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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 94 106
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 +76
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 23 78 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.26% 2.77% 2.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.90% 10.67% 10.86%
Number of salaries quoted 20 54 67
10th Percentile £73,625 £63,750 £56,500
25th Percentile £78,625 £65,563 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £150,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £112,500 -
Central London median annual salary £127,500 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +54.55% +13.79% -9.38%

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 390 731 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.31% 25.97% 20.80%
Number of salaries quoted 324 481 584
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £55,000 £56,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +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 1 December 2025.

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 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
3 2 (8.70%) Luigi
4 1 (4.35%) Confluence
4 1 (4.35%) IIS
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Dagster
4 2 (8.70%) dbt
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.35%) Azure AI
5 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Prefect
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Supabase
5 1 (4.35%) Vercel
5 1 (4.35%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 4 (17.39%) Hadoop
3 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
4 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.35%) Airbyte
5 1 (4.35%) Big Data
5 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.35%) ClickHouse
5 1 (4.35%) DB2
5 1 (4.35%) Flink
5 1 (4.35%) Metabase
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI
5 1 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) MSTest
1 1 (4.35%) NUnit
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Front Office
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Principal Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DataOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DataOps Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Django
1 9 (39.13%) FastAPI
2 7 (30.43%) Kafka
3 6 (26.09%) Node.js
4 4 (17.39%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (17.39%) React
5 3 (13.04%) CSS
5 3 (13.04%) Next.js
6 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (8.70%) HTML
6 2 (8.70%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (8.70%) Vue
7 1 (4.35%) .NET
7 1 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (4.35%) Express.js
7 1 (4.35%) Flask
7 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
7 1 (4.35%) Spring
7 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Machine Learning
2 11 (47.83%) Event-Driven
2 11 (47.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 10 (43.48%) Fintech
3 10 (43.48%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (39.13%) Customer Experience
5 8 (34.78%) Domain Models
5 8 (34.78%) OO
5 8 (34.78%) Technology Strategy
6 7 (30.43%) Agile
6 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
7 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (21.74%) AI
8 5 (21.74%) Analytics
8 5 (21.74%) ETL
8 5 (21.74%) Microservices
9 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
9 4 (17.39%) DevOps
9 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Rust
2 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 6 (26.09%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) Scala
6 1 (4.35%) COBOL
6 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Puppet
3 2 (8.70%) Grafana
3 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Ambari
4 1 (4.35%) Argo
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Confluent
3 1 (4.35%) Dell
3 1 (4.35%) Foundry
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat