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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 87 110
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 +81
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 21 83 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.25% 2.97% 2.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.44% 11.20% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 18 56 65
10th Percentile £76,375 £63,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £83,125 £65,000 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £137,500 £81,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +16.07% -12.50%
75th Percentile £150,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £112,500 -
Central London median annual salary £137,500 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +71.88% +10.34% -9.38%

All Database and 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 386 741 625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.95% 26.50% 20.78%
Number of salaries quoted 324 478 578
10th Percentile £53,250 £49,250 £48,025
25th Percentile £63,250 £56,250 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £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 14 November 2025.

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 3 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.52%) Luigi
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) IIS
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) dbt
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (4.76%) Azure AI
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.76%) Dagster
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Supabase
4 1 (4.76%) Vercel
4 1 (4.76%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Hadoop
1 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
2 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.52%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.76%) Airbyte
4 1 (4.76%) Big Data
4 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.76%) DB2
4 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.76%) Metabase
4 1 (4.76%) Power BI
4 1 (4.76%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) MSTest
1 1 (4.76%) NUnit
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Team Leader
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Django
1 9 (42.86%) FastAPI
2 6 (28.57%) Kafka
2 6 (28.57%) Node.js
3 4 (19.05%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (14.29%) CSS
4 3 (14.29%) Next.js
4 3 (14.29%) React
5 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
5 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (9.52%) HTML
5 2 (9.52%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (4.76%) .NET
6 1 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (4.76%) Express.js
6 1 (4.76%) Flask
6 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.76%) Spring
6 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Machine Learning
2 10 (47.62%) Event-Driven
2 10 (47.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 10 (47.62%) Fintech
3 9 (42.86%) Customer Experience
3 9 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (38.10%) Domain Models
4 8 (38.10%) OO
4 8 (38.10%) Technology Strategy
5 7 (33.33%) Agile
6 6 (28.57%) AI
7 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
8 4 (19.05%) ETL
8 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (19.05%) Microservices
9 3 (14.29%) Analytics
9 3 (14.29%) DevOps
9 3 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) Rust
3 7 (33.33%) SQL
4 6 (28.57%) Java
5 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 2 (9.52%) Scala
7 1 (4.76%) C#
7 1 (4.76%) COBOL
7 1 (4.76%) Go
7 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 1 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Puppet
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
3 2 (9.52%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) Ambari
4 1 (4.76%) Argo
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Dell
2 1 (4.76%) Foundry
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat