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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 111 150
Rank change year-on-year -78 +39 +4
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 289 362 461
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 3.01% 2.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.53% 13.37% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 191 261 337
10th Percentile £56,250 £59,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £131,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,001
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 2,745 2,707 4,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.41% 22.48% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,753 1,740 3,164
10th Percentile £46,526 £46,745 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,750 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +21 51 £90,000 +4.35% 15
West London -15 15 £80,000 +25.98% 20
South London -25 5 - - 3
East London -5 3 - - 3
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 21 (7.27%) Apache Spark
2 19 (6.57%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (5.19%) Apache
4 12 (4.15%) Confluence
5 7 (2.42%) Camunda
6 2 (0.69%) Luigi
6 2 (0.69%) Tornado
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Moodle
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 158 (54.67%) AWS
2 77 (26.64%) Azure
3 39 (13.49%) GCP
4 36 (12.46%) SaaS
5 32 (11.07%) GitHub
6 30 (10.38%) Amazon S3
7 23 (7.96%) Serverless
8 18 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (6.23%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.50%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (4.50%) Power Platform
11 11 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (3.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.81%) Lucidchart
12 9 (3.11%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.61%) Broadband
2 1 (0.35%) AMQP
2 1 (0.35%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (20.42%) MongoDB
2 55 (19.03%) Relational Database
3 51 (17.65%) MySQL
4 42 (14.53%) Redis
5 35 (12.11%) NoSQL
6 31 (10.73%) SQL Server
7 23 (7.96%) DynamoDB
8 18 (6.23%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.54%) Big Data
10 14 (4.84%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (4.84%) Metadata
11 13 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (4.50%) Power BI
12 12 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (3.81%) Db2
14 10 (3.46%) Data Lake
14 10 (3.46%) DTS
15 8 (2.77%) Tableau
16 7 (2.42%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 38 (13.15%) Git
2 12 (4.15%) JUnit
3 11 (3.81%) GitLab
3 11 (3.81%) Mockito
4 10 (3.46%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.77%) TeamCity
6 7 (2.42%) Vite
7 6 (2.08%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.04%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.04%) webpack
9 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.69%) Gradle
9 2 (0.69%) JIRA
9 2 (0.69%) JMeter
9 2 (0.69%) Maven
9 2 (0.69%) Storybook
10 1 (0.35%) ESLint
10 1 (0.35%) kappa
General
1 68 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.72%) Finance
3 23 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (7.61%) Games
5 21 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.27%) Law
6 20 (6.92%) Banking
7 18 (6.23%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.15%) Retail
9 10 (3.46%) Legal
10 9 (3.11%) Legal Technology
11 7 (2.42%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.38%) Front Office
13 3 (1.04%) Electronics
13 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.04%) Marketing
13 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.35%) Aviation
14 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 97 (33.56%) Developer
2 76 (26.30%) Senior
3 61 (21.11%) Lead
4 56 (19.38%) Software Engineer
5 33 (11.42%) Python Engineer
6 30 (10.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 29 (10.03%) Data Engineer
8 28 (9.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 27 (9.34%) Architect
10 26 (9.00%) Ruby Developer
11 25 (8.65%) Python Developer
12 23 (7.96%) Lead Developer
13 22 (7.61%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (6.92%) Database Engineer
15 18 (6.23%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (5.19%) Senior Developer
17 12 (4.15%) Lead Python Developer
17 12 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
18 10 (3.46%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 10 (3.46%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (22.15%) RESTful
2 55 (19.03%) React
3 50 (17.30%) Node.js
4 48 (16.61%) Terraform
5 46 (15.92%) Kafka
6 44 (15.22%) Spring
7 42 (14.53%) REST
8 41 (14.19%) Spring Boot
9 35 (12.11%) Next.js
10 32 (11.07%) FastAPI
11 31 (10.73%) JWT
12 27 (9.34%) Ruby on Rails
13 26 (9.00%) JSON
14 17 (5.88%) OAuth
14 17 (5.88%) Sidekiq
15 16 (5.54%) OAuth2
16 13 (4.50%) CSS
17 12 (4.15%) JPA
18 11 (3.81%) Hibernate
18 11 (3.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.45%) Cloud Native
2 50 (17.30%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (9.00%) Low-Code
4 23 (7.96%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (5.54%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (5.54%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.15%) AI Agents
7 10 (3.46%) EPoS
7 10 (3.46%) iSeries
8 9 (3.11%) Blog
9 8 (2.77%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.77%) Replication
10 7 (2.42%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.08%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.73%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.73%) IoT
13 4 (1.38%) Equities
13 4 (1.38%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.77%) Linux
2 4 (1.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (39.79%) AI
2 112 (38.75%) CI/CD
3 101 (34.95%) Software Engineering
4 87 (30.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 80 (27.68%) Agile
6 78 (26.99%) Observability
7 71 (24.57%) API Design
8 70 (24.22%) Microservices
9 63 (21.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 62 (21.45%) Containerisation
11 59 (20.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (17.65%) Test Automation
13 50 (17.30%) Clean Code
14 48 (16.61%) Machine Learning
15 47 (16.26%) Event-Driven
16 42 (14.53%) Mentoring
17 40 (13.84%) DevOps
18 39 (13.49%) Analytics
19 38 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
20 37 (12.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 140 (48.44%) Python
2 67 (23.18%) Java
3 64 (22.15%) SQL
4 51 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 32 (11.07%) Go
6 31 (10.73%) JavaScript
7 27 (9.34%) Ruby
8 10 (3.46%) RPG
9 9 (3.11%) C#
10 6 (2.08%) Scala
11 4 (1.38%) Bash
12 3 (1.04%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.04%) C++
12 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.04%) SOQL
12 3 (1.04%) SOSL
13 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.69%) PHP
13 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (9.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.57%) Degree
3 18 (6.23%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.23%) QA
3 15 (5.19%) GDPR
4 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (25.61%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (20.07%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.88%) Grafana
3 8 (2.77%) Ansible
4 6 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.04%) Argo
6 2 (0.69%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.35%) Nagios
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 23 (7.96%) Oracle
2 22 (7.61%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.50%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.15%) Google
5 11 (3.81%) Databricks
6 10 (3.46%) IBM
7 4 (1.38%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.38%) Netezza
7 4 (1.38%) Remedy
7 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.69%) Splunk
9 2 (0.69%) TikTok
10 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.35%) Confluent
10 1 (0.35%) Informatica
10 1 (0.35%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.35%) Sybase
10 1 (0.35%) Talend