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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 91 122
Rank change year-on-year -22 +31 +72
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 20 77 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.17% 2.70% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.26% 10.46% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 15 54 62
10th Percentile - £52,950 £53,875
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £125,000 £106,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £139,000 £112,500 £102,375
Central London median annual salary £108,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% +14.29% -12.50%

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 380 736 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.14% 25.85% 22.21%
Number of salaries quoted 306 477 712
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,493 £48,875
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +1.72%
75th Percentile £97,125 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL 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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the City of London

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (10.00%) Luigi
3 1 (5.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) CMS
3 1 (5.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) SaaS
3 5 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (20.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.00%) Contentful
6 1 (5.00%) Figma
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (10.00%) Power BI
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.00%) Big Data
5 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.00%) Parquet
5 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Moq
2 1 (5.00%) MSTest
2 1 (5.00%) NUnit
2 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.00%) Storybook
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
1 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Team Leader
5 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Database Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) React
1 8 (40.00%) REST
2 6 (30.00%) Django
3 5 (25.00%) Kafka
4 3 (15.00%) .NET
4 3 (15.00%) Node.js
4 3 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.00%) CSS
5 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (10.00%) Express.js
5 2 (10.00%) HTML
5 2 (10.00%) Spring
5 2 (10.00%) Spring Batch
5 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (5.00%) gRPC
6 1 (5.00%) Next.js
6 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (35.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) ETL
4 5 (25.00%) Microservices
4 5 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (15.00%) Code Quality
6 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.00%) Data Science
6 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.00%) TDD
6 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (35.00%) Java
3 7 (35.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) Rust
5 2 (10.00%) Scala
6 1 (5.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) CDISC
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (10.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
1 2 (10.00%) Informatica
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Guidewire
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft