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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 94 127
Rank change year-on-year -94 +33 +18
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 224 477 517
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.36% 3.47% 2.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.79% 15.19% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 161 283 467
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £54,500
25th Percentile £68,813 £70,000 £60,093
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +12.90% -8.82%
75th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £73,801 £77,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -4.77% +18.38% -11.23%

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 2,289 3,141 4,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.90% 22.82% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,492 2,041 3,708
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +17.65% 20
South London -18 8 £62,600 +0.16% 2
East London -12 3 £85,000 - 16
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 (8.04%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.80%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.80%) Confluence
3 10 (4.46%) Tomcat
3 10 (4.46%) WebSphere
4 9 (4.02%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (3.13%) Apache
6 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.45%) Camunda
7 1 (0.45%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Endur
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 146 (65.18%) AWS
2 81 (36.16%) Azure
3 77 (34.38%) GCP
4 26 (11.61%) Serverless
5 24 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (8.48%) dbt
7 17 (7.59%) GitHub
8 15 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 14 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (5.80%) SaaS
11 10 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.02%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (4.02%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (3.57%) LangSmith
13 8 (3.57%) Vercel
14 6 (2.68%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.91%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.46%) SSL
3 5 (2.23%) VPN
3 5 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.79%) DHCP
4 4 (1.79%) DNS
5 2 (0.89%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) BGP
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.45%) Firewall
6 1 (0.45%) LAN
6 1 (0.45%) MQTT
6 1 (0.45%) OSPF
6 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.45%) RTMP
6 1 (0.45%) VLAN
6 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (20.54%) Relational Database
2 38 (16.96%) SQL Server
3 35 (15.63%) MongoDB
4 32 (14.29%) MySQL
5 29 (12.95%) NoSQL
6 26 (11.61%) DB2
7 22 (9.82%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (6.25%) RDBMS
9 13 (5.80%) DynamoDB
10 12 (5.36%) Redis
11 11 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (4.02%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (4.02%) Big Data
12 9 (4.02%) BigQuery
12 9 (4.02%) Hadoop
12 9 (4.02%) Power BI
13 8 (3.57%) Pinecone
14 6 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (2.68%) Metadata
14 6 (2.68%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 36 (16.07%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.50%) Git
3 20 (8.93%) TeamCity
4 14 (6.25%) GitLab
4 14 (6.25%) JIRA
5 13 (5.80%) Cucumber
5 13 (5.80%) Selenium
6 12 (5.36%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.13%) JUnit
7 7 (3.13%) Vite
8 6 (2.68%) JMeter
8 6 (2.68%) Mockito
9 4 (1.79%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.34%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.34%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.89%) ESLint
11 2 (0.89%) Maven
11 2 (0.89%) MLflow
11 2 (0.89%) Subversion
11 2 (0.89%) webpack
General
1 75 (33.48%) Finance
2 49 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 40 (17.86%) Banking
4 32 (14.29%) Law
5 23 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (9.82%) Front Office
7 21 (9.38%) Public Sector
8 19 (8.48%) Retail
9 7 (3.13%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.79%) Back Office
10 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.34%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Advertising
12 1 (0.45%) Electronics
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Marketing
12 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 76 (33.93%) Developer
2 43 (19.20%) Lead
3 42 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 35 (15.63%) Senior
5 24 (10.71%) Java Developer
6 23 (10.27%) Data Engineer
6 23 (10.27%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (10.27%) Lead Developer
7 20 (8.93%) Python Developer
8 19 (8.48%) Python Engineer
9 18 (8.04%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (7.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 17 (7.59%) Principal Engineer
11 16 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 14 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 13 (5.80%) Architect
13 13 (5.80%) Java Engineer
14 12 (5.36%) Lead Software Developer
15 10 (4.46%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (35.27%) React
2 59 (26.34%) Node.js
3 37 (16.52%) FastAPI
4 32 (14.29%) HTML
5 29 (12.95%) CSS
6 28 (12.50%) RESTful
7 27 (12.05%) Django
8 26 (11.61%) Spring
9 25 (11.16%) REST
10 23 (10.27%) Kafka
10 23 (10.27%) Spring Boot
11 20 (8.93%) Redux
12 17 (7.59%) AngularJS
12 17 (7.59%) Next.js
13 15 (6.70%) Flask
14 14 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (5.36%) LangChain
15 12 (5.36%) Vue
16 11 (4.91%) Web Services
17 10 (4.46%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 28 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (9.38%) Equities
3 21 (9.38%) Fixed Income
4 16 (7.14%) Derivative
5 15 (6.70%) Blog
6 14 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (5.36%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (5.36%) Management Information System
7 12 (5.36%) Product Ownership
8 9 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.68%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (2.23%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.79%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.93%) Linux
2 16 (7.14%) Unix
3 14 (6.25%) Windows
4 11 (4.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.23%) Android
5 5 (2.23%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (42.86%) Agile
2 91 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 80 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 70 (31.25%) Microservices
5 61 (27.23%) Fintech
6 56 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (20.54%) AI
8 42 (18.75%) Mentoring
9 38 (16.96%) DevOps
10 36 (16.07%) Containerisation
10 36 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (16.07%) Test Automation
11 31 (13.84%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (13.39%) Data Modelling
12 30 (13.39%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (12.50%) Clean Code
14 27 (12.05%) Data Engineering
14 27 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (12.05%) ETL
14 27 (12.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 125 (55.80%) Python
2 76 (33.93%) Java
3 75 (33.48%) SQL
4 74 (33.04%) JavaScript
5 65 (29.02%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.80%) C#
7 10 (4.46%) Go
8 7 (3.13%) Rust
8 7 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.68%) PHP
10 5 (2.23%) Delphi
10 5 (2.23%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.79%) Pascal
12 3 (1.34%) RPG
12 3 (1.34%) Ruby
13 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.45%) Bash
14 1 (0.45%) COBOL
14 1 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.95%) Degree
4 11 (4.91%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.02%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.89%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.45%) HNC
11 1 (0.45%) HND
11 1 (0.45%) MCSA
11 1 (0.45%) MCSE
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.02%) Data Quality
1 9 (4.02%) SLA
2 8 (3.57%) QA
3 7 (3.13%) GDPR
4 6 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.89%) PSD2
System Software
1 71 (31.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) NFS
Systems Management
1 77 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 48 (21.43%) Terraform
3 17 (7.59%) Grafana
4 9 (4.02%) Argo
4 9 (4.02%) Kibana
4 9 (4.02%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.34%) Ansible
5 3 (1.34%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.45%) Ambari
6 1 (0.45%) Istio
6 1 (0.45%) Puppet
6 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (8.93%) Oracle
2 14 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.80%) IBM
3 13 (5.80%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.36%) OpenAI
5 11 (4.91%) Atlassian
5 11 (4.91%) Google
6 8 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.68%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.68%) Informatica
7 6 (2.68%) Splunk
7 6 (2.68%) Talend
8 4 (1.79%) Databricks
9 3 (1.34%) Revolut
10 2 (0.89%) Confluent
10 2 (0.89%) Dell
10 2 (0.89%) Mapbox
10 2 (0.89%) SAP
11 1 (0.45%) Cisco
11 1 (0.45%) Intel