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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 297 166
Rank change year-on-year -40 -131 +57
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 376 287 821
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.84% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.76% 6.93% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 293 170 361
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £45,313 £43,750
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 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £68,403 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.80% +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 5,564 4,141 7,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.66% 12.10% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,901 2,548 3,862
10th Percentile £34,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,250 £41,340
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,759
% change year-on-year - -4.40% +0.41%

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 15 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 15 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 -13 122 £65,000 -3.70% 116
North of England -17 119 £65,000 -3.70% 126
North West -7 56 £65,000 -3.70% 72
South West -66 46 £65,000 +30.00% 64
North East -32 38 £65,000 +26.83% 16
Midlands -49 35 £75,000 +5.26% 58
East of England -29 27 £52,500 +72.13% 46
West Midlands -42 26 £83,774 +15.55% 42
Yorkshire -42 25 £69,310 -0.99% 39
Wales -51 22 £67,500 +12.50% 13
Scotland -9 14 £65,000 -3.70% 55
East Midlands -25 9 £60,000 +33.33% 15
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 26
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 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.39%) Apache
4 8 (2.13%) Confluence
5 6 (1.60%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.60%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.33%) WordPress
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Documentum
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.27%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Shopify
2 1 (0.27%) Finacle
2 1 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.27%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 207 (55.05%) AWS
2 154 (40.96%) Azure
3 60 (15.96%) GCP
4 58 (15.43%) GitHub
5 41 (10.90%) Serverless
6 36 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (6.12%) Azure AKS
9 22 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (5.85%) SaaS
10 20 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (4.26%) GitHub Copilot
13 14 (3.72%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.72%) Azure Functions
13 14 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (3.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.66%) Firewall
2 9 (2.39%) DNS
3 6 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.33%) DHCP
4 5 (1.33%) HTTP
4 5 (1.33%) iSCSI
4 5 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (1.33%) SAN
5 3 (0.80%) Broadband
5 3 (0.80%) VPN
6 2 (0.53%) 4G
6 2 (0.53%) 5G
6 2 (0.53%) MQTT
6 2 (0.53%) SSH
6 2 (0.53%) VLAN
7 1 (0.27%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.27%) Internet
7 1 (0.27%) Multicast
7 1 (0.27%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (30.59%) MySQL
2 96 (25.53%) MongoDB
3 82 (21.81%) Relational Database
4 80 (21.28%) SQL Server
5 54 (14.36%) NoSQL
6 32 (8.51%) Redis
7 21 (5.59%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.99%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.39%) Oracle Database
10 9 (2.39%) Power BI
10 9 (2.39%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.13%) GIS
12 6 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.60%) Pinecone
13 5 (1.33%) MariaDB
13 5 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (1.06%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 117 (31.12%) Git
2 36 (9.57%) GitLab
3 31 (8.24%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.52%) JIRA
5 16 (4.26%) JUnit
6 12 (3.19%) JMeter
7 10 (2.66%) Mockito
8 9 (2.39%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.13%) Selenium
10 5 (1.33%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.33%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.33%) Mocha
10 5 (1.33%) RSpec
10 5 (1.33%) Storybook
11 4 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.06%) minitest
12 3 (0.80%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.80%) Maven
12 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.95%) Public Sector
3 45 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (5.05%) Finance
6 17 (4.52%) Law
7 15 (3.99%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.72%) Banking
9 13 (3.46%) Aerospace
9 13 (3.46%) Legal
10 12 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.39%) Advertising
12 8 (2.13%) Automotive
12 8 (2.13%) Aviation
13 7 (1.86%) Retail
14 6 (1.60%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.60%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.06%) Games
16 4 (1.06%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 120 (31.91%) Developer
2 108 (28.72%) Senior
3 84 (22.34%) Software Engineer
4 45 (11.97%) Lead
5 40 (10.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (8.24%) Python Engineer
6 31 (8.24%) Software Developer
7 30 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 30 (7.98%) Senior Developer
8 28 (7.45%) Java Developer
9 24 (6.38%) Lead Software Engineer
9 24 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 22 (5.85%) Data Engineer
10 22 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 21 (5.59%) Python Developer
12 19 (5.05%) DBA
13 15 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (26.06%) React
2 83 (22.07%) Terraform
3 77 (20.48%) Node.js
4 63 (16.76%) REST
5 61 (16.22%) RESTful
6 51 (13.56%) CSS
7 50 (13.30%) .NET
8 48 (12.77%) Spring
9 47 (12.50%) Spring Boot
10 46 (12.23%) Kafka
11 44 (11.70%) HTML
12 29 (7.71%) AngularJS
12 29 (7.71%) Next.js
13 26 (6.91%) Hibernate
13 26 (6.91%) RabbitMQ
13 26 (6.91%) Vue
14 23 (6.12%) Flask
15 20 (5.32%) Django
16 19 (5.05%) FastAPI
16 19 (5.05%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 50 (13.30%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.18%) Product Ownership
4 21 (5.59%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.99%) AI Agents
7 12 (3.19%) Algorithms
7 12 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.19%) Renewable Energy
8 11 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.93%) Robotics
8 11 (2.93%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.39%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.39%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.13%) IoT
10 8 (2.13%) Replication
11 6 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.33%) Clustering
12 5 (1.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 91 (24.20%) Linux
2 32 (8.51%) Windows
3 15 (3.99%) Unix
4 13 (3.46%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.27%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) CentOS
7 1 (0.27%) Debian
7 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (53.19%) CI/CD
2 159 (42.29%) Agile
3 149 (39.63%) Software Engineering
4 129 (34.31%) DevOps
5 106 (28.19%) Microservices
6 101 (26.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 93 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (24.47%) Mentoring
9 88 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 80 (21.28%) AI
11 65 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 60 (15.96%) Containerisation
13 56 (14.89%) Scrum
13 56 (14.89%) Test Automation
14 53 (14.10%) Observability
15 47 (12.50%) Decision-Making
16 43 (11.44%) Data Modelling
16 43 (11.44%) TDD
17 42 (11.17%) Analytics
18 40 (10.64%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 141 (37.50%) Python
2 120 (31.91%) SQL
3 97 (25.80%) Java
4 91 (24.20%) JavaScript
5 75 (19.95%) TypeScript
6 54 (14.36%) C#
7 27 (7.18%) Bash
8 23 (6.12%) Go
9 22 (5.85%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.46%) Ruby
11 12 (3.19%) PHP
11 12 (3.19%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.93%) C++
13 6 (1.60%) Scala
14 5 (1.33%) Korn
15 3 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.27%) COBOL
17 1 (0.27%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 66 (17.55%) Degree
2 61 (16.22%) Security Cleared
3 49 (13.03%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (6.38%) Master's Degree
5 19 (5.05%) Azure Certification
5 19 (5.05%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.13%) PhD
8 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.53%) CISSP
10 2 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.53%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.98%) QA
2 25 (6.65%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.66%) GDPR
4 10 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.06%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (0.53%) WCAG
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 117 (31.12%) Docker
2 12 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 113 (30.05%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.51%) Ansible
3 31 (8.24%) Grafana
4 27 (7.18%) Prometheus
5 23 (6.12%) Argo
6 12 (3.19%) Kibana
7 6 (1.60%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.60%) Puppet
8 5 (1.33%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.06%) Istio
10 3 (0.80%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.80%) Plesk
10 3 (0.80%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.80%) Rancher
10 3 (0.80%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.27%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 46 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.37%) Oracle
3 22 (5.85%) Splunk
4 14 (3.72%) Google
5 12 (3.19%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.19%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.39%) Databricks
7 7 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.33%) Dell
8 5 (1.33%) Informatica
8 5 (1.33%) Meraki
9 4 (1.06%) IBM
9 4 (1.06%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.06%) VMware
10 3 (0.80%) Pega
11 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.53%) Mistral
11 2 (0.53%) UiPath
12 1 (0.27%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.27%) YouTube