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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 114 128
Rank change year-on-year -80 +14 +31
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 299 353 501
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.18% 3.00% 2.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.74% 13.36% 11.23%
Number of salaries quoted 192 248 321
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £64,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £95,313 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £136,250
England median annual salary £69,655 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.93% +18.52% -3.57%

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 2,784 2,643 4,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.96% 22.45% 23.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,763 1,670 2,936
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £84,335
Median % change year-on-year - -8.10% +12.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.93%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +22 47 £90,000 -25.00% 51
West London -5 14 £80,000 +25.98% 25
South London -24 5 - - 1
East London -6 3 - - 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 (6.02%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.02%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.01%) Apache
3 12 (4.01%) Confluence
4 7 (2.34%) Camunda
5 2 (0.67%) Luigi
5 2 (0.67%) nginx
5 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.67%) Tornado
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.33%) Moodle
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.68%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 167 (55.85%) AWS
2 75 (25.08%) Azure
3 45 (15.05%) GCP
4 39 (13.04%) GitHub
5 34 (11.37%) SaaS
6 31 (10.37%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (9.70%) Serverless
8 27 (9.03%) Amazon S3
9 23 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (5.02%) Power Platform
12 14 (4.68%) GitHub Copilot
13 13 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.68%) Lucidchart
16 9 (3.01%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 9 (3.01%) Anthropic Claude
16 9 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.69%) Broadband
2 1 (0.33%) 4G
2 1 (0.33%) 5G
2 1 (0.33%) AMQP
2 1 (0.33%) DNS
2 1 (0.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.33%) Firewall
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) MPLS
2 1 (0.33%) OpenVPN
2 1 (0.33%) SMS
2 1 (0.33%) SNMP
2 1 (0.33%) SSH
2 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.33%) VLAN
2 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (18.73%) MongoDB
2 52 (17.39%) Redis
3 51 (17.06%) Relational Database
4 44 (14.72%) MySQL
5 35 (11.71%) SQL Server
6 30 (10.03%) NoSQL
7 23 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (7.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 20 (6.69%) DynamoDB
10 17 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (5.02%) Big Data
11 15 (5.02%) Power BI
12 14 (4.68%) Metadata
13 11 (3.68%) Data Lake
13 11 (3.68%) Db2
13 11 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (3.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (3.34%) DTS
15 8 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (2.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (15.38%) Git
2 21 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.68%) TeamCity
4 12 (4.01%) GitLab
5 11 (3.68%) JUnit
6 10 (3.34%) Mockito
7 7 (2.34%) Claude Code
7 7 (2.34%) Vite
8 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.00%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.00%) webpack
9 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.67%) Gradle
9 2 (0.67%) JIRA
9 2 (0.67%) JMeter
9 2 (0.67%) Maven
9 2 (0.67%) Selenium
10 1 (0.33%) CMake
10 1 (0.33%) Mocha
General
1 68 (22.74%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.73%) Finance
3 43 (14.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (9.36%) Banking
5 27 (9.03%) Law
6 20 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.69%) Games
7 18 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 18 (6.02%) Retail
8 10 (3.34%) Legal
9 9 (3.01%) Legal Technology
10 6 (2.01%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.00%) Marketing
12 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.67%) Billing
14 1 (0.33%) Advertising
14 1 (0.33%) Electronics
14 1 (0.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 94 (31.44%) Developer
2 76 (25.42%) Senior
3 55 (18.39%) Software Engineer
4 54 (18.06%) Lead
5 31 (10.37%) Senior Software Engineer
6 29 (9.70%) Architect
7 27 (9.03%) Data Engineer
8 26 (8.70%) Python Developer
8 26 (8.70%) Python Engineer
9 25 (8.36%) Ruby Developer
10 24 (8.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 21 (7.02%) Database Engineer
12 20 (6.69%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (6.35%) Lead Developer
14 16 (5.35%) Lead Data Engineer
14 16 (5.35%) Senior Developer
15 15 (5.02%) AWS Engineer
16 14 (4.68%) Java Engineer
17 12 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
17 12 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (22.07%) Terraform
2 61 (20.40%) RESTful
3 54 (18.06%) Kafka
4 53 (17.73%) React
5 52 (17.39%) REST
6 44 (14.72%) Spring
7 43 (14.38%) Node.js
8 41 (13.71%) Spring Boot
9 33 (11.04%) Next.js
10 30 (10.03%) FastAPI
11 28 (9.36%) JWT
12 26 (8.70%) Ruby on Rails
13 24 (8.03%) JSON
14 16 (5.35%) OAuth
14 16 (5.35%) Sidekiq
15 15 (5.02%) CSS
15 15 (5.02%) OAuth2
16 13 (4.35%) HTML
17 12 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
17 12 (4.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 72 (24.08%) Cloud Native
2 55 (18.39%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.03%) Low-Code
4 21 (7.02%) Video\Live Streaming
5 20 (6.69%) Replication
6 17 (5.69%) Blog
6 17 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (5.35%) Onboarding
8 12 (4.01%) AI Agents
9 10 (3.34%) EPoS
9 10 (3.34%) iSeries
10 7 (2.34%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.67%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.34%) Client/Server
13 4 (1.34%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.34%) Public Cloud
14 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.01%) Linux
2 6 (2.01%) Windows
3 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (45.48%) CI/CD
2 117 (39.13%) AI
3 100 (33.44%) Software Engineering
4 92 (30.77%) Observability
5 83 (27.76%) Agile
6 77 (25.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 74 (24.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 70 (23.41%) Test Automation
9 69 (23.08%) Microservices
10 66 (22.07%) API Design
11 61 (20.40%) Containerisation
12 59 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (18.73%) Clean Code
14 55 (18.39%) DevOps
15 54 (18.06%) Event-Driven
16 48 (16.05%) Machine Learning
17 44 (14.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 43 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
19 41 (13.71%) Mentoring
20 39 (13.04%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 143 (47.83%) Python
2 76 (25.42%) SQL
3 69 (23.08%) Java
4 48 (16.05%) TypeScript
5 31 (10.37%) JavaScript
6 29 (9.70%) Go
7 26 (8.70%) Ruby
8 15 (5.02%) Bash
9 10 (3.34%) C#
9 10 (3.34%) Groovy
9 10 (3.34%) RPG
10 6 (2.01%) Scala
11 4 (1.34%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.00%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.00%) SOQL
12 3 (1.00%) SOSL
13 2 (0.67%) C++
13 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.70%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.69%) Degree
4 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (0.67%) SnowPro
6 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.33%) CCNA
7 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.37%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.35%) GDPR
3 15 (5.02%) QA
4 5 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.33%) MiFID
5 1 (0.33%) SLA
5 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (28.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Firmware
2 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (24.75%) Kubernetes
2 38 (12.71%) Grafana
3 21 (7.02%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.01%) Rancher
5 8 (2.68%) Ansible
6 6 (2.01%) Argo
7 3 (1.00%) Kibana
8 1 (0.33%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.33%) Nagios
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.33%) SCOM
8 1 (0.33%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 24 (8.03%) Microsoft
1 24 (8.03%) Oracle
2 14 (4.68%) Dynatrace
3 13 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 13 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.01%) Google
5 11 (3.68%) Databricks
6 10 (3.34%) IBM
7 4 (1.34%) Mistral
7 4 (1.34%) Netezza
7 4 (1.34%) Remedy
7 4 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.67%) Splunk
8 2 (0.67%) TikTok
9 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.33%) Ciena
9 1 (0.33%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.33%) RedGate
9 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds