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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 112 91
Rank change year-on-year +19 -21 +38
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 48 27 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.31% 1.46% 2.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.12% 7.05% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 40 21 59
10th Percentile £58,750 - £56,200
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £102,813 £95,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £119,000 £97,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £88,750 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.58% +3.13% +6.67%

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 340 383 734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 9.30% 20.70% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 244 295 528
10th Percentile £56,875 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £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 £96,250 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £108,250
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 11 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 (18.75%) Apache
1 9 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) AWS
2 17 (35.42%) SaaS
3 9 (18.75%) Azure
4 8 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 6 (12.50%) Heroku
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.25%) GCP
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.17%) GitHub
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.17%) Serverless
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.08%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.08%) dbt
8 1 (2.08%) Figma
8 1 (2.08%) LangSmith
8 1 (2.08%) PaaS
8 1 (2.08%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) MySQL
1 13 (27.08%) Relational Database
2 11 (22.92%) NoSQL
3 9 (18.75%) MongoDB
4 8 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.25%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.17%) Pinecone
6 2 (4.17%) Power BI
6 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.08%) ClickHouse
7 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.08%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.08%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.08%) DuckDB
7 1 (2.08%) Flink
7 1 (2.08%) OLAP
7 1 (2.08%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) GitLab
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Vite
General
1 13 (27.08%) Finance
2 6 (12.50%) Legal
2 6 (12.50%) Legal Technology
2 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Games
3 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 22 (45.83%) Lead
2 17 (35.42%) Developer
3 13 (27.08%) Data Engineer
3 13 (27.08%) Lead Data Engineer
3 13 (27.08%) Python Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Senior
5 7 (14.58%) Database Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Lead Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Python Data Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Ruby Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Python Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Java Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Lead Python Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) REST
2 11 (22.92%) React
3 9 (18.75%) Kafka
4 6 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
5 5 (10.42%) FastAPI
6 4 (8.33%) Node.js
6 4 (8.33%) RESTful
7 3 (6.25%) Django
7 3 (6.25%) LangChain
7 3 (6.25%) Laravel
7 3 (6.25%) Spring
7 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 3 (6.25%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (4.17%) JWT
8 2 (4.17%) LangGraph
8 2 (4.17%) Next.js
8 2 (4.17%) NumPy
8 2 (4.17%) Pandas
8 2 (4.17%) PyTorch
8 2 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 3 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.25%) Low-Code
2 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.25%) PropTech
2 3 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (4.17%) CUDA
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.08%) Clustering
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.08%) Replication
4 1 (2.08%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) AI
2 20 (41.67%) Observability
3 15 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 13 (27.08%) Data Ingestion
5 13 (27.08%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (25.00%) Data Engineering
7 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
8 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (16.67%) API Design
9 8 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 7 (14.58%) Containerisation
10 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (12.50%) Generative AI
11 6 (12.50%) LLM
11 6 (12.50%) Microservices
11 6 (12.50%) Workflow
12 5 (10.42%) Agile
12 5 (10.42%) Data Architecture
12 5 (10.42%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 33 (68.75%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) SQL
3 7 (14.58%) Java
4 6 (12.50%) Ruby
4 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.25%) Go
7 2 (4.17%) C++
8 1 (2.08%) Bicep
8 1 (2.08%) C
8 1 (2.08%) C#
8 1 (2.08%) Elm
8 1 (2.08%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (29.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.42%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (6.25%) Databricks
1 3 (6.25%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.08%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.08%) Confluent
3 1 (2.08%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) Refinitiv