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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 103 124
Rank change year-on-year -86 +21 +17
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 223 438 525
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.30% 3.31% 2.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.73% 14.68% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 160 257 472
10th Percentile £52,490 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,953 £70,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +12.90% -8.82%
75th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -1.60% +14.57% -12.71%

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 2,293 2,983 4,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.39% 22.51% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,492 1,972 3,669
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £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 £96,563 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -44 31 £96,250 +16.67% 72
South London -22 8 £62,600 +0.16%
East London -23 2 £85,000 - 6
West London -32 1 - - 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 15 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.28%) Apache Spark
3 13 (5.83%) Confluence
4 9 (4.04%) Apache
5 8 (3.59%) Tomcat
5 8 (3.59%) WebSphere
6 7 (3.14%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.45%) Camunda
8 1 (0.45%) IIS
8 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (3.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Endur
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 142 (63.68%) AWS
2 78 (34.98%) Azure
3 72 (32.29%) GCP
4 25 (11.21%) Serverless
5 23 (10.31%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (7.62%) SaaS
7 16 (7.17%) GitHub
8 14 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (6.28%) dbt
9 13 (5.83%) Amazon S3
9 13 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (4.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (3.59%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (3.59%) LangSmith
13 8 (3.59%) Power Platform
14 7 (3.14%) Amazon ECR
14 7 (3.14%) Vercel
15 5 (2.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.48%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.59%) SSL
3 4 (1.79%) DHCP
3 4 (1.79%) DNS
3 4 (1.79%) VPN
3 4 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.90%) Broadband
5 1 (0.45%) LAN
5 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (22.42%) Relational Database
2 37 (16.59%) MySQL
3 34 (15.25%) SQL Server
4 33 (14.80%) MongoDB
5 32 (14.35%) NoSQL
6 24 (10.76%) DB2
7 22 (9.87%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (6.28%) RDBMS
9 12 (5.38%) DynamoDB
9 12 (5.38%) Redis
10 10 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (4.04%) Big Data
11 9 (4.04%) BigQuery
11 9 (4.04%) Hadoop
12 8 (3.59%) Pinecone
12 8 (3.59%) Power BI
13 7 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (2.69%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 35 (15.70%) Jenkins
2 31 (13.90%) Git
3 20 (8.97%) TeamCity
4 13 (5.83%) Bitbucket
4 13 (5.83%) Cucumber
4 13 (5.83%) GitLab
4 13 (5.83%) JIRA
4 13 (5.83%) Selenium
5 8 (3.59%) JUnit
6 7 (3.14%) Mockito
6 7 (3.14%) Vite
7 6 (2.69%) JMeter
8 4 (1.79%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.35%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.90%) ESLint
10 2 (0.90%) Gradle
10 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.90%) Maven
10 2 (0.90%) Subversion
10 2 (0.90%) webpack
General
1 70 (31.39%) Finance
2 49 (21.97%) Social Skills
3 38 (17.04%) Banking
4 32 (14.35%) Law
5 25 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (9.42%) Public Sector
8 20 (8.97%) Retail
9 17 (7.62%) Front Office
10 6 (2.69%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.79%) Back Office
11 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.35%) Electronics
12 3 (1.35%) Legal
13 2 (0.90%) Games
14 1 (0.45%) Advertising
14 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.45%) Marketing
14 1 (0.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 70 (31.39%) Developer
2 47 (21.08%) Lead
3 40 (17.94%) Software Engineer
4 35 (15.70%) Senior
5 26 (11.66%) Data Engineer
6 25 (11.21%) Java Developer
7 23 (10.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (10.31%) Lead Developer
8 18 (8.07%) Lead Software Engineer
8 18 (8.07%) Python Engineer
9 16 (7.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 16 (7.17%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (6.28%) Architect
10 14 (6.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 14 (6.28%) Python Developer
11 12 (5.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) Java Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) Lead Software Developer
12 10 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (4.48%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (33.18%) React
2 54 (24.22%) Node.js
3 36 (16.14%) FastAPI
4 31 (13.90%) HTML
4 31 (13.90%) RESTful
5 27 (12.11%) CSS
5 27 (12.11%) REST
6 26 (11.66%) Django
6 26 (11.66%) Spring
7 25 (11.21%) Kafka
8 23 (10.31%) Spring Boot
9 20 (8.97%) Redux
10 16 (7.17%) Next.js
11 15 (6.73%) Flask
12 14 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (5.38%) LangChain
14 11 (4.93%) AngularJS
15 10 (4.48%) Gherkin
15 10 (4.48%) Web Services
16 9 (4.04%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.17%) Derivative
3 16 (7.17%) Equities
3 16 (7.17%) Fixed Income
4 15 (6.73%) Blog
4 15 (6.73%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (6.28%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.93%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (3.59%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.24%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.79%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.79%) CCTV
12 4 (1.79%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.35%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.52%) Linux
2 14 (6.28%) Unix
3 12 (5.38%) Windows
4 9 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.24%) Android
5 5 (2.24%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (40.81%) Agile
2 90 (40.36%) CI/CD
3 80 (35.87%) Software Engineering
4 70 (31.39%) Microservices
5 56 (25.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 55 (24.66%) Fintech
7 48 (21.52%) AI
8 43 (19.28%) Mentoring
9 38 (17.04%) Test Automation
10 37 (16.59%) Containerisation
10 37 (16.59%) DevOps
10 37 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 31 (13.90%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (13.45%) Analytics
13 30 (13.45%) Data Modelling
14 29 (13.00%) Clean Code
14 29 (13.00%) Data Pipeline
15 28 (12.56%) Data Engineering
15 28 (12.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 124 (55.61%) Python
2 79 (35.43%) Java
3 72 (32.29%) SQL
4 67 (30.04%) JavaScript
5 61 (27.35%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.28%) C#
6 14 (6.28%) Go
7 7 (3.14%) PHP
7 7 (3.14%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.69%) Rust
9 5 (2.24%) Delphi
9 5 (2.24%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.79%) Pascal
10 4 (1.79%) Ruby
11 3 (1.35%) RPG
12 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.45%) Bash
13 1 (0.45%) C++
13 1 (0.45%) COBOL
13 1 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (19.73%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.56%) Degree
4 10 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.04%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.14%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.69%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.90%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.93%) QA
3 7 (3.14%) GDPR
3 7 (3.14%) SLA
4 6 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) PSD2
System Software
1 71 (31.84%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 79 (35.43%) Kubernetes
2 48 (21.52%) Terraform
3 17 (7.62%) Grafana
4 9 (4.04%) Kibana
4 9 (4.04%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.59%) Argo
6 3 (1.35%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.90%) Ansible
8 1 (0.45%) Ambari
8 1 (0.45%) Istio
8 1 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (8.07%) Oracle
2 13 (5.83%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.93%) Atlassian
3 11 (4.93%) Google
3 11 (4.93%) IBM
3 11 (4.93%) OpenAI
3 11 (4.93%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.69%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.69%) Informatica
5 6 (2.69%) Splunk
5 6 (2.69%) Talend
6 4 (1.79%) Databricks
7 3 (1.35%) Revolut
8 2 (0.90%) Confluent
8 2 (0.90%) Dell
8 2 (0.90%) Mapbox
8 2 (0.90%) SAP
9 1 (0.45%) Intel
9 1 (0.45%) Sybase