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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 120 127
Rank change year-on-year -51 +7 +43
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 337 349 520
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.30% 2.96% 2.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.14% 13.08% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 209 240 306
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £64,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +20.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £136,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -

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 2,776 2,668 4,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.73% 22.62% 24.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,741 1,664 2,826
10th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £77,500 £83,230
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% -6.88% +13.24%
75th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +23 46 £87,500 -27.08% 48
West London -2 14 £80,000 +25.98% 12
South London -18 7 £72,000 -
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 18 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.56%) Apache
4 11 (3.26%) Confluence
5 7 (2.08%) Camunda
6 3 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.89%) nginx
7 2 (0.59%) Luigi
7 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.59%) Tornado
8 1 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.30%) Moodle
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 191 (56.68%) AWS
2 81 (24.04%) Azure
3 59 (17.51%) GCP
4 51 (15.13%) GitHub
5 43 (12.76%) SaaS
6 39 (11.57%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (8.90%) Amazon S3
8 28 (8.31%) Serverless
9 23 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (5.34%) GitHub Copilot
12 16 (4.75%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (4.45%) Power Platform
14 14 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (3.26%) Anthropic Claude
16 11 (3.26%) Lucidchart
16 11 (3.26%) Vertex AI
17 9 (2.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.93%) Broadband
2 9 (2.67%) VPN
3 8 (2.37%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.08%) BGP
5 5 (1.48%) Firewall
5 5 (1.48%) Network Security
6 3 (0.89%) VLAN
7 2 (0.59%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.30%) 4G
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
8 1 (0.30%) AMQP
8 1 (0.30%) DNS
8 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.30%) HTTP
8 1 (0.30%) MPLS
8 1 (0.30%) SMS
8 1 (0.30%) SNMP
8 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (18.69%) MongoDB
2 56 (16.62%) Redis
3 52 (15.43%) Relational Database
4 51 (15.13%) MySQL
5 39 (11.57%) SQL Server
6 35 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (9.20%) NoSQL
8 26 (7.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 22 (6.53%) DynamoDB
10 17 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.45%) Big Data
11 15 (4.45%) Metadata
11 15 (4.45%) Power BI
12 12 (3.56%) Data Lake
12 12 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (2.97%) Db2
14 10 (2.97%) DTS
15 9 (2.67%) Pinecone
16 8 (2.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (16.02%) Git
2 24 (7.12%) Jenkins
3 22 (6.53%) TeamCity
4 15 (4.45%) GitLab
5 11 (3.26%) JUnit
6 10 (2.97%) Mockito
7 8 (2.37%) Claude Code
8 7 (2.08%) Vite
9 4 (1.19%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.89%) Gradle
10 3 (0.89%) Maven
10 3 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.89%) webpack
11 2 (0.59%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.59%) JMeter
11 2 (0.59%) Storybook
12 1 (0.30%) CMake
12 1 (0.30%) kappa
12 1 (0.30%) Mocha
12 1 (0.30%) Valgrind
General
1 79 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 75 (22.26%) Finance
3 49 (14.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (9.50%) Law
5 31 (9.20%) Banking
6 24 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.12%) Retail
7 20 (5.93%) Games
7 20 (5.93%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.86%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.97%) Legal
10 9 (2.67%) Legal Technology
11 7 (2.08%) Back Office
12 5 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.89%) Billing
13 3 (0.89%) Marketing
13 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.30%) Electronics
15 1 (0.30%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 96 (28.49%) Developer
2 93 (27.60%) Senior
3 63 (18.69%) Software Engineer
4 54 (16.02%) Lead
5 35 (10.39%) Senior Software Engineer
6 29 (8.61%) Architect
7 28 (8.31%) Data Engineer
7 28 (8.31%) Python Developer
7 28 (8.31%) Python Engineer
8 24 (7.12%) Ruby Developer
9 23 (6.82%) Database Engineer
10 22 (6.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 20 (5.93%) DBA
12 19 (5.64%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (5.34%) Senior Developer
14 17 (5.04%) Lead Developer
15 16 (4.75%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
17 14 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
17 14 (4.15%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (24.33%) Terraform
2 63 (18.69%) RESTful
3 61 (18.10%) React
4 58 (17.21%) REST
5 54 (16.02%) Kafka
6 48 (14.24%) Spring
7 47 (13.95%) Node.js
8 44 (13.06%) Spring Boot
9 35 (10.39%) FastAPI
10 33 (9.79%) Next.js
11 27 (8.01%) JWT
12 25 (7.42%) Ruby on Rails
13 23 (6.82%) JSON
14 16 (4.75%) OAuth
15 15 (4.45%) CSS
15 15 (4.45%) OAuth2
15 15 (4.45%) Sidekiq
16 14 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
16 14 (4.15%) GraphQL
17 12 (3.56%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 83 (24.63%) Cloud Native
2 67 (19.88%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (8.01%) Blog
4 24 (7.12%) Low-Code
5 22 (6.53%) Replication
6 21 (6.23%) Video\Live Streaming
7 19 (5.64%) Onboarding
8 18 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (4.45%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.97%) EPoS
10 10 (2.97%) iSeries
11 8 (2.37%) Product Ownership
12 7 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (2.08%) Management Information System
12 7 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (1.78%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (1.48%) Security Posture
15 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.75%) Linux
2 7 (2.08%) Windows
3 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (47.48%) CI/CD
2 128 (37.98%) AI
3 111 (32.94%) Software Engineering
4 108 (32.05%) Observability
5 84 (24.93%) Agile
5 84 (24.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 78 (23.15%) Microservices
7 77 (22.85%) Full-Stack Development
7 77 (22.85%) Test Automation
8 65 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 64 (18.99%) API Design
10 61 (18.10%) Containerisation
11 60 (17.80%) DevOps
12 59 (17.51%) Clean Code
13 58 (17.21%) Event-Driven
14 53 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
15 52 (15.43%) Fintech
15 52 (15.43%) Machine Learning
16 47 (13.95%) LLM
17 46 (13.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 159 (47.18%) Python
2 92 (27.30%) SQL
3 81 (24.04%) Java
4 56 (16.62%) TypeScript
5 37 (10.98%) Go
6 33 (9.79%) JavaScript
7 25 (7.42%) Ruby
8 19 (5.64%) Bash
9 12 (3.56%) C#
10 11 (3.26%) Groovy
11 10 (2.97%) RPG
12 6 (1.78%) Scala
13 4 (1.19%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.89%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.89%) SOQL
14 3 (0.89%) SOSL
14 3 (0.89%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.59%) C++
15 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 45 (13.35%) Security Cleared
2 37 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.53%) Degree
4 8 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (1.48%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.48%) CCSP
6 5 (1.48%) CISM
6 5 (1.48%) CISSP
7 3 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.59%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.30%) CCNA
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.90%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.04%) QA
3 16 (4.75%) GDPR
4 7 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.08%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.78%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.48%) NIST
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
7 2 (0.59%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 94 (27.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.30%) Firmware
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (26.41%) Kubernetes
2 53 (15.73%) Grafana
3 27 (8.01%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.67%) Ansible
4 9 (2.67%) Rancher
5 7 (2.08%) Argo
6 5 (1.48%) Cilium
7 4 (1.19%) Kibana
8 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.30%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.30%) Nagios
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.30%) Packer
9 1 (0.30%) Rsyslog
9 1 (0.30%) SCOM
9 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 30 (8.90%) Oracle
2 27 (8.01%) Microsoft
3 22 (6.53%) Google
4 17 (5.04%) OpenAI
5 14 (4.15%) Databricks
5 14 (4.15%) Dynatrace
6 13 (3.86%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.97%) IBM
8 6 (1.78%) Mistral
9 4 (1.19%) Netezza
9 4 (1.19%) Remedy
9 4 (1.19%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.89%) Adobe
11 2 (0.59%) Splunk
11 2 (0.59%) TikTok
12 1 (0.30%) ADVA
12 1 (0.30%) Confluent
12 1 (0.30%) RedGate
12 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds