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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 100 101
Rank change year-on-year +22 +1 +28
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 20 26 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.67% 1.13% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.30% 9.56% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14 11 11
10th Percentile £51,750 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £67,188 £50,147 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,001 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,554 £69,550
90th Percentile £85,250 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +18.18% +20.91%

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 215 272 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.92% 11.77% 18.76%
Number of salaries quoted 177 158 232
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £38,125
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,827 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,964 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -1.71%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Birmingham

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (45.00%) Confluence
2 5 (25.00%) nginx
3 2 (10.00%) CMS
3 2 (10.00%) Headless CMS
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (45.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (45.00%) AWS KMS
3 9 (45.00%) Route 53
4 6 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
5 5 (25.00%) GCP
5 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (15.00%) SaaS
7 3 (15.00%) Serverless
8 2 (10.00%) Contentful
8 2 (10.00%) Figma
8 2 (10.00%) GitHub
8 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
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 1 (5.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (10.00%) Big Data
5 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (10.00%) Metadata
5 2 (10.00%) MySQL
5 2 (10.00%) Power BI
5 2 (10.00%) Tableau
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.00%) Impala
6 1 (5.00%) Looker
6 1 (5.00%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (5.00%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Git
2 10 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (45.00%) JIRA
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
6 2 (10.00%) Storybook
7 1 (5.00%) ER Studio
7 1 (5.00%) ERwin
7 1 (5.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 11 (55.00%) Public Sector
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Advertising
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Lead
2 6 (30.00%) Lead Developer
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
3 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) AngularJS
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%) Bootstrap
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%) CSS
4 3 (15.00%) REST
5 2 (10.00%) CSS3
5 2 (10.00%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Replication
2 4 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 5 (25.00%) VMS
2 5 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
1 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Microservices
3 7 (35.00%) BDD
4 5 (25.00%) Change Management
4 5 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Scrum
4 5 (25.00%) TDD
4 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (20.00%) Open Source
5 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) Python
3 7 (35.00%) Java
4 5 (25.00%) Groovy
4 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) PROC SQL
6 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) 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 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Grafana
2 5 (25.00%) Nessus
2 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (25.00%) Proxmox
3 1 (5.00%) Kibana
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) logstash
3 1 (5.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Informatica
4 1 (5.00%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (5.00%) SAP