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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 113 128
Rank change year-on-year -69 +15 +38
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 318 347 508
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.23% 2.96% 2.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.38% 13.20% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 200 242 311
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +20.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £96,250 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £136,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £69,308
% change year-on-year -9.68% +11.82% -0.99%

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 2,795 2,629 4,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.85% 22.44% 23.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,750 1,643 2,870
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,340 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.74% +12.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +3.17%

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 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 29 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 +16 45 £90,000 -25.00% 55
West London -1 14 £80,000 +25.98% 22
South London -20 6 £72,000 - 2
East London -6 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 18 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.77%) Apache
3 12 (3.77%) Confluence
4 7 (2.20%) Camunda
5 3 (0.94%) nginx
6 2 (0.63%) Luigi
6 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.63%) Tornado
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.31%) Moodle
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.46%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 180 (56.60%) AWS
2 78 (24.53%) Azure
3 53 (16.67%) GCP
4 43 (13.52%) GitHub
5 40 (12.58%) SaaS
6 36 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (9.12%) Serverless
8 27 (8.49%) Amazon S3
9 23 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (4.72%) GitHub Copilot
11 15 (4.72%) Power Platform
12 14 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.46%) Lucidchart
16 10 (3.14%) Vertex AI
17 9 (2.83%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 9 (2.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.29%) Broadband
2 5 (1.57%) VPN
3 4 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.94%) BGP
4 3 (0.94%) VLAN
5 2 (0.63%) Firewall
5 2 (0.63%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.31%) 4G
6 1 (0.31%) 5G
6 1 (0.31%) AMQP
6 1 (0.31%) DNS
6 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.31%) HTTP
6 1 (0.31%) MPLS
6 1 (0.31%) Network Security
6 1 (0.31%) SMS
6 1 (0.31%) SNMP
6 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (18.24%) MongoDB
2 54 (16.98%) Redis
3 50 (15.72%) Relational Database
4 46 (14.47%) MySQL
5 38 (11.95%) SQL Server
6 31 (9.75%) NoSQL
7 29 (9.12%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (6.92%) DynamoDB
9 21 (6.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.72%) Big Data
11 15 (4.72%) Power BI
12 14 (4.40%) Metadata
13 12 (3.77%) Data Lake
14 11 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (3.46%) Db2
14 11 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (3.14%) DTS
16 8 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (2.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (14.15%) Git
2 22 (6.92%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.97%) TeamCity
4 13 (4.09%) GitLab
5 11 (3.46%) JUnit
6 10 (3.14%) Mockito
7 8 (2.52%) Claude Code
8 7 (2.20%) Vite
9 3 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.94%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.94%) webpack
10 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.63%) Gradle
10 2 (0.63%) JMeter
10 2 (0.63%) Maven
10 2 (0.63%) Selenium
10 2 (0.63%) Storybook
11 1 (0.31%) JIRA
11 1 (0.31%) Mocha
General
1 73 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 63 (19.81%) Finance
3 50 (15.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (10.38%) Banking
4 33 (10.38%) Law
5 24 (7.55%) Retail
6 21 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (6.29%) Games
8 18 (5.66%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.14%) Legal
10 9 (2.83%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.83%) Legal Technology
11 5 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.94%) Back Office
12 3 (0.94%) Billing
12 3 (0.94%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.94%) Marketing
12 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Aviation
13 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 95 (29.87%) Developer
2 85 (26.73%) Senior
3 61 (19.18%) Software Engineer
4 55 (17.30%) Lead
5 35 (11.01%) Senior Software Engineer
6 30 (9.43%) Architect
7 28 (8.81%) Python Engineer
8 27 (8.49%) Data Engineer
9 26 (8.18%) Python Developer
10 25 (7.86%) Ruby Developer
11 23 (7.23%) Database Engineer
11 23 (7.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 20 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (5.66%) Lead Developer
14 17 (5.35%) Senior Developer
15 16 (5.03%) Java Engineer
15 16 (5.03%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
17 13 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
17 13 (4.09%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (23.90%) Terraform
2 63 (19.81%) RESTful
3 56 (17.61%) React
3 56 (17.61%) REST
4 55 (17.30%) Kafka
5 45 (14.15%) Node.js
6 44 (13.84%) Spring
7 41 (12.89%) Spring Boot
8 33 (10.38%) Next.js
9 32 (10.06%) FastAPI
10 28 (8.81%) JWT
11 26 (8.18%) Ruby on Rails
12 24 (7.55%) JSON
13 16 (5.03%) OAuth
13 16 (5.03%) Sidekiq
14 15 (4.72%) OAuth2
15 14 (4.40%) CSS
16 13 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
16 13 (4.09%) GraphQL
17 12 (3.77%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 78 (24.53%) Cloud Native
2 63 (19.81%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (7.55%) Blog
3 24 (7.55%) Low-Code
4 22 (6.92%) Replication
5 21 (6.60%) Video\Live Streaming
6 17 (5.35%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (5.03%) Onboarding
8 12 (3.77%) AI Agents
9 10 (3.14%) EPoS
9 10 (3.14%) iSeries
10 7 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (2.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.89%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.26%) Client/Server
13 4 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.46%) Linux
2 7 (2.20%) Windows
3 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (46.23%) CI/CD
2 122 (38.36%) AI
3 106 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 100 (31.45%) Observability
5 83 (26.10%) Agile
6 77 (24.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 77 (24.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 74 (23.27%) Test Automation
8 73 (22.96%) Microservices
9 66 (20.75%) API Design
10 63 (19.81%) Containerisation
11 61 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 60 (18.87%) Clean Code
13 58 (18.24%) Event-Driven
14 57 (17.92%) DevOps
15 51 (16.04%) Machine Learning
16 46 (14.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 46 (14.47%) Fintech
16 46 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (13.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 151 (47.48%) Python
2 83 (26.10%) SQL
3 75 (23.58%) Java
4 51 (16.04%) TypeScript
5 33 (10.38%) Go
6 31 (9.75%) JavaScript
7 26 (8.18%) Ruby
8 17 (5.35%) Bash
9 12 (3.77%) C#
10 11 (3.46%) Groovy
11 10 (3.14%) RPG
12 6 (1.89%) Scala
13 4 (1.26%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.26%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.94%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.94%) SOQL
14 3 (0.94%) SOSL
15 2 (0.63%) Bicep
15 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.06%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.35%) Degree
4 6 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (0.63%) SnowPro
6 2 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.31%) CCNA
7 1 (0.31%) CCSP
7 1 (0.31%) CISM
7 1 (0.31%) CISSP
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.75%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.35%) QA
3 16 (5.03%) GDPR
4 6 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.94%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.63%) WCAG
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 91 (28.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.31%) Firmware
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (25.79%) Kubernetes
2 47 (14.78%) Grafana
3 26 (8.18%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.83%) Rancher
5 8 (2.52%) Ansible
6 7 (2.20%) Argo
7 4 (1.26%) Kibana
8 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.31%) Cilium
9 1 (0.31%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.31%) Nagios
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.31%) SCOM
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 27 (8.49%) Microsoft
1 27 (8.49%) Oracle
2 16 (5.03%) Google
3 14 (4.40%) Dynatrace
4 13 (4.09%) Databricks
4 13 (4.09%) OpenAI
4 13 (4.09%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.14%) IBM
6 4 (1.26%) Mistral
6 4 (1.26%) Netezza
6 4 (1.26%) Remedy
6 4 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.63%) Splunk
7 2 (0.63%) TikTok
8 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.31%) Ciena
8 1 (0.31%) Confluent
8 1 (0.31%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.31%) RedGate
8 1 (0.31%) SolarWinds