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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 112 135
Rank change year-on-year -96 +23 +13
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 235 364 582
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.07% 2.95% 2.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.33% 13.49% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 164 271 473
10th Percentile £53,625 £59,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £71,875 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £99,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +20.00% -2.94%
75th Percentile £104,063 £132,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £122,000
England median annual salary £69,310 £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 2,520 2,698 5,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.49% 21.90% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,667 1,806 3,957
10th Percentile £46,526 £48,750 £46,990
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £58,457
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.92% -10.07%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -12 45 £90,000 +9.09% 53
West London -6 11 £80,000 +25.98% 13
South London -9 5 - - 1
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 15 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.96%) Apache
3 12 (5.11%) Apache Spark
4 10 (4.26%) Confluence
5 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.85%) Camunda
7 1 (0.43%) JBoss
7 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.43%) Moodle
7 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.83%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 143 (60.85%) AWS
2 68 (28.94%) Azure
3 49 (20.85%) GCP
4 29 (12.34%) SaaS
5 19 (8.09%) Serverless
6 18 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (7.66%) Amazon S3
7 15 (6.38%) GitHub
8 11 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (4.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (3.83%) Lucidchart
11 8 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.98%) dbt
12 7 (2.98%) LangSmith
12 7 (2.98%) Vercel
13 6 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.55%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.36%) Broadband
2 6 (2.55%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.70%) DHCP
3 4 (1.70%) DNS
3 4 (1.70%) VPN
3 4 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 40 (17.02%) Relational Database
3 36 (15.32%) MySQL
4 25 (10.64%) NoSQL
4 25 (10.64%) Redis
5 14 (5.96%) DynamoDB
5 14 (5.96%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.83%) Db2
8 9 (3.83%) Metadata
9 8 (3.40%) DTS
9 8 (3.40%) Pinecone
10 7 (2.98%) Big Data
11 6 (2.55%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.13%) MariaDB
12 5 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (11.49%) Git
2 12 (5.11%) TeamCity
3 11 (4.68%) GitLab
3 11 (4.68%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.98%) Vite
5 6 (2.55%) JUnit
6 5 (2.13%) Claude Code
6 5 (2.13%) Mockito
7 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.85%) ESLint
8 2 (0.85%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.85%) JIRA
8 2 (0.85%) JMeter
8 2 (0.85%) Storybook
9 1 (0.43%) CMake
9 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.43%) Maven
9 1 (0.43%) Selenium
9 1 (0.43%) Subversion
9 1 (0.43%) Valgrind
General
1 54 (22.98%) Finance
2 43 (18.30%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.79%) Law
4 22 (9.36%) Banking
4 22 (9.36%) Games
5 20 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (8.51%) Retail
6 16 (6.81%) Front Office
7 15 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.11%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.98%) Legal
10 6 (2.55%) Legal Technology
11 5 (2.13%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.28%) Back Office
12 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.85%) Electronics
13 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.43%) Advertising
14 1 (0.43%) Aviation
14 1 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 85 (36.17%) Developer
2 61 (25.96%) Lead
3 50 (21.28%) Software Engineer
4 45 (19.15%) Senior
5 32 (13.62%) Python Engineer
6 31 (13.19%) Lead Developer
7 28 (11.91%) Python Developer
8 26 (11.06%) Architect
9 25 (10.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 21 (8.94%) Data Engineer
11 18 (7.66%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (7.66%) Ruby Developer
12 16 (6.81%) Lead Python Developer
13 15 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (5.96%) Java Engineer
15 13 (5.53%) Senior Developer
16 12 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
16 12 (5.11%) Lead Software Developer
16 12 (5.11%) Python Data Engineer
16 12 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (24.68%) React
2 50 (21.28%) Node.js
2 50 (21.28%) RESTful
3 34 (14.47%) Kafka
4 33 (14.04%) Spring
5 32 (13.62%) Spring Boot
6 31 (13.19%) FastAPI
7 28 (11.91%) REST
8 22 (9.36%) Next.js
9 18 (7.66%) JWT
9 18 (7.66%) Ruby on Rails
10 17 (7.23%) JSON
10 17 (7.23%) Redux
11 12 (5.11%) Sidekiq
12 11 (4.68%) CSS
13 10 (4.26%) LangChain
14 9 (3.83%) Middleware
15 8 (3.40%) HTML
15 8 (3.40%) LangGraph
15 8 (3.40%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (25.96%) Cloud Native
2 34 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (9.79%) Low-Code
3 23 (9.79%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (7.23%) Blog
5 16 (6.81%) Derivative
5 16 (6.81%) Equities
5 16 (6.81%) Fixed Income
6 13 (5.53%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (5.11%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.40%) EPoS
8 8 (3.40%) iSeries
9 7 (2.98%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.98%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.55%) Client/Server
10 6 (2.55%) Replication
11 5 (2.13%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.70%) CCTV
12 4 (1.70%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.11%) Linux
2 7 (2.98%) Windows
3 4 (1.70%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.85%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (40.43%) Software Engineering
2 85 (36.17%) CI/CD
3 73 (31.06%) AI
4 70 (29.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 65 (27.66%) Agile
6 61 (25.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (23.83%) Microservices
8 54 (22.98%) Observability
9 53 (22.55%) API Design
10 51 (21.70%) Containerisation
11 46 (19.57%) Test Automation
12 44 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (18.30%) Fintech
14 42 (17.87%) Mentoring
15 38 (16.17%) Machine Learning
16 37 (15.74%) Clean Code
17 33 (14.04%) Generative AI
18 31 (13.19%) Validation
19 28 (11.91%) Analytics
19 28 (11.91%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 118 (50.21%) Python
2 60 (25.53%) Java
3 53 (22.55%) SQL
3 53 (22.55%) TypeScript
4 36 (15.32%) JavaScript
5 32 (13.62%) Go
6 18 (7.66%) Ruby
7 8 (3.40%) C#
7 8 (3.40%) RPG
8 7 (2.98%) PHP
9 5 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.70%) Delphi
10 4 (1.70%) Pascal
10 4 (1.70%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.28%) Bash
11 3 (1.28%) C++
12 1 (0.43%) Bicep
12 1 (0.43%) Elm
12 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.94%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.53%) Degree
4 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.85%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.21%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.26%) QA
3 8 (3.40%) GDPR
4 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) MiFID
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (25.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (23.83%) Kubernetes
2 46 (19.57%) Terraform
3 15 (6.38%) Grafana
4 3 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.85%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.43%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.53%) OpenAI
2 13 (5.53%) Oracle
3 8 (3.40%) Google
3 8 (3.40%) IBM
4 6 (2.55%) Databricks
5 4 (1.70%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.70%) Netezza
5 4 (1.70%) Remedy
5 4 (1.70%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.28%) Revolut
7 2 (0.85%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.85%) SAP
7 2 (0.85%) Splunk
7 2 (0.85%) Sybase
7 2 (0.85%) TikTok
8 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.43%) Informatica
8 1 (0.43%) Intel
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat