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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 113 152
Rank change year-on-year -59 +39 +6
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 296 364 459
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.23% 3.01% 2.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.66% 13.42% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 200 263 338
10th Percentile £55,875 £59,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% +5.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £117,625 - £130,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 2,777 2,712 4,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.55% 22.40% 23.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,775 1,747 3,166
10th Percentile £46,526 £46,876 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

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 August 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 August 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 +24 52 £90,000 +9.09% 21
West London -13 15 £80,000 +25.98% 12
South London -26 5 - - 2
East London -9 3 - - 2
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 21 (7.09%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (5.41%) Apache
4 12 (4.05%) Confluence
5 7 (2.36%) Camunda
6 2 (0.68%) Luigi
6 2 (0.68%) Tornado
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) Moodle
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 165 (55.74%) AWS
2 83 (28.04%) Azure
3 42 (14.19%) GCP
4 36 (12.16%) SaaS
5 33 (11.15%) GitHub
6 31 (10.47%) Amazon S3
7 24 (8.11%) Serverless
8 18 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.73%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.39%) GitHub Copilot
11 12 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (4.05%) Power Platform
12 11 (3.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.72%) Lucidchart
13 9 (3.04%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (3.04%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.43%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) AMQP
2 1 (0.34%) DHCP
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) SMS
2 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.34%) VPN
2 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (20.61%) MongoDB
2 55 (18.58%) Relational Database
3 52 (17.57%) MySQL
4 42 (14.19%) Redis
5 37 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 30 (10.14%) SQL Server
7 24 (8.11%) DynamoDB
8 18 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.41%) Big Data
10 15 (5.07%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (5.07%) Metadata
11 13 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (4.05%) Power BI
13 11 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (3.72%) Db2
14 10 (3.38%) Data Lake
14 10 (3.38%) DTS
15 8 (2.70%) Pinecone
15 8 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (13.85%) Git
2 12 (4.05%) GitLab
2 12 (4.05%) JUnit
3 11 (3.72%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.72%) Mockito
4 8 (2.70%) TeamCity
4 8 (2.70%) Vite
5 6 (2.03%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.01%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (1.01%) webpack
7 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.68%) Gradle
7 2 (0.68%) JIRA
7 2 (0.68%) JMeter
7 2 (0.68%) Maven
7 2 (0.68%) Storybook
8 1 (0.34%) ESLint
8 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 70 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 60 (20.27%) Finance
3 22 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (7.43%) Games
3 22 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (7.09%) Law
5 19 (6.42%) Banking
5 19 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.72%) Retail
7 10 (3.38%) Legal
8 9 (3.04%) Legal Technology
9 8 (2.70%) Front Office
10 7 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.01%) Electronics
11 3 (1.01%) Marketing
11 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.34%) Advertising
13 1 (0.34%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 101 (34.12%) Developer
2 77 (26.01%) Senior
3 65 (21.96%) Lead
4 59 (19.93%) Software Engineer
5 36 (12.16%) Python Engineer
6 30 (10.14%) Data Engineer
6 30 (10.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 30 (10.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 27 (9.12%) Lead Developer
7 27 (9.12%) Python Developer
8 26 (8.78%) Architect
8 26 (8.78%) Ruby Developer
9 22 (7.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (6.42%) Database Engineer
11 18 (6.08%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (5.07%) Senior Developer
13 14 (4.73%) Lead Python Developer
14 12 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.72%) Python Data Engineer
16 10 (3.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (21.96%) RESTful
2 61 (20.61%) React
3 56 (18.92%) Node.js
4 50 (16.89%) Terraform
5 45 (15.20%) Kafka
5 45 (15.20%) Spring
6 42 (14.19%) REST
6 42 (14.19%) Spring Boot
7 36 (12.16%) Next.js
8 33 (11.15%) FastAPI
9 31 (10.47%) JWT
10 27 (9.12%) Ruby on Rails
11 26 (8.78%) JSON
12 17 (5.74%) OAuth
12 17 (5.74%) Sidekiq
13 16 (5.41%) OAuth2
14 14 (4.73%) CSS
15 12 (4.05%) HTML
15 12 (4.05%) JPA
16 11 (3.72%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.61%) Cloud Native
2 49 (16.55%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.78%) Low-Code
4 23 (7.77%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (5.41%) Onboarding
6 15 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (4.39%) AI Agents
8 10 (3.38%) EPoS
8 10 (3.38%) iSeries
9 8 (2.70%) Blog
9 8 (2.70%) Derivative
9 8 (2.70%) Equities
9 8 (2.70%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.70%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (2.36%) Replication
11 6 (2.03%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.69%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.70%) Linux
2 5 (1.69%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (39.53%) AI
2 115 (38.85%) CI/CD
3 105 (35.47%) Software Engineering
4 89 (30.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 87 (29.39%) Agile
6 77 (26.01%) Observability
7 73 (24.66%) Microservices
8 71 (23.99%) API Design
9 65 (21.96%) Infrastructure as Code
10 64 (21.62%) Containerisation
11 60 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (17.57%) Test Automation
13 50 (16.89%) Clean Code
14 47 (15.88%) Event-Driven
14 47 (15.88%) Machine Learning
15 46 (15.54%) Mentoring
16 41 (13.85%) DevOps
17 40 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
18 38 (12.84%) Analytics
19 37 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 147 (49.66%) Python
2 69 (23.31%) SQL
3 67 (22.64%) Java
4 57 (19.26%) TypeScript
5 37 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 32 (10.81%) Go
7 27 (9.12%) Ruby
8 10 (3.38%) C#
8 10 (3.38%) RPG
9 6 (2.03%) Scala
10 4 (1.35%) Bash
11 3 (1.01%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.01%) C++
11 3 (1.01%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.01%) PHP
11 3 (1.01%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.01%) SOQL
11 3 (1.01%) SOSL
12 1 (0.34%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 28 (9.46%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.76%) Degree
2 20 (6.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.82%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.08%) QA
3 15 (5.07%) GDPR
4 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) MiFID
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (25.68%) Docker
2 3 (1.01%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (19.59%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.41%) Grafana
3 8 (2.70%) Ansible
4 5 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.01%) Argo
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
7 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 23 (7.77%) Oracle
2 22 (7.43%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.73%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.05%) Google
5 11 (3.72%) Databricks
6 10 (3.38%) IBM
7 4 (1.35%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.35%) Netezza
7 4 (1.35%) Remedy
7 4 (1.35%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.68%) Splunk
9 2 (0.68%) TikTok
10 1 (0.34%) Confluent
10 1 (0.34%) Informatica
10 1 (0.34%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.34%) SAP
10 1 (0.34%) Sybase
10 1 (0.34%) Talend