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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 115 122
Rank change year-on-year -105 +7 +28
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 217 362 618
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.01% 2.97% 2.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.94% 13.56% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 151 268 507
10th Percentile £56,250 £59,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,063 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £104,375 £132,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £69,305 £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 2,426 2,670 5,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.32% 21.90% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 1,789 3,955
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £135,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 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 17 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 -18 45 £90,000 +9.09% 14
West London -11 7 £80,000 +25.98% 11
South London -8 5 - - 1
East London -7 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 14 (6.45%) Apache
2 13 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (5.07%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.69%) Confluence
5 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) JBoss
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.46%) Moodle
6 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 132 (60.83%) AWS
2 62 (28.57%) Azure
3 45 (20.74%) GCP
4 23 (10.60%) SaaS
5 16 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (6.91%) GitHub
6 15 (6.91%) Serverless
7 9 (4.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 9 (4.15%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.69%) LangSmith
9 7 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.23%) dbt
9 7 (3.23%) Vercel
10 6 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.76%) Heroku
11 5 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.14%) Broadband
2 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.84%) DHCP
3 4 (1.84%) DNS
3 4 (1.84%) VPN
3 4 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.46%) Firewall
4 1 (0.46%) LAN
4 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (22.58%) MongoDB
2 40 (18.43%) Relational Database
3 32 (14.75%) MySQL
4 26 (11.98%) NoSQL
5 21 (9.68%) Redis
6 11 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.61%) SQL Server
8 9 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.15%) Pinecone
9 8 (3.69%) DynamoDB
10 7 (3.23%) Db2
11 6 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.76%) Metadata
12 5 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.30%) DTS
12 5 (2.30%) MariaDB
12 5 (2.30%) Power BI
13 4 (1.84%) Big Data
13 4 (1.84%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 26 (11.98%) Git
2 13 (5.99%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.53%) GitLab
3 12 (5.53%) TeamCity
4 7 (3.23%) Vite
5 5 (2.30%) Claude Code
5 5 (2.30%) JUnit
6 4 (1.84%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.84%) JIRA
6 4 (1.84%) Mockito
7 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.92%) ESLint
7 2 (0.92%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.92%) JMeter
7 2 (0.92%) Selenium
7 2 (0.92%) Storybook
8 1 (0.46%) CMake
8 1 (0.46%) Maven
8 1 (0.46%) Subversion
8 1 (0.46%) Valgrind
General
1 54 (24.88%) Finance
2 41 (18.89%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.14%) Banking
3 22 (10.14%) Games
3 22 (10.14%) Law
4 19 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (8.76%) Retail
5 16 (7.37%) Front Office
6 15 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.23%) Legal
9 6 (2.76%) Legal Technology
10 5 (2.30%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.38%) Back Office
12 2 (0.92%) Electronics
12 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
13 1 (0.46%) Aviation
13 1 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 80 (36.87%) Developer
2 54 (24.88%) Lead
3 45 (20.74%) Software Engineer
4 38 (17.51%) Senior
5 30 (13.82%) Python Engineer
6 29 (13.36%) Lead Developer
7 24 (11.06%) Python Developer
8 23 (10.60%) Architect
9 21 (9.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (8.29%) Data Engineer
10 18 (8.29%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (7.83%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (7.37%) Ruby Developer
13 15 (6.91%) Java Engineer
14 14 (6.45%) Lead Python Developer
15 13 (5.99%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (5.99%) Senior Developer
16 12 (5.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 12 (5.53%) Java Developer
16 12 (5.53%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (26.27%) React
2 48 (22.12%) RESTful
3 42 (19.35%) Node.js
4 28 (12.90%) Kafka
4 28 (12.90%) Spring
5 27 (12.44%) FastAPI
5 27 (12.44%) Spring Boot
6 25 (11.52%) REST
7 21 (9.68%) Next.js
8 17 (7.83%) Redux
9 16 (7.37%) Ruby on Rails
10 14 (6.45%) JSON
11 13 (5.99%) JWT
12 12 (5.53%) LangChain
13 11 (5.07%) CSS
14 10 (4.61%) HTML
14 10 (4.61%) Sidekiq
15 9 (4.15%) LangGraph
16 8 (3.69%) CrewAI
17 7 (3.23%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 57 (26.27%) Cloud Native
2 30 (13.82%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (10.60%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (10.14%) Low-Code
5 16 (7.37%) Blog
5 16 (7.37%) Derivative
5 16 (7.37%) Equities
5 16 (7.37%) Fixed Income
6 9 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.23%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.76%) Replication
9 5 (2.30%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.30%) EPoS
9 5 (2.30%) iSeries
10 4 (1.84%) CCTV
10 4 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.84%) IoT
10 4 (1.84%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.53%) Linux
2 7 (3.23%) Windows
3 4 (1.84%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (40.09%) Software Engineering
2 80 (36.87%) CI/CD
3 68 (31.34%) AI
3 68 (31.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 61 (28.11%) Agile
5 57 (26.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (22.58%) API Design
7 47 (21.66%) Containerisation
7 47 (21.66%) Microservices
8 46 (21.20%) Observability
9 45 (20.74%) Test Automation
10 44 (20.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (18.89%) Fintech
12 36 (16.59%) Machine Learning
13 34 (15.67%) Clean Code
13 34 (15.67%) Mentoring
14 33 (15.21%) Generative AI
15 29 (13.36%) Validation
16 27 (12.44%) Integration Patterns
17 26 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 109 (50.23%) Python
2 57 (26.27%) Java
3 50 (23.04%) TypeScript
4 48 (22.12%) SQL
5 36 (16.59%) JavaScript
6 32 (14.75%) Go
7 16 (7.37%) Ruby
8 8 (3.69%) C#
9 7 (3.23%) PHP
10 5 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.30%) RPG
11 4 (1.84%) Delphi
11 4 (1.84%) Pascal
11 4 (1.84%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.38%) Bash
12 3 (1.38%) C++
13 1 (0.46%) Elm
13 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.46%) R
13 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (11.06%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.53%) Degree
4 4 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.38%) SnowPro
6 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.61%) QA
3 7 (3.23%) GDPR
4 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.46%) MiFID
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (26.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 42 (19.35%) Terraform
3 13 (5.99%) Grafana
4 3 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.92%) Kibana
6 1 (0.46%) Ansible
6 1 (0.46%) Argo
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.46%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (8.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.53%) OpenAI
3 11 (5.07%) Oracle
4 6 (2.76%) Google
5 5 (2.30%) IBM
6 4 (1.84%) Databricks
6 4 (1.84%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.84%) Netezza
6 4 (1.84%) Remedy
6 4 (1.84%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.38%) Revolut
8 2 (0.92%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.92%) Mapbox
8 2 (0.92%) SAP
8 2 (0.92%) Splunk
8 2 (0.92%) Sybase
8 2 (0.92%) TikTok
9 1 (0.46%) Informatica
9 1 (0.46%) Intel
9 1 (0.46%) Red Hat