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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 97 140
Rank change year-on-year -52 +43 -9
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 268 522 395
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.95% 3.31% 2.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.08% 14.02% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 191 274 350
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +9.88% -3.48%
75th Percentile £111,875 £115,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,375 £120,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%

All Database & 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 2,419 3,724 3,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.61% 23.59% 21.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 2,293 3,067
10th Percentile £43,825 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,250 £132,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 30 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 30 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 -20 26 £100,000 +17.65% 150
South London -19 16 £62,600 +0.16% 23
East London -11 6 £85,000 - 9
West London -20 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 43 (16.04%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (8.58%) Apache Spark
3 19 (7.09%) WebSphere
4 17 (6.34%) Tomcat
5 16 (5.97%) WebSphere Application Server
6 14 (5.22%) Confluence
7 5 (1.87%) Apache
8 3 (1.12%) Luigi
8 3 (1.12%) nginx
9 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.37%) Camunda
10 1 (0.37%) CMS
10 1 (0.37%) IIS
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) Endur
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 185 (69.03%) AWS
2 91 (33.96%) GCP
3 72 (26.87%) Azure
4 41 (15.30%) dbt
5 39 (14.55%) Serverless
6 28 (10.45%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (8.96%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (8.21%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (6.72%) Amazon S3
11 15 (5.60%) GitHub
11 15 (5.60%) Power Platform
11 15 (5.60%) SaaS
12 13 (4.85%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.10%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (3.36%) Snowflake
16 7 (2.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (2.61%) Route 53
17 6 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.09%) SSL
2 6 (2.24%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.75%) BGP
3 2 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.75%) Firewall
3 2 (0.75%) MQTT
3 2 (0.75%) OSPF
3 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.75%) RTMP
3 2 (0.75%) VLAN
3 2 (0.75%) VPN
3 2 (0.75%) WAN
3 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.75%) Wireless
4 1 (0.37%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (24.25%) SQL Server
2 63 (23.51%) Relational Database
3 44 (16.42%) MySQL
4 43 (16.04%) MongoDB
5 42 (15.67%) NoSQL
6 34 (12.69%) Apache Iceberg
6 34 (12.69%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (12.69%) DB2
7 33 (12.31%) RDBMS
8 29 (10.82%) Amazon Athena
8 29 (10.82%) Apache Arrow
8 29 (10.82%) Dremio
9 18 (6.72%) Big Data
10 16 (5.97%) Hadoop
11 15 (5.60%) DynamoDB
11 15 (5.60%) Power BI
12 14 (5.22%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (4.48%) Redis
15 11 (4.10%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 53 (19.78%) Jenkins
2 25 (9.33%) Git
3 19 (7.09%) JIRA
4 17 (6.34%) JMeter
4 17 (6.34%) JUnit
4 17 (6.34%) Selenium
5 16 (5.97%) Mockito
6 15 (5.60%) Bitbucket
6 15 (5.60%) GitLab
7 14 (5.22%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.85%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.87%) Vite
10 4 (1.49%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.49%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.12%) MLflow
11 3 (1.12%) Subversion
11 3 (1.12%) TestRail
12 2 (0.75%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.75%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.75%) REST Assured
General
1 93 (34.70%) Finance
2 58 (21.64%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.43%) Banking
4 30 (11.19%) Front Office
5 29 (10.82%) Public Sector
6 24 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (7.84%) Law
8 12 (4.48%) Investment Banking
9 10 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.73%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.61%) Electronics
10 7 (2.61%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.61%) Marketing
10 7 (2.61%) Retail
11 6 (2.24%) Legal
12 5 (1.87%) Advertising
13 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.75%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (38.81%) Developer
2 42 (15.67%) Python Developer
2 42 (15.67%) Software Engineer
3 35 (13.06%) Senior
4 34 (12.69%) AWS Engineer
5 32 (11.94%) Python Engineer
6 31 (11.57%) Java Developer
7 30 (11.19%) AWS Software Engineer
7 30 (11.19%) Lead
8 29 (10.82%) AWS Developer
8 29 (10.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 29 (10.82%) Python Software Engineer
9 28 (10.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (8.21%) Principal Engineer
11 21 (7.84%) Data Engineer
11 21 (7.84%) Linux Support
12 20 (7.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 19 (7.09%) Applications Support
14 17 (6.34%) Backend Developer
15 15 (5.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (30.97%) React
2 69 (25.75%) Node.js
3 47 (17.54%) REST
4 45 (16.79%) AngularJS
4 45 (16.79%) FastAPI
5 40 (14.93%) HTML
6 36 (13.43%) Vue
7 34 (12.69%) Spring
8 32 (11.94%) Django
8 32 (11.94%) Spring Boot
9 30 (11.19%) NumPy
9 30 (11.19%) Pandas
10 29 (10.82%) SciPy
11 28 (10.45%) CSS
12 27 (10.07%) RESTful
13 26 (9.70%) Kafka
14 22 (8.21%) Flask
14 22 (8.21%) Web Services
15 19 (7.09%) jQuery
16 18 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.42%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (10.82%) Equities
2 29 (10.82%) Fixed Income
2 29 (10.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 26 (9.70%) Cloud Native
4 22 (8.21%) Management Information System
5 19 (7.09%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (5.97%) Product Ownership
7 14 (5.22%) Algorithms
8 13 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.61%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.12%) Reinsurance
12 3 (1.12%) Replication
13 2 (0.75%) Blog
13 2 (0.75%) MPEG
13 2 (0.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.81%) Linux
2 26 (9.70%) Unix
3 17 (6.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (6.34%) Windows
4 7 (2.61%) Android
4 7 (2.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (47.76%) Agile
2 113 (42.16%) CI/CD
3 90 (33.58%) Software Engineering
4 78 (29.10%) Microservices
5 62 (23.13%) Fintech
6 60 (22.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 55 (20.52%) AI
7 55 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (16.79%) Containerisation
9 43 (16.04%) DevOps
10 40 (14.93%) Business Intelligence
11 39 (14.55%) ETL
12 38 (14.18%) Data Engineering
12 38 (14.18%) Test Automation
13 36 (13.43%) Data Modelling
14 33 (12.31%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (11.57%) Risk Management
15 31 (11.57%) Scrum
16 30 (11.19%) Analytics
16 30 (11.19%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 174 (64.93%) Python
2 95 (35.45%) JavaScript
3 79 (29.48%) Java
4 76 (28.36%) SQL
5 71 (26.49%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.34%) Shell Script
7 15 (5.60%) C#
8 9 (3.36%) Rust
9 6 (2.24%) Go
10 4 (1.49%) PHP
10 4 (1.49%) Ruby
11 3 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.12%) RPG
11 3 (1.12%) Scala
12 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.37%) Bash
13 1 (0.37%) COBOL
13 1 (0.37%) Delphi
13 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 36 (13.43%) Degree
3 25 (9.33%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.09%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.72%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.75%) HNC
11 2 (0.75%) HND
11 2 (0.75%) MCSA
11 2 (0.75%) MCSE
11 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.37%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.97%) SLA
2 14 (5.22%) QA
3 10 (3.73%) GDPR
4 8 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.12%) SEPA
6 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.75%) PSD2
7 1 (0.37%) GAAP
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 98 (36.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) NFS
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) zsh
Systems Management
1 88 (32.84%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.67%) Terraform
3 18 (6.72%) Kibana
4 11 (4.10%) Grafana
5 9 (3.36%) Argo
5 9 (3.36%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.24%) Ansible
7 3 (1.12%) Puppet
8 2 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.37%) Ambari
9 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (14.93%) Oracle
2 22 (8.21%) IBM
3 21 (7.84%) Red Hat
4 16 (5.97%) Google
5 15 (5.60%) Atlassian
5 15 (5.60%) Dynatrace
5 15 (5.60%) Splunk
6 13 (4.85%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.48%) Informatica
8 11 (4.10%) Talend
9 9 (3.36%) Microsoft
10 7 (2.61%) SAP
11 6 (2.24%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.12%) Databricks
12 3 (1.12%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
13 2 (0.75%) Dell
13 2 (0.75%) MikroTik
13 2 (0.75%) Sonatype
13 2 (0.75%) Ubiquiti