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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 158 196
Rank change year-on-year -124 +38 +55
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 277 736 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.54% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.18% 12.00% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 191 280 426
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,625 £46,250 £50,171
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £74,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%

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 3,860 6,133 6,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.86% 12.86% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,569 3,140 5,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -2.83%

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 8 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 8 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 -43 86 £67,500 +0.52% 158
South East -96 71 £67,500 +12.50% 640
Midlands +38 41 £55,200 -15.08% 43
North West -59 39 £70,000 +12.00% 115
South West -30 36 £54,000 -16.92% 39
West Midlands +34 32 £72,500 +11.54% 22
Yorkshire +9 31 £70,000 -1.75% 32
Scotland -17 23 £73,801 +34.18% 36
North East +23 16 £52,500 -24.25% 12
East of England -37 16 £33,000 -42.61% 33
East Midlands +4 9 £50,000 -9.09% 20
Wales -6 6 £69,401 +6.77% 9
Northern Ireland -5 3 £73,801 +13.54% 22
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 21 (7.58%) Confluence
2 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.89%) nginx
4 6 (2.17%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.81%) JBoss
6 4 (1.44%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.44%) IIS
6 4 (1.44%) Red Hat Fuse
7 3 (1.08%) SAS
7 3 (1.08%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.72%) CMS
8 2 (0.72%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.36%) Appian
9 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 208 (75.09%) AWS
2 110 (39.71%) Azure
3 59 (21.30%) Amazon ECS
4 54 (19.49%) Serverless
5 50 (18.05%) GCP
6 44 (15.88%) GitHub
7 38 (13.72%) Amazon EC2
8 36 (13.00%) Amazon S3
9 34 (12.27%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (10.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (7.94%) SaaS
12 20 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (6.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (6.50%) AWS KMS
14 18 (6.50%) Route 53
15 17 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (5.78%) Amazon ECR
16 16 (5.78%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (5.78%) dbt
16 16 (5.78%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.50%) Firewall
2 16 (5.78%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.61%) HTTP
4 9 (3.25%) DNS
4 9 (3.25%) iSCSI
4 9 (3.25%) Remote Desktop
4 9 (3.25%) SAN
5 8 (2.89%) FTP
5 8 (2.89%) IMAP
5 8 (2.89%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (2.89%) SMTP
5 8 (2.89%) SSH
6 3 (1.08%) Asterisk PBX
6 3 (1.08%) DMARC
6 3 (1.08%) Multicast
6 3 (1.08%) PuTTY
6 3 (1.08%) SSL
6 3 (1.08%) VPN
6 3 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.72%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (25.99%) Relational Database
2 70 (25.27%) MySQL
3 58 (20.94%) SQL Server
4 56 (20.22%) MongoDB
5 44 (15.88%) NoSQL
6 36 (13.00%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (10.11%) Redis
8 26 (9.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 25 (9.03%) RDBMS
10 22 (7.94%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (7.22%) DynamoDB
12 12 (4.33%) Power BI
13 10 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (2.53%) Big Data
15 6 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (1.81%) DB2
16 5 (1.81%) Oracle Database
17 4 (1.44%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 78 (28.16%) Jenkins
2 64 (23.10%) Git
3 45 (16.25%) JUnit
4 30 (10.83%) JIRA
4 30 (10.83%) Mockito
5 22 (7.94%) JMeter
6 19 (6.86%) Cucumber
7 17 (6.14%) Selenium
8 16 (5.78%) GitLab
9 12 (4.33%) Maven
10 10 (3.61%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (3.61%) DbUnit
10 10 (3.61%) jMock
10 10 (3.61%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.89%) Bitbucket
11 8 (2.89%) Vagrant
12 4 (1.44%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.08%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.72%) Katalon Studio
14 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.13%) Public Sector
3 39 (14.08%) Finance
4 18 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (5.78%) Marketing
7 15 (5.42%) Law
7 15 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.69%) Banking
8 13 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.61%) Retail
10 8 (2.89%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.89%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.81%) Advertising
12 4 (1.44%) Front Office
12 4 (1.44%) Private Banking
13 3 (1.08%) Czech Language
13 3 (1.08%) Electronics
13 3 (1.08%) Games
13 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (42.24%) Developer
2 60 (21.66%) Senior
3 56 (20.22%) Java Developer
4 47 (16.97%) Software Engineer
5 40 (14.44%) Full-Stack Developer
6 38 (13.72%) Lead
7 32 (11.55%) Software Developer
8 28 (10.11%) Lead Developer
9 26 (9.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 23 (8.30%) Java Engineer
11 20 (7.22%) Lead Software Developer
12 16 (5.78%) Linux Engineer
12 16 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.42%) Java Software Engineer
13 15 (5.42%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 14 (5.05%) DBA
14 14 (5.05%) Python Engineer
14 14 (5.05%) Senior Developer
15 13 (4.69%) Administrator
15 13 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (31.41%) Spring
2 83 (29.96%) Spring Boot
3 56 (20.22%) RESTful
4 47 (16.97%) REST
5 45 (16.25%) React
6 40 (14.44%) Web Services
7 39 (14.08%) Kafka
8 38 (13.72%) HTML
9 35 (12.64%) Node.js
10 34 (12.27%) Django
10 34 (12.27%) Hibernate
11 30 (10.83%) ActiveMQ
12 28 (10.11%) AngularJS
13 27 (9.75%) Apache Camel
14 24 (8.66%) .NET
14 24 (8.66%) XML
15 22 (7.94%) JSON
16 21 (7.58%) jQuery
17 20 (7.22%) WireMock
18 19 (6.86%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.80%) Cloud Native
2 40 (14.44%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.42%) Replication
4 13 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.25%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.89%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (2.53%) Clustering
8 7 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.17%) Wiki
10 5 (1.81%) Derivative
10 5 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.44%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.44%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 70 (25.27%) Linux
2 32 (11.55%) Windows
3 24 (8.66%) Unix
4 11 (3.97%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.61%) VMS
6 9 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (2.89%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (2.17%) Debian
8 6 (2.17%) Windows Server
9 3 (1.08%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.36%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (43.68%) CI/CD
2 110 (39.71%) Agile
3 102 (36.82%) Microservices
4 94 (33.94%) DevOps
5 86 (31.05%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (25.63%) Software Engineering
7 66 (23.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 66 (23.83%) TDD
8 52 (18.77%) Containerisation
9 49 (17.69%) BDD
10 46 (16.61%) Mentoring
11 43 (15.52%) Clean Code
12 39 (14.08%) AI
13 34 (12.27%) Scrum
13 34 (12.27%) Workflow
14 33 (11.91%) SDLC
15 32 (11.55%) Test Automation
16 30 (10.83%) Computer Science
17 29 (10.47%) Kanban
17 29 (10.47%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 117 (42.24%) Python
2 116 (41.88%) Java
3 96 (34.66%) SQL
4 72 (25.99%) JavaScript
5 29 (10.47%) TypeScript
6 24 (8.66%) C#
7 19 (6.86%) Shell Script
8 18 (6.50%) PowerShell
9 15 (5.42%) Bash
10 10 (3.61%) T-SQL
11 9 (3.25%) Korn
11 9 (3.25%) PHP
12 8 (2.89%) Groovy
13 6 (2.17%) Delphi
13 6 (2.17%) Go
14 5 (1.81%) R
15 3 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (1.08%) PROC SQL
15 3 (1.08%) VBA
16 2 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 72 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 52 (18.77%) SC Cleared
3 34 (12.27%) Degree
4 19 (6.86%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.33%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.17%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.81%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.50%) QA
2 9 (3.25%) GDPR
2 9 (3.25%) SLA
3 5 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.81%) NIST
4 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 142 (51.26%) Docker
2 12 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.61%) Postfix
4 9 (3.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (2.89%) DFS Replication
5 8 (2.89%) Dovecot
5 8 (2.89%) Squid
6 3 (1.08%) Apache Flume
6 3 (1.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 93 (33.57%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.33%) Terraform
3 25 (9.03%) Kibana
4 18 (6.50%) Grafana
5 14 (5.05%) Ansible
6 11 (3.97%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.61%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (2.89%) Nessus
8 8 (2.89%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.08%) logstash
9 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.08%) Oozie
9 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.36%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 45 (16.25%) Oracle
2 30 (10.83%) Splunk
3 29 (10.47%) Microsoft
4 19 (6.86%) Dynatrace
4 19 (6.86%) Google
5 12 (4.33%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (3.97%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.97%) Informatica
7 10 (3.61%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.61%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.25%) Databricks
8 9 (3.25%) Dell
9 8 (2.89%) SAP
9 8 (2.89%) Talend
10 7 (2.53%) RedGate
11 4 (1.44%) Pega
11 4 (1.44%) WSO2
12 3 (1.08%) MicroStrategy
13 2 (0.72%) HubSpot
13 2 (0.72%) VMware