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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 94 86
Rank change year-on-year -17 -8 +45
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 44 47 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.03% 2.43% 2.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.67% 11.16% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 39 40 85
10th Percentile £65,750 - £51,600
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,313 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -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 377 421 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.80% 21.72% 25.29%
Number of salaries quoted 285 330 613
10th Percentile £56,875 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £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 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £114,500 £120,000 £109,500
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 15 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 (22.73%) Apache
2 9 (20.45%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (20.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (52.27%) AWS
2 13 (29.55%) SaaS
3 8 (18.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 7 (15.91%) Azure
5 6 (13.64%) Heroku
6 3 (6.82%) GCP
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.27%) dbt
8 1 (2.27%) GitHub
8 1 (2.27%) LangSmith
8 1 (2.27%) PaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.27%) Prefect
8 1 (2.27%) Serverless
8 1 (2.27%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) MySQL
2 12 (27.27%) Relational Database
3 11 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 9 (20.45%) MongoDB
5 8 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (6.82%) MariaDB
7 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.55%) Pinecone
8 1 (2.27%) ClickHouse
8 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.27%) Flink
8 1 (2.27%) Metadata
8 1 (2.27%) OLAP
8 1 (2.27%) OLTP
8 1 (2.27%) Power BI
8 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.27%) SQLPlus
8 1 (2.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) GitLab
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) Vite
General
1 10 (22.73%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Legal
2 6 (13.64%) Legal Technology
2 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Games
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Advertising
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Developer
2 14 (31.82%) Lead
3 11 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Data Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Lead Data Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Java Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Python Data Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Senior
6 6 (13.64%) Ruby Developer
7 5 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Lead Developer
8 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Database Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Architect
10 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Python Developer
10 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) Kafka
2 9 (20.45%) React
2 9 (20.45%) REST
3 6 (13.64%) FastAPI
3 6 (13.64%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (9.09%) Node.js
4 4 (9.09%) RESTful
5 3 (6.82%) Django
5 3 (6.82%) Flask
5 3 (6.82%) LangChain
5 3 (6.82%) Laravel
5 3 (6.82%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (4.55%) LangGraph
6 2 (4.55%) Next.js
6 2 (4.55%) NumPy
6 2 (4.55%) Pandas
6 2 (4.55%) PyTorch
6 2 (4.55%) Spring
6 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) AI Agents
2 3 (6.82%) Low-Code
2 3 (6.82%) PropTech
2 3 (6.82%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (4.55%) CUDA
3 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.27%) Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.27%) Replication
4 1 (2.27%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) AI
2 14 (31.82%) Observability
3 12 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (22.73%) Data Engineering
6 9 (20.45%) Data Ingestion
6 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (20.45%) Software Engineering
7 8 (18.18%) API Design
8 7 (15.91%) Containerisation
9 6 (13.64%) Generative AI
9 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning
10 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (11.36%) LLM
10 5 (11.36%) Market Research
10 5 (11.36%) Microservices
10 5 (11.36%) Test Automation
11 4 (9.09%) DevOps
11 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) Python
2 11 (25.00%) Java
3 8 (18.18%) SQL
4 6 (13.64%) Ruby
5 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.36%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.82%) Go
7 2 (4.55%) C++
8 1 (2.27%) Bicep
8 1 (2.27%) C
8 1 (2.27%) C#
8 1 (2.27%) Elm
8 1 (2.27%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle
2 2 (4.55%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.27%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.27%) Confluent
3 1 (2.27%) Databricks
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.27%) Refinitiv