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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 115 123
Rank change year-on-year -99 +8 +17
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 206 388 565
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.10% 3.01% 2.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.75% 13.71% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 152 258 500
10th Percentile £52,410 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,813 £70,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,750 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -6.67% +14.57% -12.71%

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 2,354 2,831 4,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.53% 21.98% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,535 1,969 3,762
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £96,875 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £120,000
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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -30 31 £90,000 +16.13% 63
South London -24 5 £62,600 +0.16%
East London -21 1 £85,000 - 4
West London -30 1 - - 5
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 15 (7.28%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.83%) Confluence
3 11 (5.34%) Apache Spark
4 9 (4.37%) Apache
5 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.94%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.94%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.94%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.49%) Camunda
6 1 (0.49%) IIS
6 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Endur
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 120 (58.25%) AWS
2 71 (34.47%) Azure
3 66 (32.04%) GCP
4 22 (10.68%) SaaS
5 18 (8.74%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (8.25%) Serverless
7 15 (7.28%) GitHub
8 12 (5.83%) dbt
9 9 (4.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 9 (4.37%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.88%) LangSmith
11 7 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.40%) Vercel
12 6 (2.91%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.91%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.37%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.94%) DHCP
2 4 (1.94%) DNS
2 4 (1.94%) SSL
2 4 (1.94%) VPN
2 4 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.97%) Broadband
4 1 (0.49%) Firewall
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (20.87%) Relational Database
2 38 (18.45%) MySQL
3 30 (14.56%) NoSQL
4 27 (13.11%) SQL Server
5 26 (12.62%) MongoDB
6 19 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (8.74%) DB2
8 12 (5.83%) DynamoDB
8 12 (5.83%) Redis
9 10 (4.85%) RDBMS
10 9 (4.37%) BigQuery
11 8 (3.88%) Pinecone
12 7 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (3.40%) Big Data
12 7 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.91%) Hadoop
13 6 (2.91%) Power BI
14 5 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (2.43%) DataStage
14 5 (2.43%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 31 (15.05%) Git
2 26 (12.62%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.22%) TeamCity
4 13 (6.31%) Bitbucket
4 13 (6.31%) JIRA
5 12 (5.83%) Cucumber
5 12 (5.83%) Selenium
6 10 (4.85%) GitLab
7 7 (3.40%) Vite
8 5 (2.43%) JUnit
9 4 (1.94%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.94%) Mockito
10 3 (1.46%) JMeter
11 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.97%) ESLint
11 2 (0.97%) Gradle
11 2 (0.97%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.97%) Maven
11 2 (0.97%) Subversion
11 2 (0.97%) webpack
General
1 63 (30.58%) Finance
2 44 (21.36%) Social Skills
3 34 (16.50%) Banking
4 30 (14.56%) Law
5 21 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (10.19%) Retail
6 17 (8.25%) Front Office
7 15 (7.28%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.43%) Back Office
8 5 (2.43%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.46%) Electronics
10 3 (1.46%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.46%) Legal
11 2 (0.97%) Games
11 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Billing
12 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 60 (29.13%) Developer
2 48 (23.30%) Lead
3 42 (20.39%) Software Engineer
4 35 (16.99%) Senior
5 28 (13.59%) Data Engineer
6 24 (11.65%) Lead Developer
7 20 (9.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 20 (9.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 20 (9.71%) Java Developer
7 20 (9.71%) Python Engineer
8 18 (8.74%) Lead Software Engineer
9 14 (6.80%) Java Engineer
10 13 (6.31%) Python Developer
11 12 (5.83%) Architect
11 12 (5.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 12 (5.83%) Lead Software Developer
11 12 (5.83%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (4.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (4.85%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (33.98%) React
2 49 (23.79%) Node.js
3 32 (15.53%) FastAPI
4 30 (14.56%) RESTful
5 25 (12.14%) CSS
5 25 (12.14%) HTML
6 23 (11.17%) REST
7 22 (10.68%) Kafka
8 20 (9.71%) Django
9 19 (9.22%) Next.js
9 19 (9.22%) Redux
9 19 (9.22%) Spring
10 17 (8.25%) Spring Boot
11 14 (6.80%) Flask
12 13 (6.31%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (5.83%) LangChain
14 10 (4.85%) Gherkin
15 9 (4.37%) AngularJS
16 8 (3.88%) JSON
16 8 (3.88%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.62%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.77%) Blog
3 16 (7.77%) Derivative
3 16 (7.77%) Equities
3 16 (7.77%) Fixed Income
4 13 (6.31%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (6.31%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.88%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.88%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.94%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.94%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.94%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.94%) IoT
8 4 (1.94%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.80%) Linux
2 9 (4.37%) Unix
2 9 (4.37%) Windows
3 5 (2.43%) Android
3 5 (2.43%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.94%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (39.32%) CI/CD
2 78 (37.86%) Software Engineering
3 77 (37.38%) Agile
4 61 (29.61%) Microservices
5 56 (27.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 53 (25.73%) Fintech
7 49 (23.79%) AI
8 39 (18.93%) Mentoring
9 37 (17.96%) Test Automation
10 34 (16.50%) DevOps
11 33 (16.02%) Containerisation
12 32 (15.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (14.56%) Analytics
14 29 (14.08%) Clean Code
14 29 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (12.62%) Data Engineering
15 26 (12.62%) Data Modelling
15 26 (12.62%) Data Pipeline
16 25 (12.14%) Technical Leadership
17 24 (11.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 108 (52.43%) Python
2 70 (33.98%) Java
3 69 (33.50%) SQL
4 57 (27.67%) JavaScript
5 54 (26.21%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.80%) Go
7 12 (5.83%) C#
8 6 (2.91%) PHP
9 5 (2.43%) Delphi
10 4 (1.94%) Pascal
10 4 (1.94%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.94%) Ruby
10 4 (1.94%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.46%) RPG
11 3 (1.46%) Rust
12 1 (0.49%) Bash
12 1 (0.49%) C++
12 1 (0.49%) Elm
12 1 (0.49%) Korn
12 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 33 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.17%) Degree
4 10 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.43%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.97%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.85%) QA
3 6 (2.91%) GDPR
4 5 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.94%) SLA
6 2 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.49%) PSD2
System Software
1 64 (31.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.97%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 75 (36.41%) Kubernetes
2 48 (23.30%) Terraform
3 19 (9.22%) Grafana
4 9 (4.37%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.40%) Argo
6 5 (2.43%) Kibana
7 2 (0.97%) Ansible
7 2 (0.97%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.49%) Ambari
8 1 (0.49%) Istio
8 1 (0.49%) Puppet
8 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (6.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.34%) OpenAI
3 10 (4.85%) Oracle
4 9 (4.37%) Google
5 7 (3.40%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.40%) IBM
5 7 (3.40%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.43%) Informatica
6 5 (2.43%) Talend
7 4 (1.94%) Databricks
8 3 (1.46%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.46%) Revolut
8 3 (1.46%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.46%) Splunk
9 2 (0.97%) Confluent
9 2 (0.97%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.97%) SAP
10 1 (0.49%) Apple
10 1 (0.49%) Intel
10 1 (0.49%) Sybase