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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 108 167
Rank change year-on-year -23 +59 -66
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 329 542 386
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.56% 3.10% 2.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.39% 13.02% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 224 278 324
10th Percentile £59,475 £48,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £63,930 £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 £133,750 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £126,500 £124,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -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 2,655 4,162 4,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.68% 23.83% 22.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,653 2,651 3,407
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +8.84% -2.00%
75th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £138,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% -0.80%

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 15 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 15 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 26 £55,200 -13.41% 4
Central London -23 22 £135,000 +68.75% 195
East London -10 6 £85,000 - 9
West London -19 4 £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 72 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.78%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.78%) WebSphere
3 17 (5.17%) Tomcat
4 16 (4.86%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (2.13%) Confluence
6 5 (1.52%) Apache
7 4 (1.22%) JBoss
7 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Fuse
8 3 (0.91%) Luigi
8 3 (0.91%) nginx
9 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.30%) CMS
10 1 (0.30%) IIS
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (1.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Notion
2 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 250 (75.99%) AWS
2 128 (38.91%) GCP
3 82 (24.92%) Azure
4 75 (22.80%) dbt
5 55 (16.72%) Serverless
6 42 (12.77%) Amazon EKS
7 41 (12.46%) Amazon EC2
8 40 (12.16%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (6.38%) Amazon S3
11 17 (5.17%) GitHub
12 14 (4.26%) SaaS
13 13 (3.95%) Amazon EMR
13 13 (3.95%) Power Platform
14 11 (3.34%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (2.43%) Snowflake
16 8 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 7 (2.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.78%) SSL
2 6 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.22%) MQTT
3 4 (1.22%) VPN
4 2 (0.61%) BGP
4 2 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.61%) Firewall
4 2 (0.61%) OSPF
4 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.61%) RTMP
4 2 (0.61%) SMS
4 2 (0.61%) VLAN
4 2 (0.61%) WAN
4 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.61%) Wireless
5 1 (0.30%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) FTP
5 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (25.84%) Relational Database
2 65 (19.76%) Apache Iceberg
3 61 (18.54%) SQL Server
4 60 (18.24%) Amazon Athena
4 60 (18.24%) Apache Arrow
4 60 (18.24%) Dremio
5 49 (14.89%) MySQL
6 47 (14.29%) MongoDB
7 43 (13.07%) RDBMS
8 38 (11.55%) NoSQL
9 29 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (7.60%) DB2
11 19 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (4.86%) Redis
13 15 (4.56%) Big Data
14 13 (3.95%) DynamoDB
14 13 (3.95%) Power BI
15 12 (3.65%) Hadoop
16 11 (3.34%) Apache Cassandra
17 7 (2.13%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 58 (17.63%) Jenkins
2 34 (10.33%) Git
3 28 (8.51%) JUnit
4 23 (6.99%) JMeter
4 23 (6.99%) Mockito
5 16 (4.86%) JIRA
6 15 (4.56%) GitLab
7 11 (3.34%) Bitbucket
7 11 (3.34%) Selenium
8 8 (2.43%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.13%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.13%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.52%) IntelliJ
10 5 (1.52%) Subversion
11 4 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.91%) Maven
12 3 (0.91%) MLflow
12 3 (0.91%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.91%) TestRail
12 3 (0.91%) Vite
General
1 145 (44.07%) Finance
2 70 (21.28%) Front Office
3 49 (14.89%) Social Skills
4 47 (14.29%) Banking
5 44 (13.37%) Public Sector
6 34 (10.33%) Law
7 29 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (6.08%) Marketing
10 15 (4.56%) Telecoms
11 14 (4.26%) Investment Banking
12 13 (3.95%) Electronics
12 13 (3.95%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.52%) Advertising
13 5 (1.52%) Legal
13 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.22%) Retail
15 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (47.72%) Developer
2 91 (27.66%) Software Engineer
3 71 (21.58%) Python Developer
4 65 (19.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 64 (19.45%) AWS Engineer
6 61 (18.54%) AWS Software Engineer
6 61 (18.54%) Python Engineer
7 60 (18.24%) AWS Developer
8 56 (17.02%) Python Software Engineer
9 47 (14.29%) Java Developer
10 45 (13.68%) Senior
11 41 (12.46%) Lead
12 31 (9.42%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (6.99%) Java Engineer
14 22 (6.69%) Data Engineer
15 21 (6.38%) Linux Support
16 20 (6.08%) Applications Support
16 20 (6.08%) Backend Developer
16 20 (6.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 18 (5.47%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (38.30%) React
2 102 (31.00%) Node.js
3 79 (24.01%) AngularJS
4 67 (20.36%) Vue
5 65 (19.76%) REST
6 62 (18.84%) NumPy
6 62 (18.84%) Pandas
7 60 (18.24%) SciPy
8 54 (16.41%) FastAPI
8 54 (16.41%) Spring
9 51 (15.50%) Spring Boot
10 45 (13.68%) HTML
11 38 (11.55%) RESTful
12 33 (10.03%) Kafka
12 33 (10.03%) Web Services
13 29 (8.81%) Django
14 27 (8.21%) CSS
15 26 (7.90%) jQuery
16 25 (7.60%) Apache Camel
16 25 (7.60%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 65 (19.76%) Equities
1 65 (19.76%) Fixed Income
1 65 (19.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 48 (14.59%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (11.85%) Cloud Native
4 23 (6.99%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (6.08%) Management Information System
6 14 (4.26%) Algorithms
7 11 (3.34%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.82%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.82%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.52%) Derivative
11 5 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
11 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.22%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.91%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.59%) Linux
2 28 (8.51%) Unix
3 18 (5.47%) Windows
4 17 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.22%) Android
5 4 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (57.75%) Agile
2 137 (41.64%) Software Engineering
3 123 (37.39%) CI/CD
4 97 (29.48%) Fintech
5 87 (26.44%) Microservices
6 67 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (20.06%) Asset Management
8 65 (19.76%) Investment Management
9 62 (18.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 61 (18.54%) Risk Management
11 60 (18.24%) Order Management
11 60 (18.24%) Performance Attribution
12 58 (17.63%) Containerisation
13 53 (16.11%) AI
14 48 (14.59%) DevOps
15 43 (13.07%) Test Automation
16 40 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
17 39 (11.85%) Data Engineering
18 38 (11.55%) TDD
19 34 (10.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 219 (66.57%) Python
2 134 (40.73%) JavaScript
3 109 (33.13%) TypeScript
4 107 (32.52%) Java
5 74 (22.49%) SQL
6 26 (7.90%) Shell Script
7 16 (4.86%) C#
8 14 (4.26%) Rust
9 10 (3.04%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.43%) Bash
11 7 (2.13%) Go
12 5 (1.52%) PHP
12 5 (1.52%) Ruby
13 4 (1.22%) Scala
14 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.61%) Groovy
15 2 (0.61%) SOQL
15 2 (0.61%) SOSL
16 1 (0.30%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 54 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.25%) Degree
3 31 (9.42%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.08%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.47%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.04%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.61%) HNC
10 2 (0.61%) HND
10 2 (0.61%) MCSA
10 2 (0.61%) MCSE
10 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.30%) MCP
11 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.69%) QA
2 20 (6.08%) SLA
3 12 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.43%) GDPR
6 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.91%) SEPA
7 2 (0.61%) PSD2
8 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.30%) GAAP
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 112 (34.04%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) zsh
3 2 (0.61%) NFS
4 1 (0.30%) KVM
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 105 (31.91%) Kubernetes
2 42 (12.77%) Terraform
3 26 (7.90%) Kibana
4 12 (3.65%) Grafana
5 9 (2.74%) Ansible
5 9 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.13%) Argo
7 4 (1.22%) Puppet
7 4 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.61%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Ambari
10 1 (0.30%) CFEngine
10 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (14.59%) Oracle
2 24 (7.29%) Dynatrace
2 24 (7.29%) Splunk
3 23 (6.99%) Google
4 21 (6.38%) Red Hat
5 20 (6.08%) IBM
6 13 (3.95%) SAP
6 13 (3.95%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.34%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.74%) Databricks
9 8 (2.43%) Informatica
9 8 (2.43%) Microsoft
9 8 (2.43%) OpenAI
10 7 (2.13%) Talend
11 6 (1.82%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.22%) Vertica
13 3 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
14 2 (0.61%) AppDynamics
14 2 (0.61%) NETGEAR
14 2 (0.61%) Sonatype