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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 98 122
Rank change year-on-year -84 +24 +22
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 223 467 513
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.33% 3.43% 2.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.72% 15.00% 10.90%
Number of salaries quoted 159 278 463
10th Percentile £52,480 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £70,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +12.90% -8.82%
75th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £96,145
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £73,801 £77,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -4.77% +18.38% -12.71%

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 2,295 3,113 4,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.68% 22.87% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,497 2,021 3,700
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,200
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £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 March 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 March 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 30 £98,750 +16.18% 83
South London -19 8 £62,600 +0.16%
East London -18 2 £85,000 - 9
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 15 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.83%) Confluence
3 9 (4.04%) Tomcat
3 9 (4.04%) WebSphere
4 8 (3.59%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (3.14%) Apache
6 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.45%) Camunda
7 1 (0.45%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (3.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Endur
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 144 (64.57%) AWS
2 80 (35.87%) Azure
3 75 (33.63%) GCP
4 25 (11.21%) Serverless
5 23 (10.31%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (7.62%) GitHub
7 16 (7.17%) dbt
8 15 (6.73%) SaaS
9 14 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (5.83%) Amazon S3
10 13 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (4.04%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.59%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (3.59%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (3.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (3.59%) LangSmith
12 8 (3.59%) Vercel
13 5 (2.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.93%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.04%) SSL
3 5 (2.24%) VPN
3 5 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.79%) DHCP
4 4 (1.79%) DNS
5 2 (0.90%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) BGP
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.45%) Firewall
6 1 (0.45%) LAN
6 1 (0.45%) MQTT
6 1 (0.45%) OSPF
6 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.45%) RTMP
6 1 (0.45%) VLAN
6 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (21.52%) Relational Database
2 36 (16.14%) SQL Server
3 35 (15.70%) MySQL
4 34 (15.25%) MongoDB
5 29 (13.00%) NoSQL
6 25 (11.21%) DB2
7 22 (9.87%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (6.28%) RDBMS
9 13 (5.83%) DynamoDB
10 12 (5.38%) Redis
11 10 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (4.04%) Big Data
12 9 (4.04%) BigQuery
12 9 (4.04%) Hadoop
12 9 (4.04%) Power BI
13 8 (3.59%) Pinecone
14 6 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (2.69%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (2.69%) Metadata
14 6 (2.69%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 36 (16.14%) Jenkins
2 30 (13.45%) Git
3 20 (8.97%) TeamCity
4 14 (6.28%) GitLab
4 14 (6.28%) JIRA
5 13 (5.83%) Cucumber
5 13 (5.83%) Selenium
6 12 (5.38%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.59%) JUnit
8 7 (3.14%) Mockito
8 7 (3.14%) Vite
9 6 (2.69%) JMeter
10 4 (1.79%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.35%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.90%) ESLint
12 2 (0.90%) Maven
12 2 (0.90%) MLflow
12 2 (0.90%) Storybook
12 2 (0.90%) Subversion
General
1 73 (32.74%) Finance
2 49 (21.97%) Social Skills
3 39 (17.49%) Banking
4 32 (14.35%) Law
5 24 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (9.42%) Public Sector
8 19 (8.52%) Front Office
8 19 (8.52%) Retail
9 7 (3.14%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.79%) Back Office
10 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.35%) Legal
12 2 (0.90%) Electronics
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.45%) Marketing
13 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 74 (33.18%) Developer
2 44 (19.73%) Lead
3 42 (18.83%) Software Engineer
4 35 (15.70%) Senior
5 25 (11.21%) Java Developer
6 24 (10.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (10.31%) Data Engineer
7 23 (10.31%) Lead Developer
8 18 (8.07%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (7.62%) Principal Engineer
9 17 (7.62%) Python Developer
9 17 (7.62%) Python Engineer
10 15 (6.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 14 (6.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 14 (6.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 13 (5.83%) Architect
12 13 (5.83%) Java Engineer
13 12 (5.38%) Lead Software Developer
14 11 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (4.48%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (34.08%) React
2 57 (25.56%) Node.js
3 38 (17.04%) FastAPI
4 31 (13.90%) HTML
5 30 (13.45%) RESTful
6 28 (12.56%) CSS
7 27 (12.11%) Django
7 27 (12.11%) Spring
8 26 (11.66%) REST
9 24 (10.76%) Kafka
9 24 (10.76%) Spring Boot
10 20 (8.97%) Redux
11 17 (7.62%) Next.js
12 15 (6.73%) Flask
13 14 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (5.83%) AngularJS
15 12 (5.38%) LangChain
16 11 (4.93%) Web Services
17 10 (4.48%) Gherkin
18 9 (4.04%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.90%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.11%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (8.07%) Equities
3 18 (8.07%) Fixed Income
4 16 (7.17%) Derivative
5 15 (6.73%) Blog
5 15 (6.73%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (5.38%) Management Information System
6 12 (5.38%) Product Ownership
7 11 (4.93%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.69%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.24%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.24%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.79%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.79%) CCTV
11 4 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.97%) Linux
2 15 (6.73%) Unix
3 13 (5.83%) Windows
4 10 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.24%) Android
5 5 (2.24%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (41.70%) Agile
2 92 (41.26%) CI/CD
3 81 (36.32%) Software Engineering
4 71 (31.84%) Microservices
5 58 (26.01%) Fintech
6 56 (25.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 44 (19.73%) AI
7 44 (19.73%) Mentoring
8 37 (16.59%) Containerisation
8 37 (16.59%) DevOps
8 37 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (16.14%) Test Automation
10 32 (14.35%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (13.00%) Clean Code
12 29 (13.00%) Data Modelling
13 27 (12.11%) Analytics
13 27 (12.11%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (12.11%) ETL
13 27 (12.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 123 (55.16%) Python
2 80 (35.87%) Java
3 74 (33.18%) SQL
4 69 (30.94%) JavaScript
5 64 (28.70%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.28%) C#
7 11 (4.93%) Go
8 7 (3.14%) PHP
8 7 (3.14%) Rust
8 7 (3.14%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.24%) Delphi
9 5 (2.24%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.79%) Pascal
11 3 (1.35%) RPG
11 3 (1.35%) Ruby
12 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.45%) Bash
13 1 (0.45%) C++
13 1 (0.45%) Elm
13 1 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (19.73%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.45%) Degree
4 11 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.48%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.59%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.69%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.90%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.45%) HNC
11 1 (0.45%) HND
11 1 (0.45%) MCSA
11 1 (0.45%) MCSE
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.04%) Data Quality
1 9 (4.04%) QA
2 8 (3.59%) SLA
3 7 (3.14%) GDPR
4 6 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) PSD2
System Software
1 73 (32.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Firmware
2 1 (0.45%) NFS
Systems Management
1 80 (35.87%) Kubernetes
2 49 (21.97%) Terraform
3 18 (8.07%) Grafana
4 10 (4.48%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.04%) Argo
5 9 (4.04%) Kibana
6 3 (1.35%) Ansible
6 3 (1.35%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.45%) Ambari
7 1 (0.45%) Istio
7 1 (0.45%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (8.52%) Oracle
2 14 (6.28%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.38%) IBM
3 12 (5.38%) OpenAI
3 12 (5.38%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.93%) Atlassian
4 11 (4.93%) Google
5 8 (3.59%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.69%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.69%) Informatica
6 6 (2.69%) Splunk
6 6 (2.69%) Talend
7 4 (1.79%) Databricks
8 3 (1.35%) Revolut
9 2 (0.90%) Confluent
9 2 (0.90%) Dell
9 2 (0.90%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.90%) SAP
10 1 (0.45%) Cisco
10 1 (0.45%) Intel