PostgreSQL Job Trends in the East Midlands

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 124 85
Rank change year-on-year +5 -39 +26
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 13 24 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.54% 0.82% 1.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.44% 7.23% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 20
10th Percentile - - £40,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £69,688
90th Percentile - - £78,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 239 332 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.92% 11.33% 23.92%
Number of salaries quoted 170 202 298
10th Percentile £34,750 £32,500 £33,925
25th Percentile £37,728 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -6.67% -3.29%
75th Percentile £66,875 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £74,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the East Midlands

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +27 5 £65,000 - 7
Leicestershire +14 4 £36,500 -33.64% 8
Derbyshire -12 4 £47,500 - 15
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (7.69%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) SQL Server
2 5 (38.46%) Redis
3 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
4 2 (15.38%) Big Data
4 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
1 6 (46.15%) Software Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 5 (38.46%) Lead Software Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Junior
4 2 (15.38%) Junior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
1 5 (38.46%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (30.77%) .NET Core
2 4 (30.77%) Django
2 4 (30.77%) Flask
3 2 (15.38%) FastAPI
4 1 (7.69%) Bootstrap
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) Doctrine
4 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) pytest
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Mentoring
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Software Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) Case Management
6 3 (23.08%) Customer Service
6 3 (23.08%) Microservices
6 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
7 2 (15.38%) API Design
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (15.38%) Observability
7 2 (15.38%) Security Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 1 (7.69%) Coaching
8 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) C#
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) PHP
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) C
4 1 (7.69%) Delphi
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle