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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 190 170
Rank change year-on-year -48 -20 +45
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 26 43 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.19% 0.75% 1.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.69% 5.46% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23 29 49
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,500 £43,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,626 £57,503
Median % change year-on-year +10.90% +17.60% +9.53%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £87,518 £77,500 £85,471
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%

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 965 787 1,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.87% 13.77% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 650 564 871
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,438 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,875 £76,114 £79,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -43 19 £80,000 +16.26% 14
East Midlands -31 7 £60,000 +9.09% 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) AWS
3 6 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.54%) Supabase
5 3 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.85%) dbt
7 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) VLAN
1 2 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) MySQL
2 5 (19.23%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
4 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (7.69%) Redis
5 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.85%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) Storybook
4 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Senior
2 8 (30.77%) Developer
3 7 (26.92%) Data Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Kafka Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Python Data Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Python Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Lead
6 3 (11.54%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Administrator
7 2 (7.69%) DBA
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) REST
2 6 (23.08%) Kafka
2 6 (23.08%) Node.js
2 6 (23.08%) RESTful
3 5 (19.23%) Keycloak
3 5 (19.23%) React
4 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (11.54%) Next.js
5 3 (11.54%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (7.69%) CSS
6 2 (7.69%) Middleware
6 2 (7.69%) Vitest
7 1 (3.85%) Django
7 1 (3.85%) Express.js
7 1 (3.85%) Fastify
7 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) SCADA
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.85%) Replication
4 1 (3.85%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
1 12 (46.15%) DevOps
2 10 (38.46%) Agile
3 8 (30.77%) ETL
3 8 (30.77%) Microservices
3 8 (30.77%) Workflow
4 7 (26.92%) Analytics
4 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
5 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (19.23%) Data Security
6 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
6 5 (19.23%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (19.23%) ETL Development
6 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (19.23%) Observability
7 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
7 4 (15.38%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 8 (30.77%) Java
4 5 (19.23%) Go
4 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.69%) Bash
6 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.85%) C
7 1 (3.85%) C#
7 1 (3.85%) C++
7 1 (3.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Certification
3 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) CISSP
4 2 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
4 1 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (3.85%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.69%) Grafana
6 1 (3.85%) Argo
6 1 (3.85%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) OpenText