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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 283 168
Rank change year-on-year -57 -115 +42
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 387 286 803
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.84% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.96% 6.96% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 299 172 341
10th Percentile £40,640 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,938 £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 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,250 £80,000
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 5,561 4,107 6,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.53% 12.04% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,940 2,559 3,700
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £41,260
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -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 £64,244
% change year-on-year - -6.61% +2.79%

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 22 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 22 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 -10 126 £65,000 -5.45% 91
North of England -19 122 £65,000 -3.70% 111
North West -24 57 £63,750 -5.56% 61
South West -63 47 £65,000 +25.00% 50
North East -34 39 £65,000 +26.83% 18
Midlands -42 38 £75,000 +5.26% 47
West Midlands -49 29 £83,774 +15.55% 34
East of England -26 28 £50,000 +63.93% 33
Yorkshire -40 26 £69,310 -0.99% 33
Wales -51 24 £65,000 +8.33% 13
Scotland -10 12 £65,000 -3.70% 40
East Midlands -25 9 £60,000 +33.33% 13
Northern Ireland -85 1 - - 33
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 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.33%) Apache
3 8 (2.07%) Confluence
3 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.55%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.29%) WordPress
6 4 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Documentum
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 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
1 216 (55.81%) AWS
2 163 (42.12%) Azure
3 61 (15.76%) GitHub
4 60 (15.50%) GCP
5 43 (11.11%) Serverless
6 35 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (7.24%) Amazon ECS
8 25 (6.46%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (5.94%) Azure AKS
9 23 (5.94%) SaaS
10 21 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
13 16 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (3.88%) Amazon S3
15 14 (3.62%) Azure Functions
15 14 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
17 11 (2.84%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.58%) Firewall
2 9 (2.33%) DNS
3 6 (1.55%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.29%) DHCP
4 5 (1.29%) HTTP
4 5 (1.29%) iSCSI
4 5 (1.29%) SAN
5 3 (0.78%) VPN
6 2 (0.52%) 4G
6 2 (0.52%) 5G
6 2 (0.52%) Broadband
6 2 (0.52%) MQTT
6 2 (0.52%) SSH
6 2 (0.52%) VLAN
7 1 (0.26%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.26%) Multicast
7 1 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.26%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (30.75%) MySQL
2 98 (25.32%) MongoDB
3 87 (22.48%) Relational Database
4 85 (21.96%) SQL Server
5 59 (15.25%) NoSQL
6 34 (8.79%) Redis
7 23 (5.94%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.88%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.33%) GIS
10 9 (2.33%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.07%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.81%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.81%) Power BI
13 6 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.29%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.29%) Spatial Data
14 5 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 122 (31.52%) Git
2 38 (9.82%) GitLab
3 34 (8.79%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.39%) JIRA
4 17 (4.39%) JUnit
5 13 (3.36%) JMeter
6 10 (2.58%) Mockito
7 9 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.33%) Selenium
8 6 (1.55%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.29%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.29%) Mocha
9 5 (1.29%) RSpec
9 5 (1.29%) Storybook
10 4 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.03%) minitest
10 4 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.78%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.78%) Maven
11 3 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.38%) Public Sector
3 48 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.17%) Finance
6 17 (4.39%) Banking
6 17 (4.39%) Law
7 15 (3.88%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.62%) Legal
9 12 (3.10%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.07%) Automotive
11 8 (2.07%) Aviation
11 8 (2.07%) Retail
12 7 (1.81%) Advertising
13 6 (1.55%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.03%) Health Technology
15 4 (1.03%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 128 (33.07%) Developer
2 112 (28.94%) Senior
3 85 (21.96%) Software Engineer
4 44 (11.37%) Lead
5 41 (10.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 34 (8.79%) Senior Developer
6 34 (8.79%) Software Developer
7 31 (8.01%) Python Engineer
8 30 (7.75%) Java Developer
9 29 (7.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 24 (6.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 23 (5.94%) Data Engineer
11 23 (5.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 23 (5.94%) Lead Software Engineer
12 19 (4.91%) DBA
12 19 (4.91%) Python Developer
13 15 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (26.61%) React
2 82 (21.19%) Terraform
3 77 (19.90%) Node.js
4 65 (16.80%) REST
5 64 (16.54%) RESTful
6 55 (14.21%) .NET
7 52 (13.44%) Spring
8 51 (13.18%) CSS
8 51 (13.18%) Spring Boot
9 49 (12.66%) Kafka
10 44 (11.37%) HTML
11 30 (7.75%) Next.js
12 29 (7.49%) AngularJS
12 29 (7.49%) Hibernate
13 28 (7.24%) RabbitMQ
13 28 (7.24%) Vue
14 22 (5.68%) Flask
15 20 (5.17%) FastAPI
15 20 (5.17%) JPA
16 19 (4.91%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 54 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (7.24%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.88%) AI Agents
7 13 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.36%) Virtual Team
8 12 (3.10%) Algorithms
8 12 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (3.10%) Renewable Energy
9 11 (2.84%) Robotics
10 9 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.33%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.07%) IoT
12 7 (1.81%) Replication
13 6 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.55%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 92 (23.77%) Linux
2 33 (8.53%) Windows
3 17 (4.39%) Unix
4 13 (3.36%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.52%) Debian
6 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) AIX
7 1 (0.26%) CentOS
7 1 (0.26%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.26%) Solaris
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (52.71%) CI/CD
2 164 (42.38%) Agile
3 154 (39.79%) Software Engineering
4 131 (33.85%) DevOps
5 111 (28.68%) Microservices
6 107 (27.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 95 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (24.03%) Mentoring
9 91 (23.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 90 (23.26%) AI
11 67 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 64 (16.54%) Containerisation
13 59 (15.25%) Scrum
14 57 (14.73%) Test Automation
15 56 (14.47%) Observability
16 49 (12.66%) Decision-Making
17 44 (11.37%) TDD
18 43 (11.11%) Analytics
19 42 (10.85%) Coaching
19 42 (10.85%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 145 (37.47%) Python
2 125 (32.30%) SQL
3 102 (26.36%) Java
4 95 (24.55%) JavaScript
5 76 (19.64%) TypeScript
6 59 (15.25%) C#
7 27 (6.98%) Bash
8 24 (6.20%) Go
9 22 (5.68%) PowerShell
10 15 (3.88%) PHP
11 13 (3.36%) Ruby
11 13 (3.36%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.84%) C++
13 6 (1.55%) Scala
14 5 (1.29%) Korn
15 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.26%) C
17 1 (0.26%) COBOL
17 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (17.31%) Degree
2 61 (15.76%) Security Cleared
3 50 (12.92%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (6.46%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.17%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.65%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.33%) PhD
8 5 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.52%) CISSP
10 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.01%) QA
2 25 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.58%) GDPR
4 10 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (0.52%) WCAG
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 126 (32.56%) Docker
2 12 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) Ceph
6 1 (0.26%) Lustre
6 1 (0.26%) NFS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.26%) Samba
6 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 112 (28.94%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.53%) Grafana
3 31 (8.01%) Ansible
4 29 (7.49%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.94%) Argo
6 12 (3.10%) Kibana
7 6 (1.55%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.55%) Puppet
8 5 (1.29%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.03%) Istio
10 3 (0.78%) Plesk
10 3 (0.78%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.78%) Rancher
10 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.52%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.26%) logstash
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 49 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.56%) Oracle
3 24 (6.20%) Splunk
4 12 (3.10%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.10%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.84%) Google
6 9 (2.33%) Databricks
7 8 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.55%) Informatica
9 5 (1.29%) Dell
9 5 (1.29%) Meraki
10 4 (1.03%) IBM
10 4 (1.03%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.03%) VMware
11 3 (0.78%) Mistral
12 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.52%) SAP
12 2 (0.52%) UiPath
13 1 (0.26%) Pega
13 1 (0.26%) Trend Micro