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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 113 148
Rank change year-on-year -65 +35 +11
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 293 361 471
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.22% 3.00% 2.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.68% 13.43% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 192 262 331
10th Percentile £56,250 £59,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +20.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £96,250 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £132,500
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -7.59% +14.57% -6.48%

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 2,743 2,689 4,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.38% 22.38% 23.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,753 1,729 3,098
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,612 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - -5.51% -2.31%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +24 51 £90,000 +4.35% 27
West London -15 15 £80,000 +25.98% 25
South London -27 5 - - 3
East London -2 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 21 (7.17%) Apache Spark
2 19 (6.48%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (5.12%) Apache
4 12 (4.10%) Confluence
5 7 (2.39%) Camunda
6 2 (0.68%) Luigi
6 2 (0.68%) Tornado
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Moodle
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 162 (55.29%) AWS
2 74 (25.26%) Azure
3 37 (12.63%) GCP
4 36 (12.29%) SaaS
5 33 (11.26%) GitHub
6 30 (10.24%) Amazon S3
7 25 (8.53%) Serverless
8 22 (7.51%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (4.78%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (4.44%) Power Platform
12 11 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (3.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.75%) Lucidchart
13 9 (3.07%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (3.07%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.51%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) AMQP
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (20.14%) MongoDB
2 56 (19.11%) Relational Database
3 51 (17.41%) MySQL
4 45 (15.36%) Redis
5 35 (11.95%) NoSQL
6 34 (11.60%) SQL Server
7 23 (7.85%) DynamoDB
8 19 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (5.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (5.46%) Big Data
11 15 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (4.78%) Metadata
13 13 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (4.44%) Power BI
14 11 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (3.75%) Db2
15 10 (3.41%) Data Lake
15 10 (3.41%) DTS
16 8 (2.73%) Tableau
17 7 (2.39%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 41 (13.99%) Git
2 13 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.10%) JUnit
4 11 (3.75%) GitLab
4 11 (3.75%) Mockito
5 9 (3.07%) TeamCity
6 7 (2.39%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.39%) Vite
7 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (1.02%) webpack
8 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.68%) Gradle
8 2 (0.68%) JIRA
8 2 (0.68%) JMeter
8 2 (0.68%) Maven
8 2 (0.68%) Storybook
9 1 (0.34%) ESLint
9 1 (0.34%) kappa
General
1 69 (23.55%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.43%) Finance
3 27 (9.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (7.51%) Banking
4 22 (7.51%) Games
4 22 (7.51%) Law
5 21 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.44%) Retail
8 10 (3.41%) Legal
9 9 (3.07%) Legal Technology
10 7 (2.39%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.02%) Electronics
11 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.02%) Marketing
11 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.34%) Aviation
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 94 (32.08%) Developer
2 78 (26.62%) Senior
3 57 (19.45%) Lead
4 55 (18.77%) Software Engineer
5 31 (10.58%) Python Engineer
5 31 (10.58%) Senior Software Engineer
6 30 (10.24%) Data Engineer
7 28 (9.56%) Architect
8 27 (9.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 26 (8.87%) Ruby Developer
10 23 (7.85%) Python Developer
11 22 (7.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (6.83%) Database Engineer
13 19 (6.48%) Lead Developer
14 18 (6.14%) Lead Data Engineer
15 15 (5.12%) Senior Developer
16 12 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
16 12 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
17 10 (3.41%) Lead Python Developer
17 10 (3.41%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.84%) RESTful
2 55 (18.77%) Terraform
3 52 (17.75%) React
4 50 (17.06%) Kafka
5 46 (15.70%) Node.js
5 46 (15.70%) REST
6 45 (15.36%) Spring
7 42 (14.33%) Spring Boot
8 34 (11.60%) Next.js
9 31 (10.58%) FastAPI
9 31 (10.58%) JWT
10 27 (9.22%) Ruby on Rails
11 26 (8.87%) JSON
12 17 (5.80%) OAuth
12 17 (5.80%) Sidekiq
13 16 (5.46%) OAuth2
14 13 (4.44%) CSS
15 12 (4.10%) JPA
16 11 (3.75%) Hibernate
16 11 (3.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 67 (22.87%) Cloud Native
2 50 (17.06%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.87%) Low-Code
4 23 (7.85%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (5.46%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.10%) AI Agents
7 11 (3.75%) Replication
8 10 (3.41%) Blog
8 10 (3.41%) EPoS
8 10 (3.41%) iSeries
9 8 (2.73%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.39%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.05%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.71%) IoT
12 5 (1.71%) PropTech
13 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.73%) Linux
2 4 (1.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (40.61%) CI/CD
2 116 (39.59%) AI
3 102 (34.81%) Software Engineering
4 86 (29.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 83 (28.33%) Observability
6 80 (27.30%) Agile
7 71 (24.23%) API Design
7 71 (24.23%) Microservices
8 69 (23.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 62 (21.16%) Containerisation
10 59 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (19.11%) Test Automation
12 51 (17.41%) Clean Code
13 48 (16.38%) Event-Driven
13 48 (16.38%) Machine Learning
14 46 (15.70%) DevOps
15 39 (13.31%) Mentoring
15 39 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
16 38 (12.97%) Analytics
16 38 (12.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 139 (47.44%) Python
2 69 (23.55%) Java
3 68 (23.21%) SQL
4 48 (16.38%) TypeScript
5 32 (10.92%) Go
6 27 (9.22%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.22%) Ruby
7 12 (4.10%) C#
8 10 (3.41%) RPG
9 7 (2.39%) Bash
10 6 (2.05%) Scala
11 3 (1.02%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.02%) C++
11 3 (1.02%) Groovy
11 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.02%) SOQL
11 3 (1.02%) SOSL
12 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
12 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (9.90%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.17%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.48%) Degree
4 7 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.60%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.14%) QA
3 15 (5.12%) GDPR
4 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.34%) MiFID
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (26.62%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (21.50%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.17%) Grafana
3 9 (3.07%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.73%) Ansible
5 3 (1.02%) Argo
5 3 (1.02%) Rancher
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
7 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 24 (8.19%) Oracle
2 22 (7.51%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.44%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.10%) Google
5 11 (3.75%) Databricks
6 10 (3.41%) IBM
7 7 (2.39%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.37%) Mistral
8 4 (1.37%) Netezza
8 4 (1.37%) Remedy
9 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.68%) Splunk
10 2 (0.68%) TikTok
11 1 (0.34%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.34%) Confluent
11 1 (0.34%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.34%) Talend