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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 77 90
Rank change year-on-year -39 +13 +35
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 30 68 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.93% 3.24% 2.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.73% 13.00% 12.29%
Number of salaries quoted 27 63 82
10th Percentile £72,500 £65,450 £57,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £108,750 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £97,000 £112,250
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.15% +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 388 523 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 12.00% 24.89% 22.33%
Number of salaries quoted 298 400 599
10th Percentile £50,500 £47,500 £46,150
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,375 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,375 £115,000 £110,000
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 24 March 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 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (13.33%) Apache Spark
3 3 (10.00%) Apache
4 2 (6.67%) Confluence
5 1 (3.33%) IIS
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) GCP
4 5 (16.67%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (6.67%) Dagster
5 2 (6.67%) dbt
5 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.33%) Azure AI
6 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.33%) PaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Prefect
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
6 1 (3.33%) Supabase
6 1 (3.33%) Vercel
6 1 (3.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) MySQL
1 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) Airbyte
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) ClickHouse
4 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.33%) DB2
4 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.33%) MariaDB
4 1 (3.33%) Metabase
4 1 (3.33%) Metadata
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Front Office
4 1 (3.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 6 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Lead
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Python Programmer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Programmer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Django
1 9 (30.00%) FastAPI
2 7 (23.33%) Kafka
3 6 (20.00%) Node.js
4 3 (10.00%) Flask
4 3 (10.00%) Next.js
4 3 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (10.00%) Vue
5 2 (6.67%) CSS
5 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (6.67%) React
5 2 (6.67%) REST
6 1 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (3.33%) Ember.js
6 1 (3.33%) HTML
6 1 (3.33%) Laravel
6 1 (3.33%) NumPy
6 1 (3.33%) Pandas
6 1 (3.33%) RESTful
6 1 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.33%) CUDA
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.33%) PropTech
2 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Data Pipeline
1 11 (36.67%) Machine Learning
1 11 (36.67%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (30.00%) Event-Driven
2 9 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 8 (26.67%) AI
3 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (23.33%) Customer Experience
4 7 (23.33%) Fintech
5 6 (20.00%) Analytics
5 6 (20.00%) Domain Models
5 6 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (20.00%) OO
5 6 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
6 5 (16.67%) API Design
6 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Market Research
6 5 (16.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) Rust
4 5 (16.67%) SQL
5 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.67%) C#
7 1 (3.33%) C++
7 1 (3.33%) COBOL
7 1 (3.33%) Elm
7 1 (3.33%) Go
7 1 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
1 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.33%) SnowPro
3 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Ambari
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Argo
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Confluent
3 1 (3.33%) Dell
3 1 (3.33%) Foundry
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat