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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 51 33
Rank change year-on-year +16 -18 +64
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 5 7 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.58% 1.36% 5.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.51% 13.46% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 17
10th Percentile - £41,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +20.93%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,625 £72,500
90th Percentile - £69,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -3.45%

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 37 52 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 11.71% 10.12% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 13 17 78
10th Percentile £32,300 £27,600 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £69,500 £99,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% +4.17%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL 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
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 16 September 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 +13 5 £55,000 -4.35% 2
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) nginx
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Mockito
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
1 5 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 5 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 5 (100.00%) Guice
1 5 (100.00%) JAX-RS
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) Mustache
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) Swagger
1 5 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 5 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 5 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOP
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 5 (100.00%) Packer
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat