PostgreSQL Jobs in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 164 275
Rank change year-on-year -119 +111 -103
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 360 1,337 662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 1.66% 1.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.91% 10.71% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 231 598 480
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £74,072 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% -

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 4,553 12,478 10,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.48% 15.46% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,814 8,156 6,483
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,960 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,743 £57,500 £64,015
% change year-on-year +5.64% -10.18% +6.69%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PostgreSQL in the UK excluding London

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 June 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 June 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
South East -62 102 £52,500 - 506
North of England -121 99 £67,500 +22.73% 223
North West -133 66 £69,384 +32.16% 155
Midlands -66 42 £67,500 +35.00% 81
Scotland +45 37 £62,500 +25.00% 33
East of England +9 35 £32,500 -43.48% 55
South West +43 34 £62,500 +4.17% 59
West Midlands +35 31 £67,500 +35.00% 24
Yorkshire +4 21 £67,500 +22.73% 47
Wales +9 19 £77,500 +48.75% 16
North East +22 12 £52,500 -19.80% 21
East Midlands -53 11 £60,000 +20.00% 55
Northern Ireland +8 7 £55,000 -35.29% 18
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (9.72%) Confluence
2 16 (4.44%) Tomcat
3 15 (4.17%) JBoss
4 14 (3.89%) Red Hat Fuse
5 12 (3.33%) nginx
6 11 (3.06%) IIS
7 8 (2.22%) CMS
8 7 (1.94%) Apache Spark
9 6 (1.67%) WordPress
10 5 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (1.11%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.83%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.83%) SAS
13 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.28%) Apache
14 1 (0.28%) Appian
14 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.83%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.28%) Magento
1 1 (0.28%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 220 (61.11%) AWS
2 128 (35.56%) Azure
3 59 (16.39%) Serverless
4 57 (15.83%) GCP
5 50 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
6 45 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 43 (11.94%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (11.94%) GitHub
8 42 (11.67%) Amazon S3
9 27 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (5.83%) Power Platform
11 17 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (4.17%) AWS KMS
14 14 (3.89%) Route 53
15 13 (3.61%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 13 (3.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 10 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 14 (3.89%) Network Security
3 13 (3.61%) SSL
4 10 (2.78%) DNS
4 10 (2.78%) Firewall
5 9 (2.50%) DMARC
5 9 (2.50%) SAN
6 5 (1.39%) DHCP
6 5 (1.39%) Internet
6 5 (1.39%) MQTT
6 5 (1.39%) NAS
6 5 (1.39%) VSAN
7 4 (1.11%) HTTP
7 4 (1.11%) iSCSI
7 4 (1.11%) Modbus
7 4 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.83%) FTP
8 3 (0.83%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.83%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.83%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (24.17%) Relational Database
2 86 (23.89%) MySQL
2 86 (23.89%) SQL Server
3 76 (21.11%) MongoDB
4 55 (15.28%) NoSQL
5 39 (10.83%) Amazon RDS
6 37 (10.28%) RDBMS
7 31 (8.61%) Amazon Aurora
8 29 (8.06%) Redis
9 23 (6.39%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (6.11%) DynamoDB
11 17 (4.72%) Power BI
12 10 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (2.78%) Tableau
13 8 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (2.22%) Big Data
14 6 (1.67%) BigQuery
14 6 (1.67%) Metadata
14 6 (1.67%) Spark SQL
15 5 (1.39%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 101 (28.06%) Git
2 87 (24.17%) Jenkins
3 57 (15.83%) JUnit
4 39 (10.83%) JIRA
4 39 (10.83%) Mockito
5 32 (8.89%) GitLab
6 26 (7.22%) SonarQube
7 23 (6.39%) Maven
8 19 (5.28%) Selenium
9 17 (4.72%) JMeter
10 13 (3.61%) Bitbucket
11 12 (3.33%) DbUnit
11 12 (3.33%) jMock
12 11 (3.06%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (3.06%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.50%) Postman
14 5 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
14 5 (1.39%) TestNG
14 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio
15 4 (1.11%) TeamCity
General
1 126 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 71 (19.72%) Finance
4 35 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.44%) Banking
6 28 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.94%) Law
8 18 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (4.17%) Manufacturing
9 15 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (3.61%) Marketing
11 10 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.78%) Retail
12 9 (2.50%) Czech Language
13 8 (2.22%) Advertising
14 6 (1.67%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.39%) Electronics
15 5 (1.39%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.39%) Games
15 5 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 163 (45.28%) Developer
2 69 (19.17%) Java Developer
3 68 (18.89%) Senior
4 59 (16.39%) Software Engineer
5 56 (15.56%) Lead
6 38 (10.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 28 (7.78%) Senior Developer
8 26 (7.22%) Java Engineer
9 24 (6.67%) Lead Developer
10 22 (6.11%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (4.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 16 (4.44%) Team Leader
13 15 (4.17%) Administrator
14 14 (3.89%) Lead Java Developer
15 13 (3.61%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.61%) Senior Java Developer
15 13 (3.61%) Software Developer
16 12 (3.33%) Java Software Engineer
17 11 (3.06%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (25.56%) Spring
2 91 (25.28%) Spring Boot
3 83 (23.06%) React
3 83 (23.06%) REST
4 72 (20.00%) RESTful
5 59 (16.39%) Node.js
6 58 (16.11%) Web Services
7 50 (13.89%) Kafka
8 48 (13.33%) AngularJS
9 45 (12.50%) HTML
10 44 (12.22%) .NET
11 38 (10.56%) Hibernate
11 38 (10.56%) SOAP
12 33 (9.17%) ActiveMQ
12 33 (9.17%) CSS
13 30 (8.33%) Apache Camel
14 24 (6.67%) JSON
15 23 (6.39%) Django
16 22 (6.11%) jQuery
17 21 (5.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (9.44%) Cloud Native
3 20 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.44%) IoT
4 16 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.50%) Wiki
8 7 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.94%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.94%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.94%) Replication
9 6 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.67%) Life Science
10 5 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 87 (24.17%) Linux
2 40 (11.11%) Unix
3 39 (10.83%) Windows
4 7 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.11%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.11%) VMS
5 4 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (52.50%) Agile
2 146 (40.56%) CI/CD
3 123 (34.17%) Microservices
4 118 (32.78%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (30.56%) DevOps
6 88 (24.44%) Software Engineering
7 84 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 71 (19.72%) Scrum
9 70 (19.44%) TDD
10 69 (19.17%) Mentoring
11 66 (18.33%) Containerisation
12 53 (14.72%) BDD
13 42 (11.67%) Kanban
14 41 (11.39%) Test Automation
15 38 (10.56%) Artificial Intelligence
16 37 (10.28%) Analytics
17 34 (9.44%) SDLC
18 33 (9.17%) User Experience
19 32 (8.89%) Computer Science
19 32 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 160 (44.44%) SQL
2 154 (42.78%) Java
3 120 (33.33%) Python
4 113 (31.39%) JavaScript
5 52 (14.44%) TypeScript
6 36 (10.00%) C#
7 29 (8.06%) PHP
8 20 (5.56%) Shell Script
9 14 (3.89%) Bash
10 12 (3.33%) C++
10 12 (3.33%) Go
10 12 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.50%) VBA
12 8 (2.22%) PL/SQL
12 8 (2.22%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.67%) C
13 6 (1.67%) Groovy
13 6 (1.67%) Rust
14 5 (1.39%) R
15 4 (1.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 76 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 66 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.61%) Degree
4 14 (3.89%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.61%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.11%) OCP
9 4 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.33%) QA
2 16 (4.44%) SLA
3 9 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.50%) ISO 9001
3 9 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.22%) GDPR
5 4 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.11%) NIST
6 2 (0.56%) CDISC
7 1 (0.28%) GMP
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
System Software
1 166 (46.11%) Docker
2 17 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.94%) Postfix
4 5 (1.39%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (1.11%) Firmware
6 3 (0.83%) Apache Flume
6 3 (0.83%) DFS Replication
6 3 (0.83%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.83%) HDFS
6 3 (0.83%) Squid
7 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 124 (34.44%) Kubernetes
2 49 (13.61%) Terraform
3 29 (8.06%) Ansible
4 20 (5.56%) Kibana
5 19 (5.28%) Grafana
6 17 (4.72%) Prometheus
7 11 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.78%) Progress Chef
9 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (2.22%) AWS Copilot
11 6 (1.67%) Packer
12 5 (1.39%) Kustomize
13 4 (1.11%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.11%) Istio
14 3 (0.83%) Argo
14 3 (0.83%) logstash
14 3 (0.83%) Nessus
14 3 (0.83%) Oozie
14 3 (0.83%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 58 (16.11%) Oracle
2 54 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.94%) Splunk
4 21 (5.83%) Dynatrace
5 20 (5.56%) Google
6 18 (5.00%) Atlassian
7 16 (4.44%) Databricks
8 10 (2.78%) Cisco
8 10 (2.78%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.78%) SAP
9 8 (2.22%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (1.94%) Informatica
11 5 (1.39%) VMware
12 4 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (1.11%) Dell
12 4 (1.11%) IBM
12 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.11%) Talend
13 3 (0.83%) Juniper
13 3 (0.83%) MicroStrategy