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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 107 140
Rank change year-on-year -85 +33 +20
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 292 366 474
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.18% 3.05% 2.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.68% 13.62% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 192 260 312
10th Percentile £52,875 £59,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £96,563 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £136,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -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 2,734 2,687 4,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.07% 22.38% 23.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,746 1,716 2,993
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,476 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £84,335
Median % change year-on-year - -8.10% +12.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £117,250 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% -5.87% +0.78%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +17 50 £90,000 -3.23% 27
West London -7 15 £80,000 +25.98% 17
South London -30 5 - - 2
East London -7 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 20 (6.85%) Apache Spark
2 18 (6.16%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.79%) Apache
4 12 (4.11%) Confluence
5 7 (2.40%) Camunda
6 2 (0.68%) Luigi
6 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.68%) Tornado
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Moodle
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.77%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 162 (55.48%) AWS
2 73 (25.00%) Azure
3 37 (12.67%) GCP
3 37 (12.67%) SaaS
4 34 (11.64%) GitHub
5 28 (9.59%) Amazon S3
6 24 (8.22%) Serverless
7 21 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (4.79%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.45%) Power Platform
11 12 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.77%) Lucidchart
13 10 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.08%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) 4G
2 1 (0.34%) 5G
2 1 (0.34%) AMQP
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
2 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) MPLS
2 1 (0.34%) SMS
2 1 (0.34%) SNMP
2 1 (0.34%) SSH
2 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (19.86%) MongoDB
2 53 (18.15%) Relational Database
3 51 (17.47%) MySQL
4 46 (15.75%) Redis
5 35 (11.99%) NoSQL
6 33 (11.30%) SQL Server
7 21 (7.19%) DynamoDB
8 18 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (5.14%) Big Data
11 13 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (4.45%) Metadata
11 13 (4.45%) Power BI
12 11 (3.77%) Db2
13 10 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (3.42%) Data Lake
13 10 (3.42%) DTS
14 8 (2.74%) Tableau
15 7 (2.40%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 40 (13.70%) Git
2 14 (4.79%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.11%) JUnit
4 11 (3.77%) GitLab
4 11 (3.77%) Mockito
5 9 (3.08%) TeamCity
6 7 (2.40%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.40%) Vite
7 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (1.03%) webpack
8 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.68%) Gradle
8 2 (0.68%) JIRA
8 2 (0.68%) JMeter
8 2 (0.68%) Maven
8 2 (0.68%) Selenium
9 1 (0.34%) Mocha
9 1 (0.34%) Valgrind
General
1 68 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.49%) Finance
3 28 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (7.53%) Banking
4 22 (7.53%) Games
5 21 (7.19%) Law
6 19 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (5.82%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.79%) Retail
9 10 (3.42%) Legal
10 9 (3.08%) Legal Technology
11 7 (2.40%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.03%) Electronics
13 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.03%) Marketing
13 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.34%) Aviation
14 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 96 (32.88%) Developer
2 77 (26.37%) Senior
3 58 (19.86%) Lead
4 53 (18.15%) Software Engineer
5 31 (10.62%) Senior Software Engineer
6 29 (9.93%) Data Engineer
6 29 (9.93%) Python Engineer
7 28 (9.59%) Architect
8 26 (8.90%) Ruby Developer
9 25 (8.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 25 (8.56%) Python Developer
10 22 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (7.19%) Database Engineer
12 19 (6.51%) Lead Developer
13 18 (6.16%) Lead Data Engineer
14 16 (5.48%) Senior Developer
15 12 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
17 10 (3.42%) Java Engineer
17 10 (3.42%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.92%) RESTful
2 53 (18.15%) Terraform
3 52 (17.81%) React
4 51 (17.47%) Kafka
5 48 (16.44%) REST
6 45 (15.41%) Node.js
6 45 (15.41%) Spring
7 42 (14.38%) Spring Boot
8 33 (11.30%) Next.js
9 31 (10.62%) FastAPI
10 30 (10.27%) JWT
11 27 (9.25%) Ruby on Rails
12 26 (8.90%) JSON
13 17 (5.82%) OAuth
13 17 (5.82%) Sidekiq
14 16 (5.48%) OAuth2
15 14 (4.79%) CSS
16 12 (4.11%) HTML
16 12 (4.11%) JPA
17 11 (3.77%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 68 (23.29%) Cloud Native
2 51 (17.47%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.90%) Low-Code
4 23 (7.88%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (5.48%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.11%) AI Agents
6 12 (4.11%) Replication
7 11 (3.77%) Blog
8 10 (3.42%) EPoS
8 10 (3.42%) iSeries
9 7 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.40%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.05%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.71%) IoT
11 5 (1.71%) PropTech
12 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.08%) Linux
2 4 (1.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (40.75%) CI/CD
2 117 (40.07%) AI
3 99 (33.90%) Software Engineering
4 86 (29.45%) Observability
5 83 (28.42%) Full-Stack Development
6 78 (26.71%) Agile
7 71 (24.32%) API Design
8 69 (23.63%) Microservices
9 68 (23.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 62 (21.23%) Containerisation
11 58 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (19.52%) Test Automation
13 50 (17.12%) Clean Code
13 50 (17.12%) Event-Driven
14 49 (16.78%) Machine Learning
15 46 (15.75%) DevOps
16 41 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
17 40 (13.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 40 (13.70%) Mentoring
18 36 (12.33%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 139 (47.60%) Python
2 69 (23.63%) SQL
3 68 (23.29%) Java
4 49 (16.78%) TypeScript
5 32 (10.96%) Go
6 28 (9.59%) JavaScript
7 27 (9.25%) Ruby
8 10 (3.42%) C#
8 10 (3.42%) RPG
9 8 (2.74%) Bash
10 6 (2.05%) Scala
11 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.03%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.03%) C++
12 3 (1.03%) Groovy
12 3 (1.03%) SOQL
12 3 (1.03%) SOSL
13 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.68%) PHP
13 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (9.59%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.85%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.82%) Degree
4 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.34%) CCNA
6 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.30%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.16%) QA
3 15 (5.14%) GDPR
4 3 (1.03%) 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 79 (27.05%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.22%) Grafana
3 12 (4.11%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.74%) Ansible
5 3 (1.03%) Argo
5 3 (1.03%) Rancher
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
7 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 22 (7.53%) Oracle
2 21 (7.19%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.45%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.77%) Google
5 10 (3.42%) Databricks
5 10 (3.42%) IBM
6 7 (2.40%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.40%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.37%) Mistral
7 4 (1.37%) Netezza
7 4 (1.37%) Remedy
8 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.68%) Splunk
9 2 (0.68%) TikTok
10 1 (0.34%) ADVA
10 1 (0.34%) Ciena
10 1 (0.34%) Confluent
10 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.34%) SAP
10 1 (0.34%) Sybase