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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 164 194
Rank change year-on-year -116 +30 +52
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 259 725 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 1.54% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.65% 11.21% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 184 285 398
10th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £50,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,750
UK median annual salary £74,401 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.29% +7.69% -7.14%

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 3,895 6,467 6,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.47% 13.75% 20.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,608 3,378 4,846
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
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% -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 26 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 26 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 -7 80 £67,500 +3.85% 45
South East -98 66 £65,000 +4.00% 108
Midlands +21 39 £55,000 -15.38% 22
South West -29 36 £54,000 -16.92% 20
North West -20 34 £70,000 +16.67% 32
Yorkshire +16 33 £68,750 -3.51% 10
West Midlands +42 26 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Scotland -14 20 £73,801 +27.24% 19
North East +23 13 £52,500 -24.25% 3
East Midlands +14 13 £50,000 -9.09% 7
East of England -39 13 £42,500 -26.09% 13
Wales -12 6 £69,401 +6.77% 5
Northern Ireland -1 3 £73,801 +13.54% 3
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 (3.47%) Confluence
2 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.32%) nginx
3 6 (2.32%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.16%) JBoss
6 2 (0.77%) CMS
6 2 (0.77%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.77%) SAS
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.39%) Appian
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 193 (74.52%) AWS
2 107 (41.31%) Azure
3 55 (21.24%) Amazon ECS
4 53 (20.46%) Serverless
5 51 (19.69%) GCP
6 36 (13.90%) GitHub
7 30 (11.58%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (11.20%) Amazon S3
9 28 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (8.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (8.88%) SaaS
11 22 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (6.56%) dbt
14 16 (6.18%) Amazon ECR
14 16 (6.18%) Pulumi
15 15 (5.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 14 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
17 11 (4.25%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (4.25%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.18%) TCP/IP
2 15 (5.79%) Firewall
3 8 (3.09%) HTTP
3 8 (3.09%) iSCSI
3 8 (3.09%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (3.09%) SAN
4 7 (2.70%) DNS
5 6 (2.32%) FTP
5 6 (2.32%) IMAP
5 6 (2.32%) OpenLDAP
5 6 (2.32%) SMTP
5 6 (2.32%) SSH
6 3 (1.16%) VPN
6 3 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.77%) AMQP
7 2 (0.77%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.77%) Multicast
7 2 (0.77%) PuTTY
8 1 (0.39%) Internet
8 1 (0.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (26.25%) Relational Database
2 66 (25.48%) MySQL
3 60 (23.17%) SQL Server
4 46 (17.76%) MongoDB
5 39 (15.06%) NoSQL
6 28 (10.81%) Redis
7 27 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (8.49%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (8.49%) RDBMS
9 15 (5.79%) DynamoDB
10 14 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (4.25%) Power BI
12 9 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (2.32%) DB2
14 5 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.93%) Big Data
14 5 (1.93%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.54%) Metadata
15 4 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 64 (24.71%) Jenkins
2 59 (22.78%) Git
3 34 (13.13%) JUnit
4 22 (8.49%) Mockito
5 21 (8.11%) JMeter
6 18 (6.95%) JIRA
7 13 (5.02%) Cucumber
8 10 (3.86%) GitLab
8 10 (3.86%) Selenium
9 6 (2.32%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.32%) Vagrant
10 4 (1.54%) Maven
11 3 (1.16%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.16%) DbUnit
11 3 (1.16%) jMock
11 3 (1.16%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.16%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.77%) Appium
12 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 76 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.44%) Public Sector
3 30 (11.58%) Finance
4 16 (6.18%) Marketing
5 12 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.86%) Law
7 10 (3.86%) Retail
8 9 (3.47%) Banking
9 8 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.70%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.54%) Advertising
12 3 (1.16%) Electronics
12 3 (1.16%) Front Office
12 3 (1.16%) Games
12 3 (1.16%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (44.40%) Developer
2 57 (22.01%) Senior
3 44 (16.99%) Java Developer
4 43 (16.60%) Full-Stack Developer
5 41 (15.83%) Software Engineer
