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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 127 116
Rank change year-on-year -92 -11 +19
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 196 344 613
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.97% 2.74% 2.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.42% 12.73% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 140 263 537
10th Percentile £55,875 £60,000 £53,250
25th Percentile £70,938 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 2,703 5,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.50% 21.54% 21.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,521 1,893 3,830
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% +9.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £122,536
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -32 37 £88,000 +6.67% 56
West London -20 4 £80,000 +23.55% 4
South London -19 2 £70,000 +12.00%
East London -15 1 - - 7
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 18 (9.18%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 12 (6.12%) Apache
4 10 (5.10%) Confluence
5 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.02%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.51%) Camunda
7 1 (0.51%) JBoss
7 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (3.06%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 120 (61.22%) AWS
2 67 (34.18%) Azure
3 55 (28.06%) GCP
4 23 (11.73%) SaaS
5 16 (8.16%) GitHub
6 13 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (6.63%) Serverless
7 10 (5.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 10 (5.10%) LangSmith
8 8 (4.08%) dbt
8 8 (4.08%) Vercel
9 7 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.55%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (2.55%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (2.55%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.65%) Broadband
2 6 (3.06%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.04%) DHCP
3 4 (2.04%) DNS
3 4 (2.04%) VPN
3 4 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (21.94%) MongoDB
2 37 (18.88%) Relational Database
3 34 (17.35%) NoSQL
4 30 (15.31%) MySQL
5 19 (9.69%) SQL Server
6 14 (7.14%) DynamoDB
7 13 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (6.12%) DB2
9 11 (5.61%) Pinecone
10 10 (5.10%) Redis
11 8 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (3.57%) BigQuery
13 6 (3.06%) Big Data
13 6 (3.06%) RDBMS
14 5 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (2.55%) Hadoop
14 5 (2.55%) MariaDB
14 5 (2.55%) Neo4j
14 5 (2.55%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 28 (14.29%) Git
2 19 (9.69%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.16%) TeamCity
4 12 (6.12%) GitLab
5 11 (5.61%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.10%) JIRA
7 9 (4.59%) Vite
8 8 (4.08%) Cucumber
8 8 (4.08%) Selenium
9 4 (2.04%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.53%) JUnit
11 2 (1.02%) ESLint
11 2 (1.02%) Jaeger
11 2 (1.02%) Mockito
11 2 (1.02%) Storybook
11 2 (1.02%) webpack
12 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.51%) Gradle
12 1 (0.51%) Maven
12 1 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 54 (27.55%) Finance
2 40 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.27%) Banking
3 26 (13.27%) Law
4 21 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.69%) Retail
6 17 (8.67%) Front Office
7 15 (7.65%) Games
7 15 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.57%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.53%) Back Office
9 3 (1.53%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.53%) Legal
10 2 (1.02%) Electronics
11 1 (0.51%) Advertising
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (31.12%) Developer
2 50 (25.51%) Lead
3 41 (20.92%) Software Engineer
4 33 (16.84%) Senior
5 26 (13.27%) Python Engineer
6 25 (12.76%) Lead Developer
7 22 (11.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 19 (9.69%) Data Engineer
9 18 (9.18%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (8.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (8.67%) Python Developer
11 14 (7.14%) Architect
11 14 (7.14%) Java Developer
11 14 (7.14%) Java Engineer
12 12 (6.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (6.12%) Lead Software Developer
13 11 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (5.10%) Lead Python Developer
14 10 (5.10%) Product Engineer
14 10 (5.10%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (33.16%) React
2 47 (23.98%) Node.js
3 35 (17.86%) RESTful
4 28 (14.29%) FastAPI
5 24 (12.24%) Kafka
6 21 (10.71%) Next.js
7 20 (10.20%) REST
8 18 (9.18%) CSS
9 17 (8.67%) Redux
10 16 (8.16%) HTML
10 16 (8.16%) Spring
11 15 (7.65%) LangChain
11 15 (7.65%) Spring Boot
12 11 (5.61%) LangGraph
13 10 (5.10%) CrewAI
13 10 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (4.59%) Django
14 9 (4.59%) pgvector
15 8 (4.08%) Flask
15 8 (4.08%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.39%) Cloud Native
2 30 (15.31%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (8.16%) Derivative
3 16 (8.16%) Equities
3 16 (8.16%) Fixed Income
4 15 (7.65%) Low-Code
4 15 (7.65%) Video\Live Streaming
5 14 (7.14%) Blog
6 11 (5.61%) Product Ownership
7 10 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.57%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.55%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.04%) CCTV
10 4 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (2.04%) Driving Licence
10 4 (2.04%) IoT
10 4 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.57%) Linux
2 5 (2.55%) Android
2 5 (2.55%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.55%) Windows
3 4 (2.04%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Unix
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 80 (40.82%) CI/CD
3 66 (33.67%) Agile
3 66 (33.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 56 (28.57%) AI
5 52 (26.53%) Microservices
6 45 (22.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (22.96%) Test Automation
7 39 (19.90%) Fintech
8 37 (18.88%) Containerisation
9 32 (16.33%) Observability
10 31 (15.82%) API Design
10 31 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (15.82%) Mentoring
11 28 (14.29%) Analytics
11 28 (14.29%) Clean Code
11 28 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (14.29%) Generative AI
12 25 (12.76%) Machine Learning
13 24 (12.24%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 104 (53.06%) Python
2 61 (31.12%) Java
3 55 (28.06%) SQL
3 55 (28.06%) TypeScript
4 49 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 24 (12.24%) Go
6 10 (5.10%) C#
7 8 (4.08%) Ruby
8 6 (3.06%) PHP
9 4 (2.04%) Delphi
9 4 (2.04%) Pascal
9 4 (2.04%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.53%) RPG
11 2 (1.02%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) Bash
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Korn
12 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.51%) R
12 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (11.73%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.63%) Degree
4 7 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.02%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.67%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.08%) QA
3 3 (1.53%) GDPR
4 2 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (29.08%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (34.18%) Kubernetes
2 45 (22.96%) Terraform
3 14 (7.14%) Grafana
4 7 (3.57%) Argo
5 6 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.53%) Ansible
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.51%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (7.14%) OpenAI
2 13 (6.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.59%) Oracle
4 6 (3.06%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.55%) Informatica
5 5 (2.55%) Talend
6 4 (2.04%) Databricks
6 4 (2.04%) Google
7 3 (1.53%) Confluent
7 3 (1.53%) IBM
7 3 (1.53%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.53%) Revolut
8 2 (1.02%) Mapbox
8 2 (1.02%) Netezza
8 2 (1.02%) Remedy
8 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.51%) Delphix
9 1 (0.51%) Intel
9 1 (0.51%) Pure Storage
9 1 (0.51%) Refinitiv