PostgreSQL Job Trends in Wales

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 41 73
Rank change year-on-year -28 +32 +25
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 5 36 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.47% 4.61% 2.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.95% 24.16% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5 27 26
10th Percentile £57,440 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% +23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £78,790 £66,250 £64,688
90th Percentile - £74,144 £69,275
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +15.38% -7.14%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 84 149 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.84% 19.08% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 39 102 199
10th Percentile £35,000 - £27,400
25th Percentile £38,553 £31,250 £34,598
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,958 £74,144 £72,433
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Wales

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Wales over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Wales

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 February 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 Wales -23 4 £73,801 +13.54% 3
West Wales - 1 £55,200 - 1
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) dbt
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Sentry
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (60.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) pytest
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) SEO
5 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Delphi
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle