PostgreSQL Job Trends in the Midlands

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 202 170
Rank change year-on-year +32 -32 +42
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 40 67 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.67% 0.76% 1.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.61% 7.55% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 29 32 44
10th Percentile £30,250 £46,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £35,750 £52,500 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -2.62%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,032 £74,914 £78,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.67% +6.43% -3.45%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 713 888 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.01% 10.09% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 541 479 885
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £76,250
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 Midlands

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the Midlands

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the Midlands

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 November 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
West Midlands +35 27 £67,500 +3.85% 24
East Midlands +16 13 £50,000 -9.09% 11
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 9 (22.50%) Confluence
2 7 (17.50%) nginx
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.50%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (82.50%) AWS
2 21 (52.50%) Azure
3 13 (32.50%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (27.50%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (22.50%) Amazon S3
6 9 (22.50%) AWS KMS
6 9 (22.50%) GCP
6 9 (22.50%) Route 53
7 7 (17.50%) Amazon ELB
7 7 (17.50%) GitHub
7 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (17.50%) SaaS
7 7 (17.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 4 (10.00%) Serverless
9 3 (7.50%) Firebase
9 3 (7.50%) OpenShift
10 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) DNS
1 7 (17.50%) Firewall
1 7 (17.50%) FTP
1 7 (17.50%) HTTP
1 7 (17.50%) IMAP
1 7 (17.50%) OpenLDAP
1 7 (17.50%) SMTP
1 7 (17.50%) SSH
2 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (27.50%) SQL Server
2 10 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (22.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (20.00%) MySQL
5 5 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 5 (12.50%) Redis
6 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (10.00%) Power BI
7 3 (7.50%) Big Data
7 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
7 3 (7.50%) RDBMS
8 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
9 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
9 1 (2.50%) HBase
9 1 (2.50%) Impala
9 1 (2.50%) Neo4j
9 1 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (55.00%) Git
2 15 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 13 (32.50%) JIRA
4 8 (20.00%) JUnit
5 7 (17.50%) Vagrant
6 5 (12.50%) Mockito
7 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
7 3 (7.50%) GitLab
7 3 (7.50%) Selenium
8 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (5.00%) DbUnit
8 2 (5.00%) JMeter
8 2 (5.00%) jMock
8 2 (5.00%) Maven
8 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
3 7 (17.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Developer
2 10 (25.00%) Senior
3 8 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Java Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Junior
5 6 (15.00%) Lead
5 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Software Developer
8 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (7.50%) Junior Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Lead Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Spring
2 9 (22.50%) Spring Boot
3 8 (20.00%) Django
4 7 (17.50%) HTML
4 7 (17.50%) LDAP
5 6 (15.00%) Flask
5 6 (15.00%) Hibernate
5 6 (15.00%) React
6 5 (12.50%) CSS
7 4 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (10.00%) RESTful
7 4 (10.00%) Web Services
8 3 (7.50%) .NET
8 3 (7.50%) Bootstrap
8 3 (7.50%) JPA
8 3 (7.50%) Laravel
8 3 (7.50%) Node.js
8 3 (7.50%) pytest
8 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (7.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Replication
2 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.50%) Web Conferencing
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.50%) Derivative
4 1 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Ubuntu
2 7 (17.50%) VMS
2 7 (17.50%) Windows
3 3 (7.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (47.50%) DevOps
3 14 (35.00%) Mentoring
3 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 11 (27.50%) Agile
5 10 (25.00%) Microservices
6 8 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (17.50%) Change Management
7 7 (17.50%) Clean Code
7 7 (17.50%) Cloud Security
7 7 (17.50%) Configuration Management
7 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
7 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (17.50%) Patch Management
7 7 (17.50%) TDD
8 6 (15.00%) E-Commerce
8 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) Python
2 15 (37.50%) Java
3 14 (35.00%) SQL
4 7 (17.50%) Groovy
4 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.50%) PHP
4 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.50%) C
5 3 (7.50%) C#
5 3 (7.50%) Delphi
6 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (5.00%) Go
6 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) Bash
7 1 (2.50%) PROC SQL
7 1 (2.50%) R
7 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) Degree
3 8 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 8 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 22 (55.00%) Docker
2 7 (17.50%) DFS Replication
2 7 (17.50%) Dovecot
2 7 (17.50%) Postfix
2 7 (17.50%) Squid
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Flume
3 1 (2.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (37.50%) Terraform
2 10 (25.00%) Grafana
2 10 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (17.50%) Nessus
3 7 (17.50%) Prometheus
3 7 (17.50%) Proxmox
4 3 (7.50%) Kibana
5 1 (2.50%) Ansible
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (2.50%) logstash
5 1 (2.50%) Oozie
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Jaspersoft
1 7 (17.50%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.50%) Google
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.00%) Databricks
3 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (2.50%) Informatica
4 1 (2.50%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.50%) SAP