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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 106 169
Rank change year-on-year -33 +63 -36
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 295 528 360
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.23% 3.11% 1.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.55% 12.95% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 203 275 317
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 £68,750
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 2,554 4,078 4,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.32% 23.99% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 2,609 3,177
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £81,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% +11.72% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 3 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 3 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 -22 23 £127,500 +54.55% 24
South London -12 22 £55,200 -11.68% 2
East London -12 6 £85,000 - 4
West London -17 1 £62,500 -7.41% 3
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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (7.46%) Apache Spark
3 19 (6.44%) WebSphere
4 17 (5.76%) Tomcat
5 16 (5.42%) WebSphere Application Server
6 10 (3.39%) Confluence
7 4 (1.36%) Apache
8 3 (1.02%) Luigi
8 3 (1.02%) nginx
9 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.34%) CMS
10 1 (0.34%) IIS
10 1 (0.34%) JBoss
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (2.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 213 (72.20%) AWS
2 112 (37.97%) GCP
3 76 (25.76%) Azure
4 58 (19.66%) dbt
5 48 (16.27%) Serverless
6 36 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (11.53%) Amazon EC2
8 31 (10.51%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (6.44%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.75%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (4.75%) Power Platform
12 13 (4.41%) GitHub
13 12 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.07%) SaaS
14 11 (3.73%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (3.05%) Snowflake
16 7 (2.37%) Route 53
17 6 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
17 6 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.44%) SSL
2 6 (2.03%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.68%) BGP
3 2 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.68%) Firewall
3 2 (0.68%) MQTT
3 2 (0.68%) OSPF
3 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.68%) RTMP
3 2 (0.68%) VLAN
3 2 (0.68%) VPN
3 2 (0.68%) WAN
3 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.68%) Wireless
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (26.10%) Relational Database
2 64 (21.69%) SQL Server
3 50 (16.95%) Apache Iceberg
4 47 (15.93%) MySQL
5 45 (15.25%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (15.25%) Apache Arrow
5 45 (15.25%) Dremio
6 42 (14.24%) RDBMS
7 41 (13.90%) MongoDB
8 40 (13.56%) NoSQL
9 33 (11.19%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (10.51%) DB2
11 18 (6.10%) Big Data
12 16 (5.42%) DynamoDB
13 15 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (5.08%) Hadoop
14 14 (4.75%) Power BI
14 14 (4.75%) Redis
15 13 (4.41%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (3.39%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 55 (18.64%) Jenkins
2 26 (8.81%) Git
3 23 (7.80%) JUnit
4 22 (7.46%) JMeter
5 21 (7.12%) Mockito
6 16 (5.42%) JIRA
7 14 (4.75%) GitLab
7 14 (4.75%) Selenium
8 13 (4.41%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.73%) Cucumber
10 10 (3.39%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.69%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.36%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.02%) IntelliJ
13 3 (1.02%) MLflow
13 3 (1.02%) Subversion
13 3 (1.02%) TestRail
13 3 (1.02%) Vite
14 2 (0.68%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
General
1 117 (39.66%) Finance
2 52 (17.63%) Social Skills
3 50 (16.95%) Front Office
4 40 (13.56%) Banking
5 36 (12.20%) Public Sector
6 27 (9.15%) Law
7 22 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.41%) Investment Banking
10 12 (4.07%) Marketing
10 12 (4.07%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.05%) Electronics
11 9 (3.05%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.03%) Legal
13 5 (1.69%) Advertising
13 5 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.69%) Retail
14 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 128 (43.39%) Developer
2 64 (21.69%) Software Engineer
3 57 (19.32%) Python Developer
4 49 (16.61%) AWS Engineer
