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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 245 197
Rank change year-on-year -69 -48 +28
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 314 333 985
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.17% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.15% 7.93% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 240 212 586
10th Percentile £39,850 £32,775 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,592 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,565 £83,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 5,108 4,198 11,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.57% 14.69% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,155 2,653 8,094
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £31,825
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £79,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -20 116 £67,500 -0.19% 35
South East -25 104 £57,500 +9.52% 33
North West -17 47 £69,310 -0.11% 25
Yorkshire -30 44 £60,000 -7.69% 4
South West -46 38 £62,500 -3.85% 14
North East -20 25 £65,000 +4.00% 6
East of England -34 22 £47,500 +36.69% 9
Scotland -13 19 £66,250 +6.00% 2
Midlands -52 14 £75,000 +11.01% 17
West Midlands -49 11 £75,000 +11.11% 8
East Midlands -41 3 £70,000 - 9
Wales -53 3 £65,000 -3.88% 3
Northern Ireland -44 1 £73,801 +34.18% 4
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 24 (7.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.50%) OpenStack
4 9 (2.87%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.59%) Confluence
6 4 (1.27%) Apache
7 3 (0.96%) WordPress
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.64%) WildFly
9 1 (0.32%) CMS
9 1 (0.32%) IIS
9 1 (0.32%) JBoss
9 1 (0.32%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 183 (58.28%) AWS
2 127 (40.45%) Azure
3 57 (18.15%) GCP
4 55 (17.52%) Serverless
5 32 (10.19%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (9.87%) GitHub
7 30 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (9.55%) SaaS
8 26 (8.28%) Power Platform
9 25 (7.96%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (7.64%) Amazon S3
11 20 (6.37%) Azure AKS
12 16 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (5.10%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (4.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.46%) Firewall
2 11 (3.50%) DHCP
2 11 (3.50%) DNS
3 10 (3.18%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.55%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.55%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (2.55%) SAN
5 7 (2.23%) Internet
5 7 (2.23%) Network Security
6 5 (1.59%) Broadband
6 5 (1.59%) VPN
7 3 (0.96%) VLAN
7 3 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.64%) MQTT
8 2 (0.64%) PBX
9 1 (0.32%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.32%) LTE
9 1 (0.32%) Multicast
9 1 (0.32%) SMS
9 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (29.30%) MongoDB
2 86 (27.39%) MySQL
3 81 (25.80%) SQL Server
4 64 (20.38%) NoSQL
5 54 (17.20%) Relational Database
6 25 (7.96%) Power BI
7 19 (6.05%) Redis
8 16 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (3.82%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (3.82%) DynamoDB
11 11 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (3.50%) Oracle Database
11 11 (3.50%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.59%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.59%) GIS
14 5 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 91 (28.98%) Git
2 22 (7.01%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.69%) GitLab
4 17 (5.41%) JIRA
5 15 (4.78%) JUnit
6 11 (3.50%) Mockito
7 10 (3.18%) JMeter
8 8 (2.55%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.96%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.96%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.96%) Maven
9 3 (0.96%) Selenium
10 2 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.64%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.64%) MSTest
11 1 (0.32%) Gradle
11 1 (0.32%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.32%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.32%) Toad
11 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 99 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 55 (17.52%) Public Sector
3 32 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.05%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (5.73%) Finance
7 17 (5.41%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.46%) Advertising
9 11 (3.50%) Aerospace
9 11 (3.50%) Retail
10 8 (2.55%) Games
11 7 (2.23%) Automotive
11 7 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.91%) Legal
13 5 (1.59%) Aviation
14 4 (1.27%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.27%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.64%) Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (27.71%) Developer
2 65 (20.70%) Senior
3 53 (16.88%) Software Engineer
4 36 (11.46%) Full-Stack Developer
5 30 (9.55%) Java Developer
5 30 (9.55%) Lead
6 23 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.05%) Python Engineer
8 17 (5.41%) DBA
9 16 (5.10%) Java Engineer
10 15 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
10 15 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.46%) Architect
11 14 (4.46%) IT Support
11 14 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
11 14 (4.46%) Software Developer
12 13 (4.14%) Data Engineer
12 13 (4.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 12 (3.82%) .NET Developer
13 12 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (24.52%) React
2 71 (22.61%) Node.js
3 57 (18.15%) RESTful
4 50 (15.92%) REST
5 42 (13.38%) Spring
6 39 (12.42%) Spring Boot
7 35 (11.15%) .NET
8 28 (8.92%) CSS
8 28 (8.92%) HTML
9 24 (7.64%) Django
9 24 (7.64%) Vue
10 23 (7.32%) AngularJS
11 20 (6.37%) JSON
11 20 (6.37%) Kafka
12 19 (6.05%) Web Services
13 17 (5.41%) jQuery
14 16 (5.10%) FastAPI
14 16 (5.10%) Flask
15 15 (4.78%) Hibernate
15 15 (4.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (19.11%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.14%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.14%) Replication
4 12 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.50%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.59%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.59%) Robotics
9 5 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.27%) CUDA
10 4 (1.27%) IoT
10 4 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (23.89%) Linux
2 36 (11.46%) Windows
3 23 (7.32%) Unix
4 19 (6.05%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.55%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (2.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.96%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) AIX
8 1 (0.32%) Debian
8 1 (0.32%) Solaris
8 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (48.41%) CI/CD
2 136 (43.31%) Agile
3 96 (30.57%) DevOps
4 87 (27.71%) Microservices
4 87 (27.71%) Software Engineering
5 82 (26.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 69 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (20.70%) Mentoring
8 62 (19.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 57 (18.15%) TDD
10 54 (17.20%) Test Automation
11 49 (15.61%) AI
11 49 (15.61%) Containerisation
11 49 (15.61%) Scrum
12 47 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (13.06%) Analytics
14 40 (12.74%) Data Modelling
15 38 (12.10%) Computer Science
16 36 (11.46%) Coaching
17 27 (8.60%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 121 (38.54%) Python
2 112 (35.67%) SQL
3 102 (32.48%) Java
4 70 (22.29%) JavaScript
5 53 (16.88%) TypeScript
6 30 (9.55%) PowerShell
7 29 (9.24%) C#
8 21 (6.69%) Bash
9 18 (5.73%) Go
10 13 (4.14%) C
11 12 (3.82%) PHP
11 12 (3.82%) Shell Script
12 10 (3.18%) C++
12 10 (3.18%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.91%) Korn
14 5 (1.59%) Scala
15 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.96%) Ruby
16 1 (0.32%) Perl
16 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (16.88%) Degree
2 31 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.87%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.91%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.96%) PhD
10 3 (0.96%) RHCE
11 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.64%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.87%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.46%) GDPR
3 13 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.14%) QA
4 7 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.64%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.64%) NCSC
5 2 (0.64%) SLA
5 2 (0.64%) WCAG
6 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 95 (30.25%) Docker
2 30 (9.55%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.64%) Samba
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 93 (29.62%) Kubernetes
2 63 (20.06%) Terraform
3 26 (8.28%) Ansible
4 18 (5.73%) Argo
5 11 (3.50%) Grafana
6 10 (3.18%) Kibana
6 10 (3.18%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.55%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.55%) Puppet
8 4 (1.27%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (1.27%) Control-M
8 4 (1.27%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.27%) Nagios
9 3 (0.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.96%) Plesk
9 3 (0.96%) Rancher
10 2 (0.64%) Istio
10 2 (0.64%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 53 (16.88%) Oracle
2 42 (13.38%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.96%) Google
4 12 (3.82%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.87%) Splunk
6 8 (2.55%) Dell
6 8 (2.55%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.23%) Pega
8 4 (1.27%) Informatica
8 4 (1.27%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.27%) VMware
9 3 (0.96%) Confluent
9 3 (0.96%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.64%) Databricks
10 2 (0.64%) D-Link
10 2 (0.64%) Meraki
10 2 (0.64%) WSO2
11 1 (0.32%) Juniper
11 1 (0.32%) Siemens
11 1 (0.32%) SolarWinds