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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 271 172
Rank change year-on-year -54 -99 +53
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 385 323 853
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.93% 1.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.89% 7.50% 11.33%
Number of salaries quoted 302 201 425
10th Percentile £40,845 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,625 £43,750 £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 £75,056 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £78,750 £78,750
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 5,590 4,305 7,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.94% 12.41% 13.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,924 2,731 4,425
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 3 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 3 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 -14 125 £65,000 +4.00% 92
North of England -5 122 £65,000 -3.70% 74
North West -6 57 £65,000 -3.70% 47
South West -61 49 £65,000 +33.33% 58
North East -27 39 £65,000 +26.83% 12
Midlands -52 32 £75,000 +7.14% 40
East of England -37 28 £52,500 +69.35% 22
Yorkshire -52 26 £69,310 +0.81% 16
West Midlands -40 23 £83,774 +15.55% 27
Wales -44 21 £67,500 -12.90% 13
Scotland 0 17 £65,000 -3.70% 33
East Midlands -21 9 £60,000 +9.09% 12
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 13 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.60%) Apache
4 9 (2.34%) Confluence
5 7 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.56%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.30%) WordPress
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Documentum
8 1 (0.26%) IIS
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Finacle
2 1 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 211 (54.81%) AWS
2 158 (41.04%) Azure
3 68 (17.66%) GCP
4 59 (15.32%) GitHub
5 40 (10.39%) Serverless
6 37 (9.61%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (6.23%) SaaS
9 22 (5.71%) Azure AKS
9 22 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (4.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (4.16%) GitHub Copilot
13 15 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (3.64%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.64%) Azure Functions
14 14 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (3.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.60%) Firewall
2 8 (2.08%) DNS
3 6 (1.56%) Broadband
3 6 (1.56%) DHCP
4 5 (1.30%) iSCSI
4 5 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (1.30%) SAN
5 4 (1.04%) HTTP
5 4 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.52%) MQTT
6 2 (0.52%) VLAN
6 2 (0.52%) VPN
7 1 (0.26%) 4G
7 1 (0.26%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.26%) Internet
7 1 (0.26%) LAN
7 1 (0.26%) Multicast
7 1 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.26%) SSH
7 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (30.13%) MySQL
2 102 (26.49%) MongoDB
3 85 (22.08%) Relational Database
4 83 (21.56%) SQL Server
5 56 (14.55%) NoSQL
6 31 (8.05%) Redis
7 19 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.64%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.86%) Power BI
11 10 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (2.60%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.34%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (2.08%) GIS
14 7 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (1.56%) Pinecone
16 5 (1.30%) MariaDB
16 5 (1.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 117 (30.39%) Git
2 34 (8.83%) GitLab
3 30 (7.79%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.68%) JIRA
5 17 (4.42%) JUnit
6 11 (2.86%) Mockito
7 10 (2.60%) JMeter
8 9 (2.34%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.56%) Selenium
10 5 (1.30%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.30%) Mocha
10 5 (1.30%) RSpec
10 5 (1.30%) Storybook
11 4 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.04%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.04%) minitest
12 3 (0.78%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.78%) Maven
12 3 (0.78%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 92 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.74%) Public Sector
3 42 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (5.71%) Finance
6 17 (4.42%) Law
7 15 (3.90%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.38%) Legal
10 12 (3.12%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.86%) Banking
12 10 (2.60%) Advertising
13 8 (2.08%) Automotive
13 8 (2.08%) Aviation
13 8 (2.08%) Games
14 7 (1.82%) Retail
15 6 (1.56%) Tech for Good
16 5 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 4 (1.04%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 121 (31.43%) Developer
2 104 (27.01%) Senior
3 83 (21.56%) Software Engineer
4 49 (12.73%) Lead
