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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 177 147
Rank change year-on-year +46 -30 +54
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 29 40 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.81% 0.73% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.25% 7.01% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 19 27 28
10th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £45,875
25th Percentile £38,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -2.62%
75th Percentile £76,895 £65,000 £69,550
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,472 £79,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

All Database and 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 464 571 682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.99% 10.36% 19.75%
Number of salaries quoted 352 298 609
10th Percentile £34,100 £33,200 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.08% -0.08%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 +23 17 £72,500 +11.54% 5
Solihull - 6 £75,000 -
Coventry - 3 £55,200 - 5
Warwickshire +49 1 - - 5
Worcestershire -2 1 £36,500 -43.85%
Staffordshire - 1 £37,500 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (34.48%) Confluence
2 7 (24.14%) nginx
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (93.10%) AWS
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
3 13 (44.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 13 (44.83%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (44.83%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (37.93%) Amazon S3
4 11 (37.93%) AWS KMS
4 11 (37.93%) Route 53
5 7 (24.14%) Amazon ELB
5 7 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (24.14%) SaaS
5 7 (24.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (20.69%) GCP
7 5 (17.24%) GitHub
8 4 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (13.79%) Serverless
9 3 (10.34%) Firebase
10 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) DNS
1 7 (24.14%) Firewall
1 7 (24.14%) FTP
1 7 (24.14%) HTTP
1 7 (24.14%) IMAP
1 7 (24.14%) OpenLDAP
1 7 (24.14%) SMTP
1 7 (24.14%) SSH
2 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (37.93%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (31.03%) Relational Database
4 7 (24.14%) MySQL
5 4 (13.79%) DynamoDB
6 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
7 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (6.90%) Power BI
7 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
7 2 (6.90%) Redis
8 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
8 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
8 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
8 1 (3.45%) Impala
8 1 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (3.45%) QlikView
8 1 (3.45%) Spark SQL
8 1 (3.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (62.07%) Git
2 16 (55.17%) Jenkins
3 14 (48.28%) JIRA
4 9 (31.03%) JUnit
5 7 (24.14%) Mockito
5 7 (24.14%) Vagrant
6 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (13.79%) DbUnit
6 4 (13.79%) jMock
6 4 (13.79%) Maven
6 4 (13.79%) SonarQube
7 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
7 2 (6.90%) GitLab
7 2 (6.90%) JMeter
7 2 (6.90%) Selenium
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 13 (44.83%) Public Sector
3 7 (24.14%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Java Developer
3 8 (27.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) Senior
5 5 (17.24%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (17.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 4 (13.79%) Junior
6 4 (13.79%) Lead
6 4 (13.79%) Lead Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Software Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Junior Software Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) Spring
2 10 (34.48%) Spring Boot
3 8 (27.59%) Hibernate
4 7 (24.14%) LDAP
5 6 (20.69%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (20.69%) HTML
5 6 (20.69%) React
5 6 (20.69%) RESTful
5 6 (20.69%) Web Services
6 5 (17.24%) JPA
7 4 (13.79%) AngularJS
7 4 (13.79%) Bootstrap
7 4 (13.79%) CSS
7 4 (13.79%) Django
7 4 (13.79%) PowerMock
7 4 (13.79%) SOAP
7 4 (13.79%) Spring Batch
7 4 (13.79%) Spring Integration
8 3 (10.34%) Node.js
8 3 (10.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Replication
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.34%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.45%) Derivative
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (3.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Ubuntu
2 7 (24.14%) VMS
2 7 (24.14%) Windows
3 3 (10.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
2 16 (55.17%) DevOps
3 10 (34.48%) Agile
4 9 (31.03%) Microservices
4 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
5 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
5 8 (27.59%) TDD
6 7 (24.14%) BDD
6 7 (24.14%) Change Management
6 7 (24.14%) Cloud Security
6 7 (24.14%) Configuration Management
6 7 (24.14%) Patch Management
6 7 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (20.69%) Clean Code
7 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
7 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 13 (44.83%) Java
3 10 (34.48%) SQL
4 7 (24.14%) Groovy
4 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
5 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
6 3 (10.34%) PHP
7 2 (6.90%) Delphi
7 2 (6.90%) Go
7 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.45%) Bash
8 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (3.45%) PROC SQL
8 1 (3.45%) R
8 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) SC Cleared
1 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) Degree
3 8 (27.59%) AWS Certification
3 8 (27.59%) Azure Certification
4 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 20 (68.97%) Docker
2 8 (27.59%) Postfix
3 7 (24.14%) DFS Replication
3 7 (24.14%) Dovecot
3 7 (24.14%) Squid
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Flume
4 1 (3.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Grafana
3 8 (27.59%) Prometheus
4 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
4 7 (24.14%) Nessus
4 7 (24.14%) Proxmox
5 3 (10.34%) Kibana
6 1 (3.45%) Ansible
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (3.45%) logstash
6 1 (3.45%) Oozie
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (24.14%) ServiceNow
3 4 (13.79%) Atlassian
4 3 (10.34%) Google
5 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle
5 2 (6.90%) Splunk
6 1 (3.45%) Databricks
6 1 (3.45%) Informatica
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.45%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (3.45%) SAP