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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 111 115
Rank change year-on-year -111 +4 +20
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 204 345 620
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.97% 2.87% 2.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.43% 13.29% 11.93%
Number of salaries quoted 145 259 528
10th Percentile £54,000 £57,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £105,000 £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 2,420 2,596 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.55% 21.58% 21.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,592 1,765 3,872
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £137,000 £128,750
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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -25 40 £90,000 +9.09% 14
West London -18 5 £80,000 +25.98% 2
South London -18 4 £70,000 -
East London -11 1 - - 3
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 13 (6.37%) Apache
1 13 (6.37%) Apache Airflow
1 13 (6.37%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.90%) Confluence
3 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.49%) Camunda
5 1 (0.49%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) Moodle
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (3.43%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 123 (60.29%) AWS
2 63 (30.88%) Azure
3 51 (25.00%) GCP
4 24 (11.76%) SaaS
5 17 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (8.33%) GitHub
6 15 (7.35%) Serverless
7 11 (5.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (3.92%) LangSmith
9 7 (3.43%) Vercel
10 6 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.94%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.45%) dbt
11 5 (2.45%) Heroku
12 4 (1.96%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.35%) Broadband
2 6 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.96%) DHCP
3 4 (1.96%) DNS
3 4 (1.96%) VPN
3 4 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.49%) Firewall
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (20.59%) MongoDB
2 40 (19.61%) Relational Database
3 34 (16.67%) MySQL
4 30 (14.71%) NoSQL
5 16 (7.84%) SQL Server
6 14 (6.86%) Redis
7 12 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (5.39%) DynamoDB
9 9 (4.41%) DB2
9 9 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (4.41%) Pinecone
10 6 (2.94%) Big Data
11 5 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.45%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.45%) MariaDB
11 5 (2.45%) Metadata
11 5 (2.45%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 26 (12.75%) Git
2 17 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.35%) TeamCity
4 11 (5.39%) GitLab
5 7 (3.43%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.43%) JIRA
5 7 (3.43%) Vite
6 5 (2.45%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.45%) JUnit
6 5 (2.45%) Selenium
7 4 (1.96%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.96%) Mockito
8 2 (0.98%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.98%) ESLint
8 2 (0.98%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.98%) JMeter
8 2 (0.98%) Storybook
9 1 (0.49%) Maven
9 1 (0.49%) Subversion
9 1 (0.49%) Valgrind
General
1 55 (26.96%) Finance
2 44 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.24%) Law
4 25 (12.25%) Banking
5 21 (10.29%) Retail
6 20 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (7.84%) Front Office
9 15 (7.35%) Games
10 10 (4.90%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.94%) Legal
12 3 (1.47%) Back Office
12 3 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.98%) Electronics
13 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.49%) Advertising
14 1 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 78 (38.24%) Developer
2 51 (25.00%) Lead
3 43 (21.08%) Software Engineer
4 32 (15.69%) Senior
5 29 (14.22%) Lead Developer
6 28 (13.73%) Python Engineer
7 21 (10.29%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (9.80%) Python Developer
9 18 (8.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 18 (8.82%) Lead Software Engineer
10 16 (7.84%) Data Engineer
11 15 (7.35%) Java Developer
12 14 (6.86%) Architect
13 13 (6.37%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (6.37%) Java Engineer
14 12 (5.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 12 (5.88%) Lead Python Developer
14 12 (5.88%) Lead Software Developer
14 12 (5.88%) Ruby Developer
15 11 (5.39%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (29.41%) React
2 45 (22.06%) Node.js
3 41 (20.10%) RESTful
4 29 (14.22%) FastAPI
5 25 (12.25%) Kafka
5 25 (12.25%) Spring
6 24 (11.76%) REST
6 24 (11.76%) Spring Boot
7 20 (9.80%) Next.js
8 17 (8.33%) Redux
9 13 (6.37%) CSS
9 13 (6.37%) HTML
10 12 (5.88%) JSON
10 12 (5.88%) LangChain
10 12 (5.88%) Ruby on Rails
11 10 (4.90%) JWT
12 9 (4.41%) Django
12 9 (4.41%) LangGraph
13 8 (3.92%) Flask
13 8 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.04%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.75%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.84%) Blog
3 16 (7.84%) Derivative
3 16 (7.84%) Equities
3 16 (7.84%) Fixed Income
3 16 (7.84%) Video\Live Streaming
4 15 (7.35%) Low-Code
5 10 (4.90%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.94%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.94%) Replication
9 5 (2.45%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.45%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.96%) CCTV
10 4 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.96%) IoT
10 4 (1.96%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.39%) Linux
2 7 (3.43%) Windows
3 4 (1.96%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.98%) Android
4 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.98%) Unix
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (40.20%) Software Engineering
2 77 (37.75%) CI/CD
3 64 (31.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (30.88%) Agile
5 57 (27.94%) AI
6 51 (25.00%) Microservices
7 46 (22.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (20.59%) Test Automation
9 41 (20.10%) Fintech
10 40 (19.61%) Containerisation
11 38 (18.63%) API Design
12 36 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (17.16%) Mentoring
14 32 (15.69%) Clean Code
14 32 (15.69%) Observability
15 29 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (13.24%) Machine Learning
17 26 (12.75%) Generative AI
18 25 (12.25%) Scrum
19 24 (11.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 102 (50.00%) Python
2 58 (28.43%) Java
3 52 (25.49%) TypeScript
4 51 (25.00%) SQL
5 43 (21.08%) JavaScript
6 24 (11.76%) Go
7 12 (5.88%) Ruby
8 9 (4.41%) C#
9 7 (3.43%) PHP
10 5 (2.45%) RPG
11 4 (1.96%) Delphi
11 4 (1.96%) Pascal
11 4 (1.96%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.96%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.47%) C++
13 2 (0.98%) Bash
14 1 (0.49%) Bicep
14 1 (0.49%) Elm
14 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (10.78%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.88%) Degree
4 4 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.90%) QA
3 5 (2.45%) GDPR
4 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.49%) MiFID
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (28.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (29.90%) Kubernetes
2 45 (22.06%) Terraform
3 13 (6.37%) Grafana
4 3 (1.47%) Argo
4 3 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.98%) Ansible
5 2 (0.98%) Kibana
6 1 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.49%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.88%) OpenAI
3 11 (5.39%) Oracle
4 6 (2.94%) Google
5 5 (2.45%) IBM
6 4 (1.96%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.96%) Databricks
6 4 (1.96%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.96%) Informatica
6 4 (1.96%) Netezza
6 4 (1.96%) Remedy
6 4 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.96%) Talend
7 3 (1.47%) Revolut
8 2 (0.98%) Mapbox
8 2 (0.98%) SAP
8 2 (0.98%) Splunk
8 2 (0.98%) Sybase
8 2 (0.98%) TikTok
9 1 (0.49%) Red Hat