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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 161 181
Rank change year-on-year -124 +20 +30
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 226 660 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.72% 1.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.84% 11.11% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 158 254 397
10th Percentile £33,175 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,188 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,750 £90,000 £89,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -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 3,870 5,943 6,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.30% 15.45% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,465 3,141 4,610
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -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 18 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 18 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 81 £70,000 +1.00% 168
South East -110 58 £62,500 -19.35% 155
Yorkshire +15 43 £70,000 -3.45% 74
Midlands -13 31 £60,100 -7.54% 135
North West -14 29 £73,801 +20.49% 82
South West -35 29 £50,000 -23.08% 89
West Midlands +19 21 £61,350 -5.62% 75
East of England -39 13 £42,500 -26.09% 111
East Midlands -23 10 £60,100 +0.17% 57
North East +4 9 £53,850 -22.30% 13
Scotland -30 9 £73,801 +27.24% 41
Wales -26 5 £73,801 +13.54% 18
Northern Ireland -9 3 £73,801 +13.54% 8
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 12 (5.31%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.77%) Confluence
3 4 (1.77%) nginx
4 2 (0.88%) CMS
4 2 (0.88%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Camunda
5 1 (0.44%) JBoss
5 1 (0.44%) WildFly
5 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 169 (74.78%) AWS
2 95 (42.04%) Azure
3 55 (24.34%) Serverless
4 53 (23.45%) Amazon ECS
5 43 (19.03%) GCP
6 37 (16.37%) GitHub
7 33 (14.60%) Amazon EKS
8 32 (14.16%) Amazon S3
8 32 (14.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (11.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (9.73%) SaaS
11 20 (8.85%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (7.96%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (7.52%) dbt
14 16 (7.08%) Amazon ECR
14 16 (7.08%) AWS Step Functions
14 16 (7.08%) Pulumi
15 15 (6.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 15 (6.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.08%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.42%) Firewall
3 6 (2.65%) HTTP
4 5 (2.21%) DNS
4 5 (2.21%) iSCSI
4 5 (2.21%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (2.21%) SAN
5 4 (1.77%) FTP
5 4 (1.77%) IMAP
5 4 (1.77%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (1.77%) SMTP
5 4 (1.77%) 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%) Internet
7 2 (0.88%) Multicast
8 1 (0.44%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (25.22%) Relational Database
2 56 (24.78%) SQL Server
3 53 (23.45%) MySQL
4 37 (16.37%) MongoDB
5 36 (15.93%) NoSQL
6 30 (13.27%) Redis
7 24 (10.62%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (9.29%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (7.96%) DynamoDB
10 16 (7.08%) RDBMS
11 8 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (3.10%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (2.21%) Power BI
15 4 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.77%) Oracle Database 10g
15 4 (1.77%) Oracle Database 11g
15 4 (1.77%) Oracle Database 12c
15 4 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 66 (29.20%) Git
2 57 (25.22%) Jenkins
3 28 (12.39%) JUnit
4 17 (7.52%) JMeter
5 16 (7.08%) Mockito
6 14 (6.19%) Cucumber
7 13 (5.75%) JIRA
8 11 (4.87%) GitLab
9 8 (3.54%) Selenium
10 6 (2.65%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.77%) Vagrant
12 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.33%) Gradle
12 3 (1.33%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.88%) Appium
13 2 (0.88%) Katalon Studio
13 2 (0.88%) Maven
13 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.44%) jMock
14 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 70 (30.97%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.06%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.75%) Finance
5 11 (4.87%) Marketing
6 9 (3.98%) Retail
7 8 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.21%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.33%) Advertising
10 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.88%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.44%) Electronics
12 1 (0.44%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (45.13%) Developer
2 52 (23.01%) Senior
3 39 (17.26%) Java Developer
4 36 (15.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (15.04%) Software Engineer
6 25 (11.06%) Software Developer
7 24 (10.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 22 (9.73%) Lead
9 14 (6.19%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 14 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (5.75%) .NET Developer
10 13 (5.75%) DBA
10 13 (5.75%) Lead Developer
11 12 (5.31%) Lead Software Developer
11 12 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.42%) Junior
12 10 (4.42%) Python Developer
12 10 (4.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.98%) Administrator
13 9 (3.98%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (26.55%) Spring
2 58 (25.66%) React
3 56 (24.78%) Spring Boot
4 48 (21.24%) RESTful
5 37 (16.37%) REST
6 33 (14.60%) .NET
6 33 (14.60%) Django
6 33 (14.60%) Node.js
7 30 (13.27%) HTML
8 26 (11.50%) Web Services
9 25 (11.06%) Kafka
10 20 (8.85%) .NET Core
11 19 (8.41%) Hibernate
12 18 (7.96%) Apache Camel
12 18 (7.96%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (7.52%) AngularJS
13 17 (7.52%) XML
14 16 (7.08%) CSS
14 16 (7.08%) jQuery
14 16 (7.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.37%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (13.72%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.42%) Replication
5 8 (3.54%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (3.54%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.65%) Clustering
6 6 (2.65%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (2.21%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.33%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) Cybercrime
10 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.12%) Linux
2 22 (9.73%) Windows
3 18 (7.96%) Unix
4 9 (3.98%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.65%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.65%) VMS
7 5 (2.21%) Debian
7 5 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.77%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (1.33%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.44%) Fedora
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (50.88%) CI/CD
2 90 (39.82%) Microservices
3 88 (38.94%) DevOps
4 83 (36.73%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (34.96%) Agile
6 60 (26.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 52 (23.01%) Software Engineering
8 51 (22.57%) TDD
9 46 (20.35%) Containerisation
10 42 (18.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (15.93%) Mentoring
12 33 (14.60%) Clean Code
13 32 (14.16%) Workflow
14 31 (13.72%) BDD
15 29 (12.83%) Migration
16 25 (11.06%) SDLC
17 24 (10.62%) AI
17 24 (10.62%) Test Automation
18 23 (10.18%) Observability
18 23 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 91 (40.27%) Python
2 80 (35.40%) Java
3 71 (31.42%) SQL
4 56 (24.78%) JavaScript
5 29 (12.83%) TypeScript
6 26 (11.50%) C#
7 15 (6.64%) Go
8 14 (6.19%) Shell Script
9 11 (4.87%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.98%) PHP
11 7 (3.10%) Bash
11 7 (3.10%) Delphi
11 7 (3.10%) T-SQL
12 6 (2.65%) C
13 5 (2.21%) Korn
14 4 (1.77%) Groovy
15 2 (0.88%) C++
15 2 (0.88%) Ruby
15 2 (0.88%) VB
15 2 (0.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 46 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.06%) Degree
4 15 (6.64%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.87%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.77%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.98%) 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
3 4 (1.77%) DFS Replication
3 4 (1.77%) Dovecot
3 4 (1.77%) Postfix
3 4 (1.77%) Squid
Systems Management
1 76 (33.63%) Kubernetes
2 47 (20.80%) Terraform
3 17 (7.52%) Ansible
3 17 (7.52%) Kibana
4 11 (4.87%) Grafana
5 10 (4.42%) AWS Copilot
6 6 (2.65%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.77%) Nessus
7 4 (1.77%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.33%) Nagios
8 3 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.88%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.88%) Rancher
10 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (12.39%) Oracle
2 20 (8.85%) Splunk
3 18 (7.96%) Google
4 14 (6.19%) Dynatrace
5 13 (5.75%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.10%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.21%) Dell
7 5 (2.21%) Informatica
7 5 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.77%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.77%) Pega
8 4 (1.77%) RedGate
8 4 (1.77%) Talend
8 4 (1.77%) WSO2
9 2 (0.88%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.88%) SAP
9 2 (0.88%) VMware
10 1 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.44%) OpenText
10 1 (0.44%) SendGrid