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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 96 136
Rank change year-on-year -53 +40 +17
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 255 515 417
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.83% 3.30% 2.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.65% 14.17% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 182 268 370
10th Percentile £55,250 £55,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £69,422 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £87,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +14.75% -4.69%
75th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £97,447
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%

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 2,394 3,635 3,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.20% 23.31% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,563 2,208 3,073
10th Percentile £43,375 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.59% -2.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -18 26 £100,000 +17.65% 43
South London -17 14 £62,600 +0.16% 8
East London -11 6 £85,000 - 7
West London -20 1 £62,500 -7.41% 4
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 40 (15.69%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (8.24%) Apache Spark
3 19 (7.45%) WebSphere
4 17 (6.67%) Tomcat
5 16 (6.27%) WebSphere Application Server
6 14 (5.49%) Confluence
7 5 (1.96%) Apache
8 3 (1.18%) Luigi
8 3 (1.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.39%) Camunda
9 1 (0.39%) CMS
9 1 (0.39%) IIS
9 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) Endur
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 174 (68.24%) AWS
2 85 (33.33%) GCP
3 72 (28.24%) Azure
4 38 (14.90%) dbt
5 37 (14.51%) Serverless
6 26 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (9.02%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (6.67%) Amazon S3
11 15 (5.88%) GitHub
11 15 (5.88%) SaaS
12 14 (5.49%) Power Platform
13 12 (4.71%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.31%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (3.53%) Snowflake
16 7 (2.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (2.75%) Route 53
17 6 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.45%) SSL
2 7 (2.75%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.18%) WAN
4 2 (0.78%) BGP
4 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
4 2 (0.78%) MQTT
4 2 (0.78%) OSPF
4 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.78%) RTMP
4 2 (0.78%) VLAN
4 2 (0.78%) VPN
4 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.78%) Wireless
5 1 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.39%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (25.10%) SQL Server
2 57 (22.35%) Relational Database
3 44 (17.25%) MongoDB
3 44 (17.25%) MySQL
4 41 (16.08%) NoSQL
5 34 (13.33%) DB2
6 32 (12.55%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (12.16%) Apache Iceberg
8 30 (11.76%) RDBMS
9 26 (10.20%) Amazon Athena
9 26 (10.20%) Apache Arrow
9 26 (10.20%) Dremio
10 15 (5.88%) Big Data
10 15 (5.88%) Hadoop
11 14 (5.49%) DynamoDB
11 14 (5.49%) Power BI
12 13 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (5.10%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (4.71%) Redis
14 10 (3.92%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 52 (20.39%) Jenkins
2 25 (9.80%) Git
3 19 (7.45%) JIRA
4 17 (6.67%) Selenium
5 16 (6.27%) GitLab
5 16 (6.27%) JMeter
5 16 (6.27%) JUnit
6 15 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 15 (5.88%) Mockito
7 14 (5.49%) Cucumber
8 13 (5.10%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.96%) Vite
10 4 (1.57%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.57%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.18%) MLflow
11 3 (1.18%) Subversion
11 3 (1.18%) TestRail
12 2 (0.78%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
General
1 88 (34.51%) Finance
2 58 (22.75%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.12%) Banking
4 28 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.59%) Front Office
6 23 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (7.84%) Law
8 12 (4.71%) Investment Banking
9 9 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.53%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.75%) Retail
11 6 (2.35%) Electronics
11 6 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.35%) Marketing
12 5 (1.96%) Advertising
13 3 (1.18%) Legal
14 2 (0.78%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.78%) Back Office
14 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (39.22%) Developer
2 39 (15.29%) Software Engineer
3 38 (14.90%) Python Developer
4 33 (12.94%) Senior
5 31 (12.16%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (11.76%) Java Developer
6 30 (11.76%) Lead
7 29 (11.37%) Full-Stack Developer
7 29 (11.37%) Python Engineer
8 27 (10.59%) AWS Software Engineer
9 26 (10.20%) AWS Developer
9 26 (10.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 26 (10.20%) Python Software Engineer
10 21 (8.24%) Data Engineer
10 21 (8.24%) Linux Support
10 21 (8.24%) Principal Engineer
11 20 (7.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 19 (7.45%) Applications Support
13 16 (6.27%) Backend Developer
14 14 (5.49%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (30.20%) React
2 65 (25.49%) Node.js
3 44 (17.25%) FastAPI
3 44 (17.25%) REST
4 42 (16.47%) AngularJS
5 40 (15.69%) HTML
6 33 (12.94%) Spring
6 33 (12.94%) Vue
7 31 (12.16%) Django
7 31 (12.16%) Spring Boot
8 29 (11.37%) CSS
9 27 (10.59%) NumPy
9 27 (10.59%) Pandas
9 27 (10.59%) RESTful
10 26 (10.20%) SciPy
11 24 (9.41%) Kafka
12 20 (7.84%) Flask
12 20 (7.84%) Web Services
13 18 (7.06%) jQuery
14 17 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.29%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (10.20%) Equities
2 26 (10.20%) Fixed Income
2 26 (10.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 25 (9.80%) Cloud Native
4 21 (8.24%) Management Information System
5 19 (7.45%) Linux Command Line
6 15 (5.88%) Product Ownership
7 13 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (4.71%) Algorithms
9 10 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.75%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.57%) Replication
12 3 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.18%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.90%) Linux
2 26 (10.20%) Unix
3 18 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (7.06%) Windows
4 7 (2.75%) Android
4 7 (2.75%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (48.63%) Agile
2 105 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 84 (32.94%) Software Engineering
4 75 (29.41%) Microservices
5 58 (22.75%) Fintech
6 55 (21.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 54 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (19.61%) AI
9 45 (17.65%) Containerisation
10 44 (17.25%) DevOps
11 37 (14.51%) Business Intelligence
11 37 (14.51%) Data Engineering
11 37 (14.51%) ETL
11 37 (14.51%) Test Automation
12 34 (13.33%) Data Modelling
13 30 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (11.76%) Scrum
14 29 (11.37%) Technical Leadership
15 28 (10.98%) Analytics
15 28 (10.98%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (63.14%) Python
2 89 (34.90%) JavaScript
3 77 (30.20%) Java
3 77 (30.20%) SQL
4 65 (25.49%) TypeScript
5 17 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 15 (5.88%) C#
7 9 (3.53%) Rust
8 6 (2.35%) Go
9 4 (1.57%) PHP
9 4 (1.57%) Ruby
10 3 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.18%) RPG
10 3 (1.18%) Scala
11 2 (0.78%) Bash
11 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.39%) COBOL
12 1 (0.39%) Delphi
12 1 (0.39%) Korn
12 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.51%) Degree
3 27 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.45%) AWS Certification
5 18 (7.06%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.14%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.96%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.78%) HNC
10 2 (0.78%) HND
10 2 (0.78%) MCSA
10 2 (0.78%) MCSE
10 2 (0.78%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.39%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.27%) SLA
2 13 (5.10%) QA
3 9 (3.53%) GDPR
4 8 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.14%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.18%) SEPA
6 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.78%) PSD2
7 1 (0.39%) GAAP
7 1 (0.39%) IFRS
7 1 (0.39%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 91 (35.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) NFS
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.39%) zsh
Systems Management
1 86 (33.73%) Kubernetes
2 42 (16.47%) Terraform
3 17 (6.67%) Kibana
4 11 (4.31%) Grafana
5 9 (3.53%) Argo
5 9 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.35%) Ansible
7 3 (1.18%) Puppet
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.39%) Ambari
9 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (15.69%) Oracle
2 22 (8.63%) IBM
2 22 (8.63%) Red Hat
3 15 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 15 (5.88%) Google
4 14 (5.49%) Dynatrace
4 14 (5.49%) Splunk
5 13 (5.10%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.31%) Informatica
7 10 (3.92%) Microsoft
7 10 (3.92%) Talend
8 7 (2.75%) SAP
9 6 (2.35%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.18%) Databricks
11 2 (0.78%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.78%) Confluent
11 2 (0.78%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.78%) Sonatype
11 2 (0.78%) Ubiquiti