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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 163 158
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +30
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 16 32 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.82% 1.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.17% 6.05% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £24,850
25th Percentile £35,750 £57,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +30.00% -11.47%
75th Percentile £75,645 - £59,125
90th Percentile £79,516 - £73,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -10.34%

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 505 529 974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.57% 13.55% 18.06%
Number of salaries quoted 370 276 846
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,600 £77,056 £73,125
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 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 0 6 £50,651 -15.58% 11
Coventry - 5 £67,500 -
Worcestershire -24 3 £36,500 -43.85% 1
Staffordshire - 1 £37,500 -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) GitHub
4 4 (25.00%) SaaS
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (18.75%) Firebase
5 3 (18.75%) Serverless
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (12.50%) dbt
6 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 2 (12.50%) Pulumi
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (6.25%) PaaS
7 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 1 (6.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 5 (31.25%) MySQL
3 4 (25.00%) Redis
4 3 (18.75%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
6 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (18.75%) JUnit
4 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 2 (12.50%) Selenium
5 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Junior
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Site Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Backend Developer
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) React
2 6 (37.50%) Spring
2 6 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 5 (31.25%) Node.js
4 4 (25.00%) Django
5 3 (18.75%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
5 3 (18.75%) HTML
5 3 (18.75%) JPA
5 3 (18.75%) Laravel
5 3 (18.75%) Next.js
5 3 (18.75%) React Native
5 3 (18.75%) Vue
6 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (12.50%) Flask
6 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
6 2 (12.50%) pytest
6 2 (12.50%) RESTful
7 1 (6.25%) OAuth
7 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
6 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
6 3 (18.75%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) User Experience
7 2 (12.50%) Observability
7 2 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
7 2 (12.50%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) PHP
4 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (12.50%) C
5 2 (12.50%) C++
5 2 (12.50%) Delphi
6 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (6.25%) Go
6 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Nagios
3 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft