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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 119 118
Rank change year-on-year -42 -1 +49
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 348 343 530
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.34% 2.92% 2.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.38% 12.96% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 210 236 303
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £64,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +20.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £137,500 £113,750
90th Percentile £115,000 - £136,250
England median annual salary £71,996 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.01% +14.29% -

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 2,812 2,646 4,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.85% 22.55% 24.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,749 1,656 2,805
10th Percentile £45,900 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.06% +13.79%
75th Percentile £94,000 £105,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 October 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 October 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 +32 46 £87,500 -27.08% 48
West London -10 14 £80,000 +25.98% 12
South London -21 7 £72,000 -
East London -11 3 - - 2
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 17 (4.89%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.16%) Apache
3 11 (3.16%) Confluence
4 7 (2.01%) Camunda
5 3 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.86%) nginx
6 2 (0.57%) Luigi
6 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.57%) Tornado
7 1 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.29%) Moodle
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.16%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 198 (56.90%) AWS
2 81 (23.28%) Azure
3 65 (18.68%) GCP
4 53 (15.23%) GitHub
5 48 (13.79%) SaaS
6 44 (12.64%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (8.62%) Amazon S3
8 27 (7.76%) Serverless
9 24 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.89%) GitHub Copilot
12 16 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (4.60%) Power Platform
13 14 (4.02%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (4.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 13 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (3.16%) Anthropic Claude
15 11 (3.16%) Lucidchart
15 11 (3.16%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.75%) Broadband
2 12 (3.45%) VPN
3 11 (3.16%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.87%) BGP
5 6 (1.72%) Firewall
5 6 (1.72%) Network Security
6 5 (1.44%) VLAN
7 2 (0.57%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.29%) 4G
8 1 (0.29%) 5G
8 1 (0.29%) AMQP
8 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.29%) DNS
8 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.29%) HTTP
8 1 (0.29%) MPLS
8 1 (0.29%) SMS
8 1 (0.29%) SNMP
8 1 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (18.39%) MongoDB
2 58 (16.67%) Redis
3 53 (15.23%) MySQL
4 52 (14.94%) Relational Database
5 39 (11.21%) SQL Server
6 38 (10.92%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (8.62%) NoSQL
8 26 (7.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 22 (6.32%) DynamoDB
10 17 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (4.60%) Power BI
12 15 (4.31%) Metadata
13 14 (4.02%) Big Data
14 12 (3.45%) Data Lake
14 12 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (2.87%) Db2
16 10 (2.87%) DTS
17 9 (2.59%) Pinecone
18 8 (2.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (16.09%) Git
2 27 (7.76%) TeamCity
3 24 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.02%) GitLab
5 11 (3.16%) JUnit
6 10 (2.87%) Mockito
7 9 (2.59%) Claude Code
8 7 (2.01%) Vite
9 4 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.86%) Gradle
10 3 (0.86%) Maven
10 3 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.86%) webpack
11 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.57%) JMeter
11 2 (0.57%) Storybook
12 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.29%) CMake
12 1 (0.29%) Mocha
12 1 (0.29%) Valgrind
General
1 83 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 77 (22.13%) Finance
3 56 (16.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (10.34%) Law
5 35 (10.06%) Banking
6 29 (8.33%) Retail
7 25 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (5.75%) Games
8 20 (5.75%) Public Sector
9 16 (4.60%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.87%) Back Office
10 10 (2.87%) Legal
11 9 (2.59%) Legal Technology
12 5 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.86%) Marketing
13 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.57%) Billing
14 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.29%) Electronics
15 1 (0.29%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 100 (28.74%) Developer
1 100 (28.74%) Senior
2 65 (18.68%) Software Engineer
3 54 (15.52%) Lead
4 38 (10.92%) Senior Software Engineer
5 29 (8.33%) Architect
5 29 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 28 (8.05%) Python Engineer
7 27 (7.76%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.90%) Ruby Developer
9 23 (6.61%) Database Engineer
10 22 (6.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 21 (6.03%) DBA
12 20 (5.75%) Senior Developer
13 19 (5.46%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (5.17%) Lead Developer
15 16 (4.60%) Java Engineer
16 15 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
16 15 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
16 15 (4.31%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (25.57%) Terraform
2 66 (18.97%) RESTful
3 61 (17.53%) React
3 61 (17.53%) REST
4 53 (15.23%) Kafka
5 48 (13.79%) Spring
6 46 (13.22%) Node.js
7 44 (12.64%) Spring Boot
8 35 (10.06%) FastAPI
9 32 (9.20%) Next.js
10 27 (7.76%) JWT
11 25 (7.18%) Ruby on Rails
12 22 (6.32%) JSON
13 16 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (4.60%) OAuth
14 15 (4.31%) CSS
14 15 (4.31%) GraphQL
14 15 (4.31%) OAuth2
14 15 (4.31%) Sidekiq
15 14 (4.02%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 89 (25.57%) Cloud Native
2 71 (20.40%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (9.20%) Blog
4 24 (6.90%) Low-Code
5 22 (6.32%) Replication
6 21 (6.03%) Video\Live Streaming
7 19 (5.46%) Onboarding
8 18 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (4.60%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.87%) EPoS
10 10 (2.87%) iSeries
11 8 (2.30%) Management Information System
11 8 (2.30%) Product Ownership
11 8 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.72%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.72%) Security Posture
14 5 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.75%) Linux
2 7 (2.01%) Windows
3 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (48.56%) CI/CD
2 129 (37.07%) AI
3 113 (32.47%) Software Engineering
4 112 (32.18%) Observability
5 87 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 85 (24.43%) Agile
7 81 (23.28%) Test Automation
8 80 (22.99%) Microservices
9 78 (22.41%) Full-Stack Development
10 64 (18.39%) API Design
10 64 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (17.82%) DevOps
12 61 (17.53%) Clean Code
12 61 (17.53%) Event-Driven
13 60 (17.24%) Containerisation
14 58 (16.67%) Fintech
15 55 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
16 52 (14.94%) Machine Learning
17 48 (13.79%) LLM
18 47 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 164 (47.13%) Python
2 97 (27.87%) SQL
3 86 (24.71%) Java
4 57 (16.38%) TypeScript
5 41 (11.78%) Go
6 33 (9.48%) JavaScript
7 25 (7.18%) Ruby
8 22 (6.32%) Bash
9 13 (3.74%) C#
10 11 (3.16%) Groovy
11 10 (2.87%) RPG
12 6 (1.72%) Scala
13 4 (1.15%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.86%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.86%) SOQL
14 3 (0.86%) SOSL
14 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.57%) Bicep
15 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 45 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 37 (10.63%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.32%) Degree
4 8 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 6 (1.72%) CCSP
6 6 (1.72%) CISM
6 6 (1.72%) CISSP
7 5 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.57%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.29%) CCNA
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.17%) QA
3 17 (4.89%) GDPR
4 10 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.87%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.87%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.30%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.72%) NIST
7 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 2 (0.57%) WCAG
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 99 (28.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.29%) Firmware
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 98 (28.16%) Kubernetes
2 60 (17.24%) Grafana
3 30 (8.62%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.87%) Ansible
5 9 (2.59%) Rancher
6 7 (2.01%) Argo
7 6 (1.72%) Cilium
8 4 (1.15%) Kibana
8 4 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.57%) Packer
9 2 (0.57%) Rsyslog
10 1 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.29%) Nagios
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.29%) SCOM
10 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 30 (8.62%) Oracle
2 28 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 26 (7.47%) Google
4 17 (4.89%) OpenAI
5 14 (4.02%) Databricks
5 14 (4.02%) Dynatrace
6 13 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.87%) IBM
8 6 (1.72%) Mistral
9 4 (1.15%) Netezza
9 4 (1.15%) Remedy
9 4 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.86%) Adobe
11 2 (0.57%) Splunk
11 2 (0.57%) TikTok
12 1 (0.29%) ADVA
12 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.29%) Confluent
12 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.29%) Sybase