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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 114 138
Rank change year-on-year -94 +24 +9
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 243 369 561
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.10% 2.96% 2.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.61% 13.61% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 170 274 453
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,475 £51,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +21.21% -2.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £69,310 £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 2,528 2,712 5,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.49% 21.78% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,663 1,806 3,940
10th Percentile £46,750 £48,750 £47,224
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,469 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 July 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 July 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 -6 45 £90,000 +9.09% 51
West London -10 12 £80,000 +25.98% 13
South London -11 5 - - 1
East London -1 3 - - 3
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 15 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.76%) Apache
3 12 (4.94%) Apache Spark
4 11 (4.53%) Confluence
5 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.23%) Camunda
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.41%) Moodle
7 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.12%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 146 (60.08%) AWS
2 72 (29.63%) Azure
3 49 (20.16%) GCP
4 29 (11.93%) SaaS
5 21 (8.64%) Amazon S3
6 19 (7.82%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (7.82%) Serverless
7 15 (6.17%) GitHub
8 11 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (4.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 10 (4.12%) Lucidchart
10 9 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.88%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (2.88%) dbt
12 7 (2.88%) LangSmith
12 7 (2.88%) Vercel
13 6 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.47%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.05%) Broadband
2 6 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.65%) DHCP
3 4 (1.65%) DNS
3 4 (1.65%) VPN
3 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.41%) Firewall
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (19.34%) MongoDB
2 40 (16.46%) Relational Database
3 39 (16.05%) MySQL
4 27 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 26 (10.70%) Redis
6 17 (7.00%) DynamoDB
7 16 (6.58%) SQL Server
8 15 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (4.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (4.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (4.53%) Metadata
10 10 (4.12%) Db2
10 10 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (3.70%) Big Data
11 9 (3.70%) DTS
12 8 (3.29%) Data Lake
12 8 (3.29%) Pinecone
13 5 (2.06%) MariaDB
13 5 (2.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (11.11%) Git
2 12 (4.94%) TeamCity
3 11 (4.53%) GitLab
3 11 (4.53%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.88%) JUnit
4 7 (2.88%) Vite
5 6 (2.47%) Mockito
6 5 (2.06%) Claude Code
7 3 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.82%) ESLint
8 2 (0.82%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.82%) JIRA
8 2 (0.82%) JMeter
8 2 (0.82%) Storybook
9 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.41%) Gradle
9 1 (0.41%) Maven
9 1 (0.41%) Selenium
9 1 (0.41%) Subversion
9 1 (0.41%) Valgrind
General
1 55 (22.63%) Finance
2 43 (17.70%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.47%) Law
4 22 (9.05%) Banking
4 22 (9.05%) Games
5 20 (8.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (8.23%) Retail
6 16 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.58%) Front Office
7 13 (5.35%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.88%) Legal
9 6 (2.47%) Legal Technology
10 5 (2.06%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.23%) Back Office
11 3 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.82%) Electronics
12 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.41%) Advertising
13 1 (0.41%) Aviation
13 1 (0.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 87 (35.80%) Developer
2 62 (25.51%) Lead
3 52 (21.40%) Software Engineer
4 48 (19.75%) Senior
5 32 (13.17%) Python Engineer
6 31 (12.76%) Lead Developer
7 29 (11.93%) Python Developer
8 27 (11.11%) Architect
9 26 (10.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 21 (8.64%) Data Engineer
11 18 (7.41%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (7.41%) Ruby Developer
12 16 (6.58%) Lead Python Developer
13 15 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (5.76%) Java Engineer
15 13 (5.35%) Senior Developer
15 13 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
16 12 (4.94%) Lead Software Developer
16 12 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (24.28%) React
2 51 (20.99%) Node.js
2 51 (20.99%) RESTful
3 35 (14.40%) Kafka
3 35 (14.40%) Spring
4 34 (13.99%) Spring Boot
5 32 (13.17%) FastAPI
6 29 (11.93%) REST
7 22 (9.05%) Next.js
8 19 (7.82%) JWT
9 18 (7.41%) JSON
9 18 (7.41%) Ruby on Rails
10 17 (7.00%) Redux
11 12 (4.94%) Sidekiq
12 11 (4.53%) CSS
13 10 (4.12%) LangChain
13 10 (4.12%) Middleware
14 8 (3.29%) HTML
14 8 (3.29%) LangGraph
14 8 (3.29%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (25.10%) Cloud Native
2 36 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (9.88%) Low-Code
4 23 (9.47%) Video\Live Streaming
5 17 (7.00%) Blog
6 16 (6.58%) Derivative
6 16 (6.58%) Equities
6 16 (6.58%) Fixed Income
7 15 (6.17%) Onboarding
8 14 (5.76%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (3.70%) EPoS
9 9 (3.70%) iSeries
10 7 (2.88%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.88%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.47%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.47%) Replication
12 5 (2.06%) Algorithms
12 5 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.65%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.65%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.94%) Linux
2 7 (2.88%) Windows
3 4 (1.65%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (39.92%) Software Engineering
2 87 (35.80%) CI/CD
3 75 (30.86%) AI
4 71 (29.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 68 (27.98%) Agile
6 62 (25.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (24.28%) Microservices
8 56 (23.05%) Observability
9 54 (22.22%) API Design
10 52 (21.40%) Containerisation
11 46 (18.93%) Test Automation
12 45 (18.52%) Mentoring
13 44 (18.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (17.70%) Fintech
15 38 (15.64%) Machine Learning
16 37 (15.23%) Clean Code
17 34 (13.99%) Generative AI
18 32 (13.17%) Validation
19 30 (12.35%) Analytics
19 30 (12.35%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 121 (49.79%) Python
2 62 (25.51%) Java
3 55 (22.63%) SQL
4 53 (21.81%) TypeScript
5 36 (14.81%) JavaScript
6 32 (13.17%) Go
7 18 (7.41%) Ruby
8 9 (3.70%) RPG
9 8 (3.29%) C#
10 7 (2.88%) PHP
11 5 (2.06%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.65%) Delphi
12 4 (1.65%) Pascal
12 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.23%) Bash
13 3 (1.23%) C++
14 1 (0.41%) C
14 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.41%) R
14 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.35%) Degree
4 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.82%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.70%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.12%) QA
3 8 (3.29%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) MiFID
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (24.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (23.05%) Kubernetes
2 47 (19.34%) Terraform
3 15 (6.17%) Grafana
4 3 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.82%) Kibana
6 1 (0.41%) Ansible
6 1 (0.41%) Argo
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (7.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.17%) Oracle
3 14 (5.76%) OpenAI
4 9 (3.70%) Google
4 9 (3.70%) IBM
5 6 (2.47%) Databricks
6 4 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.65%) Netezza
6 4 (1.65%) Remedy
6 4 (1.65%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.23%) Revolut
8 2 (0.82%) Mapbox
8 2 (0.82%) SAP
8 2 (0.82%) Splunk
8 2 (0.82%) Sybase
8 2 (0.82%) TikTok
9 1 (0.41%) Informatica
9 1 (0.41%) Intel
9 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.41%) Talend