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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 128 117
Rank change year-on-year -105 -11 +16
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 190 346 592
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.95% 2.72% 2.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.14% 12.57% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 142 267 522
10th Percentile £52,875 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £69,563 £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 £109,375 £122,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 2,333 2,752 4,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.63% 21.66% 21.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,525 1,927 3,809
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.98% +8.67% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £122,500
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 2 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 2 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 -39 35 £92,500 +12.12% 61
South London -16 3 £62,600 +0.16% 1
West London -32 1 - - 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 18 (9.47%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (7.37%) Apache Spark
3 12 (6.32%) Apache
4 10 (5.26%) Confluence
5 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.53%) Camunda
7 1 (0.53%) JBoss
7 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (3.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 110 (57.89%) AWS
2 68 (35.79%) Azure
3 58 (30.53%) GCP
4 23 (12.11%) SaaS
5 17 (8.95%) GitHub
6 13 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (6.84%) Serverless
7 10 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 10 (5.26%) LangSmith
8 8 (4.21%) dbt
8 8 (4.21%) Vercel
9 6 (3.16%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.16%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.58%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.16%) Broadband
1 6 (3.16%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.11%) DHCP
2 4 (2.11%) DNS
2 4 (2.11%) VPN
2 4 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.53%) Firewall
3 1 (0.53%) LAN
3 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (20.53%) Relational Database
2 35 (18.42%) NoSQL
3 34 (17.89%) MongoDB
3 34 (17.89%) MySQL
4 21 (11.05%) SQL Server
5 14 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.84%) DynamoDB
7 12 (6.32%) DB2
8 11 (5.79%) Pinecone
9 10 (5.26%) Redis
10 8 (4.21%) BigQuery
10 8 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.16%) Big Data
11 6 (3.16%) Power BI
11 6 (3.16%) RDBMS
12 5 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.63%) DataStage
12 5 (2.63%) MariaDB
12 5 (2.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 32 (16.84%) Git
2 21 (11.05%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.95%) TeamCity
4 12 (6.32%) GitLab
5 11 (5.79%) Bitbucket
5 11 (5.79%) JIRA
6 10 (5.26%) Cucumber
6 10 (5.26%) Selenium
7 9 (4.74%) Vite
8 4 (2.11%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.11%) JUnit
9 2 (1.05%) ESLint
9 2 (1.05%) Gradle
9 2 (1.05%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.05%) Maven
9 2 (1.05%) Mockito
9 2 (1.05%) Storybook
9 2 (1.05%) Subversion
9 2 (1.05%) webpack
10 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 56 (29.47%) Finance
2 40 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 27 (14.21%) Banking
4 26 (13.68%) Law
5 21 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (10.00%) Retail
7 17 (8.95%) Front Office
8 15 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.68%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.16%) Games
11 3 (1.58%) Back Office
11 3 (1.58%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.05%) Electronics
12 2 (1.05%) Legal
12 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.53%) Advertising
13 1 (0.53%) Billing
13 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (28.42%) Developer
2 50 (26.32%) Lead
3 41 (21.58%) Software Engineer
4 31 (16.32%) Senior
5 26 (13.68%) Python Engineer
6 24 (12.63%) Lead Developer
7 23 (12.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 22 (11.58%) Data Engineer
9 18 (9.47%) Lead Software Engineer
10 16 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (8.42%) Java Developer
11 15 (7.89%) Java Engineer
12 12 (6.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (6.32%) Lead Software Developer
12 12 (6.32%) Python Developer
13 10 (5.26%) Architect
13 10 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (5.26%) Product Engineer
13 10 (5.26%) Python Data Engineer
14 9 (4.74%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (34.74%) React
2 46 (24.21%) Node.js
3 31 (16.32%) FastAPI
4 28 (14.74%) RESTful
5 24 (12.63%) Kafka
6 21 (11.05%) CSS
6 21 (11.05%) Next.js
7 19 (10.00%) HTML
8 18 (9.47%) Redux
8 18 (9.47%) REST
9 16 (8.42%) Spring
10 15 (7.89%) LangChain
11 14 (7.37%) Spring Boot
12 13 (6.84%) Django
13 12 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (6.32%) Flask
14 11 (5.79%) LangGraph
15 10 (5.26%) CrewAI
16 9 (4.74%) Gherkin
16 9 (4.74%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.74%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.58%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (8.42%) Derivative
3 16 (8.42%) Equities
3 16 (8.42%) Fixed Income
4 14 (7.37%) Blog
5 11 (5.79%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (5.79%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.68%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.68%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.16%) Low-Code
7 6 (3.16%) Video\Live Streaming
8 5 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.11%) CCTV
9 4 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.11%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.11%) PropTech
9 4 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.68%) Linux
2 5 (2.63%) Android
2 5 (2.63%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.63%) Windows
3 4 (2.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (40.53%) CI/CD
2 76 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 68 (35.79%) Agile
4 57 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 53 (27.89%) Microservices
6 50 (26.32%) AI
7 42 (22.11%) Fintech
8 37 (19.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (19.47%) Test Automation
9 36 (18.95%) Containerisation
10 33 (17.37%) Mentoring
11 29 (15.26%) Analytics
11 29 (15.26%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (14.74%) DevOps
13 27 (14.21%) Clean Code
14 24 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (12.11%) Data Engineering
15 23 (12.11%) Observability
15 23 (12.11%) Scrum
16 22 (11.58%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 99 (52.11%) Python
2 63 (33.16%) Java
3 61 (32.11%) SQL
4 54 (28.42%) TypeScript
5 52 (27.37%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.42%) Go
7 10 (5.26%) C#
8 6 (3.16%) PHP
9 5 (2.63%) Delphi
9 5 (2.63%) Ruby
10 4 (2.11%) Pascal
10 4 (2.11%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.05%) C++
11 2 (1.05%) RPG
12 1 (0.53%) Bicep
12 1 (0.53%) C
12 1 (0.53%) Elm
12 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.53%) Rust
12 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (12.63%) SC Cleared
1 24 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.42%) Degree
3 9 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.58%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.05%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.74%) QA
3 4 (2.11%) GDPR
4 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (31.05%) Docker
2 2 (1.05%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 46 (24.21%) Terraform
3 17 (8.95%) Grafana
4 8 (4.21%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.68%) Argo
6 3 (1.58%) Ansible
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.53%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (7.37%) OpenAI
2 13 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.74%) Oracle
4 6 (3.16%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.63%) Databricks
5 5 (2.63%) Informatica
5 5 (2.63%) Talend
6 4 (2.11%) Google
7 3 (1.58%) Confluent
7 3 (1.58%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.58%) Revolut
8 2 (1.05%) IBM
8 2 (1.05%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.53%) Apple
9 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.53%) Intel
9 1 (0.53%) Netezza
9 1 (0.53%) Remedy
9 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.53%) Sybase