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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 99 131
Rank change year-on-year -83 +32 +18
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 232 495 501
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.40% 3.48% 2.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.85% 15.34% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 164 277 451
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,813 £70,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +12.90% -8.82%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £97,395
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £73,901 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.64% +19.23% -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 2,355 3,227 4,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.23% 22.66% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 2,035 3,656
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,300 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -40 30 £100,000 +17.65% 48
South London -21 9 £62,600 +0.16% 2
East London -11 3 £85,000 - 14
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 19 (8.19%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.03%) Apache Spark
3 13 (5.60%) Confluence
4 10 (4.31%) Tomcat
4 10 (4.31%) WebSphere
5 9 (3.88%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (3.02%) Apache
7 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.86%) nginx
9 1 (0.43%) Camunda
9 1 (0.43%) IIS
9 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) Endur
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 151 (65.09%) AWS
2 84 (36.21%) Azure
3 80 (34.48%) GCP
4 27 (11.64%) Serverless
5 25 (10.78%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (8.19%) dbt
7 17 (7.33%) GitHub
8 16 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (6.47%) SaaS
10 14 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (6.03%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (3.88%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (3.88%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (3.88%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (3.45%) LangSmith
13 8 (3.45%) Vercel
14 6 (2.59%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.17%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.31%) SSL
3 6 (2.59%) VPN
3 6 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.72%) DHCP
4 4 (1.72%) DNS
5 3 (1.29%) WAN
6 2 (0.86%) BGP
6 2 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.86%) Firewall
6 2 (0.86%) MQTT
6 2 (0.86%) OSPF
6 2 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.86%) RTMP
6 2 (0.86%) VLAN
6 2 (0.86%) Wireless
7 1 (0.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.12%) Relational Database
2 39 (16.81%) SQL Server
3 38 (16.38%) MongoDB
4 34 (14.66%) MySQL
5 30 (12.93%) NoSQL
6 26 (11.21%) DB2
7 25 (10.78%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (6.90%) RDBMS
9 14 (6.03%) DynamoDB
10 12 (5.17%) Redis
11 11 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (4.31%) Big Data
12 10 (4.31%) Hadoop
13 9 (3.88%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (3.88%) BigQuery
13 9 (3.88%) Power BI
14 8 (3.45%) Pinecone
15 7 (3.02%) Apache Cassandra
15 7 (3.02%) Metadata
15 7 (3.02%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 41 (17.67%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.07%) Git
3 20 (8.62%) TeamCity
4 17 (7.33%) JIRA
5 16 (6.90%) Selenium
6 15 (6.47%) GitLab
7 14 (6.03%) Bitbucket
8 13 (5.60%) Cucumber
9 9 (3.88%) JMeter
10 8 (3.45%) JUnit
11 7 (3.02%) Mockito
11 7 (3.02%) Vite
12 4 (1.72%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.72%) Jaeger
12 4 (1.72%) Subversion
13 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.29%) MLflow
13 3 (1.29%) TestRail
14 2 (0.86%) ESLint
14 2 (0.86%) Storybook
General
1 77 (33.19%) Finance
2 50 (21.55%) Social Skills
3 40 (17.24%) Banking
4 33 (14.22%) Law
5 24 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (9.48%) Front Office
7 22 (9.48%) Public Sector
8 19 (8.19%) Retail
9 7 (3.02%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.72%) Back Office
10 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.29%) Legal
12 2 (0.86%) Advertising
12 2 (0.86%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.43%) Electronics
13 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (33.62%) Developer
2 44 (18.97%) Lead
3 42 (18.10%) Software Engineer
4 36 (15.52%) Senior
5 25 (10.78%) Java Developer
6 24 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (10.34%) Lead Developer
7 23 (9.91%) Data Engineer
8 20 (8.62%) Python Developer
9 19 (8.19%) Principal Engineer
9 19 (8.19%) Python Engineer
10 18 (7.76%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (7.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 16 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 15 (6.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 14 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (5.60%) Architect
15 13 (5.60%) Java Engineer
16 12 (5.17%) Lead Software Developer
17 10 (4.31%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (34.05%) React
2 59 (25.43%) Node.js
3 40 (17.24%) FastAPI
4 33 (14.22%) HTML
5 29 (12.50%) CSS
5 29 (12.50%) Django
5 29 (12.50%) REST
6 28 (12.07%) RESTful
7 27 (11.64%) Spring
8 26 (11.21%) Kafka
9 24 (10.34%) Spring Boot
10 20 (8.62%) Redux
11 17 (7.33%) AngularJS
11 17 (7.33%) Next.js
12 16 (6.90%) Flask
13 14 (6.03%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (5.17%) LangChain
14 12 (5.17%) Vue
14 12 (5.17%) Web Services
15 10 (4.31%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.36%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (12.93%) Cloud Native
3 21 (9.05%) Equities
3 21 (9.05%) Fixed Income
4 16 (6.90%) Derivative
5 15 (6.47%) Blog
6 14 (6.03%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (5.60%) Management Information System
7 13 (5.60%) Product Ownership
8 12 (5.17%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (3.02%) Algorithms
10 7 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.16%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.72%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.72%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.91%) Linux
2 16 (6.90%) Unix
3 14 (6.03%) Windows
4 11 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.16%) Android
5 5 (2.16%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.72%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (42.67%) Agile
2 95 (40.95%) CI/CD
3 81 (34.91%) Software Engineering
4 74 (31.90%) Microservices
5 63 (27.16%) Fintech
6 57 (24.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 48 (20.69%) AI
8 43 (18.53%) Mentoring
9 39 (16.81%) DevOps
9 39 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (16.81%) Test Automation
10 37 (15.95%) Containerisation
11 33 (14.22%) Technical Leadership
12 31 (13.36%) Data Modelling
12 31 (13.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (12.93%) ETL
14 29 (12.50%) Clean Code
14 29 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
15 28 (12.07%) Data Engineering
16 27 (11.64%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 133 (57.33%) Python
2 81 (34.91%) Java
3 78 (33.62%) SQL
4 75 (32.33%) JavaScript
5 65 (28.02%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.90%) C#
7 10 (4.31%) Go
8 8 (3.45%) Rust
8 8 (3.45%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.59%) PHP
10 5 (2.16%) Delphi
10 5 (2.16%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.72%) Pascal
12 3 (1.29%) RPG
12 3 (1.29%) Ruby
13 2 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.43%) Bash
14 1 (0.43%) COBOL
14 1 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.50%) Degree
4 11 (4.74%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.88%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.86%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.43%) HNC
11 1 (0.43%) HND
11 1 (0.43%) MCSA
11 1 (0.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.88%) Data Quality
1 9 (3.88%) SLA
2 8 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.45%) QA
3 7 (3.02%) GDPR
4 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.29%) SEPA
5 2 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.86%) PSD2
System Software
1 77 (33.19%) Docker
2 2 (0.86%) NFS
Systems Management
1 80 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 49 (21.12%) Terraform
3 18 (7.76%) Grafana
4 10 (4.31%) Argo
4 10 (4.31%) Kibana
4 10 (4.31%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.72%) Ansible
6 3 (1.29%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.43%) Ambari
7 1 (0.43%) Istio
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (10.34%) Oracle
2 14 (6.03%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.60%) IBM
3 13 (5.60%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.17%) OpenAI
5 11 (4.74%) Atlassian
5 11 (4.74%) Google
6 8 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.02%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.02%) Informatica
7 7 (3.02%) Splunk
7 7 (3.02%) Talend
8 4 (1.72%) Databricks
9 3 (1.29%) Revolut
10 2 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.86%) Mapbox
10 2 (0.86%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.86%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.86%) Starlink
10 2 (0.86%) Ubiquiti