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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 152 185
Rank change year-on-year -41 +33 +28
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 35 134 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.63% 1.34% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.79% 12.86% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 22 31 36
10th Percentile £41,375 £43,806 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.76% +7.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,750 £64,063
90th Percentile £79,750 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £65,233 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.64% -6.81% -6.67%

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 730 1,042 1,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.06% 10.45% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 510 598 968
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +0.78% +7.50%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +44 29 £72,500 +11.54% 15
East Midlands -59 6 £45,000 -10.00% 10
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (34.29%) Confluence
2 8 (22.86%) nginx
3 2 (5.71%) CMS
3 2 (5.71%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (82.86%) AWS
2 18 (51.43%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (48.57%) Azure
4 16 (45.71%) Amazon S3
5 14 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (40.00%) AWS KMS
5 14 (40.00%) Route 53
6 11 (31.43%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (22.86%) Amazon ELB
7 8 (22.86%) GCP
7 8 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (22.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (14.29%) Serverless
10 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
11 3 (8.57%) GitHub
11 3 (8.57%) SaaS
12 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (5.71%) Contentful
12 2 (5.71%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) DNS
1 8 (22.86%) Firewall
1 8 (22.86%) FTP
1 8 (22.86%) HTTP
1 8 (22.86%) IMAP
1 8 (22.86%) OpenLDAP
1 8 (22.86%) SMTP
1 8 (22.86%) SSH
2 1 (2.86%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (45.71%) Amazon Aurora
1 16 (45.71%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (28.57%) DynamoDB
3 8 (22.86%) NoSQL
4 7 (20.00%) MongoDB
5 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 4 (11.43%) Big Data
6 4 (11.43%) Power BI
6 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
7 3 (8.57%) MySQL
7 3 (8.57%) RDBMS
8 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
8 2 (5.71%) Metadata
8 2 (5.71%) Tableau
9 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
9 1 (2.86%) HBase
9 1 (2.86%) Impala
9 1 (2.86%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (2.86%) Neo4j
9 1 (2.86%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (57.14%) Git
2 18 (51.43%) Jenkins
3 12 (34.29%) JIRA
4 9 (25.71%) JUnit
4 9 (25.71%) Mockito
5 8 (22.86%) Maven
5 8 (22.86%) Vagrant
6 7 (20.00%) SonarQube
7 6 (17.14%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (17.14%) DbUnit
7 6 (17.14%) jMock
8 2 (5.71%) JMeter
8 2 (5.71%) Storybook
9 1 (2.86%) ER Studio
9 1 (2.86%) ERwin
9 1 (2.86%) PowerDesigner
General
1 18 (51.43%) Public Sector
2 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.86%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Finance
6 2 (5.71%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Advertising
7 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Developer
2 12 (34.29%) Java Developer
3 8 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Lead
4 7 (20.00%) Lead Developer
5 6 (17.14%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (17.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) Lead Java Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Python Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Junior
8 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) Spring
2 11 (31.43%) Spring Boot
3 10 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 9 (25.71%) AngularJS
4 9 (25.71%) REST
4 9 (25.71%) Web Services
5 8 (22.86%) JPA
5 8 (22.86%) LDAP
5 8 (22.86%) SOAP
6 7 (20.00%) Bootstrap
6 7 (20.00%) RESTful
7 6 (17.14%) HTML
7 6 (17.14%) PowerMock
7 6 (17.14%) Spring Batch
7 6 (17.14%) Spring Integration
8 5 (14.29%) React
9 4 (11.43%) Flask
10 3 (8.57%) CSS
10 3 (8.57%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Replication
2 5 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.43%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (5.71%) IoT
4 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.86%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Linux
2 8 (22.86%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (22.86%) Ubuntu
2 8 (22.86%) VMS
2 8 (22.86%) Windows
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Agile
1 18 (51.43%) CI/CD
2 15 (42.86%) DevOps
2 15 (42.86%) Microservices
3 11 (31.43%) BDD
4 10 (28.57%) TDD
5 9 (25.71%) Mentoring
5 9 (25.71%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (22.86%) Change Management
6 8 (22.86%) Cloud Security
6 8 (22.86%) Configuration Management
6 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
6 8 (22.86%) Patch Management
6 8 (22.86%) Scrum
7 6 (17.14%) Clean Code
7 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (17.14%) Kanban
7 6 (17.14%) Open Source
7 6 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) SQL
2 16 (45.71%) Python
3 13 (37.14%) Java
4 8 (22.86%) Groovy
4 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
5 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) C#
6 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.86%) Bash
7 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.86%) Go
7 1 (2.86%) PHP
7 1 (2.86%) PROC SQL
7 1 (2.86%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.71%) AWS Certification
2 9 (25.71%) Azure Certification
2 9 (25.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 22 (62.86%) Docker
2 10 (28.57%) Postfix
3 8 (22.86%) DFS Replication
3 8 (22.86%) Dovecot
3 8 (22.86%) Squid
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Flume
4 1 (2.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Terraform
2 11 (31.43%) Grafana
2 11 (31.43%) Prometheus
3 8 (22.86%) Nessus
3 8 (22.86%) Proxmox
4 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 3 (8.57%) Kibana
6 1 (2.86%) logstash
6 1 (2.86%) Oozie
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (22.86%) ServiceNow
3 6 (17.14%) Atlassian
4 3 (8.57%) Databricks
5 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.71%) Google
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 2 (5.71%) Splunk
6 1 (2.86%) Informatica
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.86%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.86%) SAP