6 36 (13.90%) Lead
7 32 (12.36%) Software Developer
8 25 (9.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 23 (8.88%) Lead Developer
10 19 (7.34%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (5.79%) Java Engineer
11 15 (5.79%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 14 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (5.02%) Linux Engineer
13 13 (5.02%) Python Engineer
14 12 (4.63%) DBA
15 11 (4.25%) Lead Software Engineer
15 11 (4.25%) Python Developer
15 11 (4.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (26.25%) Spring
2 64 (24.71%) Spring Boot
3 51 (19.69%) React
3 51 (19.69%) RESTful
4 38 (14.67%) REST
5 37 (14.29%) HTML
6 36 (13.90%) Node.js
7 35 (13.51%) Django
8 30 (11.58%) .NET
9 29 (11.20%) Web Services
10 27 (10.42%) Kafka
11 25 (9.65%) Hibernate
12 24 (9.27%) Apache Camel
13 21 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
14 20 (7.72%) AngularJS
14 20 (7.72%) jQuery
14 20 (7.72%) XML
15 19 (7.34%) CSS
15 19 (7.34%) JSON
15 19 (7.34%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.06%) Cloud Native
2 36 (13.90%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.63%) Replication
5 10 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.47%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.47%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.09%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (2.32%) Clustering
8 6 (2.32%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.54%) Derivative
9 4 (1.54%) IoT
10 3 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.16%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.77%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 56 (21.62%) Linux
2 27 (10.42%) Windows
3 21 (8.11%) Unix
4 9 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.09%) Ubuntu
5 8 (3.09%) VMS
5 8 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.70%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.32%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (1.93%) Debian
9 3 (1.16%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.39%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (44.79%) CI/CD
2 89 (34.36%) Agile
3 87 (33.59%) Microservices
4 86 (33.20%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (32.43%) DevOps
6 66 (25.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 62 (23.94%) Software Engineering
8 52 (20.08%) TDD
9 48 (18.53%) Mentoring
10 43 (16.60%) Clean Code
11 41 (15.83%) Containerisation
12 39 (15.06%) BDD
13 35 (13.51%) AI
14 34 (13.13%) Workflow
15 31 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (11.58%) Migration
17 28 (10.81%) SDLC
18 26 (10.04%) Computer Science
18 26 (10.04%) Test Automation
19 24 (9.27%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 108 (41.70%) Python
2 92 (35.52%) Java
3 82 (31.66%) SQL
4 68 (26.25%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.13%) TypeScript
6 28 (10.81%) C#
7 18 (6.95%) Shell Script
8 13 (5.02%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.63%) Bash
9 12 (4.63%) PHP
10 10 (3.86%) Go
11 8 (3.09%) Korn
11 8 (3.09%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.70%) Delphi
13 6 (2.32%) Groovy
14 4 (1.54%) R
15 3 (1.16%) C
15 3 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.77%) VB
16 2 (0.77%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.97%) Degree
4 16 (6.18%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.32%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.93%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.54%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.56%) QA
2 9 (3.47%) GDPR
3 7 (2.70%) SLA
4 5 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 122 (47.10%) Docker
2 8 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.09%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 6 (2.32%) DFS Replication
3 6 (2.32%) Dovecot
3 6 (2.32%) Postfix
3 6 (2.32%) Squid
4 2 (0.77%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.77%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 84 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 45 (17.37%) Terraform
3 23 (8.88%) Kibana
4 13 (5.02%) Grafana
5 12 (4.63%) Ansible
6 10 (3.86%) AWS Copilot
7 7 (2.70%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.32%) Nessus
8 6 (2.32%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.77%) logstash
9 2 (0.77%) Oozie
9 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.39%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (14.67%) Oracle
2 27 (10.42%) Splunk
3 23 (8.88%) Microsoft
4 20 (7.72%) Google
5 18 (6.95%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.47%) Informatica
6 9 (3.47%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.09%) Dell
7 8 (3.09%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.70%) SAP
9 6 (2.32%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (2.32%) Talend
10 5 (1.93%) Databricks
10 5 (1.93%) RedGate
11 4 (1.54%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.54%) Pega
11 4 (1.54%) WSO2
12 2 (0.77%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.77%) VMware