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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 179 168
Rank change year-on-year -58 -11 +61
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 22 30 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.18% 0.62% 1.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.34% 4.24% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 21 25 90
10th Percentile - £54,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £61,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,622 £68,750
90th Percentile £74,987 £75,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -13.33%

All Database & 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 941 707 1,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.83% 14.59% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 582 548 1,453
10th Percentile £31,775 £35,875 £31,775
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,875 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

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 17 April 2026.

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 17 April 2026. 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 -31 13 £45,000 -30.77% 8
East Midlands -46 9 £60,100 -14.14% 9
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Firebase
5 2 (9.09%) SaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.55%) dbt
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 7 (31.82%) Redis
3 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 3 (13.64%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (9.09%) MySQL
6 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (4.55%) InfluxDB
6 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.55%) Power BI
6 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) GitLab
3 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
3 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.64%) JIRA
3 3 (13.64%) JUnit
3 3 (13.64%) Selenium
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 7 (31.82%) Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Lead Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Junior
4 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Junior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Junior Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.55%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) React
2 6 (27.27%) Node.js
2 6 (27.27%) Spring
2 6 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 5 (22.73%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (18.18%) .NET
4 4 (18.18%) .NET Core
5 3 (13.64%) Django
5 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (13.64%) Flask
5 3 (13.64%) GraphQL
5 3 (13.64%) Hibernate
5 3 (13.64%) JPA
5 3 (13.64%) pytest
6 2 (9.09%) HTML
6 2 (9.09%) Laravel
6 2 (9.09%) Next.js
6 2 (9.09%) React Native
6 2 (9.09%) REST
6 2 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 12 (54.55%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (45.45%) Software Engineering
4 9 (40.91%) Mentoring
5 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (31.82%) Microservices
7 6 (27.27%) Agile
7 6 (27.27%) E-Commerce
7 6 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
10 3 (13.64%) API Design
10 3 (13.64%) Case Management
10 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
10 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (13.64%) Secure Coding
10 3 (13.64%) Software Architecture
10 3 (13.64%) TDD
10 3 (13.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Java
2 7 (31.82%) Python
3 6 (27.27%) C
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 5 (22.73%) C#
4 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 5 (22.73%) PHP
5 3 (13.64%) C++
5 3 (13.64%) Delphi
5 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (4.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) ISO 22301
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Grafana
2 3 (13.64%) Nagios
2 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Argo
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft