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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 77 96
Rank change year-on-year -44 +19 +7
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 11 20 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.30% 1.66% 1.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.07% 9.26% 9.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 11
10th Percentile £50,625 £51,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,850 £67,188 £50,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,001
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £79,554
90th Percentile - £85,250 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £83,774 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.55% +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 270 216 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.46% 17.97% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 195 177 158
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,827
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,851 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +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 17 September 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 (90.91%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (9.09%) dbt
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
3 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
5 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Lead Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) CloudOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Database Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) RESTful
2 4 (36.36%) Node.js
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) .NET
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
4 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Coaching
2 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) ETL
4 3 (27.27%) Open Source
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) TDD
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) API Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
5 2 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 22301
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Argo
2 1 (9.09%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) YouTube