PostgreSQL Job Trends in Birmingham

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 110 94
Rank change year-on-year +11 -16 -1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 9 19 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.49% 1.06% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.27% 6.69% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 26
10th Percentile - £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £46,875 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,651 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.75% +9.09% -2.62%
75th Percentile £79,092 £74,144 £69,550
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,226 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £55,200 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.08% +30.00% -11.47%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 211 284 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.44% 15.84% 22.59%
Number of salaries quoted 159 147 356
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.62%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £79,375
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Birmingham

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Birmingham over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Birmingham

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) SaaS
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (33.33%) Firebase
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (22.22%) dbt
5 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub
5 2 (22.22%) Pulumi
5 2 (22.22%) Serverless
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (11.11%) PaaS
6 1 (11.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) FTP
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) IMAP
2 1 (11.11%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (11.11%) SMTP
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (22.22%) Redis
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Junior
2 3 (33.33%) Junior Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 3 (33.33%) Laravel
2 3 (33.33%) Next.js
2 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 3 (33.33%) React Native
2 3 (33.33%) Vue
3 2 (22.22%) Django
3 2 (22.22%) gRPC
4 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 1 (11.11%) JSP
4 1 (11.11%) LDAP
4 1 (11.11%) Spring
4 1 (11.11%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (11.11%) VMS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Clean Code
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (22.22%) Observability
5 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
5 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Application Performance Monitoring
6 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) PHP
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) DFS Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Dovecot
2 1 (11.11%) Postfix
2 1 (11.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Nessus
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow