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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 123 115
Rank change year-on-year -97 -8 +22
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 195 337 619
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 2.75% 2.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.27% 12.88% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 136 257 539
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £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% -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 2,357 2,617 5,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.37% 21.32% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,532 1,831 3,830
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £137,500 £127,500
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 21 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 21 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 -37 40 £90,000 +9.09% 45
West London -15 5 £80,000 +25.98% 4
South London -14 4 £70,000 -
East London -16 1 - - 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 (7.18%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (7.18%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.67%) Apache
3 9 (4.62%) Confluence
4 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.03%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.51%) Camunda
6 1 (0.51%) JBoss
6 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 118 (60.51%) AWS
2 60 (30.77%) Azure
3 52 (26.67%) GCP
4 23 (11.79%) SaaS
5 16 (8.21%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (7.69%) Serverless
7 14 (7.18%) GitHub
8 11 (5.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (4.10%) LangSmith
10 7 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.59%) Vercel
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.56%) dbt
12 4 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.05%) Heroku
12 4 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.69%) Broadband
2 6 (3.08%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.05%) DHCP
3 4 (2.05%) DNS
3 4 (2.05%) VPN
3 4 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.51%) MongoDB
2 37 (18.97%) Relational Database
3 32 (16.41%) MySQL
3 32 (16.41%) NoSQL
4 16 (8.21%) SQL Server
5 14 (7.18%) DynamoDB
6 13 (6.67%) Redis
7 12 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.62%) Pinecone
9 8 (4.10%) DB2
10 7 (3.59%) Big Data
11 6 (3.08%) RDBMS
12 5 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.56%) DataStage
12 5 (2.56%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.56%) MariaDB
12 5 (2.56%) Neo4j
12 5 (2.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 25 (12.82%) Git
2 18 (9.23%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.21%) TeamCity
4 11 (5.64%) GitLab
5 9 (4.62%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.10%) JIRA
7 7 (3.59%) Vite
8 6 (3.08%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.08%) Selenium
9 5 (2.56%) JUnit
10 4 (2.05%) Mockito
11 2 (1.03%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.03%) Claude Code
11 2 (1.03%) ESLint
11 2 (1.03%) Jaeger
11 2 (1.03%) JMeter
11 2 (1.03%) Storybook
11 2 (1.03%) webpack
12 1 (0.51%) Maven
12 1 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 55 (28.21%) Finance
2 40 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 28 (14.36%) Law
4 26 (13.33%) Banking
5 22 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (10.77%) Retail
7 17 (8.72%) Front Office
7 17 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (7.69%) Games
9 9 (4.62%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.05%) Legal
11 3 (1.54%) Back Office
11 3 (1.54%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.03%) Electronics
12 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.51%) Advertising
13 1 (0.51%) Billing
13 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (35.38%) Developer
2 49 (25.13%) Lead
3 41 (21.03%) Software Engineer
4 31 (15.90%) Senior
5 28 (14.36%) Python Engineer
6 27 (13.85%) Lead Developer
7 20 (10.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (9.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 18 (9.23%) Python Developer
9 17 (8.72%) Data Engineer
9 17 (8.72%) Lead Software Engineer
10 16 (8.21%) Java Developer
11 13 (6.67%) Java Engineer
12 12 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (6.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (6.15%) Lead Software Developer
13 11 (5.64%) Architect
13 11 (5.64%) Python Data Engineer
14 10 (5.13%) Lead Python Developer
14 10 (5.13%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (30.77%) React
2 43 (22.05%) Node.js
3 38 (19.49%) RESTful
4 26 (13.33%) FastAPI
5 24 (12.31%) REST
6 23 (11.79%) Kafka
7 21 (10.77%) Spring
8 20 (10.26%) Spring Boot
9 19 (9.74%) Next.js
10 17 (8.72%) Redux
11 13 (6.67%) CSS
11 13 (6.67%) HTML
12 12 (6.15%) LangChain
13 11 (5.64%) JSON
14 10 (5.13%) Ruby on Rails
15 9 (4.62%) JWT
15 9 (4.62%) LangGraph
16 8 (4.10%) CrewAI
16 8 (4.10%) Django
16 8 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 42 (21.54%) Cloud Native
2 27 (13.85%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (8.21%) Blog
3 16 (8.21%) Derivative
3 16 (8.21%) Equities
3 16 (8.21%) Fixed Income
3 16 (8.21%) Video\Live Streaming
4 15 (7.69%) Low-Code
5 11 (5.64%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.56%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.56%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.56%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.56%) Replication
9 4 (2.05%) CCTV
9 4 (2.05%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.05%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.08%) Linux
2 5 (2.56%) Windows
3 4 (2.05%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.54%) Android
4 3 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (41.54%) Software Engineering
2 77 (39.49%) CI/CD
3 63 (32.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 60 (30.77%) Agile
5 53 (27.18%) AI
6 48 (24.62%) Microservices
7 43 (22.05%) Test Automation
8 42 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (20.51%) Fintech
10 35 (17.95%) API Design
10 35 (17.95%) Containerisation
11 32 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (16.41%) Mentoring
11 32 (16.41%) Observability
12 31 (15.90%) Clean Code
13 26 (13.33%) Analytics
13 26 (13.33%) Generative AI
13 26 (13.33%) Machine Learning
14 25 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (11.79%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 101 (51.79%) Python
2 59 (30.26%) Java
3 52 (26.67%) SQL
3 52 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 44 (22.56%) JavaScript
5 23 (11.79%) Go
6 10 (5.13%) Ruby
7 8 (4.10%) C#
8 6 (3.08%) PHP
9 4 (2.05%) Delphi
9 4 (2.05%) Pascal
9 4 (2.05%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.05%) RPG
10 3 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.03%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) Bash
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Korn
12 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.15%) Degree
4 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.51%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.10%) QA
3 3 (1.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (26.15%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (31.28%) Kubernetes
2 43 (22.05%) Terraform
3 13 (6.67%) Grafana
4 3 (1.54%) Argo
4 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.03%) Ansible
5 2 (1.03%) Kibana
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.51%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.15%) OpenAI
3 10 (5.13%) Oracle
4 6 (3.08%) Google
5 5 (2.56%) Informatica
5 5 (2.56%) Talend
6 4 (2.05%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.05%) Databricks
6 4 (2.05%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.05%) IBM
7 3 (1.54%) Netezza
7 3 (1.54%) Remedy
7 3 (1.54%) Revolut
7 3 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.03%) Confluent
8 2 (1.03%) Mapbox
8 2 (1.03%) Splunk
8 2 (1.03%) TikTok
9 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.51%) Intel