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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 118 127
Rank change year-on-year -105 +9 +22
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 217 359 619
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.01% 2.95% 2.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.87% 13.44% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 150 267 509
10th Percentile £55,875 £59,250 £51,200
25th Percentile £71,844 £70,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,625 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.92% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £102,813 £132,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%

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 2,447 2,671 5,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.34% 21.94% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,614 1,789 3,983
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -26 44 £90,000 +9.09% 11
West London -10 9 £80,000 +25.98% 10
South London -9 5 - - 1
East London -5 3 - - 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 14 (6.45%) Apache
2 13 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (5.07%) Apache Spark
4 9 (4.15%) Confluence
5 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) JBoss
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.46%) Moodle
6 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 132 (60.83%) AWS
2 64 (29.49%) Azure
3 45 (20.74%) GCP
4 23 (10.60%) SaaS
5 16 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (6.91%) GitHub
6 15 (6.91%) Serverless
7 10 (4.61%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (3.69%) LangSmith
10 7 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.23%) dbt
10 7 (3.23%) Lucidchart
10 7 (3.23%) Vercel
11 6 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.76%) Heroku
12 5 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.14%) Broadband
2 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.84%) DHCP
3 4 (1.84%) DNS
3 4 (1.84%) VPN
3 4 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.46%) Firewall
4 1 (0.46%) LAN
4 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (22.58%) MongoDB
2 40 (18.43%) Relational Database
3 33 (15.21%) MySQL
4 26 (11.98%) NoSQL
5 21 (9.68%) Redis
6 12 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.61%) SQL Server
8 9 (4.15%) DynamoDB
8 9 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.15%) Pinecone
9 7 (3.23%) Db2
9 7 (3.23%) Metadata
10 6 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.76%) DTS
11 5 (2.30%) Big Data
11 5 (2.30%) MariaDB
11 5 (2.30%) Power BI
12 4 (1.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (11.98%) Git
2 12 (5.53%) GitLab
2 12 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.07%) TeamCity
4 7 (3.23%) Vite
5 5 (2.30%) Claude Code
5 5 (2.30%) JUnit
6 4 (1.84%) Mockito
7 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.38%) JIRA
8 2 (0.92%) ESLint
8 2 (0.92%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.92%) JMeter
8 2 (0.92%) Storybook
9 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.46%) Gradle
9 1 (0.46%) Maven
9 1 (0.46%) Selenium
9 1 (0.46%) Subversion
9 1 (0.46%) Valgrind
General
1 53 (24.42%) Finance
2 40 (18.43%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.14%) Games
3 22 (10.14%) Law
4 21 (9.68%) Banking
5 19 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (8.76%) Retail
6 16 (7.37%) Front Office
7 15 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (5.99%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.23%) Legal
10 6 (2.76%) Legal Technology
11 5 (2.30%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.38%) Back Office
13 2 (0.92%) Electronics
13 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.46%) Advertising
14 1 (0.46%) Aviation
14 1 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 79 (36.41%) Developer
2 54 (24.88%) Lead
3 45 (20.74%) Software Engineer
4 39 (17.97%) Senior
5 30 (13.82%) Python Engineer
6 29 (13.36%) Lead Developer
7 25 (11.52%) Architect
8 24 (11.06%) Python Developer
9 21 (9.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (8.29%) Data Engineer
10 18 (8.29%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (7.37%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (7.37%) Ruby Developer
12 14 (6.45%) Java Engineer
12 14 (6.45%) Lead Python Developer
13 13 (5.99%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (5.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 12 (5.53%) Lead Software Developer
15 11 (5.07%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (25.81%) React
2 47 (21.66%) RESTful
3 43 (19.82%) Node.js
4 30 (13.82%) Kafka
4 30 (13.82%) Spring
5 29 (13.36%) Spring Boot
6 27 (12.44%) FastAPI
7 25 (11.52%) REST
8 21 (9.68%) Next.js
9 17 (7.83%) Redux
10 16 (7.37%) Ruby on Rails
11 14 (6.45%) JSON
12 13 (5.99%) JWT
13 12 (5.53%) LangChain
14 10 (4.61%) CSS
14 10 (4.61%) Sidekiq
15 9 (4.15%) HTML
15 9 (4.15%) LangGraph
16 8 (3.69%) CrewAI
17 7 (3.23%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 57 (26.27%) Cloud Native
2 30 (13.82%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (10.60%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (10.14%) Low-Code
5 16 (7.37%) Blog
5 16 (7.37%) Derivative
5 16 (7.37%) Equities
5 16 (7.37%) Fixed Income
6 11 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.23%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.76%) EPoS
8 6 (2.76%) iSeries
8 6 (2.76%) Replication
9 5 (2.30%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.84%) CCTV
10 4 (1.84%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.84%) IoT
10 4 (1.84%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.53%) Linux
2 7 (3.23%) Windows
3 4 (1.84%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (39.63%) Software Engineering
2 79 (36.41%) CI/CD
3 68 (31.34%) AI
4 67 (30.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 61 (28.11%) Agile
6 57 (26.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 49 (22.58%) API Design
8 48 (22.12%) Containerisation
8 48 (22.12%) Microservices
9 46 (21.20%) Observability
10 44 (20.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (20.28%) Test Automation
11 41 (18.89%) Fintech
12 36 (16.59%) Machine Learning
13 35 (16.13%) Mentoring
14 34 (15.67%) Clean Code
15 33 (15.21%) Generative AI
16 29 (13.36%) Validation
17 27 (12.44%) Integration Patterns
18 26 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 109 (50.23%) Python
2 57 (26.27%) Java
3 50 (23.04%) TypeScript
4 47 (21.66%) SQL
5 35 (16.13%) JavaScript
6 32 (14.75%) Go
7 16 (7.37%) Ruby
8 8 (3.69%) C#
9 7 (3.23%) PHP
10 6 (2.76%) RPG
11 5 (2.30%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.84%) Delphi
12 4 (1.84%) Pascal
12 4 (1.84%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.38%) Bash
13 3 (1.38%) C++
14 1 (0.46%) C
14 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.46%) R
14 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (11.52%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.53%) Degree
4 4 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.38%) SnowPro
6 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.22%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.61%) QA
3 7 (3.23%) GDPR
4 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.46%) MiFID
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (25.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (25.35%) Kubernetes
2 42 (19.35%) Terraform
3 13 (5.99%) Grafana
4 3 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.92%) Kibana
6 1 (0.46%) Ansible
6 1 (0.46%) Argo
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.46%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (8.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.53%) OpenAI
2 12 (5.53%) Oracle
3 6 (2.76%) Google
3 6 (2.76%) IBM
4 4 (1.84%) Databricks
4 4 (1.84%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.84%) Netezza
4 4 (1.84%) Remedy
4 4 (1.84%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.38%) Revolut
6 2 (0.92%) Mapbox
6 2 (0.92%) SAP
6 2 (0.92%) Splunk
6 2 (0.92%) Sybase
6 2 (0.92%) TikTok
7 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.46%) Informatica
7 1 (0.46%) Intel
7 1 (0.46%) Red Hat