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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 104 127
Rank change year-on-year -90 +23 +17
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 220 425 529
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.26% 3.27% 2.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.48% 14.59% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 157 259 473
10th Percentile £52,460 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £60,185
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £78,138
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +11.98% -8.07%
75th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £100,000
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 2,320 2,912 4,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.29% 22.37% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,503 1,962 3,686
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,850 £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 £96,250 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £117,500
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 24 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 24 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 -33 32 £95,000 +15.15% 60
South London -26 7 £62,600 +0.16%
East London -25 2 £85,000 - 3
West London -30 1 - - 4
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 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.91%) Apache Spark
3 12 (5.45%) Confluence
4 8 (3.64%) Apache
4 8 (3.64%) Tomcat
4 8 (3.64%) WebSphere
5 7 (3.18%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.45%) Camunda
7 1 (0.45%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Endur
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 139 (63.18%) AWS
2 78 (35.45%) Azure
3 72 (32.73%) GCP
4 24 (10.91%) Serverless
5 21 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (8.64%) SaaS
7 16 (7.27%) GitHub
8 13 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.91%) dbt
9 12 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (4.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.64%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (3.64%) LangSmith
12 8 (3.64%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.18%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (3.18%) Vercel
14 5 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.64%) SSL
3 4 (1.82%) DHCP
3 4 (1.82%) DNS
3 4 (1.82%) VPN
3 4 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.91%) Broadband
5 1 (0.45%) LAN
5 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (22.27%) Relational Database
2 38 (17.27%) MySQL
3 33 (15.00%) MongoDB
3 33 (15.00%) SQL Server
4 32 (14.55%) NoSQL
5 23 (10.45%) DB2
6 22 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (5.91%) RDBMS
8 12 (5.45%) DynamoDB
8 12 (5.45%) Redis
9 10 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (4.09%) Big Data
10 9 (4.09%) BigQuery
10 9 (4.09%) Hadoop
11 8 (3.64%) Pinecone
11 8 (3.64%) Power BI
12 7 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.73%) Neo4j
13 6 (2.73%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 32 (14.55%) Jenkins
2 31 (14.09%) Git
3 19 (8.64%) TeamCity
4 13 (5.91%) GitLab
5 12 (5.45%) Bitbucket
5 12 (5.45%) Cucumber
5 12 (5.45%) JIRA
5 12 (5.45%) Selenium
6 7 (3.18%) JUnit
6 7 (3.18%) Vite
7 6 (2.73%) Mockito
8 5 (2.27%) JMeter
9 4 (1.82%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.91%) ESLint
10 2 (0.91%) Gradle
10 2 (0.91%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.91%) Storybook
10 2 (0.91%) Subversion
10 2 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 70 (31.82%) Finance
2 47 (21.36%) Social Skills
3 38 (17.27%) Banking
4 32 (14.55%) Law
5 25 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (9.55%) Retail
8 20 (9.09%) Public Sector
9 17 (7.73%) Front Office
10 6 (2.73%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.27%) Back Office
11 5 (2.27%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.36%) Electronics
13 3 (1.36%) Legal
14 2 (0.91%) Games
15 1 (0.45%) Advertising
15 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.45%) Marketing
15 1 (0.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 69 (31.36%) Developer
2 48 (21.82%) Lead
3 39 (17.73%) Software Engineer
4 36 (16.36%) Senior
5 26 (11.82%) Data Engineer
6 24 (10.91%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (10.45%) Java Developer
8 18 (8.18%) Lead Software Engineer
8 18 (8.18%) Python Engineer
9 16 (7.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 15 (6.82%) Principal Engineer
11 14 (6.36%) Architect
11 14 (6.36%) Python Developer
12 13 (5.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 12 (5.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 12 (5.45%) Java Engineer
13 12 (5.45%) Lead Software Developer
14 10 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (4.55%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (32.73%) React
2 53 (24.09%) Node.js
3 36 (16.36%) FastAPI
4 29 (13.18%) HTML
4 29 (13.18%) RESTful
5 26 (11.82%) CSS
5 26 (11.82%) Django
5 26 (11.82%) REST
6 24 (10.91%) Kafka
6 24 (10.91%) Spring
7 21 (9.55%) Spring Boot
8 19 (8.64%) Redux
9 16 (7.27%) Next.js
10 15 (6.82%) Flask
11 13 (5.91%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (5.45%) LangChain
13 11 (5.00%) AngularJS
14 9 (4.09%) Gherkin
14 9 (4.09%) Web Services
15 8 (3.64%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.82%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.27%) Derivative
3 16 (7.27%) Equities
3 16 (7.27%) Fixed Income
4 15 (6.82%) Blog
5 14 (6.36%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (6.36%) Product Ownership
6 11 (5.00%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (3.64%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.27%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.82%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.82%) CCTV
12 4 (1.82%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.82%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.36%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.64%) Linux
2 14 (6.36%) Unix
3 12 (5.45%) Windows
4 9 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.27%) Android
5 5 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.82%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (40.00%) Agile
2 86 (39.09%) CI/CD
3 78 (35.45%) Software Engineering
4 67 (30.45%) Microservices
5 56 (25.45%) Fintech
6 55 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (21.36%) AI
8 42 (19.09%) Mentoring
9 37 (16.82%) Containerisation
9 37 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (16.82%) Test Automation
10 36 (16.36%) DevOps
11 31 (14.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (14.09%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (13.64%) Data Modelling
13 29 (13.18%) Analytics
13 29 (13.18%) Clean Code
13 29 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (12.27%) Data Engineering
14 27 (12.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 122 (55.45%) Python
2 77 (35.00%) Java
3 70 (31.82%) SQL
4 65 (29.55%) JavaScript
5 59 (26.82%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.36%) C#
6 14 (6.36%) Go
7 6 (2.73%) PHP
7 6 (2.73%) Rust
7 6 (2.73%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.27%) Delphi
8 5 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.82%) Pascal
9 4 (1.82%) Ruby
10 3 (1.36%) RPG
11 2 (0.91%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) Bash
12 1 (0.45%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) Elm
12 1 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 42 (19.09%) Security Cleared
2 34 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.73%) Degree
4 10 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.09%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.18%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.91%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.00%) QA
3 7 (3.18%) GDPR
3 7 (3.18%) SLA
4 6 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.91%) PSD2
System Software
1 68 (30.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 78 (35.45%) Kubernetes
2 47 (21.36%) Terraform
3 17 (7.73%) Grafana
4 9 (4.09%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.64%) Argo
6 7 (3.18%) Kibana
7 3 (1.36%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.91%) Ansible
9 1 (0.45%) Ambari
9 1 (0.45%) Istio
9 1 (0.45%) Puppet
9 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (8.18%) Oracle
2 13 (5.91%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.00%) Google
3 11 (5.00%) IBM
3 11 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 11 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 10 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.73%) Informatica
6 6 (2.73%) Talend
7 5 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.27%) Splunk
8 4 (1.82%) Databricks
9 3 (1.36%) Revolut
10 2 (0.91%) Confluent
10 2 (0.91%) Dell
10 2 (0.91%) Mapbox
10 2 (0.91%) SAP
11 1 (0.45%) Intel
11 1 (0.45%) Sybase