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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 116 149
Rank change year-on-year -68 +33 -5
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 276 363 495
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.22% 2.95% 2.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.56% 13.35% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 197 270 386
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £74,063 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £104,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.47% +22.65% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £134,000 £137,500 £127,500
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 2,613 2,720 4,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.55% 22.11% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,705 1,789 3,443
10th Percentile £46,526 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
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 24 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 24 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 0 48 £87,500 +6.06% 20
West London -3 15 £80,000 +25.98% 7
South London -22 5 - -
East London -8 3 - - 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 16 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
1 16 (5.80%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.07%) Apache
3 12 (4.35%) Confluence
4 6 (2.17%) Camunda
5 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Moodle
6 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.99%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 154 (55.80%) AWS
2 82 (29.71%) Azure
3 48 (17.39%) GCP
4 31 (11.23%) SaaS
5 27 (9.78%) Amazon S3
6 22 (7.97%) GitHub
6 22 (7.97%) Serverless
7 17 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (3.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 11 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.99%) Lucidchart
11 10 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.26%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (2.90%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.54%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.97%) Broadband
2 5 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.45%) DHCP
3 4 (1.45%) DNS
3 4 (1.45%) VPN
3 4 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.36%) AMQP
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.75%) MongoDB
2 47 (17.03%) Relational Database
3 46 (16.67%) MySQL
4 40 (14.49%) Redis
5 30 (10.87%) NoSQL
6 23 (8.33%) DynamoDB
7 22 (7.97%) SQL Server
8 17 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (5.43%) Metadata
10 14 (5.07%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (5.07%) Big Data
11 13 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (3.99%) Db2
12 11 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (3.62%) Data Lake
13 10 (3.62%) DTS
14 9 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (2.90%) Power BI
16 6 (2.17%) Pinecone
16 6 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (11.96%) Git
2 10 (3.62%) JUnit
2 10 (3.62%) TeamCity
3 9 (3.26%) GitLab
3 9 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.26%) Mockito
4 7 (2.54%) Vite
5 5 (1.81%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.72%) ESLint
7 2 (0.72%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.72%) JIRA
7 2 (0.72%) JMeter
7 2 (0.72%) Storybook
7 2 (0.72%) webpack
8 1 (0.36%) Gradle
8 1 (0.36%) Maven
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.36%) Selenium
8 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 58 (21.01%) Finance
2 49 (17.75%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.97%) Games
4 21 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.88%) Law
6 17 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (5.80%) Banking
7 16 (5.80%) Front Office
7 16 (5.80%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.71%) Retail
9 8 (2.90%) Legal
10 7 (2.54%) Legal Technology
11 4 (1.45%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.72%) Electronics
13 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.36%) Advertising
14 1 (0.36%) Billing
14 1 (0.36%) Marketing
14 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (36.23%) Developer
2 69 (25.00%) Lead
3 65 (23.55%) Senior
4 59 (21.38%) Software Engineer
5 38 (13.77%) Python Engineer
6 32 (11.59%) Lead Developer
7 30 (10.87%) Python Developer
8 29 (10.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 26 (9.42%) Architect
10 25 (9.06%) Data Engineer
11 22 (7.97%) Ruby Developer
12 20 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (6.16%) Lead Software Engineer
15 16 (5.80%) Lead Python Developer
16 15 (5.43%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (5.43%) Senior Developer
17 13 (4.71%) Database Engineer
18 12 (4.35%) Lead Software Developer
18 12 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (22.46%) React
2 58 (21.01%) RESTful
3 57 (20.65%) Node.js
4 40 (14.49%) Spring
5 39 (14.13%) REST
6 38 (13.77%) Spring Boot
7 37 (13.41%) Kafka
8 36 (13.04%) FastAPI
9 30 (10.87%) Next.js
10 26 (9.42%) JWT
11 24 (8.70%) JSON
12 22 (7.97%) Ruby on Rails
13 17 (6.16%) Redux
14 15 (5.43%) Sidekiq
15 14 (5.07%) CSS
16 11 (3.99%) HTML
16 11 (3.99%) Middleware
16 11 (3.99%) OAuth
16 11 (3.99%) OAuth2
17 10 (3.62%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 60 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 42 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (9.42%) Low-Code
4 23 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
5 19 (6.88%) Onboarding
6 16 (5.80%) Derivative
6 16 (5.80%) Equities
6 16 (5.80%) Fixed Income
7 15 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.62%) Blog
8 10 (3.62%) EPoS
8 10 (3.62%) iSeries
9 8 (2.90%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.17%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.81%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.81%) Replication
13 4 (1.45%) IoT
13 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.26%) Linux
2 6 (2.17%) Windows
3 4 (1.45%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (38.41%) CI/CD
1 106 (38.41%) Software Engineering
2 98 (35.51%) AI
3 82 (29.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 81 (29.35%) Agile
5 67 (24.28%) Observability
6 65 (23.55%) API Design
7 64 (23.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 63 (22.83%) Microservices
9 56 (20.29%) Containerisation
10 52 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (18.84%) Mentoring
11 47 (17.03%) Test Automation
12 45 (16.30%) Clean Code
13 41 (14.86%) Machine Learning
14 40 (14.49%) Fintech
15 37 (13.41%) DevOps
16 36 (13.04%) Analytics
16 36 (13.04%) Event-Driven
17 35 (12.68%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 142 (51.45%) Python
2 66 (23.91%) SQL
3 61 (22.10%) Java
4 58 (21.01%) TypeScript
5 39 (14.13%) JavaScript
6 31 (11.23%) Go
7 22 (7.97%) Ruby
8 10 (3.62%) RPG
9 9 (3.26%) C#
10 6 (2.17%) PHP
11 5 (1.81%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.45%) Delphi
12 4 (1.45%) Pascal
13 3 (1.09%) Bash
13 3 (1.09%) C++
13 3 (1.09%) Scala
13 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.36%) R
14 1 (0.36%) SOQL
14 1 (0.36%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (10.14%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.25%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.71%) Degree
4 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.72%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.23%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.07%) QA
3 11 (3.99%) GDPR
4 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) MiFID
5 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (23.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (19.20%) Kubernetes
2 47 (17.03%) Terraform
3 13 (4.71%) Grafana
4 4 (1.45%) Ansible
4 4 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.72%) Kibana
6 1 (0.36%) Argo
6 1 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.36%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (6.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.52%) Oracle
3 14 (5.07%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.35%) Google
5 10 (3.62%) Databricks
5 10 (3.62%) IBM
6 4 (1.45%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.45%) Netezza
6 4 (1.45%) Remedy
6 4 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.72%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.72%) Revolut
7 2 (0.72%) Splunk
7 2 (0.72%) TikTok
8 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.36%) Confluent
8 1 (0.36%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.36%) SAP
8 1 (0.36%) Sybase
8 1 (0.36%) Talend