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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 186 176
Rank change year-on-year -47 -10 +56
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 18 43 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.14% 0.81% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.88% 5.61% 9.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17 30 76
10th Percentile £44,750 £45,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £61,053
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,250 £72,870
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -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 957 766 1,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.43% 14.41% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 638 536 1,349
10th Percentile £32,680 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,023 £72,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% -10.00%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -40 14 £77,500 +14.81% 17
East Midlands -21 4 £65,000 +18.18% 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 (5.56%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.56%) dbt
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.56%) Supabase
6 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) VLAN
1 2 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) MySQL
2 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (11.11%) Redis
4 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.11%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
1 6 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Kafka Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Rust Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Node.js
2 5 (27.78%) REST
2 5 (27.78%) RESTful
3 4 (22.22%) React
4 3 (16.67%) Kafka
4 3 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 2 (11.11%) Keycloak
5 2 (11.11%) Middleware
6 1 (5.56%) Hibernate
6 1 (5.56%) JPA
6 1 (5.56%) Next.js
6 1 (5.56%) Spring
6 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) SCADA
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) Microservices
3 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (27.78%) ETL
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (27.78%) Observability
4 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) Coaching
5 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Open Source
6 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (16.67%) TDD
6 3 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 9 (50.00%) Python
3 7 (38.89%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 2 (11.11%) Bash
6 2 (11.11%) C
6 2 (11.11%) C++
6 2 (11.11%) Go
6 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.56%) C#
7 1 (5.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) CISSP
2 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) Grafana
4 2 (11.11%) Nagios
5 1 (5.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) OpenText