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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 205 168
Rank change year-on-year +11 -37 +23
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 37 62 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.52% 0.79% 1.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.11% 6.91% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 29 29 41
10th Percentile £30,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +8.33% +6.23%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £68,750
90th Percentile £79,032 £76,308 £78,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 724 897 993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.16% 11.37% 20.54%
Number of salaries quoted 528 511 854
10th Percentile £34,750 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,625 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,239 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

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 8 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 8 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 24 £61,350 -5.62% 53
East Midlands +3 13 £55,000 - 46
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 5 (13.51%) Confluence
1 5 (13.51%) nginx
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (83.78%) AWS
2 21 (56.76%) Azure
3 11 (29.73%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (27.03%) GCP
5 8 (21.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (21.62%) GitHub
6 7 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (18.92%) SaaS
7 5 (13.51%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
7 5 (13.51%) AWS KMS
7 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (13.51%) Route 53
7 5 (13.51%) Serverless
7 5 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (8.11%) Firebase
8 3 (8.11%) OpenShift
9 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (5.41%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) DNS
1 5 (13.51%) Firewall
1 5 (13.51%) FTP
1 5 (13.51%) HTTP
1 5 (13.51%) IMAP
1 5 (13.51%) OpenLDAP
1 5 (13.51%) SMTP
1 5 (13.51%) SSH
2 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) SQL Server
2 9 (24.32%) Relational Database
3 8 (21.62%) Redis
4 7 (18.92%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (18.92%) MySQL
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (8.11%) Big Data
6 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
6 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
7 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.41%) Power BI
7 2 (5.41%) RDBMS
7 2 (5.41%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.70%) Metadata
8 1 (2.70%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (2.70%) QlikView
8 1 (2.70%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (56.76%) Git
2 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
3 9 (24.32%) JIRA
4 6 (16.22%) JUnit
5 5 (13.51%) Vagrant
6 4 (10.81%) GitLab
7 3 (8.11%) Cucumber
7 3 (8.11%) Mockito
7 3 (8.11%) Selenium
8 2 (5.41%) JMeter
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.51%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Marketing
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Senior
2 11 (29.73%) Developer
3 10 (27.03%) Software Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Junior
4 6 (16.22%) Lead
5 5 (13.51%) Java Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Lead Software Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Software Developer
7 3 (8.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Junior Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) Django
1 8 (21.62%) Spring
2 7 (18.92%) HTML
2 7 (18.92%) React
2 7 (18.92%) Spring Boot
3 6 (16.22%) Flask
4 5 (13.51%) .NET
4 5 (13.51%) CSS
4 5 (13.51%) LDAP
4 5 (13.51%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (10.81%) .NET Core
5 4 (10.81%) Hibernate
5 4 (10.81%) Node.js
6 3 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (8.11%) Laravel
6 3 (8.11%) pytest
6 3 (8.11%) React Native
6 3 (8.11%) REST
6 3 (8.11%) RESTful
6 3 (8.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Replication
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.11%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.11%) Web Conferencing
3 2 (5.41%) IoT
4 1 (2.70%) Derivative
4 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.70%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Ubuntu
2 5 (13.51%) VMS
2 5 (13.51%) Windows
3 3 (8.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) CI/CD
2 20 (54.05%) DevOps
3 17 (45.95%) Software Engineering
4 16 (43.24%) Mentoring
5 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (24.32%) Agile
6 9 (24.32%) Microservices
7 8 (21.62%) E-Commerce
7 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (18.92%) Clean Code
8 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (18.92%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (13.51%) Change Management
9 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
9 5 (13.51%) Configuration Management
9 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
9 5 (13.51%) Patch Management
9 5 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (13.51%) TDD
10 4 (10.81%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) Java
3 12 (32.43%) SQL
4 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.92%) PHP
5 5 (13.51%) C#
5 5 (13.51%) Groovy
5 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.81%) C
7 3 (8.11%) Delphi
8 2 (5.41%) Go
8 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
8 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.70%) Bash
9 1 (2.70%) C++
9 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.70%) PROC SQL
9 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) Degree
3 6 (16.22%) AWS Certification
3 6 (16.22%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 19 (51.35%) Docker
2 5 (13.51%) DFS Replication
2 5 (13.51%) Dovecot
2 5 (13.51%) Postfix
2 5 (13.51%) Squid
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Flume
3 1 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) Terraform
2 11 (29.73%) Kubernetes
3 8 (21.62%) Grafana
4 6 (16.22%) Prometheus
5 5 (13.51%) Nessus
5 5 (13.51%) Proxmox
6 3 (8.11%) Kibana
7 1 (2.70%) Ansible
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (2.70%) logstash
7 1 (2.70%) Nagios
7 1 (2.70%) Oozie
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.11%) Google
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Informatica
4 1 (2.70%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.70%) SAP