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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 115 123
Rank change year-on-year -103 +8 +13
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 193 375 572
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.99% 2.90% 2.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.25% 13.27% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 147 269 505
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,813 £70,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -13.33%

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 2,339 2,826 4,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.99% 21.89% 21.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,530 1,966 3,757
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £55,571
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £97,188 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,125 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -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 22 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 22 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 -48 30 £90,000 +9.09% 60
South London -21 4 £62,600 +0.16% 2
West London -32 1 - - 2
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 17 (8.81%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (6.74%) Apache Spark
3 11 (5.70%) Apache
3 11 (5.70%) Confluence
4 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.04%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.52%) Camunda
6 1 (0.52%) JBoss
6 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 111 (57.51%) AWS
2 69 (35.75%) Azure
3 60 (31.09%) GCP
4 23 (11.92%) SaaS
5 17 (8.81%) GitHub
6 15 (7.77%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (7.25%) Serverless
8 10 (5.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (5.18%) dbt
8 10 (5.18%) LangSmith
9 8 (4.15%) Vercel
10 6 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.11%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (3.11%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.59%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.15%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.07%) DHCP
2 4 (2.07%) DNS
2 4 (2.07%) VPN
2 4 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.04%) Broadband
4 1 (0.52%) Firewall
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) SSL
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.24%) Relational Database
2 37 (19.17%) MySQL
3 33 (17.10%) NoSQL
4 28 (14.51%) MongoDB
5 22 (11.40%) SQL Server
6 17 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (7.25%) DB2
8 12 (6.22%) DynamoDB
9 11 (5.70%) Redis
10 10 (5.18%) Pinecone
11 8 (4.15%) BigQuery
11 8 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (3.63%) Big Data
12 7 (3.63%) RDBMS
13 6 (3.11%) Power BI
14 5 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (2.59%) ClickHouse
14 5 (2.59%) MariaDB
14 5 (2.59%) Metadata
14 5 (2.59%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 32 (16.58%) Git
2 24 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.33%) TeamCity
4 12 (6.22%) Bitbucket
4 12 (6.22%) GitLab
4 12 (6.22%) JIRA
5 11 (5.70%) Cucumber
5 11 (5.70%) Selenium
6 9 (4.66%) Vite
7 4 (2.07%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.07%) JUnit
8 2 (1.04%) ESLint
8 2 (1.04%) Gradle
8 2 (1.04%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.04%) Maven
8 2 (1.04%) Mockito
8 2 (1.04%) Storybook
8 2 (1.04%) Subversion
8 2 (1.04%) webpack
9 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
General
1 57 (29.53%) Finance
2 42 (21.76%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.03%) Banking
4 27 (13.99%) Law
5 20 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.36%) Retail
6 17 (8.81%) Front Office
6 17 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.66%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.07%) Back Office
8 4 (2.07%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.55%) Legal
9 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.04%) Electronics
10 2 (1.04%) Games
11 1 (0.52%) Advertising
11 1 (0.52%) Billing
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (27.98%) Developer
2 48 (24.87%) Lead
3 43 (22.28%) Software Engineer
4 34 (17.62%) Senior
5 25 (12.95%) Data Engineer
6 24 (12.44%) Python Engineer
7 23 (11.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 23 (11.92%) Lead Developer
8 18 (9.33%) Java Developer
8 18 (9.33%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (8.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (7.77%) Java Engineer
11 12 (6.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 12 (6.22%) Lead Software Developer
12 11 (5.70%) Python Developer
13 10 (5.18%) Architect
13 10 (5.18%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (5.18%) Product Engineer
14 9 (4.66%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (4.66%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (35.23%) React
2 48 (24.87%) Node.js
3 31 (16.06%) FastAPI
4 26 (13.47%) Kafka
4 26 (13.47%) RESTful
5 21 (10.88%) CSS
5 21 (10.88%) Next.js
6 20 (10.36%) HTML
6 20 (10.36%) REST
7 18 (9.33%) Redux
8 17 (8.81%) Spring
9 15 (7.77%) Django
9 15 (7.77%) Spring Boot
10 14 (7.25%) LangChain
11 13 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (6.22%) Flask
13 10 (5.18%) CrewAI
13 10 (5.18%) Gherkin
13 10 (5.18%) LangGraph
14 9 (4.66%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.44%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (8.29%) Derivative
3 16 (8.29%) Equities
3 16 (8.29%) Fixed Income
4 15 (7.77%) Blog
5 12 (6.22%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (6.22%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.63%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.07%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.07%) CCTV
9 4 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.07%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.07%) IoT
9 4 (2.07%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.18%) Linux
2 6 (3.11%) Windows
3 5 (2.59%) Android
3 5 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.07%) Unix
4 4 (2.07%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (40.41%) CI/CD
2 76 (39.38%) Software Engineering
3 69 (35.75%) Agile
4 57 (29.53%) Microservices
5 55 (28.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 49 (25.39%) AI
7 47 (24.35%) Fintech
8 35 (18.13%) Containerisation
8 35 (18.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (18.13%) Mentoring
8 35 (18.13%) Test Automation
9 32 (16.58%) DevOps
10 30 (15.54%) Analytics
11 25 (12.95%) Clean Code
11 25 (12.95%) Data Engineering
11 25 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (12.44%) Data Modelling
13 23 (11.92%) Scrum
14 21 (10.88%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 101 (52.33%) Python
2 67 (34.72%) SQL
3 66 (34.20%) Java
4 54 (27.98%) JavaScript
4 54 (27.98%) TypeScript
5 14 (7.25%) Go
6 10 (5.18%) C#
7 6 (3.11%) PHP
8 5 (2.59%) Delphi
9 4 (2.07%) Pascal
9 4 (2.07%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.07%) Ruby
10 3 (1.55%) RPG
11 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.52%) Bash
12 1 (0.52%) Bicep
12 1 (0.52%) Elm
12 1 (0.52%) Korn
12 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 28 (14.51%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.33%) Degree
4 10 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.04%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.29%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.18%) QA
3 5 (2.59%) GDPR
4 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (32.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (37.82%) Kubernetes
2 48 (24.87%) Terraform
3 18 (9.33%) Grafana
4 9 (4.66%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.63%) Argo
6 3 (1.55%) Ansible
7 2 (1.04%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.04%) Kibana
8 1 (0.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (6.74%) Microsoft
1 13 (6.74%) OpenAI
2 9 (4.66%) Oracle
3 7 (3.63%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.11%) Google
5 5 (2.59%) Databricks
5 5 (2.59%) Informatica
5 5 (2.59%) Talend
6 4 (2.07%) IBM
6 4 (2.07%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.55%) Confluent
7 3 (1.55%) Revolut
8 2 (1.04%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.52%) Delphix
9 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.52%) Intel
9 1 (0.52%) Pure Storage
9 1 (0.52%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.52%) Splunk