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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 170
Rank change year-on-year +9 +47 -92
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 338 527 409
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.90% 2.90% 1.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.88% 12.05% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 232 301 332
10th Percentile £60,125 £48,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £64,471 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £101,563
90th Percentile - £136,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -3.45%

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 2,625 4,375 4,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.52% 24.06% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 2,780 3,713
10th Percentile £46,340 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +11.49% +2.07%
75th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +0.40%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -9 27 £120,000 +50.00% 17
South London +3 26 - -
West London +30 5 £63,500 -5.93% 10
East London - 5 £85,000 - 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 86 (25.44%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.73%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.44%) WebSphere
4 14 (4.14%) Tomcat
5 12 (3.55%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (1.48%) JBoss
6 5 (1.48%) Red Hat Fuse
7 4 (1.18%) Apache
7 4 (1.18%) nginx
8 3 (0.89%) CMS
8 3 (0.89%) Confluence
8 3 (0.89%) Luigi
9 2 (0.59%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Notion
2 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 264 (78.11%) AWS
2 140 (41.42%) GCP
3 89 (26.33%) dbt
4 80 (23.67%) Azure
5 60 (17.75%) Serverless
6 44 (13.02%) Amazon EC2
7 40 (11.83%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (5.62%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.14%) GitHub
12 13 (3.85%) Power Platform
13 12 (3.55%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.55%) SaaS
14 8 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (2.07%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (2.07%) Snowflake
16 6 (1.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.44%) SSL
2 5 (1.48%) MQTT
2 5 (1.48%) VPN
3 3 (0.89%) SMS
3 3 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.59%) BGP
4 2 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.59%) Firewall
4 2 (0.59%) OSPF
4 2 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.59%) RTMP
4 2 (0.59%) VLAN
4 2 (0.59%) WAN
4 2 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.59%) Wireless
5 1 (0.30%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) FTP
5 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (24.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 80 (23.67%) Amazon Athena
2 80 (23.67%) Apache Arrow
2 80 (23.67%) Dremio
3 76 (22.49%) Relational Database
4 62 (18.34%) MongoDB
5 58 (17.16%) SQL Server
6 49 (14.50%) NoSQL
7 42 (12.43%) RDBMS
8 37 (10.95%) MySQL
9 29 (8.58%) DB2
10 18 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (4.14%) Big Data
13 13 (3.85%) DynamoDB
13 13 (3.85%) Power BI
14 11 (3.25%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (3.25%) Hadoop
15 10 (2.96%) Redis
16 7 (2.07%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 51 (15.09%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.58%) JUnit
3 26 (7.69%) Git
4 24 (7.10%) Mockito
5 23 (6.80%) JMeter
6 14 (4.14%) JIRA
7 13 (3.85%) GitLab
8 10 (2.96%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.66%) IntelliJ
10 7 (2.07%) Selenium
11 5 (1.48%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.48%) Maven
12 4 (1.18%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.18%) Subversion
13 3 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.89%) MLflow
13 3 (0.89%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.89%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.89%) TestRail
14 2 (0.59%) Storybook
General
1 165 (48.82%) Finance
2 96 (28.40%) Front Office
3 54 (15.98%) Public Sector
4 41 (12.13%) Banking
4 41 (12.13%) Social Skills
5 35 (10.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (8.58%) Law
7 20 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (5.62%) Marketing
9 13 (3.85%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.55%) Electronics
10 12 (3.55%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.25%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.78%) Advertising
13 4 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.89%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.89%) Legal
14 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.59%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 183 (54.14%) Developer
2 109 (32.25%) Software Engineer
3 89 (26.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 85 (25.15%) AWS Engineer
5 84 (24.85%) Python Developer
