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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 191 152
Rank change year-on-year -50 -39 +80
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 14 31 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.11% 0.62% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.45% 4.21% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13 25 85
10th Percentile £37,100 £54,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £61,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +35.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £63,462
90th Percentile £87,518 £77,500 £73,250
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -10.34%

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 964 737 1,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.41% 14.64% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 607 522 1,432
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.91% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,900 £76,250 £73,750
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -42 9 £69,310 +2.68% 5
East Midlands -25 5 £65,000 -7.14% 15
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Serverless
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.14%) dbt
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Redis
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 3 (21.43%) TimescaleDB
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) InfluxDB
4 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 5 (35.71%) Lead Software Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
6 1 (7.14%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (7.14%) Administrator
6 1 (7.14%) DBA
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Rust Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Node.js
2 5 (35.71%) React
3 4 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (21.43%) .NET
4 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
4 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
4 3 (21.43%) RESTful
5 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 2 (14.29%) JPA
5 2 (14.29%) REST
5 2 (14.29%) Spring
5 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
6 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Microservices
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) API Design
6 3 (21.43%) Coaching
6 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (21.43%) Software Architecture
7 2 (14.29%) Open Source
7 2 (14.29%) TDD
7 2 (14.29%) User Experience
8 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) C
3 4 (28.57%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) Python
4 3 (21.43%) C++
4 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) PHP
5 1 (7.14%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO 22301
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Nagios
2 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Argo
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle