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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 106 88
Rank change year-on-year +23 -18 +22
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 17 24 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.24% 1.09% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.37% 8.60% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13 13 16
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,001 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +4.42% +10.22%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,964 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -2.62%

All Database and 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 203 279 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.77% 12.64% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 165 132 230
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,300 £39,788
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,938 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +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 16 November 2025.

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 7 (41.18%) Confluence
2 4 (23.53%) nginx
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (64.71%) Azure
3 8 (47.06%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (41.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (41.18%) Amazon S3
4 7 (41.18%) AWS KMS
4 7 (41.18%) Route 53
4 7 (41.18%) SaaS
5 4 (23.53%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (23.53%) GCP
5 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (23.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (17.65%) Firebase
6 3 (17.65%) GitHub
7 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (11.76%) dbt
7 2 (11.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) DNS
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
1 4 (23.53%) FTP
1 4 (23.53%) HTTP
1 4 (23.53%) IMAP
1 4 (23.53%) OpenLDAP
1 4 (23.53%) SMTP
1 4 (23.53%) SSH
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (29.41%) MySQL
4 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
5 3 (17.65%) DynamoDB
6 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (11.76%) Redis
7 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
7 1 (5.88%) Big Data
7 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
7 1 (5.88%) HBase
7 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
7 1 (5.88%) Neo4j
7 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (5.88%) QlikView
7 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
7 1 (5.88%) SQLite
7 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Git
2 10 (58.82%) JIRA
3 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (23.53%) Vagrant
5 3 (17.65%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (17.65%) DbUnit
5 3 (17.65%) jMock
5 3 (17.65%) JUnit
5 3 (17.65%) Maven
5 3 (17.65%) Mockito
5 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
1 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Lead Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Junior
3 3 (17.65%) Junior Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Lead Java Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) CSS
1 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
1 4 (23.53%) HTML
1 4 (23.53%) LDAP
1 4 (23.53%) React
1 4 (23.53%) RESTful
1 4 (23.53%) Spring
2 3 (17.65%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (17.65%) JPA
2 3 (17.65%) Laravel
2 3 (17.65%) Next.js
2 3 (17.65%) Node.js
2 3 (17.65%) PowerMock
2 3 (17.65%) React Native
2 3 (17.65%) SOAP
2 3 (17.65%) Spring Batch
2 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
2 3 (17.65%) Spring Integration
2 3 (17.65%) Vue
2 3 (17.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Replication
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
2 4 (23.53%) VMS
2 4 (23.53%) Windows
3 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Clean Code
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
4 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Change Management
5 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
5 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
5 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) Microservices
5 4 (23.53%) Open Source
5 4 (23.53%) Patch Management
5 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Groovy
3 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 3 (17.65%) PHP
5 2 (11.76%) Go
6 1 (5.88%) Bash
6 1 (5.88%) PROC SQL
6 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) Degree
3 5 (29.41%) AWS Certification
3 5 (29.41%) Azure Certification
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Docker
2 4 (23.53%) DFS Replication
2 4 (23.53%) Dovecot
2 4 (23.53%) Postfix
2 4 (23.53%) Squid
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Flume
3 1 (5.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Grafana
2 4 (23.53%) Nessus
2 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
2 4 (23.53%) Proxmox
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (5.88%) Kibana
4 1 (5.88%) logstash
4 1 (5.88%) Oozie
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Jaspersoft
1 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
2 3 (17.65%) Atlassian
3 2 (11.76%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) Databricks
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (5.88%) SAP