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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 112 148
Rank change year-on-year -78 +36 +2
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 258 371 536
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 2.96% 2.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.00% 13.60% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 182 273 427
10th Percentile £52,875 £59,250 £51,150
25th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +21.21% -2.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £139,000 £137,500 £121,000
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -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 2,581 2,728 5,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.61% 21.74% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,687 1,802 3,806
10th Percentile £47,200 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -6 44 £87,500 +6.06% 27
West London -1 14 £80,000 +25.98% 13
South London -13 5 - - 1
East London -1 3 - - 4
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 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.43%) Apache
3 13 (5.04%) Apache Spark
4 12 (4.65%) Confluence
5 4 (1.55%) Camunda
5 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Moodle
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 152 (58.91%) AWS
2 76 (29.46%) Azure
3 53 (20.54%) GCP
4 30 (11.63%) SaaS
5 23 (8.91%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.75%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (7.36%) Serverless
8 18 (6.98%) GitHub
9 11 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.26%) Lucidchart
10 10 (3.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 10 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.10%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (3.10%) Vercel
13 7 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.71%) dbt
13 7 (2.71%) LangSmith
14 6 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.53%) Broadband
2 5 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.55%) DHCP
3 4 (1.55%) DNS
3 4 (1.55%) VPN
3 4 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.22%) MongoDB
2 42 (16.28%) Relational Database
3 41 (15.89%) MySQL
4 32 (12.40%) Redis
5 29 (11.24%) NoSQL
6 19 (7.36%) DynamoDB
7 17 (6.59%) SQL Server
8 16 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (5.04%) Metadata
10 12 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (4.26%) Big Data
11 11 (4.26%) Db2
12 10 (3.88%) DTS
12 10 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (3.49%) Data Lake
14 8 (3.10%) Pinecone
15 6 (2.33%) Power BI
16 5 (1.94%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 30 (11.63%) Git
2 13 (5.04%) TeamCity
3 11 (4.26%) GitLab
3 11 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.10%) JUnit
4 8 (3.10%) Vite
5 7 (2.71%) Mockito
6 5 (1.94%) Claude Code
7 3 (1.16%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.78%) ESLint
8 2 (0.78%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.78%) JIRA
8 2 (0.78%) JMeter
8 2 (0.78%) Storybook
9 1 (0.39%) CMake
9 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
9 1 (0.39%) Selenium
9 1 (0.39%) Subversion
9 1 (0.39%) Valgrind
General
1 57 (22.09%) Finance
2 44 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 24 (9.30%) Law
4 23 (8.91%) Banking
5 22 (8.53%) Games
6 21 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (8.14%) Retail
7 18 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (6.20%) Front Office
9 14 (5.43%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.10%) Legal
11 7 (2.71%) Legal Technology
12 5 (1.94%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.16%) Back Office
13 3 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.78%) Electronics
14 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.39%) Advertising
15 1 (0.39%) Aviation
15 1 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 91 (35.27%) Developer
2 66 (25.58%) Lead
3 55 (21.32%) Software Engineer
4 54 (20.93%) Senior
5 34 (13.18%) Python Engineer
6 32 (12.40%) Lead Developer
7 29 (11.24%) Python Developer
8 28 (10.85%) Architect
9 27 (10.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 24 (9.30%) Data Engineer
11 20 (7.75%) Ruby Developer
12 18 (6.98%) Lead Software Engineer
13 17 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (6.20%) Lead Python Developer
15 14 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (5.04%) Lead Data Engineer
16 13 (5.04%) Senior Developer
17 12 (4.65%) Lead Software Developer
17 12 (4.65%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (24.03%) React
2 55 (21.32%) Node.js
2 55 (21.32%) RESTful
3 37 (14.34%) Kafka
3 37 (14.34%) Spring
4 36 (13.95%) FastAPI
4 36 (13.95%) Spring Boot
5 31 (12.02%) REST
6 25 (9.69%) Next.js
7 21 (8.14%) JWT
8 20 (7.75%) JSON
8 20 (7.75%) Ruby on Rails
9 17 (6.59%) Redux
10 13 (5.04%) Sidekiq
11 12 (4.65%) CSS
12 11 (4.26%) Middleware
13 10 (3.88%) LangChain
14 9 (3.49%) HTML
15 8 (3.10%) Hibernate
15 8 (3.10%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 64 (24.81%) Cloud Native
2 38 (14.73%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (9.69%) Low-Code
4 23 (8.91%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (6.98%) Blog
6 17 (6.59%) Onboarding
7 16 (6.20%) Derivative
7 16 (6.20%) Equities
7 16 (6.20%) Fixed Income
8 15 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (3.88%) EPoS
9 10 (3.88%) iSeries
10 7 (2.71%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.71%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.33%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.94%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.94%) Replication
13 4 (1.55%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.26%) Linux
2 6 (2.33%) Windows
3 4 (1.55%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (39.53%) Software Engineering
2 97 (37.60%) CI/CD
3 84 (32.56%) AI
4 75 (29.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 70 (27.13%) Agile
6 63 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 62 (24.03%) Microservices
8 60 (23.26%) Observability
9 59 (22.87%) API Design
10 54 (20.93%) Containerisation
11 49 (18.99%) Test Automation
12 46 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (17.83%) Mentoring
13 44 (17.05%) Fintech
14 41 (15.89%) Clean Code
15 40 (15.50%) Machine Learning
16 36 (13.95%) Generative AI
17 33 (12.79%) Analytics
17 33 (12.79%) Validation
18 32 (12.40%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 130 (50.39%) Python
2 65 (25.19%) Java
3 61 (23.64%) SQL
4 55 (21.32%) TypeScript
5 38 (14.73%) JavaScript
6 32 (12.40%) Go
7 20 (7.75%) Ruby
8 10 (3.88%) RPG
9 8 (3.10%) C#
10 6 (2.33%) PHP
11 5 (1.94%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.55%) Delphi
12 4 (1.55%) Pascal
13 3 (1.16%) C++
13 3 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.78%) Bash
14 2 (0.78%) Scala
15 1 (0.39%) C
15 1 (0.39%) R
15 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (10.85%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.26%) Degree
4 4 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.78%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.85%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.26%) QA
3 9 (3.49%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) MiFID
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (24.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (22.48%) Kubernetes
2 50 (19.38%) Terraform
3 16 (6.20%) Grafana
4 4 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.78%) Ansible
5 2 (0.78%) Kibana
6 1 (0.39%) Argo
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.39%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (6.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.81%) OpenAI
2 15 (5.81%) Oracle
3 10 (3.88%) Google
3 10 (3.88%) IBM
4 7 (2.71%) Databricks
5 4 (1.55%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.55%) Netezza
5 4 (1.55%) Remedy
5 4 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.16%) Revolut
7 2 (0.78%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.78%) Splunk
7 2 (0.78%) TikTok
8 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.39%) Informatica
8 1 (0.39%) SAP
8 1 (0.39%) Sybase
8 1 (0.39%) Talend