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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 118 123
Rank change year-on-year -90 +5 +14
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 224 362 617
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.03% 2.97% 2.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.07% 13.52% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 154 269 507
10th Percentile £56,250 £59,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £104,688 £132,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%

All Database & 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 2,469 2,678 5,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.39% 22.00% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,628 1,793 3,974
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 23 June 2026.

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 23 June 2026. 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 -19 44 £90,000 +9.09% 13
West London -11 9 £80,000 +25.98% 9
South London -9 5 - - 1
East London -4 3 - - 1
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 15 (6.70%) Apache
1 15 (6.70%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.02%) Confluence
4 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.45%) Moodle
5 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 139 (62.05%) AWS
2 66 (29.46%) Azure
3 48 (21.43%) GCP
4 26 (11.61%) SaaS
5 17 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (7.59%) Serverless
6 15 (6.70%) GitHub
7 14 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 9 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.57%) LangSmith
11 7 (3.13%) dbt
11 7 (3.13%) Lucidchart
11 7 (3.13%) Vercel
12 6 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (2.68%) Heroku
13 5 (2.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.82%) Broadband
2 6 (2.68%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.79%) DHCP
3 4 (1.79%) DNS
3 4 (1.79%) VPN
3 4 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.45%) Firewall
4 1 (0.45%) LAN
4 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.88%) MongoDB
2 40 (17.86%) Relational Database
3 34 (15.18%) MySQL
4 26 (11.61%) NoSQL
5 21 (9.38%) Redis
6 13 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (5.80%) SQL Server
7 11 (4.91%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (4.02%) Metadata
9 9 (4.02%) Pinecone
10 8 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (3.13%) Db2
12 6 (2.68%) Big Data
12 6 (2.68%) Data Lake
12 6 (2.68%) DTS
13 5 (2.23%) MariaDB
13 5 (2.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (12.05%) Git
2 12 (5.36%) GitLab
2 12 (5.36%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.36%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.13%) Vite
4 5 (2.23%) Claude Code
4 5 (2.23%) JUnit
5 4 (1.79%) Mockito
6 3 (1.34%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.34%) JIRA
7 2 (0.89%) ESLint
7 2 (0.89%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.89%) JMeter
7 2 (0.89%) Storybook
8 1 (0.45%) CMake
8 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.45%) Gradle
8 1 (0.45%) Maven
8 1 (0.45%) Subversion
8 1 (0.45%) Valgrind
General
1 55 (24.55%) Finance
2 44 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.27%) Law
4 22 (9.82%) Banking
4 22 (9.82%) Games
5 20 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (8.93%) Retail
6 16 (7.14%) Front Office
7 15 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (5.80%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.13%) Legal
10 6 (2.68%) Legal Technology
11 5 (2.23%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.34%) Back Office
12 3 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.89%) Electronics
13 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.45%) Advertising
14 1 (0.45%) Aviation
14 1 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 80 (35.71%) Developer
2 55 (24.55%) Lead
3 47 (20.98%) Software Engineer
4 42 (18.75%) Senior
5 32 (14.29%) Python Engineer
6 29 (12.95%) Lead Developer
7 25 (11.16%) Architect
7 25 (11.16%) Python Developer
8 22 (9.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 20 (8.93%) Data Engineer
10 18 (8.04%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (7.14%) Ruby Developer
12 14 (6.25%) Java Engineer
12 14 (6.25%) Lead Python Developer
13 13 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (5.80%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 12 (5.36%) Lead Software Developer
14 12 (5.36%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.45%) React
2 47 (20.98%) RESTful
3 44 (19.64%) Node.js
4 31 (13.84%) Kafka
5 30 (13.39%) Spring
6 29 (12.95%) FastAPI
6 29 (12.95%) Spring Boot
7 25 (11.16%) REST
8 22 (9.82%) Next.js
9 17 (7.59%) Redux
10 16 (7.14%) Ruby on Rails
11 15 (6.70%) JSON
12 13 (5.80%) JWT
13 12 (5.36%) LangChain
14 11 (4.91%) CSS
15 10 (4.46%) Sidekiq
16 9 (4.02%) HTML
16 9 (4.02%) LangGraph
17 8 (3.57%) CrewAI
18 7 (3.13%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 60 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 31 (13.84%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (10.27%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (9.82%) Low-Code
5 17 (7.59%) Blog
6 16 (7.14%) Derivative
6 16 (7.14%) Equities
6 16 (7.14%) Fixed Income
7 11 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (4.02%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.57%) Product Ownership
10 7 (3.13%) AI Agents
11 6 (2.68%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.68%) EPoS
11 6 (2.68%) iSeries
11 6 (2.68%) Replication
12 5 (2.23%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.79%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.79%) IoT
13 4 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.36%) Linux
2 7 (3.13%) Windows
3 4 (1.79%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.89%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (40.18%) Software Engineering
2 82 (36.61%) CI/CD
3 69 (30.80%) AI
4 68 (30.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 63 (28.13%) Agile
6 60 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (22.32%) Microservices
8 49 (21.88%) API Design
9 48 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 48 (21.43%) Observability
10 45 (20.09%) Test Automation
11 44 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (19.20%) Fintech
13 38 (16.96%) Mentoring
14 37 (16.52%) Machine Learning
15 35 (15.63%) Clean Code
16 33 (14.73%) Generative AI
17 30 (13.39%) Validation
18 27 (12.05%) Analytics
18 27 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 113 (50.45%) Python
2 58 (25.89%) Java
3 51 (22.77%) SQL
3 51 (22.77%) TypeScript
4 35 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 32 (14.29%) Go
6 16 (7.14%) Ruby
7 8 (3.57%) C#
8 7 (3.13%) PHP
9 6 (2.68%) RPG
10 5 (2.23%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.79%) Delphi
11 4 (1.79%) Pascal
11 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.34%) Bash
12 3 (1.34%) C++
13 1 (0.45%) Elm
13 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.45%) R
13 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.27%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.36%) Degree
4 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.34%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.34%) SnowPro
6 2 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.27%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.46%) QA
3 8 (3.57%) GDPR
4 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.45%) MiFID
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (25.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (25.45%) Kubernetes
2 45 (20.09%) Terraform
3 14 (6.25%) Grafana
4 3 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.89%) Kibana
6 1 (0.45%) Ansible
6 1 (0.45%) Argo
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (8.04%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.80%) Oracle
3 12 (5.36%) OpenAI
4 6 (2.68%) Databricks
4 6 (2.68%) Google
4 6 (2.68%) IBM
5 4 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.79%) Netezza
5 4 (1.79%) Remedy
5 4 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.34%) Revolut
7 2 (0.89%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.89%) SAP
7 2 (0.89%) Splunk
7 2 (0.89%) Sybase
7 2 (0.89%) TikTok
8 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.45%) Informatica
8 1 (0.45%) Intel
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat