PostgreSQL Job Trends in the City of London

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 96 86
Rank change year-on-year -17 -10 +41
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 42 41 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.97% 2.15% 2.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.08% 9.81% 11.10%
Number of salaries quoted 38 34 79
10th Percentile £58,750 - £52,200
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £76,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% -4.69% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £100,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £99,950 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 379 418 802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.79% 21.90% 25.43%
Number of salaries quoted 280 322 605
10th Percentile £56,875 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -6.67%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the City of London

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the City of London

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (21.43%) Apache
1 9 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 20 (47.62%) AWS
2 13 (30.95%) SaaS
3 8 (19.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 7 (16.67%) Azure
5 6 (14.29%) Heroku
6 3 (7.14%) GCP
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.38%) dbt
8 1 (2.38%) GitHub
8 1 (2.38%) LangSmith
8 1 (2.38%) PaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Prefect
8 1 (2.38%) Serverless
8 1 (2.38%) Vercel
8 1 (2.38%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) MySQL
2 11 (26.19%) NoSQL
2 11 (26.19%) Relational Database
3 9 (21.43%) MongoDB
4 8 (19.05%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (7.14%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.76%) Pinecone
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.38%) ClickHouse
7 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.38%) Flink
7 1 (2.38%) OLAP
7 1 (2.38%) OLTP
7 1 (2.38%) Redis
7 1 (2.38%) SQLPlus
7 1 (2.38%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) GitLab
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) Vite
General
1 8 (19.05%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Legal
2 6 (14.29%) Legal Technology
3 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Games
5 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Lead
2 14 (33.33%) Developer
3 11 (26.19%) Python Engineer
4 10 (23.81%) Data Engineer
4 10 (23.81%) Lead Data Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Senior
6 6 (14.29%) Java Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Ruby Developer
7 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Lead Developer
8 4 (9.52%) Database Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) React
1 10 (23.81%) REST
2 9 (21.43%) Kafka
3 6 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (11.90%) FastAPI
5 4 (9.52%) RESTful
6 3 (7.14%) LangChain
6 3 (7.14%) Laravel
6 3 (7.14%) Node.js
6 3 (7.14%) Spring
6 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 3 (7.14%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (4.76%) Django
7 2 (4.76%) Flask
7 2 (4.76%) LangGraph
7 2 (4.76%) NumPy
7 2 (4.76%) Pandas
7 2 (4.76%) PyTorch
7 2 (4.76%) Vue
8 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) AI Agents
2 3 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 3 (7.14%) PropTech
2 3 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (4.76%) CUDA
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.38%) Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.38%) Replication
4 1 (2.38%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) AI
2 16 (38.10%) Observability
3 13 (30.95%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (26.19%) CI/CD
4 11 (26.19%) Software Engineering
5 10 (23.81%) Data Engineering
5 10 (23.81%) Data Ingestion
5 10 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (19.05%) API Design
8 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 6 (14.29%) Generative AI
8 6 (14.29%) LLM
9 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (11.90%) Machine Learning
9 5 (11.90%) Microservices
9 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
10 4 (9.52%) DevOps
10 4 (9.52%) Prompt Engineering
10 4 (9.52%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) Java
3 9 (21.43%) SQL
4 6 (14.29%) Ruby
5 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.14%) Go
7 2 (4.76%) C++
8 1 (2.38%) Bicep
8 1 (2.38%) C
8 1 (2.38%) C#
8 1 (2.38%) Elm
8 1 (2.38%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.19%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.38%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.38%) Confluent
3 1 (2.38%) Databricks
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Refinitiv