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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 126 119
Rank change year-on-year -102 -7 +18
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 186 345 582
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.93% 2.70% 2.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.99% 12.51% 11.74%
Number of salaries quoted 143 264 513
10th Percentile £53,250 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,125 £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 £110,000 £120,000 £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 2,327 2,758 4,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.69% 21.59% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,530 1,922 3,786
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,775 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £97,188 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +12.17% -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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -45 32 £90,000 +9.09% 55
South London -19 3 £62,600 +0.16% 1
West London -24 1 - - 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 17 (9.14%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (6.99%) Apache Spark
3 11 (5.91%) Apache
3 11 (5.91%) Confluence
4 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.08%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.54%) Camunda
6 1 (0.54%) JBoss
6 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 107 (57.53%) AWS
2 69 (37.10%) Azure
3 59 (31.72%) GCP
4 22 (11.83%) SaaS
5 17 (9.14%) GitHub
6 13 (6.99%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (6.99%) Serverless
7 10 (5.38%) LangSmith
8 9 (4.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (4.30%) dbt
9 8 (4.30%) Vercel
10 6 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (3.23%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.69%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (2.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.61%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.15%) DHCP
2 4 (2.15%) DNS
2 4 (2.15%) VPN
2 4 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.08%) Broadband
4 1 (0.54%) Firewall
4 1 (0.54%) LAN
4 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (20.43%) Relational Database
2 34 (18.28%) NoSQL
3 33 (17.74%) MySQL
4 30 (16.13%) MongoDB
5 22 (11.83%) SQL Server
6 13 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.99%) DB2
6 13 (6.99%) DynamoDB
7 11 (5.91%) Pinecone
7 11 (5.91%) Redis
8 8 (4.30%) BigQuery
9 7 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.23%) Big Data
10 6 (3.23%) Power BI
10 6 (3.23%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.69%) DataStage
11 5 (2.69%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.69%) MariaDB
11 5 (2.69%) Neo4j
11 5 (2.69%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 32 (17.20%) Git
2 22 (11.83%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.68%) TeamCity
4 12 (6.45%) Bitbucket
4 12 (6.45%) GitLab
4 12 (6.45%) JIRA
5 11 (5.91%) Cucumber
5 11 (5.91%) Selenium
6 9 (4.84%) Vite
7 4 (2.15%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.15%) JUnit
8 2 (1.08%) ESLint
8 2 (1.08%) Gradle
8 2 (1.08%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.08%) Maven
8 2 (1.08%) Mockito
8 2 (1.08%) Storybook
8 2 (1.08%) Subversion
8 2 (1.08%) webpack
9 1 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 57 (30.65%) Finance
2 41 (22.04%) Social Skills
3 28 (15.05%) Banking
4 26 (13.98%) Law
5 21 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (10.22%) Retail
7 17 (9.14%) Front Office
8 15 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.76%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.61%) Back Office
10 3 (1.61%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.61%) Legal
10 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.08%) Electronics
11 2 (1.08%) Games
12 1 (0.54%) Advertising
12 1 (0.54%) Billing
12 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (29.03%) Developer
2 48 (25.81%) Lead
3 41 (22.04%) Software Engineer
4 30 (16.13%) Senior
5 24 (12.90%) Python Engineer
6 23 (12.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 23 (12.37%) Lead Developer
7 21 (11.29%) Data Engineer
8 18 (9.68%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (9.14%) Java Developer
10 16 (8.60%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (8.06%) Java Engineer
12 12 (6.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (6.45%) Lead Software Developer
13 11 (5.91%) Python Developer
14 10 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (5.38%) Product Engineer
15 9 (4.84%) Architect
15 9 (4.84%) Python Data Engineer
16 8 (4.30%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (36.02%) React
2 47 (25.27%) Node.js
3 31 (16.67%) FastAPI
4 25 (13.44%) RESTful
5 24 (12.90%) Kafka
6 22 (11.83%) CSS
7 21 (11.29%) Next.js
8 20 (10.75%) HTML
9 18 (9.68%) Redux
9 18 (9.68%) REST
10 16 (8.60%) Spring
11 15 (8.06%) LangChain
12 14 (7.53%) Spring Boot
13 13 (6.99%) Django
13 13 (6.99%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (6.45%) Flask
15 11 (5.91%) LangGraph
16 10 (5.38%) CrewAI
16 10 (5.38%) Gherkin
17 9 (4.84%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.22%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (8.60%) Derivative
3 16 (8.60%) Equities
3 16 (8.60%) Fixed Income
4 14 (7.53%) Blog
5 12 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (5.91%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.76%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.76%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.15%) CCTV
9 4 (2.15%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.15%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.15%) IoT
9 4 (2.15%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.76%) Linux
2 5 (2.69%) Android
2 5 (2.69%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.69%) Windows
3 4 (2.15%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (39.78%) CI/CD
2 73 (39.25%) Software Engineering
3 69 (37.10%) Agile
4 55 (29.57%) Microservices
5 53 (28.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (24.73%) AI
7 42 (22.58%) Fintech
8 36 (19.35%) Containerisation
9 34 (18.28%) Test Automation
10 33 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (17.74%) Mentoring
11 30 (16.13%) Analytics
12 29 (15.59%) DevOps
13 28 (15.05%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (14.52%) Clean Code
15 24 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (12.90%) Scrum
16 22 (11.83%) Data Engineering
16 22 (11.83%) Data Modelling
17 21 (11.29%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 94 (50.54%) Python
2 64 (34.41%) Java
3 62 (33.33%) SQL
4 54 (29.03%) TypeScript
5 53 (28.49%) JavaScript
6 13 (6.99%) Go
7 10 (5.38%) C#
8 6 (3.23%) PHP
9 5 (2.69%) Delphi
9 5 (2.69%) Ruby
10 4 (2.15%) Pascal
10 4 (2.15%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.61%) RPG
12 2 (1.08%) C++
13 1 (0.54%) Bash
13 1 (0.54%) C
13 1 (0.54%) Korn
13 1 (0.54%) R
13 1 (0.54%) Rust
13 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (12.90%) SC Cleared
1 24 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.14%) Degree
3 10 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.61%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.08%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.84%) QA
3 5 (2.69%) GDPR
4 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (32.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (38.17%) Kubernetes
2 46 (24.73%) Terraform
3 18 (9.68%) Grafana
4 9 (4.84%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.76%) Argo
6 3 (1.61%) Ansible
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.54%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (7.53%) OpenAI
2 13 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.84%) Oracle
4 7 (3.76%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.69%) Databricks
5 5 (2.69%) Informatica
5 5 (2.69%) Talend
6 4 (2.15%) Google
7 3 (1.61%) Confluent
7 3 (1.61%) IBM
7 3 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.61%) Revolut
8 2 (1.08%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.54%) Apple
9 1 (0.54%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.54%) Delphix
9 1 (0.54%) Intel
9 1 (0.54%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.54%) SAP
9 1 (0.54%) Sybase