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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 93 76
Rank change year-on-year -23 -17 +50
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 38 49 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.91% 2.53% 3.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.50% 11.95% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 33 43 91
10th Percentile £68,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -3.13% -8.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,300 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -7.25%

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 362 410 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.71% 21.14% 25.06%
Number of salaries quoted 276 321 616
10th Percentile £56,875 £47,500 £46,250
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 £94,063
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +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 1 June 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 (26.32%) Apache
2 9 (23.68%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (23.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (50.00%) AWS
2 12 (31.58%) SaaS
3 8 (21.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 5 (13.16%) Azure
4 5 (13.16%) Heroku
5 3 (7.89%) GCP
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.63%) dbt
6 1 (2.63%) PaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.63%) Prefect
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (34.21%) MySQL
2 12 (31.58%) Relational Database
3 10 (26.32%) NoSQL
4 8 (21.05%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (15.79%) MongoDB
6 3 (7.89%) MariaDB
7 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
7 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.63%) ClickHouse
8 1 (2.63%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.63%) Flink
8 1 (2.63%) Metadata
8 1 (2.63%) OLTP
8 1 (2.63%) Pinecone
8 1 (2.63%) Power BI
8 1 (2.63%) SQLPlus
8 1 (2.63%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) GitLab
3 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (21.05%) Finance
2 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Legal
4 3 (7.89%) Games
5 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Advertising
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Developer
2 13 (34.21%) Lead
3 9 (23.68%) Python Engineer
4 8 (21.05%) Data Engineer
4 8 (21.05%) Lead Data Engineer
5 7 (18.42%) Python Data Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (13.16%) Java Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) Lead Developer
6 5 (13.16%) Ruby Developer
6 5 (13.16%) Senior
7 3 (7.89%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Database Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Python Programmer
9 1 (2.63%) Senior Python Programmer
9 1 (2.63%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) Kafka
2 8 (21.05%) REST
3 7 (18.42%) React
4 5 (13.16%) FastAPI
4 5 (13.16%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (10.53%) Node.js
5 4 (10.53%) RESTful
6 3 (7.89%) Django
6 3 (7.89%) Flask
6 3 (7.89%) Laravel
6 3 (7.89%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (5.26%) LangChain
7 2 (5.26%) NumPy
7 2 (5.26%) Pandas
7 2 (5.26%) PyTorch
7 2 (5.26%) Spring
7 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.26%) Vue
8 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.89%) Low-Code
2 3 (7.89%) PropTech
2 3 (7.89%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (5.26%) CUDA
3 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.63%) Clustering
4 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.63%) Replication
4 1 (2.63%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) AI
2 12 (31.58%) Observability
3 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 10 (26.32%) Data Engineering
3 10 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (23.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (21.05%) API Design
5 8 (21.05%) Data Ingestion
6 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
7 6 (15.79%) Machine Learning
8 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.16%) Generative AI
8 5 (13.16%) Market Research
8 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
9 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.53%) Microservices
9 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (7.89%) Analytics
10 3 (7.89%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) Java
3 6 (15.79%) SQL
4 5 (13.16%) Ruby
5 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.89%) Go
7 2 (5.26%) C++
8 1 (2.63%) Bicep
8 1 (2.63%) C
8 1 (2.63%) C#
8 1 (2.63%) Elm
8 1 (2.63%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle
2 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.63%) Confluent
2 1 (2.63%) Databricks
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.63%) Refinitiv