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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 166 196
Rank change year-on-year -120 +30 +21
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 231 695 504
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.58% 1.62% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.08% 11.06% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 163 268 399
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,375 £50,968
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £85,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -6.90%

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 3,799 6,282 6,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.57% 14.68% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,469 3,344 4,791
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,200 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -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 7 December 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 7 December 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 -12 77 £70,000 +1.00% 165
South East -103 61 £62,500 -12.28% 214
Yorkshire +4 38 £70,000 -3.45% 71
Midlands +11 37 £55,200 -15.08% 116
North West -19 28 £70,000 +14.29% 79
South West -33 28 £50,000 -23.08% 92
West Midlands +21 24 £61,350 -5.62% 63
East Midlands +3 13 £55,000 - 46
Scotland -29 13 £73,801 +18.08% 45
East of England -44 12 £42,500 -26.09% 109
North East +12 11 £52,500 -24.25% 15
Wales -20 6 £69,401 +6.77% 18
Northern Ireland -9 3 £73,801 +13.54% 11
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 9 (3.90%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.16%) Confluence
3 5 (2.16%) nginx
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.87%) CMS
5 2 (0.87%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.87%) SAS
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.43%) Camunda
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) WildFly
6 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 173 (74.89%) AWS
2 97 (41.99%) Azure
3 55 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
4 53 (22.94%) Serverless
5 47 (20.35%) GCP
6 35 (15.15%) GitHub
7 33 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (12.12%) Amazon S3
9 26 (11.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (9.96%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (9.52%) SaaS
12 17 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (7.36%) dbt
13 16 (6.93%) Amazon ECR
13 16 (6.93%) Pulumi
14 15 (6.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 13 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (5.63%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (5.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.93%) TCP/IP
2 12 (5.19%) Firewall
3 7 (3.03%) HTTP
4 6 (2.60%) DNS
4 6 (2.60%) iSCSI
4 6 (2.60%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (2.60%) SAN
5 5 (2.16%) FTP
5 5 (2.16%) IMAP
5 5 (2.16%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (2.16%) SMTP
5 5 (2.16%) SSH
6 3 (1.30%) VPN
6 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.87%) AMQP
7 2 (0.87%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.87%) Multicast
7 2 (0.87%) PuTTY
8 1 (0.43%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (26.41%) Relational Database
2 56 (24.24%) SQL Server
3 55 (23.81%) MySQL
4 37 (16.02%) MongoDB
5 34 (14.72%) NoSQL
6 29 (12.55%) Redis
7 22 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (8.66%) RDBMS
9 15 (6.49%) DynamoDB
10 8 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (3.03%) Power BI
12 6 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.60%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.73%) DB2
13 4 (1.73%) Oracle Database 10g
13 4 (1.73%) Oracle Database 11g
13 4 (1.73%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 60 (25.97%) Jenkins
2 59 (25.54%) Git
3 32 (13.85%) JUnit
4 21 (9.09%) JMeter
5 20 (8.66%) Mockito
6 14 (6.06%) Cucumber
6 14 (6.06%) JIRA
7 10 (4.33%) GitLab
8 8 (3.46%) Selenium
9 5 (2.16%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.16%) Vagrant
10 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.30%) Gradle
10 3 (1.30%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.87%) Appium
11 2 (0.87%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.87%) Maven
11 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.43%) jMock
12 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 68 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.42%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.93%) Finance
4 13 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.19%) Marketing
6 9 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.90%) Retail
7 7 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.30%) Advertising
9 3 (1.30%) Law
9 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.87%) Banking
10 2 (0.87%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.87%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.43%) Electronics
11 1 (0.43%) Front Office
11 1 (0.43%) Games
11 1 (0.43%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (43.72%) Developer
2 54 (23.38%) Senior
3 40 (17.32%) Java Developer
4 39 (16.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 37 (16.02%) Software Engineer
6 28 (12.12%) Software Developer
7 27 (11.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 27 (11.69%) Lead
8 16 (6.93%) Lead Developer
9 15 (6.49%) Lead Software Developer
9 15 (6.49%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 15 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.19%) DBA
12 11 (4.76%) Junior
12 11 (4.76%) Python Developer
13 10 (4.33%) Java Engineer
13 10 (4.33%) Linux Engineer
13 10 (4.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.90%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.97%) Spring
2 56 (24.24%) Spring Boot
3 50 (21.65%) React
4 44 (19.05%) RESTful
5 39 (16.88%) REST
6 36 (15.58%) Django
7 34 (14.72%) HTML
8 31 (13.42%) Node.js
9 29 (12.55%) .NET
10 27 (11.69%) Web Services
11 25 (10.82%) Kafka
12 22 (9.52%) Apache Camel
12 22 (9.52%) Hibernate
13 20 (8.66%) jQuery
13 20 (8.66%) XML
14 19 (8.23%) JSON
14 19 (8.23%) WireMock
15 18 (7.79%) ActiveMQ
16 17 (7.36%) Flask
17 16 (6.93%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.02%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (12.99%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.33%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.33%) Replication
5 9 (3.90%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.46%) Marketing Technology
6 8 (3.46%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.16%) Clustering
9 4 (1.73%) IoT
10 3 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.87%) Derivative
11 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.43%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.08%) Linux
2 24 (10.39%) Windows
3 21 (9.09%) Unix
4 8 (3.46%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.03%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.03%) VMS
6 6 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (2.16%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (2.16%) Debian
8 3 (1.30%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.43%) Fedora
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (50.22%) CI/CD
2 87 (37.66%) Microservices
3 84 (36.36%) DevOps
4 83 (35.93%) Agile
5 79 (34.20%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (26.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 57 (24.68%) Software Engineering
8 52 (22.51%) TDD
9 45 (19.48%) Mentoring
10 40 (17.32%) Containerisation
11 36 (15.58%) Clean Code
12 35 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (15.15%) Workflow
13 34 (14.72%) BDD
14 29 (12.55%) Migration
15 27 (11.69%) AI
16 25 (10.82%) SDLC
17 24 (10.39%) Observability
17 24 (10.39%) Test Automation
18 23 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 97 (41.99%) Python
2 83 (35.93%) Java
3 71 (30.74%) SQL
4 57 (24.68%) JavaScript
5 27 (11.69%) C#
5 27 (11.69%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.79%) Shell Script
7 12 (5.19%) Go
7 12 (5.19%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.33%) Bash
9 9 (3.90%) PHP
10 7 (3.03%) Delphi
10 7 (3.03%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.60%) Korn
12 5 (2.16%) Groovy
13 4 (1.73%) C
14 3 (1.30%) R
15 2 (0.87%) PROC SQL
15 2 (0.87%) VB
15 2 (0.87%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 52 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.26%) Degree
4 15 (6.49%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.46%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.30%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.63%) QA
2 5 (2.16%) GDPR
2 5 (2.16%) SLA
3 4 (1.73%) NIST
4 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) GRC
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 113 (48.92%) Docker
2 6 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (2.16%) DFS Replication
3 5 (2.16%) Dovecot
3 5 (2.16%) Postfix
3 5 (2.16%) Squid
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.87%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 77 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 44 (19.05%) Terraform
3 23 (9.96%) Kibana
4 13 (5.63%) Ansible
5 12 (5.19%) Grafana
6 10 (4.33%) AWS Copilot
7 7 (3.03%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.16%) Nessus
8 5 (2.16%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.87%) logstash
10 2 (0.87%) Nagios
10 2 (0.87%) Oozie
11 1 (0.43%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.43%) Puppet
11 1 (0.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 29 (12.55%) Oracle
2 25 (10.82%) Splunk
3 18 (7.79%) Dynatrace
3 18 (7.79%) Google
4 16 (6.93%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.46%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.03%) Informatica
7 6 (2.60%) Dell
7 6 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.16%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.73%) Pega
9 4 (1.73%) RedGate
9 4 (1.73%) SAP
9 4 (1.73%) Talend
9 4 (1.73%) WSO2
10 2 (0.87%) Databricks
10 2 (0.87%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.87%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.87%) VMware
11 1 (0.43%) OpenAI