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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 165 177
Rank change year-on-year -23 +12 +10
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 31 63 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.38% 1.02% 1.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.32% 7.39% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 27 32 67
10th Percentile £29,250 £46,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £57,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +30.00% -11.47%
75th Percentile £70,625 - £62,500
90th Percentile £79,274 £81,664 £73,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £79,932 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.17% +22.97% -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 717 852 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.79% 13.76% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 522 483 1,193
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -7.69% +9.14% -8.38%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +12 21 £55,200 -15.08% 20
East Midlands -25 10 £60,100 +0.17% 19
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 3 (9.68%) Confluence
1 3 (9.68%) nginx
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (74.19%) AWS
2 14 (45.16%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (22.58%) GitHub
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (19.35%) SaaS
5 5 (16.13%) GCP
6 4 (12.90%) Serverless
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
7 3 (9.68%) AWS KMS
7 3 (9.68%) Firebase
7 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
7 3 (9.68%) Route 53
7 3 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (6.45%) dbt
8 2 (6.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) DNS
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
1 3 (9.68%) FTP
1 3 (9.68%) HTTP
1 3 (9.68%) IMAP
1 3 (9.68%) OpenLDAP
1 3 (9.68%) SMTP
1 3 (9.68%) SSH
2 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) SQL Server
2 9 (29.03%) Redis
3 7 (22.58%) Relational Database
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (16.13%) MySQL
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (9.68%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (3.23%) InfluxDB
7 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (58.06%) Git
2 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) JIRA
3 4 (12.90%) GitLab
3 4 (12.90%) JUnit
4 3 (9.68%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.68%) Selenium
4 3 (9.68%) Vagrant
5 1 (3.23%) Mockito
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Senior
2 10 (32.26%) Developer
3 9 (29.03%) Software Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Java Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Junior
4 5 (16.13%) Lead
4 5 (16.13%) Lead Software Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
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%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Junior Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Site Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) React
2 8 (25.81%) Spring
3 7 (22.58%) 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%) Node.js
4 5 (16.13%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (12.90%) .NET Core
5 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
6 3 (9.68%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (9.68%) Flask
6 3 (9.68%) JPA
6 3 (9.68%) Laravel
6 3 (9.68%) LDAP
6 3 (9.68%) Next.js
6 3 (9.68%) pytest
6 3 (9.68%) React Native
6 3 (9.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Mobile App
1 3 (9.68%) Replication
1 3 (9.68%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.23%) Derivative
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Ubuntu
2 3 (9.68%) VMS
2 3 (9.68%) 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 11 (35.48%) Mentoring
6 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (22.58%) E-Commerce
7 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (16.13%) Agile
9 5 (16.13%) Clean Code
9 5 (16.13%) Microservices
10 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
10 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (9.68%) Cloud Security
11 3 (9.68%) Customer Service
11 3 (9.68%) Patch Management
11 3 (9.68%) Secure Coding
11 3 (9.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (9.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) Java
2 11 (35.48%) Python
3 9 (29.03%) SQL
4 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
4 7 (22.58%) PHP
5 5 (16.13%) C
5 5 (16.13%) C#
6 3 (9.68%) Delphi
6 3 (9.68%) Groovy
6 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
7 2 (6.45%) C++
7 2 (6.45%) Go
8 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Docker
2 3 (9.68%) DFS Replication
2 3 (9.68%) Dovecot
2 3 (9.68%) Postfix
2 3 (9.68%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
1 8 (25.81%) Terraform
2 6 (19.35%) Grafana
3 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.68%) Nessus
4 3 (9.68%) Proxmox
5 2 (6.45%) Nagios
6 1 (3.23%) Ansible
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Google
1 3 (9.68%) Jaspersoft
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle
1 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft