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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 106 124
Rank change year-on-year -98 +18 +14
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 211 409 552
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 3.19% 2.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.02% 14.35% 11.52%
Number of salaries quoted 153 259 493
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £71,775 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -4.30% +14.57% -12.71%

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 2,340 2,850 4,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.87% 22.20% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,530 1,967 3,721
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £55,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £118,750
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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -39 31 £95,000 +20.63% 63
South London -22 6 £62,600 +0.16%
East London -22 2 £85,000 - 4
West London -33 1 - - 5
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 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.69%) Confluence
3 10 (4.74%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.79%) Apache
5 5 (2.37%) Tomcat
5 5 (2.37%) WebSphere
5 5 (2.37%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.47%) Camunda
7 1 (0.47%) IIS
7 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Endur
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 127 (60.19%) AWS
2 74 (35.07%) Azure
3 71 (33.65%) GCP
4 20 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (9.48%) SaaS
5 18 (8.53%) Serverless
6 15 (7.11%) GitHub
7 13 (6.16%) dbt
8 11 (5.21%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.79%) LangSmith
12 7 (3.32%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (3.32%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (3.32%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.32%) Vercel
13 5 (2.37%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.74%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.37%) SSL
3 4 (1.90%) DHCP
3 4 (1.90%) DNS
3 4 (1.90%) VPN
3 4 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.95%) Broadband
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (21.80%) Relational Database
2 37 (17.54%) MySQL
3 30 (14.22%) SQL Server
4 29 (13.74%) NoSQL
5 27 (12.80%) MongoDB
6 20 (9.48%) DB2
7 19 (9.00%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.69%) Redis
9 11 (5.21%) DynamoDB
9 11 (5.21%) RDBMS
10 9 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (4.27%) BigQuery
11 8 (3.79%) Pinecone
12 7 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (3.32%) Power BI
13 6 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.84%) Big Data
13 6 (2.84%) Hadoop
14 5 (2.37%) Metadata
14 5 (2.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 31 (14.69%) Git
2 28 (13.27%) Jenkins
3 20 (9.48%) TeamCity
4 13 (6.16%) Bitbucket
4 13 (6.16%) Cucumber
4 13 (6.16%) JIRA
4 13 (6.16%) Selenium
5 9 (4.27%) GitLab
6 7 (3.32%) Vite
7 6 (2.84%) JUnit
8 5 (2.37%) Mockito
9 4 (1.90%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.90%) JMeter
10 2 (0.95%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.95%) ESLint
10 2 (0.95%) Gradle
10 2 (0.95%) Maven
10 2 (0.95%) Storybook
10 2 (0.95%) Subversion
10 2 (0.95%) webpack
General
1 67 (31.75%) Finance
2 46 (21.80%) Social Skills
3 37 (17.54%) Banking
4 30 (14.22%) Law
5 22 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (10.43%) Retail
6 21 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (8.06%) Front Office
8 16 (7.58%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.37%) Back Office
9 5 (2.37%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.42%) Electronics
11 3 (1.42%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.42%) Legal
12 2 (0.95%) Games
13 1 (0.47%) Advertising
13 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.47%) Marketing
13 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (30.81%) Developer
2 49 (23.22%) Lead
3 41 (19.43%) Software Engineer
4 36 (17.06%) Senior
5 26 (12.32%) Data Engineer
6 25 (11.85%) Lead Developer
7 24 (11.37%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (10.43%) Java Developer
9 19 (9.00%) Python Engineer
10 18 (8.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (8.53%) Lead Software Engineer
11 14 (6.64%) Java Engineer
11 14 (6.64%) Python Developer
12 12 (5.69%) Architect
12 12 (5.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (5.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 12 (5.69%) Lead Software Developer
12 12 (5.69%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (4.74%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (4.74%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (34.12%) React
2 51 (24.17%) Node.js
3 34 (16.11%) FastAPI
4 31 (14.69%) RESTful
5 28 (13.27%) HTML
6 26 (12.32%) CSS
6 26 (12.32%) REST
7 25 (11.85%) Django
8 22 (10.43%) Kafka
9 21 (9.95%) Spring
10 19 (9.00%) Redux
11 18 (8.53%) Next.js
11 18 (8.53%) Spring Boot
12 16 (7.58%) Flask
13 14 (6.64%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (5.69%) LangChain
15 10 (4.74%) AngularJS
15 10 (4.74%) Gherkin
16 8 (3.79%) LangGraph
16 8 (3.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.37%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.58%) Blog
3 16 (7.58%) Derivative
3 16 (7.58%) Equities
3 16 (7.58%) Fixed Income
4 14 (6.64%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (6.16%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.79%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.79%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.37%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.90%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.90%) CCTV
9 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.90%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.42%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.58%) Linux
2 11 (5.21%) Unix
3 10 (4.74%) Windows
4 6 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.37%) Android
5 5 (2.37%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.90%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (41.23%) CI/CD
2 82 (38.86%) Agile
3 78 (36.97%) Software Engineering
4 68 (32.23%) Microservices
5 58 (27.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 54 (25.59%) Fintech
7 47 (22.27%) AI
8 42 (19.91%) Mentoring
9 39 (18.48%) Test Automation
10 36 (17.06%) DevOps
11 34 (16.11%) Containerisation
12 32 (15.17%) Infrastructure as Code
13 31 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (14.22%) Clean Code
15 29 (13.74%) Analytics
15 29 (13.74%) Technical Leadership
16 27 (12.80%) Data Modelling
17 26 (12.32%) Data Engineering
17 26 (12.32%) Data Pipeline
18 23 (10.90%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 114 (54.03%) Python
2 74 (35.07%) Java
3 69 (32.70%) SQL
4 60 (28.44%) JavaScript
5 56 (26.54%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.64%) Go
7 12 (5.69%) C#
8 6 (2.84%) PHP
9 5 (2.37%) Delphi
9 5 (2.37%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.90%) Pascal
10 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.90%) Ruby
10 4 (1.90%) Rust
11 3 (1.42%) RPG
12 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.47%) Bash
13 1 (0.47%) C++
13 1 (0.47%) Elm
13 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 36 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.85%) Degree
4 11 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.84%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.37%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.95%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.74%) QA
3 7 (3.32%) GDPR
4 5 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.37%) SLA
5 2 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.95%) PSD2
System Software
1 68 (32.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 80 (37.91%) Kubernetes
2 49 (23.22%) Terraform
3 18 (8.53%) Grafana
4 9 (4.27%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.79%) Argo
6 6 (2.84%) Kibana
7 3 (1.42%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.95%) Ansible
9 1 (0.47%) Ambari
9 1 (0.47%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Puppet
9 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (5.69%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.21%) Google
2 11 (5.21%) OpenAI
2 11 (5.21%) Oracle
3 9 (4.27%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.79%) IBM
5 7 (3.32%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.37%) Informatica
6 5 (2.37%) Talend
7 4 (1.90%) Databricks
7 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.90%) Splunk
8 3 (1.42%) Revolut
8 3 (1.42%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.95%) Confluent
9 2 (0.95%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.95%) SAP
10 1 (0.47%) Delphix
10 1 (0.47%) Intel
10 1 (0.47%) Pure Storage