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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 100 104
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 6 12 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.24% 0.90% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.55% 5.19% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 32
10th Percentile - £52,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £57,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +22.73% -2.62%
75th Percentile £71,280 £72,253 £72,431
90th Percentile £78,790 £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 235 231 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.23% 17.24% 20.37%
Number of salaries quoted 174 175 440
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £44,000 £43,494
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,149
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 6 April 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) dbt
3 3 (50.00%) Firebase
3 3 (50.00%) SaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) Pulumi
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (16.67%) PaaS
5 1 (16.67%) Sentry
5 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (50.00%) MySQL
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (33.33%) Redis
4 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Junior
1 3 (50.00%) Junior Software Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) Laravel
1 3 (50.00%) Next.js
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
1 3 (50.00%) React
1 3 (50.00%) React Native
1 3 (50.00%) Vue
2 2 (33.33%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Database Security
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 22301
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle