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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 95 124
Rank change year-on-year -71 +29 +29
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 247 516 497
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.64% 3.38% 2.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.44% 14.90% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 171 271 446
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £71,875 £67,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +12.90% -6.06%
75th Percentile £110,625 £115,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -10.34%

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 2,366 3,462 4,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.71% 22.67% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,554 2,106 3,624
10th Percentile £42,575 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £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 £112,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £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 5 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 5 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 -37 31 £100,000 +17.65% 47
South London -15 11 £62,600 +0.16% 5
East London -12 5 £85,000 - 5
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 27 (10.93%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (8.10%) Apache Spark
3 16 (6.48%) WebSphere
4 15 (6.07%) Tomcat
5 14 (5.67%) Confluence
5 14 (5.67%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.62%) Apache
7 3 (1.21%) Luigi
8 2 (0.81%) nginx
9 1 (0.40%) Camunda
9 1 (0.40%) CMS
9 1 (0.40%) IIS
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) Endur
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 166 (67.21%) AWS
2 82 (33.20%) GCP
3 74 (29.96%) Azure
4 32 (12.96%) Serverless
5 28 (11.34%) dbt
6 26 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (7.69%) SaaS
8 18 (7.29%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (6.88%) GitHub
10 16 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (6.07%) Amazon S3
12 12 (4.86%) Amazon EMR
13 11 (4.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.45%) Power Platform
14 10 (4.05%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (2.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (2.83%) LangSmith
15 7 (2.83%) Snowflake
15 7 (2.83%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.48%) SSL
2 8 (3.24%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.21%) VPN
3 3 (1.21%) WAN
3 3 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.81%) BGP
4 2 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.81%) Firewall
4 2 (0.81%) MQTT
4 2 (0.81%) OSPF
4 2 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.81%) RTMP
4 2 (0.81%) VLAN
4 2 (0.81%) Wireless
5 1 (0.40%) DHCP
5 1 (0.40%) DNS
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (22.27%) Relational Database
1 55 (22.27%) SQL Server
2 43 (17.41%) MongoDB
3 41 (16.60%) MySQL
4 38 (15.38%) NoSQL
5 32 (12.96%) DB2
6 31 (12.55%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (10.12%) RDBMS
8 18 (7.29%) Apache Iceberg
9 15 (6.07%) Hadoop
10 14 (5.67%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (5.67%) Apache Arrow
10 14 (5.67%) Big Data
10 14 (5.67%) Dremio
10 14 (5.67%) DynamoDB
11 12 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (4.86%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (4.86%) Redis
12 11 (4.45%) Power BI
13 10 (4.05%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 47 (19.03%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.12%) Git
3 19 (7.69%) JIRA
4 18 (7.29%) TeamCity
5 17 (6.88%) Selenium
6 15 (6.07%) Bitbucket
6 15 (6.07%) GitLab
7 14 (5.67%) Cucumber
8 12 (4.86%) JMeter
9 11 (4.45%) JUnit
10 10 (4.05%) Mockito
11 6 (2.43%) Vite
12 4 (1.62%) CircleCI
13 3 (1.21%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.21%) MLflow
13 3 (1.21%) Subversion
13 3 (1.21%) TestRail
14 2 (0.81%) LoadRunner
14 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 85 (34.41%) Finance
2 57 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 43 (17.41%) Banking
4 30 (12.15%) Law
5 24 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (9.31%) Public Sector
7 19 (7.69%) Front Office
7 19 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (6.48%) Retail
9 10 (4.05%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.83%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.62%) Back Office
11 4 (1.62%) Electronics
11 4 (1.62%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.62%) Marketing
12 3 (1.21%) Legal
13 2 (0.81%) Advertising
13 2 (0.81%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (35.22%) Developer
2 37 (14.98%) Lead
3 36 (14.57%) Software Engineer
4 33 (13.36%) Senior
5 28 (11.34%) Java Developer
6 27 (10.93%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (10.53%) Python Developer
8 23 (9.31%) Data Engineer
9 21 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (8.50%) Principal Engineer
10 19 (7.69%) Linux Support
10 19 (7.69%) Python Engineer
11 17 (6.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 17 (6.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 16 (6.48%) Applications Support
13 15 (6.07%) AWS Software Engineer
13 15 (6.07%) Lead Developer
13 15 (6.07%) Python Software Engineer
14 14 (5.67%) Architect
14 14 (5.67%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.36%) React
2 58 (23.48%) Node.js
3 43 (17.41%) FastAPI
4 41 (16.60%) REST
5 35 (14.17%) HTML
6 30 (12.15%) Django
6 30 (12.15%) Spring
7 29 (11.74%) AngularJS
7 29 (11.74%) Kafka
8 28 (11.34%) CSS
8 28 (11.34%) Spring Boot
9 27 (10.93%) RESTful
10 20 (8.10%) Vue
11 19 (7.69%) Flask
12 17 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (6.48%) Web Services
14 15 (6.07%) NumPy
14 15 (6.07%) Pandas
15 14 (5.67%) LAPP Stack
15 14 (5.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.57%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (12.15%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 18 (7.29%) Equities
4 18 (7.29%) Fixed Income
5 16 (6.48%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (6.48%) Product Ownership
6 15 (6.07%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (5.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (4.86%) Blog
9 11 (4.45%) Algorithms
10 10 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (2.83%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.62%) Derivative
13 4 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.62%) Mobile App
14 3 (1.21%) AI Agents
15 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
15 2 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.77%) Linux
2 21 (8.50%) Unix
3 16 (6.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (6.48%) Windows
4 7 (2.83%) Android
4 7 (2.83%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (43.32%) Agile
2 102 (41.30%) CI/CD
3 82 (33.20%) Software Engineering
4 77 (31.17%) Microservices
5 61 (24.70%) Fintech
6 55 (22.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 49 (19.84%) AI
8 48 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (17.00%) Containerisation
10 40 (16.19%) DevOps
11 38 (15.38%) Test Automation
12 36 (14.57%) ETL
13 34 (13.77%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (13.77%) Data Engineering
13 34 (13.77%) Data Modelling
14 33 (13.36%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (12.96%) Mentoring
16 29 (11.74%) Analytics
16 29 (11.74%) Data Pipeline
16 29 (11.74%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 144 (58.30%) Python
2 87 (35.22%) Java
3 80 (32.39%) SQL
4 78 (31.58%) JavaScript
5 63 (25.51%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.07%) C#
7 11 (4.45%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.24%) Go
8 8 (3.24%) Rust
9 5 (2.02%) PHP
10 4 (1.62%) Ruby
11 3 (1.21%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.21%) RPG
11 3 (1.21%) Scala
12 2 (0.81%) Delphi
12 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.40%) Bash
13 1 (0.40%) Korn
13 1 (0.40%) Pascal
13 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.77%) Degree
3 29 (11.74%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.88%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.07%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.83%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.81%) HNC
10 2 (0.81%) HND
10 2 (0.81%) MCSA
10 2 (0.81%) MCSE
10 2 (0.81%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.67%) SLA
2 12 (4.86%) QA
3 8 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.24%) GDPR
4 7 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.21%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.21%) SEPA
6 2 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.81%) PSD2
7 1 (0.40%) GAAP
7 1 (0.40%) IFRS
7 1 (0.40%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 87 (35.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) NFS
Systems Management
1 91 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 47 (19.03%) Terraform
3 16 (6.48%) Grafana
4 13 (5.26%) Kibana
5 9 (3.64%) Argo
6 8 (3.24%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.43%) Ansible
8 3 (1.21%) Puppet
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.40%) Ambari
10 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (12.96%) Oracle
2 19 (7.69%) IBM
2 19 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 14 (5.67%) Atlassian
4 13 (5.26%) Google
4 13 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.45%) Informatica
5 11 (4.45%) OpenAI
5 11 (4.45%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.05%) Dynatrace
6 10 (4.05%) Splunk
6 10 (4.05%) Talend
7 5 (2.02%) SAP
8 3 (1.21%) Revolut
9 2 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.81%) Confluent
9 2 (0.81%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.81%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.81%) Starlink
9 2 (0.81%) Ubiquiti