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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 92 133
Rank change year-on-year -87 +41 +17
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 237 509 491
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.49% 3.49% 2.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.20% 15.33% 10.84%
Number of salaries quoted 167 279 443
10th Percentile £52,460 £57,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,813 £68,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +12.90% -8.82%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,750 £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 2,324 3,320 4,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.58% 22.76% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,515 2,054 3,613
10th Percentile £43,525 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £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 25 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 25 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 -37 30 £100,000 +14.29% 39
South London -17 11 £62,600 +0.16%
East London -13 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 24 (10.13%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.91%) Confluence
3 12 (5.06%) Tomcat
3 12 (5.06%) WebSphere
4 11 (4.64%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (2.53%) Apache
6 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.84%) nginx
8 1 (0.42%) Camunda
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 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.42%) Endur
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 157 (66.24%) AWS
2 83 (35.02%) GCP
3 81 (34.18%) Azure
4 30 (12.66%) Serverless
5 27 (11.39%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (10.55%) dbt
7 18 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (7.17%) GitHub
9 16 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.33%) SaaS
11 14 (5.91%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.22%) Amazon ECR
14 9 (3.80%) Amazon EMR
14 9 (3.80%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (3.38%) LangSmith
15 8 (3.38%) Vercel
16 6 (2.53%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.06%) SSL
1 12 (5.06%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.53%) VPN
2 6 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.69%) DHCP
3 4 (1.69%) DNS
4 3 (1.27%) WAN
5 2 (0.84%) BGP
5 2 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.84%) Firewall
5 2 (0.84%) MQTT
5 2 (0.84%) OSPF
5 2 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.84%) RTMP
5 2 (0.84%) VLAN
5 2 (0.84%) Wireless
6 1 (0.42%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.52%) Relational Database
2 43 (18.14%) SQL Server
3 37 (15.61%) MongoDB
4 35 (14.77%) MySQL
5 31 (13.08%) NoSQL
6 29 (12.24%) DB2
7 26 (10.97%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (8.02%) RDBMS
9 15 (6.33%) Apache Iceberg
10 13 (5.49%) DynamoDB
11 12 (5.06%) Redis
12 11 (4.64%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (4.64%) Apache Arrow
12 11 (4.64%) Dremio
13 10 (4.22%) Big Data
13 10 (4.22%) Hadoop
14 9 (3.80%) BigQuery
14 9 (3.80%) Power BI
15 8 (3.38%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 44 (18.57%) Jenkins
2 27 (11.39%) Git
3 21 (8.86%) TeamCity
4 18 (7.59%) JIRA
5 17 (7.17%) Selenium
6 15 (6.33%) Bitbucket
7 14 (5.91%) Cucumber
7 14 (5.91%) GitLab
8 11 (4.64%) JMeter
9 10 (4.22%) JUnit
10 9 (3.80%) Mockito
11 7 (2.95%) Vite
12 4 (1.69%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.69%) Jaeger
12 4 (1.69%) Subversion
13 3 (1.27%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.27%) MLflow
13 3 (1.27%) TestRail
14 2 (0.84%) Maven
14 2 (0.84%) REST Assured
General
1 83 (35.02%) Finance
2 51 (21.52%) Social Skills
3 42 (17.72%) Banking
4 32 (13.50%) Law
5 24 (10.13%) Front Office
5 24 (10.13%) Public Sector
6 23 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (9.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (8.02%) Retail
8 8 (3.38%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.69%) Back Office
10 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.27%) Legal
12 2 (0.84%) Advertising
12 2 (0.84%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.84%) Electronics
12 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.84%) Marketing
12 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (35.86%) Developer
2 43 (18.14%) Software Engineer
3 41 (17.30%) Lead
4 35 (14.77%) Senior
5 28 (11.81%) Java Developer
6 26 (10.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (10.55%) Python Developer
8 22 (9.28%) Data Engineer
8 22 (9.28%) Python Engineer
9 21 (8.86%) Lead Developer
10 20 (8.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 19 (8.02%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (8.02%) Principal Engineer
12 17 (7.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 15 (6.33%) Lead Software Engineer
14 14 (5.91%) Python Software Engineer
15 13 (5.49%) Architect
15 13 (5.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 13 (5.49%) Java Engineer
15 13 (5.49%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (33.76%) React
2 61 (25.74%) Node.js
3 39 (16.46%) FastAPI
4 36 (15.19%) HTML
5 32 (13.50%) REST
6 30 (12.66%) CSS
7 29 (12.24%) Django
7 29 (12.24%) Spring
8 28 (11.81%) RESTful
9 26 (10.97%) Kafka
9 26 (10.97%) Spring Boot
10 24 (10.13%) AngularJS
11 18 (7.59%) Vue
12 17 (7.17%) Flask
13 16 (6.75%) Redux
14 15 (6.33%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (6.33%) Next.js
14 15 (6.33%) Web Services
15 13 (5.49%) NumPy
15 13 (5.49%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.92%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (12.66%) Cloud Native
3 23 (9.70%) Equities
3 23 (9.70%) Fixed Income
4 15 (6.33%) Blog
4 15 (6.33%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (5.91%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (5.91%) Management Information System
6 13 (5.49%) Product Ownership
7 12 (5.06%) Derivative
8 11 (4.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.95%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.11%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.11%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.69%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.69%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.39%) Linux
2 18 (7.59%) Unix
3 16 (6.75%) Windows
4 13 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.11%) Android
5 5 (2.11%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.69%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (43.46%) Agile
2 99 (41.77%) CI/CD
3 82 (34.60%) Software Engineering
4 76 (32.07%) Microservices
5 65 (27.43%) Fintech
6 55 (23.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (19.41%) AI
8 41 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (16.88%) Mentoring
9 40 (16.88%) Test Automation
10 39 (16.46%) DevOps
11 38 (16.03%) Containerisation
12 33 (13.92%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (12.66%) Data Modelling
13 30 (12.66%) ETL
13 30 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 29 (12.24%) Clean Code
14 29 (12.24%) Data Engineering
15 28 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
16 27 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 136 (57.38%) Python
2 83 (35.02%) Java
3 80 (33.76%) JavaScript
4 78 (32.91%) SQL
5 65 (27.43%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.33%) C#
7 10 (4.22%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.80%) Go
9 8 (3.38%) Rust
10 6 (2.53%) PHP
11 5 (2.11%) Delphi
11 5 (2.11%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.69%) Pascal
13 3 (1.27%) RPG
13 3 (1.27%) Ruby
14 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.42%) Bash
15 1 (0.42%) COBOL
15 1 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 46 (19.41%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.08%) Degree
4 14 (5.91%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.64%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.53%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.84%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.42%) HNC
10 1 (0.42%) HND
10 1 (0.42%) MCSA
10 1 (0.42%) MCSE
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.64%) SLA
2 9 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.38%) GDPR
3 8 (3.38%) QA
4 3 (1.27%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.27%) SEPA
5 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.84%) PSD2
6 1 (0.42%) GAAP
System Software
1 82 (34.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) NFS
Systems Management
1 85 (35.86%) Kubernetes
2 49 (20.68%) Terraform
3 18 (7.59%) Grafana
4 12 (5.06%) Kibana
5 10 (4.22%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.80%) Argo
7 4 (1.69%) Ansible
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.42%) Ambari
9 1 (0.42%) Puppet
9 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (9.70%) Oracle
2 15 (6.33%) IBM
2 15 (6.33%) Red Hat
3 14 (5.91%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.06%) Atlassian
4 12 (5.06%) OpenAI
5 11 (4.64%) Google
6 9 (3.80%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.80%) Splunk
7 7 (2.95%) Informatica
7 7 (2.95%) Talend
8 4 (1.69%) Databricks
9 3 (1.27%) Revolut
9 3 (1.27%) SAP
10 2 (0.84%) Cisco
10 2 (0.84%) Dell
10 2 (0.84%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.84%) NETGEAR
10 2 (0.84%) Ubiquiti