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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 198 159
Rank change year-on-year -40 -39 +32
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 34 36 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.22% 0.64% 1.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.62% 4.86% 12.35%
Number of salaries quoted 31 23 31
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,500 £43,806
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +18.64% +7.27%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £67,750
90th Percentile - £79,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -7.14%

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 939 741 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.16% 13.09% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 642 518 617
10th Percentile £32,526 £34,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,625 £76,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -45 25 £83,774 +15.55% 27
East Midlands -32 9 £60,000 +33.33% 5
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 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) Azure
2 14 (41.18%) AWS
3 11 (32.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (14.71%) Supabase
5 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.76%) SaaS
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.94%) dbt
8 1 (2.94%) PaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
1 2 (5.88%) VLAN
1 2 (5.88%) VPN
2 1 (2.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (26.47%) MySQL
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.94%) Redis
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Git
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
3 4 (11.76%) Storybook
4 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Senior
2 12 (35.29%) Data Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 11 (32.35%) Developer
4 10 (29.41%) Azure Data Engineer
4 10 (29.41%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (29.41%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 10 (29.41%) Kafka Engineer
4 10 (29.41%) Python Data Engineer
4 10 (29.41%) Python Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Lead
7 3 (8.82%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Python Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) CloudOps Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) Kafka
2 10 (29.41%) Keycloak
3 9 (26.47%) REST
4 8 (23.53%) React
4 8 (23.53%) Terraform
5 7 (20.59%) RESTful
6 6 (17.65%) Node.js
7 5 (14.71%) CSS
7 5 (14.71%) Next.js
7 5 (14.71%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (11.76%) Vitest
9 2 (5.88%) .NET
9 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
9 2 (5.88%) Middleware
10 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
10 1 (2.94%) Django
10 1 (2.94%) Entity Framework
10 1 (2.94%) HTML
10 1 (2.94%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.88%) SCADA
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) IoT
4 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.94%) Replication
4 1 (2.94%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) DevOps
1 16 (47.06%) Workflow
2 13 (38.24%) Agile
2 13 (38.24%) Analytics
2 13 (38.24%) CI/CD
2 13 (38.24%) ETL
3 10 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (29.41%) Data Security
3 10 (29.41%) Decision-Making
3 10 (29.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 10 (29.41%) ETL Development
4 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
5 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
5 7 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (20.59%) Microservices
5 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (14.71%) Logistics
6 5 (14.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) Python
2 12 (35.29%) SQL
3 10 (29.41%) Go
4 7 (20.59%) Java
5 6 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.88%) Bash
7 2 (5.88%) C#
7 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (29.41%) Azure Certification
3 10 (29.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) CISSP
4 2 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.76%) SOC 2
3 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
4 2 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.94%) GDPR
5 1 (2.94%) ISO 22301
5 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (5.88%) Grafana
3 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.94%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) VMware
3 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.94%) OpenText