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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 101 125
Rank change year-on-year -109 +24 +16
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 214 414 541
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 3.22% 2.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.13% 14.52% 11.37%
Number of salaries quoted 156 259 483
10th Percentile £52,450 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £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 £71,775 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -4.30% +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 2,344 2,851 4,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.08% 22.20% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 1,968 3,694
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,325
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £55,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.01% -2.67%
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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -41 32 £92,500 +17.46% 63
South London -24 6 £62,600 +0.16%
East London -18 2 £85,000 - 4
West London -34 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 (6.54%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (5.14%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.14%) Confluence
3 8 (3.74%) Apache
4 6 (2.80%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.80%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.80%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) Camunda
6 1 (0.47%) IIS
6 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Endur
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 130 (60.75%) AWS
2 75 (35.05%) Azure
3 71 (33.18%) GCP
4 20 (9.35%) SaaS
4 20 (9.35%) Serverless
5 19 (8.88%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (7.01%) GitHub
7 13 (6.07%) dbt
8 11 (5.14%) Amazon S3
8 11 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.74%) LangSmith
12 7 (3.27%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (3.27%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (3.27%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.27%) Vercel
13 5 (2.34%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.67%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.80%) SSL
3 4 (1.87%) DHCP
3 4 (1.87%) DNS
3 4 (1.87%) VPN
3 4 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.93%) Broadband
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (22.43%) Relational Database
2 39 (18.22%) MySQL
3 31 (14.49%) SQL Server
4 30 (14.02%) MongoDB
4 30 (14.02%) NoSQL
5 20 (9.35%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (9.35%) DB2
6 12 (5.61%) Redis
7 11 (5.14%) DynamoDB
7 11 (5.14%) RDBMS
8 9 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (4.21%) BigQuery
9 8 (3.74%) Pinecone
10 7 (3.27%) Big Data
10 7 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (3.27%) Hadoop
10 7 (3.27%) Power BI
11 6 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.34%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 33 (15.42%) Git
2 30 (14.02%) Jenkins
3 19 (8.88%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.61%) Bitbucket
4 12 (5.61%) Cucumber
4 12 (5.61%) JIRA
4 12 (5.61%) Selenium
5 11 (5.14%) GitLab
6 7 (3.27%) Vite
7 6 (2.80%) JUnit
8 5 (2.34%) Mockito
9 4 (1.87%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.87%) JMeter
10 2 (0.93%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.93%) ESLint
10 2 (0.93%) Gradle
10 2 (0.93%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.93%) Maven
10 2 (0.93%) Subversion
10 2 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 66 (30.84%) Finance
2 46 (21.50%) Social Skills
3 36 (16.82%) Banking
4 31 (14.49%) Law
5 23 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (9.81%) Retail
7 18 (8.41%) Public Sector
8 17 (7.94%) Front Office
9 5 (2.34%) Back Office
9 5 (2.34%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.87%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.40%) Electronics
11 3 (1.40%) Legal
12 2 (0.93%) 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 69 (32.24%) Developer
2 49 (22.90%) Lead
3 39 (18.22%) Software Engineer
4 36 (16.82%) Senior
5 26 (12.15%) Data Engineer
6 25 (11.68%) Lead Developer
7 24 (11.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (10.28%) Java Developer
9 19 (8.88%) Python Engineer
10 18 (8.41%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (7.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 14 (6.54%) Python Developer
13 13 (6.07%) Architect
14 12 (5.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 12 (5.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 12 (5.61%) Java Engineer
14 12 (5.61%) Lead Software Developer
14 12 (5.61%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (4.67%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (34.11%) React
2 52 (24.30%) Node.js
3 35 (16.36%) FastAPI
4 30 (14.02%) RESTful
5 29 (13.55%) HTML
6 27 (12.62%) CSS
7 26 (12.15%) REST
8 25 (11.68%) Django
9 23 (10.75%) Kafka
9 23 (10.75%) Spring
10 20 (9.35%) Spring Boot
11 19 (8.88%) Redux
12 17 (7.94%) Next.js
13 16 (7.48%) Flask
14 13 (6.07%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (5.61%) AngularJS
15 12 (5.61%) LangChain
16 9 (4.21%) Gherkin
17 8 (3.74%) .NET
17 8 (3.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.21%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.48%) Derivative
3 16 (7.48%) Equities
3 16 (7.48%) Fixed Income
4 15 (7.01%) Blog
5 14 (6.54%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (6.07%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (4.21%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.74%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.87%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.87%) CCTV
10 4 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.87%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.94%) Linux
2 12 (5.61%) Unix
3 11 (5.14%) Windows
4 7 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.34%) Android
5 5 (2.34%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.87%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (40.19%) CI/CD
2 85 (39.72%) Agile
3 78 (36.45%) Software Engineering
4 67 (31.31%) Microservices
5 57 (26.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 53 (24.77%) Fintech
7 47 (21.96%) AI
8 42 (19.63%) Mentoring
9 37 (17.29%) Test Automation
10 36 (16.82%) Containerisation
10 36 (16.82%) DevOps
10 36 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (14.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (14.02%) Clean Code
13 29 (13.55%) Analytics
13 29 (13.55%) Technical Leadership
14 28 (13.08%) Data Modelling
15 27 (12.62%) Data Pipeline
16 26 (12.15%) Data Engineering
16 26 (12.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 116 (54.21%) Python
2 74 (34.58%) Java
3 69 (32.24%) SQL
4 64 (29.91%) JavaScript
5 58 (27.10%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.54%) C#
6 14 (6.54%) Go
7 6 (2.80%) PHP
8 5 (2.34%) Delphi
8 5 (2.34%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.87%) Pascal
9 4 (1.87%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.87%) Ruby
9 4 (1.87%) Rust
10 3 (1.40%) RPG
11 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) Bash
12 1 (0.47%) C++
12 1 (0.47%) Elm
12 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 40 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 34 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.08%) Degree
4 11 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.27%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.93%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.67%) QA
3 7 (3.27%) GDPR
4 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.80%) SLA
5 2 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.93%) PSD2
System Software
1 67 (31.31%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 78 (36.45%) Kubernetes
2 48 (22.43%) Terraform
3 17 (7.94%) Grafana
4 9 (4.21%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.74%) Argo
6 6 (2.80%) Kibana
7 3 (1.40%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.93%) Ansible
9 1 (0.47%) Ambari
9 1 (0.47%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Puppet
9 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (6.54%) Oracle
2 12 (5.61%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.14%) Google
3 11 (5.14%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.67%) Red Hat
5 9 (4.21%) Atlassian
5 9 (4.21%) IBM
6 5 (2.34%) Informatica
6 5 (2.34%) Talend
7 4 (1.87%) Databricks
7 4 (1.87%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.87%) Splunk
8 3 (1.40%) Revolut
9 2 (0.93%) Confluent
9 2 (0.93%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.93%) SAP
10 1 (0.47%) Apple
10 1 (0.47%) Dell
10 1 (0.47%) Sybase