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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 81 78
Rank change year-on-year -27 -3 +68
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 29 83 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.10% 3.25% 2.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.29% 12.63% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 26 62 89
10th Percentile £73,125 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £79,875 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +9.38% -
75th Percentile £150,000 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile - £107,250 -
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +9.38% -

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 398 657 672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 15.11% 25.76% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 332 432 623
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,150
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,757 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,063 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £112,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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 6 February 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 5 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (13.79%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.90%) Confluence
3 2 (6.90%) Luigi
4 1 (3.45%) Apache
4 1 (3.45%) IIS
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 23 (79.31%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 7 (24.14%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) Dagster
4 2 (6.90%) dbt
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.45%) Azure AI
5 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Prefect
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) Supabase
5 1 (3.45%) Vercel
5 1 (3.45%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (13.79%) Hadoop
1 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.90%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.90%) Power BI
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Airbyte
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) ClickHouse
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) DB2
4 1 (3.45%) Flink
4 1 (3.45%) Metabase
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Retail
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Principal Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Data Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Java Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) DataOps Leader
5 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Scrum Master
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) Django
1 10 (34.48%) FastAPI
2 7 (24.14%) Kafka
3 6 (20.69%) Node.js
4 4 (13.79%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (10.34%) Next.js
5 3 (10.34%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (6.90%) CSS
6 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (6.90%) Flask
6 2 (6.90%) React
6 2 (6.90%) Vue
7 1 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.45%) HTML
7 1 (3.45%) OpenJDK
7 1 (3.45%) Spring
7 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Machine Learning
1 13 (44.83%) Technical Leadership
2 11 (37.93%) Event-Driven
2 11 (37.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 9 (31.03%) Customer Experience
3 9 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (31.03%) Fintech
4 8 (27.59%) Domain Models
4 8 (27.59%) OO
4 8 (27.59%) Technology Strategy
5 7 (24.14%) Agile
5 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.69%) AI
6 6 (20.69%) ETL
7 5 (17.24%) Analytics
7 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
7 5 (17.24%) DevOps
7 5 (17.24%) Market Research
7 5 (17.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) Java
3 8 (27.59%) Rust
4 7 (24.14%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.90%) Scala
7 1 (3.45%) C#
7 1 (3.45%) COBOL
7 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.45%) SnowPro
3 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Puppet
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Grafana
3 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.45%) Ambari
4 1 (3.45%) Argo
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Confluent
3 1 (3.45%) Dell
3 1 (3.45%) Foundry
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat