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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 127 116
Rank change year-on-year -91 -11 +19
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 198 337 614
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.97% 2.73% 2.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.42% 12.74% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 138 256 538
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £130,625 £110,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -10.34%

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 2,352 2,646 5,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.47% 21.42% 21.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,535 1,845 3,826
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,100 £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 £126,875
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 16 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 16 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 -36 37 £90,000 +9.09% 52
West London -19 5 £80,000 +25.98% 6
South London -11 4 £70,000 -
East London -13 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 14 (7.07%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (6.57%) Apache Spark
3 12 (6.06%) Apache
4 10 (5.05%) Confluence
5 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.51%) Camunda
7 1 (0.51%) JBoss
7 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 121 (61.11%) AWS
2 60 (30.30%) Azure
3 53 (26.77%) GCP
4 22 (11.11%) SaaS
5 16 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (7.58%) Serverless
7 14 (7.07%) GitHub
8 10 (5.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (4.04%) LangSmith
10 7 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.54%) Vercel
11 6 (3.03%) dbt
12 5 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.53%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (2.53%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.58%) Broadband
2 6 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.02%) DHCP
3 4 (2.02%) DNS
3 4 (2.02%) VPN
3 4 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.20%) MongoDB
2 36 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 31 (15.66%) MySQL
3 31 (15.66%) NoSQL
4 18 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 14 (7.07%) DynamoDB
6 12 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.06%) DB2
6 12 (6.06%) Redis
7 9 (4.55%) Pinecone
8 8 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (3.54%) Big Data
10 6 (3.03%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (2.53%) DataStage
11 5 (2.53%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.53%) MariaDB
11 5 (2.53%) Neo4j
11 5 (2.53%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 25 (12.63%) Git
2 19 (9.60%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.59%) TeamCity
4 11 (5.56%) GitLab
5 10 (5.05%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.55%) JIRA
7 7 (3.54%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.54%) Selenium
7 7 (3.54%) Vite
8 5 (2.53%) JUnit
9 4 (2.02%) Mockito
10 2 (1.01%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.01%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.01%) ESLint
10 2 (1.01%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.01%) JMeter
10 2 (1.01%) Storybook
10 2 (1.01%) webpack
11 1 (0.51%) Maven
11 1 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 55 (27.78%) Finance
2 39 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.64%) Banking
3 27 (13.64%) Law
4 21 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.61%) Retail
5 17 (8.59%) Front Office
5 17 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (7.58%) Games
7 9 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.02%) Legal
9 3 (1.52%) Back Office
9 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.01%) Electronics
10 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.51%) Advertising
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 66 (33.33%) Developer
2 50 (25.25%) Lead
3 42 (21.21%) Software Engineer
4 35 (17.68%) Senior
5 27 (13.64%) Python Engineer
6 26 (13.13%) Lead Developer
7 19 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 18 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (8.59%) Python Developer
10 16 (8.08%) Data Engineer
10 16 (8.08%) Java Developer
11 14 (7.07%) Architect
12 13 (6.57%) Java Engineer
13 12 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (6.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 12 (6.06%) Lead Software Developer
14 10 (5.05%) Lead Python Developer
14 10 (5.05%) Product Engineer
14 10 (5.05%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (29.80%) React
2 44 (22.22%) Node.js
3 38 (19.19%) RESTful
4 25 (12.63%) FastAPI
5 23 (11.62%) Kafka
6 22 (11.11%) REST
7 20 (10.10%) Spring
8 19 (9.60%) Next.js
8 19 (9.60%) Spring Boot
9 17 (8.59%) Redux
10 14 (7.07%) CSS
10 14 (7.07%) HTML
11 12 (6.06%) LangChain
12 9 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.55%) JSON
12 9 (4.55%) JWT
12 9 (4.55%) LangGraph
13 8 (4.04%) CrewAI
13 8 (4.04%) Django
13 8 (4.04%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.71%) Cloud Native
2 28 (14.14%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (8.08%) Blog
3 16 (8.08%) Derivative
3 16 (8.08%) Equities
3 16 (8.08%) Fixed Income
3 16 (8.08%) Video\Live Streaming
4 15 (7.58%) Low-Code
5 11 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.53%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.53%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.53%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.02%) CCTV
9 4 (2.02%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.02%) IoT
9 4 (2.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.54%) Linux
2 5 (2.53%) Windows
3 4 (2.02%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.52%) Android
4 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (42.93%) Software Engineering
2 78 (39.39%) CI/CD
3 63 (31.82%) Agile
4 62 (31.31%) Full-Stack Development
5 54 (27.27%) AI
6 49 (24.75%) Microservices
7 44 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 42 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (20.71%) Fintech
10 35 (17.68%) API Design
11 34 (17.17%) Containerisation
12 32 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (16.16%) Mentoring
12 32 (16.16%) Observability
13 30 (15.15%) Clean Code
14 26 (13.13%) Analytics
14 26 (13.13%) Generative AI
14 26 (13.13%) Machine Learning
14 26 (13.13%) Scrum
15 23 (11.62%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 102 (51.52%) Python
2 62 (31.31%) Java
3 52 (26.26%) SQL
4 51 (25.76%) TypeScript
5 45 (22.73%) JavaScript
6 24 (12.12%) Go
7 8 (4.04%) C#
7 8 (4.04%) Ruby
8 6 (3.03%) PHP
9 4 (2.02%) Delphi
9 4 (2.02%) Pascal
9 4 (2.02%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.02%) RPG
10 3 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.01%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) Bash
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Korn
12 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (10.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.06%) Degree
4 5 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.51%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.07%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.04%) QA
3 3 (1.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (25.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (31.31%) Kubernetes
2 43 (21.72%) Terraform
3 15 (7.58%) Grafana
4 5 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.52%) Argo
6 2 (1.01%) Ansible
6 2 (1.01%) Kibana
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.51%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.06%) OpenAI
3 9 (4.55%) Oracle
4 5 (2.53%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.53%) Google
4 5 (2.53%) Informatica
4 5 (2.53%) Talend
5 4 (2.02%) Databricks
5 4 (2.02%) IBM
6 3 (1.52%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.52%) Netezza
6 3 (1.52%) Remedy
6 3 (1.52%) Revolut
6 3 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.01%) Confluent
7 2 (1.01%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.01%) Splunk
8 1 (0.51%) Apple
8 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.51%) Red Hat