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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 116 113
Rank change year-on-year -106 -3 +33
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 202 349 624
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.96% 2.91% 2.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.48% 13.57% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 144 260 529
10th Percentile £53,625 £57,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,250 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £110,000
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 2,383 2,571 5,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.38% 21.46% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,567 1,735 3,883
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,313 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £137,000 £128,750
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 3 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 3 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 -31 40 £90,000 +9.09% 47
West London -22 5 £80,000 +25.98% 3
South London -18 4 £70,000 -
East London -11 1 - - 7
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 13 (6.44%) Apache
1 13 (6.44%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.46%) Confluence
4 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.50%) Camunda
6 1 (0.50%) JBoss
6 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.50%) Moodle
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.97%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 122 (60.40%) AWS
2 61 (30.20%) Azure
3 48 (23.76%) GCP
4 24 (11.88%) SaaS
5 17 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (7.92%) GitHub
7 15 (7.43%) Serverless
8 11 (5.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (3.96%) LangSmith
10 7 (3.47%) Vercel
11 6 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.97%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.48%) dbt
12 5 (2.48%) Heroku
13 4 (1.98%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.43%) Broadband
2 6 (2.97%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.98%) DHCP
3 4 (1.98%) DNS
3 4 (1.98%) VPN
3 4 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.50%) Firewall
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.31%) MongoDB
1 39 (19.31%) Relational Database
2 31 (15.35%) MySQL
3 27 (13.37%) NoSQL
4 15 (7.43%) Redis
5 11 (5.45%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.46%) Pinecone
7 8 (3.96%) DB2
7 8 (3.96%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.48%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.48%) MariaDB
8 5 (2.48%) Metadata
9 4 (1.98%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.98%) DTS
10 3 (1.49%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 26 (12.87%) Git
2 16 (7.92%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.93%) TeamCity
4 11 (5.45%) GitLab
5 7 (3.47%) Vite
6 6 (2.97%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.97%) JIRA
7 5 (2.48%) JUnit
8 4 (1.98%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.98%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.98%) Mockito
8 4 (1.98%) Selenium
9 2 (0.99%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.99%) ESLint
9 2 (0.99%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.99%) JMeter
9 2 (0.99%) Storybook
10 1 (0.50%) CMake
10 1 (0.50%) Maven
10 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 51 (25.25%) Finance
2 43 (21.29%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.88%) Banking
3 24 (11.88%) Law
4 21 (10.40%) Retail
5 18 (8.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (7.92%) Front Office
8 15 (7.43%) Games
9 12 (5.94%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.97%) Legal
11 3 (1.49%) Back Office
11 3 (1.49%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.99%) Electronics
12 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 77 (38.12%) Developer
2 51 (25.25%) Lead
3 43 (21.29%) Software Engineer
4 32 (15.84%) Senior
5 29 (14.36%) Lead Developer
6 28 (13.86%) Python Engineer
7 20 (9.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 20 (9.90%) Python Developer
8 18 (8.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 18 (8.91%) Lead Software Engineer
9 16 (7.92%) Architect
9 16 (7.92%) Data Engineer
10 14 (6.93%) Java Developer
11 13 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (6.44%) Java Engineer
11 13 (6.44%) Ruby Developer
12 12 (5.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (5.94%) Lead Python Developer
12 12 (5.94%) Lead Software Developer
13 11 (5.45%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (29.21%) React
2 44 (21.78%) Node.js
3 41 (20.30%) RESTful
4 29 (14.36%) FastAPI
5 27 (13.37%) Spring
6 26 (12.87%) Kafka
6 26 (12.87%) Spring Boot
7 25 (12.38%) REST
8 20 (9.90%) Next.js
9 17 (8.42%) Redux
10 13 (6.44%) JSON
10 13 (6.44%) Ruby on Rails
11 12 (5.94%) CSS
11 12 (5.94%) HTML
11 12 (5.94%) LangChain
12 11 (5.45%) JWT
13 9 (4.46%) Django
13 9 (4.46%) LangGraph
14 8 (3.96%) CrewAI
14 8 (3.96%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.27%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.39%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.92%) Blog
3 16 (7.92%) Derivative
3 16 (7.92%) Equities
3 16 (7.92%) Fixed Income
3 16 (7.92%) Video\Live Streaming
4 15 (7.43%) Low-Code
5 8 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.47%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.97%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.97%) Replication
8 5 (2.48%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.48%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.98%) CCTV
9 4 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.98%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.98%) IoT
9 4 (1.98%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.45%) Linux
2 7 (3.47%) Windows
3 4 (1.98%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.99%) Android
4 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.99%) Unix
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.61%) Software Engineering
2 74 (36.63%) CI/CD
3 63 (31.19%) Full-Stack Development
4 61 (30.20%) Agile
5 57 (28.22%) AI
6 51 (25.25%) Microservices
7 46 (22.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (21.29%) Containerisation
9 41 (20.30%) API Design
9 41 (20.30%) Test Automation
10 38 (18.81%) Fintech
11 35 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (17.33%) Mentoring
12 33 (16.34%) Clean Code
12 33 (16.34%) Observability
13 29 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (13.37%) Machine Learning
15 26 (12.87%) Generative AI
16 25 (12.38%) Scrum
17 22 (10.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 99 (49.01%) Python
2 56 (27.72%) Java
3 52 (25.74%) TypeScript
4 46 (22.77%) SQL
5 42 (20.79%) JavaScript
6 24 (11.88%) Go
7 13 (6.44%) Ruby
8 8 (3.96%) C#
9 7 (3.47%) PHP
10 5 (2.48%) RPG
11 4 (1.98%) Delphi
11 4 (1.98%) Pascal
11 4 (1.98%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.98%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.49%) C++
13 2 (0.99%) Bash
14 1 (0.50%) Elm
14 1 (0.50%) Korn
14 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (10.89%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.94%) Degree
4 4 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.95%) QA
3 5 (2.48%) GDPR
4 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.50%) MiFID
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (29.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (30.20%) Kubernetes
2 45 (22.28%) Terraform
3 13 (6.44%) Grafana
4 3 (1.49%) Argo
4 3 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.99%) Ansible
5 2 (0.99%) Kibana
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.94%) OpenAI
3 8 (3.96%) Oracle
4 6 (2.97%) Google
5 5 (2.48%) IBM
6 4 (1.98%) Databricks
6 4 (1.98%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.98%) Netezza
6 4 (1.98%) Remedy
6 4 (1.98%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.49%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.49%) Revolut
8 2 (0.99%) Mapbox
8 2 (0.99%) SAP
8 2 (0.99%) Splunk
8 2 (0.99%) Sybase
8 2 (0.99%) TikTok
9 1 (0.50%) Confluent
9 1 (0.50%) Delphix
9 1 (0.50%) Pure Storage