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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 296 159
Rank change year-on-year -21 -137 +54
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 402 271 788
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.78% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.53% 6.76% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 312 167 316
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,625 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £84,250 £81,250
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 5,342 4,007 6,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.18% 11.53% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,850 2,477 3,425
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £37,500 £41,263
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 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +3 134 £70,000 +7.69% 100
North of England -9 123 £65,000 -3.70% 116
North West -5 56 £61,250 -9.26% 64
South West -58 50 £82,500 +52.78% 38
Midlands -32 41 £75,000 +7.14% 49
North East -39 40 £65,000 +26.83% 19
West Midlands -44 31 £85,000 +17.24% 33
East of England -29 29 £52,500 +72.13% 46
Yorkshire -26 27 £65,000 -7.14% 38
Wales -42 26 £64,000 +2.40% 14
Scotland -10 11 £65,000 -3.70% 47
East Midlands -27 10 £60,000 +20.00% 16
Northern Ireland -84 1 - - 27
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 10 (2.49%) Apache
1 10 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (2.49%) Confluence
2 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.49%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.24%) WordPress
5 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Documentum
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) Finacle
2 1 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 227 (56.47%) AWS
2 169 (42.04%) Azure
3 67 (16.67%) GitHub
4 59 (14.68%) GCP
5 44 (10.95%) Serverless
6 34 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (6.97%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (5.72%) Azure AKS
9 23 (5.72%) SaaS
10 22 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (4.48%) Amazon S3
12 17 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
13 16 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (3.98%) GitHub Copilot
14 15 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (3.23%) Azure Functions
17 12 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.24%) DNS
1 9 (2.24%) Firewall
2 6 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.24%) DHCP
3 5 (1.24%) iSCSI
3 5 (1.24%) SAN
4 4 (1.00%) HTTP
5 3 (0.75%) VPN
6 2 (0.50%) 4G
6 2 (0.50%) 5G
6 2 (0.50%) Broadband
6 2 (0.50%) SSH
6 2 (0.50%) VLAN
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (29.85%) MySQL
2 105 (26.12%) MongoDB
3 90 (22.39%) Relational Database
4 86 (21.39%) SQL Server
5 59 (14.68%) NoSQL
6 37 (9.20%) Redis
7 25 (6.22%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.48%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.24%) GIS
10 9 (2.24%) Pinecone
10 9 (2.24%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.99%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.99%) Spatial Data
12 7 (1.74%) Chroma
12 7 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.49%) Power BI
14 5 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 125 (31.09%) Git
2 45 (11.19%) GitLab
3 39 (9.70%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.23%) JUnit
5 16 (3.98%) JIRA
6 13 (3.23%) JMeter
7 10 (2.49%) Mockito
8 9 (2.24%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.99%) Selenium
10 5 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.24%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.24%) Mocha
10 5 (1.24%) RSpec
10 5 (1.24%) Storybook
11 4 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.00%) minitest
11 4 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.75%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.75%) Vite
General
1 93 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 79 (19.65%) Public Sector
3 51 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.22%) Banking
6 18 (4.48%) Finance
7 17 (4.23%) Law
8 14 (3.48%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.99%) Legal
10 10 (2.49%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.99%) Retail
12 7 (1.74%) Aviation
12 7 (1.74%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.49%) Automotive
13 6 (1.49%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.00%) Advertising
14 4 (1.00%) Legal Technology
15 3 (0.75%) Games
15 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 137 (34.08%) Developer
2 120 (29.85%) Senior
3 97 (24.13%) Software Engineer
4 49 (12.19%) Lead
5 43 (10.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 38 (9.45%) Senior Developer
7 36 (8.96%) Software Developer
8 31 (7.71%) Java Developer
8 31 (7.71%) Python Engineer
9 29 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
10 26 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (6.22%) Lead Software Engineer
12 24 (5.97%) Data Engineer
13 22 (5.47%) Python Developer
14 21 (5.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (4.48%) DBA
16 17 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
17 16 (3.98%) Senior Data Engineer
18 15 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
18 15 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (27.61%) React
2 84 (20.90%) Terraform
3 81 (20.15%) Node.js
4 67 (16.67%) RESTful
5 63 (15.67%) REST
6 57 (14.18%) .NET
7 55 (13.68%) Kafka
8 54 (13.43%) Spring
9 53 (13.18%) Spring Boot
10 50 (12.44%) CSS
11 43 (10.70%) HTML
12 34 (8.46%) Next.js
13 32 (7.96%) Hibernate
14 29 (7.21%) RabbitMQ
15 28 (6.97%) Vue
16 25 (6.22%) AngularJS
17 24 (5.97%) FastAPI
18 21 (5.22%) JPA
19 20 (4.98%) Flask
20 18 (4.48%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 82 (20.40%) Cloud Native
2 53 (13.18%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.46%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.72%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (4.23%) AI Agents
7 16 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (3.73%) Virtual Team
9 13 (3.23%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
11 11 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (2.49%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.49%) Public Cloud
13 9 (2.24%) Robotics
14 8 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.49%) Management Information System
16 5 (1.24%) Clustering
16 5 (1.24%) IoT
17 4 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 90 (22.39%) Linux
2 33 (8.21%) Windows
3 17 (4.23%) Unix
4 13 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) AIX
6 1 (0.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) Debian
6 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.25%) Solaris
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (51.99%) CI/CD
2 175 (43.53%) Software Engineering
3 174 (43.28%) Agile
4 137 (34.08%) DevOps
5 122 (30.35%) Microservices
6 113 (28.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 104 (25.87%) Mentoring
8 100 (24.88%) Problem-Solving
9 94 (23.38%) AI
9 94 (23.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 67 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 65 (16.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 62 (15.42%) Observability
13 61 (15.17%) Test Automation
14 57 (14.18%) Scrum
15 52 (12.94%) Decision-Making
16 48 (11.94%) TDD
17 45 (11.19%) Analytics
18 44 (10.95%) Coaching
18 44 (10.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 147 (36.57%) Python
2 119 (29.60%) SQL
3 108 (26.87%) Java
4 96 (23.88%) JavaScript
5 83 (20.65%) TypeScript
6 60 (14.93%) C#
7 26 (6.47%) Bash
7 26 (6.47%) Go
8 21 (5.22%) PowerShell
9 20 (4.98%) PHP
10 13 (3.23%) Ruby
10 13 (3.23%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.74%) C++
12 7 (1.74%) Scala
13 5 (1.24%) Korn
13 5 (1.24%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.25%) C
15 1 (0.25%) COBOL
15 1 (0.25%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 67 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 63 (15.67%) Degree
3 56 (13.93%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.97%) Master's Degree
5 23 (5.72%) Azure Certification
5 23 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (4.98%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.24%) PhD
8 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.00%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.21%) QA
2 23 (5.72%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.24%) GDPR
4 9 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.50%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 134 (33.33%) Docker
2 12 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) Ceph
5 1 (0.25%) Lustre
5 1 (0.25%) NFS
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.25%) Samba
5 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 121 (30.10%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.71%) Grafana
3 31 (7.71%) Ansible
3 31 (7.71%) Prometheus
4 24 (5.97%) Argo
5 12 (2.99%) Kibana
6 6 (1.49%) Kustomize
6 6 (1.49%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.49%) Puppet
7 5 (1.24%) Istio
8 3 (0.75%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.75%) Rancher
8 3 (0.75%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.50%) Plesk
10 1 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.25%) logstash
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 47 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.96%) Oracle
3 26 (6.47%) Splunk
4 13 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.99%) Google
5 12 (2.99%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.74%) Databricks
7 7 (1.74%) Mistral
8 6 (1.49%) Informatica
9 5 (1.24%) Dell
9 5 (1.24%) VMware
10 4 (1.00%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.00%) IBM
10 4 (1.00%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.75%) Meraki
12 2 (0.50%) SAP
12 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.50%) UiPath
13 1 (0.25%) Temenos