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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 165 195
Rank change year-on-year -123 +30 +18
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 239 700 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 1.59% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.34% 11.11% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 168 275 393
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,438 £52,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £86,500 £87,150
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -10.34%

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 3,772 6,300 6,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.94% 14.32% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,480 3,315 4,785
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,594 £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 £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 3 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 3 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 -18 78 £70,000 +7.69% 66
South East -94 64 £65,000 -5.45% 115
Midlands +29 37 £55,200 -15.08% 17
Yorkshire +10 37 £70,000 -1.75% 15
North West -21 29 £70,000 +16.67% 47
South West -40 29 £50,000 -23.08% 25
West Midlands +30 25 £67,500 +3.85% 10
Scotland -13 15 £73,801 +22.49% 12
North East +18 12 £52,500 -24.25% 4
East Midlands +6 12 £55,000 - 7
East of England -27 12 £42,500 -26.09% 14
Wales -15 6 £69,401 +6.77% 2
Northern Ireland -7 3 £73,801 +13.54% 1
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 (3.35%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.51%) Confluence
4 5 (2.09%) nginx
5 4 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.26%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.84%) CMS
7 2 (0.84%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.84%) JBoss
7 2 (0.84%) SAS
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.42%) Appian
8 1 (0.42%) Camunda
8 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.42%) WildFly
8 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 179 (74.90%) AWS
2 100 (41.84%) Azure
3 55 (23.01%) Amazon ECS
4 52 (21.76%) Serverless
5 49 (20.50%) GCP
6 36 (15.06%) GitHub
7 33 (13.81%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (11.30%) Amazon S3
9 25 (10.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (10.04%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (9.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (9.21%) SaaS
12 17 (7.11%) dbt
13 16 (6.69%) Amazon ECR
13 16 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (6.69%) Pulumi
14 15 (6.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 12 (5.02%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (5.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.69%) TCP/IP
2 13 (5.44%) Firewall
3 7 (2.93%) HTTP
3 7 (2.93%) iSCSI
3 7 (2.93%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (2.93%) SAN
4 6 (2.51%) DNS
5 5 (2.09%) FTP
5 5 (2.09%) IMAP
5 5 (2.09%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (2.09%) SMTP
5 5 (2.09%) SSH
6 3 (1.26%) VPN
6 3 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.84%) AMQP
7 2 (0.84%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.84%) Multicast
7 2 (0.84%) PuTTY
8 1 (0.42%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (26.78%) Relational Database
2 56 (23.43%) MySQL
3 55 (23.01%) SQL Server
4 39 (16.32%) MongoDB
5 34 (14.23%) NoSQL
6 28 (11.72%) Redis
7 23 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (9.21%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (8.37%) RDBMS
10 15 (6.28%) DynamoDB
11 9 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (3.35%) Power BI
12 8 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.09%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (1.67%) Big Data
15 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database 10g
15 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database 12c
15 4 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (25.94%) Jenkins
2 59 (24.69%) Git
3 34 (14.23%) JUnit
4 21 (8.79%) JMeter
4 21 (8.79%) Mockito
5 15 (6.28%) JIRA
6 14 (5.86%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.18%) GitLab
8 9 (3.77%) Selenium
9 5 (2.09%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.09%) Vagrant
10 3 (1.26%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.26%) Gradle
10 3 (1.26%) Maven
10 3 (1.26%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.84%) Appium
11 2 (0.84%) jMock
11 2 (0.84%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.23%) Public Sector
3 20 (8.37%) Finance
4 13 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.44%) Marketing
5 10 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.77%) Retail
7 7 (2.93%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.51%) Law
9 5 (2.09%) Banking
10 3 (1.26%) Advertising
10 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.84%) Front Office
11 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.84%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.84%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 104 (43.51%) Developer
2 55 (23.01%) Senior
3 42 (17.57%) Java Developer
4 40 (16.74%) Full-Stack Developer
5 38 (15.90%) Software Engineer
6 31 (12.97%) Lead
7 30 (12.55%) Software Developer
8 27 (11.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 19 (7.95%) Lead Developer
10 17 (7.11%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (6.28%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 15 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (5.44%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.60%) DBA
13 11 (4.60%) Java Engineer
13 11 (4.60%) Junior
13 11 (4.60%) Linux Engineer
13 11 (4.60%) Python Developer
14 10 (4.18%) Lead Software Engineer
14 10 (4.18%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (26.36%) Spring
2 59 (24.69%) Spring Boot
3 50 (20.92%) React
4 47 (19.67%) RESTful
5 40 (16.74%) REST
6 36 (15.06%) Django
7 35 (14.64%) HTML
8 32 (13.39%) Node.js
9 28 (11.72%) Web Services
10 27 (11.30%) .NET
11 26 (10.88%) Kafka
12 23 (9.62%) Apache Camel
12 23 (9.62%) Hibernate
13 20 (8.37%) jQuery
13 20 (8.37%) XML
14 19 (7.95%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (7.95%) JSON
14 19 (7.95%) WireMock
15 17 (7.11%) CSS
15 17 (7.11%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.48%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (13.81%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.86%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.18%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.18%) Replication
5 9 (3.77%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.35%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (2.51%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.09%) Clustering
9 4 (1.67%) IoT
10 3 (1.26%) Derivative
10 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.26%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.84%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (21.76%) Linux
2 24 (10.04%) Windows
3 21 (8.79%) Unix
4 8 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.93%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.93%) VMS
5 7 (2.93%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.09%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (2.09%) Debian
7 3 (1.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.42%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (47.70%) CI/CD
2 89 (37.24%) Microservices
3 85 (35.56%) Agile
3 85 (35.56%) DevOps
4 82 (34.31%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (25.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 59 (24.69%) Software Engineering
7 53 (22.18%) TDD
8 45 (18.83%) Mentoring
9 41 (17.15%) Containerisation
10 37 (15.48%) Clean Code
11 36 (15.06%) BDD
12 35 (14.64%) Workflow
13 34 (14.23%) Infrastructure as Code
14 30 (12.55%) Migration
15 29 (12.13%) AI
16 26 (10.88%) SDLC
16 26 (10.88%) Test Automation
17 24 (10.04%) Observability
18 22 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 101 (42.26%) Python
2 87 (36.40%) Java
3 75 (31.38%) SQL
4 59 (24.69%) JavaScript
5 27 (11.30%) TypeScript
6 26 (10.88%) C#
7 18 (7.53%) Shell Script
8 12 (5.02%) Go
8 12 (5.02%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.60%) Bash
10 9 (3.77%) PHP
11 7 (2.93%) Delphi
11 7 (2.93%) Korn
11 7 (2.93%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.09%) Groovy
13 4 (1.67%) C
13 4 (1.67%) R
14 2 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.84%) PROC SQL
14 2 (0.84%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (23.01%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.72%) Degree
4 15 (6.28%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.93%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.26%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.28%) QA
2 7 (2.93%) GDPR
3 6 (2.51%) SLA
4 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.42%) GRC
5 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 117 (48.95%) Docker
2 7 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (2.09%) DFS Replication
3 5 (2.09%) Dovecot
3 5 (2.09%) Postfix
3 5 (2.09%) Squid
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 81 (33.89%) Kubernetes
2 44 (18.41%) Terraform
3 23 (9.62%) Kibana
4 13 (5.44%) Ansible
5 12 (5.02%) Grafana
6 10 (4.18%) AWS Copilot
7 7 (2.93%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.09%) Nessus
8 5 (2.09%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.84%) logstash
9 2 (0.84%) Nagios
9 2 (0.84%) Oozie
9 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.42%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (12.97%) Oracle
2 26 (10.88%) Splunk
3 19 (7.95%) Google
3 19 (7.95%) Microsoft
4 18 (7.53%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.77%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.35%) Informatica
7 7 (2.93%) Dell
7 7 (2.93%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.09%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (2.09%) SAP
8 5 (2.09%) Talend
9 4 (1.67%) Pega
9 4 (1.67%) RedGate
9 4 (1.67%) WSO2
10 3 (1.26%) Databricks
11 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.84%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.84%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.84%) VMware