PostgreSQL Job Trends in London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 141 161
Rank change year-on-year +34 +20 -90
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 367 474 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.07% 2.47% 2.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.68% 10.63% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 260 309 388
10th Percentile £59,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +9.38% -3.03%
75th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile - £136,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -6.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,683 4,460 5,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.42% 23.28% 22.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,707 2,994 4,159
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,707
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £82,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% +10.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,250
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.17% +7.08%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in London

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in London over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in London

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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 London +29 34 - - 5
Central London -23 30 £96,000 +20.00% 23
West London +45 6 £63,500 -5.93% 2
East London - 4 £85,000 - 2
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 102 (27.79%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.00%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.00%) Tomcat
3 10 (2.72%) WebSphere
4 8 (2.18%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (1.91%) JBoss
5 7 (1.91%) Red Hat Fuse
6 5 (1.36%) nginx
7 4 (1.09%) Apache
7 4 (1.09%) CMS
8 3 (0.82%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.82%) Luigi
8 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.27%) Notion
1 1 (0.27%) PlantUML
1 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 286 (77.93%) AWS
2 158 (43.05%) GCP
3 104 (28.34%) dbt
4 85 (23.16%) Azure
5 62 (16.89%) Serverless
6 51 (13.90%) Amazon EC2
7 46 (12.53%) Amazon ECS
8 43 (11.72%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (4.63%) SaaS
10 16 (4.36%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.36%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.54%) GitHub
11 13 (3.54%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (2.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
15 5 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.72%) SSL
2 5 (1.36%) MQTT
2 5 (1.36%) VPN
3 4 (1.09%) SMS
4 1 (0.27%) BGP
4 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.27%) DNS
4 1 (0.27%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) OSPF
4 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.27%) RTMP
4 1 (0.27%) SSH
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.27%) VLAN
4 1 (0.27%) WAN
4 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.27%) Wireless
4 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (26.70%) Apache Iceberg
2 97 (26.43%) Amazon Athena
2 97 (26.43%) Apache Arrow
2 97 (26.43%) Dremio
3 84 (22.89%) Relational Database
4 60 (16.35%) MongoDB
5 53 (14.44%) SQL Server
6 47 (12.81%) NoSQL
7 45 (12.26%) RDBMS
8 36 (9.81%) MySQL
9 21 (5.72%) DB2
10 17 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (3.54%) Power BI
13 12 (3.27%) Big Data
14 11 (3.00%) Redis
15 10 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (2.72%) DynamoDB
16 8 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (2.18%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 57 (15.53%) Jenkins
2 39 (10.63%) JUnit
3 33 (8.99%) Git
4 32 (8.72%) Mockito
5 28 (7.63%) JMeter
6 13 (3.54%) IntelliJ
7 12 (3.27%) JIRA
8 11 (3.00%) Bitbucket
8 11 (3.00%) GitLab
9 9 (2.45%) Maven
10 7 (1.91%) Postman
10 7 (1.91%) Selenium
11 6 (1.63%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.36%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.36%) Subversion
13 4 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.09%) Cucumber
13 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.82%) Moq
14 3 (0.82%) TestNG
General
1 181 (49.32%) Finance
2 118 (32.15%) Front Office
3 60 (16.35%) Public Sector
4 42 (11.44%) Social Skills
5 40 (10.90%) Banking
6 33 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.81%) Law
8 20 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (5.18%) Marketing
10 15 (4.09%) Manufacturing
11 12 (3.27%) Electronics
11 12 (3.27%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.91%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.36%) Advertising
13 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.09%) Games
14 4 (1.09%) Legal
14 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 208 (56.68%) Developer
2 134 (36.51%) Software Engineer
3 111 (30.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 101 (27.52%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (26.70%) AWS Software Engineer
6 97 (26.43%) AWS Developer
7 95 (25.89%) Python Developer
8 82 (22.34%) Python Engineer
9 79 (21.53%) Python Software Engineer
10 64 (17.44%) Java Developer
11 47 (12.81%) Lead
11 47 (12.81%) Senior
12 46 (12.53%) Java Engineer
13 29 (7.90%) Full-Stack Developer
14 28 (7.63%) Java Software Engineer
15 25 (6.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 24 (6.54%) Java Software Developer
17 19 (5.18%) React Developer
18 16 (4.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 15 (4.09%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (50.14%) React
2 144 (39.24%) Node.js
3 128 (34.88%) AngularJS
4 105 (28.61%) Vue
5 99 (26.98%) Pandas
6 98 (26.70%) NumPy
7 97 (26.43%) SciPy
8 93 (25.34%) REST
9 60 (16.35%) Spring
10 58 (15.80%) Spring Boot
11 44 (11.99%) RESTful
12 43 (11.72%) HTML
13 42 (11.44%) jQuery
14 41 (11.17%) Web Services
15 34 (9.26%) FastAPI
16 32 (8.72%) Apache Camel
17 30 (8.17%) Kafka
18 29 (7.90%) Hibernate
19 28 (7.63%) ActiveMQ
19 28 (7.63%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 111 (30.25%) Fixed Income
2 106 (28.88%) Equities
2 106 (28.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 48 (13.08%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (7.90%) Cloud Native
5 21 (5.72%) Algorithms
6 18 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (4.36%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (3.54%) Management Information System
10 11 (3.00%) e-Learning
11 9 (2.45%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.91%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.36%) Derivative
13 5 (1.36%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.09%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.09%) Reinsurance
15 3 (0.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 54 (14.71%) Linux
2 23 (6.27%) Windows
3 19 (5.18%) Unix
4 14 (3.81%) Android
4 14 (3.81%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (66.49%) Agile
2 172 (46.87%) Software Engineering
3 124 (33.79%) Fintech
4 112 (30.52%) Asset Management
5 111 (30.25%) CI/CD
5 111 (30.25%) Investment Management
6 100 (27.25%) Risk Management
7 97 (26.43%) Order Management
7 97 (26.43%) Performance Attribution
8 86 (23.43%) Microservices
9 79 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
10 67 (18.26%) Full-Stack Development
11 54 (14.71%) Containerisation
12 53 (14.44%) TDD
13 51 (13.90%) DevOps
14 44 (11.99%) Artificial Intelligence
14 44 (11.99%) Test Automation
15 42 (11.44%) BDD
15 42 (11.44%) User Experience
16 37 (10.08%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 223 (60.76%) Python
2 185 (50.41%) JavaScript
3 166 (45.23%) TypeScript
4 127 (34.60%) Java
5 77 (20.98%) SQL
6 33 (8.99%) Shell Script
7 21 (5.72%) C#
8 10 (2.72%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.72%) Rust
9 9 (2.45%) Bash
10 6 (1.63%) PHP
11 5 (1.36%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.09%) C++
12 4 (1.09%) Go
12 4 (1.09%) Ruby
12 4 (1.09%) Scala
13 3 (0.82%) Groovy
14 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.54%) SOQL
14 2 (0.54%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 39 (10.63%) Security Cleared
2 29 (7.90%) Degree
3 25 (6.81%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.00%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.72%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.63%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.82%) PhD
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) HNC
10 1 (0.27%) HND
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.27%) MCSA
10 1 (0.27%) MCSE
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.54%) QA
2 15 (4.09%) SLA
3 9 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.09%) GDPR
5 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.82%) CDISC
5 3 (0.82%) SEPA
6 1 (0.27%) GAAP
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.27%) MiFID
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 117 (31.88%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) zsh
3 2 (0.54%) KVM
3 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.54%) Xen
4 1 (0.27%) NFS
4 1 (0.27%) Postfix
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (30.52%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.72%) Terraform
3 27 (7.36%) Kibana
4 15 (4.09%) Ansible
5 6 (1.63%) Grafana
6 5 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.09%) Puppet
7 4 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.82%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.82%) Packer
9 2 (0.54%) CFEngine
9 2 (0.54%) logstash
10 1 (0.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 42 (11.44%) Oracle
2 30 (8.17%) Splunk
3 29 (7.90%) Dynatrace
4 25 (6.81%) Red Hat
5 24 (6.54%) Google
6 22 (5.99%) IBM
7 12 (3.27%) SAP
8 11 (3.00%) Databricks
9 10 (2.72%) Informatica
10 8 (2.18%) Microsoft
11 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.63%) Talend
12 5 (1.36%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.36%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.09%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (1.09%) Vertica
14 2 (0.54%) AppDynamics
14 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
14 2 (0.54%) VMware