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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 101 100
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 5 12 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.21% 0.83% 1.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.35% 4.71% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 31
10th Percentile - £57,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £59,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -59.26% +22.73% -2.62%
75th Percentile £78,790 £72,883 £72,870
90th Percentile - £74,144 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £65,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -30.77% +26.83% -9.26%

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 213 255 512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.99% 17.65% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 155 173 425
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,163 £44,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £79,900 £85,891
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -

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 23 March 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Firebase
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) dbt
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (40.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Junior
1 3 (60.00%) Junior Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Laravel
1 3 (60.00%) Next.js
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) React Native
1 3 (60.00%) Vue
2 2 (40.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google