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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 104 160
Rank change year-on-year -36 +56 -27
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 294 535 369
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.22% 3.13% 2.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.61% 13.02% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 204 280 326
10th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +9.38% -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 2,533 4,109 4,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.13% 24.03% 21.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,611 2,627 3,180
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +13.79% -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 5 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 5 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 -23 23 £127,500 +54.55% 20
South London -13 22 £55,200 -11.68% 2
East London -13 6 £85,000 - 6
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 (20.07%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.82%) Apache Spark
3 19 (6.46%) WebSphere
4 17 (5.78%) Tomcat
5 16 (5.44%) WebSphere Application Server
6 10 (3.40%) 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 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 212 (72.11%) AWS
2 112 (38.10%) GCP
3 76 (25.85%) Azure
4 58 (19.73%) dbt
5 47 (15.99%) Serverless
6 35 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
7 33 (11.22%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (6.46%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (4.76%) Power Platform
12 13 (4.42%) GitHub
13 12 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.08%) SaaS
14 11 (3.74%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (3.06%) Snowflake
16 7 (2.38%) Route 53
17 6 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.46%) SSL
2 6 (2.04%) 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 76 (25.85%) Relational Database
2 66 (22.45%) SQL Server
3 50 (17.01%) Apache Iceberg
4 47 (15.99%) MySQL
5 45 (15.31%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (15.31%) Apache Arrow
5 45 (15.31%) Dremio
6 42 (14.29%) MongoDB
6 42 (14.29%) RDBMS
7 41 (13.95%) NoSQL
8 34 (11.56%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (10.54%) DB2
10 19 (6.46%) Big Data
11 16 (5.44%) DynamoDB
11 16 (5.44%) Hadoop
12 14 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (4.76%) Power BI
12 14 (4.76%) Redis
13 11 (3.74%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 55 (18.71%) Jenkins
2 26 (8.84%) Git
3 23 (7.82%) JUnit
4 22 (7.48%) JMeter
5 21 (7.14%) Mockito
6 16 (5.44%) JIRA
7 14 (4.76%) GitLab
7 14 (4.76%) Selenium
8 13 (4.42%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.74%) Cucumber
10 10 (3.40%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.36%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.36%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.02%) IntelliJ
12 3 (1.02%) MLflow
12 3 (1.02%) Subversion
12 3 (1.02%) TestRail
12 3 (1.02%) Vite
13 2 (0.68%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
General
1 115 (39.12%) Finance
2 53 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 49 (16.67%) Front Office
4 38 (12.93%) Banking
5 36 (12.24%) Public Sector
6 25 (8.50%) Law
7 23 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.42%) Investment Banking
10 12 (4.08%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.74%) Marketing
12 9 (3.06%) Electronics
12 9 (3.06%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.04%) Legal
14 5 (1.70%) Advertising
14 5 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.70%) Retail
15 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 129 (43.88%) Developer
2 62 (21.09%) Software Engineer
3 57 (19.39%) Python Developer
4 49 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 47 (15.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 46 (15.65%) AWS Software Engineer
6 46 (15.65%) Python Engineer
7 45 (15.31%) AWS Developer
8 42 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
9 40 (13.61%) Senior
10 39 (13.27%) Java Developer
11 34 (11.56%) Lead
12 30 (10.20%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (7.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 22 (7.48%) Principal Engineer
14 21 (7.14%) Data Engineer
14 21 (7.14%) Linux Support
15 19 (6.46%) Applications Support
16 18 (6.12%) Backend Developer
17 15 (5.10%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (35.71%) React
2 83 (28.23%) Node.js
3 61 (20.75%) AngularJS
4 57 (19.39%) REST
5 52 (17.69%) Vue
6 46 (15.65%) NumPy
6 46 (15.65%) Pandas
7 45 (15.31%) FastAPI
7 45 (15.31%) SciPy
8 44 (14.97%) HTML
9 42 (14.29%) Spring
10 40 (13.61%) Spring Boot
11 30 (10.20%) RESTful
12 29 (9.86%) Django
12 29 (9.86%) Kafka
13 28 (9.52%) Web Services
14 27 (9.18%) CSS
15 25 (8.50%) jQuery
16 23 (7.82%) Flask
17 21 (7.14%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (15.99%) Equities
2 47 (15.99%) Fixed Income
2 47 (15.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 23 (7.82%) Management Information System
5 21 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (5.44%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.42%) Algorithms
8 11 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.70%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.36%) Reinsurance
13 3 (1.02%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.02%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.02%) Replication
14 2 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
14 2 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.61%) Linux
2 26 (8.84%) Unix
3 17 (5.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (5.78%) Windows
4 5 (1.70%) Android
4 5 (1.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (53.40%) Agile
2 118 (40.14%) CI/CD
3 110 (37.41%) Software Engineering
4 83 (28.23%) Fintech
5 80 (27.21%) Microservices
6 59 (20.07%) Full-Stack Development
6 59 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (17.35%) AI
8 49 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 48 (16.33%) Asset Management
9 48 (16.33%) Investment Management
10 46 (15.65%) Risk Management
11 45 (15.31%) DevOps
11 45 (15.31%) Order Management
11 45 (15.31%) Performance Attribution
12 41 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
13 39 (13.27%) Data Engineering
13 39 (13.27%) ETL
13 39 (13.27%) Test Automation
14 35 (11.90%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 196 (66.67%) Python
2 113 (38.44%) JavaScript
3 91 (30.95%) Java
4 87 (29.59%) TypeScript
5 74 (25.17%) SQL
6 23 (7.82%) Shell Script
7 17 (5.78%) C#
8 10 (3.40%) Rust
9 6 (2.04%) Go
10 5 (1.70%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.36%) PHP
11 4 (1.36%) Ruby
12 3 (1.02%) Bash
12 3 (1.02%) Scala
13 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.68%) 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 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 36 (12.24%) Degree
3 25 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.80%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.12%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.70%) 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 (6.46%) QA
2 17 (5.78%) SLA
3 9 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.06%) 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
1 102 (34.69%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) zsh
3 2 (0.68%) NFS
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (31.29%) Kubernetes
2 38 (12.93%) Terraform
3 24 (8.16%) Kibana
4 13 (4.42%) Grafana
5 10 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.38%) Argo
7 6 (2.04%) Ansible
8 3 (1.02%) Puppet
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.68%) 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 43 (14.63%) Oracle
2 21 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 21 (7.14%) IBM
2 21 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 21 (7.14%) Splunk
3 19 (6.46%) Google
4 13 (4.42%) Atlassian
4 13 (4.42%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.08%) Informatica
6 11 (3.74%) Talend
7 9 (3.06%) Microsoft
7 9 (3.06%) SAP
8 5 (1.70%) Databricks
8 5 (1.70%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.68%) Cisco
9 2 (0.68%) Confluent
9 2 (0.68%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.68%) Dell
9 2 (0.68%) Starlink