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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 93 125
Rank change year-on-year -71 +32 +31
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 243 519 494
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.58% 3.44% 2.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.32% 15.22% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 168 275 443
10th Percentile £52,470 £56,250 £52,750
25th Percentile £68,813 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +12.90% -6.06%
75th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £138,250 £138,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -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 2,355 3,410 4,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.33% 22.62% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,547 2,093 3,601
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £84,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +15.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £93,750
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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -41 31 £100,000 +14.29% 43
South London -16 11 £62,600 +0.16% 5
East London -8 4 £85,000 - 6
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 28 (11.52%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (7.82%) Apache Spark
3 14 (5.76%) Confluence
4 13 (5.35%) Tomcat
4 13 (5.35%) WebSphere
5 12 (4.94%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (2.06%) Apache
7 3 (1.23%) Luigi
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.82%) nginx
9 1 (0.41%) Camunda
9 1 (0.41%) CMS
9 1 (0.41%) IIS
9 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) Endur
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 160 (65.84%) AWS
2 81 (33.33%) GCP
3 72 (29.63%) Azure
4 30 (12.35%) Serverless
5 28 (11.52%) dbt
6 26 (10.70%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (7.82%) SaaS
8 17 (7.00%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (7.00%) GitHub
9 16 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (6.17%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.53%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (4.53%) Power Platform
12 10 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
14 7 (2.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (2.88%) LangSmith
14 7 (2.88%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.88%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.35%) SSL
2 9 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.65%) VPN
3 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.23%) WAN
5 2 (0.82%) BGP
5 2 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.82%) DHCP
5 2 (0.82%) DNS
5 2 (0.82%) Firewall
5 2 (0.82%) MQTT
5 2 (0.82%) OSPF
5 2 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.82%) RTMP
5 2 (0.82%) VLAN
5 2 (0.82%) Wireless
6 1 (0.41%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (21.81%) Relational Database
2 51 (20.99%) SQL Server
3 40 (16.46%) MongoDB
3 40 (16.46%) MySQL
4 35 (14.40%) NoSQL
5 30 (12.35%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (12.35%) DB2
6 22 (9.05%) RDBMS
7 18 (7.41%) Apache Iceberg
8 14 (5.76%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (5.76%) Apache Arrow
8 14 (5.76%) Dremio
8 14 (5.76%) DynamoDB
8 14 (5.76%) Hadoop
9 13 (5.35%) Big Data
10 12 (4.94%) Redis
11 11 (4.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (4.53%) Power BI
12 10 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (3.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 45 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.29%) Git
3 20 (8.23%) TeamCity
4 19 (7.82%) JIRA
5 17 (7.00%) Selenium
6 15 (6.17%) Bitbucket
7 14 (5.76%) Cucumber
7 14 (5.76%) GitLab
8 11 (4.53%) JMeter
9 10 (4.12%) JUnit
10 9 (3.70%) Mockito
11 6 (2.47%) Vite
12 4 (1.65%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.65%) Subversion
13 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.23%) MLflow
13 3 (1.23%) TestRail
14 2 (0.82%) Gradle
14 2 (0.82%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
General
1 82 (33.74%) Finance
2 56 (23.05%) Social Skills
3 43 (17.70%) Banking
4 32 (13.17%) Law
5 24 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (9.47%) Public Sector
7 21 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (7.82%) Front Office
9 18 (7.41%) Retail
10 9 (3.70%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.47%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.65%) Back Office
12 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.23%) Electronics
13 3 (1.23%) Legal
13 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.23%) Marketing
14 2 (0.82%) Advertising
14 2 (0.82%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (35.39%) Developer
2 37 (15.23%) Software Engineer
3 36 (14.81%) Lead
4 33 (13.58%) Senior
5 28 (11.52%) Java Developer
6 27 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (10.70%) Python Developer
8 24 (9.88%) Data Engineer
9 21 (8.64%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (8.23%) Principal Engineer
10 20 (8.23%) Python Engineer
11 17 (7.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 17 (7.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 16 (6.58%) Linux Support
13 15 (6.17%) Python Software Engineer
14 14 (5.76%) Architect
14 14 (5.76%) AWS Developer
14 14 (5.76%) AWS Software Engineer
14 14 (5.76%) Lead Developer
15 13 (5.35%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (31.28%) React
2 57 (23.46%) Node.js
3 41 (16.87%) FastAPI
4 38 (15.64%) REST
5 35 (14.40%) HTML
6 30 (12.35%) AngularJS
7 29 (11.93%) CSS
7 29 (11.93%) Django
7 29 (11.93%) Kafka
7 29 (11.93%) Spring
8 27 (11.11%) RESTful
9 26 (10.70%) Spring Boot
10 20 (8.23%) Vue
11 18 (7.41%) Flask
12 17 (7.00%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (7.00%) Web Services
13 15 (6.17%) NumPy
13 15 (6.17%) Pandas
14 14 (5.76%) Next.js
14 14 (5.76%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.40%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (12.35%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.41%) Equities
3 18 (7.41%) Fixed Income
4 17 (7.00%) Management Information System
5 15 (6.17%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.17%) Product Ownership
6 14 (5.76%) Blog
6 14 (5.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (5.76%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (4.12%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (3.29%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.65%) Derivative
10 4 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.65%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.35%) Linux
2 18 (7.41%) Unix
3 15 (6.17%) Windows
4 14 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.88%) Android
5 7 (2.88%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.82%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (42.80%) Agile
2 100 (41.15%) CI/CD
3 81 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 75 (30.86%) Microservices
5 62 (25.51%) Fintech
6 55 (22.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 49 (20.16%) AI
8 47 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (16.46%) Test Automation
10 39 (16.05%) Containerisation
11 38 (15.64%) DevOps
12 36 (14.81%) ETL
13 34 (13.99%) Data Modelling
13 34 (13.99%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (13.58%) Data Engineering
14 33 (13.58%) Mentoring
15 32 (13.17%) Business Intelligence
16 29 (11.93%) Clean Code
16 29 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
17 28 (11.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 138 (56.79%) Python
2 86 (35.39%) Java
3 80 (32.92%) SQL
4 77 (31.69%) JavaScript
5 61 (25.10%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.17%) C#
7 10 (4.12%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.29%) Go
8 8 (3.29%) Rust
9 6 (2.47%) PHP
10 4 (1.65%) Ruby
11 3 (1.23%) Delphi
11 3 (1.23%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.23%) RPG
11 3 (1.23%) Scala
12 2 (0.82%) Pascal
13 1 (0.41%) Bash
13 1 (0.41%) COBOL
13 1 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 33 (13.58%) Degree
3 31 (12.76%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.17%) AWS Certification
5 13 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.94%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.88%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.06%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.82%) HNC
10 2 (0.82%) HND
10 2 (0.82%) MCSA
10 2 (0.82%) MCSE
10 2 (0.82%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.94%) SLA
2 11 (4.53%) QA
3 8 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.29%) GDPR
4 3 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.23%) SEPA
5 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.82%) PSD2
6 1 (0.41%) GAAP
6 1 (0.41%) IFRS
6 1 (0.41%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 83 (34.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) NFS
Systems Management
1 89 (36.63%) Kubernetes
2 48 (19.75%) Terraform
3 18 (7.41%) Grafana
4 12 (4.94%) Kibana
5 9 (3.70%) Argo
6 8 (3.29%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.47%) Ansible
8 3 (1.23%) Puppet
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.41%) Ambari
10 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (11.93%) Oracle
2 16 (6.58%) IBM
2 16 (6.58%) Red Hat
3 14 (5.76%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.35%) Atlassian
5 12 (4.94%) Google
6 11 (4.53%) OpenAI
7 10 (4.12%) Informatica
7 10 (4.12%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.70%) Dynatrace
8 9 (3.70%) Splunk
8 9 (3.70%) Talend
9 4 (1.65%) SAP
10 3 (1.23%) Databricks
10 3 (1.23%) Revolut
11 2 (0.82%) Confluent
11 2 (0.82%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.82%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.82%) Starlink
11 2 (0.82%) Ubiquiti