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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 111 144
Rank change year-on-year -73 +33 +19
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 289 358 466
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 3.04% 2.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.64% 13.60% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 191 257 324
10th Percentile £56,250 £59,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £88,102
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +19.18% +10.13%
75th Percentile £96,875 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £136,250
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -7.59% +14.57% -6.48%

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 2,717 2,633 4,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.23% 22.33% 23.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,747 1,681 3,039
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,000 £83,230
Median % change year-on-year +0.65% -7.48% +10.97%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% -5.87% -

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +25 51 £90,000 -3.23% 23
West London -7 15 £80,000 +25.98% 22
South London -27 5 - - 2
East London -5 3 - - 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 20 (6.92%) Apache Spark
2 18 (6.23%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.84%) Apache
4 12 (4.15%) Confluence
5 7 (2.42%) Camunda
6 2 (0.69%) Luigi
6 2 (0.69%) Tornado
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Moodle
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 161 (55.71%) AWS
2 73 (25.26%) Azure
3 36 (12.46%) GCP
3 36 (12.46%) SaaS
4 33 (11.42%) GitHub
5 28 (9.69%) Amazon S3
6 24 (8.30%) Serverless
7 21 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (4.84%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.50%) Power Platform
11 11 (3.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.81%) Lucidchart
12 10 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.11%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.61%) Broadband
2 1 (0.35%) AMQP
2 1 (0.35%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (19.72%) MongoDB
2 54 (18.69%) Relational Database
3 50 (17.30%) MySQL
4 45 (15.57%) Redis
5 34 (11.76%) NoSQL
6 33 (11.42%) SQL Server
7 21 (7.27%) DynamoDB
8 18 (6.23%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.54%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (5.19%) Big Data
11 14 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (4.50%) Metadata
12 13 (4.50%) Power BI
13 11 (3.81%) Db2
14 10 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (3.46%) Data Lake
14 10 (3.46%) DTS
15 8 (2.77%) Tableau
16 7 (2.42%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 40 (13.84%) Git
2 13 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.15%) JUnit
4 11 (3.81%) Mockito
5 10 (3.46%) GitLab
6 9 (3.11%) TeamCity
7 7 (2.42%) Claude Code
7 7 (2.42%) Vite
8 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.04%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.04%) webpack
9 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.69%) Gradle
9 2 (0.69%) JIRA
9 2 (0.69%) JMeter
9 2 (0.69%) Maven
10 1 (0.35%) CMake
10 1 (0.35%) Selenium
10 1 (0.35%) Valgrind
General
1 68 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.34%) Finance
3 27 (9.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (7.61%) Games
5 21 (7.27%) Banking
6 20 (6.92%) Law
7 19 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (5.88%) Public Sector
9 13 (4.50%) Retail
10 10 (3.46%) Legal
11 9 (3.11%) Legal Technology
12 7 (2.42%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.04%) Electronics
13 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.04%) Marketing
13 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.35%) Aviation
14 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 95 (32.87%) Developer
2 76 (26.30%) Senior
3 58 (20.07%) Lead
4 53 (18.34%) Software Engineer
5 31 (10.73%) Senior Software Engineer
6 30 (10.38%) Python Engineer
7 29 (10.03%) Data Engineer
8 28 (9.69%) Architect
9 26 (9.00%) Ruby Developer
10 25 (8.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 24 (8.30%) Python Developer
12 22 (7.61%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (6.92%) Database Engineer
14 19 (6.57%) Lead Developer
15 18 (6.23%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (5.19%) Senior Developer
17 12 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
18 11 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
19 10 (3.46%) Java Engineer
19 10 (3.46%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (21.80%) RESTful
2 53 (18.34%) Terraform
3 52 (17.99%) React
4 50 (17.30%) Kafka
5 47 (16.26%) REST
6 45 (15.57%) Node.js
6 45 (15.57%) Spring
7 42 (14.53%) Spring Boot
8 33 (11.42%) Next.js
9 31 (10.73%) FastAPI
10 30 (10.38%) JWT
11 27 (9.34%) Ruby on Rails
12 26 (9.00%) JSON
13 17 (5.88%) OAuth
13 17 (5.88%) Sidekiq
14 16 (5.54%) OAuth2
15 13 (4.50%) CSS
16 12 (4.15%) JPA
17 11 (3.81%) HTML
17 11 (3.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 68 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 49 (16.96%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (9.00%) Low-Code
4 23 (7.96%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (5.54%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (5.54%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.15%) AI Agents
7 11 (3.81%) Replication
8 10 (3.46%) Blog
8 10 (3.46%) EPoS
8 10 (3.46%) iSeries
9 7 (2.42%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.42%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.08%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.73%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.73%) IoT
11 5 (1.73%) PropTech
12 4 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.77%) Linux
2 4 (1.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (40.83%) CI/CD
2 116 (40.14%) AI
3 99 (34.26%) Software Engineering
4 84 (29.07%) Observability
5 83 (28.72%) Full-Stack Development
6 77 (26.64%) Agile
7 71 (24.57%) API Design
8 69 (23.88%) Microservices
9 68 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 62 (21.45%) Containerisation
11 58 (20.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (19.03%) Test Automation
13 51 (17.65%) Clean Code
14 48 (16.61%) Event-Driven
14 48 (16.61%) Machine Learning
15 45 (15.57%) DevOps
16 40 (13.84%) Mentoring
17 39 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
18 38 (13.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 36 (12.46%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 137 (47.40%) Python
2 67 (23.18%) Java
3 66 (22.84%) SQL
4 48 (16.61%) TypeScript
5 31 (10.73%) Go
6 27 (9.34%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.34%) Ruby
7 10 (3.46%) C#
7 10 (3.46%) RPG
8 7 (2.42%) Bash
9 6 (2.08%) Scala
10 3 (1.04%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.04%) C++
10 3 (1.04%) Groovy
10 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.04%) SOQL
10 3 (1.04%) SOSL
11 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.69%) PHP
11 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (9.69%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.92%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.23%) Degree
4 7 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.42%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.88%) QA
3 15 (5.19%) GDPR
4 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.35%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (26.99%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (21.45%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.27%) Grafana
3 9 (3.11%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.77%) Ansible
5 3 (1.04%) Rancher
6 2 (0.69%) Argo
6 2 (0.69%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.35%) Nagios
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 22 (7.61%) Oracle
2 21 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.50%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.81%) Google
5 10 (3.46%) Databricks
5 10 (3.46%) IBM
6 7 (2.42%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.38%) Mistral
7 4 (1.38%) Netezza
7 4 (1.38%) Remedy
8 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.69%) Splunk
9 2 (0.69%) TikTok
10 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.35%) Confluent
10 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.35%) SAP
10 1 (0.35%) Sybase