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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 116 127
Rank change year-on-year -110 +11 +10
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 196 376 572
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.01% 2.91% 2.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.37% 13.33% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 149 269 505
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,813 £70,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -13.33%

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 2,343 2,821 4,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.04% 21.83% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,530 1,959 3,756
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,850 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £55,553
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -47 31 £90,000 +9.09% 52
South London -21 5 £62,600 +0.16% 2
West London -33 1 - - 2
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 18 (9.18%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 12 (6.12%) Apache
4 11 (5.61%) Confluence
5 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.02%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.51%) Camunda
7 1 (0.51%) JBoss
7 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 114 (58.16%) AWS
2 69 (35.20%) Azure
3 60 (30.61%) GCP
4 23 (11.73%) SaaS
5 17 (8.67%) GitHub
6 16 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (7.65%) Serverless
8 11 (5.61%) dbt
9 10 (5.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 10 (5.10%) LangSmith
10 8 (4.08%) Vercel
11 7 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.57%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.55%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.08%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.04%) DHCP
2 4 (2.04%) DNS
2 4 (2.04%) VPN
2 4 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.02%) Broadband
4 1 (0.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) SSL
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 37 (18.88%) MySQL
3 33 (16.84%) NoSQL
4 28 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 22 (11.22%) SQL Server
6 17 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (7.14%) DB2
8 12 (6.12%) DynamoDB
9 11 (5.61%) Redis
10 10 (5.10%) Pinecone
11 8 (4.08%) BigQuery
11 8 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (4.08%) RDBMS
12 7 (3.57%) Big Data
13 6 (3.06%) Power BI
14 5 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (2.55%) ClickHouse
14 5 (2.55%) MariaDB
14 5 (2.55%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 32 (16.33%) Git
2 25 (12.76%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.18%) TeamCity
4 12 (6.12%) Bitbucket
4 12 (6.12%) GitLab
4 12 (6.12%) JIRA
5 11 (5.61%) Cucumber
5 11 (5.61%) Selenium
6 9 (4.59%) Vite
7 5 (2.55%) JUnit
8 4 (2.04%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.53%) Mockito
10 2 (1.02%) ESLint
10 2 (1.02%) Gradle
10 2 (1.02%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.02%) JMeter
10 2 (1.02%) Maven
10 2 (1.02%) Storybook
10 2 (1.02%) Subversion
10 2 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 58 (29.59%) Finance
2 43 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 29 (14.80%) Banking
4 27 (13.78%) Law
5 20 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.20%) Retail
6 17 (8.67%) Front Office
6 17 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.10%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.04%) Back Office
8 4 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.53%) Legal
9 3 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.02%) Electronics
10 2 (1.02%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Advertising
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (28.06%) Developer
2 48 (24.49%) Lead
3 43 (21.94%) Software Engineer
4 34 (17.35%) Senior
5 26 (13.27%) Data Engineer
6 24 (12.24%) Python Engineer
7 23 (11.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 23 (11.73%) Lead Developer
8 19 (9.69%) Java Developer
9 18 (9.18%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (9.18%) Lead Software Engineer
10 15 (7.65%) Java Engineer
11 12 (6.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 12 (6.12%) Lead Software Developer
12 11 (5.61%) Python Developer
13 10 (5.10%) Architect
13 10 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (5.10%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (5.10%) Product Engineer
14 9 (4.59%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (34.69%) React
2 48 (24.49%) Node.js
3 32 (16.33%) FastAPI
4 26 (13.27%) Kafka
4 26 (13.27%) RESTful
5 21 (10.71%) CSS
5 21 (10.71%) HTML
5 21 (10.71%) Next.js
5 21 (10.71%) REST
6 18 (9.18%) Redux
6 18 (9.18%) Spring
7 16 (8.16%) Django
7 16 (8.16%) Spring Boot
8 14 (7.14%) LangChain
9 13 (6.63%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (6.12%) Flask
11 10 (5.10%) CrewAI
11 10 (5.10%) Gherkin
11 10 (5.10%) LangGraph
12 9 (4.59%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (8.16%) Derivative
3 16 (8.16%) Equities
3 16 (8.16%) Fixed Income
4 15 (7.65%) Blog
5 12 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (6.12%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.04%) CCTV
9 4 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.04%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.04%) IoT
9 4 (2.04%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.10%) Linux
2 6 (3.06%) Windows
3 5 (2.55%) Android
3 5 (2.55%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.04%) Unix
4 4 (2.04%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (40.82%) CI/CD
2 76 (38.78%) Software Engineering
3 70 (35.71%) Agile
4 58 (29.59%) Microservices
5 56 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 50 (25.51%) AI
7 48 (24.49%) Fintech
8 36 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (17.86%) Containerisation
9 35 (17.86%) Mentoring
9 35 (17.86%) Test Automation
10 32 (16.33%) DevOps
11 31 (15.82%) Analytics
12 26 (13.27%) Data Engineering
12 26 (13.27%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (12.76%) Clean Code
13 25 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (12.24%) Data Modelling
15 23 (11.73%) Scrum
16 21 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 104 (53.06%) Python
2 67 (34.18%) Java
2 67 (34.18%) SQL
3 55 (28.06%) JavaScript
4 54 (27.55%) TypeScript
5 14 (7.14%) Go
6 10 (5.10%) C#
7 6 (3.06%) PHP
8 5 (2.55%) Delphi
9 4 (2.04%) Pascal
9 4 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.04%) Ruby
10 3 (1.53%) RPG
10 3 (1.53%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.02%) Rust
12 1 (0.51%) Bash
12 1 (0.51%) Bicep
12 1 (0.51%) Elm
12 1 (0.51%) Korn
12 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.18%) Degree
4 10 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.02%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.10%) QA
3 5 (2.55%) GDPR
4 4 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (32.14%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 74 (37.76%) Kubernetes
2 49 (25.00%) Terraform
3 18 (9.18%) Grafana
4 9 (4.59%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.57%) Argo
6 3 (1.53%) Ansible
6 3 (1.53%) Kibana
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.51%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (6.63%) Microsoft
1 13 (6.63%) OpenAI
2 9 (4.59%) Oracle
3 7 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.06%) Google
5 5 (2.55%) Databricks
5 5 (2.55%) Informatica
5 5 (2.55%) Talend
6 4 (2.04%) IBM
6 4 (2.04%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.53%) Confluent
7 3 (1.53%) Revolut
8 2 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.02%) Mapbox
8 2 (1.02%) Splunk
9 1 (0.51%) Apple
9 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.51%) Intel
9 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.51%) Sybase