6 81 (23.96%) AWS Software Engineer
7 80 (23.67%) AWS Developer
8 71 (21.01%) Python Engineer
9 68 (20.12%) Python Software Engineer
10 53 (15.68%) Java Developer
11 46 (13.61%) Lead
12 40 (11.83%) Senior
13 33 (9.76%) Java Engineer
14 29 (8.58%) Full-Stack Developer
15 22 (6.51%) Java Software Engineer
16 21 (6.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 18 (5.33%) Backend Developer
17 18 (5.33%) Java Software Developer
18 17 (5.03%) Linux Support
19 16 (4.73%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (45.56%) React
2 124 (36.69%) Node.js
3 108 (31.95%) AngularJS
4 87 (25.74%) Vue
5 82 (24.26%) Pandas
6 81 (23.96%) NumPy
7 80 (23.67%) SciPy
8 71 (21.01%) REST
9 54 (15.98%) Spring
10 52 (15.38%) Spring Boot
11 44 (13.02%) FastAPI
12 38 (11.24%) jQuery
13 37 (10.95%) HTML
13 37 (10.95%) RESTful
14 33 (9.76%) Web Services
15 28 (8.28%) Kafka
16 26 (7.69%) Apache Camel
17 23 (6.80%) Hibernate
18 22 (6.51%) ActiveMQ
18 22 (6.51%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 89 (26.33%) Equities
1 89 (26.33%) Fixed Income
1 89 (26.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (12.43%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (10.36%) Cloud Native
4 22 (6.51%) Algorithms
5 19 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (5.62%) Linux Command Line
6 17 (5.03%) Data Structures
6 17 (5.03%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.25%) e-Learning
8 9 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.37%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.48%) Derivative
10 5 (1.48%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.18%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.18%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 58 (17.16%) Linux
2 26 (7.69%) Windows
3 23 (6.80%) Unix
4 14 (4.14%) Android
4 14 (4.14%) Apple iOS
5 13 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (63.61%) Agile
2 149 (44.08%) Software Engineering
3 108 (31.95%) Fintech
4 107 (31.66%) CI/CD
5 90 (26.63%) Asset Management
6 89 (26.33%) Investment Management
7 83 (24.56%) Risk Management
8 80 (23.67%) Order Management
8 80 (23.67%) Performance Attribution
9 75 (22.19%) Microservices
10 70 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
11 65 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
12 51 (15.09%) Containerisation
13 47 (13.91%) AI
14 43 (12.72%) DevOps
15 40 (11.83%) TDD
15 40 (11.83%) Test Automation
16 38 (11.24%) User Experience
17 36 (10.65%) Code Quality
17 36 (10.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 213 (63.02%) Python
2 153 (45.27%) JavaScript
3 135 (39.94%) TypeScript
4 113 (33.43%) Java
5 75 (22.19%) SQL
6 28 (8.28%) Shell Script
7 14 (4.14%) C#
8 11 (3.25%) Rust
9 10 (2.96%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.66%) Bash
11 5 (1.48%) PHP
11 5 (1.48%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.18%) Go
12 4 (1.18%) Scala
13 3 (0.89%) C++
13 3 (0.89%) Ruby
14 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.59%) Groovy
14 2 (0.59%) SOQL
14 2 (0.59%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 43 (12.72%) Security Cleared
2 31 (9.17%) Degree
3 23 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.73%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.14%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.59%) HNC
9 2 (0.59%) HND
9 2 (0.59%) MCSA
9 2 (0.59%) MCSE
9 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.92%) QA
2 17 (5.03%) SLA
3 9 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.18%) GDPR
5 3 (0.89%) SEPA
6 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) GAAP
7 1 (0.30%) IFRS
7 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.30%) MiFID
7 1 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 101 (29.88%) Docker
2 5 (1.48%) zsh
3 2 (0.59%) KVM
3 2 (0.59%) NFS
3 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.59%) Xen
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (29.29%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.06%) Terraform
3 24 (7.10%) Kibana
4 11 (3.25%) Ansible
5 6 (1.78%) Grafana
6 5 (1.48%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.18%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.18%) Puppet
7 4 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.89%) Argo
9 2 (0.59%) CFEngine
9 2 (0.59%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 48 (14.20%) Oracle
2 28 (8.28%) Red Hat
3 27 (7.99%) IBM
4 24 (7.10%) Dynatrace
4 24 (7.10%) Splunk
5 21 (6.21%) Google
6 12 (3.55%) SAP
7 11 (3.25%) Informatica
8 10 (2.96%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.66%) Databricks
10 8 (2.37%) Atlassian
11 7 (2.07%) Microsoft
11 7 (2.07%) Talend
12 6 (1.78%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.78%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.18%) Vertica
14 3 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
15 2 (0.59%) MikroTik
15 2 (0.59%) Sonatype
15 2 (0.59%) Ubiquiti