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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 102 128
Rank change year-on-year -81 +26 +17
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 230 462 521
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.36% 3.40% 2.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.92% 14.92% 11.09%
Number of salaries quoted 165 271 469
10th Percentile £52,440 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £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 £112,500 £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 2,318 3,096 4,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.68% 22.80% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,509 2,006 3,680
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,313 £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 £97,500 £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 14 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 14 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 £97,500 +14.71% 69
South London -21 8 £62,600 +0.16%
East London -18 2 £85,000 - 8
West London -32 1 - - 6
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 17 (7.39%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.09%) Apache Spark
3 13 (5.65%) Confluence
4 9 (3.91%) Tomcat
4 9 (3.91%) WebSphere
5 8 (3.48%) Apache
5 8 (3.48%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) Camunda
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
7 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (3.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Endur
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 150 (65.22%) AWS
2 80 (34.78%) Azure
3 75 (32.61%) GCP
4 26 (11.30%) Serverless
5 23 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (7.39%) GitHub
7 16 (6.96%) dbt
7 16 (6.96%) SaaS
8 14 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (6.09%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (3.91%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.48%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (3.48%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (3.48%) LangSmith
12 8 (3.48%) Vercel
13 5 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.78%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.91%) SSL
3 5 (2.17%) VPN
3 5 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.74%) DHCP
4 4 (1.74%) DNS
5 2 (0.87%) WAN
6 1 (0.43%) BGP
6 1 (0.43%) Broadband
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Firewall
6 1 (0.43%) LAN
6 1 (0.43%) MQTT
6 1 (0.43%) OSPF
6 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.43%) RTMP
6 1 (0.43%) VLAN
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.30%) Relational Database
2 38 (16.52%) MySQL
3 36 (15.65%) SQL Server
4 35 (15.22%) MongoDB
5 32 (13.91%) NoSQL
6 25 (10.87%) DB2
7 23 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (6.09%) DynamoDB
8 14 (6.09%) RDBMS
9 13 (5.65%) Redis
10 11 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (3.91%) Big Data
11 9 (3.91%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.91%) Hadoop
11 9 (3.91%) Power BI
12 8 (3.48%) Pinecone
13 6 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.61%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (2.61%) Metadata
13 6 (2.61%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 36 (15.65%) Jenkins
2 31 (13.48%) Git
3 20 (8.70%) TeamCity
4 14 (6.09%) GitLab
4 14 (6.09%) JIRA
5 13 (5.65%) Bitbucket
5 13 (5.65%) Cucumber
5 13 (5.65%) Selenium
6 8 (3.48%) JUnit
7 7 (3.04%) Mockito
7 7 (3.04%) Vite
8 6 (2.61%) JMeter
9 4 (1.74%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.30%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.87%) ESLint
11 2 (0.87%) Gradle
11 2 (0.87%) MLflow
11 2 (0.87%) Storybook
11 2 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 74 (32.17%) Finance
2 51 (22.17%) Social Skills
3 39 (16.96%) Banking
4 32 (13.91%) Law
5 25 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (9.13%) Public Sector
8 20 (8.70%) Retail
9 19 (8.26%) Front Office
10 7 (3.04%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.74%) Back Office
11 4 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.74%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.30%) Electronics
12 3 (1.30%) Legal
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Games
13 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.43%) Marketing
13 1 (0.43%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 75 (32.61%) Developer
2 46 (20.00%) Lead
3 43 (18.70%) Software Engineer
4 37 (16.09%) Senior
5 25 (10.87%) Data Engineer
5 25 (10.87%) Java Developer
6 24 (10.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (10.00%) Lead Developer
8 19 (8.26%) Python Engineer
9 18 (7.83%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (7.39%) Principal Engineer
10 17 (7.39%) Python Developer
11 15 (6.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 14 (6.09%) Architect
12 14 (6.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 14 (6.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 13 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (5.65%) Java Engineer
14 12 (5.22%) Lead Software Developer
15 10 (4.35%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (33.48%) React
2 58 (25.22%) Node.js
3 38 (16.52%) FastAPI
4 31 (13.48%) HTML
4 31 (13.48%) RESTful
5 28 (12.17%) CSS
6 27 (11.74%) Django
6 27 (11.74%) REST
6 27 (11.74%) Spring
7 26 (11.30%) Kafka
8 24 (10.43%) Spring Boot
9 20 (8.70%) Redux
10 17 (7.39%) Next.js
11 15 (6.52%) Flask
12 14 (6.09%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (5.65%) AngularJS
14 12 (5.22%) LangChain
15 11 (4.78%) Web Services
16 10 (4.35%) Gherkin
17 9 (3.91%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.48%) Cloud Native
2 27 (11.74%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.83%) Equities
3 18 (7.83%) Fixed Income
4 16 (6.96%) Derivative
5 15 (6.52%) Blog
5 15 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (5.65%) Product Ownership
7 12 (5.22%) Management Information System
8 11 (4.78%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (3.04%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (2.17%) Data Structures
12 5 (2.17%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.74%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.74%) CCTV
13 4 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.74%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.70%) Linux
2 15 (6.52%) Unix
3 13 (5.65%) Windows
4 10 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.17%) Android
5 5 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.74%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (40.87%) Agile
2 93 (40.43%) CI/CD
3 83 (36.09%) Software Engineering
4 71 (30.87%) Microservices
5 58 (25.22%) Fintech
6 57 (24.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (20.43%) AI
8 44 (19.13%) Mentoring
9 38 (16.52%) Containerisation
9 38 (16.52%) DevOps
9 38 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (16.09%) Test Automation
11 32 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (13.91%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (13.04%) Clean Code
12 30 (13.04%) Data Modelling
13 29 (12.61%) Analytics
13 29 (12.61%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (12.17%) Data Engineering
14 28 (12.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 129 (56.09%) Python
2 80 (34.78%) Java
3 76 (33.04%) SQL
4 69 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 65 (28.26%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.09%) C#
7 13 (5.65%) Go
8 7 (3.04%) PHP
8 7 (3.04%) Rust
8 7 (3.04%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.17%) Delphi
9 5 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.74%) Pascal
10 4 (1.74%) Ruby
11 3 (1.30%) RPG
12 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.43%) Bash
13 1 (0.43%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) COBOL
13 1 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (19.13%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.04%) Degree
4 11 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.48%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.61%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.87%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.43%) HNC
11 1 (0.43%) HND
11 1 (0.43%) MCSA
11 1 (0.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.78%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.35%) QA
3 8 (3.48%) SLA
4 7 (3.04%) GDPR
5 6 (2.61%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.87%) PSD2
System Software
1 74 (32.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) NFS
Systems Management
1 81 (35.22%) Kubernetes
2 50 (21.74%) Terraform
3 18 (7.83%) Grafana
4 10 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.91%) Argo
5 9 (3.91%) Kibana
6 3 (1.30%) Ansible
6 3 (1.30%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.43%) Ambari
7 1 (0.43%) Istio
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (8.26%) Oracle
2 14 (6.09%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.22%) IBM
3 12 (5.22%) OpenAI
3 12 (5.22%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.78%) Atlassian
4 11 (4.78%) Google
5 8 (3.48%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.61%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.61%) Informatica
6 6 (2.61%) Splunk
6 6 (2.61%) Talend
7 4 (1.74%) Databricks
8 3 (1.30%) Revolut
9 2 (0.87%) Confluent
9 2 (0.87%) Dell
9 2 (0.87%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.87%) SAP
10 1 (0.43%) MikroTik
10 1 (0.43%) Ubiquiti