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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 110 161
Rank change year-on-year -8 +51 -66
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 329 532 390
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.67% 3.07% 2.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.45% 12.73% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 222 272 327
10th Percentile £59,250 £48,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £101,750 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.71% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £137,500 £112,500 £102,500
90th Percentile - £129,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

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 2,643 4,178 4,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.45% 24.13% 22.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,644 2,645 3,474
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £48,400
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £115,000
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 8 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 8 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 -1 26 £55,200 -15.08% 7
Central London -25 21 £137,500 +71.88% 359
East London - 6 £85,000 - 11
West London -6 5 £63,500 -5.93% 9
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 71 (21.58%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.78%) WebSphere
3 18 (5.47%) Apache Spark
4 17 (5.17%) Tomcat
5 16 (4.86%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (1.52%) Apache
6 5 (1.52%) Confluence
7 4 (1.22%) JBoss
7 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Fuse
8 3 (0.91%) Luigi
8 3 (0.91%) nginx
9 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.30%) CMS
10 1 (0.30%) IIS
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Notion
2 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 250 (75.99%) AWS
2 127 (38.60%) GCP
3 78 (23.71%) Azure
4 77 (23.40%) dbt
5 55 (16.72%) Serverless
6 43 (13.07%) Amazon EC2
7 41 (12.46%) Amazon ECS
7 41 (12.46%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (6.38%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.26%) GitHub
11 13 (3.95%) Amazon EMR
12 12 (3.65%) SaaS
13 11 (3.34%) Amazon ECR
13 11 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (3.04%) Power Platform
15 9 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (2.43%) Snowflake
17 7 (2.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.78%) SSL
2 6 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.52%) MQTT
3 5 (1.52%) VPN
4 3 (0.91%) SMS
5 2 (0.61%) BGP
5 2 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.61%) Firewall
5 2 (0.61%) OSPF
5 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.61%) RTMP
5 2 (0.61%) VLAN
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
5 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.61%) Wireless
6 1 (0.30%) DNS
6 1 (0.30%) FTP
6 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (24.62%) Relational Database
2 68 (20.67%) Apache Iceberg
3 63 (19.15%) Amazon Athena
3 63 (19.15%) Apache Arrow
3 63 (19.15%) Dremio
4 59 (17.93%) SQL Server
5 49 (14.89%) MongoDB
5 49 (14.89%) MySQL
6 43 (13.07%) RDBMS
7 40 (12.16%) NoSQL
8 29 (8.81%) DB2
9 27 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (4.86%) Redis
12 15 (4.56%) Big Data
13 13 (3.95%) DynamoDB
14 12 (3.65%) Hadoop
15 11 (3.34%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (3.04%) Power BI
17 7 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 54 (16.41%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.81%) Git
3 28 (8.51%) JUnit
4 23 (6.99%) JMeter
4 23 (6.99%) Mockito
5 14 (4.26%) GitLab
5 14 (4.26%) JIRA
6 9 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.74%) Selenium
7 6 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.82%) IntelliJ
8 5 (1.52%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.52%) Subversion
8 5 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.22%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.91%) Maven
10 3 (0.91%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.91%) TestRail
11 2 (0.61%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.61%) MLflow
General
1 148 (44.98%) Finance
2 74 (22.49%) Front Office
3 50 (15.20%) Public Sector
4 46 (13.98%) Banking
5 43 (13.07%) Social Skills
6 35 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (9.73%) Law
8 20 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (6.08%) Marketing
9 15 (4.56%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.26%) Investment Banking
11 13 (3.95%) Electronics
11 13 (3.95%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.52%) Advertising
12 5 (1.52%) Legal
13 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.22%) Retail
14 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 160 (48.63%) Developer
2 93 (28.27%) Software Engineer
3 74 (22.49%) Python Developer
4 69 (20.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 67 (20.36%) AWS Engineer
