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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 157 188
Rank change year-on-year -144 +31 +30
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 226 671 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 1.69% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.87% 11.09% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 158 260 396
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £52,500 £51,109
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,467 £81,250 £75,313
90th Percentile £85,750 £90,000 £89,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +11.11% -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 3,847 6,050 6,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.30% 15.22% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,472 3,228 4,662
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,555 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -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 14 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 14 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 -7 80 £70,000 +1.00% 223
South East -103 58 £62,500 -19.35% 227
Yorkshire +16 42 £70,000 -3.45% 110
Midlands -1 32 £60,100 -7.54% 157
North West -17 29 £71,901 +17.39% 95
South West -46 29 £50,000 -23.08% 106
West Midlands +13 21 £67,500 +3.85% 83
East of England -45 12 £42,500 -26.09% 137
East Midlands -13 11 £55,200 -4.00% 67
North East +3 9 £53,850 -22.30% 19
Scotland -22 9 £73,801 +22.49% 51
Wales -21 6 £69,401 +6.77% 23
Northern Ireland -11 3 £73,801 +13.54% 17
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 11 (4.87%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.21%) Confluence
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.21%) nginx
3 2 (0.88%) CMS
3 2 (0.88%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) Camunda
4 1 (0.44%) JBoss
4 1 (0.44%) WildFly
4 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 169 (74.78%) AWS
2 97 (42.92%) Azure
3 54 (23.89%) Amazon ECS
4 53 (23.45%) Serverless
5 44 (19.47%) GCP
6 35 (15.49%) GitHub
7 33 (14.60%) Amazon EKS
8 30 (13.27%) Amazon S3
8 30 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (11.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (9.73%) SaaS
11 20 (8.85%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (7.52%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (7.52%) dbt
14 16 (7.08%) Amazon ECR
14 16 (7.08%) Pulumi
15 15 (6.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 14 (6.19%) AWS Step Functions
17 13 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.08%) TCP/IP
2 11 (4.87%) Firewall
3 7 (3.10%) HTTP
4 6 (2.65%) DNS
5 5 (2.21%) FTP
5 5 (2.21%) IMAP
5 5 (2.21%) iSCSI
5 5 (2.21%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (2.21%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (2.21%) SAN
5 5 (2.21%) SMTP
5 5 (2.21%) SSH
6 3 (1.33%) VPN
6 3 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.88%) AMQP
7 2 (0.88%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.88%) Multicast
8 1 (0.44%) Internet
8 1 (0.44%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (25.66%) Relational Database
2 55 (24.34%) SQL Server
3 53 (23.45%) MySQL
4 38 (16.81%) MongoDB
5 35 (15.49%) NoSQL
6 29 (12.83%) Redis
7 23 (10.18%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (9.73%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (7.52%) DynamoDB
9 17 (7.52%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (3.10%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.21%) Power BI
13 4 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.77%) Oracle Database 10g
13 4 (1.77%) Oracle Database 11g
13 4 (1.77%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 63 (27.88%) Git
2 58 (25.66%) Jenkins
3 29 (12.83%) JUnit
4 18 (7.96%) JMeter
5 17 (7.52%) Mockito
6 14 (6.19%) Cucumber
6 14 (6.19%) JIRA
7 11 (4.87%) GitLab
8 8 (3.54%) Selenium
9 6 (2.65%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.21%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.33%) Gradle
11 3 (1.33%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.88%) Appium
12 2 (0.88%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.88%) Maven
12 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.44%) jMock
13 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 71 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.95%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.75%) Finance
5 11 (4.87%) Marketing
6 9 (3.98%) Retail
7 8 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.21%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.33%) Advertising
10 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.88%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.44%) Electronics
12 1 (0.44%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (44.25%) Developer
2 52 (23.01%) Senior
3 38 (16.81%) Java Developer
4 36 (15.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (15.49%) Software Engineer
6 26 (11.50%) Software Developer
7 24 (10.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 24 (10.62%) Lead
8 14 (6.19%) Lead Developer
8 14 (6.19%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 14 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) DBA
9 13 (5.75%) Lead Software Developer
9 13 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.87%) .NET Developer
11 10 (4.42%) Junior
11 10 (4.42%) Python Developer
11 10 (4.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.98%) Administrator
12 9 (3.98%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (26.11%) Spring
2 55 (24.34%) Spring Boot
3 54 (23.89%) React
4 46 (20.35%) RESTful
5 37 (16.37%) REST
6 34 (15.04%) Django
7 32 (14.16%) .NET
7 32 (14.16%) Node.js
8 31 (13.72%) HTML
9 26 (11.50%) Web Services
10 24 (10.62%) Kafka
11 19 (8.41%) Apache Camel
11 19 (8.41%) Hibernate
12 18 (7.96%) .NET Core
12 18 (7.96%) XML
13 17 (7.52%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (7.52%) jQuery
13 17 (7.52%) JSON
14 16 (7.08%) CSS
14 16 (7.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.37%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (13.27%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.87%) Replication
5 10 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.98%) Mobile App
7 8 (3.54%) Marketing Technology
7 8 (3.54%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.65%) Clustering
8 6 (2.65%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.21%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.33%) IoT
10 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.33%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.44%) Cybercrime
12 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (23.01%) Linux
2 24 (10.62%) Windows
3 19 (8.41%) Unix
4 9 (3.98%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.10%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.10%) VMS
6 5 (2.21%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (2.21%) Debian
6 5 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.33%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.44%) Fedora
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (51.33%) CI/CD
2 89 (39.38%) Microservices
3 88 (38.94%) DevOps
4 82 (36.28%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (34.96%) Agile
6 59 (26.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 53 (23.45%) Software Engineering
8 51 (22.57%) TDD
9 44 (19.47%) Containerisation
10 40 (17.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 39 (17.26%) Mentoring
12 34 (15.04%) Clean Code
13 33 (14.60%) Workflow
14 32 (14.16%) BDD
15 29 (12.83%) Migration
16 24 (10.62%) Observability
16 24 (10.62%) Test Automation
17 23 (10.18%) AI
17 23 (10.18%) SDLC
17 23 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 92 (40.71%) Python
2 79 (34.96%) Java
3 71 (31.42%) SQL
4 55 (24.34%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.39%) TypeScript
6 27 (11.95%) C#
7 15 (6.64%) Shell Script
8 14 (6.19%) Go
9 12 (5.31%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.98%) PHP
11 7 (3.10%) Bash
11 7 (3.10%) Delphi
11 7 (3.10%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.21%) C
12 5 (2.21%) Groovy
12 5 (2.21%) Korn
13 2 (0.88%) C++
13 2 (0.88%) Ruby
13 2 (0.88%) VB
13 2 (0.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 49 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.06%) Degree
4 15 (6.64%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.42%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (2.21%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.42%) QA
2 5 (2.21%) SLA
3 3 (1.33%) GDPR
4 2 (0.88%) NIST
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 113 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 5 (2.21%) DFS Replication
2 5 (2.21%) Dovecot
2 5 (2.21%) Postfix
2 5 (2.21%) Squid
Systems Management
1 76 (33.63%) Kubernetes
2 46 (20.35%) Terraform
3 18 (7.96%) Kibana
4 16 (7.08%) Ansible
5 12 (5.31%) Grafana
6 10 (4.42%) AWS Copilot
7 7 (3.10%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.21%) Nessus
8 5 (2.21%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.33%) Nagios
9 3 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.88%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.88%) Rancher
11 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (12.39%) Oracle
2 21 (9.29%) Splunk
3 18 (7.96%) Google
4 15 (6.64%) Dynatrace
5 14 (6.19%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.10%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.21%) Dell
8 5 (2.21%) Informatica
8 5 (2.21%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.77%) Pega
9 4 (1.77%) RedGate
9 4 (1.77%) Talend
9 4 (1.77%) WSO2
10 2 (0.88%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.88%) SAP
10 2 (0.88%) VMware
11 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.44%) OpenText
11 1 (0.44%) SendGrid