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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 114 119
Rank change year-on-year -92 +5 +30
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 212 357 614
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.00% 2.92% 2.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.89% 13.42% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 146 263 508
10th Percentile £54,375 £57,850 £51,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,625 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.92% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £110,625
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -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 2,386 2,661 5,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.31% 21.79% 21.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 1,777 3,916
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £112,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £135,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -19 44 £90,000 +5.88% 36
West London -11 6 £80,000 +25.98% 4
South London -10 5 - -
East London -6 3 - - 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 13 (6.13%) Apache
1 13 (6.13%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.72%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.30%) Confluence
4 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) Moodle
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 130 (61.32%) AWS
2 61 (28.77%) Azure
3 46 (21.70%) GCP
4 22 (10.38%) SaaS
5 16 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (7.08%) GitHub
7 14 (6.60%) Serverless
8 11 (5.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 7 (3.30%) LangSmith
10 6 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.83%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.83%) Heroku
10 6 (2.83%) Vercel
11 5 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.36%) dbt
11 5 (2.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.38%) Broadband
2 6 (2.83%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.89%) DHCP
3 4 (1.89%) DNS
3 4 (1.89%) VPN
3 4 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.47%) Firewall
4 1 (0.47%) LAN
4 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (22.17%) MongoDB
2 41 (19.34%) Relational Database
3 32 (15.09%) MySQL
4 25 (11.79%) NoSQL
5 17 (8.02%) Redis
6 10 (4.72%) SQL Server
7 9 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (3.77%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.77%) Pinecone
9 6 (2.83%) Db2
9 6 (2.83%) Metadata
10 5 (2.36%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.36%) MariaDB
10 5 (2.36%) Power BI
11 4 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.89%) DTS
11 4 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (11.32%) Git
2 12 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.66%) TeamCity
3 10 (4.72%) GitLab
4 6 (2.83%) Vite
5 5 (2.36%) Claude Code
5 5 (2.36%) JUnit
6 4 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.89%) JIRA
6 4 (1.89%) Mockito
7 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.94%) ESLint
7 2 (0.94%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.94%) JMeter
7 2 (0.94%) Selenium
7 2 (0.94%) Storybook
8 1 (0.47%) CMake
8 1 (0.47%) Maven
8 1 (0.47%) Subversion
8 1 (0.47%) Valgrind
General
1 51 (24.06%) Finance
2 43 (20.28%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.38%) Banking
3 22 (10.38%) Games
3 22 (10.38%) Law
4 20 (9.43%) Retail
5 19 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (7.55%) Front Office
8 13 (6.13%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.30%) Legal
10 3 (1.42%) Back Office
10 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.94%) Electronics
11 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Aviation
12 1 (0.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 81 (38.21%) Developer
2 51 (24.06%) Lead
3 42 (19.81%) Software Engineer
4 38 (17.92%) Senior
5 31 (14.62%) Python Engineer
6 29 (13.68%) Lead Developer
7 24 (11.32%) Python Developer
8 20 (9.43%) Architect
9 18 (8.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 18 (8.49%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (8.02%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (7.55%) Data Engineer
12 15 (7.08%) Java Engineer
12 15 (7.08%) Ruby Developer
13 14 (6.60%) Senior Developer
14 13 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (6.13%) Lead Python Developer
15 12 (5.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 12 (5.66%) Java Developer
15 12 (5.66%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (25.47%) React
2 47 (22.17%) RESTful
3 40 (18.87%) Node.js
4 29 (13.68%) FastAPI
5 27 (12.74%) Kafka
6 26 (12.26%) REST
6 26 (12.26%) Spring
7 25 (11.79%) Spring Boot
8 19 (8.96%) Next.js
9 17 (8.02%) Redux
10 15 (7.08%) Ruby on Rails
11 13 (6.13%) JSON
12 12 (5.66%) JWT
13 11 (5.19%) LangChain
14 10 (4.72%) CSS
14 10 (4.72%) HTML
15 9 (4.25%) Django
15 9 (4.25%) Sidekiq
16 8 (3.77%) Flask
16 8 (3.77%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 54 (25.47%) Cloud Native
2 30 (14.15%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (10.85%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (10.38%) Low-Code
5 16 (7.55%) Blog
5 16 (7.55%) Derivative
5 16 (7.55%) Equities
5 16 (7.55%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.30%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.30%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.83%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.83%) Replication
9 5 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.89%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.89%) EPoS
10 4 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.89%) IoT
10 4 (1.89%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.66%) Linux
2 7 (3.30%) Windows
3 4 (1.89%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.94%) Unix
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (39.15%) Software Engineering
2 78 (36.79%) CI/CD
3 65 (30.66%) AI
3 65 (30.66%) Full-Stack Development
4 61 (28.77%) Agile
5 54 (25.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (23.11%) API Design
7 46 (21.70%) Containerisation
7 46 (21.70%) Microservices
8 44 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (20.75%) Test Automation
9 42 (19.81%) Observability
10 38 (17.92%) Fintech
11 34 (16.04%) Machine Learning
11 34 (16.04%) Mentoring
12 33 (15.57%) Clean Code
13 32 (15.09%) Generative AI
14 29 (13.68%) Validation
15 28 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (11.79%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 110 (51.89%) Python
2 55 (25.94%) Java
3 48 (22.64%) TypeScript
4 45 (21.23%) SQL
5 36 (16.98%) JavaScript
6 32 (15.09%) Go
7 15 (7.08%) Ruby
8 8 (3.77%) C#
9 7 (3.30%) PHP
10 5 (2.36%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.89%) Delphi
11 4 (1.89%) Pascal
11 4 (1.89%) RPG
11 4 (1.89%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.42%) Bash
12 3 (1.42%) C++
13 1 (0.47%) C
13 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (10.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.66%) Degree
4 4 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.72%) QA
3 5 (2.36%) GDPR
4 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.47%) MiFID
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (26.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (27.83%) Kubernetes
2 43 (20.28%) Terraform
3 13 (6.13%) Grafana
4 3 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.94%) Kibana
6 1 (0.47%) Ansible
6 1 (0.47%) Argo
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.47%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (8.49%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.19%) OpenAI
3 9 (4.25%) Oracle
4 6 (2.83%) Google
5 4 (1.89%) Databricks
5 4 (1.89%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.89%) IBM
5 4 (1.89%) Netezza
5 4 (1.89%) Remedy
5 4 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.42%) Revolut
7 2 (0.94%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.94%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.94%) SAP
7 2 (0.94%) Splunk
7 2 (0.94%) Sybase
7 2 (0.94%) TikTok
8 1 (0.47%) Informatica
8 1 (0.47%) Intel
8 1 (0.47%) Red Hat