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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 163 198
Rank change year-on-year -113 +35 +49
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 277 734 525
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.75% 1.53% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.18% 11.87% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 191 279 423
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £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 £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 6,184 6,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.49% 12.92% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 3,153 5,013
10th Percentile £30,000 £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% -
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% -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 15 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 15 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 -16 88 £67,500 -2.61% 95
South East -110 68 £65,000 +8.33% 84
Midlands +27 41 £55,200 -15.08% 36
North West -26 41 £70,000 +12.00% 72
South West -26 37 £54,000 -16.92% 27
Yorkshire +12 31 £70,000 -3.45% 17
West Midlands +30 30 £70,000 +7.69% 21
Scotland -14 22 £73,801 +30.62% 19
North East +17 16 £52,500 -24.25% 6
East of England -36 16 £37,750 -34.35% 19
East Midlands +9 11 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Wales -10 6 £69,401 +6.77% 4
Northern Ireland -2 3 £73,801 +13.54% 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 19 (6.86%) Confluence
2 8 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.89%) nginx
3 6 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.17%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.81%) JBoss
5 4 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.44%) Red Hat Fuse
6 3 (1.08%) IIS
6 3 (1.08%) SAS
7 2 (0.72%) CMS
7 2 (0.72%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.36%) Appian
8 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 207 (74.73%) AWS
2 110 (39.71%) Azure
3 59 (21.30%) Amazon ECS
4 54 (19.49%) Serverless
5 51 (18.41%) GCP
6 45 (16.25%) GitHub
7 34 (12.27%) Amazon EC2
7 34 (12.27%) Amazon EKS
8 32 (11.55%) Amazon S3
9 27 (9.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (7.94%) SaaS
11 20 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (5.78%) Amazon ECR
14 16 (5.78%) dbt
14 16 (5.78%) Pulumi
15 15 (5.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 14 (5.05%) AWS KMS
16 14 (5.05%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.14%) Firewall
2 16 (5.78%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.61%) HTTP
4 9 (3.25%) DNS
5 8 (2.89%) FTP
5 8 (2.89%) IMAP
5 8 (2.89%) iSCSI
5 8 (2.89%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (2.89%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (2.89%) SAN
5 8 (2.89%) SMTP
5 8 (2.89%) SSH
6 3 (1.08%) Asterisk PBX
6 3 (1.08%) Multicast
6 3 (1.08%) PuTTY
6 3 (1.08%) VPN
6 3 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.72%) AMQP
7 2 (0.72%) Internet
7 2 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (26.35%) Relational Database
2 70 (25.27%) MySQL
3 60 (21.66%) SQL Server
4 55 (19.86%) MongoDB
5 45 (16.25%) NoSQL
6 32 (11.55%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (10.47%) Redis
8 25 (9.03%) RDBMS
9 22 (7.94%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (7.58%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (6.14%) DynamoDB
12 11 (3.97%) 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%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (1.81%) DB2
16 5 (1.81%) Metadata
16 5 (1.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 73 (26.35%) Jenkins
2 61 (22.02%) Git
3 40 (14.44%) JUnit
4 28 (10.11%) JIRA
5 26 (9.39%) Mockito
6 22 (7.94%) JMeter
7 19 (6.86%) Cucumber
8 17 (6.14%) Selenium
9 16 (5.78%) GitLab
10 8 (2.89%) Bitbucket
10 8 (2.89%) Vagrant
11 7 (2.53%) Maven
12 6 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.17%) DbUnit
12 6 (2.17%) jMock
12 6 (2.17%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.44%) Cypress.io
14 3 (1.08%) REST Assured
15 2 (0.72%) Katalon Studio
15 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (29.96%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.69%) Public Sector
3 39 (14.08%) Finance
4 17 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.78%) Marketing
6 15 (5.42%) Law
7 13 (4.69%) Banking
7 13 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.33%) 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%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.08%) Electronics
13 3 (1.08%) Games
13 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (41.88%) Developer
2 58 (20.94%) Senior
3 51 (18.41%) Java Developer
4 48 (17.33%) Software Engineer
5 42 (15.16%) Full-Stack Developer
6 40 (14.44%) Lead
7 32 (11.55%) Software Developer
8 26 (9.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 26 (9.39%) Lead Developer
9 23 (8.30%) Java Engineer
10 20 (7.22%) Lead Software Developer
11 16 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (5.42%) Java Software Engineer
12 15 (5.42%) Linux Engineer
12 15 (5.42%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 14 (5.05%) DBA
13 14 (5.05%) Python Engineer
13 14 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (4.33%) Administrator
14 12 (4.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (29.60%) Spring
2 78 (28.16%) Spring Boot
3 54 (19.49%) RESTful
4 48 (17.33%) React
5 43 (15.52%) REST
6 38 (13.72%) HTML
6 38 (13.72%) Kafka
7 35 (12.64%) Django
7 35 (12.64%) Web Services
8 34 (12.27%) Node.js
9 29 (10.47%) Hibernate
10 27 (9.75%) Apache Camel
11 26 (9.39%) .NET
12 25 (9.03%) ActiveMQ
13 24 (8.66%) AngularJS
14 23 (8.30%) XML
15 21 (7.58%) jQuery
15 21 (7.58%) JSON
16 20 (7.22%) WireMock
17 19 (6.86%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.80%) Cloud Native
2 40 (14.44%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (5.05%) Replication
4 10 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.25%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.25%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.89%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (2.53%) Clustering
8 6 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.17%) Wiki
9 5 (1.81%) Derivative
9 5 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.44%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.44%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.44%) IoT
11 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 64 (23.10%) Linux
2 30 (10.83%) Windows
3 23 (8.30%) Unix
4 11 (3.97%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.61%) VMS
6 9 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (2.89%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (2.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.17%) Debian
8 6 (2.17%) Windows Server
9 3 (1.08%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.36%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (44.77%) CI/CD
2 105 (37.91%) Agile
3 98 (35.38%) Microservices
4 94 (33.94%) DevOps
5 88 (31.77%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (25.63%) Software Engineering
7 68 (24.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 64 (23.10%) TDD
9 50 (18.05%) Mentoring
10 48 (17.33%) Containerisation
11 45 (16.25%) BDD
12 43 (15.52%) Clean Code
13 38 (13.72%) AI
14 35 (12.64%) Workflow
15 33 (11.91%) SDLC
16 30 (10.83%) Computer Science
16 30 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (10.83%) Migration
16 30 (10.83%) Test Automation
17 28 (10.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 115 (41.52%) Python
2 111 (40.07%) Java
3 94 (33.94%) SQL
4 71 (25.63%) JavaScript
5 32 (11.55%) TypeScript
6 25 (9.03%) C#
7 19 (6.86%) Shell Script
8 17 (6.14%) PowerShell
9 14 (5.05%) Bash
10 10 (3.61%) PHP
10 10 (3.61%) T-SQL
11 9 (3.25%) Go
12 8 (2.89%) Groovy
12 8 (2.89%) Korn
13 6 (2.17%) Delphi
14 4 (1.44%) R
15 3 (1.08%) C
15 3 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (1.08%) PROC SQL
16 2 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 69 (24.91%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.91%) Degree
4 20 (7.22%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.33%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (2.17%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.81%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.78%) QA
2 9 (3.25%) GDPR
2 9 (3.25%) SLA
3 5 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.81%) NIST
4 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 136 (49.10%) Docker
2 10 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.25%) Postfix
4 8 (2.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (2.89%) DFS Replication
4 8 (2.89%) Dovecot
4 8 (2.89%) Squid
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Flume
5 3 (1.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 95 (34.30%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.33%) Terraform
3 25 (9.03%) Kibana
4 17 (6.14%) Grafana
5 14 (5.05%) Ansible
6 10 (3.61%) AWS Copilot
6 10 (3.61%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.89%) Nessus
7 8 (2.89%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.08%) logstash
8 3 (1.08%) Oozie
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.36%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 44 (15.88%) Oracle
2 29 (10.47%) Splunk
3 26 (9.39%) Microsoft
4 20 (7.22%) Google
5 19 (6.86%) Dynatrace
6 11 (3.97%) Informatica
7 10 (3.61%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.25%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (3.25%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.89%) Dell
9 8 (2.89%) SAP
9 8 (2.89%) Talend
10 7 (2.53%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.53%) Databricks
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