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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 161 222
Rank change year-on-year -127 +61 -4
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 289 824 519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.84% 1.49% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.93% 11.53% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 172 366 437
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,688 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,875 £78,750 £85,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -3.45%

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 4,168 7,144 7,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.09% 12.89% 20.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,579 3,908 5,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,263 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

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

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -81 92 £66,250 +26.19% 86
North of England -90 76 £67,500 +8.00% 53
North West -117 43 £67,500 +12.50% 21
Midlands -43 35 £71,250 +20.76% 11
South West -1 32 £50,000 -16.67% 28
West Midlands +36 29 £72,500 +11.54% 8
East of England -17 28 £30,500 -44.55% 16
Scotland +45 27 £67,500 +35.00% 15
Yorkshire +1 24 £70,000 +6.93% 26
North East +21 9 £51,250 -21.71% 7
East Midlands -54 6 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Northern Ireland +15 5 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Wales +2 1 £60,000 -7.69% 3
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 27 (9.34%) Confluence
2 14 (4.84%) Tomcat
3 13 (4.50%) nginx
4 10 (3.46%) IIS
5 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.77%) JBoss
7 7 (2.42%) Red Hat Fuse
8 5 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
10 3 (1.04%) SAS
11 2 (0.69%) CMS
11 2 (0.69%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.35%) Appian
12 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 206 (71.28%) AWS
2 96 (33.22%) Azure
3 54 (18.69%) Amazon EC2
4 52 (17.99%) Serverless
5 43 (14.88%) Amazon ECS
5 43 (14.88%) Amazon S3
6 40 (13.84%) GCP
7 34 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (9.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (9.34%) GitHub
9 26 (9.00%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (6.92%) AWS KMS
12 19 (6.57%) Route 53
13 18 (6.23%) SaaS
14 16 (5.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (5.19%) Power Platform
16 13 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (3.11%) Power Automate
17 9 (3.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.88%) Firewall
2 9 (3.11%) DMARC
2 9 (3.11%) DNS
2 9 (3.11%) iSCSI
2 9 (3.11%) Remote Desktop
2 9 (3.11%) SAN
2 9 (3.11%) SSL
3 8 (2.77%) FTP
3 8 (2.77%) HTTP
3 8 (2.77%) IMAP
3 8 (2.77%) OpenLDAP
3 8 (2.77%) SMTP
3 8 (2.77%) SSH
4 3 (1.04%) Asterisk PBX
4 3 (1.04%) Multicast
4 3 (1.04%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.69%) Internet
5 2 (0.69%) MQTT
6 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (29.41%) MySQL
2 70 (24.22%) SQL Server
3 69 (23.88%) MongoDB
4 63 (21.80%) Relational Database
5 52 (17.99%) NoSQL
6 36 (12.46%) Amazon RDS
7 33 (11.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 33 (11.42%) RDBMS
8 19 (6.57%) DynamoDB
9 13 (4.50%) Power BI
10 11 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (2.77%) Big Data
12 8 (2.77%) Redis
13 7 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (2.08%) MariaDB
15 5 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (1.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (28.72%) Jenkins
2 66 (22.84%) Git
3 56 (19.38%) JUnit
4 47 (16.26%) Mockito
5 29 (10.03%) JIRA
6 24 (8.30%) JMeter
6 24 (8.30%) Maven
7 18 (6.23%) GitLab
7 18 (6.23%) SonarQube
8 14 (4.84%) Selenium
9 12 (4.15%) Cucumber
9 12 (4.15%) DbUnit
9 12 (4.15%) jMock
10 11 (3.81%) Bitbucket
10 11 (3.81%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (2.77%) Vagrant
12 5 (1.73%) Gradle
12 5 (1.73%) Postman
12 5 (1.73%) TestNG
13 3 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 88 (30.45%) Social Skills
2 71 (24.57%) Public Sector
3 50 (17.30%) Finance
4 29 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (6.57%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (6.23%) Banking
7 18 (6.23%) Law
8 15 (5.19%) Retail
9 14 (4.84%) Marketing
10 13 (4.50%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.11%) Czech Language
12 8 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (2.08%) Advertising
14 5 (1.73%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.38%) Front Office
15 4 (1.38%) Private Banking
16 3 (1.04%) Electronics
16 3 (1.04%) Games
Job Titles
1 143 (49.48%) Developer
2 71 (24.57%) Java Developer
3 43 (14.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 42 (14.53%) Lead
5 38 (13.15%) Senior
6 35 (12.11%) Software Engineer
7 31 (10.73%) Lead Developer
8 27 (9.34%) Software Developer
9 26 (9.00%) Java Engineer
10 21 (7.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 20 (6.92%) Lead Software Developer
12 17 (5.88%) Senior Developer
13 16 (5.54%) Linux Engineer
14 14 (4.84%) Lead Java Developer
14 14 (4.84%) Python Developer
15 13 (4.50%) Administrator
15 13 (4.50%) Java Software Engineer
16 12 (4.15%) Data Engineer
16 12 (4.15%) Senior Java Developer
17 11 (3.81%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (31.49%) Spring
2 86 (29.76%) Spring Boot
3 68 (23.53%) REST
4 63 (21.80%) RESTful
5 55 (19.03%) React
6 47 (16.26%) Hibernate
6 47 (16.26%) Kafka
6 47 (16.26%) Web Services
7 42 (14.53%) HTML
8 41 (14.19%) ActiveMQ
9 40 (13.84%) Node.js
10 39 (13.49%) AngularJS
11 31 (10.73%) Apache Camel
11 31 (10.73%) SOAP
12 29 (10.03%) JSON
12 29 (10.03%) WireMock
12 29 (10.03%) XML
13 26 (9.00%) jQuery
14 18 (6.23%) JPA
15 16 (5.54%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.19%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (12.80%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.92%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.46%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.46%) Replication
7 8 (2.77%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.77%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.42%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.08%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.08%) Wiki
10 5 (1.73%) Life Science
11 4 (1.38%) Clustering
11 4 (1.38%) Derivative
11 4 (1.38%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.38%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 56 (19.38%) Linux
2 34 (11.76%) Windows
3 13 (4.50%) Unix
4 11 (3.81%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.77%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (2.77%) VMS
7 5 (1.73%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.04%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (48.44%) Agile
2 109 (37.72%) Microservices
3 108 (37.37%) CI/CD
4 87 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (23.53%) DevOps
6 64 (22.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 64 (22.15%) TDD
7 58 (20.07%) Software Engineering
8 56 (19.38%) BDD
9 50 (17.30%) Mentoring
9 50 (17.30%) Scrum
10 49 (16.96%) Containerisation
11 40 (13.84%) Artificial Intelligence
12 39 (13.49%) Analytics
13 36 (12.46%) Kanban
14 35 (12.11%) Clean Code
15 34 (11.76%) SDLC
16 33 (11.42%) Workflow
17 31 (10.73%) ETL
18 28 (9.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 137 (47.40%) Java
2 121 (41.87%) SQL
3 100 (34.60%) Python
4 97 (33.56%) JavaScript
5 39 (13.49%) TypeScript
6 24 (8.30%) Shell Script
7 19 (6.57%) PowerShell
8 18 (6.23%) C#
9 16 (5.54%) Bash
10 13 (4.50%) T-SQL
11 9 (3.11%) Korn
11 9 (3.11%) PHP
11 9 (3.11%) VBA
12 8 (2.77%) Go
12 8 (2.77%) Groovy
13 6 (2.08%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.08%) Rust
14 5 (1.73%) R
15 4 (1.38%) C++
16 3 (1.04%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (23.18%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.69%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.38%) Degree
4 18 (6.23%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.84%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.08%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.69%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.07%) QA
2 12 (4.15%) SLA
3 10 (3.46%) GDPR
4 9 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.08%) NIST
6 3 (1.04%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
System Software
1 139 (48.10%) Docker
2 18 (6.23%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.15%) Postfix
4 9 (3.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (2.77%) DFS Replication
5 8 (2.77%) Dovecot
5 8 (2.77%) Squid
6 3 (1.04%) Apache Flume
6 3 (1.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 99 (34.26%) Kubernetes
2 31 (10.73%) Terraform
3 27 (9.34%) Kibana
4 19 (6.57%) Ansible
5 13 (4.50%) Grafana
5 13 (4.50%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (2.77%) Nessus
8 8 (2.77%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.73%) Kustomize
9 5 (1.73%) Packer
10 3 (1.04%) logstash
10 3 (1.04%) Oozie
11 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (18.69%) Oracle
2 42 (14.53%) Microsoft
3 35 (12.11%) Splunk
4 24 (8.30%) Dynatrace
5 15 (5.19%) Red Hat
6 13 (4.50%) Jaspersoft
7 11 (3.81%) Atlassian
8 10 (3.46%) Databricks
8 10 (3.46%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.11%) Dell
9 9 (3.11%) Informatica
10 8 (2.77%) SAP
11 7 (2.42%) Cisco
12 6 (2.08%) Talend
13 5 (1.73%) RedGate
14 4 (1.38%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (1.38%) Google
15 3 (1.04%) MicroStrategy
16 2 (0.69%) ForgeRock
16 2 (0.69%) WSO2