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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 118 147
Rank change year-on-year -71 +29 -3
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 263 363 518
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 2.93% 2.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.13% 13.44% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 187 269 411
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,850 £51,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £103,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +21.76% -
75th Percentile £100,625 £132,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £134,000 £137,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £69,310 £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 2,595 2,701 4,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.58% 21.83% 22.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,696 1,784 3,657
10th Percentile £46,526 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -8 45 £87,500 +6.06% 20
West London -7 15 £80,000 +25.98% 11
South London -15 5 - -
East London -2 3 - - 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 15 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.32%) Apache
3 13 (4.94%) Apache Spark
4 12 (4.56%) Confluence
5 5 (1.90%) Camunda
6 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) Moodle
7 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 152 (57.79%) AWS
2 77 (29.28%) Azure
3 52 (19.77%) GCP
4 30 (11.41%) SaaS
5 25 (9.51%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.60%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (7.22%) Serverless
8 17 (6.46%) GitHub
9 11 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.18%) Lucidchart
10 10 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 10 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.42%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.66%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.66%) Vercel
14 6 (2.28%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.37%) Broadband
2 5 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.52%) DHCP
3 4 (1.52%) DNS
3 4 (1.52%) VPN
3 4 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (17.49%) MongoDB
2 43 (16.35%) MySQL
2 43 (16.35%) Relational Database
3 35 (13.31%) Redis
4 28 (10.65%) NoSQL
5 21 (7.98%) DynamoDB
6 20 (7.60%) SQL Server
7 17 (6.46%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (5.32%) Metadata
9 13 (4.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (4.56%) Big Data
11 11 (4.18%) Db2
12 10 (3.80%) Data Lake
12 10 (3.80%) DTS
12 10 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (2.66%) Power BI
15 6 (2.28%) Pinecone
15 6 (2.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (11.03%) Git
2 12 (4.56%) TeamCity
3 9 (3.42%) GitLab
3 9 (3.42%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.42%) JUnit
4 8 (3.04%) Mockito
5 7 (2.66%) Vite
6 5 (1.90%) Claude Code
7 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.76%) ESLint
8 2 (0.76%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.76%) JIRA
8 2 (0.76%) JMeter
8 2 (0.76%) Storybook
8 2 (0.76%) webpack
9 1 (0.38%) CMake
9 1 (0.38%) Maven
9 1 (0.38%) Selenium
9 1 (0.38%) Subversion
9 1 (0.38%) Valgrind
General
1 57 (21.67%) Finance
2 46 (17.49%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.37%) Games
3 22 (8.37%) Law
4 21 (7.98%) Banking
5 20 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (7.22%) Retail
7 18 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (6.08%) Front Office
9 14 (5.32%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.04%) Legal
11 7 (2.66%) Legal Technology
12 5 (1.90%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.14%) Back Office
13 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.76%) Electronics
14 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.38%) Advertising
15 1 (0.38%) Aviation
15 1 (0.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 95 (36.12%) Developer
2 68 (25.86%) Lead
3 56 (21.29%) Senior
4 55 (20.91%) Software Engineer
5 36 (13.69%) Python Engineer
6 32 (12.17%) Lead Developer
7 30 (11.41%) Python Developer
8 28 (10.65%) Architect
8 28 (10.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 23 (8.75%) Data Engineer
10 21 (7.98%) Ruby Developer
11 18 (6.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (6.84%) Lead Software Engineer
12 16 (6.08%) Lead Python Developer
13 15 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (4.94%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (4.94%) Senior Developer
16 12 (4.56%) Lead Software Developer
16 12 (4.56%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (23.19%) React
2 57 (21.67%) RESTful
3 55 (20.91%) Node.js
4 38 (14.45%) Spring
5 37 (14.07%) Spring Boot
6 36 (13.69%) FastAPI
6 36 (13.69%) Kafka
7 33 (12.55%) REST
8 26 (9.89%) Next.js
9 23 (8.75%) JWT
10 21 (7.98%) JSON
10 21 (7.98%) Ruby on Rails
11 17 (6.46%) Redux
12 14 (5.32%) Sidekiq
13 13 (4.94%) CSS
14 11 (4.18%) Middleware
15 10 (3.80%) HTML
16 9 (3.42%) Hibernate
17 8 (3.04%) JPA
17 8 (3.04%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 63 (23.95%) Cloud Native
2 40 (15.21%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (9.89%) Low-Code
4 23 (8.75%) Video\Live Streaming
5 19 (7.22%) Onboarding
6 16 (6.08%) Blog
6 16 (6.08%) Derivative
6 16 (6.08%) Equities
6 16 (6.08%) Fixed Income
7 15 (5.70%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.80%) EPoS
8 10 (3.80%) iSeries
9 8 (3.04%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.66%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.66%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.28%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.90%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.90%) Replication
13 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.80%) Linux
2 6 (2.28%) Windows
3 4 (1.52%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (38.78%) Software Engineering
2 99 (37.64%) CI/CD
3 87 (33.08%) AI
4 76 (28.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 75 (28.52%) Agile
6 62 (23.57%) API Design
6 62 (23.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (23.57%) Microservices
6 62 (23.57%) Observability
7 53 (20.15%) Containerisation
8 49 (18.63%) Mentoring
9 48 (18.25%) Test Automation
10 47 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (15.97%) Fintech
12 41 (15.59%) Clean Code
13 39 (14.83%) Machine Learning
14 35 (13.31%) DevOps
14 35 (13.31%) Generative AI
15 34 (12.93%) Analytics
15 34 (12.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 134 (50.95%) Python
2 63 (23.95%) Java
2 63 (23.95%) SQL
3 53 (20.15%) TypeScript
4 37 (14.07%) JavaScript
5 31 (11.79%) Go
6 21 (7.98%) Ruby
7 10 (3.80%) RPG
8 8 (3.04%) C#
9 6 (2.28%) PHP
10 5 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.52%) Delphi
11 4 (1.52%) Pascal
12 3 (1.14%) Bash
12 3 (1.14%) C++
12 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.76%) Scala
14 1 (0.38%) C
14 1 (0.38%) R
14 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (10.27%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.18%) Degree
4 4 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.76%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.03%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.18%) QA
3 10 (3.80%) GDPR
4 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) MiFID
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (23.19%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (20.53%) Kubernetes
2 47 (17.87%) Terraform
3 15 (5.70%) Grafana
4 4 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.76%) Ansible
5 2 (0.76%) Kibana
6 1 (0.38%) Argo
6 1 (0.38%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.38%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.46%) Oracle
3 14 (5.32%) OpenAI
4 11 (4.18%) Google
5 10 (3.80%) IBM
6 8 (3.04%) Databricks
7 4 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.52%) Netezza
7 4 (1.52%) Remedy
7 4 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.14%) Revolut
9 2 (0.76%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.76%) Splunk
9 2 (0.76%) TikTok
10 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.38%) Informatica
10 1 (0.38%) SAP
10 1 (0.38%) Sybase
10 1 (0.38%) Talend