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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 147 177
Rank change year-on-year -32 +30 -17
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 31 29 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.89% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.33% 6.35% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25 17 20
10th Percentile £48,000 £49,550 £44,625
25th Percentile £63,633 £67,500 £52,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £66,376
90th Percentile £86,889 £80,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -

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 582 457 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.46% 13.98% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 428 332 353
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,520
25th Percentile £46,100 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,968 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.58% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,309 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,694 £79,875 £77,322
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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
Worcestershire -10 14 £85,000 +78.95% 2
Herefordshire - 13 £85,000 - 4
Birmingham -41 10 £75,000 +3.45% 11
Warwickshire - 4 £53,750 - 10
Solihull -1 1 - - 2
Shropshire - 1 £50,000 - 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 1 (3.23%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) Azure
2 13 (41.94%) AWS
2 13 (41.94%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
3 3 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.45%) PaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) DHCP
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (29.03%) MySQL
3 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (12.90%) MongoDB
4 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
5 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
7 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) GitLab
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Senior
2 15 (48.39%) Data Engineer
2 15 (48.39%) Senior Data Engineer
3 13 (41.94%) Azure Data Engineer
3 13 (41.94%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (41.94%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 13 (41.94%) Kafka Engineer
3 13 (41.94%) Python Data Engineer
3 13 (41.94%) Python Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) CloudOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Database Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (41.94%) Kafka
1 13 (41.94%) Keycloak
2 7 (22.58%) RESTful
3 6 (19.35%) Node.js
3 6 (19.35%) Terraform
4 5 (16.13%) REST
5 3 (9.68%) React
6 2 (6.45%) .NET
6 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
7 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (3.23%) CSS
7 1 (3.23%) CSS3
7 1 (3.23%) Django
7 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
7 1 (3.23%) Express.js
7 1 (3.23%) HTML
7 1 (3.23%) HTML5
7 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) IoT
4 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.23%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Windows
3 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Analytics
1 16 (51.61%) DevOps
2 15 (48.39%) ETL
3 14 (45.16%) Workflow
4 13 (41.94%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (41.94%) Data Security
4 13 (41.94%) Decision-Making
4 13 (41.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 13 (41.94%) ETL Development
5 9 (29.03%) Agile
6 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (19.35%) Microservices
7 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
8 5 (16.13%) Coaching
8 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
9 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
9 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
9 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (12.90%) Migration
9 4 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 13 (41.94%) Go
3 10 (32.26%) SQL
4 7 (22.58%) Java
5 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (51.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (45.16%) SC Cleared
3 13 (41.94%) Azure Certification
3 13 (41.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Argo
3 1 (3.23%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.23%) OpenText
4 1 (3.23%) YouTube