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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 170 219
Rank change year-on-year -146 +49 +11
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 280 430 866
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.67% 1.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.89% 10.11% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 195 255 566
10th Percentile £34,100 £41,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £74,987 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £86,250
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 4,753 4,253 11,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.91% 16.47% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,740 2,971 8,238
10th Percentile £33,975 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -10.20%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -42 105 £65,000 -3.70% 57
South East -115 71 £55,750 -20.36% 48
Yorkshire -26 48 £52,130 -12.73% 19
North West -34 45 £77,500 +14.60% 33
South West -48 34 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Midlands -59 24 £46,250 -28.85% 18
Scotland -21 23 £67,500 +8.00% 12
East of England -72 21 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -25 15 £43,875 -32.50% 8
North East -25 12 £55,000 -20.73% 6
East Midlands -53 9 £60,100 -14.14% 10
Wales -55 5 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -41 2 £73,801 +34.18%
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 21 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.36%) OpenStack
3 12 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.07%) Apache
6 2 (0.71%) CMS
6 2 (0.71%) Confluence
6 2 (0.71%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.71%) WildFly
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 180 (64.29%) AWS
2 111 (39.64%) Azure
3 71 (25.36%) GCP
4 56 (20.00%) Serverless
5 41 (14.64%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (12.50%) GitHub
7 32 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 28 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (9.29%) SaaS
11 25 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
13 23 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (8.21%) Power Platform
14 22 (7.86%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (7.14%) dbt
17 19 (6.79%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
18 14 (5.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.43%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.57%) DHCP
2 10 (3.57%) DNS
2 10 (3.57%) Firewall
3 7 (2.50%) Internet
3 7 (2.50%) Network Security
3 7 (2.50%) VPN
4 6 (2.14%) iSCSI
4 6 (2.14%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (2.14%) SAN
5 5 (1.79%) Broadband
5 5 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.07%) VLAN
7 2 (0.71%) HTTP
7 2 (0.71%) MQTT
7 2 (0.71%) PBX
8 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.36%) LTE
8 1 (0.36%) Multicast
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (30.36%) SQL Server
2 66 (23.57%) MySQL
3 62 (22.14%) MongoDB
4 60 (21.43%) Relational Database
5 57 (20.36%) NoSQL
6 32 (11.43%) Redis
7 27 (9.64%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (8.21%) Power BI
9 20 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (7.14%) DynamoDB
10 10 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (3.21%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (3.21%) Oracle Database
11 9 (3.21%) RDBMS
12 8 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (2.14%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 91 (32.50%) Git
2 32 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.79%) JUnit
4 17 (6.07%) JIRA
5 16 (5.71%) GitLab
6 10 (3.57%) Mockito
7 9 (3.21%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.21%) Selenium
8 8 (2.86%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.79%) JMeter
10 4 (1.43%) Maven
11 2 (0.71%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.71%) Gradle
11 2 (0.71%) MSTest
12 1 (0.36%) Appium
12 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.36%) ERwin
12 1 (0.36%) jMock
12 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 96 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.14%) Finance
5 19 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.93%) Advertising
8 9 (3.21%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.21%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.86%) Games
10 7 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.79%) Automotive
11 5 (1.79%) Retail
12 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.71%) Aviation
13 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.71%) Legal
13 2 (0.71%) Marketing
13 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 90 (32.14%) Developer
2 60 (21.43%) Senior
3 43 (15.36%) Software Engineer
4 35 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (12.14%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 19 (6.79%) Lead
7 18 (6.43%) Python Engineer
8 15 (5.36%) IT Support
9 14 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 14 (5.00%) Analyst
9 14 (5.00%) DBA
10 13 (4.64%) Java Engineer
10 13 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
12 10 (3.57%) Administrator
12 10 (3.57%) Architect
12 10 (3.57%) Data Analyst
12 10 (3.57%) IT Support Technician
12 10 (3.57%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (28.21%) React
2 55 (19.64%) RESTful
3 53 (18.93%) Spring
3 53 (18.93%) Spring Boot
4 46 (16.43%) REST
5 41 (14.64%) Django
6 38 (13.57%) Node.js
7 31 (11.07%) .NET
8 26 (9.29%) AngularJS
8 26 (9.29%) Vue
9 21 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (7.50%) HTML
9 21 (7.50%) Web Services
10 18 (6.43%) .NET Core
10 18 (6.43%) Flask
10 18 (6.43%) Kafka
11 17 (6.07%) CSS
11 17 (6.07%) FastAPI
12 16 (5.71%) JSON
13 14 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.21%) Cloud Native
2 34 (12.14%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.71%) Replication
4 13 (4.64%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.93%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.93%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.21%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.14%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.79%) Clustering
9 5 (1.79%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.43%) CUDA
10 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.43%) IoT
10 4 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 60 (21.43%) Linux
2 23 (8.21%) Unix
3 19 (6.79%) Windows
4 14 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.07%) CentOS
6 3 (1.07%) Debian
7 2 (0.71%) VMS
7 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (47.50%) CI/CD
2 107 (38.21%) Agile
2 107 (38.21%) DevOps
3 84 (30.00%) Microservices
4 79 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (26.79%) Software Engineering
6 69 (24.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 61 (21.79%) TDD
9 57 (20.36%) Containerisation
10 51 (18.21%) Test Automation
11 43 (15.36%) AI
12 42 (15.00%) Mentoring
13 35 (12.50%) Scrum
14 33 (11.79%) BDD
15 32 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (11.07%) Data Modelling
17 30 (10.71%) Computer Science
17 30 (10.71%) Observability
18 25 (8.93%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 116 (41.43%) Python
2 99 (35.36%) SQL
3 93 (33.21%) Java
4 58 (20.71%) JavaScript
5 37 (13.21%) TypeScript
6 24 (8.57%) Go
7 23 (8.21%) PowerShell
8 22 (7.86%) C#
9 16 (5.71%) C
10 14 (5.00%) PHP
11 11 (3.93%) T-SQL
12 10 (3.57%) Bash
13 9 (3.21%) Shell Script
14 8 (2.86%) C++
15 7 (2.50%) Delphi
16 4 (1.43%) Korn
17 2 (0.71%) R
17 2 (0.71%) Scala
18 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (14.29%) Degree
2 34 (12.14%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.29%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.93%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.93%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.07%) RHCE
9 2 (0.71%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.93%) QA
4 6 (2.14%) GDPR
5 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.07%) NCSC
7 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 2 (0.71%) WCAG
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 112 (40.00%) Docker
2 27 (9.64%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.71%) Samba
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 94 (33.57%) Kubernetes
2 67 (23.93%) Terraform
3 24 (8.57%) Ansible
4 11 (3.93%) Grafana
5 8 (2.86%) AWS Copilot
6 6 (2.14%) Kibana
6 6 (2.14%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.79%) Nagios
8 4 (1.43%) Control-M
8 4 (1.43%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.43%) Rancher
9 3 (1.07%) Argo
10 2 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.71%) Puppet
11 1 (0.36%) Plesk
11 1 (0.36%) Podman
11 1 (0.36%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 42 (15.00%) Oracle
2 36 (12.86%) Google
3 26 (9.29%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.93%) Pega
5 8 (2.86%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.50%) Informatica
7 6 (2.14%) Dell
7 6 (2.14%) WSO2
8 5 (1.79%) Splunk
9 4 (1.43%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.43%) VMware
10 3 (1.07%) Confluent
10 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.71%) D-Link
11 2 (0.71%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.71%) Meraki
11 2 (0.71%) RedGate
11 2 (0.71%) Talend
12 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds