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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 105 120
Rank change year-on-year -98 +15 +20
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 213 414 544
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.18% 3.22% 2.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.08% 14.50% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 155 258 485
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £54,250
25th Percentile £70,125 £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 £102,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 2,346 2,856 4,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.95% 22.24% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,530 1,970 3,705
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £55,500
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 2 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 2 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 -35 31 £95,000 +20.63% 63
South London -20 6 £62,600 +0.16%
East London -22 2 £85,000 - 4
West London -32 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 (6.57%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.63%) Confluence
3 10 (4.69%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.76%) Apache
5 5 (2.35%) Tomcat
5 5 (2.35%) WebSphere
5 5 (2.35%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.88%) 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 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Endur
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 129 (60.56%) AWS
2 74 (34.74%) Azure
3 71 (33.33%) GCP
4 20 (9.39%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (9.39%) SaaS
4 20 (9.39%) Serverless
5 15 (7.04%) GitHub
6 13 (6.10%) dbt
7 11 (5.16%) Amazon S3
7 11 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (4.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 9 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.76%) LangSmith
11 7 (3.29%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (3.29%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (3.29%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.29%) Vercel
12 5 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.69%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.35%) SSL
3 4 (1.88%) DHCP
3 4 (1.88%) DNS
3 4 (1.88%) VPN
3 4 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.94%) Broadband
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (21.60%) Relational Database
2 37 (17.37%) MySQL
3 30 (14.08%) SQL Server
4 29 (13.62%) MongoDB
4 29 (13.62%) NoSQL
5 20 (9.39%) DB2
6 19 (8.92%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.63%) Redis
8 11 (5.16%) DynamoDB
8 11 (5.16%) RDBMS
9 9 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (4.23%) BigQuery
10 8 (3.76%) Pinecone
11 7 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (3.29%) Power BI
12 6 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (2.82%) Big Data
12 6 (2.82%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.35%) DataStage
13 5 (2.35%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 31 (14.55%) Git
2 30 (14.08%) Jenkins
3 20 (9.39%) TeamCity
4 13 (6.10%) Bitbucket
4 13 (6.10%) Cucumber
4 13 (6.10%) JIRA
4 13 (6.10%) Selenium
5 11 (5.16%) GitLab
6 7 (3.29%) Vite
7 6 (2.82%) JUnit
8 5 (2.35%) Mockito
9 4 (1.88%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.88%) JMeter
10 2 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.94%) ESLint
10 2 (0.94%) Gradle
10 2 (0.94%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.94%) Maven
10 2 (0.94%) Subversion
10 2 (0.94%) webpack
General
1 67 (31.46%) Finance
2 46 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 37 (17.37%) Banking
4 30 (14.08%) Law
5 22 (10.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (10.33%) Retail
6 21 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (7.98%) Front Office
8 16 (7.51%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.35%) Back Office
9 5 (2.35%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.88%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.41%) Electronics
11 3 (1.41%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.41%) Legal
12 2 (0.94%) 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 67 (31.46%) Developer
2 49 (23.00%) Lead
3 41 (19.25%) Software Engineer
4 36 (16.90%) Senior
5 26 (12.21%) Data Engineer
6 25 (11.74%) Lead Developer
7 24 (11.27%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (10.33%) Java Developer
9 19 (8.92%) Python Engineer
10 18 (8.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (8.45%) Lead Software Engineer
11 14 (6.57%) Java Engineer
11 14 (6.57%) Python Developer
12 12 (5.63%) Architect
12 12 (5.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (5.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 12 (5.63%) Lead Software Developer
12 12 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (4.69%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (33.80%) React
2 53 (24.88%) Node.js
3 36 (16.90%) FastAPI
4 31 (14.55%) RESTful
5 28 (13.15%) HTML
6 26 (12.21%) CSS
6 26 (12.21%) REST
7 25 (11.74%) Django
8 23 (10.80%) Spring
9 22 (10.33%) Kafka
10 20 (9.39%) Spring Boot
11 19 (8.92%) Redux
12 18 (8.45%) Next.js
13 16 (7.51%) Flask
14 14 (6.57%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (5.63%) LangChain
16 10 (4.69%) AngularJS
16 10 (4.69%) Gherkin
17 8 (3.76%) LangGraph
17 8 (3.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.51%) Blog
3 16 (7.51%) Derivative
3 16 (7.51%) Equities
3 16 (7.51%) Fixed Income
4 14 (6.57%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (6.10%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.76%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.76%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.76%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.35%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.88%) CCTV
9 4 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.88%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.51%) Linux
2 11 (5.16%) Unix
3 10 (4.69%) Windows
4 6 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.35%) Android
5 5 (2.35%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.88%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (40.85%) CI/CD
2 84 (39.44%) Agile
3 78 (36.62%) Software Engineering
4 68 (31.92%) Microservices
5 58 (27.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 54 (25.35%) Fintech
7 47 (22.07%) AI
8 42 (19.72%) Mentoring
9 39 (18.31%) Test Automation
10 36 (16.90%) Containerisation
10 36 (16.90%) DevOps
11 33 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (15.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (14.08%) Clean Code
14 29 (13.62%) Analytics
14 29 (13.62%) Technical Leadership
15 27 (12.68%) Data Modelling
16 26 (12.21%) Data Engineering
16 26 (12.21%) Data Pipeline
17 25 (11.74%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 116 (54.46%) Python
2 76 (35.68%) Java
3 69 (32.39%) SQL
4 62 (29.11%) JavaScript
5 58 (27.23%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.57%) Go
7 12 (5.63%) C#
8 6 (2.82%) PHP
9 5 (2.35%) Delphi
9 5 (2.35%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.88%) Pascal
10 4 (1.88%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.88%) Ruby
10 4 (1.88%) Rust
11 3 (1.41%) RPG
12 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.47%) Bash
13 1 (0.47%) C++
13 1 (0.47%) Elm
13 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (17.84%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.74%) Degree
4 11 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.94%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.69%) QA
3 7 (3.29%) GDPR
4 5 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.35%) SLA
5 2 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.94%) PSD2
System Software
1 68 (31.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 80 (37.56%) Kubernetes
2 49 (23.00%) Terraform
3 18 (8.45%) Grafana
4 9 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.76%) Argo
6 6 (2.82%) Kibana
7 3 (1.41%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.94%) Ansible
9 1 (0.47%) Ambari
9 1 (0.47%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Puppet
9 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (6.10%) Oracle
2 12 (5.63%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.16%) Google
3 11 (5.16%) OpenAI
4 9 (4.23%) Atlassian
4 9 (4.23%) Red Hat
5 8 (3.76%) IBM
6 5 (2.35%) Informatica
6 5 (2.35%) Talend
7 4 (1.88%) Databricks
7 4 (1.88%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.88%) Splunk
8 3 (1.41%) Revolut
8 3 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.94%) Confluent
9 2 (0.94%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.94%) SAP
10 1 (0.47%) Apple
10 1 (0.47%) Intel
10 1 (0.47%) Sybase