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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 77 98
Rank change year-on-year -42 +21 -1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 10 19 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.27% 1.59% 1.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.77% 9.64% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7 13 11
10th Percentile £59,180 £54,650 £30,000
25th Percentile £68,067 £70,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +20.83% -
75th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £79,554
90th Percentile - £80,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £85,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +17.24% +11.54% +18.18%

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 265 197 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.28% 16.53% 12.95%
Number of salaries quoted 178 160 146
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,250 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%

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 8 October 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) CloudOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Database Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Database Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) RESTful
2 4 (40.00%) Node.js
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Coaching
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (30.00%) Open Source
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 2 (20.00%) API Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Data Extraction
5 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) YouTube