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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 112 153
Rank change year-on-year -68 +41 -14
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 297 362 461
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.25% 2.96% 2.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.79% 13.36% 10.21%
Number of salaries quoted 203 264 348
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £123,000 - £130,000
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 2,752 2,709 4,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.63% 22.18% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,769 1,746 3,233
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -0.80% -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 8 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 8 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 +7 49 £88,750 +7.58% 28
West London -20 15 £80,000 +25.98% 6
South London -25 5 - - 3
East London -8 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 (7.07%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (5.39%) Apache
4 12 (4.04%) Confluence
5 7 (2.36%) Camunda
6 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.67%) Luigi
7 2 (0.67%) Tornado
8 1 (0.34%) JBoss
8 1 (0.34%) Moodle
8 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 168 (56.57%) AWS
2 85 (28.62%) Azure
3 50 (16.84%) GCP
4 34 (11.45%) SaaS
5 30 (10.10%) GitHub
6 28 (9.43%) Amazon S3
7 21 (7.07%) Serverless
8 18 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (4.38%) GitHub Copilot
12 12 (4.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 11 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (3.70%) Lucidchart
13 11 (3.70%) Power Platform
14 10 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
15 9 (3.03%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.41%) Broadband
2 4 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.01%) DHCP
3 3 (1.01%) DNS
3 3 (1.01%) VPN
3 3 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.34%) AMQP
4 1 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (19.53%) MongoDB
2 55 (18.52%) Relational Database
3 52 (17.51%) MySQL
4 45 (15.15%) Redis
5 35 (11.78%) NoSQL
6 28 (9.43%) SQL Server
7 23 (7.74%) DynamoDB
8 18 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.39%) Big Data
10 15 (5.05%) Metadata
11 14 (4.71%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (3.70%) Db2
13 11 (3.70%) Power BI
14 10 (3.37%) Data Lake
14 10 (3.37%) DTS
15 9 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (2.69%) Tableau
17 6 (2.02%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 38 (12.79%) Git
2 10 (3.37%) GitLab
2 10 (3.37%) JUnit
2 10 (3.37%) TeamCity
3 9 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.03%) Mockito
4 8 (2.69%) Vite
5 6 (2.02%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.01%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (1.01%) webpack
7 2 (0.67%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.67%) JIRA
7 2 (0.67%) JMeter
8 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.34%) ESLint
8 1 (0.34%) Mocha
8 1 (0.34%) Selenium
8 1 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 65 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.54%) Finance
3 22 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (7.41%) Games
3 22 (7.41%) Law
4 21 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.40%) Banking
5 19 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.04%) Front Office
6 12 (4.04%) Retail
7 10 (3.37%) Legal
8 9 (3.03%) Legal Technology
9 7 (2.36%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.01%) Electronics
10 3 (1.01%) Marketing
10 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Advertising
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 100 (33.67%) Developer
2 75 (25.25%) Senior
3 69 (23.23%) Lead
4 65 (21.89%) Software Engineer
5 37 (12.46%) Python Engineer
6 30 (10.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 30 (10.10%) Lead Developer
7 29 (9.76%) Data Engineer
8 28 (9.43%) Python Developer
8 28 (9.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 26 (8.75%) Architect
9 26 (8.75%) Ruby Developer
10 21 (7.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (5.72%) Lead Data Engineer
12 16 (5.39%) Database Engineer
13 15 (5.05%) Lead Python Developer
14 14 (4.71%) Senior Developer
15 13 (4.38%) Lead Software Engineer
16 12 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (3.70%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.55%) React
1 64 (21.55%) RESTful
2 59 (19.87%) Node.js
3 42 (14.14%) Kafka
3 42 (14.14%) Spring
4 39 (13.13%) REST
4 39 (13.13%) Spring Boot
5 35 (11.78%) Next.js
6 33 (11.11%) FastAPI
7 30 (10.10%) JWT
8 27 (9.09%) Ruby on Rails
9 26 (8.75%) JSON
10 17 (5.72%) Sidekiq
11 16 (5.39%) OAuth
12 15 (5.05%) OAuth2
13 14 (4.71%) CSS
14 13 (4.38%) Redux
15 12 (4.04%) HTML
16 11 (3.70%) Middleware
17 10 (3.37%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 62 (20.88%) Cloud Native
2 49 (16.50%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.75%) Low-Code
4 23 (7.74%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (6.06%) Onboarding
6 15 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (4.04%) Derivative
7 12 (4.04%) Equities
7 12 (4.04%) Fixed Income
8 11 (3.70%) AI Agents
9 10 (3.37%) EPoS
9 10 (3.37%) iSeries
10 9 (3.03%) Blog
11 7 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.02%) Client/Server
12 6 (2.02%) Replication
13 5 (1.68%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.68%) IoT
14 4 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.03%) Linux
2 7 (2.36%) Windows
3 3 (1.01%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.67%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (38.72%) CI/CD
2 112 (37.71%) Software Engineering
3 111 (37.37%) AI
4 89 (29.97%) Agile
5 88 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 75 (25.25%) Observability
7 71 (23.91%) API Design
7 71 (23.91%) Microservices
8 67 (22.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 63 (21.21%) Containerisation
10 59 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (17.51%) Test Automation
12 51 (17.17%) Clean Code
13 49 (16.50%) Mentoring
14 46 (15.49%) Machine Learning
15 44 (14.81%) Event-Driven
16 41 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
17 40 (13.47%) DevOps
18 38 (12.79%) Analytics
19 36 (12.12%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 148 (49.83%) Python
2 70 (23.57%) SQL
3 66 (22.22%) Java
4 59 (19.87%) TypeScript
5 41 (13.80%) JavaScript
6 34 (11.45%) Go
7 27 (9.09%) Ruby
8 10 (3.37%) C#
8 10 (3.37%) RPG
9 5 (1.68%) PHP
9 5 (1.68%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.35%) Bash
10 4 (1.35%) Scala
11 3 (1.01%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.01%) C++
11 3 (1.01%) Delphi
11 3 (1.01%) Pascal
11 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.01%) SOQL
11 3 (1.01%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 27 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.40%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.06%) Degree
4 5 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.67%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.45%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.39%) QA
3 14 (4.71%) GDPR
4 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) MiFID
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (25.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.01%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (19.53%) Kubernetes
2 50 (16.84%) Terraform
3 14 (4.71%) Grafana
4 7 (2.36%) Ansible
5 4 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.01%) Argo
7 2 (0.67%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
8 1 (0.34%) Nagios
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 22 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.07%) Oracle
3 13 (4.38%) Google
4 12 (4.04%) OpenAI
5 10 (3.37%) Databricks
5 10 (3.37%) IBM
6 4 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.35%) Netezza
6 4 (1.35%) Remedy
6 4 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.67%) Splunk
8 2 (0.67%) TikTok
9 1 (0.34%) Confluent
9 1 (0.34%) Informatica
9 1 (0.34%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.34%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) Sybase
9 1 (0.34%) Talend