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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 155 230
Rank change year-on-year -119 +75 -78
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 336 1,301 920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.90% 1.85% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.61% 10.54% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 229 590 499
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £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 £76,840 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,400 £85,000 £90,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -

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 4,416 12,341 11,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.86% 17.54% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,038 8,205 6,932
10th Percentile £32,925 £31,850 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -32 111 £62,500 +8.70% 210
North of England -124 77 £67,500 +22.73% 164
North West -122 52 £67,626 +28.81% 119
East of England +12 36 £55,000 -15.38% 61
Scotland +55 33 £66,367 +32.73% 24
Midlands -82 31 £65,000 +30.00% 62
South West +43 29 £65,000 +8.33% 61
Wales +7 27 £65,000 +27.32% 10
West Midlands +5 22 £65,000 +30.00% 35
Yorkshire +7 19 £59,869 +8.85% 39
East Midlands -63 9 £70,000 +40.00% 23
Northern Ireland +2 7 £55,000 -26.67% 8
North East +12 6 £69,384 +5.99% 6
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 24 (7.14%) Confluence
2 13 (3.87%) JBoss
3 12 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
3 12 (3.57%) Tomcat
4 9 (2.68%) nginx
5 8 (2.38%) CMS
6 7 (2.08%) Apache Spark
7 6 (1.79%) IIS
7 6 (1.79%) OpenStack
7 6 (1.79%) WordPress
8 3 (0.89%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.60%) Apache
10 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.30%) Drupal
10 1 (0.30%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Odoo
2 1 (0.30%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 176 (52.38%) AWS
2 113 (33.63%) Azure
3 57 (16.96%) Serverless
4 50 (14.88%) GCP
5 48 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 45 (13.39%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (11.01%) Amazon EC2
8 31 (9.23%) GitHub
9 27 (8.04%) Amazon S3
10 25 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (6.25%) Power Platform
12 20 (5.95%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (3.87%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 13 (3.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (2.98%) dbt
17 8 (2.38%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.76%) Network Security
2 15 (4.46%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.68%) SSL
4 7 (2.08%) DNS
4 7 (2.08%) Internet
5 5 (1.49%) DHCP
5 5 (1.49%) DMARC
5 5 (1.49%) NAS
5 5 (1.49%) SAN
5 5 (1.49%) VSAN
6 4 (1.19%) Modbus
6 4 (1.19%) MQTT
7 3 (0.89%) Firewall
8 2 (0.60%) Broadband
8 2 (0.60%) VPN
9 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.30%) HTTP
9 1 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 76 (22.62%) Relational Database
3 72 (21.43%) MySQL
4 60 (17.86%) MongoDB
5 42 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 37 (11.01%) RDBMS
7 28 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (8.04%) Redis
9 24 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (3.87%) Power BI
11 10 (2.98%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (2.38%) Tableau
13 6 (1.79%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.79%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.49%) MariaDB
15 4 (1.19%) Big Data
15 4 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 94 (27.98%) Git
2 88 (26.19%) Jenkins
3 47 (13.99%) JUnit
4 40 (11.90%) GitLab
5 32 (9.52%) Mockito
6 31 (9.23%) JIRA
7 20 (5.95%) SonarQube
8 19 (5.65%) JMeter
9 13 (3.87%) Maven
10 10 (2.98%) Postman
10 10 (2.98%) Selenium
11 9 (2.68%) Bitbucket
11 9 (2.68%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (2.68%) Robot Framework
12 6 (1.79%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.79%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.49%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.49%) Fiddler
13 5 (1.49%) TestNG
14 4 (1.19%) Mocha
General
1 120 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 52 (15.48%) Finance
4 33 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.04%) Banking
6 21 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.87%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.98%) Law
9 9 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.68%) Marketing
9 9 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.68%) Retail
10 7 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.79%) Advertising
11 6 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.49%) Czech Language
12 5 (1.49%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.19%) Electronics
14 3 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 152 (45.24%) Developer
2 72 (21.43%) Senior
3 61 (18.15%) Software Engineer
4 55 (16.37%) Java Developer
5 36 (10.71%) Lead
6 28 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (7.74%) Senior Developer
8 18 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (4.46%) Team Leader
10 14 (4.17%) .NET Developer
10 14 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
11 12 (3.57%) Backend Developer
11 12 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 12 (3.57%) Java Engineer
11 12 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (3.27%) Security Engineer
13 10 (2.98%) Administrator
14 9 (2.68%) Architect
14 9 (2.68%) PHP Developer
14 9 (2.68%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (26.79%) React
2 86 (25.60%) REST
3 66 (19.64%) Spring
4 64 (19.05%) RESTful
5 62 (18.45%) Spring Boot
5 62 (18.45%) Web Services
6 53 (15.77%) Node.js
7 52 (15.48%) .NET
8 48 (14.29%) HTML
9 41 (12.20%) AngularJS
10 38 (11.31%) Kafka
11 35 (10.42%) CSS
12 33 (9.82%) Django
13 31 (9.23%) Apache Camel
13 31 (9.23%) Hibernate
14 29 (8.63%) jQuery
15 24 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
15 24 (7.14%) SOAP
16 23 (6.85%) WireMock
17 22 (6.55%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 50 (14.88%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.36%) IoT
3 17 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.68%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.79%) Life Science
7 6 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.19%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.19%) Device Driver
9 4 (1.19%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.19%) Smartphone
9 4 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.89%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 85 (25.30%) Linux
2 36 (10.71%) Unix
3 31 (9.23%) Windows
4 9 (2.68%) Rocky
5 3 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.89%) VMS
6 2 (0.60%) Debian
7 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (50.89%) Agile
2 142 (42.26%) CI/CD
3 117 (34.82%) Microservices
3 117 (34.82%) Problem-Solving
4 99 (29.46%) DevOps
5 81 (24.11%) Software Engineering
6 77 (22.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 68 (20.24%) Scrum
8 59 (17.56%) Containerisation
8 59 (17.56%) Mentoring
9 58 (17.26%) TDD
10 45 (13.39%) BDD
11 39 (11.61%) Kanban
12 35 (10.42%) Collaborative Working
13 34 (10.12%) Web Development
14 32 (9.52%) Roadmaps
15 31 (9.23%) SDLC
15 31 (9.23%) Test Automation
16 28 (8.33%) Analytics
16 28 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 146 (43.45%) SQL
2 116 (34.52%) Python
3 115 (34.23%) Java
4 112 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 48 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 41 (12.20%) C#
7 32 (9.52%) PHP
8 27 (8.04%) C++
9 23 (6.85%) Shell Script
10 19 (5.65%) Go
11 13 (3.87%) Rust
12 12 (3.57%) C
13 9 (2.68%) PL/SQL
14 7 (2.08%) Bash
14 7 (2.08%) Ruby
15 6 (1.79%) Perl
15 6 (1.79%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.49%) T-SQL
16 5 (1.49%) VBA
17 4 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (22.02%) Security Cleared
2 56 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.74%) Degree
4 10 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
7 7 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.19%) OCP
10 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.60%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.25%) QA
2 14 (4.17%) SLA
3 9 (2.68%) ISO 9001
4 6 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.19%) GDPR
6 4 (1.19%) GMP
7 2 (0.60%) CDISC
8 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 153 (45.54%) Docker
2 10 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.49%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.60%) Postfix
6 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 129 (38.39%) Kubernetes
2 45 (13.39%) Terraform
3 28 (8.33%) Ansible
4 19 (5.65%) Kibana
5 15 (4.46%) Grafana
6 14 (4.17%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.98%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.38%) AWS Copilot
9 7 (2.08%) Packer
9 7 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.49%) Kustomize
12 4 (1.19%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.19%) Istio
13 3 (0.89%) Argo
13 3 (0.89%) Puppet
14 2 (0.60%) Control-M
15 1 (0.30%) Consul
15 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 43 (12.80%) Oracle
3 23 (6.85%) Dynatrace
4 22 (6.55%) Splunk
5 20 (5.95%) Google
6 15 (4.46%) Red Hat
7 12 (3.57%) Cisco
8 9 (2.68%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.08%) Databricks
10 5 (1.49%) SAP
10 5 (1.49%) VMware
11 4 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (1.19%) IBM
11 4 (1.19%) Juniper
12 3 (0.89%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.60%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.60%) New Relic
13 2 (0.60%) Ping Identity
13 2 (0.60%) StreamSets
13 2 (0.60%) WSO2