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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 82 82
Rank change year-on-year -31 0 +41
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 37 51 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.89% 2.66% 3.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.00% 12.47% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 32 45 93
10th Percentile £68,000 - £52,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% -3.13% -7.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £99,600 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £92,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.12% +3.13% -3.03%

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 370 409 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.87% 21.36% 25.07%
Number of salaries quoted 279 318 623
10th Percentile £56,875 £47,500 £45,850
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £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 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £109,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -3.33%

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 25 May 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 10 (27.03%) Apache
2 9 (24.32%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (24.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) AWS
2 12 (32.43%) SaaS
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 5 (13.51%) Azure
5 4 (10.81%) GCP
5 4 (10.81%) Heroku
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.70%) dbt
6 1 (2.70%) PaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) Prefect
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) MySQL
2 12 (32.43%) Relational Database
3 11 (29.73%) NoSQL
4 8 (21.62%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (16.22%) MongoDB
6 3 (8.11%) MariaDB
7 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.70%) ClickHouse
8 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.70%) Flink
8 1 (2.70%) Metadata
8 1 (2.70%) OLTP
8 1 (2.70%) Pinecone
8 1 (2.70%) Power BI
8 1 (2.70%) SQLPlus
8 1 (2.70%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Legal
4 3 (8.11%) Games
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Advertising
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Developer
1 13 (35.14%) Lead
2 9 (24.32%) Python Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Data Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Lead Data Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Python Data Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Senior
6 5 (13.51%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Java Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Lead Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Ruby Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Architect
9 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 1 (2.70%) Data Architect
10 1 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) Kafka
2 7 (18.92%) React
2 7 (18.92%) REST
3 5 (13.51%) FastAPI
3 5 (13.51%) Node.js
4 4 (10.81%) RESTful
4 4 (10.81%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (8.11%) Django
5 3 (8.11%) Flask
5 3 (8.11%) Laravel
5 3 (8.11%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (8.11%) Vue
6 2 (5.41%) LangChain
6 2 (5.41%) NumPy
6 2 (5.41%) Pandas
6 2 (5.41%) PyTorch
6 2 (5.41%) Spring
6 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.11%) Low-Code
2 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) PropTech
2 3 (8.11%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (5.41%) CUDA
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.70%) Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.70%) Replication
4 1 (2.70%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) AI
2 12 (32.43%) Observability
3 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.03%) Data Engineering
4 10 (27.03%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (24.32%) API Design
6 8 (21.62%) Data Ingestion
6 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
7 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
7 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
8 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.51%) Generative AI
8 5 (13.51%) Market Research
8 5 (13.51%) Microservices
9 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (8.11%) AIOps
10 3 (8.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 21 (56.76%) Python
2 10 (27.03%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) SQL
4 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.81%) Ruby
4 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.11%) Go
6 2 (5.41%) C++
7 1 (2.70%) Bicep
7 1 (2.70%) C
7 1 (2.70%) C#
7 1 (2.70%) Elm
7 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle
2 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.70%) Confluent
2 1 (2.70%) Databricks
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.70%) Refinitiv