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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 95 123
Rank change year-on-year -98 +28 +24
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 221 473 517
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.33% 3.45% 2.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.66% 15.12% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 158 280 467
10th Percentile £52,470 £57,500 £54,500
25th Percentile £68,813 £70,000 £60,093
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +12.90% -8.82%
75th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £73,801 £77,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -4.77% +18.38% -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 2,288 3,128 4,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.81% 22.83% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,489 2,027 3,709
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £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 £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £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 10 March 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 March 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 -40 30 £100,000 +17.65% 19
South London -17 8 £62,600 +0.16% 2
East London -18 2 £85,000 - 17
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 (6.79%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.88%) Confluence
3 9 (4.07%) Tomcat
3 9 (4.07%) WebSphere
4 8 (3.62%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (3.17%) Apache
6 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.45%) Camunda
7 1 (0.45%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (3.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Endur
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 142 (64.25%) AWS
2 81 (36.65%) Azure
3 75 (33.94%) GCP
4 25 (11.31%) Serverless
5 23 (10.41%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (7.69%) GitHub
7 16 (7.24%) dbt
8 14 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 13 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.88%) SaaS
10 9 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (4.07%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.62%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (3.62%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (3.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (3.62%) LangSmith
11 8 (3.62%) Vercel
12 6 (2.71%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.98%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.07%) SSL
3 5 (2.26%) VPN
3 5 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.81%) DHCP
4 4 (1.81%) DNS
5 2 (0.90%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) BGP
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.45%) Firewall
6 1 (0.45%) LAN
6 1 (0.45%) MQTT
6 1 (0.45%) OSPF
6 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.45%) RTMP
6 1 (0.45%) VLAN
6 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (21.27%) Relational Database
2 37 (16.74%) SQL Server
3 35 (15.84%) MongoDB
4 32 (14.48%) MySQL
5 29 (13.12%) NoSQL
6 25 (11.31%) DB2
7 22 (9.95%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (6.33%) RDBMS
9 13 (5.88%) DynamoDB
10 12 (5.43%) Redis
11 10 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (4.07%) Big Data
12 9 (4.07%) BigQuery
12 9 (4.07%) Hadoop
12 9 (4.07%) Power BI
13 8 (3.62%) Pinecone
14 6 (2.71%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (2.71%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (2.71%) Metadata
14 6 (2.71%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 36 (16.29%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.12%) Git
3 20 (9.05%) TeamCity
4 14 (6.33%) GitLab
4 14 (6.33%) JIRA
5 13 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 13 (5.88%) Selenium
6 12 (5.43%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.17%) JUnit
7 7 (3.17%) Vite
8 6 (2.71%) JMeter
8 6 (2.71%) Mockito
9 4 (1.81%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.36%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.90%) ESLint
11 2 (0.90%) Gradle
11 2 (0.90%) Maven
11 2 (0.90%) Subversion
11 2 (0.90%) webpack
General
1 72 (32.58%) Finance
2 50 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 39 (17.65%) Banking
4 32 (14.48%) Law
5 23 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (9.50%) Public Sector
7 19 (8.60%) Front Office
7 19 (8.60%) Retail
8 7 (3.17%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.81%) Back Office
9 4 (1.81%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.36%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Advertising
11 1 (0.45%) Electronics
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Marketing
11 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 73 (33.03%) Developer
2 43 (19.46%) Lead
3 39 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 35 (15.84%) Senior
5 24 (10.86%) Java Developer
6 23 (10.41%) Data Engineer
6 23 (10.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (10.41%) Lead Developer
7 18 (8.14%) Lead Software Engineer
8 17 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
8 17 (7.69%) Python Developer
8 17 (7.69%) Python Engineer
9 16 (7.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 14 (6.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 14 (6.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 13 (5.88%) Architect
11 13 (5.88%) Java Engineer
12 12 (5.43%) Lead Software Developer
13 11 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (4.52%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (34.39%) React
2 56 (25.34%) Node.js
3 38 (17.19%) FastAPI
4 32 (14.48%) HTML
5 29 (13.12%) CSS
6 28 (12.67%) RESTful
7 27 (12.22%) Django
8 26 (11.76%) REST
8 26 (11.76%) Spring
9 23 (10.41%) Kafka
9 23 (10.41%) Spring Boot
10 20 (9.05%) Redux
11 17 (7.69%) Next.js
12 15 (6.79%) Flask
13 14 (6.33%) AngularJS
13 14 (6.33%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (5.43%) LangChain
15 11 (4.98%) Web Services
16 10 (4.52%) Gherkin
17 9 (4.07%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.57%) Cloud Native
2 28 (12.67%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (8.14%) Equities
3 18 (8.14%) Fixed Income
4 16 (7.24%) Derivative
5 15 (6.79%) Blog
6 14 (6.33%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (5.43%) Management Information System
7 12 (5.43%) Product Ownership
8 11 (4.98%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.71%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.26%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.26%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.81%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.81%) CCTV
12 4 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.81%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.60%) Linux
2 15 (6.79%) Unix
3 13 (5.88%) Windows
4 10 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.26%) Android
5 5 (2.26%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.81%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (42.08%) Agile
2 92 (41.63%) CI/CD
3 78 (35.29%) Software Engineering
4 70 (31.67%) Microservices
5 58 (26.24%) Fintech
6 56 (25.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (20.81%) AI
8 42 (19.00%) Mentoring
9 38 (17.19%) DevOps
10 36 (16.29%) Containerisation
10 36 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (16.29%) Test Automation
11 31 (14.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (14.03%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (13.57%) Data Modelling
13 29 (13.12%) Clean Code
14 27 (12.22%) Data Engineering
14 27 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (12.22%) ETL
14 27 (12.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 122 (55.20%) Python
2 76 (34.39%) Java
3 75 (33.94%) SQL
4 71 (32.13%) JavaScript
5 62 (28.05%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.88%) C#
7 10 (4.52%) Go
8 7 (3.17%) Rust
8 7 (3.17%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.71%) PHP
10 5 (2.26%) Delphi
10 5 (2.26%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.81%) Pascal
12 3 (1.36%) RPG
12 3 (1.36%) Ruby
13 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.45%) Bash
14 1 (0.45%) COBOL
14 1 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.12%) Degree
4 11 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.52%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.62%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.71%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.90%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.45%) HNC
11 1 (0.45%) HND
11 1 (0.45%) MCSA
11 1 (0.45%) MCSE
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.62%) QA
2 8 (3.62%) SLA
3 7 (3.17%) GDPR
4 6 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.90%) PSD2
System Software
1 71 (32.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) NFS
Systems Management
1 78 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 49 (22.17%) Terraform
3 17 (7.69%) Grafana
4 9 (4.07%) Argo
4 9 (4.07%) Kibana
4 9 (4.07%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.36%) Ansible
5 3 (1.36%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.45%) Ambari
6 1 (0.45%) Istio
6 1 (0.45%) Puppet
6 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (9.05%) Oracle
2 14 (6.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.43%) IBM
3 12 (5.43%) OpenAI
3 12 (5.43%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.98%) Atlassian
4 11 (4.98%) Google
5 8 (3.62%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.71%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.71%) Informatica
6 6 (2.71%) Splunk
6 6 (2.71%) Talend
7 4 (1.81%) Databricks
8 3 (1.36%) Revolut
9 2 (0.90%) Confluent
9 2 (0.90%) Dell
9 2 (0.90%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.90%) SAP
10 1 (0.45%) Cisco
10 1 (0.45%) Intel