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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 120 128
Rank change year-on-year -91 +8 +16
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 230 357 601
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.06% 2.93% 2.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.24% 13.37% 11.18%
Number of salaries quoted 160 266 492
10th Percentile £55,875 £59,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,188 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £104,063 £132,500 £112,500
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% -7.14%

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 2,490 2,670 5,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.45% 21.91% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,651 1,795 3,986
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,990
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £80,000 £77,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.89% +3.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £138,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% -10.77%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -9 45 £90,000 +9.09% 17
West London -14 10 £80,000 +25.98% 9
South London -8 5 - - 1
East London +2 3 - - 1
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 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.09%) Apache
3 12 (5.22%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.91%) Confluence
5 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.43%) Moodle
6 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.48%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 141 (61.30%) AWS
2 67 (29.13%) Azure
3 49 (21.30%) GCP
4 28 (12.17%) SaaS
5 18 (7.83%) Serverless
6 17 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (6.96%) GitHub
8 15 (6.52%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 10 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.48%) LangSmith
10 8 (3.48%) Lucidchart
11 7 (3.04%) dbt
11 7 (3.04%) Vercel
12 6 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (2.61%) Heroku
12 6 (2.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.57%) Broadband
2 6 (2.61%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.74%) DHCP
3 4 (1.74%) DNS
3 4 (1.74%) VPN
3 4 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.30%) MongoDB
2 41 (17.83%) Relational Database
3 34 (14.78%) MySQL
4 26 (11.30%) NoSQL
5 24 (10.43%) Redis
6 14 (6.09%) SQL Server
7 13 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.22%) DynamoDB
9 10 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (3.91%) Metadata
10 9 (3.91%) Pinecone
11 8 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (3.48%) Db2
12 7 (3.04%) DTS
13 6 (2.61%) Big Data
13 6 (2.61%) Data Lake
13 6 (2.61%) Power BI
14 5 (2.17%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 28 (12.17%) Git
2 12 (5.22%) GitLab
2 12 (5.22%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.22%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.04%) Vite
4 5 (2.17%) Claude Code
4 5 (2.17%) JUnit
5 4 (1.74%) Mockito
6 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.87%) ESLint
7 2 (0.87%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.87%) JIRA
7 2 (0.87%) JMeter
7 2 (0.87%) Storybook
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) Gradle
8 1 (0.43%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) Selenium
8 1 (0.43%) Subversion
8 1 (0.43%) Valgrind
General
1 55 (23.91%) Finance
2 44 (19.13%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.00%) Law
4 22 (9.57%) Banking
4 22 (9.57%) Games
5 20 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (8.70%) Retail
6 16 (6.96%) Front Office
7 15 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (5.65%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.04%) Legal
10 6 (2.61%) Legal Technology
11 5 (2.17%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.30%) Back Office
12 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.87%) Electronics
13 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.43%) Advertising
14 1 (0.43%) Aviation
14 1 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 84 (36.52%) Developer
2 58 (25.22%) Lead
3 49 (21.30%) Software Engineer
4 44 (19.13%) Senior
5 32 (13.91%) Python Engineer
6 30 (13.04%) Lead Developer
7 26 (11.30%) Architect
7 26 (11.30%) Python Developer
8 24 (10.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 21 (9.13%) Data Engineer
10 18 (7.83%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (7.39%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (7.39%) Ruby Developer
12 15 (6.52%) Lead Python Developer
13 13 (5.65%) Java Engineer
13 13 (5.65%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (5.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 12 (5.22%) Lead Software Developer
14 12 (5.22%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (25.65%) React
2 48 (20.87%) Node.js
2 48 (20.87%) RESTful
3 33 (14.35%) Kafka
4 31 (13.48%) Spring
5 30 (13.04%) FastAPI
5 30 (13.04%) Spring Boot
6 26 (11.30%) REST
7 22 (9.57%) Next.js
8 17 (7.39%) Redux
8 17 (7.39%) Ruby on Rails
9 16 (6.96%) JSON
10 15 (6.52%) JWT
11 12 (5.22%) LangChain
12 11 (4.78%) CSS
12 11 (4.78%) Sidekiq
13 9 (3.91%) HTML
13 9 (3.91%) LangGraph
14 8 (3.48%) CrewAI
14 8 (3.48%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 60 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 31 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (10.00%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (9.57%) Low-Code
5 17 (7.39%) Blog
6 16 (6.96%) Derivative
6 16 (6.96%) Equities
6 16 (6.96%) Fixed Income
7 12 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (4.35%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.48%) AI Agents
10 7 (3.04%) EPoS
10 7 (3.04%) iSeries
10 7 (3.04%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.61%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.61%) Replication
12 5 (2.17%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.74%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.74%) IoT
13 4 (1.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.22%) Linux
2 7 (3.04%) Windows
3 4 (1.74%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (40.43%) Software Engineering
2 83 (36.09%) CI/CD
3 71 (30.87%) AI
3 71 (30.87%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (27.39%) Agile
5 61 (26.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (23.04%) Microservices
7 51 (22.17%) Containerisation
8 50 (21.74%) API Design
8 50 (21.74%) Observability
9 46 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 43 (18.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (18.70%) Fintech
11 39 (16.96%) Mentoring
12 37 (16.09%) Machine Learning
13 36 (15.65%) Clean Code
14 33 (14.35%) Generative AI
15 30 (13.04%) Validation
16 27 (11.74%) Analytics
16 27 (11.74%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 115 (50.00%) Python
2 58 (25.22%) Java
3 54 (23.48%) TypeScript
4 52 (22.61%) SQL
5 36 (15.65%) JavaScript
6 32 (13.91%) Go
7 17 (7.39%) Ruby
8 8 (3.48%) C#
9 7 (3.04%) PHP
9 7 (3.04%) RPG
10 5 (2.17%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.74%) Delphi
11 4 (1.74%) Pascal
11 4 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.30%) Bash
12 3 (1.30%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) C
13 1 (0.43%) R
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (11.30%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.65%) Degree
4 4 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.30%) SnowPro
6 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.43%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.35%) QA
3 8 (3.48%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.43%) MiFID
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (26.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (25.22%) Kubernetes
2 46 (20.00%) Terraform
3 15 (6.52%) Grafana
4 3 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.87%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.43%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (7.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.22%) OpenAI
2 12 (5.22%) Oracle
3 7 (3.04%) IBM
4 6 (2.61%) Databricks
4 6 (2.61%) Google
5 4 (1.74%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.74%) Netezza
5 4 (1.74%) Remedy
5 4 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.30%) Revolut
7 2 (0.87%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.87%) SAP
7 2 (0.87%) Splunk
7 2 (0.87%) Sybase
7 2 (0.87%) TikTok
8 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.43%) Informatica
8 1 (0.43%) Intel
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat