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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 94 124
Rank change year-on-year -84 +30 +25
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 240 513 497
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.54% 3.45% 2.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.24% 15.20% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 166 272 446
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,125
25th Percentile £69,422 £69,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £77,819
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +12.44% -5.67%
75th Percentile £112,188 £115,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £145,000 £138,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -10.34%

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 2,344 3,376 4,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.07% 22.72% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,535 2,057 3,638
10th Percentile £42,750 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £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 17 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 17 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 -38 29 £100,000 +14.29% 68
South London -18 11 £62,600 +0.16% 3
East London -7 4 £85,000 - 7
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 26 (10.83%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 14 (5.83%) Confluence
4 13 (5.42%) Tomcat
4 13 (5.42%) WebSphere
5 12 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (2.08%) Apache
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.83%) nginx
8 1 (0.42%) Camunda
8 1 (0.42%) CMS
8 1 (0.42%) IIS
8 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.42%) Endur
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 159 (66.25%) AWS
2 82 (34.17%) GCP
3 75 (31.25%) Azure
4 29 (12.08%) Serverless
5 28 (11.67%) dbt
6 27 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (7.50%) SaaS
8 17 (7.08%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (7.08%) GitHub
9 16 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (5.42%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.58%) Amazon EMR
12 11 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (4.58%) Power Platform
13 10 (4.17%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (2.92%) LangSmith
15 7 (2.92%) Vercel
16 6 (2.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.42%) SSL
2 10 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.67%) VPN
3 4 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.25%) WAN
5 2 (0.83%) BGP
5 2 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.83%) DHCP
5 2 (0.83%) DNS
5 2 (0.83%) Firewall
5 2 (0.83%) MQTT
5 2 (0.83%) OSPF
5 2 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.83%) RTMP
5 2 (0.83%) VLAN
5 2 (0.83%) Wireless
6 1 (0.42%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.25%) Relational Database
2 49 (20.42%) SQL Server
3 39 (16.25%) MongoDB
3 39 (16.25%) MySQL
4 31 (12.92%) NoSQL
5 30 (12.50%) DB2
6 29 (12.08%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (8.75%) RDBMS
8 18 (7.50%) Apache Iceberg
9 14 (5.83%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (5.83%) Apache Arrow
9 14 (5.83%) Dremio
9 14 (5.83%) DynamoDB
10 13 (5.42%) Redis
11 12 (5.00%) Big Data
11 12 (5.00%) Hadoop
12 11 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (4.58%) Power BI
13 9 (3.75%) BigQuery
13 9 (3.75%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 45 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.42%) Git
3 21 (8.75%) TeamCity
4 19 (7.92%) JIRA
5 17 (7.08%) Selenium
6 15 (6.25%) Bitbucket
7 14 (5.83%) Cucumber
7 14 (5.83%) GitLab
8 11 (4.58%) JMeter
9 10 (4.17%) JUnit
10 9 (3.75%) Mockito
11 6 (2.50%) Vite
12 4 (1.67%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.67%) Subversion
13 3 (1.25%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.25%) MLflow
13 3 (1.25%) TestRail
14 2 (0.83%) Gradle
14 2 (0.83%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.83%) REST Assured
General
1 85 (35.42%) Finance
2 54 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 44 (18.33%) Banking
4 33 (13.75%) Law
5 24 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (9.58%) Front Office
6 23 (9.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (9.17%) Public Sector
8 19 (7.92%) Retail
9 9 (3.75%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.67%) Back Office
11 4 (1.67%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.25%) Legal
13 2 (0.83%) Advertising
13 2 (0.83%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.83%) Electronics
13 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.83%) Marketing
13 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (37.08%) Developer
