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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 106 163
Rank change year-on-year -24 +57 -53
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 316 541 379
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.44% 3.07% 2.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.06% 13.05% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 215 280 320
10th Percentile £60,500 £50,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £64,471 £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 £110,000 £100,625
90th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £120,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £74,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +0.67% +8.36% -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 2,621 4,147 4,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.23% 23.53% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,649 2,660 3,330
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,784
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 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £138,750 £115,000
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 22 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 22 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 -15 25 £55,200 -13.41% 7
Central London -19 21 £137,500 +69.23% 200
East London -9 6 £85,000 - 6
West London -15 3 £63,500 -5.93% 8
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 68 (21.52%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (6.01%) Apache Spark
2 19 (6.01%) WebSphere
3 17 (5.38%) Tomcat
4 16 (5.06%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (2.53%) Confluence
6 4 (1.27%) Apache
7 3 (0.95%) JBoss
7 3 (0.95%) Luigi
7 3 (0.95%) nginx
7 3 (0.95%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.32%) CMS
9 1 (0.32%) IIS
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.32%) Notion
2 1 (0.32%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 237 (75.00%) AWS
2 122 (38.61%) GCP
3 77 (24.37%) Azure
4 71 (22.47%) dbt
5 53 (16.77%) Serverless
6 40 (12.66%) Amazon EKS
7 38 (12.03%) Amazon EC2
8 37 (11.71%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (6.33%) Amazon S3
11 15 (4.75%) GitHub
12 14 (4.43%) Power Platform
13 13 (4.11%) SaaS
14 12 (3.80%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (3.48%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.85%) Snowflake
17 7 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
17 7 (2.22%) Route 53
17 7 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.01%) SSL
2 6 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.95%) MQTT
3 3 (0.95%) VPN
4 2 (0.63%) BGP
4 2 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.63%) Firewall
4 2 (0.63%) OSPF
4 2 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.63%) RTMP
4 2 (0.63%) VLAN
4 2 (0.63%) WAN
4 2 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.63%) Wireless
5 1 (0.32%) DNS
5 1 (0.32%) FTP
5 1 (0.32%) SMS
5 1 (0.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 61 (19.30%) SQL Server
3 60 (18.99%) Apache Iceberg
4 55 (17.41%) Amazon Athena
4 55 (17.41%) Apache Arrow
4 55 (17.41%) Dremio
5 44 (13.92%) MySQL
6 42 (13.29%) MongoDB
7 41 (12.97%) RDBMS
8 36 (11.39%) NoSQL
9 29 (9.18%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (9.18%) DB2
10 17 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (5.06%) Redis
12 15 (4.75%) Big Data
13 14 (4.43%) Power BI
14 12 (3.80%) DynamoDB
14 12 (3.80%) Hadoop
15 10 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
16 7 (2.22%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 58 (18.35%) Jenkins
2 30 (9.49%) Git
3 27 (8.54%) JUnit
4 23 (7.28%) JMeter
4 23 (7.28%) Mockito
5 17 (5.38%) JIRA
6 15 (4.75%) GitLab
7 12 (3.80%) Bitbucket
7 12 (3.80%) Selenium
8 9 (2.85%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.53%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.90%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.27%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.27%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.27%) Subversion
12 3 (0.95%) MLflow
12 3 (0.95%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.95%) TestRail
12 3 (0.95%) Vite
13 2 (0.63%) Jaeger
General
1 132 (41.77%) Finance
2 63 (19.94%) Front Office
3 48 (15.19%) Social Skills
4 43 (13.61%) Banking
5 42 (13.29%) Public Sector
6 27 (8.54%) Law
7 23 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (5.38%) Marketing
10 15 (4.75%) Telecoms
11 13 (4.11%) Investment Banking
12 12 (3.80%) Electronics
12 12 (3.80%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.90%) Legal
14 5 (1.58%) Advertising
14 5 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.27%) Retail
16 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (46.52%) Developer
2 80 (25.32%) Software Engineer
3 66 (20.89%) Python Developer
4 59 (18.67%) AWS Engineer
4 59 (18.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 57 (18.04%) Python Engineer
6 56 (17.72%) AWS Software Engineer
7 55 (17.41%) AWS Developer
8 52 (16.46%) Python Software Engineer
9 45 (14.24%) Senior
10 44 (13.92%) Java Developer
11 39 (12.34%) Lead
12 30 (9.49%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (6.96%) Data Engineer
14 21 (6.65%) Linux Support
15 20 (6.33%) Applications Support
15 20 (6.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 19 (6.01%) Backend Developer
16 19 (6.01%) Java Engineer
17 18 (5.70%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (37.03%) React
2 94 (29.75%) Node.js
3 73 (23.10%) AngularJS
4 62 (19.62%) REST
4 62 (19.62%) Vue
5 57 (18.04%) NumPy
5 57 (18.04%) Pandas
6 55 (17.41%) SciPy
7 52 (16.46%) FastAPI
8 50 (15.82%) Spring
9 48 (15.19%) Spring Boot
10 45 (14.24%) HTML
11 34 (10.76%) RESTful
12 31 (9.81%) Kafka
12 31 (9.81%) Web Services
13 29 (9.18%) Django
14 27 (8.54%) CSS
15 26 (8.23%) jQuery
16 24 (7.59%) Apache Camel
16 24 (7.59%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.67%) Equities
1 59 (18.67%) Fixed Income
1 59 (18.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 48 (15.19%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (10.76%) Cloud Native
4 22 (6.96%) Linux Command Line
5 19 (6.01%) Management Information System
6 13 (4.11%) Algorithms
7 11 (3.48%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.58%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.27%) Derivative
11 4 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.27%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (14.24%) Linux
2 27 (8.54%) Unix
3 17 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (5.38%) Windows
4 4 (1.27%) Android
4 4 (1.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (56.01%) Agile
2 126 (39.87%) Software Engineering
3 115 (36.39%) CI/CD
4 91 (28.80%) Fintech
5 85 (26.90%) Microservices
6 63 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (18.99%) Asset Management
8 59 (18.67%) Investment Management
9 58 (18.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 56 (17.72%) Risk Management
11 55 (17.41%) Containerisation
11 55 (17.41%) Order Management
11 55 (17.41%) Performance Attribution
12 52 (16.46%) AI
13 48 (15.19%) DevOps
14 40 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
15 39 (12.34%) Data Engineering
16 38 (12.03%) Test Automation
17 35 (11.08%) TDD
18 34 (10.76%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 212 (67.09%) Python
2 127 (40.19%) JavaScript
3 100 (31.65%) TypeScript
4 99 (31.33%) Java
5 72 (22.78%) SQL
6 26 (8.23%) Shell Script
7 15 (4.75%) C#
8 12 (3.80%) Rust
9 7 (2.22%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.90%) Go
11 5 (1.58%) Bash
11 5 (1.58%) PHP
11 5 (1.58%) Ruby
12 4 (1.27%) Scala
13 2 (0.63%) Groovy
13 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.32%) Clojure
14 1 (0.32%) SOQL
14 1 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 51 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.71%) Degree
3 28 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.01%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.70%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.85%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.63%) HNC
10 2 (0.63%) HND
10 2 (0.63%) MCSA
10 2 (0.63%) MCSE
10 2 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.32%) MCP
11 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.65%) QA
2 19 (6.01%) SLA
3 11 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.85%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.85%) GDPR
5 3 (0.95%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.95%) SEPA
6 2 (0.63%) PSD2
7 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.32%) GAAP
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 108 (34.18%) Docker
2 4 (1.27%) zsh
3 2 (0.63%) NFS
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (31.33%) Kubernetes
2 40 (12.66%) Terraform
3 26 (8.23%) Kibana
4 14 (4.43%) Grafana
5 11 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.53%) Ansible
7 7 (2.22%) Argo
8 3 (0.95%) Puppet
8 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.63%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.63%) logstash
9 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.32%) Ambari
10 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (13.92%) Oracle
2 24 (7.59%) Dynatrace
2 24 (7.59%) Splunk
3 21 (6.65%) Red Hat
4 20 (6.33%) Google
4 20 (6.33%) IBM
5 13 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.80%) Atlassian
6 12 (3.80%) SAP
7 8 (2.53%) Informatica
7 8 (2.53%) Microsoft
8 7 (2.22%) Databricks
8 7 (2.22%) OpenAI
8 7 (2.22%) Talend
9 5 (1.58%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.95%) Vertica
11 2 (0.63%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.63%) NETGEAR
11 2 (0.63%) Sonatype