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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 122 121
Rank change year-on-year -93 -1 +13
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 199 350 607
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.98% 2.77% 2.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.48% 12.88% 12.01%
Number of salaries quoted 141 269 533
10th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 2,348 2,718 5,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.52% 21.53% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,535 1,901 3,815
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £122,861
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 May 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 May 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 -38 36 £90,000 +9.09% 55
West London -23 4 £80,000 +21.21% 4
South London -16 2 £70,000 +12.00% 1
East London -18 1 - - 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 18 (9.05%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (7.04%) Apache Spark
3 12 (6.03%) Apache
4 11 (5.53%) Confluence
5 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.50%) Camunda
7 1 (0.50%) JBoss
7 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (3.52%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 120 (60.30%) AWS
2 68 (34.17%) Azure
3 56 (28.14%) GCP
4 23 (11.56%) SaaS
5 17 (8.54%) GitHub
6 14 (7.04%) Serverless
7 13 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (5.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (5.03%) LangSmith
9 8 (4.02%) dbt
9 8 (4.02%) Vercel
10 7 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.02%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.02%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.51%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (2.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.51%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.54%) Broadband
2 6 (3.02%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.01%) DHCP
3 4 (2.01%) DNS
3 4 (2.01%) VPN
3 4 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.50%) Firewall
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (22.61%) MongoDB
2 37 (18.59%) Relational Database
3 36 (18.09%) NoSQL
4 31 (15.58%) MySQL
5 20 (10.05%) SQL Server
6 14 (7.04%) DynamoDB
7 13 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.53%) DB2
8 11 (5.53%) Pinecone
9 10 (5.03%) Redis
10 8 (4.02%) BigQuery
10 8 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.02%) Big Data
11 6 (3.02%) Power BI
11 6 (3.02%) RDBMS
12 5 (2.51%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.51%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.51%) MariaDB
12 5 (2.51%) Neo4j
12 5 (2.51%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 30 (15.08%) Git
2 21 (10.55%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.54%) TeamCity
4 12 (6.03%) Bitbucket
4 12 (6.03%) GitLab
5 11 (5.53%) JIRA
6 9 (4.52%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.52%) Selenium
6 9 (4.52%) Vite
7 4 (2.01%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.51%) JUnit
9 2 (1.01%) ESLint
9 2 (1.01%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.01%) Mockito
9 2 (1.01%) Storybook
9 2 (1.01%) webpack
10 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.50%) Gradle
10 1 (0.50%) MLflow
10 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 55 (27.64%) Finance
2 42 (21.11%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.57%) Banking
4 26 (13.07%) Law
5 22 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (9.55%) Retail
7 17 (8.54%) Front Office
8 15 (7.54%) Games
8 15 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.52%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.51%) Back Office
10 3 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.01%) Electronics
11 2 (1.01%) Legal
12 1 (0.50%) Advertising
12 1 (0.50%) Billing
12 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (30.65%) Developer
2 50 (25.13%) Lead
3 41 (20.60%) Software Engineer
4 34 (17.09%) Senior
5 27 (13.57%) Python Engineer
6 25 (12.56%) Lead Developer
7 23 (11.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 20 (10.05%) Data Engineer
9 18 (9.05%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (8.54%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (8.54%) Python Developer
11 15 (7.54%) Java Developer
12 14 (7.04%) Architect
12 14 (7.04%) Java Engineer
13 12 (6.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 12 (6.03%) Lead Software Developer
14 11 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (5.03%) Lead Python Developer
15 10 (5.03%) Product Engineer
15 10 (5.03%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (33.17%) React
2 48 (24.12%) Node.js
3 37 (18.59%) RESTful
4 31 (15.58%) FastAPI
5 24 (12.06%) Kafka
6 21 (10.55%) Next.js
7 20 (10.05%) CSS
8 19 (9.55%) REST
9 18 (9.05%) HTML
9 18 (9.05%) Redux
10 16 (8.04%) Spring
11 15 (7.54%) LangChain
11 15 (7.54%) Spring Boot
12 11 (5.53%) Django
12 11 (5.53%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (5.53%) Flask
12 11 (5.53%) LangGraph
13 10 (5.03%) CrewAI
14 9 (4.52%) Gherkin
14 9 (4.52%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.60%) Cloud Native
2 30 (15.08%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (8.04%) Derivative
3 16 (8.04%) Equities
3 16 (8.04%) Fixed Income
4 15 (7.54%) Low-Code
4 15 (7.54%) Video\Live Streaming
5 14 (7.04%) Blog
6 11 (5.53%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (5.53%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.52%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.52%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.51%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.01%) CCTV
9 4 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.01%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.01%) PropTech
9 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.52%) Linux
2 5 (2.51%) Android
2 5 (2.51%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.51%) Windows
3 4 (2.01%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (43.22%) Software Engineering
2 84 (42.21%) CI/CD
3 69 (34.67%) Agile
4 67 (33.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 57 (28.64%) AI
6 53 (26.63%) Microservices
7 47 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 46 (23.12%) Test Automation
9 39 (19.60%) Containerisation
9 39 (19.60%) Fintech
10 32 (16.08%) Observability
11 31 (15.58%) API Design
11 31 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (15.58%) Mentoring
12 29 (14.57%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (14.57%) Generative AI
13 28 (14.07%) Analytics
13 28 (14.07%) Clean Code
14 27 (13.57%) Machine Learning
15 26 (13.07%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 106 (53.27%) Python
2 62 (31.16%) Java
3 58 (29.15%) SQL
4 56 (28.14%) TypeScript
5 51 (25.63%) JavaScript
6 24 (12.06%) Go
7 10 (5.03%) C#
8 7 (3.52%) Ruby
9 6 (3.02%) PHP
10 4 (2.01%) Delphi
10 4 (2.01%) Pascal
10 4 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.51%) RPG
12 2 (1.01%) C++
13 1 (0.50%) Bash
13 1 (0.50%) C
13 1 (0.50%) Korn
13 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.50%) R
13 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.04%) Degree
4 7 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.51%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.01%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.05%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.02%) QA
3 3 (1.51%) GDPR
4 2 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (30.15%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (34.67%) Kubernetes
2 46 (23.12%) Terraform
3 15 (7.54%) Grafana
4 7 (3.52%) Argo
4 7 (3.52%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.51%) Ansible
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (7.04%) Microsoft
1 14 (7.04%) OpenAI
2 9 (4.52%) Oracle
3 7 (3.52%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.51%) Databricks
4 5 (2.51%) Informatica
4 5 (2.51%) Talend
5 4 (2.01%) Google
6 3 (1.51%) Confluent
6 3 (1.51%) IBM
6 3 (1.51%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.51%) Revolut
7 2 (1.01%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.01%) Netezza
7 2 (1.01%) Remedy
7 2 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.50%) Delphix
8 1 (0.50%) Intel
8 1 (0.50%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.50%) Refinitiv