5 47 (15.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 47 (15.93%) Python Engineer
6 46 (15.59%) AWS Software Engineer
7 45 (15.25%) AWS Developer
8 43 (14.58%) Python Software Engineer
9 42 (14.24%) Senior
10 39 (13.22%) Java Developer
11 36 (12.20%) Lead
12 30 (10.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (7.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 21 (7.12%) Data Engineer
14 21 (7.12%) Linux Support
14 21 (7.12%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (6.44%) Applications Support
16 18 (6.10%) Backend Developer
17 15 (5.08%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (35.59%) React
2 83 (28.14%) Node.js
3 61 (20.68%) AngularJS
4 56 (18.98%) REST
5 52 (17.63%) Vue
6 46 (15.59%) FastAPI
6 46 (15.59%) NumPy
6 46 (15.59%) Pandas
7 45 (15.25%) SciPy
8 44 (14.92%) HTML
9 43 (14.58%) Spring
10 41 (13.90%) Spring Boot
11 31 (10.51%) RESTful
12 29 (9.83%) Django
12 29 (9.83%) Kafka
13 28 (9.49%) Web Services
14 27 (9.15%) CSS
15 25 (8.47%) jQuery
16 23 (7.80%) Flask
17 21 (7.12%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.27%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (15.93%) Equities
2 47 (15.93%) Fixed Income
2 47 (15.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 29 (9.83%) Cloud Native
4 22 (7.46%) Management Information System
5 21 (7.12%) Linux Command Line
6 15 (5.08%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.41%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.36%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.36%) Reinsurance
12 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.02%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.02%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.56%) Linux
2 26 (8.81%) Unix
3 17 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (5.76%) Windows
4 5 (1.69%) Android
4 5 (1.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (53.56%) Agile
2 117 (39.66%) CI/CD
3 112 (37.97%) Software Engineering
4 82 (27.80%) Fintech
5 81 (27.46%) Microservices
6 60 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 52 (17.63%) AI
9 50 (16.95%) Containerisation
10 48 (16.27%) Asset Management
10 48 (16.27%) Investment Management
11 46 (15.59%) Risk Management
12 45 (15.25%) Order Management
12 45 (15.25%) Performance Attribution
13 44 (14.92%) DevOps
14 40 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
15 39 (13.22%) Data Engineering
15 39 (13.22%) Test Automation
16 38 (12.88%) ETL
17 34 (11.53%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 197 (66.78%) Python
2 113 (38.31%) JavaScript
3 92 (31.19%) Java
4 87 (29.49%) TypeScript
5 72 (24.41%) SQL
6 23 (7.80%) Shell Script
7 16 (5.42%) C#
8 11 (3.73%) Rust
9 6 (2.03%) Go
9 6 (2.03%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.36%) PHP
10 4 (1.36%) Ruby
11 3 (1.02%) Bash
11 3 (1.02%) Scala
12 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.68%) RPG
13 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.34%) COBOL
13 1 (0.34%) Delphi
13 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 36 (12.20%) Degree
3 25 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.78%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.10%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) HNC
10 2 (0.68%) HND
10 2 (0.68%) MCSA
10 2 (0.68%) MCSE
10 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.34%) MCP
11 1 (0.34%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.44%) QA
2 17 (5.76%) SLA
3 9 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.05%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.05%) GDPR
4 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.02%) SEPA
5 2 (0.68%) 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
1 101 (34.24%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) zsh
3 2 (0.68%) NFS
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (31.53%) Kubernetes
2 38 (12.88%) Terraform
3 24 (8.14%) Kibana
4 13 (4.41%) Grafana
5 10 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.37%) Argo
7 6 (2.03%) Ansible
8 3 (1.02%) Puppet
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.34%) Ambari
10 1 (0.34%) logstash
10 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 43 (14.58%) Oracle
2 21 (7.12%) Dynatrace
2 21 (7.12%) IBM
2 21 (7.12%) Red Hat
2 21 (7.12%) Splunk
3 19 (6.44%) Google
4 13 (4.41%) Atlassian
4 13 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.73%) Informatica
6 10 (3.39%) Talend
7 9 (3.05%) Microsoft
7 9 (3.05%) SAP
8 6 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.69%) Databricks
9 5 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco
10 2 (0.68%) Dell
10 2 (0.68%) NETGEAR
10 2 (0.68%) Vertica