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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 112 94
Rank change year-on-year +28 -18 +22
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 44 22 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.74% 1.36% 2.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.67% 5.73% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 35 17 52
10th Percentile £53,500 £70,000 £59,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £120,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +50.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £115,000 £150,000 £103,125
90th Percentile £165,500 - £112,500
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £120,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -27.08% +50.00% +14.29%

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 249 384 740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 9.85% 23.75% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 185 321 456
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +2.99% +3.79%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,500 £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% +6.90% -

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 13 October 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 6 (13.64%) Apache
1 6 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 5 (11.36%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.27%) Camunda
3 1 (2.27%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.91%) AWS
2 14 (31.82%) Azure
3 11 (25.00%) SaaS
4 6 (13.64%) Heroku
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (11.36%) GitHub
6 4 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.82%) GCP
7 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.55%) Cloud Run
8 2 (4.55%) LangSmith
8 2 (4.55%) Vertex AI
9 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Databricks
9 1 (2.27%) Google Gemini
9 1 (2.27%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 9 (20.45%) Relational Database
3 7 (15.91%) NoSQL
4 4 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (9.09%) MySQL
4 4 (9.09%) Power BI
4 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.82%) Pinecone
6 2 (4.55%) Chroma
6 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.27%) ClickHouse
7 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.27%) DuckDB
7 1 (2.27%) Flink
7 1 (2.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) GitLab
2 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.27%) Vite
General
1 14 (31.82%) Finance
2 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (13.64%) Legal
3 6 (13.64%) Legal Technology
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Games
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) Lead
2 17 (38.64%) Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Data Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Lead Data Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Python Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) Database Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Python Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Senior
6 6 (13.64%) Lead Developer
6 6 (13.64%) Ruby Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Lead Python Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Software Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Java Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.09%) React
2 12 (27.27%) REST
3 7 (15.91%) FastAPI
4 6 (13.64%) Kafka
4 6 (13.64%) Ruby on Rails
4 6 (13.64%) Terraform
5 4 (9.09%) LangChain
5 4 (9.09%) LangGraph
6 3 (6.82%) CrewAI
6 3 (6.82%) Django
6 3 (6.82%) Next.js
6 3 (6.82%) Node.js
6 3 (6.82%) RESTful
7 2 (4.55%) CSS
7 2 (4.55%) Flask
7 2 (4.55%) OAuth
7 2 (4.55%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.55%) Spring
7 2 (4.55%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.36%) AI Agents
3 4 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.55%) Low-Code
5 2 (4.55%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (2.27%) Clustering
6 1 (2.27%) CUDA
6 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.27%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.27%) Replication
6 1 (2.27%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) AI
2 18 (40.91%) Observability
3 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 12 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 11 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 11 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (22.73%) Data Ingestion
7 9 (20.45%) Containerisation
7 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (20.45%) Test Automation
8 8 (18.18%) LLM
9 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (15.91%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (15.91%) Workflow
10 6 (13.64%) Agile
10 6 (13.64%) Data Architecture
10 6 (13.64%) Generative AI
10 6 (13.64%) Microservices
10 6 (13.64%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 33 (75.00%) Python
2 13 (29.55%) SQL
3 8 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 6 (13.64%) Ruby
5 5 (11.36%) Java
6 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.55%) Bash
7 2 (4.55%) Go
8 1 (2.27%) Bicep
8 1 (2.27%) C
8 1 (2.27%) C++
8 1 (2.27%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Degree
1 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Argo
2 1 (2.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Databricks
1 5 (11.36%) OpenAI
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) Mistral
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.27%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.27%) Confluent
5 1 (2.27%) Refinitiv