PostgreSQL Job Trends in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 138 200
Rank change year-on-year -43 +62 +1
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 11 32 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.14% 1.05% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.97% 6.85% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11 23 52
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,750 £24,850
25th Percentile £68,067 £62,440 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +31.71% +1.49%
75th Percentile £86,574 £73,750 £64,784
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 559 467 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.22% 15.39% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 426 332 962
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,025 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,875 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,625 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Birmingham -36 7 £75,000 +10.90% 6
Worcestershire -17 2 £65,000 - 1
Coventry -19 2 £80,000 -
Herefordshire - 1 £85,000 -
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (9.09%) dbt
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
3 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (18.18%) Redis
4 2 (18.18%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
5 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Lead Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DBA
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Node.js
2 5 (45.45%) RESTful
3 4 (36.36%) REST
4 3 (27.27%) React
5 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
6 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
6 1 (9.09%) JPA
6 1 (9.09%) Kafka
6 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
6 1 (9.09%) Spring
6 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) Coaching
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) ETL
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (27.27%) Open Source
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) TDD
4 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) API Design
5 2 (18.18%) API Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) Python
4 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
5 2 (18.18%) C
5 2 (18.18%) C++
5 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 1 (9.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 22301
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Nagios
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Argo
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle