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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 102 88
Rank change year-on-year +25 -14 +26
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 20 28 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.60% 1.29% 1.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.95% 10.00% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 15 14 11
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £49,449 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £67,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,964 £69,550
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +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 201 280 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.12% 12.89% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 163 137 219
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £39,630
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,004
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -2.61%
75th Percentile £73,125 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £81,985 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -2.39%

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 2 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 9 (45.00%) Confluence
2 5 (25.00%) nginx
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (60.00%) Azure
3 10 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 9 (45.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (45.00%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (45.00%) AWS KMS
4 9 (45.00%) Route 53
5 7 (35.00%) SaaS
6 5 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
6 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (20.00%) GCP
8 3 (15.00%) Firebase
8 3 (15.00%) GitHub
9 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (10.00%) Pulumi
9 2 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) DNS
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
1 5 (25.00%) FTP
1 5 (25.00%) HTTP
1 5 (25.00%) IMAP
1 5 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
1 5 (25.00%) SMTP
1 5 (25.00%) SSH
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 5 (25.00%) MySQL
4 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (10.00%) Redis
6 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.00%) Big Data
6 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (5.00%) HBase
6 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (5.00%) Neo4j
6 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.00%) QlikView
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.00%) SQLite
6 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) Git
2 12 (60.00%) JIRA
3 10 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (25.00%) Maven
4 5 (25.00%) Vagrant
5 4 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (20.00%) DbUnit
5 4 (20.00%) jMock
5 4 (20.00%) JUnit
5 4 (20.00%) Mockito
5 4 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (55.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Lead
2 6 (30.00%) Lead Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Junior
5 3 (15.00%) Junior Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Spring
2 5 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 5 (25.00%) LDAP
2 5 (25.00%) RESTful
2 5 (25.00%) SOAP
2 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (25.00%) Web Services
3 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (20.00%) Bootstrap
3 4 (20.00%) CSS
3 4 (20.00%) HTML
3 4 (20.00%) JPA
3 4 (20.00%) PowerMock
3 4 (20.00%) React
3 4 (20.00%) Spring Batch
3 4 (20.00%) Spring Integration
4 3 (15.00%) Laravel
4 3 (15.00%) Node.js
4 3 (15.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Replication
2 4 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 5 (25.00%) VMS
2 5 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 6 (30.00%) Microservices
4 6 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) BDD
5 5 (25.00%) Change Management
5 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (25.00%) Open Source
5 5 (25.00%) Patch Management
5 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (25.00%) Scrum
5 5 (25.00%) TDD
5 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) Groovy
4 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.00%) PHP
6 2 (10.00%) Go
7 1 (5.00%) Bash
7 1 (5.00%) PROC SQL
7 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) Degree
3 6 (30.00%) AWS Certification
3 6 (30.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Docker
2 5 (25.00%) DFS Replication
2 5 (25.00%) Dovecot
2 5 (25.00%) Postfix
2 5 (25.00%) Squid
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Flume
3 1 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Grafana
2 5 (25.00%) Nessus
2 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (25.00%) Proxmox
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (5.00%) Kibana
4 1 (5.00%) logstash
4 1 (5.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) Informatica
4 1 (5.00%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (5.00%) SAP