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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 95 132
Rank change year-on-year -82 +37 +15
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 234 509 495
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.48% 3.50% 2.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.12% 15.38% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 164 279 444
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,953 £68,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +12.90% -8.82%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -6.90%

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 2,312 3,309 4,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.59% 22.78% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,509 2,040 3,635
10th Percentile £43,675 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,865 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.49% +14.30% -3.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,625 £115,000
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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -45 29 £100,000 +14.29% 46
South London -19 11 £62,600 +0.16% 1
East London -11 4 £85,000 - 7
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 23 (9.83%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.98%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.98%) Confluence
3 12 (5.13%) Tomcat
3 12 (5.13%) WebSphere
4 11 (4.70%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (2.14%) Apache
6 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.85%) nginx
8 1 (0.43%) Camunda
8 1 (0.43%) IIS
8 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) Endur
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 155 (66.24%) AWS
2 83 (35.47%) GCP
3 80 (34.19%) Azure
4 28 (11.97%) Serverless
5 27 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (10.68%) dbt
7 17 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (7.26%) GitHub
8 16 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (6.41%) SaaS
10 14 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (5.56%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.27%) Amazon ECR
14 9 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
14 9 (3.85%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (3.42%) LangSmith
15 8 (3.42%) Vercel
16 6 (2.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.13%) SSL
2 11 (4.70%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.14%) VPN
3 5 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.28%) DHCP
4 3 (1.28%) DNS
4 3 (1.28%) WAN
5 2 (0.85%) BGP
5 2 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.85%) Firewall
5 2 (0.85%) MQTT
5 2 (0.85%) OSPF
5 2 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.85%) RTMP
5 2 (0.85%) VLAN
5 2 (0.85%) Wireless
6 1 (0.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.37%) Relational Database
2 43 (18.38%) SQL Server
3 37 (15.81%) MongoDB
4 34 (14.53%) MySQL
5 31 (13.25%) NoSQL
6 29 (12.39%) DB2
7 26 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (8.12%) RDBMS
9 15 (6.41%) Apache Iceberg
10 12 (5.13%) DynamoDB
10 12 (5.13%) Redis
11 11 (4.70%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (4.70%) Apache Arrow
11 11 (4.70%) Dremio
12 10 (4.27%) Big Data
12 10 (4.27%) Hadoop
13 9 (3.85%) BigQuery
13 9 (3.85%) Power BI
14 8 (3.42%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 44 (18.80%) Jenkins
2 26 (11.11%) Git
3 21 (8.97%) TeamCity
4 18 (7.69%) JIRA
5 17 (7.26%) Selenium
6 15 (6.41%) Bitbucket
7 14 (5.98%) Cucumber
7 14 (5.98%) GitLab
8 11 (4.70%) JMeter
9 10 (4.27%) JUnit
10 9 (3.85%) Mockito
11 7 (2.99%) Vite
12 4 (1.71%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.71%) Jaeger
12 4 (1.71%) Subversion
13 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.28%) MLflow
13 3 (1.28%) TestRail
14 2 (0.85%) Gradle
14 2 (0.85%) REST Assured
General
1 83 (35.47%) Finance
2 51 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 42 (17.95%) Banking
4 31 (13.25%) Law
5 24 (10.26%) Front Office
6 23 (9.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (9.83%) Public Sector
7 22 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (8.12%) Retail
9 8 (3.42%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.71%) Back Office
11 4 (1.71%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.28%) Legal
13 2 (0.85%) Advertising
13 2 (0.85%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.85%) Electronics
13 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.85%) Marketing
13 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (36.32%) Developer
2 43 (18.38%) Software Engineer
3 41 (17.52%) Lead
4 34 (14.53%) Senior
5 28 (11.97%) Java Developer
6 26 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (10.68%) Python Developer
8 21 (8.97%) Data Engineer
8 21 (8.97%) Lead Developer
8 21 (8.97%) Python Engineer
9 20 (8.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 19 (8.12%) Principal Engineer
11 18 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (7.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 15 (6.41%) Lead Software Engineer
14 14 (5.98%) Python Software Engineer
15 13 (5.56%) Architect
15 13 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 13 (5.56%) Java Engineer
15 13 (5.56%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (34.19%) React
2 60 (25.64%) Node.js
3 39 (16.67%) FastAPI
4 36 (15.38%) HTML
5 32 (13.68%) REST
6 30 (12.82%) CSS
7 29 (12.39%) Spring
8 28 (11.97%) Django
9 27 (11.54%) RESTful
10 26 (11.11%) Kafka
10 26 (11.11%) Spring Boot
11 24 (10.26%) AngularJS
12 17 (7.26%) Vue
13 16 (6.84%) Flask
13 16 (6.84%) Redux
14 15 (6.41%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (6.41%) Next.js
14 15 (6.41%) Web Services
15 12 (5.13%) NumPy
15 12 (5.13%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.10%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 23 (9.83%) Equities
3 23 (9.83%) Fixed Income
4 15 (6.41%) Blog
4 15 (6.41%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (5.98%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (5.98%) Management Information System
6 13 (5.56%) Product Ownership
7 12 (5.13%) Derivative
8 11 (4.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.99%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.14%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.71%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.71%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.28%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.54%) Linux
2 18 (7.69%) Unix
3 15 (6.41%) Windows
4 13 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.14%) Android
5 5 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.59%) Agile
2 98 (41.88%) CI/CD
3 82 (35.04%) Software Engineering
4 75 (32.05%) Microservices
5 65 (27.78%) Fintech
6 55 (23.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (19.23%) AI
8 40 (17.09%) Mentoring
9 39 (16.67%) DevOps
9 39 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 38 (16.24%) Containerisation
11 33 (14.10%) Technical Leadership
12 29 (12.39%) Clean Code
12 29 (12.39%) Data Engineering
12 29 (12.39%) Data Modelling
12 29 (12.39%) ETL
12 29 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (11.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 134 (57.26%) Python
2 83 (35.47%) Java
3 79 (33.76%) JavaScript
4 75 (32.05%) SQL
5 65 (27.78%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.41%) C#
7 10 (4.27%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.85%) Go
9 8 (3.42%) Rust
10 5 (2.14%) PHP
11 4 (1.71%) Delphi
11 4 (1.71%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.28%) Pascal
12 3 (1.28%) RPG
12 3 (1.28%) Ruby
13 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.43%) Bash
14 1 (0.43%) COBOL
14 1 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 33 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.82%) Degree
4 14 (5.98%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.70%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.85%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.43%) HNC
10 1 (0.43%) HND
10 1 (0.43%) MCSA
10 1 (0.43%) MCSE
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.70%) SLA
2 8 (3.42%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.42%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.42%) GDPR
2 8 (3.42%) QA
3 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.28%) SEPA
4 2 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.85%) PSD2
5 1 (0.43%) GAAP
System Software
1 82 (35.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 85 (36.32%) Kubernetes
2 48 (20.51%) Terraform
3 18 (7.69%) Grafana
4 12 (5.13%) Kibana
5 10 (4.27%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.85%) Argo
7 4 (1.71%) Ansible
8 3 (1.28%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.43%) Ambari
9 1 (0.43%) Puppet
9 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (9.83%) Oracle
2 15 (6.41%) IBM
2 15 (6.41%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.13%) Atlassian
4 12 (5.13%) OpenAI
5 11 (4.70%) Google
6 9 (3.85%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.85%) Splunk
7 7 (2.99%) Informatica
7 7 (2.99%) Talend
8 3 (1.28%) Databricks
8 3 (1.28%) Revolut
8 3 (1.28%) SAP
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco
9 2 (0.85%) Confluent
9 2 (0.85%) Dell
9 2 (0.85%) NETGEAR
9 2 (0.85%) Starlink