13.54% 21
Northern Ireland -12 3 £73,801 +9.33% 12
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 (5.61%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.87%) Confluence
2 4 (1.87%) nginx
3 2 (0.93%) CMS
3 2 (0.93%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) Camunda
4 1 (0.47%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) WildFly
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 163 (76.17%) AWS
2 91 (42.52%) Azure
3 54 (25.23%) Serverless
4 51 (23.83%) Amazon ECS
5 42 (19.63%) GCP
6 36 (16.82%) GitHub
7 33 (15.42%) Amazon S3
8 32 (14.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (14.49%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (13.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (11.21%) SaaS
12 21 (9.81%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (9.35%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (8.88%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (7.94%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (7.94%) dbt
16 16 (7.48%) Amazon ECR
16 16 (7.48%) Pulumi
17 15 (7.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 15 (7.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.94%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.74%) Firewall
3 6 (2.80%) DNS
3 6 (2.80%) HTTP
4 5 (2.34%) Internet
5 4 (1.87%) FTP
5 4 (1.87%) IMAP
5 4 (1.87%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (1.87%) SMTP
5 4 (1.87%) SSH
5 4 (1.87%) VPN
5 4 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.93%) AMQP
6 2 (0.93%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.93%) SAN
7 1 (0.47%) DHCP
7 1 (0.47%) MQTT
7 1 (0.47%) Network Security
7 1 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (26.64%) SQL Server
2 54 (25.23%) Relational Database
3 49 (22.90%) MySQL
4 35 (16.36%) MongoDB
5 32 (14.95%) Redis
6 31 (14.49%) NoSQL
7 26 (12.15%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (11.21%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (8.41%) DynamoDB
10 14 (6.54%) RDBMS
11 11 (5.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (3.27%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (2.34%) Power BI
15 4 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (1.87%) Oracle Database 10g
15 4 (1.87%) Oracle Database 11g
15 4 (1.87%) Oracle Database 12c
15 4 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 71 (33.18%) Git
2 53 (24.77%) Jenkins
3 26 (12.15%) JUnit
4 15 (7.01%) JMeter
5 14 (6.54%) Cucumber
5 14 (6.54%) Mockito
6 12 (5.61%) JIRA
7 11 (5.14%) GitLab
8 8 (3.74%) Selenium
9 6 (2.80%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.87%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.40%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.93%) Appium
12 2 (0.93%) Gradle
12 2 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.47%) jMock
13 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.75%) Public Sector
3 19 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.07%) Finance
5 11 (5.14%) Marketing
6 10 (4.67%) Retail
7 5 (2.34%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.40%) Advertising
9 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.47%) Electronics
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (42.99%) Developer
2 49 (22.90%) Senior
3 34 (15.89%) Java Developer
4 33 (15.42%) Software Engineer
5 32 (14.95%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (10.75%) Software Developer
7 22 (10.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 19 (8.88%) Lead
9 14 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) .NET Developer
10 13 (6.07%) DBA
11 12 (5.61%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 12 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.67%) Junior
12 10 (4.67%) Lead Developer
12 10 (4.67%) Lead Software Developer
12 10 (4.67%) Python Developer
12 10 (4.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.21%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.74%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.17%) React
1 56 (26.17%) Spring
2 52 (24.30%) Spring Boot
3 43 (20.09%) RESTful
4 37 (17.29%) REST
5 33 (15.42%) .NET
6 32 (14.95%) Django
7 31 (14.49%) Node.js
8 28 (13.08%) HTML
9 24 (11.21%) Web Services
10 23 (10.75%) Kafka
11 20 (9.35%) .NET Core
12 19 (8.88%) AngularJS
13 18 (8.41%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (7.94%) Hibernate
15 16 (7.48%) Apache Camel
15 16 (7.48%) CSS
16 15 (7.01%) ASP.NET
16 15 (7.01%) Vue
17 14 (6.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.36%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (13.08%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.67%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.67%) Replication
5 8 (3.74%) Marketing Technology
6 7 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.80%) Clustering
7 6 (2.80%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.87%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.40%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.47%) Derivative
11 1 (0.47%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.47%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 53 (24.77%) Linux
2 21 (9.81%) Unix
3 20 (9.35%) Windows
4 10 (4.67%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.80%) VMS
6 5 (2.34%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.87%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.87%) Debian
7 4 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.40%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.47%) Fedora
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (51.87%) CI/CD
2 86 (40.19%) DevOps
2 86 (40.19%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (39.25%) Microservices
4 75 (35.05%) Agile
5 54 (25.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 50 (23.36%) Software Engineering
7 47 (21.96%) TDD
8 45 (21.03%) Containerisation
8 45 (21.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (15.42%) Workflow
10 31 (14.49%) BDD
10 31 (14.49%) Mentoring
11 30 (14.02%) Clean Code
12 28 (13.08%) Migration
13 26 (12.15%) SDLC
14 23 (10.75%) Observability
14 23 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (10.75%) Test Automation
15 22 (10.28%) AI
Programming Languages
1 91 (42.52%) Python
2 75 (35.05%) Java
3 68 (31.78%) SQL
4 53 (24.77%) JavaScript
5 27 (12.62%) TypeScript
6 26 (12.15%) C#
7 17 (7.94%) Go
8 15 (7.01%) Shell Script
9 12 (5.61%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.21%) C
10 9 (4.21%) PHP
11 7 (3.27%) Delphi
11 7 (3.27%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.87%) Groovy
13 3 (1.40%) Bash
14 2 (0.93%) C++
14 2 (0.93%) Korn
14 2 (0.93%) VB
14 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.68%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.75%) Degree
4 15 (7.01%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.14%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.80%) QA
2 5 (2.34%) SLA
3 4 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.93%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 104 (48.60%) Docker
2 4 (1.87%) DFS Replication
2 4 (1.87%) Dovecot
2 4 (1.87%) Postfix
2 4 (1.87%) Squid
3 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (34.11%) Kubernetes
2 50 (23.36%) Terraform
3 20 (9.35%) Ansible
4 15 (7.01%) Kibana
5 11 (5.14%) Grafana
6 10 (4.67%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.80%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.87%) Nessus
8 4 (1.87%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.40%) Control-M
9 3 (1.40%) Nagios
9 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.93%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.93%) Rancher
11 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (13.08%) Oracle
2 18 (8.41%) Google
3 15 (7.01%) Splunk
4 12 (5.61%) Dynatrace
5 11 (5.14%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.74%) Informatica
7 5 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.87%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.87%) Pega
8 4 (1.87%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.87%) RedGate
8 4 (1.87%) Talend
8 4 (1.87%) WSO2
9 3 (1.40%) VMware
10 2 (0.93%) Dell
10 2 (0.93%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.93%) SAP
11 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.47%) OpenText
11 1 (0.47%) SendGrid