5 40 (10.39%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (8.31%) Python Engineer
7 31 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 29 (7.53%) Software Developer
9 28 (7.27%) Java Developer
10 27 (7.01%) Senior Developer
11 25 (6.49%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 21 (5.45%) Data Engineer
15 20 (5.19%) DBA
15 20 (5.19%) Python Developer
16 17 (4.42%) Architect
17 15 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
17 15 (3.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 13 (3.38%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (25.97%) React
2 85 (22.08%) Terraform
3 78 (20.26%) Node.js
4 66 (17.14%) REST
5 61 (15.84%) RESTful
6 53 (13.77%) CSS
7 49 (12.73%) .NET
7 49 (12.73%) Spring
8 48 (12.47%) Spring Boot
9 45 (11.69%) HTML
10 43 (11.17%) Kafka
11 31 (8.05%) AngularJS
12 29 (7.53%) Next.js
13 28 (7.27%) Vue
14 27 (7.01%) Hibernate
15 24 (6.23%) RabbitMQ
16 23 (5.97%) Flask
17 21 (5.45%) Django
18 20 (5.19%) JPA
19 19 (4.94%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 81 (21.04%) Cloud Native
2 48 (12.47%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.79%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.90%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.64%) Algorithms
7 12 (3.12%) Renewable Energy
8 11 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.86%) Replication
8 11 (2.86%) Robotics
9 10 (2.60%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.34%) Virtual Team
11 8 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.08%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.82%) IoT
12 7 (1.82%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.56%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 86 (22.34%) Linux
2 33 (8.57%) Windows
3 15 (3.90%) Unix
4 14 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) AIX
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Debian
6 1 (0.26%) Solaris
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (52.73%) CI/CD
2 164 (42.60%) Agile
3 146 (37.92%) Software Engineering
4 134 (34.81%) DevOps
5 108 (28.05%) Microservices
6 107 (27.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 96 (24.94%) Mentoring
8 90 (23.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 90 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (21.30%) AI
10 67 (17.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (16.10%) Containerisation
12 61 (15.84%) Test Automation
13 55 (14.29%) Scrum
14 53 (13.77%) Observability
15 47 (12.21%) Data Modelling
16 46 (11.95%) Decision-Making
16 46 (11.95%) TDD
17 44 (11.43%) Analytics
18 40 (10.39%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 142 (36.88%) Python
2 122 (31.69%) SQL
3 98 (25.45%) Java
4 94 (24.42%) JavaScript
5 75 (19.48%) TypeScript
6 53 (13.77%) C#
7 25 (6.49%) Bash
8 24 (6.23%) Go
9 22 (5.71%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.38%) Ruby
11 11 (2.86%) C++
11 11 (2.86%) PHP
12 10 (2.60%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.56%) Scala
14 5 (1.30%) Korn
15 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.26%) COBOL
17 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 69 (17.92%) Degree
2 60 (15.58%) Security Cleared
3 49 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (6.23%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.19%) DV Cleared
6 18 (4.68%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.08%) PhD
9 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.52%) CISSP
10 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.27%) QA
2 26 (6.75%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.12%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.86%) GDPR
5 10 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.52%) NCSC
7 2 (0.52%) WCAG
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 120 (31.17%) Docker
2 14 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 117 (30.39%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.05%) Ansible
3 28 (7.27%) Grafana
4 24 (6.23%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.97%) Argo
6 10 (2.60%) Kibana
7 6 (1.56%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.56%) Puppet
8 5 (1.30%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.04%) Istio
10 3 (0.78%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.78%) Plesk
10 3 (0.78%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.52%) Rancher
12 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 47 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.39%) Oracle
3 22 (5.71%) Google
4 18 (4.68%) Splunk
5 12 (3.12%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.86%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.60%) Databricks
8 7 (1.82%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.82%) Pega
9 5 (1.30%) Dell
9 5 (1.30%) Meraki
10 4 (1.04%) IBM
10 4 (1.04%) Informatica
10 4 (1.04%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.78%) VMware
12 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.52%) UiPath
12 2 (0.52%) WSO2