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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 165 180
Rank change year-on-year -34 +15 +38
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 37 111 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.67% 1.19% 0.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.29% 11.07% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 23 35 37
10th Percentile £40,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £50,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,758 £74,658 £71,730
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -3.45%

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 700 1,003 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.66% 10.75% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 473 528 888
10th Percentile £34,750 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -0.95% +3.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,637 £75,484 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

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 October 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 October 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 +30 30 £72,500 +11.54% 14
East Midlands -43 7 £50,000 - 6
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 12 (32.43%) Confluence
2 8 (21.62%) nginx
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) CMS
3 1 (2.70%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 33 (89.19%) AWS
2 18 (48.65%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (48.65%) Azure
3 16 (43.24%) Amazon S3
4 14 (37.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (37.84%) AWS KMS
4 14 (37.84%) Route 53
5 13 (35.14%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (24.32%) GCP
7 8 (21.62%) Amazon ELB
7 8 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (21.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (18.92%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (13.51%) SaaS
9 5 (13.51%) Serverless
10 4 (10.81%) GitHub
11 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
12 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (2.70%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) DNS
1 8 (21.62%) Firewall
1 8 (21.62%) FTP
1 8 (21.62%) HTTP
1 8 (21.62%) IMAP
1 8 (21.62%) OpenLDAP
1 8 (21.62%) SMTP
1 8 (21.62%) SSH
2 1 (2.70%) PuTTY
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (45.95%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (43.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (27.03%) DynamoDB
4 7 (18.92%) Relational Database
5 6 (16.22%) MySQL
6 5 (13.51%) MongoDB
6 5 (13.51%) NoSQL
7 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
8 3 (8.11%) Big Data
8 3 (8.11%) Power BI
8 3 (8.11%) RDBMS
9 2 (5.41%) Redis
10 1 (2.70%) Apache Hive
10 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (2.70%) HBase
10 1 (2.70%) Impala
10 1 (2.70%) Neo4j
10 1 (2.70%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (2.70%) Spark SQL
10 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (56.76%) Git
2 19 (51.35%) Jenkins
3 13 (35.14%) JIRA
4 10 (27.03%) JUnit
4 10 (27.03%) Mockito
5 8 (21.62%) Maven
5 8 (21.62%) Vagrant
6 7 (18.92%) SonarQube
7 6 (16.22%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (16.22%) DbUnit
7 6 (16.22%) jMock
8 2 (5.41%) JMeter
9 1 (2.70%) Storybook
General
1 18 (48.65%) Public Sector
2 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Finance
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Developer
2 12 (32.43%) Java Developer
3 9 (24.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Lead
5 7 (18.92%) Lead Developer
5 7 (18.92%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (16.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Lead Java Developer
7 5 (13.51%) Senior
8 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
9 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (8.11%) Junior
9 3 (8.11%) Python Developer
10 2 (5.41%) AWS Developer
10 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) Spring
2 11 (29.73%) Spring Boot
3 10 (27.03%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (24.32%) Hibernate
4 9 (24.32%) Web Services
5 8 (21.62%) AngularJS
5 8 (21.62%) Bootstrap
5 8 (21.62%) LDAP
5 8 (21.62%) REST
5 8 (21.62%) RESTful
5 8 (21.62%) SOAP
6 7 (18.92%) HTML
6 7 (18.92%) JPA
7 6 (16.22%) PowerMock
7 6 (16.22%) Spring Batch
7 6 (16.22%) Spring Integration
8 5 (13.51%) React
9 4 (10.81%) CSS
9 4 (10.81%) Django
9 4 (10.81%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Replication
2 5 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.81%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.41%) IoT
5 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.70%) Derivative
6 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (2.70%) PKI
6 1 (2.70%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 16 (43.24%) Linux
2 8 (21.62%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (21.62%) Ubuntu
2 8 (21.62%) VMS
2 8 (21.62%) Windows
3 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) CI/CD
2 18 (48.65%) DevOps
3 16 (43.24%) Agile
4 15 (40.54%) Microservices
5 10 (27.03%) BDD
5 10 (27.03%) Mentoring
5 10 (27.03%) TDD
6 9 (24.32%) Containerisation
6 9 (24.32%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (21.62%) Change Management
7 8 (21.62%) Cloud Security
7 8 (21.62%) Configuration Management
7 8 (21.62%) Patch Management
7 8 (21.62%) Scrum
7 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
8 7 (18.92%) Clean Code
8 7 (18.92%) Open Source
8 7 (18.92%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) Python
2 17 (45.95%) SQL
3 14 (37.84%) Java
4 8 (21.62%) Groovy
4 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
5 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) C#
6 2 (5.41%) Go
6 2 (5.41%) PHP
6 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.70%) PROC SQL
7 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) SC Cleared
1 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) AWS Certification
2 9 (24.32%) Azure Certification
2 9 (24.32%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 25 (67.57%) Docker
2 10 (27.03%) Postfix
3 8 (21.62%) DFS Replication
3 8 (21.62%) Dovecot
3 8 (21.62%) Squid
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Flume
4 1 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (40.54%) Terraform
2 11 (29.73%) Grafana
2 11 (29.73%) Prometheus
3 8 (21.62%) Nessus
3 8 (21.62%) Proxmox
4 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
5 3 (8.11%) Kibana
6 1 (2.70%) Ansible
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (2.70%) logstash
6 1 (2.70%) Oozie
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (21.62%) ServiceNow
3 6 (16.22%) Atlassian
4 3 (8.11%) Google
5 2 (5.41%) Databricks
5 2 (5.41%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.41%) Splunk
6 1 (2.70%) Informatica
6 1 (2.70%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle
6 1 (2.70%) SAP