PostgreSQL Jobs in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 163 273
Rank change year-on-year -125 +110 -87
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 365 1,296 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.88% 1.65% 1.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.98% 10.77% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 235 585 496
10th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £73,886 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% -3.45%

All Database and 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 4,572 12,028 10,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.01% 15.28% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,833 7,880 6,500
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,999
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,910 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £57,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +7.83% -8.73% +5.00%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 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
South East -61 109 £53,750 +7.50% 337
North of England -125 101 £67,500 +22.73% 380
North West -135 66 £67,500 +22.73% 245
Midlands -61 43 £67,500 +35.00% 152
Scotland +34 37 £66,250 +32.50% 96
East of England +3 33 £31,500 -42.73% 145
West Midlands +34 32 £67,500 +22.73% 77
South West +42 31 £61,250 +2.08% 143
Yorkshire +4 25 £67,500 +25.58% 104
Wales +13 19 £77,500 +51.81% 32
East Midlands -67 11 £55,000 +10.00% 74
North East +13 10 £51,875 -20.76% 31
Northern Ireland +20 7 £55,000 -35.29% 33
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 35 (9.59%) Confluence
2 15 (4.11%) Tomcat
3 13 (3.56%) JBoss
3 13 (3.56%) nginx
4 12 (3.29%) Red Hat Fuse
5 11 (3.01%) IIS
6 8 (2.19%) CMS
7 7 (1.92%) Apache Spark
8 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.64%) WordPress
9 5 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (1.37%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.82%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.82%) SAS
11 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.27%) Apache
12 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.27%) Sitefinity
12 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.27%) Magento
1 1 (0.27%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 222 (60.82%) AWS
2 130 (35.62%) Azure
3 59 (16.16%) Serverless
4 57 (15.62%) GCP
5 49 (13.42%) Amazon ECS
6 47 (12.88%) Amazon EC2
7 44 (12.05%) Amazon S3
8 42 (11.51%) GitHub
9 41 (11.23%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (7.12%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (5.48%) Power Platform
13 19 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (4.38%) AWS KMS
15 16 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (4.11%) Route 53
17 13 (3.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 13 (3.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 12 (3.29%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.11%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.56%) Firewall
2 13 (3.56%) Network Security
2 13 (3.56%) SSL
3 11 (3.01%) DNS
3 11 (3.01%) SAN
4 9 (2.47%) DMARC
5 6 (1.64%) iSCSI
5 6 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (1.37%) DHCP
6 5 (1.37%) HTTP
6 5 (1.37%) Internet
6 5 (1.37%) MQTT
6 5 (1.37%) NAS
6 5 (1.37%) VSAN
7 4 (1.10%) FTP
7 4 (1.10%) IMAP
7 4 (1.10%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (1.10%) SMTP
7 4 (1.10%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (23.56%) SQL Server
2 85 (23.29%) MySQL
2 85 (23.29%) Relational Database
3 82 (22.47%) MongoDB
4 61 (16.71%) NoSQL
5 40 (10.96%) Amazon RDS
6 37 (10.14%) RDBMS
7 30 (8.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 29 (7.95%) Redis
9 23 (6.30%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (5.75%) DynamoDB
11 16 (4.38%) Power BI
12 10 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (2.47%) Big Data
13 9 (2.47%) Tableau
14 8 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (1.64%) Metadata
15 6 (1.64%) Spark SQL
16 5 (1.37%) Couchbase
16 5 (1.37%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 98 (26.85%) Git
2 88 (24.11%) Jenkins
3 56 (15.34%) JUnit
4 40 (10.96%) Mockito
5 39 (10.68%) JIRA
6 32 (8.77%) GitLab
7 26 (7.12%) SonarQube
8 24 (6.58%) Maven
9 19 (5.21%) Selenium
10 18 (4.93%) JMeter
11 12 (3.29%) Bitbucket
11 12 (3.29%) DbUnit
11 12 (3.29%) jMock
12 11 (3.01%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (3.01%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.47%) Postman
14 5 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
14 5 (1.37%) TestNG
14 5 (1.37%) Visual Studio
15 4 (1.10%) TeamCity
General
1 128 (35.07%) Social Skills
2 72 (19.73%) Public Sector
3 66 (18.08%) Finance
4 34 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (8.49%) Banking
6 28 (7.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.85%) Law
8 20 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (4.38%) Manufacturing
11 13 (3.56%) Marketing
12 10 (2.74%) Retail
13 9 (2.47%) Czech Language
13 9 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.92%) Advertising
15 6 (1.64%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.37%) Electronics
16 5 (1.37%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.37%) Games
16 5 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 163 (44.66%) Developer
2 72 (19.73%) Java Developer
3 69 (18.90%) Senior
4 64 (17.53%) Software Engineer
5 56 (15.34%) Lead
6 40 (10.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 28 (7.67%) Senior Developer
8 26 (7.12%) Java Engineer
9 24 (6.58%) Lead Developer
10 23 (6.30%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (4.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 17 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (4.38%) Team Leader
13 15 (4.11%) Administrator
13 15 (4.11%) Software Developer
14 14 (3.84%) Lead Java Developer
15 13 (3.56%) Senior Java Developer
16 12 (3.29%) Java Software Engineer
16 12 (3.29%) Lead Software Developer
16 12 (3.29%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (25.75%) Spring
2 93 (25.48%) Spring Boot
3 83 (22.74%) REST
4 82 (22.47%) React
5 70 (19.18%) RESTful
6 61 (16.71%) Node.js
7 56 (15.34%) Web Services
8 48 (13.15%) Kafka
9 47 (12.88%) AngularJS
10 45 (12.33%) HTML
11 40 (10.96%) .NET
12 39 (10.68%) Hibernate
13 36 (9.86%) SOAP
14 34 (9.32%) ActiveMQ
15 29 (7.95%) Apache Camel
15 29 (7.95%) CSS
16 26 (7.12%) JSON
17 25 (6.85%) Django
18 22 (6.03%) jQuery
18 22 (6.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.70%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (9.59%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.93%) IoT
5 17 (4.66%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.01%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.47%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.19%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.19%) Replication
9 8 (2.19%) Wiki
10 7 (1.92%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.64%) Life Science
11 6 (1.64%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 90 (24.66%) Linux
2 42 (11.51%) Windows
3 40 (10.96%) Unix
4 9 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.64%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.37%) VMS
7 4 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.55%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (50.96%) Agile
2 149 (40.82%) CI/CD
3 121 (33.15%) Microservices
4 115 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (28.77%) DevOps
6 93 (25.48%) Software Engineering
7 86 (23.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 74 (20.27%) Mentoring
9 69 (18.90%) TDD
10 67 (18.36%) Scrum
11 63 (17.26%) Containerisation
12 53 (14.52%) BDD
13 42 (11.51%) Test Automation
14 41 (11.23%) Artificial Intelligence
15 40 (10.96%) Kanban
16 39 (10.68%) Analytics
17 36 (9.86%) SDLC
18 33 (9.04%) Clean Code
18 33 (9.04%) Computer Science
19 32 (8.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 159 (43.56%) SQL
2 157 (43.01%) Java
3 122 (33.42%) Python
4 116 (31.78%) JavaScript
5 53 (14.52%) TypeScript
6 35 (9.59%) C#
7 27 (7.40%) PHP
8 21 (5.75%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.38%) Bash
10 13 (3.56%) PowerShell
11 12 (3.29%) C++
11 12 (3.29%) Go
12 9 (2.47%) VBA
13 8 (2.19%) PL/SQL
13 8 (2.19%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.92%) Groovy
15 6 (1.64%) C
15 6 (1.64%) Korn
15 6 (1.64%) Rust
16 5 (1.37%) R
Qualifications
1 79 (21.64%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.63%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.04%) Degree
4 15 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.84%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.64%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.82%) OCP
10 3 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.32%) QA
2 13 (3.56%) SLA
3 10 (2.74%) GDPR
4 9 (2.47%) ISO 9001
4 9 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.92%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.64%) NIST
7 4 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.55%) CDISC
9 1 (0.27%) GMP
9 1 (0.27%) GRC
System Software
1 168 (46.03%) Docker
2 19 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.19%) Postfix
4 6 (1.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.10%) DFS Replication
6 4 (1.10%) Dovecot
6 4 (1.10%) Firmware
6 4 (1.10%) Squid
7 3 (0.82%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.82%) HDFS
8 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 121 (33.15%) Kubernetes
2 48 (13.15%) Terraform
3 27 (7.40%) Ansible
4 21 (5.75%) Kibana
5 20 (5.48%) Grafana
6 18 (4.93%) Prometheus
7 11 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.74%) Progress Chef
9 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (2.19%) AWS Copilot
11 6 (1.64%) Packer
12 5 (1.37%) Kustomize
13 4 (1.10%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.10%) Nessus
13 4 (1.10%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.82%) Argo
14 3 (0.82%) Istio
14 3 (0.82%) logstash
14 3 (0.82%) Oozie
15 2 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (16.71%) Oracle
2 56 (15.34%) Microsoft
3 27 (7.40%) Splunk
4 22 (6.03%) Dynatrace
5 20 (5.48%) Google
6 17 (4.66%) Atlassian
7 14 (3.84%) Databricks
8 12 (3.29%) Red Hat
9 10 (2.74%) Cisco
9 10 (2.74%) SAP
10 9 (2.47%) Jaspersoft
11 7 (1.92%) Informatica
12 6 (1.64%) Dell
13 5 (1.37%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.37%) VMware
14 4 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (1.10%) IBM
14 4 (1.10%) Talend
15 3 (0.82%) Juniper
15 3 (0.82%) Palo Alto