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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 111 149
Rank change year-on-year -71 +38 -6
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 286 365 474
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.24% 2.98% 2.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.68% 13.38% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 202 272 365
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £129,000
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 2,677 2,727 4,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.61% 22.25% 22.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,735 1,778 3,324
10th Percentile £46,360 £48,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -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 30 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 30 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 +7 50 £87,500 +6.06% 18
West London -11 15 £80,000 +25.98% 8
South London -24 5 - -
East London -6 3 - - 3
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 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (5.94%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.90%) Apache
3 12 (4.20%) Confluence
4 6 (2.10%) Camunda
5 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) Moodle
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 160 (55.94%) AWS
2 84 (29.37%) Azure
3 48 (16.78%) GCP
4 32 (11.19%) SaaS
5 27 (9.44%) Amazon S3
6 25 (8.74%) GitHub
7 21 (7.34%) Serverless
8 18 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.85%) Lucidchart
12 10 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.50%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.15%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (3.15%) Power Platform
13 9 (3.15%) Supabase
14 8 (2.80%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.69%) Broadband
2 5 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.40%) DHCP
3 4 (1.40%) DNS
3 4 (1.40%) VPN
3 4 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.35%) AMQP
4 1 (0.35%) Firewall
4 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.83%) MongoDB
2 48 (16.78%) Relational Database
3 47 (16.43%) MySQL
4 42 (14.69%) Redis
5 30 (10.49%) NoSQL
6 25 (8.74%) SQL Server
7 23 (8.04%) DynamoDB
8 17 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (5.24%) Metadata
10 14 (4.90%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (4.90%) Big Data
11 13 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (3.85%) Db2
12 11 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (3.50%) Data Lake
13 10 (3.50%) DTS
14 9 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (3.15%) Power BI
15 6 (2.10%) Pinecone
15 6 (2.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (12.24%) Git
2 10 (3.50%) JUnit
2 10 (3.50%) TeamCity
3 9 (3.15%) GitLab
3 9 (3.15%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.15%) Mockito
4 8 (2.80%) Vite
5 5 (1.75%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.05%) webpack
7 2 (0.70%) ESLint
7 2 (0.70%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.70%) JIRA
7 2 (0.70%) JMeter
7 2 (0.70%) Storybook
8 1 (0.35%) Gradle
8 1 (0.35%) Maven
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.35%) Selenium
8 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 61 (21.33%) Finance
2 55 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.69%) Games
4 21 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.29%) Law
6 17 (5.94%) Banking
6 17 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (5.59%) Front Office
7 16 (5.59%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.20%) Retail
9 9 (3.15%) Legal
10 8 (2.80%) Legal Technology
11 6 (2.10%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.70%) Electronics
13 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Aviation
14 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 103 (36.01%) Developer
2 70 (24.48%) Lead
2 70 (24.48%) Senior
3 62 (21.68%) Software Engineer
4 39 (13.64%) Python Engineer
5 34 (11.89%) Lead Developer
6 31 (10.84%) Python Developer
7 30 (10.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 26 (9.09%) Architect
9 25 (8.74%) Data Engineer
10 24 (8.39%) Ruby Developer
11 23 (8.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (6.99%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (5.94%) Lead Python Developer
14 16 (5.59%) Lead Software Engineer
15 15 (5.24%) Lead Data Engineer
16 14 (4.90%) Senior Developer
17 13 (4.55%) Database Engineer
18 12 (4.20%) Lead Software Developer
18 12 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (22.38%) React
2 60 (20.98%) RESTful
3 59 (20.63%) Node.js
4 42 (14.69%) Spring
5 40 (13.99%) REST
6 39 (13.64%) Spring Boot
7 37 (12.94%) Kafka
8 35 (12.24%) FastAPI
9 34 (11.89%) Next.js
10 27 (9.44%) JWT
11 25 (8.74%) JSON
12 24 (8.39%) Ruby on Rails
13 17 (5.94%) Redux
14 16 (5.59%) Sidekiq
15 15 (5.24%) CSS
16 12 (4.20%) HTML
16 12 (4.20%) OAuth
16 12 (4.20%) OAuth2
17 11 (3.85%) Middleware
18 10 (3.50%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 60 (20.98%) Cloud Native
2 44 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (9.09%) Low-Code
4 23 (8.04%) Video\Live Streaming
5 19 (6.64%) Onboarding
6 16 (5.59%) Derivative
6 16 (5.59%) Equities
6 16 (5.59%) Fixed Income
6 16 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.50%) EPoS
7 10 (3.50%) iSeries
8 9 (3.15%) Blog
9 8 (2.80%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.45%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (2.45%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.10%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.10%) Replication
12 5 (1.75%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.15%) Linux
2 8 (2.80%) Windows
3 4 (1.40%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.70%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (38.11%) CI/CD
1 109 (38.11%) Software Engineering
2 103 (36.01%) AI
3 85 (29.72%) Agile
3 85 (29.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 69 (24.13%) Observability
5 67 (23.43%) API Design
5 67 (23.43%) Microservices
6 65 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 57 (19.93%) Containerisation
8 55 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 52 (18.18%) Mentoring
10 49 (17.13%) Test Automation
11 46 (16.08%) Clean Code
12 42 (14.69%) Machine Learning
13 40 (13.99%) Fintech
14 38 (13.29%) DevOps
15 37 (12.94%) Analytics
15 37 (12.94%) Event-Driven
15 37 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 145 (50.70%) Python
2 69 (24.13%) SQL
3 62 (21.68%) Java
4 58 (20.28%) TypeScript
5 42 (14.69%) JavaScript
6 31 (10.84%) Go
7 24 (8.39%) Ruby
8 10 (3.50%) C#
8 10 (3.50%) RPG
9 6 (2.10%) PHP
9 6 (2.10%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.40%) Bash
10 4 (1.40%) Delphi
10 4 (1.40%) Pascal
11 3 (1.05%) C++
11 3 (1.05%) Scala
11 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.35%) C
12 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (9.79%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.99%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.90%) Degree
4 5 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.05%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.84%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.24%) QA
3 12 (4.20%) GDPR
4 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (23.78%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (18.53%) Kubernetes
2 47 (16.43%) Terraform
3 13 (4.55%) Grafana
4 5 (1.75%) Ansible
5 4 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Argo
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.35%) Nagios
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 24 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.64%) Oracle
3 14 (4.90%) OpenAI
4 13 (4.55%) Google
5 11 (3.85%) Databricks
6 10 (3.50%) IBM
7 4 (1.40%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.40%) Netezza
7 4 (1.40%) Remedy
7 4 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.70%) Mapbox
8 2 (0.70%) Revolut
8 2 (0.70%) Splunk
8 2 (0.70%) TikTok
9 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.35%) Confluent
9 1 (0.35%) Informatica
9 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.35%) Talend