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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 95 130
Rank change year-on-year -91 +35 +18
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 229 513 497
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.45% 3.49% 2.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.96% 15.33% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 158 280 446
10th Percentile £52,470 £57,375 £53,750
25th Percentile £69,422 £69,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £77,819
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +12.44% -8.45%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £97,447
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,625 £115,000
England median annual salary £74,151 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.31% +18.52% -6.90%

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 2,299 3,347 4,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.59% 22.78% 21.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,495 2,055 3,637
10th Percentile £43,525 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £98,750 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £115,000
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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -43 29 £100,000 +14.29% 51
South London -17 11 £62,600 +0.16% 1
East London -10 4 £85,000 - 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 23 (10.04%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (6.55%) Apache Spark
3 14 (6.11%) Confluence
4 12 (5.24%) Tomcat
4 12 (5.24%) WebSphere
5 11 (4.80%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (2.18%) Apache
7 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.87%) nginx
9 1 (0.44%) Camunda
9 1 (0.44%) IIS
9 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.44%) Endur
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 150 (65.50%) AWS
2 80 (34.93%) GCP
3 75 (32.75%) Azure
4 28 (12.23%) Serverless
5 27 (11.79%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (10.92%) dbt
7 17 (7.42%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (6.99%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (6.99%) GitHub
9 15 (6.55%) SaaS
10 14 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (5.68%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.37%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (4.37%) Amazon EMR
14 9 (3.93%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (3.06%) LangSmith
16 7 (3.06%) Vercel
17 6 (2.62%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.24%) SSL
2 11 (4.80%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.18%) VPN
3 5 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.31%) DHCP
4 3 (1.31%) DNS
4 3 (1.31%) WAN
5 2 (0.87%) BGP
5 2 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.87%) Firewall
5 2 (0.87%) MQTT
5 2 (0.87%) OSPF
5 2 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.87%) RTMP
5 2 (0.87%) VLAN
5 2 (0.87%) Wireless
6 1 (0.44%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (22.27%) Relational Database
2 44 (19.21%) SQL Server
3 36 (15.72%) MongoDB
4 35 (15.28%) MySQL
5 30 (13.10%) NoSQL
6 29 (12.66%) DB2
7 27 (11.79%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (8.73%) RDBMS
9 15 (6.55%) Apache Iceberg
10 13 (5.68%) DynamoDB
11 12 (5.24%) Redis
12 11 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (4.80%) Apache Arrow
12 11 (4.80%) Big Data
12 11 (4.80%) Dremio
12 11 (4.80%) Hadoop
13 9 (3.93%) BigQuery
13 9 (3.93%) Power BI
14 8 (3.49%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 43 (18.78%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.48%) Git
3 21 (9.17%) TeamCity
4 18 (7.86%) JIRA
5 17 (7.42%) Selenium
6 15 (6.55%) Bitbucket
7 14 (6.11%) Cucumber
8 13 (5.68%) GitLab
9 11 (4.80%) JMeter
10 10 (4.37%) JUnit
11 9 (3.93%) Mockito
12 6 (2.62%) Vite
13 4 (1.75%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.75%) Jaeger
13 4 (1.75%) Subversion
14 3 (1.31%) Cypress.io
14 3 (1.31%) MLflow
14 3 (1.31%) TestRail
15 2 (0.87%) Gradle
15 2 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 80 (34.93%) Finance
2 50 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 42 (18.34%) Banking
4 32 (13.97%) Law
5 23 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (9.61%) Public Sector
7 20 (8.73%) Front Office
8 19 (8.30%) Retail
9 8 (3.49%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.18%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.75%) Back Office
11 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.31%) Legal
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.87%) Electronics
13 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.87%) Marketing
13 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (35.37%) Developer
2 40 (17.47%) Software Engineer
3 37 (16.16%) Lead
4 34 (14.85%) Senior
5 28 (12.23%) Java Developer
6 26 (11.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (10.04%) Python Developer
8 21 (9.17%) Data Engineer
9 20 (8.73%) Principal Engineer
10 19 (8.30%) Python Engineer
11 18 (7.86%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (7.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 17 (7.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 17 (7.42%) Lead Developer
13 13 (5.68%) Architect
13 13 (5.68%) Linux Support
13 13 (5.68%) Python Software Engineer
14 12 (5.24%) Applications Support
14 12 (5.24%) Java Engineer
14 12 (5.24%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (32.31%) React
2 55 (24.02%) Node.js
3 38 (16.59%) FastAPI
4 35 (15.28%) HTML
5 32 (13.97%) REST
6 29 (12.66%) CSS
7 28 (12.23%) Django
7 28 (12.23%) Spring
8 27 (11.79%) RESTful
9 26 (11.35%) Kafka
10 25 (10.92%) Spring Boot
11 24 (10.48%) AngularJS
12 17 (7.42%) Vue
13 16 (6.99%) Flask
14 15 (6.55%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (6.55%) Web Services
15 14 (6.11%) Next.js
16 12 (5.24%) NumPy
16 12 (5.24%) Pandas
16 12 (5.24%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.85%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (12.66%) Cloud Native
3 19 (8.30%) Equities
3 19 (8.30%) Fixed Income
4 15 (6.55%) Blog
4 15 (6.55%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (6.55%) Management Information System
5 14 (6.11%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (6.11%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.49%) Derivative
8 8 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (3.06%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.18%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.31%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.79%) Linux
2 18 (7.86%) Unix
3 15 (6.55%) Windows
4 13 (5.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.18%) Android
5 5 (2.18%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.31%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (42.36%) Agile
1 97 (42.36%) CI/CD
2 79 (34.50%) Software Engineering
3 73 (31.88%) Microservices
4 62 (27.07%) Fintech
5 53 (23.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (18.78%) AI
7 39 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (17.03%) Test Automation
8 37 (16.16%) DevOps
9 36 (15.72%) Containerisation
9 36 (15.72%) Mentoring
10 33 (14.41%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (13.10%) Data Engineering
11 30 (13.10%) Data Modelling
11 30 (13.10%) ETL
12 29 (12.66%) Clean Code
13 28 (12.23%) Business Intelligence
13 28 (12.23%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (11.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 130 (56.77%) Python
2 83 (36.24%) Java
3 74 (32.31%) JavaScript
3 74 (32.31%) SQL
4 59 (25.76%) TypeScript
5 14 (6.11%) C#
6 10 (4.37%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.93%) Go
8 8 (3.49%) Rust
9 5 (2.18%) PHP
10 4 (1.75%) Delphi
10 4 (1.75%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.31%) Pascal
11 3 (1.31%) RPG
11 3 (1.31%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) Bash
12 1 (0.44%) COBOL
12 1 (0.44%) Korn
12 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 43 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.10%) Degree
4 14 (6.11%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.80%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.87%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.44%) HNC
10 1 (0.44%) HND
10 1 (0.44%) MCSA
10 1 (0.44%) MCSE
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) SLA
2 8 (3.49%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.49%) GDPR
2 8 (3.49%) QA
3 3 (1.31%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.31%) SEPA
4 2 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.87%) PSD2
5 1 (0.44%) GAAP
System Software
1 80 (34.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) NFS
Systems Management
1 84 (36.68%) Kubernetes
2 46 (20.09%) Terraform
3 18 (7.86%) Grafana
4 12 (5.24%) Kibana
5 10 (4.37%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.93%) Argo
7 4 (1.75%) Ansible
8 3 (1.31%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.44%) Ambari
9 1 (0.44%) Puppet
9 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (10.48%) Oracle
2 15 (6.55%) IBM
2 15 (6.55%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.68%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.24%) Atlassian
5 11 (4.80%) Google
5 11 (4.80%) OpenAI
6 9 (3.93%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.93%) Splunk
7 8 (3.49%) Informatica
7 8 (3.49%) Talend
8 3 (1.31%) Databricks
8 3 (1.31%) Revolut
8 3 (1.31%) SAP
9 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.87%) Confluent
9 2 (0.87%) MikroTik
9 2 (0.87%) Starlink
9 2 (0.87%) Ubiquiti