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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 79 87
Rank change year-on-year -44 +8 +36
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 29 67 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.78% 3.18% 2.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.77% 13.51% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 27 60 88
10th Percentile £70,500 - £54,625
25th Percentile £77,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £126,000 £97,850 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -4.48%

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 373 496 746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 10.02% 23.53% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 279 380 613
10th Percentile £51,650 £47,500 £45,150
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,250 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +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 21 April 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 (31.03%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (24.14%) Apache
2 7 (24.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) SaaS
3 6 (20.69%) Azure
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) dbt
6 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.90%) Prefect
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.45%) Dagster
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) MySQL
2 10 (34.48%) Relational Database
3 7 (24.14%) NoSQL
4 5 (17.24%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (10.34%) MariaDB
6 2 (6.90%) ClickHouse
6 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.90%) Flink
6 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.90%) Power BI
7 1 (3.45%) Data Vault
7 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.45%) Metadata
7 1 (3.45%) OLAP
7 1 (3.45%) OLTP
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.45%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Front Office
4 1 (3.45%) Games
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Lead
2 7 (24.14%) Data Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Python Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Java Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Lead Data Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior
5 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Python Data Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Lead Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) CUDA Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) Kafka
2 5 (17.24%) Django
2 5 (17.24%) FastAPI
3 4 (13.79%) Node.js
3 4 (13.79%) Vue
4 3 (10.34%) Flask
4 3 (10.34%) Laravel
4 3 (10.34%) React
4 3 (10.34%) REST
5 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.90%) CSS
5 2 (6.90%) HTML
5 2 (6.90%) RESTful
5 2 (6.90%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (3.45%) Ember.js
6 1 (3.45%) NumPy
6 1 (3.45%) Pandas
6 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.45%) Spring
6 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
1 3 (10.34%) PropTech
2 2 (6.90%) CUDA
3 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.45%) Replication
3 1 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
2 9 (31.03%) Data Engineering
3 8 (27.59%) AI
3 8 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (24.14%) Observability
5 6 (20.69%) Analytics
5 6 (20.69%) API Design
5 6 (20.69%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
6 5 (17.24%) Data Ingestion
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
6 5 (17.24%) Market Research
6 5 (17.24%) Microservices
6 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
7 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
7 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
7 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) Java
3 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.79%) SQL
4 2 (6.90%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) Rust
4 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.45%) Bicep
5 1 (3.45%) C++
5 1 (3.45%) Elm
5 1 (3.45%) Go
5 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Argo
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Confluent
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Bloomberg
2 1 (3.45%) Databricks
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.45%) Refinitiv