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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 94 133
Rank change year-on-year -67 +39 +15
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 246 515 453
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.70% 3.32% 2.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.31% 14.38% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 173 266 405
10th Percentile £53,500 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,813 £66,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -6.90%

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 2,386 3,581 4,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.44% 23.08% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,558 2,164 3,367
10th Percentile £43,188 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £93,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -34 29 £100,000 +17.65% 53
South London -14 13 £62,600 +0.16% 15
East London -8 6 £85,000 - 4
West London -17 1 £62,500 -5.30% 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 33 (13.41%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (8.13%) Apache Spark
3 19 (7.72%) WebSphere
4 17 (6.91%) Tomcat
5 16 (6.50%) WebSphere Application Server
6 14 (5.69%) Confluence
7 4 (1.63%) Apache
8 3 (1.22%) Luigi
8 3 (1.22%) nginx
9 1 (0.41%) Camunda
9 1 (0.41%) CMS
9 1 (0.41%) IIS
9 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) Endur
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 170 (69.11%) AWS
2 79 (32.11%) GCP
3 71 (28.86%) Azure
4 34 (13.82%) Serverless
5 32 (13.01%) dbt
6 26 (10.57%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (7.72%) Amazon ECS
9 18 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (6.91%) GitHub
11 16 (6.50%) Amazon S3
11 16 (6.50%) SaaS
12 12 (4.88%) Amazon EMR
12 12 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.88%) Power Platform
13 11 (4.47%) Amazon ECR
14 7 (2.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (2.85%) Route 53
14 7 (2.85%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.85%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.72%) SSL
2 7 (2.85%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.22%) WAN
4 2 (0.81%) BGP
4 2 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.81%) Firewall
4 2 (0.81%) MQTT
4 2 (0.81%) OSPF
4 2 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.81%) RTMP
4 2 (0.81%) VLAN
4 2 (0.81%) VPN
4 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.81%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (23.98%) SQL Server
2 55 (22.36%) Relational Database
3 45 (18.29%) MongoDB
4 44 (17.89%) MySQL
5 41 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 34 (13.82%) DB2
7 31 (12.60%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (11.38%) RDBMS
9 24 (9.76%) Apache Iceberg
10 20 (8.13%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (8.13%) Apache Arrow
10 20 (8.13%) Dremio
11 15 (6.10%) Hadoop
12 14 (5.69%) Big Data
12 14 (5.69%) DynamoDB
13 13 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (5.28%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (4.88%) Power BI
14 12 (4.88%) Redis
15 10 (4.07%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 51 (20.73%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.16%) Git
3 19 (7.72%) JIRA
4 17 (6.91%) GitLab
4 17 (6.91%) Selenium
5 15 (6.10%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.10%) JMeter
5 15 (6.10%) JUnit
6 14 (5.69%) Cucumber
6 14 (5.69%) Mockito
6 14 (5.69%) TeamCity
7 7 (2.85%) Vite
8 4 (1.63%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.63%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.22%) MLflow
9 3 (1.22%) Subversion
9 3 (1.22%) TestRail
10 2 (0.81%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 82 (33.33%) Finance
2 56 (22.76%) Social Skills
3 37 (15.04%) Banking
4 26 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.94%) Law
6 21 (8.54%) Front Office
7 11 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.47%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.66%) Retail
9 8 (3.25%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.03%) Electronics
10 5 (2.03%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.03%) Marketing
11 3 (1.22%) Legal
12 2 (0.81%) Advertising
12 2 (0.81%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.81%) Back Office
12 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (36.99%) Developer
2 34 (13.82%) Software Engineer
3 33 (13.41%) Senior
4 31 (12.60%) Python Developer
5 30 (12.20%) Java Developer
6 29 (11.79%) Lead
7 28 (11.38%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (11.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (9.35%) Python Engineer
9 22 (8.94%) Data Engineer
10 21 (8.54%) AWS Software Engineer
10 21 (8.54%) Linux Support
10 21 (8.54%) Principal Engineer
11 20 (8.13%) AWS Developer
11 20 (8.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 20 (8.13%) Python Software Engineer
12 19 (7.72%) Applications Support
12 19 (7.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 14 (5.69%) Backend Developer
13 14 (5.69%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (30.08%) React
2 58 (23.58%) Node.js
3 44 (17.89%) FastAPI
4 43 (17.48%) REST
5 39 (15.85%) HTML
6 36 (14.63%) AngularJS
7 32 (13.01%) Django
7 32 (13.01%) Spring
8 30 (12.20%) Spring Boot
9 29 (11.79%) CSS
10 27 (10.98%) RESTful
10 27 (10.98%) Vue
11 25 (10.16%) Kafka
12 21 (8.54%) NumPy
12 21 (8.54%) Pandas
13 20 (8.13%) SciPy
14 19 (7.72%) Flask
15 18 (7.32%) Web Services
16 17 (6.91%) Elastic Stack
16 17 (6.91%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.45%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (10.16%) Cloud Native
3 20 (8.13%) Equities
3 20 (8.13%) Fixed Income
3 20 (8.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (8.13%) Management Information System
4 18 (7.32%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (6.10%) Product Ownership
6 13 (5.28%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (4.88%) Algorithms
8 10 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.85%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.63%) Blog
10 4 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.63%) Linux
2 24 (9.76%) Unix
3 18 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (6.91%) Windows
5 7 (2.85%) Android
5 7 (2.85%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (45.93%) Agile
2 103 (41.87%) CI/CD
3 78 (31.71%) Software Engineering
4 77 (31.30%) Microservices
5 55 (22.36%) Fintech
5 55 (22.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 51 (20.73%) AI
7 50 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (18.29%) Containerisation
9 43 (17.48%) DevOps
10 36 (14.63%) ETL
11 35 (14.23%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (14.23%) Test Automation
12 34 (13.82%) Data Engineering
13 32 (13.01%) Data Modelling
14 30 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (11.79%) Data Pipeline
15 29 (11.79%) Scrum
16 27 (10.98%) Analytics
17 26 (10.57%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 152 (61.79%) Python
2 83 (33.74%) JavaScript
3 81 (32.93%) Java
4 78 (31.71%) SQL
5 61 (24.80%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.69%) C#
6 14 (5.69%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.66%) Rust
8 7 (2.85%) Go
9 5 (2.03%) PHP
10 4 (1.63%) Ruby
11 3 (1.22%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.22%) RPG
11 3 (1.22%) Scala
12 1 (0.41%) Bash
12 1 (0.41%) COBOL
12 1 (0.41%) Delphi
12 1 (0.41%) Korn
12 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.04%) Degree
3 29 (11.79%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.72%) AWS Certification
5 18 (7.32%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.85%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.03%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.81%) HNC
10 2 (0.81%) HND
10 2 (0.81%) MCSA
10 2 (0.81%) MCSE
10 2 (0.81%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.41%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.50%) SLA
2 12 (4.88%) QA
3 9 (3.66%) GDPR
4 8 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.85%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.22%) SEPA
7 2 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.81%) PSD2
8 1 (0.41%) GAAP
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 92 (37.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) NFS
Systems Management
1 89 (36.18%) Kubernetes
2 43 (17.48%) Terraform
3 16 (6.50%) Kibana
4 12 (4.88%) Grafana
5 9 (3.66%) Argo
5 9 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.44%) Ansible
7 3 (1.22%) Puppet
8 2 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.41%) Ambari
9 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (13.41%) Oracle
2 22 (8.94%) IBM
2 22 (8.94%) Red Hat
3 14 (5.69%) Atlassian
4 13 (5.28%) Dynatrace
4 13 (5.28%) Google
4 13 (5.28%) ServiceNow
4 13 (5.28%) Splunk
5 11 (4.47%) Informatica
5 11 (4.47%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.07%) Talend
7 9 (3.66%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.44%) SAP
9 2 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.81%) Cisco
9 2 (0.81%) Confluent
9 2 (0.81%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.81%) Dell
9 2 (0.81%) NETGEAR
9 2 (0.81%) Sonatype