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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 108 83
Rank change year-on-year +20 -25 +16
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 11 22 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.67% 1.15% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.24% 8.06% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 14
10th Percentile - £33,250 £50,375
25th Percentile £26,250 £48,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £65,001 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% +0.78% +14.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,000 £84,964 £86,000
West Midlands median annual salary £61,350 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.62% +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 210 273 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.75% 14.29% 21.76%
Number of salaries quoted 168 138 213
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,575 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,872 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.81%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,500 £82,500 £82,250
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 18 December 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
1 2 (18.18%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Azure
3 7 (63.64%) SaaS
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (27.27%) Firebase
5 3 (27.27%) GCP
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
6 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (18.18%) dbt
6 2 (18.18%) GitHub
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (18.18%) Pulumi
6 2 (18.18%) Route 53
6 2 (18.18%) Serverless
6 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) FTP
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) IMAP
1 2 (18.18%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (18.18%) SMTP
1 2 (18.18%) SSH
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
1 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) Redis
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Junior
2 3 (27.27%) Junior Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) CSS
1 4 (36.36%) HTML
1 4 (36.36%) React
2 3 (27.27%) Laravel
2 3 (27.27%) Next.js
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) React Native
2 3 (27.27%) Vue
3 2 (18.18%) Django
3 2 (18.18%) gRPC
3 2 (18.18%) LDAP
4 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
4 1 (9.09%) JSP
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 2 (18.18%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) VMS
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Clean Code
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) E-Commerce
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (27.27%) Mobile Application Development
5 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Change Management
6 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Observability
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (18.18%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) Go
3 2 (18.18%) Groovy
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) DFS Replication
2 2 (18.18%) Dovecot
2 2 (18.18%) Postfix
2 2 (18.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Nessus
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 2 (18.18%) Proxmox
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow