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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 114 143
Rank change year-on-year -66 +29 +9
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 267 366 510
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 2.96% 2.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.31% 13.53% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 189 273 404
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
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 £113,125
90th Percentile £132,000 £137,500 £126,000
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 2,589 2,705 4,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.51% 21.87% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,692 1,783 3,521
10th Percentile £46,526 £48,550 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £110,000
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 21 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 21 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 0 45 £87,500 +6.06% 17
West London -4 15 £80,000 +25.98% 9
South London -15 5 - -
East London -7 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 15 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.24%) Apache
2 14 (5.24%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.49%) Confluence
4 5 (1.87%) Camunda
5 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.37%) JBoss
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) Moodle
6 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.12%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 152 (56.93%) AWS
2 78 (29.21%) Azure
3 52 (19.48%) GCP
4 30 (11.24%) SaaS
5 25 (9.36%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.49%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (7.12%) Serverless
8 18 (6.74%) GitHub
9 11 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.12%) Lucidchart
10 10 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 10 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.37%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (3.00%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.62%) Vercel
14 6 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.24%) Broadband
2 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.50%) DHCP
3 4 (1.50%) DNS
3 4 (1.50%) VPN
3 4 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.60%) MongoDB
2 44 (16.48%) MySQL
2 44 (16.48%) Relational Database
3 36 (13.48%) Redis
4 28 (10.49%) NoSQL
5 21 (7.87%) DynamoDB
5 21 (7.87%) SQL Server
6 17 (6.37%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (5.62%) Metadata
8 13 (4.87%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (4.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (4.87%) Big Data
9 11 (4.12%) Db2
10 10 (3.75%) Data Lake
10 10 (3.75%) DTS
10 10 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (3.00%) Power BI
13 6 (2.25%) Pinecone
13 6 (2.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (11.24%) Git
2 12 (4.49%) TeamCity
3 9 (3.37%) GitLab
3 9 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.37%) JUnit
4 8 (3.00%) Mockito
5 7 (2.62%) Vite
6 5 (1.87%) Claude Code
7 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.75%) ESLint
8 2 (0.75%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.75%) JIRA
8 2 (0.75%) JMeter
8 2 (0.75%) Storybook
8 2 (0.75%) webpack
9 1 (0.37%) CMake
9 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.37%) Maven
9 1 (0.37%) Subversion
9 1 (0.37%) Valgrind
General
1 58 (21.72%) Finance
2 46 (17.23%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.24%) Games
3 22 (8.24%) Law
4 21 (7.87%) Banking
5 20 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (7.12%) Retail
7 16 (5.99%) Front Office
8 14 (5.24%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.00%) Legal
10 7 (2.62%) Legal Technology
11 5 (1.87%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.12%) Back Office
12 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.75%) Electronics
13 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.37%) Advertising
14 1 (0.37%) Aviation
14 1 (0.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 94 (35.21%) Developer
2 68 (25.47%) Lead
3 57 (21.35%) Senior
3 57 (21.35%) Software Engineer
4 36 (13.48%) Python Engineer
5 32 (11.99%) Lead Developer
6 30 (11.24%) Python Developer
7 28 (10.49%) Architect
7 28 (10.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 24 (8.99%) Data Engineer
9 21 (7.87%) Ruby Developer
10 18 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (6.74%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (5.99%) Lead Python Developer
11 16 (5.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (4.87%) Lead Data Engineer
14 12 (4.49%) Database Engineer
14 12 (4.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 12 (4.49%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (22.85%) React
2 58 (21.72%) RESTful
3 56 (20.97%) Node.js
4 37 (13.86%) Kafka
4 37 (13.86%) Spring
5 36 (13.48%) FastAPI
5 36 (13.48%) Spring Boot
6 33 (12.36%) REST
7 27 (10.11%) Next.js
8 23 (8.61%) JWT
9 21 (7.87%) JSON
9 21 (7.87%) Ruby on Rails
10 17 (6.37%) Redux
11 14 (5.24%) Sidekiq
12 13 (4.87%) CSS
13 11 (4.12%) Middleware
14 10 (3.75%) HTML
15 9 (3.37%) Hibernate
16 8 (3.00%) JPA
16 8 (3.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 63 (23.60%) Cloud Native
2 40 (14.98%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (9.74%) Low-Code
4 23 (8.61%) Video\Live Streaming
5 19 (7.12%) Onboarding
6 16 (5.99%) Blog
6 16 (5.99%) Derivative
6 16 (5.99%) Equities
6 16 (5.99%) Fixed Income
7 15 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.75%) EPoS
8 10 (3.75%) iSeries
9 8 (3.00%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.62%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.62%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.25%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.87%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.87%) Replication
13 4 (1.50%) CCTV
13 4 (1.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.75%) Linux
2 6 (2.25%) Windows
3 4 (1.50%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (39.33%) Software Engineering
2 102 (38.20%) CI/CD
3 90 (33.71%) AI
4 77 (28.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 75 (28.09%) Agile
6 62 (23.22%) API Design
6 62 (23.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (23.22%) Observability
7 61 (22.85%) Microservices
8 53 (19.85%) Containerisation
9 49 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (18.35%) Mentoring
9 49 (18.35%) Test Automation
10 42 (15.73%) Clean Code
11 41 (15.36%) Fintech
12 40 (14.98%) Machine Learning
13 36 (13.48%) DevOps
14 35 (13.11%) Analytics
14 35 (13.11%) Generative AI
15 34 (12.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 137 (51.31%) Python
2 64 (23.97%) SQL
3 63 (23.60%) Java
4 54 (20.22%) TypeScript
5 37 (13.86%) JavaScript
6 31 (11.61%) Go
7 21 (7.87%) Ruby
8 10 (3.75%) RPG
9 8 (3.00%) C#
10 6 (2.25%) PHP
11 5 (1.87%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.50%) Delphi
12 4 (1.50%) Pascal
13 3 (1.12%) Bash
13 3 (1.12%) C++
13 3 (1.12%) Scala
13 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.37%) Elm
14 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (10.11%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.12%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.12%) Degree
4 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.86%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.49%) QA
3 11 (4.12%) GDPR
4 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) MiFID
5 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (23.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (20.97%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.98%) Terraform
3 15 (5.62%) Grafana
4 4 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.12%) Ansible
6 2 (0.75%) Kibana
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (7.12%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.37%) Oracle
3 13 (4.87%) OpenAI
4 11 (4.12%) Google
5 10 (3.75%) IBM
6 9 (3.37%) Databricks
7 4 (1.50%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.50%) Netezza
7 4 (1.50%) Remedy
7 4 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.75%) Mapbox
8 2 (0.75%) Revolut
8 2 (0.75%) Splunk
8 2 (0.75%) TikTok
9 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.37%) Confluent
9 1 (0.37%) Informatica
9 1 (0.37%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.37%) Talend