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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 107 141
Rank change year-on-year -75 +34 +20
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 293 367 474
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.18% 3.07% 2.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.76% 13.68% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 191 260 309
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +20.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £96,250 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £136,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -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 2,724 2,683 4,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.02% 22.42% 23.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,733 1,707 2,994
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 £82,750
Median % change year-on-year +0.65% -6.95% +10.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.17%

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 13 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 13 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 +20 50 £90,000 -6.25% 34
West London -10 15 £80,000 +25.98% 22
South London -25 5 - - 1
East London -8 3 - - 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 20 (6.83%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.78%) Apache
4 12 (4.10%) Confluence
5 7 (2.39%) Camunda
6 2 (0.68%) Luigi
6 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.68%) Tornado
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Moodle
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 164 (55.97%) AWS
2 72 (24.57%) Azure
3 40 (13.65%) GCP
4 36 (12.29%) SaaS
5 35 (11.95%) GitHub
6 27 (9.22%) Amazon S3
7 26 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (8.87%) Serverless
8 21 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (4.78%) GitHub Copilot
9 14 (4.78%) Power Platform
10 13 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.75%) Lucidchart
12 10 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (3.07%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.51%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) 4G
2 1 (0.34%) 5G
2 1 (0.34%) AMQP
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
2 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) MPLS
2 1 (0.34%) SMS
2 1 (0.34%) SNMP
2 1 (0.34%) SSH
2 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (19.80%) MongoDB
2 52 (17.75%) Relational Database
3 49 (16.72%) Redis
4 47 (16.04%) MySQL
5 33 (11.26%) NoSQL
5 33 (11.26%) SQL Server
6 21 (7.17%) DynamoDB
7 19 (6.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (6.14%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (5.12%) Big Data
11 14 (4.78%) Power BI
12 13 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (4.44%) Metadata
13 11 (3.75%) Db2
14 10 (3.41%) Data Lake
14 10 (3.41%) DTS
15 9 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (2.73%) Tableau
17 7 (2.39%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 42 (14.33%) Git
2 17 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.10%) TeamCity
4 11 (3.75%) GitLab
4 11 (3.75%) JUnit
5 10 (3.41%) Mockito
6 7 (2.39%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.39%) Vite
7 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (1.02%) webpack
8 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.68%) Gradle
8 2 (0.68%) JIRA
8 2 (0.68%) JMeter
8 2 (0.68%) Maven
8 2 (0.68%) Selenium
9 1 (0.34%) Mocha
9 1 (0.34%) Valgrind
General
1 67 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 55 (18.77%) Finance
3 35 (11.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (8.53%) Banking
5 24 (8.19%) Law
6 22 (7.51%) Games
7 18 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (5.80%) Public Sector
8 17 (5.80%) Retail
9 10 (3.41%) Legal
10 9 (3.07%) Legal Technology
11 7 (2.39%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.02%) Marketing
13 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Electronics
15 1 (0.34%) Advertising
15 1 (0.34%) Back Office
15 1 (0.34%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 95 (32.42%) Developer
2 76 (25.94%) Senior
3 58 (19.80%) Lead
4 53 (18.09%) Software Engineer
5 31 (10.58%) Senior Software Engineer
6 28 (9.56%) Architect
6 28 (9.56%) Data Engineer
6 28 (9.56%) Python Engineer
7 26 (8.87%) Python Developer
7 26 (8.87%) Ruby Developer
8 24 (8.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 21 (7.17%) Database Engineer
9 21 (7.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (6.83%) Lead Developer
11 18 (6.14%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (5.12%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (4.10%) Java Engineer
14 12 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.75%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (21.16%) RESTful
2 58 (19.80%) Terraform
3 52 (17.75%) Kafka
4 51 (17.41%) React
5 49 (16.72%) REST
6 44 (15.02%) Spring
7 43 (14.68%) Node.js
8 41 (13.99%) Spring Boot
9 33 (11.26%) Next.js
10 31 (10.58%) FastAPI
11 29 (9.90%) JWT
12 27 (9.22%) Ruby on Rails
13 25 (8.53%) JSON
14 17 (5.80%) Sidekiq
15 16 (5.46%) OAuth
16 15 (5.12%) OAuth2
17 14 (4.78%) CSS
18 12 (4.10%) HTML
19 11 (3.75%) JPA
19 11 (3.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 70 (23.89%) Cloud Native
2 52 (17.75%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.87%) Low-Code
4 23 (7.85%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (5.46%) Onboarding
6 15 (5.12%) Replication
7 14 (4.78%) Blog
8 12 (4.10%) AI Agents
9 10 (3.41%) EPoS
9 10 (3.41%) iSeries
10 7 (2.39%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (2.39%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.37%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.37%) PropTech
12 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.73%) Linux
2 4 (1.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (42.32%) CI/CD
2 119 (40.61%) AI
3 98 (33.45%) Software Engineering
4 89 (30.38%) Observability
5 81 (27.65%) Agile
6 80 (27.30%) Full-Stack Development
7 70 (23.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (23.55%) API Design
9 68 (23.21%) Microservices
10 64 (21.84%) Test Automation
11 61 (20.82%) Containerisation
12 58 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (18.09%) Clean Code
14 51 (17.41%) Event-Driven
15 49 (16.72%) Machine Learning
16 48 (16.38%) DevOps
17 41 (13.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 40 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
19 39 (13.31%) Mentoring
20 37 (12.63%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 141 (48.12%) Python
2 70 (23.89%) SQL
3 67 (22.87%) Java
4 47 (16.04%) TypeScript
5 31 (10.58%) Go
6 29 (9.90%) JavaScript
7 27 (9.22%) Ruby
8 11 (3.75%) Bash
9 10 (3.41%) RPG
10 8 (2.73%) C#
11 6 (2.05%) Groovy
11 6 (2.05%) Scala
12 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.02%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.02%) SOQL
13 3 (1.02%) SOSL
14 2 (0.68%) C++
14 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.85%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.46%) Degree
4 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.34%) CCNA
6 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.92%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.80%) QA
3 15 (5.12%) GDPR
4 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.34%) MiFID
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (27.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (22.87%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.24%) Grafana
3 16 (5.46%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.73%) Ansible
5 6 (2.05%) Rancher
6 4 (1.37%) Argo
7 2 (0.68%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.34%) Nagios
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 22 (7.51%) Microsoft
1 22 (7.51%) Oracle
2 13 (4.44%) OpenAI
3 11 (3.75%) Google
4 10 (3.41%) Databricks
4 10 (3.41%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.41%) IBM
4 10 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.37%) Mistral
5 4 (1.37%) Netezza
5 4 (1.37%) Remedy
6 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.68%) Splunk
7 2 (0.68%) TikTok
8 1 (0.34%) ADVA
8 1 (0.34%) Ciena
8 1 (0.34%) Confluent
8 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.34%) SAP
8 1 (0.34%) Sybase