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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 112 90
Rank change year-on-year +18 -22 +43
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 50 26 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.41% 1.42% 2.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.15% 6.72% 9.62%
Number of salaries quoted 42 20 59
10th Percentile £59,625 - £56,200
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £76,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.03% -4.69% +6.67%
75th Percentile £105,938 £95,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £151,000 £130,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% +10.34%

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 330 387 728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 9.29% 21.16% 26.71%
Number of salaries quoted 236 297 521
10th Percentile £56,875 £51,700 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,000 £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 £96,250 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £120,000 £110,000
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 18 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 (18.00%) Apache
1 9 (18.00%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (18.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) AWS
1 18 (36.00%) SaaS
2 10 (20.00%) Azure
3 8 (16.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 6 (12.00%) Heroku
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (6.00%) GCP
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.00%) GitHub
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.00%) CloudFront
7 1 (2.00%) Figma
7 1 (2.00%) Kong
7 1 (2.00%) LangSmith
7 1 (2.00%) PaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) Relational Database
2 13 (26.00%) MySQL
3 11 (22.00%) NoSQL
4 9 (18.00%) MongoDB
5 8 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (6.00%) MariaDB
6 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.00%) Pinecone
7 2 (4.00%) Power BI
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.00%) ClickHouse
8 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.00%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.00%) DuckDB
8 1 (2.00%) Flink
8 1 (2.00%) Redis
8 1 (2.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) GitLab
2 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.00%) Vite
General
1 14 (28.00%) Finance
2 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Legal
3 6 (12.00%) Legal Technology
4 3 (6.00%) Games
4 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (48.00%) Lead
2 17 (34.00%) Developer
3 14 (28.00%) Data Engineer
3 14 (28.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 14 (28.00%) Python Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) Database Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) Senior
5 7 (14.00%) Lead Developer
5 7 (14.00%) Python Data Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Ruby Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Python Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Java Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Lead Python Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.00%) REST
2 11 (22.00%) React
3 9 (18.00%) Kafka
4 6 (12.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 5 (10.00%) FastAPI
6 4 (8.00%) Node.js
6 4 (8.00%) RESTful
7 3 (6.00%) Django
7 3 (6.00%) LangChain
7 3 (6.00%) Laravel
7 3 (6.00%) Spring
7 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
7 3 (6.00%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (4.00%) JWT
8 2 (4.00%) LangGraph
8 2 (4.00%) Next.js
8 2 (4.00%) NumPy
8 2 (4.00%) Pandas
8 2 (4.00%) PyTorch
8 2 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.00%) AI Agents
3 3 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (6.00%) Low-Code
3 3 (6.00%) PropTech
3 3 (6.00%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (4.00%) CUDA
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (52.00%) AI
2 21 (42.00%) Observability
3 15 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (28.00%) Data Ingestion
4 14 (28.00%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (24.00%) Data Engineering
6 11 (22.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
9 8 (16.00%) API Design
9 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (14.00%) Containerisation
10 7 (14.00%) Workflow
11 6 (12.00%) Agile
11 6 (12.00%) Data Architecture
11 6 (12.00%) Generative AI
11 6 (12.00%) LLM
11 6 (12.00%) Microservices
12 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 35 (70.00%) Python
2 12 (24.00%) SQL
3 7 (14.00%) Java
4 6 (12.00%) Ruby
4 6 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.00%) Go
7 2 (4.00%) C++
8 1 (2.00%) Bicep
8 1 (2.00%) C
8 1 (2.00%) C#
8 1 (2.00%) Elm
8 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) Databricks
2 3 (6.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.00%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.00%) Confluent
4 1 (2.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) Refinitiv