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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 161 195
Rank change year-on-year -116 +34 +53
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 244 710 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 1.56% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.45% 11.11% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 171 279 401
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,250 £51,474 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £71,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.90% +5.93% -4.93%

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 3,785 6,391 6,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.06% 14.01% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,481 3,367 4,831
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 30 November 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 30 November 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
North of England +1 81 £68,750 +2.38% 38
South East -102 64 £65,000 -1.89% 123
Midlands +25 37 £55,100 -15.23% 22
Yorkshire +18 37 £70,000 -1.75% 8
North West -16 32 £70,000 +14.29% 27
South West -31 30 £52,000 -20.00% 27
West Midlands +38 25 £61,350 -5.62% 14
Scotland -19 16 £73,801 +22.49% 12
North East +14 12 £52,500 -24.25% 3
East Midlands +13 12 £55,000 - 8
East of England -33 12 £42,500 -26.09% 13
Wales -14 6 £69,401 +6.77% 2
Northern Ireland -6 3 £73,801 +13.54% 2
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 8 (3.28%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.87%) Confluence
2 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.46%) nginx
4 4 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.82%) CMS
6 2 (0.82%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.82%) JBoss
6 2 (0.82%) SAS
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.41%) Appian
7 1 (0.41%) Camunda
7 1 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 183 (75.00%) AWS
2 102 (41.80%) Azure
3 56 (22.95%) Amazon ECS
4 52 (21.31%) Serverless
5 50 (20.49%) GCP
6 36 (14.75%) GitHub
7 33 (13.52%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (11.89%) Amazon S3
9 25 (10.25%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (10.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (9.02%) SaaS
12 17 (6.97%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (6.97%) dbt
13 16 (6.56%) Amazon ECR
13 16 (6.56%) Pulumi
14 15 (6.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 13 (5.33%) AWS Step Functions
15 13 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.56%) TCP/IP
2 14 (5.74%) Firewall
3 8 (3.28%) HTTP
4 7 (2.87%) DNS
4 7 (2.87%) iSCSI
4 7 (2.87%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (2.87%) SAN
5 6 (2.46%) FTP
5 6 (2.46%) IMAP
5 6 (2.46%) OpenLDAP
5 6 (2.46%) SMTP
5 6 (2.46%) SSH
6 3 (1.23%) VPN
6 3 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.82%) AMQP
7 2 (0.82%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.82%) Multicast
7 2 (0.82%) PuTTY
8 1 (0.41%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (26.64%) Relational Database
2 58 (23.77%) MySQL
3 57 (23.36%) SQL Server
4 39 (15.98%) MongoDB
5 35 (14.34%) NoSQL
6 28 (11.48%) Redis
7 24 (9.84%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (9.43%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (8.20%) RDBMS
10 15 (6.15%) DynamoDB
11 10 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (3.28%) Power BI
12 8 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (2.05%) DB2
14 5 (2.05%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.64%) Big Data
15 4 (1.64%) Metadata
15 4 (1.64%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 63 (25.82%) Jenkins
2 59 (24.18%) Git
3 33 (13.52%) JUnit
4 21 (8.61%) JMeter
4 21 (8.61%) Mockito
5 16 (6.56%) JIRA
6 14 (5.74%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.69%) GitLab
7 9 (3.69%) Selenium
8 6 (2.46%) Vagrant
9 5 (2.05%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.23%) Gradle
10 3 (1.23%) Maven
10 3 (1.23%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.82%) Appium
11 2 (0.82%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.41%) TestNG
General
1 72 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.34%) Public Sector
3 24 (9.84%) Finance
4 14 (5.74%) Marketing
5 13 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.69%) Retail
8 8 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.87%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.87%) Law
10 6 (2.46%) Banking
11 4 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.23%) Advertising
12 3 (1.23%) Front Office
13 2 (0.82%) Games
13 2 (0.82%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.82%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (43.03%) Developer
2 55 (22.54%) Senior
3 42 (17.21%) Java Developer
4 40 (16.39%) Full-Stack Developer
5 39 (15.98%) Software Engineer
6 32 (13.11%) Lead
7 30 (12.30%) Software Developer
8 27 (11.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 19 (7.79%) Lead Developer
10 17 (6.97%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (6.15%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 15 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.92%) Linux Engineer
14 11 (4.51%) DBA
14 11 (4.51%) Java Engineer
14 11 (4.51%) Lead Software Engineer
14 11 (4.51%) Python Developer
14 11 (4.51%) Python Engineer
15 10 (4.10%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (26.23%) Spring
2 60 (24.59%) Spring Boot
3 50 (20.49%) React
4 46 (18.85%) RESTful
5 41 (16.80%) REST
6 36 (14.75%) Django
6 36 (14.75%) HTML
7 32 (13.11%) Node.js
8 28 (11.48%) .NET
9 27 (11.07%) Web Services
10 26 (10.66%) Kafka
11 23 (9.43%) Apache Camel
11 23 (9.43%) Hibernate
12 20 (8.20%) jQuery
12 20 (8.20%) XML
13 19 (7.79%) ActiveMQ
13 19 (7.79%) JSON
13 19 (7.79%) WireMock
14 18 (7.38%) CSS
15 17 (6.97%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.16%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (14.34%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.74%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.51%) Replication
5 10 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.69%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.69%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.28%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.28%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (2.46%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.05%) Clustering
10 4 (1.64%) Derivative
10 4 (1.64%) IoT
11 3 (1.23%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.23%) Web Conferencing
12 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.72%) Linux
2 26 (10.66%) Windows
3 21 (8.61%) Unix
4 8 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.28%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.28%) VMS
5 7 (2.87%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.87%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.46%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (2.05%) Debian
8 3 (1.23%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.41%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (46.72%) CI/CD
2 88 (36.07%) Microservices
3 86 (35.25%) DevOps
4 84 (34.43%) Agile
5 83 (34.02%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (25.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 59 (24.18%) Software Engineering
8 53 (21.72%) TDD
9 45 (18.44%) Mentoring
10 41 (16.80%) Containerisation
11 37 (15.16%) Clean Code
12 36 (14.75%) BDD
13 35 (14.34%) Workflow
14 33 (13.52%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (13.11%) AI
16 30 (12.30%) Migration
17 26 (10.66%) SDLC
17 26 (10.66%) Test Automation
18 24 (9.84%) Observability
19 23 (9.43%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 103 (42.21%) Python
2 86 (35.25%) Java
3 77 (31.56%) SQL
4 61 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 27 (11.07%) C#
6 26 (10.66%) TypeScript
7 18 (7.38%) Shell Script
8 13 (5.33%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.92%) Go
10 11 (4.51%) Bash
11 10 (4.10%) PHP
12 7 (2.87%) Delphi
12 7 (2.87%) Korn
12 7 (2.87%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.46%) Groovy
14 4 (1.64%) R
15 3 (1.23%) C
16 2 (0.82%) Ruby
16 2 (0.82%) VB
16 2 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.89%) Degree
4 16 (6.56%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.69%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.87%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.15%) QA
2 9 (3.69%) GDPR
3 6 (2.46%) SLA
4 5 (2.05%) NIST
5 4 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 117 (47.95%) Docker
2 7 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 6 (2.46%) DFS Replication
3 6 (2.46%) Dovecot
3 6 (2.46%) Postfix
3 6 (2.46%) Squid
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 81 (33.20%) Kubernetes
2 45 (18.44%) Terraform
3 23 (9.43%) Kibana
4 13 (5.33%) Ansible
4 13 (5.33%) Grafana
5 10 (4.10%) AWS Copilot
6 7 (2.87%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.46%) Nessus
7 6 (2.46%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.82%) logstash
8 2 (0.82%) Oozie
8 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.41%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.41%) Nagios
9 1 (0.41%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (13.52%) Oracle
2 26 (10.66%) Splunk
3 20 (8.20%) Google
3 20 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 18 (7.38%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.69%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.28%) Informatica
6 8 (3.28%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.87%) Dell
8 6 (2.46%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (2.05%) SAP
9 5 (2.05%) Talend
10 4 (1.64%) Pega
10 4 (1.64%) RedGate
10 4 (1.64%) WSO2
11 3 (1.23%) Databricks
12 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.82%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.82%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.82%) VMware