PostgreSQL Job Trends in South London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 16 34
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 +36
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 16 85 25
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 3.46% 14.94% 6.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 44.44% 57.43% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £53,910 £60,500 £74,000
25th Percentile £56,175 £61,250 £78,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,600 £62,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% -24.24% -
75th Percentile £68,875 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £71,050 - £86,250
London median annual salary £95,000 £87,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +8.57% +9.88% -0.51%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 36 148 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 7.79% 26.01% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12 45 54
10th Percentile £35,125 - £45,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,875 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.54% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £61,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £117,000 £83,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South London.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in South London

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in South London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in South London

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the South London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Croydon -7 16 £62,600 +0.16% 1
PostgreSQL
London

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 2 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (93.75%) Amazon ECS
2 15 (93.75%) Amazon EKS
2 15 (93.75%) Serverless
3 13 (81.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) Relational Database
2 13 (81.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (87.50%) JUnit
3 13 (81.25%) JMeter
3 13 (81.25%) Mockito
4 3 (18.75%) Git
5 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.25%) GitLab
5 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 13 (81.25%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (93.75%) Java Developer
3 14 (87.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (87.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 13 (81.25%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) Spring
1 16 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 15 (93.75%) REST
2 15 (93.75%) Web Services
3 14 (87.50%) JSON
3 14 (87.50%) XML
4 13 (81.25%) ActiveMQ
4 13 (81.25%) Apache Camel
4 13 (81.25%) Hibernate
4 13 (81.25%) HTML
4 13 (81.25%) jQuery
4 13 (81.25%) WireMock
5 3 (18.75%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (12.50%) Mustache
6 2 (12.50%) Node.js
6 2 (12.50%) React
7 1 (6.25%) Django
7 1 (6.25%) Flask
7 1 (6.25%) Kafka
7 1 (6.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (93.75%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 16 (100.00%) Microservices
1 16 (100.00%) TDD
2 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 15 (93.75%) BDD
3 14 (87.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (81.25%) Process Management
4 13 (81.25%) SDLC
4 13 (81.25%) Workflow
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (6.25%) API Development
6 1 (6.25%) API Integration
6 1 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
6 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven
6 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 1 (6.25%) Secure Coding
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (93.75%) JavaScript
3 14 (87.50%) Python
4 13 (81.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (81.25%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Dynatrace
1 13 (81.25%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle