PostgreSQL Job Trends in Northern Ireland

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 43 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +56
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 3 9 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.92% 1.84% 4.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.00% 18.75% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 14
10th Percentile £51,881 £44,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,703 £53,750 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,401 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £74,092 £73,421 £74,375
90th Percentile £76,911 £74,144 £81,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.21% -0.99% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 30 48 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.20% 9.80% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7 19 71
10th Percentile £35,450 £28,050 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,875 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £71,270 £74,144 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,274 £96,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% +1.67%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Northern Ireland

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. 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
County Antrim +9 3 £64,401 -0.92% 4
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (33.33%) nginx
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 1 (33.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (33.33%) Parquet
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) TestNG
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Avro
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Guice
1 1 (33.33%) JAX-RS
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Mustache
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 1 (33.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat