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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 180 155
Rank change year-on-year -60 -25 +72
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 20 30 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.16% 0.61% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.07% 4.24% 9.32%
Number of salaries quoted 19 24 89
10th Percentile £35,750 £53,475 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £60,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,990 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -13.33%

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 966 707 1,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.68% 14.33% 15.97%
Number of salaries quoted 598 542 1,429
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £32,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,500
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 £73,750 £72,500
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -34 11 £47,500 -26.92% 9
East Midlands -50 9 £60,100 -14.14% 11
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) GitHub
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.00%) dbt
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (35.00%) Redis
3 3 (15.00%) TimescaleDB
4 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.00%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
5 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI
5 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) JUnit
3 3 (15.00%) Selenium
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Lead
4 4 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Software Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Administrator
7 1 (5.00%) Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Junior Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Junior Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
7 1 (5.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) React
1 6 (30.00%) Spring
1 6 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (20.00%) .NET
3 4 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (20.00%) Node.js
4 3 (15.00%) Django
4 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (15.00%) Flask
4 3 (15.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (15.00%) JPA
4 3 (15.00%) pytest
5 2 (10.00%) REST
6 1 (5.00%) Kafka
6 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (35.00%) Microservices
5 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
8 3 (15.00%) API Design
8 3 (15.00%) Case Management
8 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
8 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (15.00%) Secure Coding
8 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
8 3 (15.00%) TDD
8 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) Python
3 6 (30.00%) C
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) C#
5 3 (15.00%) C++
5 3 (15.00%) Delphi
5 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.00%) PHP
5 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.00%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Grafana
2 3 (15.00%) Nagios
2 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Argo
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft