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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 112 87
Rank change year-on-year +10 -25 +42
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 46 31 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.24% 1.64% 2.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.65% 7.89% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 39 24 62
10th Percentile £58,750 - £51,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £76,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% -4.69% +1.59%
75th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £111,875
90th Percentile £115,000 £99,950 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +3.13% +6.67%

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 337 393 735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 9.09% 20.83% 26.86%
Number of salaries quoted 245 301 532
10th Percentile £56,875 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,250
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 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £107,500
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 4 August 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 (19.57%) Apache
1 9 (19.57%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (19.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) AWS
2 16 (34.78%) SaaS
3 8 (17.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 8 (17.39%) Azure
4 6 (13.04%) Heroku
5 3 (6.52%) GCP
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub
6 2 (4.35%) Serverless
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.17%) CloudFront
7 1 (2.17%) dbt
7 1 (2.17%) Figma
7 1 (2.17%) Kong
7 1 (2.17%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) MySQL
1 13 (28.26%) Relational Database
2 11 (23.91%) NoSQL
3 9 (19.57%) MongoDB
4 8 (17.39%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.52%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.35%) Pinecone
6 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.17%) ClickHouse
7 1 (2.17%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.17%) DuckDB
7 1 (2.17%) OLAP
7 1 (2.17%) OLTP
7 1 (2.17%) Redis
7 1 (2.17%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) GitLab
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) Vite
General
1 12 (26.09%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) Legal
2 6 (13.04%) Legal Technology
2 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Games
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Lead
2 16 (34.78%) Developer
3 13 (28.26%) Python Engineer
4 12 (26.09%) Data Engineer
4 12 (26.09%) Lead Data Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) Senior
6 7 (15.22%) Python Data Engineer
7 6 (13.04%) Database Engineer
7 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (13.04%) Lead Developer
7 6 (13.04%) Ruby Developer
8 4 (8.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Java Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Python Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) REST
2 11 (23.91%) React
3 9 (19.57%) Kafka
4 6 (13.04%) Ruby on Rails
5 5 (10.87%) FastAPI
6 4 (8.70%) Node.js
6 4 (8.70%) RESTful
7 3 (6.52%) Django
7 3 (6.52%) LangChain
7 3 (6.52%) Laravel
7 3 (6.52%) Spring
7 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
7 3 (6.52%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (4.35%) JWT
8 2 (4.35%) LangGraph
8 2 (4.35%) Next.js
8 2 (4.35%) NumPy
8 2 (4.35%) Pandas
8 2 (4.35%) PyTorch
8 2 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.52%) AI Agents
2 3 (6.52%) Low-Code
2 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.52%) PropTech
2 3 (6.52%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (4.35%) CUDA
3 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.17%) Clustering
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.17%) Replication
4 1 (2.17%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) AI
2 19 (41.30%) Observability
3 15 (32.61%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
5 12 (26.09%) Data Ingestion
5 12 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (23.91%) Data Engineering
6 11 (23.91%) Software Engineering
7 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (17.39%) API Design
8 8 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
9 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (13.04%) Generative AI
10 6 (13.04%) LLM
10 6 (13.04%) Microservices
11 5 (10.87%) Agile
11 5 (10.87%) Machine Learning
11 5 (10.87%) Workflow
12 4 (8.70%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 31 (67.39%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) SQL
3 7 (15.22%) Java
4 6 (13.04%) Ruby
4 6 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.52%) Go
7 2 (4.35%) C++
8 1 (2.17%) Bicep
8 1 (2.17%) C
8 1 (2.17%) C#
8 1 (2.17%) Elm
8 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.87%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) Databricks
1 3 (6.52%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.17%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.17%) Confluent
3 1 (2.17%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.17%) Refinitiv