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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 293 168
Rank change year-on-year -48 -125 +56
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 390 289 824
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.84% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.92% 6.96% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 302 174 356
10th Percentile £40,080 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,438
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 £73,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,725 £79,375
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 5,636 4,154 7,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.62% 12.08% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,963 2,594 3,830
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -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 £63,500
% change year-on-year - -5.51% +1.60%

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 19 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 19 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 -17 125 £65,000 -3.70% 108
North of England -22 123 £65,000 -3.70% 106
North West -4 57 £63,750 -5.56% 60
South West -61 48 £65,000 +20.37% 56
North East -38 39 £65,000 +26.83% 15
Midlands -44 38 £75,000 +5.26% 53
West Midlands -45 29 £83,774 +15.55% 40
East of England -26 28 £52,500 +72.13% 35
Yorkshire -37 27 £67,155 -4.06% 32
Wales -50 24 £65,000 +8.33% 13
Scotland -8 14 £65,000 -3.70% 49
East Midlands -33 9 £60,000 +33.33% 13
Northern Ireland -76 1 - - 23
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 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.31%) Apache
2 9 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.05%) Confluence
4 7 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.28%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.28%) WordPress
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Documentum
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Finacle
2 1 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 218 (55.90%) AWS
2 162 (41.54%) Azure
3 63 (16.15%) GCP
3 63 (16.15%) GitHub
4 43 (11.03%) Serverless
5 35 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (7.18%) Amazon ECS
7 25 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (6.15%) SaaS
9 23 (5.90%) Azure AKS
10 21 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (4.62%) GitHub Copilot
13 16 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (3.85%) Amazon S3
15 14 (3.59%) Azure Functions
15 14 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.56%) Firewall
2 9 (2.31%) DNS
3 7 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.28%) DHCP
4 5 (1.28%) HTTP
4 5 (1.28%) iSCSI
4 5 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (1.28%) SAN
5 3 (0.77%) Broadband
5 3 (0.77%) VPN
6 2 (0.51%) 4G
6 2 (0.51%) 5G
6 2 (0.51%) MQTT
6 2 (0.51%) SSH
6 2 (0.51%) VLAN
7 1 (0.26%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.26%) Internet
7 1 (0.26%) Multicast
7 1 (0.26%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (30.51%) MySQL
2 99 (25.38%) MongoDB
3 87 (22.31%) Relational Database
4 84 (21.54%) SQL Server
5 58 (14.87%) NoSQL
6 34 (8.72%) Redis
7 23 (5.90%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.85%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.31%) GIS
10 9 (2.31%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.05%) Oracle Database
11 8 (2.05%) Power BI
12 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.79%) Pinecone
13 6 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.28%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.28%) Spatial Data
14 5 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 122 (31.28%) Git
2 38 (9.74%) GitLab
3 34 (8.72%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.36%) JIRA
4 17 (4.36%) JUnit
5 13 (3.33%) JMeter
6 10 (2.56%) Mockito
7 9 (2.31%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.31%) Selenium
8 6 (1.54%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.28%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.28%) Mocha
9 5 (1.28%) RSpec
9 5 (1.28%) Storybook
10 4 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.03%) minitest
10 4 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.77%) Maven
11 3 (0.77%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.77%) Vite
General
1 89 (22.82%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 48 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.13%) Finance
6 17 (4.36%) Banking
6 17 (4.36%) Law
7 15 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.59%) Legal
9 13 (3.33%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.31%) Retail
12 8 (2.05%) Advertising
12 8 (2.05%) Automotive
12 8 (2.05%) Aviation
13 6 (1.54%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.54%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.03%) Games
15 4 (1.03%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 128 (32.82%) Developer
2 111 (28.46%) Senior
3 86 (22.05%) Software Engineer
4 45 (11.54%) Lead
5 42 (10.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 34 (8.72%) Software Developer
7 33 (8.46%) Senior Developer
8 31 (7.95%) Python Engineer
9 30 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 30 (7.69%) Java Developer
10 24 (6.15%) Lead Software Engineer
10 24 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 23 (5.90%) Data Engineer
11 23 (5.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 20 (5.13%) Python Developer
13 19 (4.87%) DBA
14 15 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
14 15 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (26.41%) React
2 86 (22.05%) Terraform
3 78 (20.00%) Node.js
4 65 (16.67%) REST
5 64 (16.41%) RESTful
6 54 (13.85%) .NET
7 52 (13.33%) Spring
8 51 (13.08%) CSS
8 51 (13.08%) Spring Boot
9 49 (12.56%) Kafka
10 44 (11.28%) HTML
11 30 (7.69%) Next.js
12 29 (7.44%) AngularJS
12 29 (7.44%) Hibernate
13 28 (7.18%) RabbitMQ
13 28 (7.18%) Vue
14 23 (5.90%) Flask
15 20 (5.13%) Django
15 20 (5.13%) FastAPI
15 20 (5.13%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 82 (21.03%) Cloud Native
2 54 (13.85%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.44%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.64%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.85%) AI Agents
7 13 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.33%) Virtual Team
8 12 (3.08%) Algorithms
8 12 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
9 11 (2.82%) Robotics
10 9 (2.31%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.31%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.05%) IoT
12 7 (1.79%) Replication
13 6 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (1.28%) Clustering
14 5 (1.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 92 (23.59%) Linux
2 32 (8.21%) Windows
3 16 (4.10%) Unix
4 13 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) AIX
7 1 (0.26%) CentOS
7 1 (0.26%) Debian
7 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (52.56%) CI/CD
2 167 (42.82%) Agile
3 155 (39.74%) Software Engineering
4 133 (34.10%) DevOps
5 111 (28.46%) Microservices
6 108 (27.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 96 (24.62%) Mentoring
7 96 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (23.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 89 (22.82%) AI
10 67 (17.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (16.41%) Containerisation
12 59 (15.13%) Scrum
12 59 (15.13%) Test Automation
13 57 (14.62%) Observability
14 49 (12.56%) Decision-Making
15 44 (11.28%) Analytics
15 44 (11.28%) TDD
16 43 (11.03%) Data Modelling
17 42 (10.77%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 146 (37.44%) Python
2 124 (31.79%) SQL
3 102 (26.15%) Java
4 96 (24.62%) JavaScript
5 77 (19.74%) TypeScript
6 58 (14.87%) C#
7 27 (6.92%) Bash
8 25 (6.41%) Go
9 22 (5.64%) PowerShell
10 14 (3.59%) PHP
11 13 (3.33%) Ruby
12 12 (3.08%) Shell Script
13 11 (2.82%) C++
14 6 (1.54%) Scala
15 5 (1.28%) Korn
16 3 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.26%) COBOL
18 1 (0.26%) Micro Focus COBOL
18 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (16.92%) Degree
2 62 (15.90%) Security Cleared
3 51 (13.08%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (6.15%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.13%) Azure Certification
6 19 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.05%) PhD
9 5 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.51%) CISSP
11 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.21%) QA
2 25 (6.41%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.56%) GDPR
4 10 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (0.51%) WCAG
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.26%) NCSC
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 126 (32.31%) Docker
2 12 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.03%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 115 (29.49%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.46%) Grafana
3 32 (8.21%) Ansible
4 29 (7.44%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.90%) Argo
6 12 (3.08%) Kibana
7 6 (1.54%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.54%) Puppet
8 5 (1.28%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.03%) Istio
10 3 (0.77%) Plesk
10 3 (0.77%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.77%) Rancher
10 3 (0.77%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.51%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.26%) logstash
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 49 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.74%) Oracle
3 24 (6.15%) Splunk
4 14 (3.59%) Google
5 12 (3.08%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.08%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.31%) Databricks
7 8 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.54%) Informatica
9 5 (1.28%) Dell
9 5 (1.28%) Meraki
9 5 (1.28%) VMware
10 4 (1.03%) IBM
10 4 (1.03%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.77%) Mistral
11 3 (0.77%) Pega
12 2 (0.51%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.51%) SAP
12 2 (0.51%) UiPath
13 1 (0.26%) YouTube