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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 109 156
Rank change year-on-year -16 +47 -28
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 309 533 377
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.35% 3.06% 2.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.90% 12.91% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 212 277 328
10th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £132,500 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £132,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 2,597 4,127 4,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.74% 23.69% 22.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,624 2,639 3,261
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £138,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.08% -0.08%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend 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 29 November 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 29 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
South London -10 23 £55,200 -11.68% 5
Central London -33 23 £127,500 +54.55% 22
East London -9 6 £85,000 - 6
West London -17 2 £63,750 -5.56% 5
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 64 (20.71%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.47%) Apache Spark
3 19 (6.15%) WebSphere
4 17 (5.50%) Tomcat
5 16 (5.18%) WebSphere Application Server
6 9 (2.91%) Confluence
7 4 (1.29%) Apache
8 3 (0.97%) Luigi
8 3 (0.97%) nginx
9 2 (0.65%) JBoss
9 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.32%) CMS
10 1 (0.32%) IIS
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.32%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 228 (73.79%) AWS
2 118 (38.19%) GCP
3 80 (25.89%) Azure
4 64 (20.71%) dbt
5 50 (16.18%) Serverless
6 38 (12.30%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (11.65%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (11.00%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (6.15%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.53%) GitHub
11 14 (4.53%) Power Platform
12 13 (4.21%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.88%) SaaS
14 11 (3.56%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (2.91%) Snowflake
16 7 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (2.27%) Route 53
17 6 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.15%) SSL
2 6 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.65%) BGP
3 2 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.65%) Firewall
3 2 (0.65%) MQTT
3 2 (0.65%) OSPF
3 2 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.65%) RTMP
3 2 (0.65%) VLAN
3 2 (0.65%) VPN
3 2 (0.65%) WAN
3 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.65%) Wireless
4 1 (0.32%) DNS
4 1 (0.32%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (25.24%) Relational Database
2 64 (20.71%) SQL Server
3 55 (17.80%) Apache Iceberg
4 50 (16.18%) Amazon Athena
4 50 (16.18%) Apache Arrow
4 50 (16.18%) Dremio
5 46 (14.89%) MySQL
6 41 (13.27%) RDBMS
7 40 (12.94%) MongoDB
8 38 (12.30%) NoSQL
9 31 (10.03%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (9.71%) DB2
11 16 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (5.18%) Big Data
11 16 (5.18%) Redis
12 15 (4.85%) DynamoDB
13 14 (4.53%) Power BI
14 13 (4.21%) Hadoop
15 11 (3.56%) Apache Cassandra
16 8 (2.59%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 57 (18.45%) Jenkins
2 29 (9.39%) Git
3 25 (8.09%) JUnit
4 22 (7.12%) JMeter
4 22 (7.12%) Mockito
5 17 (5.50%) JIRA
6 15 (4.85%) GitLab
7 13 (4.21%) Bitbucket
7 13 (4.21%) Selenium
8 10 (3.24%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.91%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.94%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.29%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.29%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.29%) Subversion
12 3 (0.97%) MLflow
12 3 (0.97%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.97%) TestRail
12 3 (0.97%) Vite
13 2 (0.65%) Jaeger
General
1 125 (40.45%) Finance
2 58 (18.77%) Front Office
3 50 (16.18%) Social Skills
4 43 (13.92%) Banking
5 37 (11.97%) Public Sector
6 28 (9.06%) Law
7 23 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (4.21%) Investment Banking
9 13 (4.21%) Marketing
10 12 (3.88%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.91%) Electronics
11 9 (2.91%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.94%) Legal
13 5 (1.62%) Advertising
13 5 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.62%) Retail
14 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 138 (44.66%) Developer
2 72 (23.30%) Software Engineer
3 62 (20.06%) Python Developer
4 54 (17.48%) AWS Engineer
5 53 (17.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 51 (16.50%) AWS Software Engineer
6 51 (16.50%) Python Engineer
7 50 (16.18%) AWS Developer
8 47 (15.21%) Python Software Engineer
9 45 (14.56%) Senior
10 41 (13.27%) Java Developer
11 40 (12.94%) Lead
12 30 (9.71%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (7.12%) Data Engineer
14 21 (6.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 21 (6.80%) Linux Support
15 19 (6.15%) Applications Support
15 19 (6.15%) Principal Engineer
16 18 (5.83%) Backend Developer
17 15 (4.85%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (36.57%) React
2 88 (28.48%) Node.js
3 68 (22.01%) AngularJS
4 59 (19.09%) REST
5 57 (18.45%) Vue
6 52 (16.83%) NumPy
6 52 (16.83%) Pandas
7 50 (16.18%) SciPy
8 48 (15.53%) FastAPI
9 46 (14.89%) Spring
10 45 (14.56%) HTML
11 44 (14.24%) Spring Boot
12 33 (10.68%) RESTful
13 32 (10.36%) Kafka
14 30 (9.71%) Web Services
15 29 (9.39%) Django
16 28 (9.06%) CSS
17 25 (8.09%) jQuery
18 23 (7.44%) Flask
19 22 (7.12%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.15%) Equities
1 53 (17.15%) Fixed Income
1 53 (17.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 48 (15.53%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (10.03%) Cloud Native
4 22 (7.12%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (6.47%) Management Information System
6 13 (4.21%) Algorithms
6 13 (4.21%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.62%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.62%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.29%) Derivative
11 4 (1.29%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.29%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.29%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (14.24%) Linux
2 27 (8.74%) Unix
3 17 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (5.50%) Windows
4 5 (1.62%) Android
4 5 (1.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (54.37%) Agile
2 120 (38.83%) Software Engineering
3 117 (37.86%) CI/CD
4 86 (27.83%) Fintech
5 84 (27.18%) Microservices
6 63 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (19.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 54 (17.48%) Asset Management
8 54 (17.48%) Investment Management
9 53 (17.15%) AI
10 52 (16.83%) Containerisation
10 52 (16.83%) Risk Management
11 50 (16.18%) Order Management
11 50 (16.18%) Performance Attribution
12 46 (14.89%) DevOps
13 40 (12.94%) Test Automation
14 39 (12.62%) Data Engineering
15 38 (12.30%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (11.65%) ETL
17 34 (11.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 205 (66.34%) Python
2 120 (38.83%) JavaScript
3 96 (31.07%) Java
4 93 (30.10%) TypeScript
5 74 (23.95%) SQL
6 25 (8.09%) Shell Script
7 16 (5.18%) C#
8 12 (3.88%) Rust
9 7 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.94%) Go
11 5 (1.62%) Bash
11 5 (1.62%) Ruby
12 4 (1.29%) PHP
12 4 (1.29%) Scala
13 2 (0.65%) Groovy
13 2 (0.65%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.65%) RPG
14 1 (0.32%) COBOL
14 1 (0.32%) Delphi
14 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.97%) Degree
3 26 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.47%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.83%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.62%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.65%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.65%) HNC
10 2 (0.65%) HND
10 2 (0.65%) MCSA
10 2 (0.65%) MCSE
10 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.32%) MCP
11 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.15%) QA
2 18 (5.83%) SLA
3 11 (3.56%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.91%) GDPR
5 3 (0.97%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.97%) SEPA
6 2 (0.65%) PSD2
7 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.32%) GAAP
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 104 (33.66%) Docker
2 4 (1.29%) zsh
3 2 (0.65%) NFS
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 98 (31.72%) Kubernetes
2 39 (12.62%) Terraform
3 25 (8.09%) Kibana
4 14 (4.53%) Grafana
5 11 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.27%) Ansible
6 7 (2.27%) Argo
7 3 (0.97%) Puppet
7 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.65%) logstash
8 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.32%) Ambari
9 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 43 (13.92%) Oracle
2 23 (7.44%) Dynatrace
2 23 (7.44%) Splunk
3 21 (6.80%) IBM
3 21 (6.80%) Red Hat
4 19 (6.15%) Google
5 13 (4.21%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.88%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.91%) Informatica
7 9 (2.91%) Microsoft
7 9 (2.91%) SAP
8 8 (2.59%) Talend
9 7 (2.27%) Databricks
9 7 (2.27%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.62%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.97%) Vertica
12 2 (0.65%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.65%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.65%) Sonatype