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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 101 148
Rank change year-on-year -51 +47 -12
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 274 519 378
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.03% 3.22% 2.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.26% 13.53% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 194 272 336
10th Percentile £58,250 £50,125 £55,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £63,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +9.38% -3.03%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,625 £120,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -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 2,433 3,837 3,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.03% 23.79% 21.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,566 2,407 3,072
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £135,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% -2.40%

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 19 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 19 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 -17 23 £100,000 +17.65% 27
South London -15 19 £62,600 +0.16% 10
East London -13 6 £85,000 - 7
West London -21 1 £62,500 -7.41% 4
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 49 (17.88%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (8.39%) Apache Spark
3 19 (6.93%) WebSphere
4 17 (6.20%) Tomcat
5 16 (5.84%) WebSphere Application Server
6 12 (4.38%) Confluence
7 4 (1.46%) Apache
8 3 (1.09%) Luigi
8 3 (1.09%) nginx
8 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.36%) Camunda
9 1 (0.36%) CMS
9 1 (0.36%) IIS
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (2.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Endur
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 193 (70.44%) AWS
2 97 (35.40%) GCP
3 72 (26.28%) Azure
4 47 (17.15%) dbt
5 42 (15.33%) Serverless
6 31 (11.31%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (9.49%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (9.12%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (6.93%) Amazon S3
9 19 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (5.47%) GitHub
10 15 (5.47%) SaaS
11 14 (5.11%) Power Platform
12 13 (4.74%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.01%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (3.28%) Snowflake
16 7 (2.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (2.55%) Route 53
17 6 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.93%) SSL
2 6 (2.19%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.73%) BGP
3 2 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.73%) Firewall
3 2 (0.73%) MQTT
3 2 (0.73%) OSPF
3 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.73%) RTMP
3 2 (0.73%) VLAN
3 2 (0.73%) VPN
3 2 (0.73%) WAN
3 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.73%) Wireless
4 1 (0.36%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (24.09%) Relational Database
2 64 (23.36%) SQL Server
3 44 (16.06%) MongoDB
3 44 (16.06%) MySQL
4 42 (15.33%) NoSQL
5 40 (14.60%) Apache Iceberg
6 35 (12.77%) Amazon Athena
6 35 (12.77%) Apache Arrow
6 35 (12.77%) Dremio
6 35 (12.77%) RDBMS
7 33 (12.04%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (12.04%) DB2
8 18 (6.57%) Big Data
9 16 (5.84%) Hadoop
10 15 (5.47%) DynamoDB
11 14 (5.11%) Apache Cassandra
11 14 (5.11%) Power BI
12 13 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (4.74%) Redis
13 11 (4.01%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 55 (20.07%) Jenkins
2 26 (9.49%) Git
3 19 (6.93%) JMeter
3 19 (6.93%) JUnit
4 18 (6.57%) Mockito
5 17 (6.20%) JIRA
6 16 (5.84%) Selenium
7 15 (5.47%) GitLab
8 14 (5.11%) Bitbucket
9 13 (4.74%) Cucumber
10 12 (4.38%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.82%) Vite
12 4 (1.46%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.46%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.09%) MLflow
13 3 (1.09%) Subversion
13 3 (1.09%) TestRail
13 3 (1.09%) webpack
14 2 (0.73%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
General
1 96 (35.04%) Finance
2 58 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.14%) Front Office
4 35 (12.77%) Banking
5 31 (11.31%) Public Sector
6 24 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (7.66%) Law
8 12 (4.38%) Investment Banking
9 10 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.65%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.55%) Electronics
10 7 (2.55%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.55%) Marketing
10 7 (2.55%) Retail
11 6 (2.19%) Legal
12 5 (1.82%) Advertising
12 5 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.73%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (40.88%) Developer
2 48 (17.52%) Python Developer
2 48 (17.52%) Software Engineer
3 39 (14.23%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (14.23%) Python Engineer
4 36 (13.14%) AWS Software Engineer
4 36 (13.14%) Senior
5 35 (12.77%) AWS Developer
5 35 (12.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 35 (12.77%) Python Software Engineer
6 33 (12.04%) Java Developer
7 30 (10.95%) Lead
8 29 (10.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (8.03%) Principal Engineer
10 21 (7.66%) Data Engineer
10 21 (7.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 21 (7.66%) Linux Support
11 19 (6.93%) Applications Support
12 17 (6.20%) Backend Developer
13 15 (5.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (32.85%) React
2 75 (27.37%) Node.js
3 51 (18.61%) REST
4 50 (18.25%) AngularJS
5 46 (16.79%) FastAPI
6 42 (15.33%) HTML
6 42 (15.33%) Vue
7 37 (13.50%) Spring
8 36 (13.14%) NumPy
8 36 (13.14%) Pandas
9 35 (12.77%) SciPy
9 35 (12.77%) Spring Boot
10 32 (11.68%) Django
11 28 (10.22%) CSS
12 27 (9.85%) Kafka
13 26 (9.49%) RESTful
14 25 (9.12%) Web Services
15 22 (8.03%) Flask
15 22 (8.03%) jQuery
16 18 (6.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.15%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (12.77%) Equities
2 35 (12.77%) Fixed Income
2 35 (12.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (9.85%) Cloud Native
4 22 (8.03%) Management Information System
5 19 (6.93%) Linux Command Line
6 15 (5.47%) Product Ownership
7 14 (5.11%) Algorithms
8 12 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.55%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.46%) Reinsurance
12 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.09%) Replication
13 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.50%) Linux
2 26 (9.49%) Unix
3 17 (6.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (6.20%) Windows
4 7 (2.55%) Android
4 7 (2.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (50.00%) Agile
2 115 (41.97%) CI/CD
3 95 (34.67%) Software Engineering
4 81 (29.56%) Microservices
5 68 (24.82%) Fintech
6 61 (22.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 55 (20.07%) AI
7 55 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (16.79%) Containerisation
9 44 (16.06%) DevOps
10 39 (14.23%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (13.87%) Data Engineering
11 38 (13.87%) ETL
11 38 (13.87%) Test Automation
12 37 (13.50%) Risk Management
13 36 (13.14%) Investment Management
14 35 (12.77%) Asset Management
14 35 (12.77%) Data Modelling
14 35 (12.77%) Order Management
14 35 (12.77%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 183 (66.79%) Python
2 103 (37.59%) JavaScript
3 80 (29.20%) Java
4 77 (28.10%) TypeScript
5 75 (27.37%) SQL
6 19 (6.93%) Shell Script
7 15 (5.47%) C#
8 9 (3.28%) Rust
9 6 (2.19%) Go
10 4 (1.46%) PHP
10 4 (1.46%) Ruby
11 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.09%) RPG
11 3 (1.09%) Scala
12 2 (0.73%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.36%) Bash
13 1 (0.36%) COBOL
13 1 (0.36%) Delphi
13 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 36 (13.14%) Degree
3 25 (9.12%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.93%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.57%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.92%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.73%) HNC
10 2 (0.73%) HND
10 2 (0.73%) MCSA
10 2 (0.73%) MCSE
10 2 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.36%) MCP
11 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.84%) SLA
2 15 (5.47%) QA
3 9 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.28%) GDPR
4 7 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.09%) SEPA
6 2 (0.73%) PSD2
7 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.36%) GAAP
7 1 (0.36%) IFRS
7 1 (0.36%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 101 (36.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) NFS
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.36%) zsh
Systems Management
1 90 (32.85%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.33%) Terraform
3 20 (7.30%) Kibana
4 11 (4.01%) Grafana
5 9 (3.28%) Argo
5 9 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.19%) Ansible
7 3 (1.09%) Puppet
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.36%) Ambari
9 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (14.60%) Oracle
2 22 (8.03%) IBM
3 21 (7.66%) Red Hat
4 17 (6.20%) Dynatrace
4 17 (6.20%) Splunk
5 16 (5.84%) Google
6 14 (5.11%) Atlassian
7 13 (4.74%) ServiceNow
8 12 (4.38%) Informatica
9 11 (4.01%) Talend
10 8 (2.92%) Microsoft
11 7 (2.55%) SAP
12 6 (2.19%) OpenAI
13 3 (1.09%) Databricks
13 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.73%) CA Agile Central
14 2 (0.73%) Dell
14 2 (0.73%) MikroTik
14 2 (0.73%) Sonatype
14 2 (0.73%) Ubiquiti