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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 118 130
Rank change year-on-year -78 +12 +18
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 233 358 586
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.07% 2.93% 2.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.33% 13.40% 10.98%
Number of salaries quoted 162 266 477
10th Percentile £56,250 £59,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +15.15% -2.94%
75th Percentile £102,813 £132,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £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 2,498 2,671 5,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.42% 21.87% 22.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,658 1,789 3,957
10th Percentile £46,443 £48,750 £46,990
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.27% +5.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £138,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% -10.77%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -14 45 £90,000 +9.09% 20
West London -13 10 £80,000 +25.98% 8
South London -13 5 - - 1
East London -1 3 - - 1
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 (6.44%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.01%) Apache
3 12 (5.15%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.86%) Confluence
5 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.43%) Moodle
6 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 143 (61.37%) AWS
2 68 (29.18%) Azure
3 49 (21.03%) GCP
4 28 (12.02%) SaaS
5 18 (7.73%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (7.73%) Serverless
6 17 (7.30%) Amazon S3
7 16 (6.87%) GitHub
8 10 (4.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.43%) LangSmith
9 8 (3.43%) Lucidchart
10 7 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (3.00%) dbt
10 7 (3.00%) Vercel
11 6 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.44%) Broadband
2 6 (2.58%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.72%) DHCP
3 4 (1.72%) DNS
3 4 (1.72%) VPN
3 4 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.03%) MongoDB
2 41 (17.60%) Relational Database
3 36 (15.45%) MySQL
4 27 (11.59%) NoSQL
5 24 (10.30%) Redis
6 15 (6.44%) SQL Server
7 14 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (6.01%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (4.29%) Metadata
9 9 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (3.86%) Pinecone
10 8 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (3.43%) Db2
11 7 (3.00%) Big Data
11 7 (3.00%) Data Lake
11 7 (3.00%) DTS
12 6 (2.58%) Power BI
13 5 (2.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (12.02%) Git
2 12 (5.15%) GitLab
2 12 (5.15%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.15%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.00%) Vite
4 5 (2.15%) Claude Code
4 5 (2.15%) JUnit
5 4 (1.72%) Mockito
6 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.86%) ESLint
7 2 (0.86%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.86%) JIRA
7 2 (0.86%) JMeter
7 2 (0.86%) Storybook
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) Gradle
8 1 (0.43%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) Selenium
8 1 (0.43%) Subversion
8 1 (0.43%) Valgrind
General
1 55 (23.61%) Finance
2 44 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.87%) Law
4 22 (9.44%) Banking
4 22 (9.44%) Games
5 20 (8.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (8.58%) Retail
6 16 (6.87%) Front Office
7 15 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (5.58%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.00%) Legal
10 6 (2.58%) Legal Technology
11 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.29%) Back Office
12 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.86%) Electronics
13 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.43%) Advertising
14 1 (0.43%) Aviation
14 1 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 86 (36.91%) Developer
2 59 (25.32%) Lead
3 49 (21.03%) Software Engineer
4 45 (19.31%) Senior
5 32 (13.73%) Python Engineer
6 31 (13.30%) Lead Developer
7 28 (12.02%) Python Developer
8 26 (11.16%) Architect
9 24 (10.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 21 (9.01%) Data Engineer
11 18 (7.73%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (7.30%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (7.30%) Ruby Developer
13 16 (6.87%) Lead Python Developer
14 13 (5.58%) Java Engineer
14 13 (5.58%) Senior Developer
15 12 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (5.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 12 (5.15%) Lead Software Developer
15 12 (5.15%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (25.32%) React
2 49 (21.03%) RESTful
3 48 (20.60%) Node.js
4 33 (14.16%) Kafka
5 32 (13.73%) FastAPI
6 31 (13.30%) Spring
7 30 (12.88%) Spring Boot
8 26 (11.16%) REST
9 22 (9.44%) Next.js
10 17 (7.30%) Redux
10 17 (7.30%) Ruby on Rails
11 16 (6.87%) JSON
12 15 (6.44%) JWT
13 12 (5.15%) LangChain
14 11 (4.72%) CSS
14 11 (4.72%) Sidekiq
15 9 (3.86%) HTML
15 9 (3.86%) LangGraph
16 8 (3.43%) CrewAI
16 8 (3.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.75%) Cloud Native
2 32 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (9.87%) Low-Code
3 23 (9.87%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (7.30%) Blog
5 16 (6.87%) Derivative
5 16 (6.87%) Equities
5 16 (6.87%) Fixed Income
6 12 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (5.15%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.43%) AI Agents
8 7 (3.00%) EPoS
8 7 (3.00%) iSeries
8 7 (3.00%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.58%) Client/Server
9 6 (2.58%) Replication
10 5 (2.15%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.72%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.15%) Linux
2 7 (3.00%) Windows
3 4 (1.72%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.86%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (39.91%) Software Engineering
2 84 (36.05%) CI/CD
3 72 (30.90%) AI
4 71 (30.47%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (27.47%) Agile
6 62 (26.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 54 (23.18%) Microservices
8 51 (21.89%) Containerisation
8 51 (21.89%) Observability
9 50 (21.46%) API Design
10 46 (19.74%) Test Automation
11 43 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (18.45%) Fintech
12 40 (17.17%) Mentoring
13 37 (15.88%) Machine Learning
14 36 (15.45%) Clean Code
15 34 (14.59%) Generative AI
16 31 (13.30%) Validation
17 28 (12.02%) Analytics
18 27 (11.59%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 117 (50.21%) Python
2 58 (24.89%) Java
3 54 (23.18%) TypeScript
4 53 (22.75%) SQL
5 36 (15.45%) JavaScript
6 32 (13.73%) Go
7 17 (7.30%) Ruby
8 8 (3.43%) C#
9 7 (3.00%) PHP
9 7 (3.00%) RPG
10 5 (2.15%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.72%) Delphi
11 4 (1.72%) Pascal
11 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.29%) Bash
12 3 (1.29%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.43%) R
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.87%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.58%) Degree
4 4 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.29%) SnowPro
6 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.73%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.29%) QA
3 8 (3.43%) GDPR
4 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.43%) MiFID
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (26.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (24.89%) Kubernetes
2 47 (20.17%) Terraform
3 15 (6.44%) Grafana
4 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.86%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.43%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (7.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.58%) Oracle
3 12 (5.15%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.00%) IBM
5 6 (2.58%) Databricks
5 6 (2.58%) Google
6 4 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.72%) Netezza
6 4 (1.72%) Remedy
6 4 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.29%) Revolut
8 2 (0.86%) Mapbox
8 2 (0.86%) SAP
8 2 (0.86%) Splunk
8 2 (0.86%) Sybase
8 2 (0.86%) TikTok
9 1 (0.43%) Informatica
9 1 (0.43%) Intel
9 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.43%) Talend