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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 182 162
Rank change year-on-year -5 -20 +28
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 31 63 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.40% 0.93% 1.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.23% 7.44% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 26 32 40
10th Percentile £28,750 £46,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,563 £65,000 £69,550
90th Percentile £79,395 £81,664 £79,125
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -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 732 847 941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.45% 12.47% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 536 484 820
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £65,063 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,796 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.89% -3.60%

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 22 December 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 22 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
West Midlands +21 21 £61,350 -5.62% 82
East Midlands -20 10 £60,100 +0.17% 74
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 4 (12.90%) Confluence
1 4 (12.90%) nginx
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (77.42%) AWS
2 16 (51.61%) Azure
3 8 (25.81%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (22.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (22.58%) GitHub
4 7 (22.58%) SaaS
5 6 (19.35%) GCP
6 4 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (12.90%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
6 4 (12.90%) AWS KMS
6 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (12.90%) Route 53
6 4 (12.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (9.68%) Firebase
7 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
7 3 (9.68%) Serverless
8 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
1 4 (12.90%) Firewall
1 4 (12.90%) FTP
1 4 (12.90%) HTTP
1 4 (12.90%) IMAP
1 4 (12.90%) OpenLDAP
1 4 (12.90%) SMTP
1 4 (12.90%) SSH
2 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) SQL Server
2 8 (25.81%) Redis
3 7 (22.58%) Relational Database
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (19.35%) MySQL
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (6.45%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (3.23%) InfluxDB
7 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (58.06%) Git
2 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.81%) JIRA
3 4 (12.90%) GitLab
3 4 (12.90%) JUnit
3 4 (12.90%) Vagrant
4 3 (9.68%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.68%) Selenium
5 1 (3.23%) Mockito
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.23%) Marketing
3 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Senior
2 9 (29.03%) Developer
2 9 (29.03%) Software Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Lead
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Junior
4 5 (16.13%) Lead Software Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Software Developer
6 3 (9.68%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 3 (9.68%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (9.68%) Junior Software Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) React
2 7 (22.58%) Spring
3 6 (19.35%) Spring Boot
4 5 (16.13%) .NET
4 5 (16.13%) CSS
4 5 (16.13%) Django
4 5 (16.13%) HTML
4 5 (16.13%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (12.90%) .NET Core
5 4 (12.90%) LDAP
5 4 (12.90%) Node.js
6 3 (9.68%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (9.68%) Flask
6 3 (9.68%) Hibernate
6 3 (9.68%) Laravel
6 3 (9.68%) Next.js
6 3 (9.68%) pytest
6 3 (9.68%) React Native
6 3 (9.68%) RESTful
6 3 (9.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Replication
2 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.68%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.68%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Derivative
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.23%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Ubuntu
2 4 (12.90%) VMS
2 4 (12.90%) Windows
3 2 (6.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 18 (58.06%) DevOps
3 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (45.16%) Software Engineering
5 12 (38.71%) Mentoring
6 8 (25.81%) E-Commerce
7 7 (22.58%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (19.35%) Clean Code
8 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
9 5 (16.13%) Microservices
10 4 (12.90%) Agile
10 4 (12.90%) Change Management
10 4 (12.90%) Cloud Security
10 4 (12.90%) Configuration Management
10 4 (12.90%) Patch Management
10 4 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (9.68%) Mobile Application Development
11 3 (9.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Java
1 12 (38.71%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) SQL
3 7 (22.58%) PHP
4 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
5 5 (16.13%) C#
6 4 (12.90%) C
6 4 (12.90%) Groovy
6 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
7 3 (9.68%) Delphi
8 2 (6.45%) Go
8 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 1 (3.23%) C++
9 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Degree
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Docker
2 4 (12.90%) DFS Replication
2 4 (12.90%) Dovecot
2 4 (12.90%) Postfix
2 4 (12.90%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Terraform
2 7 (22.58%) Grafana
2 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
3 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.90%) Nessus
4 4 (12.90%) Proxmox
5 1 (3.23%) Ansible
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (3.23%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Jaspersoft
1 4 (12.90%) ServiceNow
2 3 (9.68%) Google
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft