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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 108 137
Rank change year-on-year -82 +29 +20
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 292 363 471
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 3.04% 2.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.67% 13.61% 10.51%
Number of salaries quoted 193 258 324
10th Percentile £53,250 £59,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £89,352
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +17.51% +11.69%
75th Percentile £96,250 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £136,250
England median annual salary £69,655 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -7.13% +14.57% -6.48%

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 2,736 2,668 4,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.15% 22.36% 23.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,756 1,697 3,044
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% -5.87% -

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 +24 51 £90,000 -3.23% 26
West London -12 15 £80,000 +25.98% 19
South London -30 5 - - 2
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 20 (6.85%) Apache Spark
2 18 (6.16%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.79%) Apache
4 12 (4.11%) Confluence
5 7 (2.40%) Camunda
6 2 (0.68%) Luigi
6 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.68%) Tornado
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Moodle
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.77%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 161 (55.14%) AWS
2 73 (25.00%) Azure
3 37 (12.67%) GCP
3 37 (12.67%) SaaS
4 34 (11.64%) GitHub
5 28 (9.59%) Amazon S3
6 24 (8.22%) Serverless
7 21 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (4.79%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.45%) Power Platform
11 12 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.77%) Lucidchart
13 10 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (3.08%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) 4G
2 1 (0.34%) 5G
2 1 (0.34%) AMQP
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
2 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) MPLS
2 1 (0.34%) SMS
2 1 (0.34%) SNMP
2 1 (0.34%) SSH
2 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (19.86%) MongoDB
2 54 (18.49%) Relational Database
3 51 (17.47%) MySQL
4 46 (15.75%) Redis
5 35 (11.99%) NoSQL
6 33 (11.30%) SQL Server
7 21 (7.19%) DynamoDB
8 18 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (5.14%) Big Data
11 14 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (4.45%) Metadata
12 13 (4.45%) Power BI
13 11 (3.77%) Db2
14 10 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (3.42%) Data Lake
14 10 (3.42%) DTS
15 8 (2.74%) Tableau
16 7 (2.40%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 41 (14.04%) Git
2 14 (4.79%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.11%) JUnit
4 11 (3.77%) GitLab
4 11 (3.77%) Mockito
5 9 (3.08%) TeamCity
6 7 (2.40%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.40%) Vite
7 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (1.03%) webpack
8 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.68%) Gradle
8 2 (0.68%) JIRA
8 2 (0.68%) JMeter
8 2 (0.68%) Maven
8 2 (0.68%) Selenium
9 1 (0.34%) Mocha
9 1 (0.34%) Valgrind
General
1 69 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.49%) Finance
3 27 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (7.53%) Games
5 21 (7.19%) Banking
6 20 (6.85%) Law
7 19 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (5.82%) Public Sector
9 13 (4.45%) Retail
10 10 (3.42%) Legal
11 9 (3.08%) Legal Technology
12 7 (2.40%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.03%) Electronics
14 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.03%) Marketing
14 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.34%) Aviation
15 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 96 (32.88%) Developer
2 77 (26.37%) Senior
3 58 (19.86%) Lead
4 53 (18.15%) Software Engineer
5 31 (10.62%) Senior Software Engineer
6 30 (10.27%) Python Engineer
7 29 (9.93%) Data Engineer
8 28 (9.59%) Architect
9 26 (8.90%) Ruby Developer
10 25 (8.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 25 (8.56%) Python Developer
11 22 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (6.85%) Database Engineer
13 19 (6.51%) Lead Developer
14 18 (6.16%) Lead Data Engineer
15 16 (5.48%) Senior Developer
16 12 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
18 10 (3.42%) Java Engineer
18 10 (3.42%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.92%) RESTful
2 53 (18.15%) Terraform
3 52 (17.81%) React
4 51 (17.47%) Kafka
5 49 (16.78%) REST
6 45 (15.41%) Node.js
6 45 (15.41%) Spring
7 42 (14.38%) Spring Boot
8 33 (11.30%) Next.js
9 32 (10.96%) FastAPI
10 30 (10.27%) JWT
11 27 (9.25%) Ruby on Rails
12 26 (8.90%) JSON
13 17 (5.82%) OAuth
13 17 (5.82%) Sidekiq
14 16 (5.48%) OAuth2
15 14 (4.79%) CSS
16 12 (4.11%) HTML
16 12 (4.11%) JPA
17 11 (3.77%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 68 (23.29%) Cloud Native
2 50 (17.12%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.90%) Low-Code
4 23 (7.88%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (5.48%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.11%) AI Agents
7 11 (3.77%) Replication
8 10 (3.42%) Blog
8 10 (3.42%) EPoS
8 10 (3.42%) iSeries
9 7 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.40%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.05%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.71%) IoT
11 5 (1.71%) PropTech
12 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.08%) Linux
2 4 (1.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (41.10%) CI/CD
2 117 (40.07%) AI
3 100 (34.25%) Software Engineering
4 85 (29.11%) Observability
5 83 (28.42%) Full-Stack Development
6 78 (26.71%) Agile
7 71 (24.32%) API Design
8 69 (23.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (23.63%) Microservices
9 62 (21.23%) Containerisation
10 58 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (19.52%) Test Automation
12 51 (17.47%) Clean Code
13 50 (17.12%) Event-Driven
14 48 (16.44%) Machine Learning
15 46 (15.75%) DevOps
16 41 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
17 40 (13.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 40 (13.70%) Mentoring
18 36 (12.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 140 (47.95%) Python
2 69 (23.63%) SQL
3 67 (22.95%) Java
4 49 (16.78%) TypeScript
5 32 (10.96%) Go
6 28 (9.59%) JavaScript
7 27 (9.25%) Ruby
8 10 (3.42%) C#
8 10 (3.42%) RPG
9 8 (2.74%) Bash
10 6 (2.05%) Scala
11 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.03%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.03%) C++
12 3 (1.03%) Groovy
12 3 (1.03%) SOQL
12 3 (1.03%) SOSL
13 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.68%) PHP
13 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (9.59%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.85%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.16%) Degree
4 7 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.34%) CCNA
6 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.30%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.16%) QA
3 15 (5.14%) GDPR
4 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.34%) MiFID
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (27.05%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.88%) Grafana
3 11 (3.77%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.74%) Ansible
5 3 (1.03%) Argo
5 3 (1.03%) Rancher
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
7 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 22 (7.53%) Oracle
2 21 (7.19%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.45%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.77%) Google
5 10 (3.42%) Databricks
5 10 (3.42%) IBM
6 7 (2.40%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.40%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.37%) Mistral
7 4 (1.37%) Netezza
7 4 (1.37%) Remedy
8 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.68%) Splunk
9 2 (0.68%) TikTok
10 1 (0.34%) ADVA
10 1 (0.34%) Ciena
10 1 (0.34%) Confluent
10 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.34%) SAP
10 1 (0.34%) Sybase