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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 111 145
Rank change year-on-year -66 +34 -1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 294 369 461
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.26% 2.99% 2.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.84% 13.43% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 206 273 353
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,400 £49,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £130,000
England median annual salary £69,310 £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 2,713 2,747 4,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.62% 22.29% 22.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,758 1,788 3,245
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £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 2 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 2 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 +8 50 £87,500 +6.06% 26
West London -16 15 £80,000 +25.98% 7
South London -26 5 - - 2
East London -8 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 20 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
1 20 (6.80%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.44%) Apache
3 12 (4.08%) Confluence
4 6 (2.04%) Camunda
5 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) Luigi
6 1 (0.34%) Moodle
6 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.34%) Tornado
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.74%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 165 (56.12%) AWS
2 87 (29.59%) Azure
3 51 (17.35%) GCP
4 33 (11.22%) SaaS
5 28 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 25 (8.50%) GitHub
7 22 (7.48%) Serverless
8 18 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (4.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.74%) Lucidchart
13 10 (3.40%) GitHub Copilot
13 10 (3.40%) Power Platform
14 9 (3.06%) Amazon EMR
14 9 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (3.06%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.48%) Broadband
2 4 (1.36%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.02%) DHCP
3 3 (1.02%) DNS
3 3 (1.02%) VPN
3 3 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.34%) AMQP
4 1 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (18.37%) MongoDB
2 51 (17.35%) Relational Database
3 49 (16.67%) MySQL
4 43 (14.63%) Redis
5 33 (11.22%) NoSQL
6 26 (8.84%) SQL Server
7 23 (7.82%) DynamoDB
8 18 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.44%) Metadata
10 15 (5.10%) Big Data
11 14 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (3.74%) Db2
15 10 (3.40%) Data Lake
15 10 (3.40%) DTS
15 10 (3.40%) Power BI
16 9 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
17 7 (2.38%) Tableau
18 6 (2.04%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 36 (12.24%) Git
2 10 (3.40%) JUnit
2 10 (3.40%) TeamCity
3 9 (3.06%) GitLab
3 9 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.06%) Mockito
4 8 (2.72%) Vite
5 5 (1.70%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.02%) webpack
7 2 (0.68%) ESLint
7 2 (0.68%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.68%) JIRA
7 2 (0.68%) JMeter
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.68%) Storybook
8 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.34%) Maven
8 1 (0.34%) Selenium
8 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 63 (21.43%) Finance
2 58 (19.73%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (7.48%) Games
4 20 (6.80%) Law
5 19 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (5.78%) Banking
6 17 (5.78%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.44%) Front Office
8 12 (4.08%) Retail
9 9 (3.06%) Legal
10 8 (2.72%) Legal Technology
11 6 (2.04%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.02%) Electronics
12 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.68%) Marketing
13 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.34%) Aviation
14 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 104 (35.37%) Developer
2 72 (24.49%) Senior
3 71 (24.15%) Lead
4 65 (22.11%) Software Engineer
5 40 (13.61%) Python Engineer
6 34 (11.56%) Lead Developer
7 31 (10.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 31 (10.54%) Python Developer
8 28 (9.52%) Data Engineer
9 26 (8.84%) Architect
10 25 (8.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (8.16%) Ruby Developer
12 21 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (5.78%) Lead Python Developer
14 16 (5.44%) Lead Data Engineer
14 16 (5.44%) Lead Software Engineer
15 14 (4.76%) Database Engineer
15 14 (4.76%) Senior Developer
16 12 (4.08%) Lead Software Developer
16 12 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (22.79%) React
2 61 (20.75%) Node.js
3 60 (20.41%) RESTful
4 42 (14.29%) REST
4 42 (14.29%) Spring
5 40 (13.61%) Kafka
6 39 (13.27%) Spring Boot
7 35 (11.90%) FastAPI
7 35 (11.90%) Next.js
8 27 (9.18%) JWT
9 25 (8.50%) JSON
9 25 (8.50%) Ruby on Rails
10 17 (5.78%) Redux
11 16 (5.44%) Sidekiq
12 15 (5.10%) CSS
13 12 (4.08%) HTML
13 12 (4.08%) OAuth
13 12 (4.08%) OAuth2
14 11 (3.74%) Middleware
15 10 (3.40%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 60 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 45 (15.31%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.84%) Low-Code
4 23 (7.82%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (6.12%) Onboarding
6 16 (5.44%) Derivative
6 16 (5.44%) Equities
6 16 (5.44%) Fixed Income
6 16 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.40%) EPoS
7 10 (3.40%) iSeries
8 9 (3.06%) AI Agents
8 9 (3.06%) Blog
9 7 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.38%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.04%) Client/Server
10 6 (2.04%) Replication
11 5 (1.70%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.70%) IoT
12 4 (1.36%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.06%) Linux
2 7 (2.38%) Windows
3 3 (1.02%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.68%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (38.10%) CI/CD
1 112 (38.10%) Software Engineering
2 107 (36.39%) AI
3 88 (29.93%) Agile
3 88 (29.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 71 (24.15%) Observability
5 68 (23.13%) Microservices
6 67 (22.79%) API Design
7 66 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 59 (20.07%) Containerisation
9 56 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (17.69%) Mentoring
11 50 (17.01%) Test Automation
12 47 (15.99%) Clean Code
13 44 (14.97%) Machine Learning
14 41 (13.95%) Fintech
15 40 (13.61%) Event-Driven
16 39 (13.27%) Analytics
17 38 (12.93%) DevOps
17 38 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 151 (51.36%) Python
2 70 (23.81%) SQL
3 63 (21.43%) Java
4 61 (20.75%) TypeScript
5 43 (14.63%) JavaScript
6 33 (11.22%) Go
7 25 (8.50%) Ruby
8 10 (3.40%) C#
8 10 (3.40%) RPG
9 5 (1.70%) PHP
9 5 (1.70%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.36%) Bash
11 3 (1.02%) C++
11 3 (1.02%) Delphi
11 3 (1.02%) Pascal
11 3 (1.02%) Scala
11 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.68%) SOQL
12 2 (0.68%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.80%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.44%) Degree
4 5 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.22%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.10%) QA
3 13 (4.42%) GDPR
4 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) MiFID
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (24.49%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 49 (16.67%) Terraform
3 13 (4.42%) Grafana
4 6 (2.04%) Ansible
5 4 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.68%) Argo
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 23 (7.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.80%) Oracle
3 14 (4.76%) OpenAI
4 13 (4.42%) Google
5 11 (3.74%) Databricks
6 10 (3.40%) IBM
7 4 (1.36%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.36%) Netezza
7 4 (1.36%) Remedy
7 4 (1.36%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.68%) Mapbox
8 2 (0.68%) Revolut
8 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.68%) Splunk
8 2 (0.68%) TikTok
9 1 (0.34%) Confluent
9 1 (0.34%) Informatica
9 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.34%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) Sybase