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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 164 200
Rank change year-on-year -122 +36 +46
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 258 718 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 1.55% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.75% 11.16% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 179 284 401
10th Percentile £33,450 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,625 £51,586 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £86,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

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 3,824 6,435 6,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.19% 13.91% 20.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 3,376 4,861
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 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,500
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 29 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 29 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 82 £68,750 +5.77% 38
South East -92 68 £63,750 -3.77% 126
Midlands +31 38 £55,100 -15.23% 22
Yorkshire +8 37 £70,000 -1.75% 8
South West -30 36 £52,000 -20.00% 28
North West -10 33 £70,000 +16.67% 27
West Midlands +43 25 £61,350 -5.62% 14
Scotland -23 18 £73,801 +22.49% 11
East Midlands +15 13 £55,000 - 8
East of England -34 13 £42,500 -26.09% 13
North East +19 12 £52,500 -24.25% 3
Wales -14 6 £69,401 +6.77% 2
Northern Ireland -4 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 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (3.10%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.71%) Confluence
3 6 (2.33%) nginx
4 4 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.16%) JBoss
6 2 (0.78%) CMS
6 2 (0.78%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.78%) SAS
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.39%) Appian
7 1 (0.39%) Camunda
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 193 (74.81%) AWS
2 106 (41.09%) Azure
3 58 (22.48%) Amazon ECS
4 56 (21.71%) Serverless
5 52 (20.16%) GCP
6 37 (14.34%) GitHub
7 34 (13.18%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (12.02%) Amazon S3
9 26 (10.08%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (9.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (8.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (8.91%) SaaS
12 19 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (6.59%) dbt
14 16 (6.20%) Amazon ECR
14 16 (6.20%) Pulumi
15 15 (5.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 14 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (5.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.20%) TCP/IP
2 15 (5.81%) Firewall
3 8 (3.10%) HTTP
3 8 (3.10%) iSCSI
3 8 (3.10%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (3.10%) SAN
4 7 (2.71%) DNS
5 6 (2.33%) FTP
5 6 (2.33%) IMAP
5 6 (2.33%) OpenLDAP
5 6 (2.33%) SMTP
5 6 (2.33%) SSH
6 3 (1.16%) VPN
6 3 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.78%) AMQP
7 2 (0.78%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.78%) Multicast
7 2 (0.78%) PuTTY
8 1 (0.39%) Internet
8 1 (0.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (26.74%) Relational Database
2 65 (25.19%) MySQL
3 59 (22.87%) SQL Server
4 42 (16.28%) MongoDB
5 39 (15.12%) NoSQL
6 29 (11.24%) Redis
7 25 (9.69%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (8.91%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (7.75%) RDBMS
10 16 (6.20%) DynamoDB
11 12 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (3.88%) Power BI
13 8 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (1.94%) Big Data
15 5 (1.94%) DB2
15 5 (1.94%) Oracle Database
16 4 (1.55%) Metadata
16 4 (1.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (25.19%) Jenkins
2 63 (24.42%) Git
3 34 (13.18%) JUnit
4 21 (8.14%) JMeter
4 21 (8.14%) Mockito
5 16 (6.20%) JIRA
6 14 (5.43%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.88%) GitLab
7 10 (3.88%) Selenium
8 6 (2.33%) Vagrant
9 5 (1.94%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.55%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.16%) Gradle
11 3 (1.16%) Maven
11 3 (1.16%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.78%) Appium
12 2 (0.78%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.39%) Sinon.JS
13 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 77 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 27 (10.47%) Finance
4 14 (5.43%) Marketing
5 13 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.88%) Law
9 9 (3.49%) Banking
9 9 (3.49%) Retail
10 8 (3.10%) Financial Institution
10 8 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.16%) Advertising
12 3 (1.16%) Front Office
12 3 (1.16%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Games
13 2 (0.78%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 115 (44.57%) Developer
2 59 (22.87%) Senior
3 44 (17.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 44 (17.05%) Java Developer
4 41 (15.89%) Software Engineer
5 33 (12.79%) Lead
6 31 (12.02%) Software Developer
7 28 (10.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 20 (7.75%) Lead Developer
9 18 (6.98%) Lead Software Developer
10 16 (6.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (5.81%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 14 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (5.04%) Java Engineer
13 13 (5.04%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (4.65%) Python Developer
15 11 (4.26%) DBA
15 11 (4.26%) Python Engineer
15 11 (4.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (26.36%) Spring
2 64 (24.81%) Spring Boot
3 56 (21.71%) React
4 51 (19.77%) RESTful
5 42 (16.28%) REST
6 37 (14.34%) HTML
7 36 (13.95%) Django
8 35 (13.57%) Node.js
9 31 (12.02%) .NET
10 29 (11.24%) Kafka
11 28 (10.85%) Web Services
12 24 (9.30%) Apache Camel
13 23 (8.91%) Hibernate
14 20 (7.75%) AngularJS
14 20 (7.75%) jQuery
14 20 (7.75%) XML
15 19 (7.36%) ActiveMQ
15 19 (7.36%) CSS
15 19 (7.36%) JSON
15 19 (7.36%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.12%) Cloud Native
2 38 (14.73%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.65%) Replication
5 10 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.49%) Mobile App
7 8 (3.10%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.94%) Clustering
10 4 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.55%) Derivative
10 4 (1.55%) IoT
10 4 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.16%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
12 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 55 (21.32%) Linux
2 27 (10.47%) Windows
3 21 (8.14%) Unix
4 9 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.10%) Ubuntu
5 8 (3.10%) VMS
5 8 (3.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.71%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (1.94%) Debian
9 3 (1.16%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.39%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (47.29%) CI/CD
2 92 (35.66%) Microservices
3 91 (35.27%) Agile
4 90 (34.88%) DevOps
5 89 (34.50%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 62 (24.03%) Software Engineering
8 54 (20.93%) TDD
9 48 (18.60%) Mentoring
10 42 (16.28%) Clean Code
11 41 (15.89%) Containerisation
12 37 (14.34%) BDD
13 35 (13.57%) AI
13 35 (13.57%) Workflow
14 33 (12.79%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (11.63%) Migration
15 30 (11.63%) SDLC
16 27 (10.47%) Test Automation
17 26 (10.08%) Computer Science
18 24 (9.30%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 108 (41.86%) Python
2 91 (35.27%) Java
3 83 (32.17%) SQL
4 66 (25.58%) JavaScript
5 30 (11.63%) TypeScript
6 28 (10.85%) C#
7 18 (6.98%) Shell Script
8 13 (5.04%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.65%) Bash
9 12 (4.65%) Go
10 11 (4.26%) PHP
11 8 (3.10%) Korn
12 7 (2.71%) Delphi
12 7 (2.71%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.33%) Groovy
14 4 (1.55%) R
15 3 (1.16%) C
15 3 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.78%) VB
16 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 57 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.02%) Degree
4 18 (6.98%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.20%) QA
2 9 (3.49%) GDPR
3 7 (2.71%) SLA
4 5 (1.94%) NIST
5 4 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 125 (48.45%) Docker
2 8 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 6 (2.33%) DFS Replication
3 6 (2.33%) Dovecot
3 6 (2.33%) Postfix
3 6 (2.33%) Squid
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 89 (34.50%) Kubernetes
2 48 (18.60%) Terraform
3 23 (8.91%) Kibana
4 14 (5.43%) Ansible
5 13 (5.04%) Grafana
6 10 (3.88%) AWS Copilot
7 7 (2.71%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.33%) Nessus
8 6 (2.33%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.78%) logstash
9 2 (0.78%) Oozie
9 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.39%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.39%) Nagios
10 1 (0.39%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (13.95%) Oracle
2 27 (10.47%) Splunk
3 21 (8.14%) Microsoft
4 20 (7.75%) Google
5 18 (6.98%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.88%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.10%) Dell
7 8 (3.10%) Informatica
7 8 (3.10%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (1.94%) Databricks
9 5 (1.94%) SAP
9 5 (1.94%) Talend
10 4 (1.55%) Pega
10 4 (1.55%) RedGate
10 4 (1.55%) WSO2
11 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.78%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.78%) VMware