2 41 (17.08%) Software Engineer
3 37 (15.42%) Lead
4 34 (14.17%) Senior
5 28 (11.67%) Java Developer
6 27 (11.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (11.25%) Python Developer
7 22 (9.17%) Python Engineer
8 21 (8.75%) AWS Engineer
8 21 (8.75%) Data Engineer
9 20 (8.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 20 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
10 17 (7.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 17 (7.08%) Lead Developer
11 16 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
12 15 (6.25%) Linux Support
13 14 (5.83%) AWS Developer
13 14 (5.83%) AWS Software Engineer
14 13 (5.42%) Applications Support
14 13 (5.42%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (32.92%) React
2 60 (25.00%) Node.js
3 39 (16.25%) FastAPI
4 36 (15.00%) REST
5 35 (14.58%) HTML
6 30 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 29 (12.08%) CSS
7 29 (12.08%) Django
7 29 (12.08%) Spring
8 27 (11.25%) RESTful
9 26 (10.83%) Kafka
9 26 (10.83%) Spring Boot
10 20 (8.33%) Vue
11 17 (7.08%) Web Services
12 16 (6.67%) Flask
13 15 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (6.25%) NumPy
13 15 (6.25%) Pandas
14 14 (5.83%) Next.js
14 14 (5.83%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.75%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 22 (9.17%) Equities
3 22 (9.17%) Fixed Income
4 17 (7.08%) Management Information System
5 15 (6.25%) Blog
5 15 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (6.25%) Product Ownership
6 14 (5.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.33%) Derivative
9 7 (2.92%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.50%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.67%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.25%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.25%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.50%) Linux
2 19 (7.92%) Unix
3 15 (6.25%) Windows
4 14 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.92%) Android
5 7 (2.92%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (44.17%) Agile
2 99 (41.25%) CI/CD
3 84 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 74 (30.83%) Microservices
5 66 (27.50%) Fintech
6 54 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 44 (18.33%) AI
7 44 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 39 (16.25%) DevOps
10 38 (15.83%) Containerisation
10 38 (15.83%) Mentoring
11 35 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
12 32 (13.33%) Data Engineering
12 32 (13.33%) Data Modelling
12 32 (13.33%) ETL
13 31 (12.92%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (12.08%) Clean Code
14 29 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
15 28 (11.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 139 (57.92%) Python
2 85 (35.42%) Java
3 80 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 77 (32.08%) SQL
5 64 (26.67%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.25%) C#
7 10 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.33%) Go
8 8 (3.33%) Rust
9 6 (2.50%) PHP
10 4 (1.67%) Ruby
11 3 (1.25%) Delphi
11 3 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.25%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.25%) RPG
12 2 (0.83%) Pascal
13 1 (0.42%) Bash
13 1 (0.42%) COBOL
13 1 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.33%) Degree
2 32 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.83%) HNC
8 2 (0.83%) HND
8 2 (0.83%) MCSA
8 2 (0.83%) MCSE
8 2 (0.83%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.00%) SLA
2 10 (4.17%) QA
3 8 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.33%) GDPR
4 3 (1.25%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.25%) SEPA
5 2 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.83%) PSD2
6 1 (0.42%) GAAP
System Software
1 81 (33.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) NFS
Systems Management
1 87 (36.25%) Kubernetes
2 48 (20.00%) Terraform
3 19 (7.92%) Grafana
4 12 (5.00%) Kibana
5 9 (3.75%) Argo
6 8 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.67%) Ansible
8 3 (1.25%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.42%) Ambari
9 1 (0.42%) Puppet
9 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (11.67%) Oracle
2 16 (6.67%) IBM
2 16 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 14 (5.83%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.42%) Atlassian
5 11 (4.58%) Google
5 11 (4.58%) OpenAI
6 10 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.75%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.75%) Informatica
7 9 (3.75%) Splunk
7 9 (3.75%) Talend
8 3 (1.25%) Databricks
8 3 (1.25%) Revolut
8 3 (1.25%) SAP
9 2 (0.83%) Confluent
9 2 (0.83%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.83%) MikroTik
9 2 (0.83%) Starlink
9 2 (0.83%) Ubiquiti