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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 154 206
Rank change year-on-year -137 +52 +28
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 270 786 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.57% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.80% 12.18% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 170 299 418
10th Percentile £31,125 - £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £74,688 £74,144 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,250 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £68,404 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.64% -2.28% -

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 3,969 6,454 6,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.54% 12.86% 20.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,448 3,291 5,260
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

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 October 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 October 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 -77 75 £67,500 +10.20% 45
South East -113 75 £66,250 +26.19% 79
North West -100 39 £70,000 +16.67% 25
Midlands -24 38 £71,250 +19.75% 23
South West -13 35 £54,000 -16.92% 31
West Midlands +30 31 £72,500 +11.54% 16
Yorkshire +5 25 £70,000 -1.75% 17
Scotland -10 25 £73,801 +34.18% 15
East of England -28 21 £30,500 -46.96% 11
North East +21 11 £51,875 -25.15% 3
East Midlands -41 7 £50,000 - 7
Northern Ireland +1 4 £55,000 -4.35% 6
Wales -1 3 £65,000 - 9
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 (7.78%) Confluence
2 11 (4.07%) Tomcat
3 10 (3.70%) IIS
3 10 (3.70%) nginx
4 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (2.22%) JBoss
5 6 (2.22%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.85%) Red Hat Fuse
7 4 (1.48%) Apache Spark
8 3 (1.11%) CMS
8 3 (1.11%) Headless CMS
8 3 (1.11%) SAS
9 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.37%) Appian
9 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 199 (73.70%) AWS
2 100 (37.04%) Azure
3 53 (19.63%) Serverless
4 49 (18.15%) Amazon ECS
5 45 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 42 (15.56%) Amazon S3
7 40 (14.81%) GCP
8 35 (12.96%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (11.11%) GitHub
10 26 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (9.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (7.04%) AWS KMS
12 19 (7.04%) Route 53
12 19 (7.04%) SaaS
13 17 (6.30%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (4.81%) Power Platform
15 13 (4.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.67%) Firewall
2 9 (3.33%) DMARC
2 9 (3.33%) DNS
2 9 (3.33%) HTTP
2 9 (3.33%) iSCSI
2 9 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
2 9 (3.33%) SAN
2 9 (3.33%) SSL
3 8 (2.96%) FTP
3 8 (2.96%) IMAP
3 8 (2.96%) OpenLDAP
3 8 (2.96%) SMTP
3 8 (2.96%) SSH
4 7 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.11%) Asterisk PBX
5 3 (1.11%) Multicast
5 3 (1.11%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.74%) AMQP
6 2 (0.74%) Internet
6 2 (0.74%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (26.30%) MySQL
2 65 (24.07%) Relational Database
3 59 (21.85%) MongoDB
4 53 (19.63%) SQL Server
5 42 (15.56%) NoSQL
6 35 (12.96%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
8 26 (9.63%) RDBMS
9 19 (7.04%) DynamoDB
10 15 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (5.19%) Redis
12 11 (4.07%) Power BI
13 8 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (2.59%) Big Data
15 6 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (1.85%) DB2
17 4 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
17 4 (1.48%) KDB
17 4 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 83 (30.74%) Jenkins
2 61 (22.59%) Git
3 46 (17.04%) JUnit
4 37 (13.70%) Mockito
5 26 (9.63%) JIRA
6 22 (8.15%) JMeter
7 19 (7.04%) Maven
8 15 (5.56%) GitLab
9 14 (5.19%) SonarQube
10 13 (4.81%) Cucumber
11 12 (4.44%) Selenium
12 11 (4.07%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (4.07%) DbUnit
12 11 (4.07%) jMock
13 8 (2.96%) Bitbucket
13 8 (2.96%) Vagrant
14 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.48%) Gradle
15 3 (1.11%) Postman
15 3 (1.11%) TestNG
General
1 78 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.59%) Public Sector
3 44 (16.30%) Finance
4 23 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (7.04%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (6.30%) Banking
9 16 (5.93%) Law
10 15 (5.56%) Marketing
11 13 (4.81%) Retail
12 10 (3.70%) Manufacturing
13 9 (3.33%) Czech Language
14 6 (2.22%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.85%) Advertising
15 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.48%) Front Office
16 4 (1.48%) Private Banking
17 3 (1.11%) Electronics
17 3 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (45.19%) Developer
2 62 (22.96%) Java Developer
3 45 (16.67%) Senior
4 42 (15.56%) Lead
5 39 (14.44%) Software Engineer
6 38 (14.07%) Full-Stack Developer
7 31 (11.48%) Lead Developer
8 28 (10.37%) Software Developer
9 25 (9.26%) Java Engineer
10 23 (8.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 20 (7.41%) Lead Software Developer
12 16 (5.93%) Linux Engineer
13 14 (5.19%) Administrator
13 14 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (5.19%) Lead Java Developer
13 14 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.81%) Python Developer
15 12 (4.44%) Data Engineer
15 12 (4.44%) Mid-Level Java Developer
15 12 (4.44%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (32.59%) Spring
2 83 (30.74%) Spring Boot
3 63 (23.33%) REST
4 56 (20.74%) RESTful
5 44 (16.30%) Web Services
6 43 (15.93%) Kafka
6 43 (15.93%) React
7 40 (14.81%) HTML
8 38 (14.07%) Hibernate
9 36 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
9 36 (13.33%) Node.js
10 33 (12.22%) AngularJS
11 29 (10.74%) Apache Camel
11 29 (10.74%) JSON
12 28 (10.37%) SOAP
12 28 (10.37%) XML
13 23 (8.52%) WireMock
14 22 (8.15%) jQuery
15 18 (6.67%) .NET
16 17 (6.30%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.07%) Cloud Native
2 37 (13.70%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.07%) Replication
4 11 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.33%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.96%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.96%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (2.59%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.22%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.22%) Wiki
10 5 (1.85%) Derivative
10 5 (1.85%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.48%) Clustering
11 4 (1.48%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.48%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 65 (24.07%) Linux
2 35 (12.96%) Windows
3 20 (7.41%) Unix
4 11 (4.07%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.96%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (2.96%) VMS
7 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.48%) Debian
9 1 (0.37%) Fedora
9 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (45.19%) Agile
2 106 (39.26%) CI/CD
3 105 (38.89%) Microservices
4 78 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
5 72 (26.67%) DevOps
6 63 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (22.59%) Software Engineering
7 61 (22.59%) TDD
8 51 (18.89%) BDD
9 48 (17.78%) Mentoring
10 46 (17.04%) Containerisation
10 46 (17.04%) Scrum
11 38 (14.07%) AI
12 37 (13.70%) Clean Code
13 34 (12.59%) Workflow
14 33 (12.22%) Kanban
15 31 (11.48%) Analytics
16 30 (11.11%) SDLC
17 28 (10.37%) ETL
17 28 (10.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 128 (47.41%) Java
2 105 (38.89%) SQL
3 98 (36.30%) Python
4 83 (30.74%) JavaScript
5 32 (11.85%) TypeScript
6 21 (7.78%) C#
6 21 (7.78%) PowerShell
7 20 (7.41%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.56%) Bash
9 10 (3.70%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.33%) Korn
10 9 (3.33%) VBA
11 8 (2.96%) Groovy
12 6 (2.22%) PHP
13 5 (1.85%) Go
13 5 (1.85%) R
14 4 (1.48%) Rust
15 3 (1.11%) C++
15 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.11%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.63%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.37%) Degree
4 16 (5.93%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.22%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.00%) QA
2 10 (3.70%) GDPR
2 10 (3.70%) SLA
3 9 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.22%) NIST
5 5 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 131 (48.52%) Docker
2 18 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.07%) Postfix
4 9 (3.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (2.96%) DFS Replication
5 8 (2.96%) Dovecot
5 8 (2.96%) Squid
6 3 (1.11%) Apache Flume
6 3 (1.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 90 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 39 (14.44%) Terraform
3 25 (9.26%) Kibana
4 20 (7.41%) Ansible
5 13 (4.81%) Grafana
5 13 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.07%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (2.96%) Nessus
8 8 (2.96%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.22%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (1.48%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.11%) logstash
11 3 (1.11%) Oozie
12 2 (0.74%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.74%) Packer
Vendors
1 47 (17.41%) Oracle
2 37 (13.70%) Microsoft
3 30 (11.11%) Splunk
4 20 (7.41%) Dynatrace
5 13 (4.81%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (4.44%) Atlassian
6 12 (4.44%) Red Hat
7 11 (4.07%) Google
8 10 (3.70%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.33%) Databricks
9 9 (3.33%) Dell
9 9 (3.33%) Informatica
10 8 (2.96%) SAP
11 6 (2.22%) Talend
11 6 (2.22%) WSO2
12 5 (1.85%) RedGate
13 4 (1.48%) Pega
14 3 (1.11%) Cisco
14 3 (1.11%) MicroStrategy
15 2 (0.74%) VMware