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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 113 152
Rank change year-on-year -68 +39 -1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 295 361 468
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.22% 2.99% 2.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.71% 13.38% 10.38%
Number of salaries quoted 195 262 334
10th Percentile £56,750 £59,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +21.74% +7.81%
75th Percentile £98,750 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £132,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 2,754 2,698 4,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.42% 22.35% 23.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,765 1,736 3,110
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £116,200 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

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 August 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 August 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 51 £90,000 +4.35% 13
West London -14 15 £80,000 +25.98% 21
South London -29 5 - - 2
East London -1 3 - - 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 21 (7.12%) Apache Spark
2 19 (6.44%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (5.08%) Apache
4 12 (4.07%) Confluence
5 7 (2.37%) Camunda
6 2 (0.68%) Luigi
6 2 (0.68%) Tornado
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Moodle
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.73%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 163 (55.25%) AWS
2 78 (26.44%) Azure
3 40 (13.56%) GCP
4 36 (12.20%) SaaS
5 33 (11.19%) GitHub
6 30 (10.17%) Amazon S3
7 24 (8.14%) Serverless
8 19 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.75%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (4.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.41%) Power Platform
11 11 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (3.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.73%) Lucidchart
12 9 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.46%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) AMQP
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 56 (18.98%) Relational Database
3 51 (17.29%) MySQL
4 43 (14.58%) Redis
5 35 (11.86%) NoSQL
6 34 (11.53%) SQL Server
7 23 (7.80%) DynamoDB
8 19 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.42%) Big Data
10 15 (5.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (4.75%) Metadata
12 13 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (4.41%) Power BI
13 11 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (3.73%) Db2
14 10 (3.39%) Data Lake
14 10 (3.39%) DTS
15 8 (2.71%) Tableau
16 7 (2.37%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 39 (13.22%) Git
2 12 (4.07%) JUnit
3 11 (3.73%) GitLab
3 11 (3.73%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.73%) Mockito
4 8 (2.71%) TeamCity
5 7 (2.37%) Claude Code
5 7 (2.37%) Vite
6 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (1.02%) webpack
7 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.68%) Gradle
7 2 (0.68%) JIRA
7 2 (0.68%) JMeter
7 2 (0.68%) Maven
7 2 (0.68%) Storybook
8 1 (0.34%) ESLint
8 1 (0.34%) kappa
General
1 69 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.66%) Finance
3 24 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (7.46%) Games
5 21 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.12%) Banking
5 21 (7.12%) Law
6 18 (6.10%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.07%) Retail
8 10 (3.39%) Legal
9 9 (3.05%) Legal Technology
10 7 (2.37%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.36%) Front Office
12 3 (1.02%) Electronics
12 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.02%) Marketing
12 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.34%) Aviation
13 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 98 (33.22%) Developer
2 77 (26.10%) Senior
3 61 (20.68%) Lead
4 57 (19.32%) Software Engineer
5 33 (11.19%) Python Engineer
6 30 (10.17%) Data Engineer
6 30 (10.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 28 (9.49%) Architect
7 28 (9.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 26 (8.81%) Ruby Developer
9 25 (8.47%) Python Developer
10 23 (7.80%) Lead Developer
11 22 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (6.78%) Database Engineer
13 18 (6.10%) Lead Data Engineer
14 15 (5.08%) Senior Developer
15 12 (4.07%) Lead Python Developer
15 12 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (3.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 10 (3.39%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.69%) RESTful
2 56 (18.98%) React
3 52 (17.63%) Terraform
4 50 (16.95%) Node.js
5 48 (16.27%) Kafka
6 46 (15.59%) REST
7 45 (15.25%) Spring
8 42 (14.24%) Spring Boot
9 35 (11.86%) Next.js
10 32 (10.85%) FastAPI
11 31 (10.51%) JWT
12 27 (9.15%) Ruby on Rails
13 26 (8.81%) JSON
14 17 (5.76%) OAuth
14 17 (5.76%) Sidekiq
15 16 (5.42%) OAuth2
16 13 (4.41%) CSS
17 12 (4.07%) JPA
18 11 (3.73%) HTML
18 11 (3.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 66 (22.37%) Cloud Native
2 50 (16.95%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.81%) Low-Code
4 23 (7.80%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (5.42%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (5.42%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.07%) AI Agents
7 10 (3.39%) EPoS
7 10 (3.39%) iSeries
8 9 (3.05%) Blog
8 9 (3.05%) Replication
9 8 (2.71%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.37%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.03%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.69%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.69%) IoT
12 5 (1.69%) PropTech
13 4 (1.36%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.71%) Linux
2 4 (1.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (39.66%) AI
2 116 (39.32%) CI/CD
3 105 (35.59%) Software Engineering
4 87 (29.49%) Full-Stack Development
5 82 (27.80%) Agile
6 81 (27.46%) Observability
7 71 (24.07%) API Design
7 71 (24.07%) Microservices
8 67 (22.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 62 (21.02%) Containerisation
10 59 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (17.97%) Test Automation
12 50 (16.95%) Clean Code
13 48 (16.27%) Event-Driven
13 48 (16.27%) Machine Learning
14 44 (14.92%) DevOps
15 42 (14.24%) Mentoring
16 39 (13.22%) Analytics
16 39 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
17 38 (12.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 142 (48.14%) Python
2 68 (23.05%) Java
2 68 (23.05%) SQL
3 52 (17.63%) TypeScript
4 32 (10.85%) Go
5 31 (10.51%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.15%) Ruby
7 12 (4.07%) C#
8 10 (3.39%) RPG
9 6 (2.03%) Scala
10 5 (1.69%) Bash
11 3 (1.02%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.02%) C++
11 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.02%) SOQL
11 3 (1.02%) SOSL
12 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
12 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (9.15%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.44%) Degree
2 19 (6.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.53%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.10%) QA
3 15 (5.08%) GDPR
4 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.34%) MiFID
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (25.76%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.10%) Grafana
3 8 (2.71%) Ansible
4 7 (2.37%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.02%) Argo
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
7 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (8.14%) Oracle
2 22 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.41%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.07%) Google
5 11 (3.73%) Databricks
6 10 (3.39%) IBM
7 5 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.36%) Netezza
8 4 (1.36%) Remedy
9 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.68%) Splunk
10 2 (0.68%) TikTok
11 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.34%) Confluent
11 1 (0.34%) Informatica
11 1 (0.34%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.34%) Sybase
11 1 (0.34%) Talend