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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 91 123
Rank change year-on-year -94 +32 +26
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 228 506 498
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.42% 3.51% 2.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.85% 15.55% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 160 279 448
10th Percentile £52,490 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,813 £68,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £77,819
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +12.44% -8.45%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £74,651 £77,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -3.68% +18.38% -9.70%

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 2,315 3,255 4,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.42% 22.61% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,508 2,033 3,641
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £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 £98,750 £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 1 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 1 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 -40 30 £100,000 +15.94% 50
South London -18 10 £62,600 +0.16% 3
East London -14 4 £85,000 - 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 20 (8.77%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.14%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.14%) Confluence
3 11 (4.82%) Tomcat
3 11 (4.82%) WebSphere
4 10 (4.39%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (2.63%) Apache
6 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.88%) nginx
8 1 (0.44%) Camunda
8 1 (0.44%) IIS
8 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.44%) Endur
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 150 (65.79%) AWS
2 80 (35.09%) Azure
3 78 (34.21%) GCP
4 29 (12.72%) Serverless
5 26 (11.40%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (9.21%) dbt
7 17 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (7.46%) GitHub
8 15 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (6.58%) SaaS
9 14 (6.14%) Amazon S3
10 11 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (4.39%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (3.95%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (3.95%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (3.51%) LangSmith
13 8 (3.51%) Vercel
14 6 (2.63%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 11 (4.82%) SSL
3 6 (2.63%) VPN
3 6 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.75%) DHCP
4 4 (1.75%) DNS
5 3 (1.32%) WAN
6 2 (0.88%) BGP
6 2 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.88%) Firewall
6 2 (0.88%) MQTT
6 2 (0.88%) OSPF
6 2 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.88%) RTMP
6 2 (0.88%) VLAN
6 2 (0.88%) Wireless
7 1 (0.44%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.49%) Relational Database
2 41 (17.98%) SQL Server
3 37 (16.23%) MongoDB
4 34 (14.91%) MySQL
5 30 (13.16%) NoSQL
6 28 (12.28%) DB2
7 26 (11.40%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (7.46%) RDBMS
9 13 (5.70%) DynamoDB
10 12 (5.26%) Redis
11 11 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (4.82%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (4.39%) Big Data
12 10 (4.39%) Hadoop
13 9 (3.95%) BigQuery
13 9 (3.95%) Power BI
14 8 (3.51%) Pinecone
15 7 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (3.07%) Apache Arrow
15 7 (3.07%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 43 (18.86%) Jenkins
2 26 (11.40%) Git
3 21 (9.21%) TeamCity
4 18 (7.89%) JIRA
5 17 (7.46%) Selenium
6 15 (6.58%) Bitbucket
7 14 (6.14%) Cucumber
7 14 (6.14%) GitLab
8 10 (4.39%) JMeter
9 9 (3.95%) JUnit
10 8 (3.51%) Mockito
11 7 (3.07%) Vite
12 4 (1.75%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.75%) Jaeger
12 4 (1.75%) Subversion
13 3 (1.32%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.32%) MLflow
13 3 (1.32%) TestRail
14 2 (0.88%) Gradle
14 2 (0.88%) REST Assured
General
1 78 (34.21%) Finance
2 51 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 41 (17.98%) Banking
4 32 (14.04%) Law
5 23 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (9.65%) Public Sector
7 20 (8.77%) Front Office
8 19 (8.33%) Retail
9 7 (3.07%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.75%) Back Office
10 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.32%) Legal
12 2 (0.88%) Advertising
12 2 (0.88%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Electronics
13 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (34.21%) Developer
2 40 (17.54%) Lead
3 39 (17.11%) Software Engineer
4 34 (14.91%) Senior
5 27 (11.84%) Java Developer
