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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 105 87
Rank change year-on-year +17 -18 +37
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 43 21 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.50% 1.25% 2.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.10% 5.45% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 35 15 56
10th Percentile £60,900 £70,000 £54,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £96,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £105,625
90th Percentile £165,500 £150,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £120,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +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 267 385 747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 9.30% 22.99% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 198 313 466
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,000 £47,491
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,750 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £99,370 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £119,750 £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -1.69%

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 29 September 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 7 (16.28%) Apache
1 7 (16.28%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (16.28%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Camunda
2 1 (2.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) AWS
2 14 (32.56%) SaaS
3 11 (25.58%) Azure
4 6 (13.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 6 (13.95%) Heroku
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub
6 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.33%) dbt
8 1 (2.33%) GCP
8 1 (2.33%) LangSmith
8 1 (2.33%) Prefect
8 1 (2.33%) Vercel
8 1 (2.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) Relational Database
2 9 (20.93%) NoSQL
3 8 (18.60%) MongoDB
4 7 (16.28%) MySQL
5 6 (13.95%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (6.98%) Power BI
6 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.65%) Pinecone
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.33%) Chroma
8 1 (2.33%) ClickHouse
8 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.33%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.33%) DuckDB
8 1 (2.33%) Flink
8 1 (2.33%) MariaDB
8 1 (2.33%) Redis
8 1 (2.33%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) GitLab
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) Vite
General
1 12 (27.91%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Legal
2 6 (13.95%) Legal Technology
2 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.65%) Games
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Lead
2 16 (37.21%) Developer
3 12 (27.91%) Data Engineer
3 12 (27.91%) Lead Data Engineer
4 11 (25.58%) Python Engineer
5 8 (18.60%) Database Engineer
6 6 (13.95%) Lead Developer
6 6 (13.95%) Python Data Engineer
6 6 (13.95%) Ruby Developer
6 6 (13.95%) Senior
7 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (11.63%) Python Developer
8 4 (9.30%) Lead Python Developer
8 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (6.98%) Java Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) React
2 11 (25.58%) REST
3 8 (18.60%) Kafka
4 6 (13.95%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (9.30%) FastAPI
5 4 (9.30%) Terraform
6 3 (6.98%) Node.js
7 2 (4.65%) Django
7 2 (4.65%) JWT
7 2 (4.65%) LangChain
7 2 (4.65%) LangGraph
7 2 (4.65%) Next.js
7 2 (4.65%) OAuth
7 2 (4.65%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.65%) RESTful
7 2 (4.65%) Spring
7 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.33%) CrewAI
8 1 (2.33%) Ollama
8 1 (2.33%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) AI Agents
2 3 (6.98%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.65%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.33%) Clustering
4 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) PropTech
4 1 (2.33%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.33%) Replication
4 1 (2.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) AI
2 19 (44.19%) Observability
3 13 (30.23%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
4 12 (27.91%) Data Ingestion
5 11 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (23.26%) Data Engineering
7 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
7 9 (20.93%) Software Engineering
8 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
9 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (16.28%) Workflow
10 6 (13.95%) Data Architecture
10 6 (13.95%) LLM
10 6 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (11.63%) Agile
11 5 (11.63%) API Design
11 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
11 5 (11.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 31 (72.09%) Python
2 12 (27.91%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) Ruby
4 5 (11.63%) Java
4 5 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.65%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) Bash
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) C
7 1 (2.33%) C++
7 1 (2.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.30%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Argo
2 1 (2.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Databricks
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.33%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.33%) Confluent
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) Mistral
4 1 (2.33%) Refinitiv