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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 156 204
Rank change year-on-year -149 +48 +14
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 214 639 510
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.78% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.71% 11.35% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 149 249 386
10th Percentile £33,000 £46,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,001 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £93,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3,750 5,630 6,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.84% 15.67% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,387 2,923 5,243
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -3 79 £73,801 +6.48% 112
South East -123 45 £60,000 -25.00% 204
Yorkshire +10 41 £70,000 +16.67% 47
Midlands -10 31 £60,100 -7.54% 72
South West -43 31 £54,000 -16.92% 90
North West -11 30 £85,000 +22.64% 50
West Midlands +5 21 £61,350 -5.62% 25
East of England -39 13 £42,500 -26.09% 97
Scotland -27 12 £73,801 +27.24% 26
East Midlands -23 10 £60,100 +0.17% 46
North East +9 8 £55,200 -20.35% 16
Wales -21 5 £73,801 +13.54% 36
Northern Ireland -15 3 £73,801 +11.98% 15
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 (5.61%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.87%) Confluence
3 4 (1.87%) nginx
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Camunda
5 1 (0.47%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) WildFly
5 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 165 (77.10%) AWS
2 87 (40.65%) Azure
3 57 (26.64%) Serverless
4 51 (23.83%) Amazon ECS
5 42 (19.63%) GCP
6 36 (16.82%) Amazon S3
7 35 (16.36%) GitHub
8 32 (14.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (14.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (14.02%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (11.21%) SaaS
11 20 (9.35%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (9.35%) AWS Step Functions
12 19 (8.88%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (7.94%) dbt
14 16 (7.48%) Amazon ECR
14 16 (7.48%) Pulumi
15 15 (7.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 15 (7.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.41%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.74%) Firewall
3 7 (3.27%) DNS
3 7 (3.27%) Internet
4 6 (2.80%) HTTP
5 5 (2.34%) VPN
5 5 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.87%) FTP
6 4 (1.87%) IMAP
6 4 (1.87%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.87%) SMTP
6 4 (1.87%) SSH
7 2 (0.93%) AMQP
7 2 (0.93%) DHCP
7 2 (0.93%) Network Security
7 2 (0.93%) VLAN
8 1 (0.47%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.47%) MQTT
8 1 (0.47%) Multicast
8 1 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (26.17%) SQL Server
2 53 (24.77%) Relational Database
3 47 (21.96%) MySQL
4 34 (15.89%) MongoDB
5 31 (14.49%) Redis
6 29 (13.55%) NoSQL
7 25 (11.68%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (11.68%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (8.41%) DynamoDB
9 12 (5.61%) RDBMS
10 10 (4.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (3.27%) Oracle Database
11 7 (3.27%) Power BI
12 6 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (1.87%) DB2
14 4 (1.87%) Oracle Database 10g
14 4 (1.87%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 74 (34.58%) Git
2 51 (23.83%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.68%) JUnit
4 14 (6.54%) Cucumber
4 14 (6.54%) JMeter
5 13 (6.07%) Mockito
6 12 (5.61%) JIRA
7 11 (5.14%) GitLab
8 8 (3.74%) Selenium
9 5 (2.34%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.87%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.40%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.93%) Appium
12 2 (0.93%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.93%) Gradle
12 2 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.28%) Public Sector
3 19 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.07%) Finance
5 10 (4.67%) Marketing
5 10 (4.67%) Retail
6 6 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.34%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.87%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.93%) Advertising
10 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.47%) Electronics
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (41.12%) Developer
2 50 (23.36%) Senior
3 33 (15.42%) Java Developer
4 32 (14.95%) Software Engineer
5 31 (14.49%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (9.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 20 (9.35%) Software Developer
8 18 (8.41%) Lead
9 14 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) .NET Developer
11 12 (5.61%) DBA
11 12 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.14%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 10 (4.67%) Junior
13 10 (4.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 9 (4.21%) Java Engineer
14 9 (4.21%) Python Developer
15 8 (3.74%) Analyst
15 8 (3.74%) Lead Developer
15 8 (3.74%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.17%) React
2 55 (25.70%) Spring
3 51 (23.83%) Spring Boot
4 42 (19.63%) RESTful
5 37 (17.29%) REST
6 32 (14.95%) .NET
6 32 (14.95%) Django
7 28 (13.08%) Node.js
8 26 (12.15%) HTML
9 23 (10.75%) Web Services
10 22 (10.28%) Kafka
11 19 (8.88%) .NET Core
12 18 (8.41%) AngularJS
12 18 (8.41%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (7.48%) Hibernate
14 15 (7.01%) Apache Camel
14 15 (7.01%) CSS
14 15 (7.01%) Vue
15 14 (6.54%) ASP.NET
15 14 (6.54%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.89%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (13.08%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.67%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.67%) Replication
5 7 (3.27%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (2.80%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.34%) Clustering
8 4 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.87%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.40%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.93%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) Derivative
11 1 (0.47%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.47%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (26.17%) Linux
2 22 (10.28%) Unix
3 20 (9.35%) Windows
4 11 (5.14%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.80%) VMS
6 5 (2.34%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.87%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.87%) Debian
8 3 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.40%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.47%) Fedora
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (53.27%) CI/CD
2 88 (41.12%) DevOps
3 86 (40.19%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (37.85%) Microservices
5 76 (35.51%) Agile
6 53 (24.77%) Full-Stack Development
7 49 (22.90%) Software Engineering
8 48 (22.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (21.96%) TDD
10 45 (21.03%) Containerisation
11 32 (14.95%) Workflow
12 31 (14.49%) BDD
13 29 (13.55%) Mentoring
14 28 (13.08%) Clean Code
14 28 (13.08%) Migration
15 25 (11.68%) Test Automation
16 24 (11.21%) Observability
16 24 (11.21%) SDLC
17 23 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
18 22 (10.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (43.46%) Python
2 73 (34.11%) Java
3 69 (32.24%) SQL
4 51 (23.83%) JavaScript
5 30 (14.02%) TypeScript
6 25 (11.68%) C#
7 19 (8.88%) Go
8 15 (7.01%) Shell Script
9 13 (6.07%) PowerShell
10 11 (5.14%) C
11 9 (4.21%) PHP
12 7 (3.27%) Delphi
13 6 (2.80%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.87%) Groovy
15 2 (0.93%) Bash
15 2 (0.93%) C++
15 2 (0.93%) VB
15 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (18.22%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.28%) Degree
4 15 (7.01%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.14%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.27%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.34%) QA
2 5 (2.34%) SLA
3 3 (1.40%) GDPR
4 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 102 (47.66%) Docker
2 4 (1.87%) DFS Replication
2 4 (1.87%) Dovecot
2 4 (1.87%) Postfix
2 4 (1.87%) Squid
3 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 74 (34.58%) Kubernetes
2 52 (24.30%) Terraform
3 22 (10.28%) Ansible
4 14 (6.54%) Kibana
5 11 (5.14%) Grafana
6 10 (4.67%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.80%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.87%) Control-M
8 4 (1.87%) Nessus
8 4 (1.87%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.40%) Nagios
9 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.93%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.93%) Rancher
11 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (14.49%) Oracle
2 18 (8.41%) Google
3 13 (6.07%) Splunk
4 11 (5.14%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.14%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.74%) Informatica
6 5 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.87%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.87%) Pega
7 4 (1.87%) VMware
7 4 (1.87%) WSO2
8 3 (1.40%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.40%) RedGate
8 3 (1.40%) Talend
9 2 (0.93%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.93%) SAP
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.47%) Dell
10 1 (0.47%) OpenText
10 1 (0.47%) SendGrid