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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 165 194
Rank change year-on-year -114 +29 +50
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 272 725 512
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.74% 1.54% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.97% 11.62% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 189 277 410
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £50,000
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 £73,801 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.43% +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 3,905 6,239 6,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.66% 13.21% 20.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,613 3,170 4,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,900
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 19 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 19 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 -8 84 £67,500 -2.61% 107
South East -107 68 £65,000 +8.33% 94
Midlands +29 40 £55,200 -15.08% 37
North West -39 38 £70,000 +12.00% 77
South West -25 37 £54,000 -16.92% 30
Yorkshire +11 31 £70,000 -3.45% 23
West Midlands +34 29 £70,000 +7.69% 24
Scotland -18 23 £73,801 +31.27% 16
North East +12 15 £52,500 -24.25% 7
East of England -46 15 £42,500 -26.09% 18
East Midlands +10 11 £50,000 -9.09% 13
Wales -13 6 £69,401 +6.77% 5
Northern Ireland -3 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 15 (5.51%) Confluence
2 8 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.57%) nginx
4 6 (2.21%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.47%) JBoss
7 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.10%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.74%) CMS
8 2 (0.74%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.74%) IIS
8 2 (0.74%) SAS
9 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.37%) Appian
9 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 202 (74.26%) AWS
2 108 (39.71%) Azure
3 58 (21.32%) Amazon ECS
4 54 (19.85%) Serverless
5 51 (18.75%) GCP
6 41 (15.07%) GitHub
7 33 (12.13%) Amazon EC2
8 32 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
8 32 (11.76%) Amazon S3
9 26 (9.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (8.09%) SaaS
11 21 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
13 16 (5.88%) dbt
13 16 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (5.88%) Pulumi
14 15 (5.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 13 (4.78%) AWS KMS
15 13 (4.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.88%) Firewall
1 16 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.31%) HTTP
3 8 (2.94%) DNS
3 8 (2.94%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.94%) SAN
4 7 (2.57%) FTP
4 7 (2.57%) IMAP
4 7 (2.57%) OpenLDAP
4 7 (2.57%) SMTP
4 7 (2.57%) SSH
5 3 (1.10%) Asterisk PBX
5 3 (1.10%) Multicast
5 3 (1.10%) VPN
5 3 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.74%) AMQP
6 2 (0.74%) Internet
6 2 (0.74%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (26.84%) Relational Database
2 70 (25.74%) MySQL
3 58 (21.32%) SQL Server
4 52 (19.12%) MongoDB
5 41 (15.07%) NoSQL
6 31 (11.40%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (10.66%) Redis
8 25 (9.19%) RDBMS
9 23 (8.46%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (7.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (6.62%) DynamoDB
12 10 (3.68%) Power BI
12 10 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (2.21%) Big Data
14 5 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.84%) DB2
14 5 (1.84%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.47%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 71 (26.10%) Jenkins
2 60 (22.06%) Git
3 39 (14.34%) JUnit
4 26 (9.56%) Mockito
5 24 (8.82%) JIRA
6 22 (8.09%) JMeter
7 16 (5.88%) Cucumber
8 14 (5.15%) Selenium
9 13 (4.78%) GitLab
10 8 (2.94%) Bitbucket
11 7 (2.57%) Maven
11 7 (2.57%) Vagrant
12 6 (2.21%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.21%) DbUnit
12 6 (2.21%) jMock
12 6 (2.21%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.47%) Cypress.io
14 3 (1.10%) REST Assured
15 2 (0.74%) Katalon Studio
15 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.91%) Public Sector
3 37 (13.60%) Finance
4 17 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (5.88%) Marketing
6 15 (5.51%) Law
7 14 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (4.78%) Banking
9 12 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.68%) Retail
11 8 (2.94%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.94%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.84%) Advertising
13 4 (1.47%) Front Office
13 4 (1.47%) Private Banking
14 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.10%) Electronics
14 3 (1.10%) Games
14 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (42.65%) Developer
2 58 (21.32%) Senior
3 50 (18.38%) Java Developer
4 47 (17.28%) Software Engineer
5 43 (15.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 39 (14.34%) Lead
7 32 (11.76%) Software Developer
8 26 (9.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 26 (9.56%) Lead Developer
9 20 (7.35%) Java Engineer
9 20 (7.35%) Lead Software Developer
10 15 (5.51%) Linux Engineer
10 15 (5.51%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 15 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.15%) DBA
11 14 (5.15%) Python Engineer
11 14 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.78%) Java Software Engineer
13 12 (4.41%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (4.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (28.68%) Spring
2 74 (27.21%) Spring Boot
3 55 (20.22%) RESTful
4 51 (18.75%) React
5 41 (15.07%) REST
6 38 (13.97%) HTML
7 37 (13.60%) Node.js
8 35 (12.87%) Django
9 34 (12.50%) Kafka
9 34 (12.50%) Web Services
10 29 (10.66%) Hibernate
11 26 (9.56%) .NET
11 26 (9.56%) Apache Camel
12 25 (9.19%) ActiveMQ
13 24 (8.82%) AngularJS
14 22 (8.09%) XML
15 21 (7.72%) jQuery
16 20 (7.35%) CSS
16 20 (7.35%) JSON
16 20 (7.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 39 (14.34%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.78%) Replication
5 10 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.31%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.94%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (2.57%) Clustering
9 6 (2.21%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.84%) Derivative
10 5 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.84%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.47%) IoT
12 3 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.10%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.79%) Linux
2 28 (10.29%) Windows
3 22 (8.09%) Unix
4 10 (3.68%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.31%) VMS
6 8 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.57%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (2.21%) Debian
8 6 (2.21%) Windows Server
9 3 (1.10%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.37%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (44.49%) CI/CD
2 99 (36.40%) Agile
3 95 (34.93%) Microservices
4 88 (32.35%) DevOps
4 88 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (25.37%) Software Engineering
6 68 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 60 (22.06%) TDD
8 48 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 46 (16.91%) Containerisation
10 44 (16.18%) BDD
11 43 (15.81%) Clean Code
12 37 (13.60%) AI
13 35 (12.87%) Workflow
14 33 (12.13%) SDLC
15 30 (11.03%) Computer Science
15 30 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (11.03%) Migration
16 29 (10.66%) Test Automation
17 27 (9.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 113 (41.54%) Python
2 104 (38.24%) Java
3 89 (32.72%) SQL
4 71 (26.10%) JavaScript
5 35 (12.87%) TypeScript
6 26 (9.56%) C#
7 19 (6.99%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.51%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.78%) Bash
10 10 (3.68%) Go
10 10 (3.68%) PHP
10 10 (3.68%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.94%) Korn
12 7 (2.57%) Groovy
13 6 (2.21%) Delphi
14 3 (1.10%) C
14 3 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.10%) R
15 2 (0.74%) PROC SQL
15 2 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (24.63%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.76%) Degree
4 18 (6.62%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.21%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (2.21%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.25%) QA
2 9 (3.31%) GDPR
3 8 (2.94%) SLA
4 5 (1.84%) NIST
5 4 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 131 (48.16%) Docker
2 9 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.94%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 8 (2.94%) Postfix
4 7 (2.57%) DFS Replication
4 7 (2.57%) Dovecot
4 7 (2.57%) Squid
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 91 (33.46%) Kubernetes
2 47 (17.28%) Terraform
3 24 (8.82%) Kibana
4 16 (5.88%) Grafana
5 13 (4.78%) Ansible
6 10 (3.68%) AWS Copilot
7 9 (3.31%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.57%) Nessus
8 7 (2.57%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.74%) logstash
9 2 (0.74%) Oozie
9 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.37%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.37%) Nagios
10 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (15.81%) Oracle
2 29 (10.66%) Splunk
3 25 (9.19%) Microsoft
4 20 (7.35%) Google
5 19 (6.99%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.68%) Informatica
7 9 (3.31%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.31%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.94%) Dell
8 8 (2.94%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (2.94%) Talend
9 7 (2.57%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.57%) RedGate
9 7 (2.57%) SAP
10 6 (2.21%) Databricks
11 4 (1.47%) Pega
11 4 (1.47%) WSO2
12 2 (0.74%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.74%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.74%) VMware