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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 182 185
Rank change year-on-year -36 +3 +34
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 26 36 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.26% 0.72% 1.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.16% 4.86% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 24 29 90
10th Percentile £29,100 £57,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £63,630 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +30.00% -11.47%
75th Percentile £69,688 £71,622 £67,813
90th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £78,750
England median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -1.60% +14.57% -12.71%

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 823 741 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.10% 14.76% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 548 525 1,398
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,991
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -4 16 £45,000 -30.77% 10
East Midlands -51 10 £65,000 -7.14% 10
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%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) GCP
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (11.54%) Firebase
5 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
5 3 (11.54%) SaaS
5 3 (11.54%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.69%) dbt
6 2 (7.69%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) PaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.85%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 10 (38.46%) Redis
3 6 (23.08%) Relational Database
4 5 (19.23%) MySQL
5 4 (15.38%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (3.85%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
7 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (57.69%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
2 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) JUnit
3 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
3 3 (11.54%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) Mockito
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Developer
1 10 (38.46%) Senior
2 9 (34.62%) Software Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Lead
3 5 (19.23%) Lead Software Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Junior
5 3 (11.54%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Junior Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Site Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Junior Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Junior Java Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) React
2 7 (26.92%) Spring
2 7 (26.92%) Spring Boot
3 6 (23.08%) Node.js
3 6 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (19.23%) .NET
4 5 (19.23%) Django
5 4 (15.38%) .NET Core
5 4 (15.38%) CSS
5 4 (15.38%) HTML
6 3 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (11.54%) Flask
6 3 (11.54%) GraphQL
6 3 (11.54%) Hibernate
6 3 (11.54%) JPA
6 3 (11.54%) Laravel
6 3 (11.54%) Next.js
6 3 (11.54%) pytest
6 3 (11.54%) React Native
6 3 (11.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
1 3 (11.54%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Derivative
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
1 15 (57.69%) DevOps
2 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (46.15%) Software Engineering
4 10 (38.46%) Mentoring
5 9 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (26.92%) E-Commerce
6 7 (26.92%) Microservices
7 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (19.23%) Agile
8 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
8 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (11.54%) API Design
9 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
9 3 (11.54%) Mobile Application Development
9 3 (11.54%) Software Architecture
9 3 (11.54%) Software Testing
9 3 (11.54%) TDD
9 3 (11.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) Python
3 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 6 (23.08%) C
4 6 (23.08%) C#
4 6 (23.08%) PHP
5 5 (19.23%) SQL
6 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
7 3 (11.54%) C++
7 3 (11.54%) Delphi
8 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (3.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Nagios
2 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Google
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft