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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 107 159
Rank change year-on-year -31 +52 -30
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 291 534 375
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.20% 3.16% 2.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.55% 13.19% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 202 280 332
10th Percentile £60,125 £50,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £64,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,750 £86,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.49% +7.81% -5.88%
75th Percentile £132,500 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £137,500 £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 2,519 4,048 4,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.06% 23.95% 21.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,597 2,580 3,225
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,313 £92,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £138,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

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 December 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 December 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
Central London -19 22 £135,000 +63.64% 21
South London -13 21 £55,200 -11.68% 8
East London -14 6 £85,000 - 6
West London -19 1 £62,500 -7.41% 4
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 59 (20.27%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.90%) Apache Spark
3 19 (6.53%) WebSphere
4 17 (5.84%) Tomcat
5 16 (5.50%) WebSphere Application Server
6 10 (3.44%) Confluence
7 4 (1.37%) Apache
8 3 (1.03%) Luigi
8 3 (1.03%) nginx
9 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.34%) Camunda
10 1 (0.34%) CMS
10 1 (0.34%) IIS
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (2.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 210 (72.16%) AWS
2 110 (37.80%) GCP
3 76 (26.12%) Azure
4 58 (19.93%) dbt
5 46 (15.81%) Serverless
6 34 (11.68%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (11.00%) Amazon EC2
8 29 (9.97%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (6.53%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.81%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (4.81%) Power Platform
12 13 (4.47%) GitHub
13 12 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.12%) SaaS
14 11 (3.78%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (3.09%) Snowflake
16 7 (2.41%) Route 53
17 6 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.53%) SSL
2 6 (2.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.69%) BGP
3 2 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.69%) Firewall
3 2 (0.69%) MQTT
3 2 (0.69%) OSPF
3 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.69%) RTMP
3 2 (0.69%) VLAN
3 2 (0.69%) VPN
3 2 (0.69%) WAN
3 2 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.69%) Wireless
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (25.43%) Relational Database
2 65 (22.34%) SQL Server
3 50 (17.18%) Apache Iceberg
4 47 (16.15%) MySQL
5 45 (15.46%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (15.46%) Apache Arrow
5 45 (15.46%) Dremio
6 43 (14.78%) MongoDB
7 41 (14.09%) NoSQL
7 41 (14.09%) RDBMS
8 33 (11.34%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (10.65%) DB2
10 18 (6.19%) Big Data
11 16 (5.50%) DynamoDB
11 16 (5.50%) Hadoop
12 14 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (4.81%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (4.81%) Power BI
12 14 (4.81%) Redis
13 11 (3.78%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 54 (18.56%) Jenkins
2 25 (8.59%) Git
3 22 (7.56%) JMeter
3 22 (7.56%) JUnit
4 21 (7.22%) Mockito
5 16 (5.50%) JIRA
6 14 (4.81%) GitLab
6 14 (4.81%) Selenium
7 13 (4.47%) Bitbucket
8 11 (3.78%) Cucumber
9 10 (3.44%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.37%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.37%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.03%) MLflow
11 3 (1.03%) Subversion
11 3 (1.03%) TestRail
11 3 (1.03%) Vite
12 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.69%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
General
1 115 (39.52%) Finance
2 53 (18.21%) Social Skills
3 49 (16.84%) Front Office
4 38 (13.06%) Banking
5 35 (12.03%) Public Sector
6 25 (8.59%) Law
7 23 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.47%) Investment Banking
10 11 (3.78%) Telecoms
11 10 (3.44%) Marketing
12 8 (2.75%) Electronics
12 8 (2.75%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.06%) Legal
14 5 (1.72%) Advertising
14 5 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.72%) Retail
15 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 126 (43.30%) Developer
2 62 (21.31%) Software Engineer
3 56 (19.24%) Python Developer
4 49 (16.84%) AWS Engineer
5 47 (16.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 46 (15.81%) AWS Software Engineer
6 46 (15.81%) Python Engineer
7 45 (15.46%) AWS Developer
8 42 (14.43%) Python Software Engineer
9 38 (13.06%) Java Developer
9 38 (13.06%) Senior
10 33 (11.34%) Lead
11 29 (9.97%) Full-Stack Developer
12 22 (7.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 22 (7.56%) Principal Engineer
13 21 (7.22%) Data Engineer
13 21 (7.22%) Linux Support
14 19 (6.53%) Applications Support
15 17 (5.84%) Backend Developer
16 15 (5.15%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (35.40%) React
2 82 (28.18%) Node.js
3 61 (20.96%) AngularJS
4 55 (18.90%) REST
5 52 (17.87%) Vue
6 46 (15.81%) NumPy
6 46 (15.81%) Pandas
7 45 (15.46%) SciPy
8 44 (15.12%) FastAPI
8 44 (15.12%) HTML
9 42 (14.43%) Spring
10 40 (13.75%) Spring Boot
11 29 (9.97%) Django
11 29 (9.97%) Kafka
12 28 (9.62%) RESTful
13 27 (9.28%) CSS
13 27 (9.28%) Web Services
14 25 (8.59%) jQuery
15 22 (7.56%) Flask
16 21 (7.22%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.49%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (16.15%) Equities
2 47 (16.15%) Fixed Income
2 47 (16.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (9.62%) Cloud Native
4 23 (7.90%) Management Information System
5 21 (7.22%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (5.50%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.47%) Algorithms
8 11 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.37%) Reinsurance
13 3 (1.03%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.03%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.03%) Replication
14 2 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
14 2 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.75%) Linux
2 26 (8.93%) Unix
3 17 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (5.84%) Windows
4 5 (1.72%) Android
4 5 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (53.61%) Agile
2 118 (40.55%) CI/CD
3 111 (38.14%) Software Engineering
4 82 (28.18%) Fintech
5 80 (27.49%) Microservices
6 59 (20.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 58 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (17.87%) AI
9 48 (16.49%) Asset Management
9 48 (16.49%) Investment Management
10 47 (16.15%) Containerisation
11 46 (15.81%) Risk Management
12 45 (15.46%) DevOps
12 45 (15.46%) Order Management
12 45 (15.46%) Performance Attribution
13 40 (13.75%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (13.40%) Data Engineering
15 38 (13.06%) ETL
15 38 (13.06%) Test Automation
16 35 (12.03%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 195 (67.01%) Python
2 113 (38.83%) JavaScript
3 90 (30.93%) Java
4 86 (29.55%) TypeScript
5 75 (25.77%) SQL
6 23 (7.90%) Shell Script
7 17 (5.84%) C#
8 10 (3.44%) Rust
9 6 (2.06%) Go
10 5 (1.72%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.37%) PHP
11 4 (1.37%) Ruby
12 3 (1.03%) Bash
12 3 (1.03%) Scala
13 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.69%) RPG
14 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.34%) COBOL
14 1 (0.34%) Delphi
14 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 36 (12.37%) Degree
3 25 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.87%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.19%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.75%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.69%) HNC
10 2 (0.69%) HND
10 2 (0.69%) MCSA
10 2 (0.69%) MCSE
10 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.34%) MCP
11 1 (0.34%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.19%) QA
2 16 (5.50%) SLA
3 9 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.09%) GDPR
4 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.03%) SEPA
5 2 (0.69%) PSD2
6 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.34%) GAAP
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 100 (34.36%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) zsh
3 2 (0.69%) NFS
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (30.93%) Kubernetes
2 37 (12.71%) Terraform
3 24 (8.25%) Kibana
4 13 (4.47%) Grafana
5 10 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.41%) Argo
7 5 (1.72%) Ansible
8 3 (1.03%) Puppet
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.34%) Ambari
10 1 (0.34%) logstash
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (14.43%) Oracle
2 21 (7.22%) Dynatrace
2 21 (7.22%) IBM
2 21 (7.22%) Red Hat
2 21 (7.22%) Splunk
3 17 (5.84%) Google
4 13 (4.47%) Atlassian
4 13 (4.47%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.12%) Informatica
6 11 (3.78%) Talend
7 9 (3.09%) Microsoft
8 8 (2.75%) SAP
9 5 (1.72%) Databricks
9 5 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.37%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.69%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.69%) Cisco
11 2 (0.69%) Dell
11 2 (0.69%) NETGEAR
11 2 (0.69%) Sonatype