6 64 (19.45%) AWS Software Engineer
7 63 (19.15%) AWS Developer
7 63 (19.15%) Python Engineer
8 59 (17.93%) Python Software Engineer
9 48 (14.59%) Senior
10 46 (13.98%) Java Developer
11 42 (12.77%) Lead
12 31 (9.42%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (6.69%) Java Engineer
14 21 (6.38%) Linux Support
15 20 (6.08%) Applications Support
15 20 (6.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 19 (5.78%) Backend Developer
16 19 (5.78%) Data Engineer
17 18 (5.47%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (38.91%) React
2 102 (31.00%) Node.js
3 86 (26.14%) AngularJS
4 68 (20.67%) Vue
5 65 (19.76%) NumPy
5 65 (19.76%) Pandas
6 64 (19.45%) REST
7 63 (19.15%) SciPy
8 54 (16.41%) Spring
9 51 (15.50%) Spring Boot
10 48 (14.59%) FastAPI
11 39 (11.85%) HTML
12 38 (11.55%) RESTful
13 33 (10.03%) Web Services
14 32 (9.73%) jQuery
15 31 (9.42%) Kafka
16 26 (7.90%) Django
17 25 (7.60%) Apache Camel
18 24 (7.29%) Hibernate
19 22 (6.69%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 69 (20.97%) Equities
1 69 (20.97%) Fixed Income
1 69 (20.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 46 (13.98%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (10.94%) Cloud Native
4 23 (6.99%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (6.08%) Management Information System
6 17 (5.17%) Algorithms
7 13 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (3.34%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.34%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.82%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.52%) Derivative
11 5 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
11 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.22%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.72%) Linux
2 28 (8.51%) Unix
3 24 (7.29%) Windows
4 17 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.43%) Android
5 8 (2.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (58.05%) Agile
2 136 (41.34%) Software Engineering
3 114 (34.65%) CI/CD
4 101 (30.70%) Fintech
5 78 (23.71%) Microservices
6 70 (21.28%) Asset Management
7 69 (20.97%) Investment Management
8 66 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (19.45%) Risk Management
10 63 (19.15%) Order Management
10 63 (19.15%) Performance Attribution
11 62 (18.84%) Full-Stack Development
12 54 (16.41%) AI
13 50 (15.20%) Containerisation
14 41 (12.46%) DevOps
15 40 (12.16%) Test Automation
16 38 (11.55%) TDD
17 37 (11.25%) Mentoring
18 36 (10.94%) Data Engineering
19 35 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 217 (65.96%) Python
2 133 (40.43%) JavaScript
3 110 (33.43%) TypeScript
4 103 (31.31%) Java
5 75 (22.80%) SQL
6 26 (7.90%) Shell Script
7 14 (4.26%) C#
7 14 (4.26%) Rust
8 10 (3.04%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.43%) Bash
10 7 (2.13%) Go
11 5 (1.52%) PHP
12 4 (1.22%) Scala
13 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.91%) Ruby
14 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.61%) Groovy
14 2 (0.61%) SOQL
14 2 (0.61%) SOSL
15 1 (0.30%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 47 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.64%) Degree
3 24 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.08%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.47%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.04%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.61%) HNC
8 2 (0.61%) HND
8 2 (0.61%) MCSA
8 2 (0.61%) MCSE
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.69%) QA
2 20 (6.08%) SLA
3 9 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.13%) GDPR
6 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.91%) SEPA
7 2 (0.61%) PSD2
8 1 (0.30%) GAAP
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 102 (31.00%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) zsh
3 2 (0.61%) NFS
4 1 (0.30%) KVM
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 96 (29.18%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.94%) Terraform
3 26 (7.90%) Kibana
4 10 (3.04%) Grafana
5 8 (2.43%) Ansible
6 7 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.22%) Puppet
7 4 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.91%) Argo
8 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.61%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Ambari
10 1 (0.30%) CFEngine
10 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (14.59%) Oracle
2 26 (7.90%) IBM
3 25 (7.60%) Red Hat
4 24 (7.29%) Dynatrace
4 24 (7.29%) Google
4 24 (7.29%) Splunk
5 13 (3.95%) SAP
5 13 (3.95%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.74%) Atlassian
6 9 (2.74%) Informatica
7 8 (2.43%) Databricks
8 7 (2.13%) Talend
9 6 (1.82%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.82%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.82%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.22%) Vertica
11 3 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.61%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.61%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.61%) Sonatype