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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 118 122
Rank change year-on-year -99 +4 +16
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 197 381 571
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.02% 2.95% 2.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.44% 13.52% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 148 267 504
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,688 £70,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,750 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -13.33%

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 2,335 2,818 4,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.10% 21.83% 21.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,520 1,959 3,767
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,200 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,688 £61,375 £55,133
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -47 31 £90,000 +9.09% 56
South London -26 5 £62,600 +0.16% 2
West London -33 1 - - 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 18 (9.14%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (7.11%) Apache Spark
3 12 (6.09%) Apache
4 11 (5.58%) Confluence
5 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.02%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.51%) Camunda
7 1 (0.51%) JBoss
7 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 114 (57.87%) AWS
2 69 (35.03%) Azure
3 62 (31.47%) GCP
4 24 (12.18%) SaaS
5 17 (8.63%) GitHub
6 16 (8.12%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (7.61%) Serverless
8 11 (5.58%) dbt
9 10 (5.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 10 (5.08%) LangSmith
10 8 (4.06%) Vercel
11 7 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.55%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (3.05%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.54%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.03%) DHCP
2 4 (2.03%) DNS
2 4 (2.03%) VPN
2 4 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.02%) Broadband
3 2 (1.02%) SSL
4 1 (0.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (20.81%) Relational Database
2 35 (17.77%) MySQL
3 34 (17.26%) NoSQL
4 28 (14.21%) MongoDB
5 22 (11.17%) SQL Server
6 17 (8.63%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (7.61%) DB2
8 12 (6.09%) DynamoDB
9 11 (5.58%) Redis
10 10 (5.08%) Pinecone
11 9 (4.57%) RDBMS
12 8 (4.06%) BigQuery
12 8 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (3.55%) Big Data
14 6 (3.05%) Power BI
15 5 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (2.54%) DataStage
15 5 (2.54%) MariaDB
15 5 (2.54%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 32 (16.24%) Git
2 25 (12.69%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.14%) TeamCity
4 12 (6.09%) Bitbucket
4 12 (6.09%) GitLab
4 12 (6.09%) JIRA
5 11 (5.58%) Cucumber
5 11 (5.58%) Selenium
6 9 (4.57%) Vite
7 5 (2.54%) JUnit
8 4 (2.03%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.52%) Mockito
10 2 (1.02%) ESLint
10 2 (1.02%) Gradle
10 2 (1.02%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.02%) JMeter
10 2 (1.02%) Maven
10 2 (1.02%) Storybook
10 2 (1.02%) Subversion
10 2 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 60 (30.46%) Finance
2 42 (21.32%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.74%) Banking
4 28 (14.21%) Law
5 21 (10.66%) Retail
6 20 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (8.63%) Front Office
9 11 (5.58%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.54%) Back Office
10 5 (2.54%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.52%) Electronics
12 3 (1.52%) Legal
13 2 (1.02%) Games
13 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.51%) Advertising
14 1 (0.51%) Billing
14 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 56 (28.43%) Developer
2 49 (24.87%) Lead
3 41 (20.81%) Software Engineer
4 34 (17.26%) Senior
5 26 (13.20%) Data Engineer
6 24 (12.18%) Lead Developer
7 23 (11.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 22 (11.17%) Python Engineer
9 19 (9.64%) Java Developer
10 18 (9.14%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (9.14%) Lead Software Engineer
11 15 (7.61%) Java Engineer
12 12 (6.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (6.09%) Lead Software Developer
12 12 (6.09%) Python Developer
13 11 (5.58%) Architect
14 10 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (5.08%) Product Engineer
15 9 (4.57%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (34.52%) React
2 48 (24.37%) Node.js
3 33 (16.75%) FastAPI
4 27 (13.71%) RESTful
5 24 (12.18%) Kafka
6 22 (11.17%) REST
7 21 (10.66%) CSS
7 21 (10.66%) HTML
7 21 (10.66%) Next.js
8 18 (9.14%) Redux
8 18 (9.14%) Spring
9 16 (8.12%) Django
9 16 (8.12%) Spring Boot
10 14 (7.11%) LangChain
11 13 (6.60%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (6.60%) Flask
12 10 (5.08%) CrewAI
12 10 (5.08%) Gherkin
12 10 (5.08%) LangGraph
13 9 (4.57%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.18%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.15%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (8.12%) Blog
3 16 (8.12%) Derivative
3 16 (8.12%) Equities
3 16 (8.12%) Fixed Income
4 13 (6.60%) Product Ownership
5 12 (6.09%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (3.55%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.03%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.03%) CCTV
8 4 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.03%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.03%) IoT
8 4 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.58%) Linux
2 7 (3.55%) Windows
3 5 (2.54%) Android
3 5 (2.54%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.54%) Unix
4 4 (2.03%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.10%) CI/CD
2 75 (38.07%) Software Engineering
3 70 (35.53%) Agile
4 59 (29.95%) Microservices
5 56 (28.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 50 (25.38%) AI
7 48 (24.37%) Fintech
8 36 (18.27%) Test Automation
9 35 (17.77%) Mentoring
10 34 (17.26%) Containerisation
10 34 (17.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (16.24%) DevOps
12 31 (15.74%) Analytics
13 26 (13.20%) Data Engineering
13 26 (13.20%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (12.69%) Clean Code
15 24 (12.18%) Data Modelling
16 23 (11.68%) Scrum
17 21 (10.66%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 104 (52.79%) Python
2 68 (34.52%) Java
3 67 (34.01%) SQL
4 55 (27.92%) JavaScript
5 54 (27.41%) TypeScript
6 14 (7.11%) Go
7 10 (5.08%) C#
8 6 (3.05%) PHP
9 5 (2.54%) Delphi
10 4 (2.03%) Pascal
10 4 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.03%) Ruby
11 3 (1.52%) RPG
11 3 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.02%) Rust
13 1 (0.51%) Bash
13 1 (0.51%) C++
13 1 (0.51%) Elm
13 1 (0.51%) Korn
13 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.64%) Degree
4 10 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.02%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.12%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.58%) QA
3 5 (2.54%) GDPR
4 4 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.52%) SLA
6 2 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 64 (32.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 75 (38.07%) Kubernetes
2 50 (25.38%) Terraform
3 18 (9.14%) Grafana
4 9 (4.57%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.55%) Argo
6 3 (1.52%) Ansible
6 3 (1.52%) Kibana
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.51%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (6.60%) Microsoft
1 13 (6.60%) OpenAI
2 9 (4.57%) Oracle
3 7 (3.55%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.55%) Google
4 5 (2.54%) Databricks
4 5 (2.54%) IBM
4 5 (2.54%) Informatica
4 5 (2.54%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.54%) Talend
5 3 (1.52%) Confluent
5 3 (1.52%) Revolut
6 2 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.02%) Mapbox
6 2 (1.02%) SAP
6 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.02%) Splunk
7 1 (0.51%) Apple
7 1 (0.51%) Intel
7 1 (0.51%) Sybase