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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 299 159
Rank change year-on-year -32 -140 +54
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 404 277 786
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.80% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.48% 6.86% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 313 169 326
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £84,250 £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 5,404 4,035 6,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.24% 11.61% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,863 2,501 3,504
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £41,254
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 £78,750 £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 4 October 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 October 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 -6 131 £67,500 +3.85% 153
North of England -9 125 £65,000 -3.70% 191
North West -3 57 £62,500 -7.41% 88
South West -55 50 £65,000 +20.37% 84
Midlands -38 42 £75,000 +7.14% 95
North East -29 41 £65,000 +26.83% 43
West Midlands -36 32 £84,387 +16.40% 60
East of England -28 30 £52,500 +72.13% 70
Yorkshire -37 27 £65,000 -7.14% 65
Wales -48 26 £64,000 +2.40% 104
Scotland -13 12 £65,000 -3.70% 203
East Midlands -42 10 £60,000 +20.00% 35
Northern Ireland -83 1 - - 80
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 11 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.48%) Apache
2 10 (2.48%) Confluence
3 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.49%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.24%) WordPress
6 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
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 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) Finacle
2 1 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 230 (56.93%) AWS
2 170 (42.08%) Azure
3 69 (17.08%) GitHub
4 60 (14.85%) GCP
5 44 (10.89%) Serverless
6 34 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (6.93%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (5.94%) SaaS
10 23 (5.69%) Azure AKS
11 22 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (4.46%) GitHub Copilot
13 17 (4.21%) Amazon S3
13 17 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (3.71%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (3.22%) Azure Functions
17 12 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.23%) DNS
1 9 (2.23%) Firewall
2 6 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.24%) DHCP
3 5 (1.24%) HTTP
3 5 (1.24%) iSCSI
3 5 (1.24%) SAN
4 3 (0.74%) VPN
5 2 (0.50%) 4G
5 2 (0.50%) 5G
5 2 (0.50%) Broadband
5 2 (0.50%) SSH
5 2 (0.50%) VLAN
6 1 (0.25%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) SMS
6 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (29.95%) MySQL
2 106 (26.24%) MongoDB
3 92 (22.77%) Relational Database
4 88 (21.78%) SQL Server
5 60 (14.85%) NoSQL
6 36 (8.91%) Redis
7 25 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.71%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.48%) Pinecone
10 10 (2.48%) RDBMS
11 9 (2.23%) GIS
12 8 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.98%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.98%) Spatial Data
13 7 (1.73%) Chroma
14 6 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.49%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.49%) Power BI
15 5 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 125 (30.94%) Git
2 44 (10.89%) GitLab
3 39 (9.65%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.21%) JIRA
4 17 (4.21%) JUnit
5 13 (3.22%) JMeter
6 10 (2.48%) Mockito
7 9 (2.23%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.98%) Selenium
9 6 (1.49%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.24%) Mocha
10 5 (1.24%) RSpec
10 5 (1.24%) Storybook
11 4 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.99%) minitest
11 4 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.74%) Maven
12 3 (0.74%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.74%) Vite
General
1 92 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 80 (19.80%) Public Sector
3 52 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.20%) Banking
6 18 (4.46%) Finance
7 17 (4.21%) Law
8 14 (3.47%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.97%) Legal
10 11 (2.72%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.98%) Retail
13 7 (1.73%) Automotive
13 7 (1.73%) Aviation
13 7 (1.73%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.99%) Advertising
15 4 (0.99%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.74%) Games
Job Titles
1 137 (33.91%) Developer
2 119 (29.46%) Senior
3 96 (23.76%) Software Engineer
4 47 (11.63%) Lead
5 43 (10.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 36 (8.91%) Senior Developer
6 36 (8.91%) Software Developer
7 32 (7.92%) Java Developer
8 31 (7.67%) Python Engineer
9 29 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
10 26 (6.44%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (6.19%) Data Engineer
12 24 (5.94%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (5.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 22 (5.45%) Python Developer
14 19 (4.70%) DBA
15 17 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
15 17 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
17 15 (3.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (28.22%) React
2 84 (20.79%) Terraform
3 82 (20.30%) Node.js
4 69 (17.08%) RESTful
5 63 (15.59%) REST
6 57 (14.11%) .NET
7 55 (13.61%) Kafka
8 54 (13.37%) Spring
9 53 (13.12%) Spring Boot
10 51 (12.62%) CSS
11 44 (10.89%) HTML
12 34 (8.42%) Next.js
13 32 (7.92%) Hibernate
14 29 (7.18%) RabbitMQ
14 29 (7.18%) Vue
15 26 (6.44%) AngularJS
16 24 (5.94%) FastAPI
17 22 (5.45%) JPA
18 20 (4.95%) Flask
19 19 (4.70%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 82 (20.30%) Cloud Native
2 53 (13.12%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.43%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (4.46%) AI Agents
7 16 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (3.71%) Virtual Team
9 13 (3.22%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
11 10 (2.48%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.48%) Public Cloud
11 10 (2.48%) Robotics
12 9 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.49%) IoT
13 6 (1.49%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.24%) Clustering
15 4 (0.99%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 91 (22.52%) Linux
2 33 (8.17%) Windows
3 17 (4.21%) Unix
4 13 (3.22%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) AIX
6 1 (0.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) Debian
6 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.25%) Solaris
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (51.73%) CI/CD
2 175 (43.32%) Agile
3 172 (42.57%) Software Engineering
4 138 (34.16%) DevOps
5 121 (29.95%) Microservices
6 114 (28.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 104 (25.74%) Mentoring
8 99 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (24.01%) AI
10 93 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 67 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 66 (16.34%) Containerisation
13 62 (15.35%) Observability
14 60 (14.85%) Test Automation
15 58 (14.36%) Scrum
16 52 (12.87%) Decision-Making
17 48 (11.88%) TDD
18 45 (11.14%) Analytics
19 44 (10.89%) Coaching
20 43 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 149 (36.88%) Python
2 123 (30.45%) SQL
3 108 (26.73%) Java
4 98 (24.26%) JavaScript
5 84 (20.79%) TypeScript
6 60 (14.85%) C#
7 26 (6.44%) Bash
7 26 (6.44%) Go
8 21 (5.20%) PowerShell
9 19 (4.70%) PHP
10 13 (3.22%) Ruby
10 13 (3.22%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.72%) C++
12 6 (1.49%) Scala
13 5 (1.24%) Korn
14 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.25%) COBOL
16 1 (0.25%) Fortran
16 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 64 (15.84%) Degree
3 54 (13.37%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (5.94%) Master's Degree
5 23 (5.69%) Azure Certification
6 20 (4.95%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.23%) PhD
8 4 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.99%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.92%) QA
2 25 (6.19%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.48%) GDPR
4 10 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.99%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.50%) Good Clinical Practice
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
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 134 (33.17%) Docker
2 12 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) Ceph
5 1 (0.25%) Lustre
5 1 (0.25%) NFS
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.25%) Samba
5 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 119 (29.46%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.66%) Grafana
3 31 (7.67%) Ansible
3 31 (7.67%) Prometheus
4 23 (5.69%) Argo
5 12 (2.97%) Kibana
6 6 (1.49%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.49%) Puppet
7 5 (1.24%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.99%) Istio
9 3 (0.74%) Plesk
9 3 (0.74%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.74%) Rancher
9 3 (0.74%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.25%) logstash
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 49 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.16%) Oracle
3 26 (6.44%) Splunk
4 13 (3.22%) Dynatrace
5 12 (2.97%) Google
5 12 (2.97%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.97%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.72%) Databricks
7 7 (1.73%) Mistral
8 6 (1.49%) Informatica
9 5 (1.24%) Dell
9 5 (1.24%) VMware
10 4 (0.99%) IBM
10 4 (0.99%) Meraki
10 4 (0.99%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.50%) SAP
12 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.50%) UiPath
13 1 (0.25%) YouTube