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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 202 177
Rank change year-on-year +24 -25 +21
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 38 66 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.68% 0.74% 1.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.71% 7.33% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 25 30 42
10th Percentile £28,250 £48,500 £41,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £48,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,001 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,516 £75,996 £69,095
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -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 665 901 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.87% 10.15% 20.10%
Number of salaries quoted 501 497 883
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,196 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -2.48% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,799
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.18% -1.12%

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 +40 31 £72,500 +11.54% 21
East Midlands -2 7 £50,000 -9.09% 20
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 (31.58%) Confluence
2 8 (21.05%) nginx
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.63%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 35 (92.11%) AWS
2 20 (52.63%) Azure
3 18 (47.37%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (42.11%) Amazon S3
5 14 (36.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (36.84%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (36.84%) AWS KMS
5 14 (36.84%) Route 53
6 9 (23.68%) GCP
7 8 (21.05%) Amazon ELB
7 8 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (18.42%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (18.42%) SaaS
9 4 (10.53%) GitHub
9 4 (10.53%) Serverless
10 3 (7.89%) Firebase
10 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
11 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) DNS
1 8 (21.05%) Firewall
1 8 (21.05%) FTP
1 8 (21.05%) HTTP
1 8 (21.05%) IMAP
1 8 (21.05%) OpenLDAP
1 8 (21.05%) SMTP
1 8 (21.05%) SSH
2 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.63%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (47.37%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (42.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (26.32%) DynamoDB
4 9 (23.68%) Relational Database
5 8 (21.05%) MySQL
6 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
7 3 (7.89%) Big Data
7 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
7 3 (7.89%) Power BI
7 3 (7.89%) RDBMS
7 3 (7.89%) Redis
7 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
8 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.63%) Metadata
9 1 (2.63%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (2.63%) Neo4j
9 1 (2.63%) Power Query
9 1 (2.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 24 (63.16%) Git
2 19 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 15 (39.47%) JIRA
4 10 (26.32%) JUnit
4 10 (26.32%) Mockito
5 8 (21.05%) Maven
5 8 (21.05%) Vagrant
6 7 (18.42%) SonarQube
7 6 (15.79%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (15.79%) DbUnit
7 6 (15.79%) jMock
8 2 (5.26%) JMeter
General
1 18 (47.37%) Public Sector
2 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Developer
2 13 (34.21%) Java Developer
3 9 (23.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (21.05%) Lead
5 7 (18.42%) Lead Developer
5 7 (18.42%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (15.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (15.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (15.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (15.79%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 6 (15.79%) Junior
6 6 (15.79%) Lead Java Developer
6 6 (15.79%) Senior
7 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Junior Developer
8 3 (7.89%) Junior Software Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) Spring
2 12 (31.58%) Spring Boot
3 10 (26.32%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (26.32%) Hibernate
4 9 (23.68%) Web Services
5 8 (21.05%) Bootstrap
5 8 (21.05%) JPA
5 8 (21.05%) LDAP
5 8 (21.05%) RESTful
5 8 (21.05%) SOAP
6 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
6 7 (18.42%) HTML
6 7 (18.42%) REST
7 6 (15.79%) PowerMock
7 6 (15.79%) React
7 6 (15.79%) Spring Batch
7 6 (15.79%) Spring Integration
8 5 (13.16%) CSS
8 5 (13.16%) Django
9 3 (7.89%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Replication
2 6 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.53%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.26%) IoT
6 1 (2.63%) Derivative
6 1 (2.63%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (2.63%) PKI
6 1 (2.63%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 17 (44.74%) Linux
2 8 (21.05%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (21.05%) Ubuntu
2 8 (21.05%) VMS
2 8 (21.05%) Windows
3 3 (7.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) CI/CD
2 18 (47.37%) DevOps
3 16 (42.11%) Agile
4 14 (36.84%) Microservices
5 10 (26.32%) Mentoring
5 10 (26.32%) TDD
6 9 (23.68%) BDD
6 9 (23.68%) Containerisation
6 9 (23.68%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (23.68%) Software Engineering
7 8 (21.05%) Change Management
7 8 (21.05%) Cloud Security
7 8 (21.05%) Configuration Management
7 8 (21.05%) Patch Management
7 8 (21.05%) Scrum
8 7 (18.42%) Clean Code
8 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (18.42%) Open Source
8 7 (18.42%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Python
2 15 (39.47%) Java
3 14 (36.84%) SQL
4 8 (21.05%) Groovy
4 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
5 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.53%) PHP
7 2 (5.26%) Go
7 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.63%) Bash
8 1 (2.63%) C#
8 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.63%) PROC SQL
8 1 (2.63%) R
8 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (55.26%) SC Cleared
1 21 (55.26%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.95%) Degree
3 9 (23.68%) AWS Certification
3 9 (23.68%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 26 (68.42%) Docker
2 10 (26.32%) Postfix
3 8 (21.05%) DFS Replication
3 8 (21.05%) Dovecot
3 8 (21.05%) Squid
4 1 (2.63%) Apache Flume
4 1 (2.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (42.11%) Terraform
2 11 (28.95%) Grafana
2 11 (28.95%) Prometheus
3 8 (21.05%) Nessus
3 8 (21.05%) Proxmox
4 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
5 3 (7.89%) Kibana
6 1 (2.63%) Ansible
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (2.63%) logstash
6 1 (2.63%) Oozie
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (21.05%) ServiceNow
3 6 (15.79%) Atlassian
4 3 (7.89%) Google
5 2 (5.26%) Databricks
5 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.26%) Splunk
6 1 (2.63%) Informatica
6 1 (2.63%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.63%) SAP