6 25 (10.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (9.65%) Data Engineer
8 20 (8.77%) Lead Developer
8 20 (8.77%) Python Developer
9 19 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
10 18 (7.89%) Python Engineer
11 16 (7.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 16 (7.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 15 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (6.58%) Lead Software Engineer
13 13 (5.70%) Architect
13 13 (5.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 13 (5.70%) Java Engineer
14 11 (4.82%) Applications Support
14 11 (4.82%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (33.33%) React
2 57 (25.00%) Node.js
3 38 (16.67%) FastAPI
4 35 (15.35%) HTML
5 30 (13.16%) CSS
6 29 (12.72%) Django
6 29 (12.72%) REST
7 28 (12.28%) RESTful
7 28 (12.28%) Spring
8 26 (11.40%) Kafka
9 25 (10.96%) Spring Boot
10 19 (8.33%) AngularJS
11 16 (7.02%) Flask
11 16 (7.02%) Redux
12 15 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (6.58%) Next.js
13 14 (6.14%) Vue
14 13 (5.70%) Web Services
15 12 (5.26%) LangChain
16 11 (4.82%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.04%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (13.16%) Cloud Native
3 19 (8.33%) Equities
3 19 (8.33%) Fixed Income
4 15 (6.58%) Blog
4 15 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (5.70%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (5.70%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.70%) Product Ownership
6 12 (5.26%) Derivative
7 9 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (3.07%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.19%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.19%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.53%) Linux
2 17 (7.46%) Unix
3 15 (6.58%) Windows
4 12 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.19%) Android
5 5 (2.19%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.75%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (42.54%) Agile
2 96 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 78 (34.21%) Software Engineering
4 74 (32.46%) Microservices
5 61 (26.75%) Fintech
6 54 (23.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (20.18%) AI
8 40 (17.54%) Mentoring
9 39 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (17.11%) Test Automation
10 38 (16.67%) DevOps
11 37 (16.23%) Containerisation
12 33 (14.47%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (13.16%) Data Modelling
13 30 (13.16%) ETL
13 30 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 29 (12.72%) Clean Code
14 29 (12.72%) Data Engineering
15 28 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
16 27 (11.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 129 (56.58%) Python
2 82 (35.96%) Java
3 77 (33.77%) SQL
4 75 (32.89%) JavaScript
5 61 (26.75%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.14%) C#
7 9 (3.95%) Go
7 9 (3.95%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.51%) Rust
9 6 (2.63%) PHP
10 5 (2.19%) Delphi
10 5 (2.19%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.75%) Pascal
12 3 (1.32%) RPG
12 3 (1.32%) Ruby
13 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.44%) Bash
14 1 (0.44%) COBOL
14 1 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.16%) Degree
4 13 (5.70%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.39%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.19%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.88%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.44%) HNC
11 1 (0.44%) HND
11 1 (0.44%) MCSA
11 1 (0.44%) MCSE
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.39%) SLA
2 9 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.51%) GDPR
4 7 (3.07%) QA
5 3 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.32%) SEPA
6 2 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.88%) PSD2
7 1 (0.44%) GAAP
System Software
1 78 (34.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) NFS
Systems Management
1 81 (35.53%) Kubernetes
2 47 (20.61%) Terraform
3 18 (7.89%) Grafana
4 11 (4.82%) Kibana
5 10 (4.39%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.95%) Argo
7 4 (1.75%) Ansible
8 3 (1.32%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.44%) Ambari
9 1 (0.44%) Puppet
9 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (10.09%) Oracle
2 14 (6.14%) IBM
2 14 (6.14%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.70%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 12 (5.26%) OpenAI
5 10 (4.39%) Google
6 8 (3.51%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.51%) Splunk
7 7 (3.07%) Informatica
7 7 (3.07%) Talend
8 4 (1.75%) Databricks
9 3 (1.32%) Revolut
10 2 (0.88%) Cisco
10 2 (0.88%) Confluent
10 2 (0.88%) Dell
10 2 (0.88%) NETGEAR
10 2 (0.88%) SAP
10 2 (0.88%) Starlink