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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 152 222
Rank change year-on-year -165 +70 +4
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 230 592 648
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.92% 1.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.65% 11.53% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 157 237 467
10th Percentile £34,650 £43,550 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,764 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,367 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.59% +15.42% +1.81%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £87,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 4,074 5,133 9,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.24% 16.65% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,393 2,778 7,375
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,833
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 £81,563 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 24 February 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 24 February 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 89 £67,500 -2.61% 65
South East -136 58 £56,250 -29.69% 56
Yorkshire -13 42 £60,000 +4.59% 16
North West -27 36 £77,500 +11.70% 37
Midlands -35 25 £55,200 -15.08% 34
South West -56 23 £65,000 - 28
West Midlands -7 16 £45,000 -30.77% 26
Scotland -41 15 £73,801 +18.08% 20
East of England -50 15 £42,500 -26.09% 15
North East -8 11 £52,500 -24.25% 13
East Midlands -38 9 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Wales -29 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -32 4 £73,801 +34.18% 2
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 (5.22%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.87%) CMS
4 2 (0.87%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.43%) Camunda
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) WildFly
5 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 163 (70.87%) AWS
2 94 (40.87%) Azure
3 54 (23.48%) Serverless
4 50 (21.74%) GCP
5 48 (20.87%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (16.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (14.35%) Amazon S3
8 32 (13.91%) Amazon EKS
9 31 (13.48%) GitHub
10 27 (11.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (10.43%) dbt
12 22 (9.57%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (9.13%) SaaS
14 20 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
14 20 (8.70%) Pulumi
15 19 (8.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 19 (8.26%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (6.96%) Power Platform
17 15 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.04%) Internet
2 7 (3.04%) VPN
3 6 (2.61%) Firewall
3 6 (2.61%) Network Security
3 6 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.74%) DHCP
4 4 (1.74%) DNS
5 3 (1.30%) VLAN
6 2 (0.87%) HTTP
6 2 (0.87%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.87%) SAN
7 1 (0.43%) AMQP
7 1 (0.43%) LTE
7 1 (0.43%) MQTT
7 1 (0.43%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (28.26%) SQL Server
2 53 (23.04%) Relational Database
3 49 (21.30%) MySQL
4 42 (18.26%) NoSQL
5 40 (17.39%) MongoDB
6 39 (16.96%) Redis
7 34 (14.78%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (10.87%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (7.83%) DynamoDB
10 16 (6.96%) Power BI
11 10 (4.35%) RDBMS
12 8 (3.48%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (1.74%) Looker
15 4 (1.74%) Oracle Database 10g
15 4 (1.74%) Oracle Database 11g
15 4 (1.74%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 75 (32.61%) Git
2 42 (18.26%) Jenkins
3 24 (10.43%) JUnit
4 14 (6.09%) GitLab
5 13 (5.65%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.22%) JMeter
6 12 (5.22%) Mockito
7 11 (4.78%) JIRA
8 8 (3.48%) Selenium
9 7 (3.04%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.30%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.87%) Appium
11 2 (0.87%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.87%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.87%) Maven
11 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.87%) Subversion
12 1 (0.43%) Gradle
12 1 (0.43%) PHPUnit
General
1 78 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.22%) Finance
5 9 (3.91%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.74%) Advertising
9 4 (1.74%) Retail
10 3 (1.30%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.30%) Marketing
10 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.87%) Automotive
12 1 (0.43%) Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Electronics
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (33.04%) Developer
2 57 (24.78%) Senior
3 45 (19.57%) Software Engineer
4 32 (13.91%) Full-Stack Developer
4 32 (13.91%) Java Developer
5 21 (9.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 18 (7.83%) Java Engineer
7 15 (6.52%) Lead
7 15 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (6.09%) Java Software Engineer
8 14 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.65%) .NET Developer
9 13 (5.65%) Analyst
10 12 (5.22%) DBA
11 10 (4.35%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.35%) IT Support
12 9 (3.91%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 9 (3.91%) SQL Analyst
12 9 (3.91%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (28.26%) React
2 58 (25.22%) Spring
3 56 (24.35%) Spring Boot
4 43 (18.70%) RESTful
5 36 (15.65%) REST
6 35 (15.22%) Django
7 30 (13.04%) .NET
8 28 (12.17%) Node.js
9 22 (9.57%) Kafka
9 22 (9.57%) Web Services
10 21 (9.13%) HTML
11 19 (8.26%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (8.26%) JSON
12 18 (7.83%) .NET Core
12 18 (7.83%) AngularJS
12 18 (7.83%) Vue
12 18 (7.83%) XML
13 15 (6.52%) Hibernate
14 14 (6.09%) AWS CDK
15 13 (5.65%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.09%) Cloud Native
2 32 (13.91%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.48%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.04%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.04%) Replication
8 5 (2.17%) Clustering
9 4 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.74%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.30%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.30%) SCADA
10 3 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.87%) Life Science
11 2 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 57 (24.78%) Linux
2 27 (11.74%) Unix
3 13 (5.65%) Windows
4 9 (3.91%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.30%) Debian
6 3 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.87%) VMS
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.43%) CentOS
8 1 (0.43%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (50.87%) CI/CD
2 91 (39.57%) DevOps
3 90 (39.13%) Agile
4 77 (33.48%) Microservices
5 76 (33.04%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (29.57%) Software Engineering
7 58 (25.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 57 (24.78%) TDD
9 55 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 51 (22.17%) Containerisation
11 37 (16.09%) Test Automation
12 36 (15.65%) BDD
13 32 (13.91%) Mentoring
14 31 (13.48%) Observability
15 26 (11.30%) Scrum
16 25 (10.87%) Migration
17 24 (10.43%) Open Source
17 24 (10.43%) SDLC
17 24 (10.43%) Workflow
18 23 (10.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 98 (42.61%) Python
2 94 (40.87%) Java
3 79 (34.35%) SQL
4 52 (22.61%) JavaScript
5 34 (14.78%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.70%) C#
6 20 (8.70%) Go
7 19 (8.26%) PowerShell
8 14 (6.09%) C
8 14 (6.09%) Shell Script
9 11 (4.78%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.91%) PHP
11 7 (3.04%) C++
11 7 (3.04%) Delphi
12 5 (2.17%) Bash
13 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.43%) Perl
13 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.43%) R
13 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 41 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.13%) Degree
4 12 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.78%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.78%) AWS Certified Developer
6 7 (3.04%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) RHCE
7 1 (0.43%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.13%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.61%) QA
4 3 (1.30%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 105 (45.65%) Docker
2 15 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.30%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.43%) Samba
Systems Management
1 78 (33.91%) Kubernetes
2 56 (24.35%) Terraform
3 23 (10.00%) Ansible
4 14 (6.09%) AWS Copilot
5 13 (5.65%) Kibana
6 9 (3.91%) Grafana
7 4 (1.74%) Control-M
7 4 (1.74%) Nagios
7 4 (1.74%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.74%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.30%) Rancher
9 2 (0.87%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.87%) Puppet
10 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (16.09%) Oracle
2 29 (12.61%) Google
3 15 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.35%) Splunk
5 9 (3.91%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.48%) Informatica
7 5 (2.17%) VMware
8 4 (1.74%) Pega
8 4 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.74%) WSO2
9 3 (1.30%) Confluent
9 3 (1.30%) RedGate
9 3 (1.30%) Talend
10 2 (0.87%) Dell
10 2 (0.87%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.43%) IBM
11 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.43%) SAP
11 1 (0.43%) Siemens